skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides inequality in individual ownership of Bitcoin, there is also inequality of acquisition cost.
The two are related since lower costs make it much easier to acquire large amounts as demonstrated by Satoshi himself.
While we cannot reliably compute individual ownership inequality, all we need to compute cost inequality is the price history of Bitcoin.

Let d_0..d_n be all days in Bitcoin history sorted by price on day d_i.
So d_0 is launch day, when Bitcoin was worthless, and d_n is the day when price last peaked.

Plot a graph where x coordinate is Sum 0<=i emission(d_i) and y coordinate is Sum 0<=i emission(d_i)*price(d_i).

If Bitcoin were a stable coin then this would produce a straight diagonal line. But not only did the price go up exponentially, at the same time the emission went down exponentially.
The extent to which the graph lies below that line is the Gini index of Bitcoin price inequality.
I’m baffled how people miss this even if it’s the mission statement of Satoshi himself: Bitcoin is a tool to prevent wealth re-distribution. It’s whole idea is to ensure that the accumulated wealth is preserved. In 2008 it was against the government bailing out the failed banks but it’s also against any government interventions, including easing the wealth inequality.

In essence, the idea is that if a teenager in 2010 acquired 10,000BTC the society owes him food, shelter and luxury for generations to come.

It’s like being a landlord whom passive income guarantees him and his family a good life with no work when people working their arses off to be able to pay the rent.
> My next thought was, people buy pre-built desktops still?

If you are enthusiast and need a one or two desktops, then probably not. If you need to procure several hundred of them every few months, then probably yes.

What this definitely will do is to affect the market price of these desktops once the lease (or depreciation time) runs out and owner will try to unload them on second hand market.
Whole scene is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCNDdlCo4rA
But you can generate complexity out of randomness. Things like L-systems can generate self-similarity and other kinds of complexity out of a random seed.
While not quite as WYSIWYG, jo-engine for SEGA Saturn homebrew development has been a massive blessing to me, and I’m sure dozens of other Saturn enthusiasts as well:

https://jo-engine.org

Is anyone aware of such great homebrew toolkits for other retro platforms? I’d love to see something similar for, EG; the N64.
This screams Google.
The problem is the AMD PSB functionality in itself. It should be considered malware like the Intel managament engine and thus refused by users. It's a second processor that runs a proprietary firmware signed by the vendor (that the user cannot modify or substitute entirely with a FLOSS alternative) that vendors can use do harm to the user.

The AMD PSB can also be used to lock down a processor to enforce secure boot and thus don't let you run an unsigned operating system, i.e. no longer allowing you to run Linux on your machine that comes out of the factory with Windows preinstalled. That would be a very very bad thing.

Unfortunately both for Intel and AMD you don't have choices these days. I'm hoping someone develops a processor based on the RISCV architecture (a free architecture that doesn't include that shit) to be used in a computer entirely under the control of the user (hardware and software) and not the corporation that makes it.
Well, we are earnestly analyzing a silly little example program, but okay :). The equivalent C code wouldn't produce stack-allocated mutexes unless that's what the programmer wanted. E.g. the POSIX pthread functions don't care where your mutexes are allocated, since they are always passed by reference.
I think attracting top talent is a point worth exploring. Surely with all venture back start ups , having money to attract talent doesnt mean you will attract talent. ...competitors have money too. Furthermore, what is top talent? From a top school? Possibly, but not definitely. Also has anyone shown that top talent is a necessary and sufficient condition for success. Personally I think the measures of assessing talent are moderate predictors of success. Scarcity of resource drives up talent costs not effectiveness of talent (i.e. the talentedness of candidates)
This is the key personality trait required to be a programmer.
One up for headology!

