skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also had existing foreign currency reserves (far more than the foreign currency still flowing into the country) to sell for rubles to prop up the currency (easier to to force up the price for rubles when most people arent allowed to sell theirs)

They're expected to run out of accessible foreign currency reserves soon if they continue at this rate though, and the head of the Russian Central Bank tasked with actually making the trades is not optimistic about Russia's economic outlook for this quarter...
> It doesn't destroy the planet. You're thinking of the fossil-fuel industry.

But the fossil-fuel industry has had very real benefits (whether we like it our not!). It's surely debateable whether fuelling crime, scams, and what is tantamount to a massive casino is of any benefit to humanity. Especially when running it consumes more energy than Argentina [1]

Of course there are plenty of other aspects of human existence that requires energy, and therefore has an impact on our home. That doesn't give individuals who are engaged in this casino an 'out'. It is an entirely greed driven exercise right now.

Perhaps something will come along that makes blockchain and other crypto concepts viable and valuable to society, it ain't here yet though. So I don't see how anybody can justify an Argentina's worth off energy usage.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56012952
"political aspects related to hacking and entrepreneurship (such as markets, oligopolies, net neutrality, copyrights, patents, encryption, etc)"

I agree that if it's related like these topics, that it has a place here. One thing that is on here often is the talk about housing density and zoning. I don't think that has a technical tie-in to entrepreneurship or hacking.

That said, I don't really mind as long as the conversation occurs with an open mind and people are bringing new ideas to the table and not just parroting the mainstream takes.
First, I didn’t get the idea that in the parent post all the answers were from a single individual. I got the impression it was a summary of exchanges with different people.

Second, I have met people who have families but neither home to move back nor resources to pool. Think of two siblings, both homeless in different cities (this happens).
This is not at all how it worked in the past. The elite might trade women around, but that’s such a tiny part of the human population that it’s not at all representative for how the average person lived.
If you're thinking that Fox is the home of American Wholesomeness and Truth, you should note that CNN hired Chris Wallace from them, after all, just for CNN+.
I like the idea because the restrictions on new friends seeing old posts is a similar vibe to one I’ve been thinking about for a long time.

I keep dreaming about an ephemeral social network that functions more like a party — posts expire after a time. I appreciate that there’s not a permanent record of every conversation at a party for people to review later.

Maybe I’m just nostalgic for FidoNet. We expired posts in Echomail groups because we had small hard drives. I appreciate that most of my youthful rants aren’t on archive.org. Unfortunately, some of the dumb nonsense I wrote in 1987 will outlive me.

I would enjoy the freedom to talk with friends and know it vanishes a few weeks later.
I just took a search through my email to see what I've been paying in the past:

2013 joined at 7eur/month. Can't find the email from when it went from 7 to 9. May 2016 increased from 9 to 10. August 2019 from 10 to 12. March 2021 from 12 to 13. April 2022 from 13 to 15. (All prices euro and rounded up one penny).

I cancelled the day the last hike arrived - it's the least amount of time between raises, as was the previous raise before it. At the same time, their offer is getting more and more disappointing, and they're talking publicly about reducing their content spend and the possibility of adverts.

I feel like they're hooked on a growth bubble, and now that they're reaching market saturation the only way they can maintain that bubble is to squeeze it out of us - charge more, deliver less - which as a user is the complete opposite of value for money, so I'm out.
Isn't this dishonest? Or is that the point? Or is this a joke and it went over my head? Lol I'm confused; I can't tell what this is...
Russia is backing it up with Gold. Gold is accepted everywhere in the world, this makes the Ruble stable.

Edit: Watch this video for more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SjvimH42po
Oh in this instance it's not about having a public record. It's about every transaction having a hash of the previous. Then it gets hard to forge old data without altering all records after the forgery. It's still possible but takes more work and can make the tampering easier to discover.

And for data loggers not connected to the internet this helps. It would be just as good to put it in a central repo if there was an internet connection available. But if you're logging a refrigerator temp on a container traveling between countries there isn't going to be a cheap option for internet.
Every day.
But it turns out, I know just a little more than the guy next to me. So do you, trust me.
Official exchange rate is a useless measure, it doesn't mean anything (what's the exchange rate of a toilet paper?). However, real (black market) exchange rate is way worse than before the invasion.
A deeply deluded, aggressive one. Russian soldiers seem to have genuinely believed they’d be welcome.
I won't attempt to enumerate the ways that crypto is useful. But i'll tell you how I want to use it.

