skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You want lose rules and the appearance of legitimacy to wash the money and then move it to a safe place with the rule of law.

I’m guessing the money is made, moved to Dubai then on to the UK, Canada, USA, etc for it to be parked.
If you're going to indiscriminately start beheading technology which uses energy why not start with vehicles, video games, machine learning, or anything at all? Its because in order to ask whether something should use energy you must first ask whether its worth it, and your sophistication when it comes to crypto-currencies, finance, and economics is too weak to have that conversation: ergo, you resort to zero value, which is hilariously inept.
That's a pretty good outcome.

I've found that when I wire a large amount of money to a new account, humans sanity check the transaction at both banks.

Also, I once did something weird (wire to same escrow firm a few days apart), and got a call of the form "What's going on? Did you buy two houses or something?"
As a consumer though, chargebacks and disputes are an important feature for me, particularly when exploits and bugs exist and I can't and shouldn't have perfect trust that bitcoins will only leave my wallet when I intend for them to.
When the pandemic started I mentioned to a colleague that I was sure something like this would be built fairly soon. Turns out I was wrong, I think, but mostly because I overestimated our desire to really look for "the right" tool to do something like remote learning on the fly rather than just tough it out.

The thing which this addresses in a nice way is the concept of adding modules to your virtual space, which I think was/is the killer feature that so many of these platforms were missing, and which added so much friction to online learning. This takes the idea of "virtual classroom" seriously, and puts the teacher in control of A LOT while simultaneously providing for a more customizable and super simple way to deal with students (instantly creating new lobbies, dragging them around, etc.)

I love this... and hate how it's two years too late for me :-(

In all seriousness, though, awesome project! Def. keeping up with it!!!
Prediction market: We're unhappy with Firestore. What will we switch to?
The difference may be that you are not getting feedback on the quality of your teaching.
I'm guessing your American "news" outlets, CNN and MSNBC, are telling you it's important to wave the American flag and bless this war in Ukraine. Zelenskyy isn't a neo-Nazi, but nice diversion. A lot of Ukrainians, and Eastern Europeans in general, are nationalists and even neo-nazis, and for good reason: as a response to the horrors of communism via the soviet union and the American hegemony's exploitation, they can't find much else to agree on. Just like how Donald Trump's MAGA movement gained so much power in response to Democrats & Republicans rape of the middle class and warmongering.
Look up these terms: Manufacturing Consent and the Propaganda Model[0], and Useful Idiot [1].
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
And yet here we all are, and there the future they will all be.
It depends. We get everything including groceries delivered now so if more people use the same services, which they are, there probably will be savings in terms of traffic and fuel.

People who are really against an idea tend to not think of solutions to downsides.
Part of the eating at exclusive restaurants thing is to see and be seen in public doing the things people know to be exclusive. Private chefs don't quite do that.
What Are SMTP, IMAP, and POP3?
Everything is a bubble. Crypto is no different, but its not more a bubble than web2, web1, telnet and we could go on. Its interesting why people are so interested in trying to argue against crypto. Its here, its adding value, get over it.
You just need to control the onramps and offramps.

Bitcoin is of no use if you can't exchange it for anything tangible.
Coal is used to establish a lower bound.
There's an effect on range for sure. But there are also ways to mitigate that by for example heating the battery.

There are plenty of EVs operating under arctic conditions in Norway, for example. And not just in Oslo where temperatures are mild. Here's a story about a Norwegian with a model 3 that lives on the north coast of Norway in the arctic circle: https://electrek.co/2020/02/11/tesla-model-3-arctic-circle-w...

It seems that that particular car has some features that are genuinely nice to have when it is minus 32. Like the ability to warm it up before you get into it. That costs energy of course and that explains most of the range hit you get.

Most recent EVs have ways to cool (high temperatures are also a problem) and heat batteries, which older cars and phevs would have lacked. And of course the process of charging and discharging batteries actually warms batteries up as well. That's why heat is a problem and probably a bigger problem from an engineering point of view. Yet nobody ever complains about Tesla's not working in the desert. It's kind of a solved problem. Extreme temperatures affect range and you need to plan accordingly. But otherwise the battery will work fine.
ML training is an algorithm that produces an algorithm as output
Wołyń was horrific, but the Ukrainian people today are quite obviously not the same people as the banderites 80 years ago, the world has changed much since then. This rhetoric only serves Putin's interests, who must be quite displeased with how accepting Poles are of Ukrainian refugees.

PS I do wonder why your Polish is broken, it should be "banderowców którzy", not "banderówców które"
> IIRC disguising military locations as civilian, or using civilians as human shields is itself a war crime. The Ukranians are not doing that.

