skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s 136k over six years though, so ~22k/year in “time”, returning ~27k/year in profit. And for this kind of content one hour per page is certainly overestimating.

The trick is that you cannot simply decide to work an extra hour and a half everyday at your day job to get the extra income. Plus who wants to work 10 hour days for years on end?
I think it's both of those reasons. Collecting commission on one 10-year mortgage, or five 2-year mortgages... I doubt they get 5x for the longer term, if anything.

I'd like to understand how people think about a longer-term fixed deals. How do you know where you'll be in more than 5 years? If you need to move don't you get hammered by the ERCs? Can you really rely on transferring products?

Habito One is an interesting product, that seems to be a lifetime fix (Which I have personally never seen before the UK but maybe it exists) with no ERC! Obviously the rate is less attractive but rates are still so low and I think you can offset as well.
It's interesting how the radicalisation of crypto-advocates seems to be radicalising the critics just as much.

I see this in myself too: I used to be very sceptical of cryptocurrencies, but generally liked the idea as a concept. I used to think of it as a technology in need of some more smart ideas before it could eventually become very stable.

But with time, and specially with the appearance of NFTs (which, let's be clear about it, are nothing more than a scam in 99% of cases), as well as the incredibly bullshit I heard from some web3 advocates, I ended up hating anything crypto, including cryptocurrencies, which I objectively find to be one very useful application of public append-only ledgers.

So here's the thing: I think at some point, the bubble will burst. It has to, at some point; that's just inevitable for a bubble of this size. NFTs will crash and be forgotten for a few years until some legitimate applications start to show up.

Web3 will either be talked about until web4 comes around (whatever unfounded hype that will be about) and quickly forgotten, or it will stay around long enough to show to the world how utterly pointless the whole idea really is. In either case, it isn't here to stay.

Bitcoin will probably stay around for a while, constantly increasing in value as wallets continue to be lost until at some point it is accepted that it simply isn't sustainable anymore. At that point, people will probably jump over to some newer cryptocurrency, hopefully a more reasonable one without too much bullshit built in.
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Isn't there a consequence for making frivolous or baseless DMCA takedowns?

I mean there should be given the amount done on e.g. youtube, but if you obviously don't own copyright on something, it'll be considered malicious and you'd get prosecuted yourself.
I don't agree at all. It is definitely a nice feature, but as with everything else, it's a trade-off. Most people, today, want these features, but it's definitely not true that a payment system "has to" have them. Cash largely doesn't.

It's like saying that any messaging system needs to be traceable, so you can see who sent you something. That is convenient and useful, but we survived until email without it.
double spending problem, anyone ?
An old rule of thumb was 'buy at 10, sell at 20'. That's the ratio of price to annual rent. So if you could get 0.86% of the house price in monthly rent, it was a big bargain. If you couldn't get more than 0.43%, then it wasn't worth owning.

The rule of thumb is now obsolete, and 30-40 times rent is perfectly common in lots of places.

The newsletter is quite a lot more aggressive than even the rule of thumb from the 'good old days' when interest rates were much higher.

I used to pay around 0.2% of the market price of my apartment per month. The landlord was a professional property management company, and this situation persisted through several new contracts.
This is not a technical solution.
I am a total newbie here - you speak of DBs because of the backend that needs to be set up to host the users' app?
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Block lattice > Blockchain, and anyone who write a long-ass article about how pointless/dangerous/dumb cryptocurrencies are without mentioning block lattice is about 6 years behind the times.

The fact that so far this has been the case for every ranticle I've seen on HN the past 6 years would suggest that we aren't as quick to recognise new tech as we'd like to think - not by a long, long long shot.

This probably sounds like a pitch, because I'm not a marketer, but the facts are the facts. Block lattice outperforms blockchain on every metric, and never gets talked about here.
Blockchains have blocks, with some distributed consensus mechanism to decide which chain of blocks is trusted most.
>Going in debt for 30-40 years has zero appeal for me, it just seems like a terrible move.

Buying a house isn't for everyone, sure. But this is a serious misunderstanding of what "going into debt" is. You're not buying a TV you'll throw out in 5 years, you're buying an asset class that has a history of appreciating in value over 100+ years that you can get incredible leverage on. In the US and Canada, at least, buying a house for a decent deal (in "normal" times, not at insane prices) is a no-brainer investment.

You mention buying companies...that's just a different asset class, but the idea is the same. It's not valueless the moment you buy it, you now have an asset.

>Buying estate = de facto being in debt for the entire career and then some, plus having to pay all repairs, anything.