Granny was the best!
I disagree, there are a lot of applications in IT forensics. I have seen a masters thesis about the analysis of instant messenger texts. To identify illegal material with ML this content is essential.
These rumor mills are tiring, especially when talking about pricing. If it ever comes out, we'll have concrete pricing and feature information.
> The underlying idea of probabilism - that degrees of belief have to be represented by probability measures - is in my opinion wrong for many reasons. Basically the only well-developed arguments for this view are Dutch book arguments, which make a number of questionable assumptions.

Why don't you consider Cox's theorem - and related arguments - well-developed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%27s_theorem
Page Info > Media does work. Inspect Element doesn't work great. It highlights the body tag. You have to go through a series of about a dozen nested div tags to get to the relevant image tag, at which point you can open the image link in a new tab or copy and paste it.

However, the point is that you shouldn't have to do any of this. Pinterest took a normal browser behavior, co-opted it, and moved it behind a menu even though it's the only function available in that menu.
> “Does it matter if someone dies as a result of being vaccinated” => No? => Pro-vax ideology.

Honest question: Does the fact that the stats say far more people die from the unvaxxed disease than the vax, bear relevance to this?

Because otherwise it seems like you could apply this to anything. "Does it matter if someone dies as a result of being seatbelted?" => No? => Pro-seatbelt ideology
As far as I know, Intel does exactly that (or at least allows vendors to do that, I think HP does that)

IIRC, in Intel's case, the chipset has the vendor keys burned into it. This is not an issue, as the chipset is not a part you would remove from the board and use elsewhere.
Would you please stop perpetutating this flamewar? You've made your point with 17 comments in this thread alone. That's quite enough—this is not a place for repeating the same arguments over and over, which only feeds them.

The GP obviously broke the site guidelines by tossing in casual flamebait in a way that was guaranteed to be inflammatory, but if the rest of you had followed the site guidelines yourselves, by flagging the comment instead of posting dozens of replies and blowing it up into a completely off-topic flamewar with 100+ comments and counting, the damage would have been minimal instead of extreme.

Also, we've had to ask you about exactly this sort of thing in the past. That's not cool.

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think the pictures that show the entire eastern seaboard as lit up may be misleading if one assumes they represent ground-level experience.

While I haven't been engaged in amateur astronomy for a long time, I vaguely remember an event/meeting years ago that was not that far out in the country, and just a few miles/minutes travel away from the "strip malls" made a huge difference. Northern lights were visible and I think the Milky Way.

I have been out west where it is really dark, so whether or not my recollection is accurate, I do know what undisputedly dark skies are like.
Tumblr teens are now aged around 25-35, I bet.
I agree, but so far we have found no one willing to help in this way.
Maybe the Internet Archive still has Zip Drive readers! Send it to them! Would be interesting to see a diff
Take the money and the career.
A chronological feed sounds enticing.
Would you please stop perpetutating this flamewar? You've made your point with 16 comments in this thread alone. That's quite enough—this is not a place for repeating the same arguments over and over, which only feeds them.

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The dataset the paper uses: 1.4 petabyte browsable reconstruction of the human cortex - https://h01-release.storage.googleapis.com/landing.html
“ You could permanently kill an entire datacenter with that within seconds.”

Nobody is going to care until this happens.
First Line in Email Marketing
Would you please stop perpetutating this flamewar? You've made your point with a dozen comments in this thread alone. That's quite enough—this is not a place for repeating the same arguments over and over, which only feeds them.

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
IETF should keep XMPP as IM standard, instead of Matrix
As an official member of the actual game declarers consortium... I must ask with what authority you deign make such an informal game classification! Join a council for goodness sake!

Please accept my condolences at your loss of this round.
Oh come on now, it's not completely unusable, just "unusable in a ton of important use cases".
I think you could do this elsewhere. The only change outside of legal briefs is to put all this sort of stuff in footnotes, rather than inline.
For future reference, this[0] is a good get-started guide to getting a signal from the microphone, outputting a signal to the speaker, and some basic signal display / waveform generation.