But first, it's important to understand this. The actual foundations for what crypto can enable is still being built, so if you're expecting me to show you some "killer app"... i'm not going to show you a working version today. Is that because Crypto is vaporware? No, i'm seeing important stuff deployed all the time. It's because the underlying infrastructure is being built as we speak. One example, today ETH transactions are expensive. I bought an ENS domain (which hey, that's cool) the domain cost $5, but the gas cost $200. That's a problem. Fortunately, that's a problem people are working on. ETH is building out L2. AVAX (the chain I am most heavily invested in) is using something called subnets. A subnet for example allows you to have a custom VM, and isolate chain traffic (gas cost is a function of supply and demand for blockspace, if you both increase supply of blockspace, and decrease demand for specific blockspace you can reduce gas prices). The early examples of subnets are demonstrating this theory is true.

With cheaper transactions, and custom VM's the application space will widen. On my preferred chain AVAX, that's stuff that is JUST now being released (like first one was deployed a few weeks ago). The stuff that is becoming popular today (Defi, NFT's etc) are foundational components.

So with that laid out, here's my use case. I want to run a SaaS. How is a blockchain superior to "traditional" methods? A saas managed by a DAO has a central advantage. No employees. As a corporation i'm limited by the resources I have employed for me. Need a feature? Let me prioritize it, add it to a sprint etc. Corporations have employees, and they can only move as fast as those employees allow it. A DAO with zero employees has the entire internet as a potential contribution source. But unlike open source development, it's not done by "good will". You can pay people for their contributions in a trustless way that allows ANYONE to contribute and earn. Also, and this IS a benefit, in a future of GPT3 and AI assisted coding. There's probably going to be swarms of bots searching the space for work. Posting work, providing a way to pick it up, and integrate it into your project is going to be WAY faster in the blockchain space, than what corps will be able to acheive. But there's a few missing pieces before this can work. We have services like Akash, so throwing services into the blockchain is possible today. But managing a repository on the chain is not. I was contemplating using stateful precompiles in a Subnet VM to do this. The next problem is bridging SUCKS, but all these raw components are scattered around. That makes it difficult, even with the pieces defined to be combined. Solvable problems, but things that need to be solved.
> The sole purpose of blockchain is to prevent double spending without a trusted party

I would add that in nearly all cases it is totally reasonable to have a trusted party, and therefore that the value of the blockchain collapses down to a very, very small number of use cases (the ones that we all know about - fraud, extortion, money laundering, tax avoidance).
Exactly this.

There surely are people who are depressed for no “obvious” reason and years of therapy could help with that. But if, say, you’re in an abusive relationship, all a therapist can do is tell you to leave the relationship, not help you cope while staying in it. I think it’s the same with poverty.
I wrote sbctl to try and make sure self-enrolling keys is completely painless

https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl
>but some 90's movies like Back to the Future are even better dubbed in French.

what do you mean by this, that the French language is so much better that it renders the movie better by using it? Or is it that the writers translating the English to French are better and make the movies more interesting by their choices?

>There are even YouTube channels dedicated to dubbed movies where they invite dubbing actors, etc.

Or is it that the dubbing actors are better speakers than the original actors, for example most actors when they do voiceovers suck because they aren't trained for it I guess, and maybe a dubbed actor is trained for it or... I guess I am just confused by how a dubbing could improve a really good movie although I might suppose it would be possible to improve a really bad movie in this way.

So how does this work?

If it is a replicable aesthetic phenomenon you might expect people to aesthetically choose to make movies in this way, to make better movies.
Well now it does. Thanks for nothing Marton.
Running a small business is like this.
Point is, if you raise them high enough and keep them there for long enough you can disarm any inflation and any currency depreciation, at the expense of economic throughput. And so that's what they did: https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/interest-rate

It's macroeconomic policy 101, tested many times throughout history in various countries, both positively (when you do this then inflation/depreciation stops) and negatively (when you don't do this then inflation/depreciation continues).

There are many unanswered question in macroeconomics, but this isn't one of them.
"Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference and apathy are parasitism, perversion, not life. That is why I hate the indifferent."

It's sort of hinting at a false dichotomy here. You don't have to be partisan to be engaged. There are many nuanced positions and ideas. Perhaps the author lived in a different time or place that doesn't have two main parties acting the way they do today.
You are not really sorry and will do this again. I won't be using HackerRank for my recruitment purposes.
I don't think your desire for tabbed windows is shared among the general public, to be honest; we've seen a trend away from early 2000s separate windows to full screen "experiences" and the general public doesn't seem to mind. This could be because all native applications have been simplified down to laggy web UIs designed for toddlers, but even in the typical nerd spaces the old stack of hierarchies has disappeared.

For what it's worth, Thunderbird is getting Matrix support and with its age come some of the old-fashioned design choices that might just end up giving you your tabs.

If all else fails, I'm afraid you're going to need to get enough people together to make your own chat UI. Maybe fork some open source messenger and show the world the advantages you're describing, because I don't think many people get the benefits.