Do you think this is all happening for free as a renter? At what point in your life do you plan on not paying for shelter?
Except no bank (at least in the us) will cut that deal, because they don’t mark those loans to market.
The problem with the article is that there are no real arguments besides citing other articles. At best, it’s a summary of Bruce Schneier’s works with a catchy headline.

I’m not a blockchain die-hard, but there are some solid practical uses. For instance, in trade finance where multiple parties in an environment with limited trust have to settle a complex transaction asynchronously, blockchain / DLT can really help. Have a look at Corda/R3 as an example; there’s a reason why big financial institutions are investing a lot in this space because it can really drive efficiencies.

As with most things in life, the answer is seldom black or white. The same rule applies to blockchain as well.
Purchases, perhaps. Money transfer, definitely not. Bitcoin is a pretty cheap way to transfer money across international borders.

A person probably wouldn't use bitcoin at the grocery store to buy milk, but it works better for sending grandma (located in a third world country) a bunch of money.
Why blame the dmca process and not HackerRank? I mean you blame the person who pulls tge trigger normally, wont you?
At least I get to see quite clearly how and why people differ. And it looks irreconcilable to me, and based on deep political and civic values.
If it makes someone rich at a high cost to others without adding any value whatsoever then it is useless.

In light of the massive energy consumption it may be worse than useless.
It doesn't matter if crypto advocates are aware of it, these arguments are for other people to understand. The argument is well-known because it's incredibly valid and common for people to want protection against those problems of fraud. When people point out that you're not wearing any pants, "uh I know I'm not wearing any pants" doesn't really address the relevant concern.
I'm happy to return to the comment section here and see I'm not alone in my frustration over the author seeming to take pride in this crazy amount of air miles. Until that chart I really enjoyed scrolling through the page, seeing all the time and obsession the author put into this.
Does it matter if a domain LOOKS legitimate? I mean .com doesn't look legitimate anymore either because of the amount of bad websites on there.
> And why is he still your friend? Seriously, I have little respect for developers in such ventures

because what people do in their jobs have little to do with their values. It's an economic and financial transaction first, and rarely an ethical transaction.

I'm glad that people who worked on these sorts of software still have friends who dont think like you do. Using social ostracization to implement public policy is a terrible idea. Rather you ought to be doing activism and promote privacy and outlaw bossware.
The main reason for the virulent spread of blockchain is the rapid expansion of distrust in government and other regulated institutions like banks, starting from the housing crisis and accelerated through CoVid. People now more and more clearly see that all of these institutions are designed to serve themselves and the richest and the regular people are only an after thought.Block chain provides a hedge that cannot be controlled and manipulated by these institutions.
Totally, and that's because GPT models don't really support multilingual content. It works, but very poorly. It's the case for GPT-J, GPT-NeoX 20B, and even GPT-3.

I recently integrated GPT-NeoX 20B on NLP Cloud: https://nlpcloud.io . I had hopes that non-English languages would be better supported than with GPT-J since the model was trained on 20B parameters instead of 6B parameters, but quality still leaves to be desired. In my opinion, the best way to handle text generation in non-English languages for the moment is to couple it with a good translation module. I actually wrote an article about that: https://nlpcloud.io/multilingual-nlp-how-to-perform-nlp-in-n... .

But there is hope! Bigscience is about to release a huge NLP model that should theoretically work very well in almost 50 languages: https://bigscience.huggingface.co/ .
We'll soon see if it's true!
In France 99% of mortgages are fixed rate, for the entire term.
> Information, like fast food, is easy and cheap to produce today, mostly horrible for long-term health

Agreed. But there are sooo many good, high-quality contents as well!

It's very hard to make a choice and stand by it.
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I mean you don't need people to manually make money transfers anymore, but I don't think many people do that. Banks have a lot of different jobs, very few of them are obsoleted by crypto, at least so far.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Most people who genuinely want to use cryptocurrencies as a replacement for classic ones in legal day to day transactions don't realize the drawbacks. There's an implicit assumption that by being a "currency" crypto gives the same benefits as a classic one, plus the digital aspect and other advantages.

But I like to think this is like buying medicine from a street dealer. Maybe it's faster or more convenient, maybe you get the same quality. But those "maybes" are clearer for people when buying medication from a back alley. It's not at all visible to people using crypto as a replacement for their classic currency.