For my own use (on windows 10), I used the following device names for the microphone / speaker:
Microphone: "Microphone Array (Realtek High Definition Audio)"
Speaker: "Speaker/HP (Realtek High Definition Audio)"

Specific names on windows can be found in the Control Panel > System > Sound (as of the date of writing)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTqaSCXTSqY
Activity Monitor (the macOS one) definitely has right-click.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg
Why do you think this is impossible? My city has been under-funding road repair for fifty years, is now believed to be about $300 million behind, and owns 50 centerline miles, 22% of the total streets in the city, with a pavement condition of "failed".
What made the Amiga so great
you have me except for the last paragraph. sometimes there really are misguided groups that need to be shown the way. flat earthers are a good example.
Right, bug, sorry...onto fixing it
no i dont, and you're correct that these things are related. im not saying that my way of life is good, quite the opposite in fact.
Zero-days only show that someone wasn't willing to put in the effort to audit the C++ code. If they won't do that, how will they put in the effort to write it in Rust?
Are you testing yourself constantly to make sure you're not exposing others? The pernicious feature of COVID is the asymptomatic nature of many infections.
Absolutely. The fantasy world must not be a grim-dark representation of the world we live in, but a rainbow colored utopia, where everyone lives in harmony and no one is ever even a little bit sad. After all, orcs are human too. I am half waiting for the racism crusade to discover 40k lore.
That was an amusing prank.
> Feels like so much of the career discussion in CS is concentrated on TC optimization - it's good to remember that one can choose to optimize for different things too.

It's easy to optimize for total compensation, since that's an easy to measure metric. If job A pays 20% more than job B, then one can easily evaluate that. It's harder to see that job A might be working on ethically dubious projects, may have longer work hours, more stress, or might just be at a company that's more successful than the one that has job B.

Best of luck on your decision, and feel free to reach out if you want.
>A post on your blog there is more like a tweet; people can pile on, amplify it beyond what your intended audience could have possibly been.

People could do that with blogs.
How often do you do something like that? Seems pretty rare. If you're managing locks maybe having an actual collection for them makes sense.

If I had to choose between allowing that pattern and allowing reasonable usage in all control constructs, I'd choose the latter.
For a more entertaining lesson on Tarrare, see this video by Sam O'Nella:
https://youtu.be/nYHDj2sB-rc
And how many "just wars" were there, as objectively-reasoned as possible?
Because you just picked a randomly favourable date from an escalating speculative asset?
Scripts from another dimension, now in Python.

https://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com/
Ha that's funny. I remember looking at CBOR and wondered why anyone would use it instead of MessagePack. Looking at it again, it seems different for the sake of being different.

From the CBOR wikipedia page:

> CBOR was inspired by MessagePack, which was developed and promoted by Sadayuki Furuhashi. CBOR extended MessagePack, particularly by allowing to distinguish text strings from byte strings, which was implemented in 2013 in MessagePack.

> Integers (types 0 and 1): For integers, the count field is the value; there is no payload. Type 0 encodes positive or unsigned integers, with values up to 264−1. Type 1 encodes negative integers, with a value of −1−count, for values from −264 to −1.

WTF? JavaScript got it wrong not being able to represent 64-bit integers. CBOR wants to make 65-bit signed integers(!) by combining 64-bit positive (type 0) and 64-bit negative (type 1). A rational person would make 64-bit unsigned, and 64-bit signed types like most languages and hardware. Only an academic would propose something as disconnected. To fully support a CBOR negative (type 1) integer you'd have to use a 128-bit signed or something like that.
People give sales pitches for lots of things. You don't have to listen to them.

> Are you sure about this?

Whether I'm sure or not... I think everyone should be given the choice.
I like to call it the "oxygen mask". Keeps you conscious while you diagnose a potentially fatal problem
Was it OEMs that asked for the feature or did three letter agencies pay AMD and Intel to back door all CPUs?
Can Bpc157 actually be administered intranasally? I remember reading about it a while ago and the usual route being subq injections.
> That isn't apartment building density, but that's about as dense as single family homes can get.