Ukraine publicizing Russian prisoners of war is a violation of the Geneva Conventions (<https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/16/ukraine-respect-rights-p...>), yet that keeps occurring.

Your being so certain that, if Russia did not fire on locations marked as being filled with "children", that Ukraine would never ever put soldiers in them, may be misplaced.
Guilty, until proven innocent.

Excellent starting point, I wonder what other rights should we dispense with.
you mean like any other physical asset?
Simmering rice on induction doesn't worry me in the least
You can short a variety if crypto assets via exchanges, Kucoin is just one example.
I had to move, but I want to come back. I already have a paid off house in this city after living here for 14 years. Selling it doesn't net me enough profit to meaningfully change things for myself in the new city after taxes, so it's better to hold onto it for when I eventually return.
Thats because nobody refutes those points.
Yes, transactions in crypto are irreversible. It might be bad for those number of factors.

But even given those cons we see benefits in things mentioned above.
E.g. my colleague can send bitcoin to his brother in russia. Tell me what other options to transfer value there are at the moment between west and russia.
Very similar for ukraine.
A lot of countries bend over backwards for foreign money at the expense of locals.
Node-ipc NPM package deletes files to protest Ukraine war
A United world government could non-trivially prevent this (though enforcement would still be difficult at the individual level). We don’t have that though, and in practice today it’s useful in order to escape authoritarian dictatorships.

The specific case I read about was someone escaping the Russian occupied areas of Ukraine this way: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tatianakoffman/2020/06/13/why-b...

It’s also more common in countries with bad currencies and limited access to USD (Venezuela).

You’re right it’s not perfect, but it gives more power to individuals than the alternatives. It’s also possible something like Zcash could allow individuals to transact despite an all seeing panopticon, but I don’t know how that works well enough to have a strong opinion.
It only applies to homes owned by a corporation, you are incorrect that most properties are not exempt.
The big problem is the buying anything with it.

If you could buy stuff with it and it wasn't an absolute headache (install app, pay transaction fees) and it was easier, it would be more popular.

That would also remove the "it's a speculative asset bubble" problem.

For the interim, using it as a private bank, assuming you can cache it out at an exchange for local legal tender, is the next best thing.

The only true way to make it a currency is for it to have its own country - bunch of people somewhere decide to use it for all their stuff, trade goods and services. Problem with that OFC is a lack of free land and energy.

So maybe when we live in space, and need a long term store of value, but don't really want to carry around bars of gold or platinum, it can have some serious uses. Until them it is exactly like buying oil - technically asset trading but really hard to realize the value in any meaningful way.
Other possibilities: "freedomware" or "software freedom" or "user respecting software".
If you take this argument to its logical conclusion all laws and regulations are good and freedom does not exist. In reality the definition of "harm" and the laws and regulations that are necessary and desirable to mitigate these harms are very much up for debate.

It is nakedly authoritarian for the government to restrict, at the point of a gun, consenting adults from choosing their own method of transaction.
ZKPs are actually one of the "spin-offs" I've been really excited about. The hype in CC/BC has caused more funding and research into that area. It really has been a recent golden era for cryptography. We have services like Signal and Matrix becoming popular (making cryptographic communication simple) and privacy is being taken seriously. Makes sense that people want to do the same with money/transactions.

But also, to be clear, it is hard to separate the signal from the noise. Especially with hyped subjects like CC/BC.
Yeah well I got the 64 GB model for this exact reason. One can't have too much RAM, right?
The entire Ukraine joining NATO thing is such Russian garbage. Ukraine would not have been allowed NATO membership precisely because they have a "unresolved external territorial disputes", which is exactly why Putin invaded both Georgia and Ukraine (e.g. Crimea) in the first place. Putin wants to make another Belarus plain and simple.
This is actually the premise of a video game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1062090/Timberborn/
> The current ability of crypto to (sometimes) escape government oversight is temporary and only exists because it's currently a rounding error in the grand scheme of things, but I can guarantee you it will be cracked down on.

Indeed. By regulating the transparent cryptocurrencies and banning privacy coins from exchanges like Monero and MobileCoin which is how the criminals and scammers cash out their ransomware money into fiat currencies.
for protobufs (probably not the best example, but still) there is a way to improve the performance if you sacrifice some of the functionality. For example https://perfetto.dev/docs/design-docs/protozero (perfetto is a profiling system, and uses (AFAIK) protobuf to communicate data between the system/app and itself).
Max Tech teardown showed that the SSD is removable and there are extra slots (at least, if you don’t max out the storage). Looks like it may be possible to buy additional storage in the future which is pretty nice and rather unexpected from Apple.