That said, Element is very much not an innovative chat client. The federation protocol is what's innovative, the clients range from what look like modified IRC chats to Discord clones. The only areas where Matrix clients are innovative is where they're not being used to chat, as Matrix isn't exclusively a chat protocol.
Blockchain-like distributed concensus mechanisms do have a few practical applications: https://slightknack.dev/blog/chain/.
I heard that the black market rate is something around 120 RUB per dollar which is almost double the official rate.
Ask HN: Experiences with HostCircle?
I came across hostcircle.nl (https://hostcircle.nl/amd-epyc-servers.php) while looking for high-powered bare metal servers.

Their offer seems good, their prices (reasonably) competitive, but I'm a little spooked by the fact that there seems to be no Internet presence for this company at all (only a handful of employees on LinkedIn, no reviews or reputation on trustpilot, and so on).

Does anybody have experience with them?
Are you referring to people often misapplying the concept, or its replicability issues (which I had admittedly come across before but don't hold in active memory)?

I'm confident I nailed the former (I thought I was better at things than I was in reality when I was younger, and am now more likely better than I think I am in those same domains today).

If you referring to the latter, it's tricky for me. It's like the famous two humped camel in programming aptitude. It seems to be useful in describing experiential observations but didn't (doesn't?) replicate. I've stopped using it at this point because I don't want to mislead people.

DK also has the appearance of explanatory power at a minimum, and utility in communicating the simple form of the concept. I don't like the replicability issue but wonder how bad the down side is if all I'm really saying is we aren't often humble enough about new things, and aren't confident enough about things we've dedicated time to?

Welp, that justification for promoting something potentially falsifiable surely isn't going to come back to bite me and expose my hypocrisy elsewhere...
Right. In the literature this is typically referred to as autoregressive sequence generation, and you can use it generate a whole story consistent with a given prompt (of any length), or even a whole image where you give it the first N seed pixels.
I've said the same for years. Most blockchain ideas could be better solved with a traditional database, or simple cryptographic signatures.

However, the killer app for blockchain already exists... currency.

The societal benefits and implications from that alone are tremendous.
No, not really. It is hard to move and costs money and this is a major deterrent to moving. Not to mention that moving takes away your last connections to any sort of social network you've built up: They might not be able to get you housing, but an occasional warm meal or moral support helps too.

You are also assuming that homelessness means living in a tent on a street and that is only a single facet. Some folks bounce around between couches, for example. The government might not consider you homeless while doing this, even if you know you'll be on the street in days. (A friend of mine stayed in a shelter to get housing because of this rule, in Indiana). Lots of folks stay in shelters on cold nights as well. Many sleep in cars. Homelessness is simply less severe/deadly in warm climates.

And don't forget that Colorado/Montana/etc also have summers, which means that folks can (and sometimes do) decide to be homeless for part of the year.

I mean, seriously... I'm originally from Indiana. Indiana has winters every year, and storms in the spring and summer (so homeless = wet). Indiana has a homeless population. Same for Chicago and New York City, both of which have winter.

And lets not forget that different places have different ways of dealing with homelessness. I'm not caught up on policies in different states, but I'm guessing some states funnel more folks into housing than others, some funnel more folks into jails and prisons than others, and some simply see if folks die on the streets or not.
To the extent that blocks are assembled and validated not by one node (which is all that would be necessary), but by (tens? hundreds? of) thousands, there is massive duplication of the actual work by a factor of 1e4 or 1e5 or more.

But, you are right, even that enormous inefficiency is peanuts compared to the Proof of Waste, which ramps it up to unimaginable proportions. (A single BTC transaction uses up as much electricity as a 2 person household in Germany in a year, and produces 2 iPhones worth of electronic waste.)
Where did you get the notion that the energy usage is planet destroying? Current Bitcoin usage is literally a rounding error of global energy usage (0.1%) and if wildly successful would still be < 1% of energy usage.

https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-energy/
Trump kept CNN in the public eye, too, with all his outbursts against Jim Acosta and near constant mentions of 'fake news CNN'. Thereafter, anyone who opposed Trumpian tyranny would seek out CNN.
> Google doesn't know what the algorithm is anymore

You are an insider?
If I had to guess it probably similar to SEC or NYSE required explanation when you do suspicious trades.
Seems like a short term vs long term thing.

Short term that makes sense... long term i dont know if its true.
It tracks double spends of cryptocurrency on the blockchain, which is only as useful as the currency itself is.

Since BTC/ETH/etc is only “valuable” because of wild speculation and greater fools, the “value” part kind of collapses, leaving the “currency” aspect moot. Which brings us back to “no value”.
> But it's much trickier to find the point in a GAN's representation space for "the exact same fluffy pink earrings that the actress was wearing in the last scene".