You can get a little bit denser by going full street grid--Chicago's single family home districts look to mostly be rocking ~6-9k people/km².
Fair enough. I didn't find a ready source on average camera densities by country, but comparing cities at the link below can give a sense of the difference. London has 399 cameras per square kilometer. Beijing has 278. NYC has 26, so not quite as Orwellian, in terms of cameras at least.

Approximate Populations, per wikipedia, for reference:

London: 9 million
Beijing: 21 million
NYC: 9 million

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-top-surveillance...
Some examples of spices that would contradict such a general principle: cinnamon, star anise, black cardamom, fenugreek, bay leaves, cloves. Strong spices tend to be used parsimoniously, but early in the cooking process, so that they could properly infuse the dish with their flavor.
I feel this pain too, it is a tragedy. :(
Yes, Distributed Smalltalk was cool.

But we weren't talking about the entire Smalltalk system and whether it is possible to make it interoperate. You obviously can make it interoperate in various ways.

What we were talking about was the globals dictionary, the only instance of SystemDictionary, that serves as the repository of global variables in Smalltalk systems. That is not an integration point and not a filesystem, despite tonyg's insistence that since it has some very superficial similarities, it therefore is a filesystem.
Mozilla's Firefox Relay to be added to disposable-email-domains blacklist
Well that is the relevant branch that is likely to miss, though I note that the BP on leading edge processors do an amazing job on this in many cases.
Discussed in practical, psychological, and philosophical terms verbally and textually, any determinations written legally, ratified and endorsed internationally, and enforced using existing jurisdictional mechanisms. All of those are broadly human factors, although machine-based detection, discovery and tracing could certainly be used to provide multiplying support.
The claim is correct, but incomplete.

It's true that many commercial real estate developers design buildings to roughly match depreciation lifetimes, reason being, depreciation reduces tax and once your basis hits zero (the item is fully depreciated), you can't use depreciation to shield any more taxable income. The base depreciation lifetime of US commercial real estate is 39 years though, not 15-20.

The other elephant in the room is that building to last is really expensive, at least upfront. So it isn't, and perhaps shouldn't, be something we do for everything.

Every town has "forever buildings": schools, village halls, religious institutions. Places that cater to basic needs that aren't going to change. Imagine a typical "old" American school: a giant brick building, with a steam boiler, well-made doors, and thick walls. This is what "built to last" looks like. There are often ornamental features like murals on the outside walls. Ditto for churches: thick, heavy buildings with materials like marble or other stone. Old, well-made houses are the same way.

This isn't how big box stores are made. They have way more drywall, polished concrete floors (definitely not tile), cheapo sliding doors, thin walls with stucco or other flimsy materials, standardized designs that don't change based on where they are (vs. something designed specifically for the area), and giant parking lots. The entire mentality is different. These are built to last a couple decades, then get taken down, or demolished. It's actually the same with McMansions, giant 4000 square foot houses in deep suburban areas.

One other thing, read patio11's "Mortgages are a manufactured product" [1] -- CRE (buildings) is also a "manufactured" product for a lot of the same reasons, namely, there are buyers in the economy that structurally desire regular income streams (rental payments) from these buildings, and the fact that they're a Walgreens, or a Wal-Mart, or whatever else, barely even registers. The "customer" of a lot of this stuff is the pension fund / endowment that ends up holding the debt on the property, not the people or businesses that actually, you know, occupy the place day-to-day.

Source: husband of an architect, and commercial real estate owner/manager

[1] https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/mortgages-are-a-manufactur...
For myself and many, many other homebrew developers, it has little to do with nostalgia, and much to do with learning and the forced limitations that come with the hardware.

For someone like myself, and many other homebrew developers; it’s about unlocking the potential the hardware had. Look at Stunt Race FX for the Game Boy as a perfect example. IIRC, someone just ported DOOM to the bare-bones SEGA Genesis.