All the ports are on separate boards too. This might be the most repairable mac in a while.
Imagine thinking a car, a physical object that exists in a single space under one legal jurisdiction compares to a free and open source software protocol that has been running for 13 years in 100 countries.
Maybe I just don't use many features of my bank. But my bank doesn't charge me for anything at all. What are some examples of banks gouging and fees? And my accounts are insured for free.
LISP really stands out for the parens. If I was primarily a LISP programmer, instead of an occasional Emacs tinkerer, then I'd be tempted to to put the parens on the g and h keys.
London is known as "The Laundry" in Russia. No one in power has cared for two decades and only care now because it serves their interests to. Maybe they will crack down on it, maybe it will get swept under the rug again if the Russian invasion of Ukraine dies down as an important news story, either way, the root issue of why this was allowed in the first place won't be addressed and it will continue to occur with nationals of other countries.
This is one of the clearest framings I’ve seen on this concept. Exactly right: blockchains and crypto tokens are simply primitive tools that institutions and organizations can be built on top of. Most crypto critics either don’t understand this, or are willfully ignorant when constructing their critiques.
> The tiny minority of black bloc protesters aren't anyone American politicians constituents

I don't even know what black bloc is. These are the folks: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/stor...

That area is near where I lived and where I'd visit often. I guess to you it's not a problem, but to me it was very visible. Also entirely anti-liberal and they faced very little if any formal condemnation.

> Far left antics don't touch them at all; as for The Squad, they're some of the most responsible politicians in this country.

Ilhan Omar is the antisemite I was talking about, and it wasn't some one-time occurrence either [1]. AOC, to me, is an agitator similar to Matt Gates or Ted Cruz. As for the rest of the "the squad" I have no idea what they do.

Liberals suppressing free speech is almost entirely grass roots, it's a certain type of liberal constituent that's grown over time. As I said earlier, the DNC generally has a mechanism for keeping them out of office, but there are notable exceptions. I don't think constituency is something to ignore though.

A notable example of how these constituents do things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Appointment_to_CE...
While I don't agree with Brendan on a lot (if you search through my account I've argued with him on here before), using extra-legal measures to force someone out of a position especially after they've tried to make amends was fairly sickening. The cherry on top was that it was over two past political donations during a time when those views were certainly mainstream. Examples like this aren't really hard to find and, no, I'm not going to sit here and enumerate them for you. Especially as you've been bragging about how intellectually superior you are.

1: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/6/18251639/il...
Oh everything and everyone is for sale. I mean look, most of us have sold our souls so that we can get free web search and free email, and cheap delivery of goods to our doorstep at the touch of button on our iPhones. We prefer to look the other way if not outright deny the huge social costs of an ad-supported web, of the costs to the planet of our one-click to our doorstep shopping convenience in terms of plastic, paper and energy use, and how much of these conveniences rest on the exploitation of people who have no choice but to work for as little as possible, a tiny fraction of what we get paid.
A 1 millionaire isn't exceptionally rich. They still have to work to get by unless they decamp for a cheaper country.
In fairness, they picked JavaScript as the language to write the transactions in.

People keep losing money making coding mistakes that even "gcc -Wall -Werror" would refuse to compile. Examples: type errors like L1 vs L2 (whatever that even means, not a crypto person), wrong number of function parameters causing some sort of currying, allowing that massive ETH heist a few weeks back.

I'm sure there are hundreds of other similar horror stories.

"-Wextra -pedantic" would protect against even more bugs.

(I'm not saying C is a reasonable choice, just that JavaScript was a laughably bad choice.)
What value is it adding? That's a genuine question. As far as I'm able to tell actually using crypto as a currency seems to almost never happen.
Circumventing sanctions is a _killer_ use case
And the crowds that were mowed down?

It's fine for people to take individual risks, but codifying rules that cause death for a recreational spectator activity is unacceptable.
bitcoin.org site went live in 2008. white paper also published in 2008.

> Nakamoto stated that work on the writing of the code for bitcoin began in 2007. On 18 August 2008, he or a colleague registered the domain name bitcoin.org, and created a web site at that address. On 31 October, Nakamoto published a white paper on the cryptography mailing list at metzdowd.com describing a digital cryptocurrency, titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto
> in England, a person bringing a libel suit does not have to prove that an assertion is untrue, so long as there’s evidence of “serious harm”; instead, the author must prove that it is true. This is a fiendishly burdensome standard

This standard has been proposed for US libel law, though so far the efforts have not made progress.
Indeed, you should probably just use "<details>" and "<summary>" for drop downs today (works perfectly without any javascript and have accessibility built in). CSS only dropdowns were a hack for an era before these elements were widely supported.
An arm port of proton would let you run what? Solitaire?
if it's IPC only then it avoids the ntohl conversion between different endian machines, or alignments, another one would be shared memory map, and special handling for os objects ("handles", "events", etc.).
They should recommend people use progressive enhancement, that helps a lot:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/19/why-we-use-progres...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12538144
I'll refute the points

> Claim 1: Crypto is a Bubble (Confidence: High)

Are stablecoins not crypto? The DeFi built on top of stablecoins and other assets is basically what the market/banks had been doing for a long time (except that everything is transparent, fraud is easier to detect, etc.)