Not so much, since you can supply an image of the desired item and get back a bunch of vectors to reuse.
>seamlessly send value across jurisdictions

I have money. How can I get some crypto? From a middleman. Need to pay fees.
Then I send it to someone. Transaction fees.
The receiver wants to buy groceries or pay kid's school fees, so they need to convert the crypto to money. Again fees.

So lots of middlemen and fees are involved. And most of the time, One would need to provide full KYC and need to have a bank account to convert to/from crypto.

Tell me more about how it is better, cheaper and faster than regular banking system.
Depends on whether Chuck confirmed they wanted to do a thing like that first.
What does a smiley face with extra mouths mean? Sorry, I'm not up to date with my emojis.
The hope is to add it later. The first cut is plain Slack-style threads, but we have MSCs for zulip/twist style threads like https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/283... which will get built out as soon as we can.

Fun fact: the design for Element’s current threading is from a former Twist designer; make of that what you will :)
In essence you get a CPU that is 4 (!) architectures newer.

Here are the architectures of Intel (according to Wikipedia):

1. i686 (Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III)

2. Core (Core 2)

3. Nehalem (Core i7-920, Core i5-750)

4. Sandy Bridge (Core i 2000 series)

5. Haswell (Core i 4000 series)

6. Skylake (Core i 6000 series)

7. canceled due to low yield

8. Sunny Cove (Ice Lake mobile 10xx and desktop 11xxx)

9. Willow Cove (Tiger Lake mobile 11xx)

10. Golden Cove (12xxx and 12xx)
Has there been an attempt at doing a shell?
It's true that depression can easily create poverty, but at the same time, society is not very good with people with depression. The whole motivational speech industry is a proof that we don't want to accept what depression is.

Depression is an invisible handicap that we don't accept as well as, for example, lacking a limb or being a cripple. People are quick at using the bootstrap argument.

People will easily get fired from their job for being depressed or "unmotivated", while never trying to adjust the job, etc.
A database does this. The trusted party isn't eliminated by blockchain, because someone has to code the implementation of the software. Unless you checked the software for bugs or backdoors camouflaged as bugs and compile it yourself, you trust someone else.

The trust 'problem' is overrated, because nothing in this world works without trust.
I love this small hn moment where somebody complaints about

A) threats to freedom and privacy of computing

B) that it is difficult to control the lights of cpu coolers

And there will be very helpful responses fixing B).
Speed of iteration/development/experimentation. You can't fork EUR/USD, experiment with it and see if it works better than the existing EUR/USD. You can with online currencies and people are doing just that.

Most will be failures in the same way that most new businesses/startups are ultimately failures. BUT the difference is there is actual experimentation with money now in a way that there never was before.
To be more precise, the nature of trust shifts. In case of a central database, one must trust the organization running the database. In case of blockchain you need to trust the math behind it, its implementation _and_ that the network structure preserves the assumptions the math makes. This might be preferable for some but not for others.
I am thankful to the other comments for the defence but I'll add - seriously, how many lives do you think sanctions are going to save? They won't accomplish much, especially unless China and India seriously get involved. In the worst case scenario, they inflame tensions and we all die in a nuclear fireball.

I'm not complicit in anything. That is war fever talking saying there is anything here to support. I just want to see peace and prosperity, which sanctions do not achieve.
1. Secure in bench vice
2. Impact drill
Was Prism PD your own thing?
You're probably thinking of SpaceX. While it's not Tesla, it is another multi-billion dollar company pioneering an industry so I can see how you might get them confused.

Musk is eccentric sure, but at the end of the day the two companies are building emmission-free vehicles and trying to make humanity an interplanetary species. Both of these are pretty worth-while goals, imho.

I would love to see a CEO who doesn't have flaws.
Assuming you have read the whole article that I have linked [0], did it say or mention anything about 'Bitcoin' being used for payments there?

[0] https://stripe.com/blog/expanding-global-payouts-with-crypto
We are similarly sad about how unavailable Intel PT is in VMs. In 2022, being unavailable on Macs and VMs raises the barrier to entry extraordinarily high for many people in our target audience. Not sure if working outside of work is your cup of tea, but we've found Intel NUCs to be <$1000 and an unobtrusive way to play with these features at home.

Good point about overhead. I've moved the 2%-10% number front and center, and wrote up a bit more detail about where that comes from in a new wiki page: https://github.com/janestreet/magic-trace/wiki/Overhead

We'll think about adding flame graphs. We unfortunately have little experience writing responsive web UIs, the excellent Perfetto developers did all of the heavy lifting on that front. But who knows, maybe an enterprising Open Source Contributor could help us out. I see Matt Godbolt was asking questions in their discord the other day...
Thanks for the guide. Congrats on the wedding!
Exhibit A https://twitter.com/0xfoobar/status/1517680400142716929?s=21...