Nostalgia is why people play these games. (Well, that and they’re often excellent quality games.)

The challenge, and the learning of low level systems; is why homebrew developers choose these older systems to work with.

Hope that makes sense!
Doesn't this one have a prompt? So if you choose "no" every time on startup, it won't blow fuses?
Whatever they do, they must not call it iSight. It’s a painfully bad pun.
I would frankly gladly pay 20% more or more than that to have a printed menu that I can see rather than endlessly swipe my phone.

What's next I bus and cook? I might saw well eat in.

I spent 200 bucks at a place over the holidays that thought this was somehow a great experience.

If I wanted to save 40 bucks I could have saved much more than that by ordering takeout.
I like the MATE System Monitor even more. On Xubuntu it's simply:

sudo apt install mate-system-monitor

https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/mate-desktop/applications/mate...
Point taken, but I will defend my claim: The few use cases where it does work are footguns because in the future, you or another collaborator will be tempted to wrap the code into a block, which is normally 100% safe for all other features of the language. It would be easy to do without thinking about it. But if you do it becomes UB as demonstrated above.

So the reasonable policy would be to use the same cleanup method everywhere, to avoid footgun firing when code is edited.
> This concentration not only risks to threaten blockchain's own premises ...

And, yet another claim that needs to be justified.

Assuming one whale owns 20M Bitcoins, that still leaves 1M Bitcoins to use for transactions.

That's 10^14 satoshis, plenty enough to allow people to exchange value in complete freedom.

Can the one guy who owns the 20M tank the price by playing market games? Maybe, but why would he shoot himself in the foot by doing so?

And even if he did and - say - crashed the price down to BTCUSD = 2 ... would that prevent people from using Bitcoin to exchange value? Nope.
As much as I want a premium vr headset , 2k will be a bit steep. With the Occulus starting at $300 , Apple really needs to go under 1k if they plan to compete .
>> BTW I wonder what they're going to do about the possibility of plowing into a small rock fragment at several times the speed of light?

They will use superintelligent AI to pilot the ship and it will avoid obstacles automatically.

[Edit: jokes aside, a warp drive doesn't move the ship. It only distorts the spacetime around it. So there's no danger of hitting anything. Effectively, the ship remains immobile inside its little warp bubble and the warp bubble is displaced along space without actually moving. You know, like cats.]
>> Usually the more desperately you find yourself wishing things like “if only those idiots would see the light then of course we could Solve Everything!!”, the less solid the ground becomes.

> you have me except for the last paragraph. sometimes there really are misguided groups that need to be shown the way. flat earthers are a good example.

Are they though? Isn't some giant fraction of flat-eartherism self-consciously unserious (e.g. taken up as a joke for fun as a troll), and that that isn't is tiny and utterly marginalized?

That last paragraph you responded to is quite apt for very large numbers of people in the political mainstream that are in no way like the semi-mythical flat-eathers.
In 50 years everyone will have moved on to the hot new language, but your OS will still run, at least some, C code. Whether you like it or not C has enough inertia to last a really, really long time.
If you read the paper you will understand that they actually managed to forge what you call "the postmark" to fool the recipient server/software.

Email being a distributed system, the responsibility of identifying the sender is shared, and if implemented property works well.

The job of the client and recipient server is to verify the domain of the sender, according to rules defined by the sender.

The job of the sender server is to authentify the user account.

Implementing things properly is hard...
While we're in the topic of impressive technological achievements, it's probably also worth mentioning how crazy it is that just a few decades ago, Deep Blue running on a supercomputer was the state of art in chess analysis, and nowadays we can just casually say, oh lichess runs stockfish on users' phones via wasm to cut on server costs.
Both cryptocurrencies and stocks are traded with leverage these days, and central banks control the price of leverage. So, if central banks decide to start raising interest rates, asset prices will go down because leveraging becomes more expensive.