> Claim 2: Blockchain technology has no non-monetary applications (Confidence: High)

This one is easy to refute. A few ways:

1. The point of cryptocurrencies, is that we found that we could use monetary incentives to build and run services that have nothing to do with money. Sure bitcoin was only for transfers, but other projects have explored how to build services on top: smart contracts, identity registry, archiving of the web, file storage as a service, a tor-like mixnetworks, and I'm sure others can point out all sorts of projects.

2. The core of blockchain technology (although not all of it, see next point) is about protocols for distributed systems when faults can be malicious. Distributed systems are used EVERYWHERE, think distributed databases. As threat models are different for every products, why claim that we don't need distributed databases resistant to malicious faults? Banks are the first target of such products, so it's no wonder that cryptocurrencies were invented. Another example is the web PKI, which currently uses protocols like Certificate Transparency which are good are letting you audit your domain names and detect if any attacks have happened after the fact. I bet you that in the next 10-20 years the web PKI will run on a BFT consensus protocol, or an unknown breakthrough solving a similar problem, to prevent attacks from happening, period. And if nobody builds it I will.

3. What is blockchain tech exactly? Because I can tell you that many fields in cryptography have seen INSANE advances SOLELY because of cryptocurrencies: general-purpose zero knowledge proofs, multi-party computation (and threshold cryptography), broadcast protocols, etc.

> Claim 3: Future monetary use of blockchain technology will be minor (Confidence: Medium)

That really depends on regulations, and if they want to kill the beast (and replace it with a non-fault tolerant CBDC). But we're already seeing countries adopting cryptocurrencies (albeit the wrong ones) so I guess it depends on where you'll be in the world. The dream of crypto is really, no matter bitcoin maximalists will tell you, to make payments as easy as sending an email. And without an open standard that everyone can trust, how will this ever happen?
> At least 53GB of free disk space (Desktop install)

Wowsa. I know disk space is abundant but that is still shocking. I've never used MacOS, but why does it need at least 38 GB free for MacOS update?

> You need 15GB for Asahi Linux Desktop

Wowsa number 2. I'm used light installs using lightweight windows managers or desktops so that number was a bit shocking. Anyone else prefer a small base onto which you can add software rather than getting everything and having to uninstall a bunch of software?
Or he posts the hash on another service
All I can think of is that in Dubai (and similar places) the real-estate dealers must be exceedingly pleased.

And the outcome may not be that bad overall, perhaps lower prices in London and more activity in places that want it will work out better for everybody.
Yeah, but you also didn’t address why the points they raised aren’t valid sources of value for crypto. All of the points they raised are valid, and none of them are obfuscation or misdirection Not all of us want a future where our rights are constrained by the whims of payment processing companies and the politicians who pressure them. Every right we want (freedom of speech, assembly, press) is meaningless if we lose the right to transact without arbitrary intervention from those with more power.
People have recovered stolen crypto, especially lately, because the FBI will get involved in tracking down the thieves and making them return crypto, but only for large amounts.

For example: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/feds-seize-dollar3...
There absolutely is. I used to work for a general contractor and they hate the Americans with disabilities act, OSHA, etc. The suits just see it as overhead, and the grunts just see it as more work they have to do before they can go to the bar.
> When the truth is that democracies have committed the greatest genocides, stolen the most land, committed the worst evils.

Yeah... re-read history without the biases, and you'll see that that is absolutely false.

> Russia is a democracy and the current bogeyman was elected.

Well, Russia has elections. It also jails those who are trying to run against Putin, and Putin controls the media. So you wind up with the trappings of democracy without the reality. (At least today. I think the original election that he won may have been fair.)
Alas, it's not just the students who struggle in that respect. Over half of the faculty supported them.
Wow. Never happens in Europe. Or in the US. /s
The media did a wonderful job burying the story about how Hudson Yards was set up to sell visas to foreign "investors" building luxury apartments for themselves in a southwest extension of Harlem to promote "economic development".
Probably won't happen, but it's interesting that all the things you would need for an "x-serve next-gen" to be successful have fallen into place now. Would make a pretty power packed and efficient 1U machine.
I agree.

People have forgotten that Google searches for tech stuff 10 years ago used to exclusively returns results from sites like Experts Exchange with solutions behind paywalls. I'm glad Google did something about that. And, of course, thankful that sites like Stack Overflow came along.