Every time there's an exchange hack, a massive fraud, a price crash, etc. more people start feeling the drawbacks and push for the kind of regulation, oversight, supervision that today are antithetical with cryptocurrencies and its associated parties.
Blockchain is a perfect example, how tech folks want resolve humanitarians problems/issues with _tech_ solution.
(Spoiler)
It doesn't work
Blockchain is just a decentralized ledger of transactions. A cryptocurrency is an implementation of digital currency using a blockchain. Blaming blockchain for not having fraud prevention tech is like blaming TCP/IP stack for delivering a scam email to your inbox. This is a problem to be solved in a higher layer, which we're seemingly nowhere near as we're still just trying to get blockchain to scale efficiently.
I might trust someone enough to give them $20. I might not trust someone enough to enter my credit card details on their webpage.
> They used it for their own employees, too.

that's some dogfooding there!
>This is a well-known, probably inevitable effect of what is probably the main point of using blockchains. Clearly people feel it is a price worth paying.

If people really thought it were a price worth paying, everyone would be using Ethereum Classic instead of Ethereum.
Growing up is also realizing that some problems require non-technical solutions :).
Do you have a source for that?

In my experience transfers are pretty much always successfully reversed.

Hell, when one of the PirateBay founders hacked a bank and tried to rob it they actually reversed/prevented most of that, even though he had full access to the bank mainframe. He only managed to extract a couple of thousand that his accomplices took out of an ATM, IIRC.
Then why not use it as a valuable source of the very expensive and non renewable Helium?

It seems that they are trowing money to the sea after paying yet for storing it for the last 11 years.
When I started my undergrad I was quite interested in various fields related to cognitive science, but in my country there was no way to major in that. I started a psychology major, and while I did get to take courses related to cogsci, and work part time in more neuroscience-y research, I also had to take several courses in clinical psychology and not one, but two! courses on psychoanalysis. They were taught by profs that were very much into Lacan. My conclusion after all this coursework (and several books outside the syllabus) is that while these ideas are sometimes interesting from a literary and, let's say, continental philosophy angle, they're of dubious clinical value and totally bunk from a scientific point of view. I had to stop myself from laughing sometimes when it came to the pseudo-mathematical formulations because they really are nonsense (for a good summary on that aspect, see Sokal's "Intellectual Impostures"). This wasn't the only reason, but I ended up switching majors to CS to focus on AI/ML (a good decision in retrospect!). Years later, I still think of Freudian and Lacanian ideas sometimes, though - they do have a certain appeal.
> It can be used for storing value

It can only do this for as long as ownership of a certain private key is valuable. Some keys have shown to hold value for ~10 years (those tied to the BTC ticker symbol), but some keys have gone from valuable to worthless pretty quick. The fact that you have to bet on holding the right kind of private key I think makes it pretty clear that blockchains do not, in fact, reliably store value.

> transferring value in a decentralised way

There are no longer any decentralized blockchains that also have significant value (ie. worth transferring). For instance, the figurehead known as Bitcoin has been centralized for a while [0].

[0] https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/07/28/analyzing-the-2013-...
A large part of the world certainly feels like not having guns widely and easily available can help.

Keeping in line with your analogy, I mean.
Prepared a comparison to Next Generation Shell here:

https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/wiki/Hush-vs-NGS

On one hand we are on it since 2013 so there is "more" but I would actually like to highlight the difference in OOP and functional approaches: types, inheritance, multiple dispatch.
What I said was that the provided solutions are both beaten to death and meaningless, and that I would like a solution that did have the potential for impact. What I did not say is to do nothing, so you are not responding to me but rather a fictional person that does not exist. I think we call that a strawman.
Perhaps? I think so, but I appreciate other people clearly have different (strong!) opinions on it.

Coming from academia, I take the definition in the wiki page (I keep quoting, sorry), and for me, that neatly defines, most modern DVCSs.
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In art, a high-entropy painting is one that would be hard to tell apart from similar paintings, one example being paintings created by simply splattering paints all over the canvas.
This is technically true, but crypto currency does make the most sense when there is no middle-man. If you merely replace the backend of the banking system with a blockchain, nobody would care.
Have you ever written any code?
I feel your pain !

Never underestimate the value of a "good enough" bash scrip to deploy ALL your project(s).

First (ok top 5) thing i do when starting any new project is quickly writing a "bash deploy script" which usually goes like this:

*build-for-prod

*post-build-steps (zips, uglify,spit-and-polish etc)

*tar everything

*scp tar-file to server(s), extract, restart xyz

Sure it's unsexy as hell in today's world of <insert-fav-deploy-tool-here-that-calls-bash-things-underneath-anyway> but it works so nicely !

Interesting side story, about 10 years ago I was employed by a "big"(for me at least) price comparison service, and for 5 of the 7 years we use a simple bash script to deploy most of our API's and frontend.

Everyone agreed (it's the wrong way) to do it but no one wanted to dive into the alternatives.

We even found a bug where there were some race issues (some weird service configs) when we deployed that it only worked every 2nd time ? horror

So we just "always deployed twice"... since it's was super fast !
Your example only works because you're considering an asset that lives in the blockchain itself. So it doesn't apply to anything physical, as in this case, you need a trusted channel to transfer the asset anyway, and a blockchain doesn't solve that.

Even considering only these digital assets, you have an implicit notion of trust. The xyz.eth representation on the Ethereum blockchain is considered valuable because most people think it does represent what people expect to find at xyz.eth. But the ICANN can change this at any moment by adding .eth to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom... and this will all be gone.

Humans don't live in a blockchain, and blockchain rules don't apply outside of it, so you can't solve this boundary problem. Or rather, you solve it by trusting whoever's in charge of this boundary.
> $160k / 2724 pages = $58.73 in revenue pr. page.

It likely ends up being a lot higher revenue depending on the author's life style.

Books and courses potentially have a lot of "back-end" value from opportunities that come up through folks finding you through your book / course.

Here's a couple of excerpts from writing blog posts and making a few video courses over the last 5-6 years:

Wrote a blog post about Flask that took me 3 hours to write but it resulted in 40 hours of contract work from someone finding me through that post. You could say the post directly made $0, but indirectly made a lot more than $0. Stuff like this might happen 8 months after you write the post.

In another case, I made a course about Flask and someone reached me out to me for contract work which resulted in a multi-year long gig which then turned into a full time position and along the way met some great people.

I've flown across the US a few times for tech events (all expenses paid) because of a blog post and got to experience things I wouldn't have gotten to experience on my own.

There's dozens of other events and contract gigs over the years that happened from writing blog posts and video courses. They all resulted in either indirect monetary gains or fun life experiences. A lot of the posts resulted in nothing too but that's ok. To me writing is the reward, everything else is secondary.
Also it is difficult to bring up the real reason without looking a bit crazy.

The governments of the world - pretty much all the major ones - are behaving in a completely irresponsible way. "Trustless" isn't something to be applied to a neighbour. It is a polite way of saying that people are really sick of the lies emanating from the halls of power about what good economic management looks like.

It still baffles me that the official policy is that prices should rise exponentially. I haven't seen evidence it is a good policy and it is weird that there are no serious political challenges to it. Easy to explain, but still weird.
The demo.abcdesktop.io OAuth configuration has changed.
The demo doesn’t require FULL READ-WRITE access to GitHub account, anymore.

It uses only Personal user data Profile information (read-only), just to display your user name in the top bar.
The scope OAuth 2.0 has changed from ‘user’ to 'read:user'
You can use a GitHub OAuth safely, it was a misunderstanding in GitHub doc OAuth
Are you implying that block chains solve this?

So, I can buy a car from someone I don't trust by using a blockchain, with no need to rely on courts or other third parties?
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You will get hammered by the ERCs, but with a few caveats:

1. Often if you move house they will let you transfer your mortgage (actually take out a similar product and avoid the refi costs).
2. If you win the lottery, or otherwise are in a situation to prepay your whole mortgage? Well you might care much less about the 5% early fees in that case.
3. You can prepay usually 10% a year, at their discretion, without any early fees. If you just become a fair bit richer than you expected, prepaying at this level will reduce the mortgage quite quickly.
TIL: No author has a salary it's just "passive income"...
Bitcoin is still more expensive than the banking system
among first-world countries. How much can it be worth to send money to third-world countries of no banks are willing to set up there?
Also there is a short list of ERC20 tokens that are not pump and dumps.
None of those companies have gone bust though. RCA got purchased and integrated by/into GE, Kodak filed bankruptcy but still exists with a significant number of employees, Tektronix is currently a fortune 500 company, Novell is now owned by Micro Focus, Lotus was never that big of a company, but they still exist and are doing pretty poor but still sell cars, AOL still exists and is owned by Yahoo, MySpace still exists and is owned by an advertising company and the other 2 or 3 I've never heard of.
That’s the opportunity, right? Some code does the work.
People need to fix their societies and address the root causes of hyperinflation,
not tinker around the edges with blockchain etc.
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You've set yourself up for a question: Please give an example, with a deeper-lever perspective, of a real-world use-case for (non-crypto) blockchain that isn't better solved with non-blockchain technology.

Edit to answer this question:

> What about this is intrinsically "dangerous nonsense"?

The article isn't about the tech itself, it's about the interfaces of the tech and the real world. The problems there are shameless shilling, deception & efficiency problems.
I don't think Bitcoin is a global solution for hyperinflation. It just makes it worse. If the value of your money doesn't fluctuate with your, net exports, you'd better have a very cheap industrial apparel.
No part of the world wont file murder charges to the guy pulling though.
Exactly! THanks!
I'm very concerned about the openness with which you share your data. It's cool but damn you have so little privacy