skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I say "the price people were willing to pay" instead of "value"

The price people are willing to pay is how you estimate the value of something.

> For Bitcoin, the most popular one, on the order of 100.000.000.000.000.000.000 of hashes get calculated to mine a single block, multiple trillion per second. Within ten minutes, only a single one of those 100.000.000.000.000.000.000 hashes is actually used, depending entirely on luck. The rest are thrown away entirely. They do not form part of the final hash or anything else, the energy spent on them is lost.

You need to dig through 1 million gram of ore to find 1 gram of gold, depending entirely on luck. The rest is thrown away entirely. The energy is of course not lost but was necessary to find something of value (which also creates a lower price boundary). In contrast to gold, Bitcoin mining ensures provably fair probability of winning, has a tremendously lower barrier of entry, provides incentives to be run on renewable energy and produces far less waste.

The culprit here is likely that you don't consider Bitcoin to be something of value. Particularly for those with less financial privilege, Bitcoin can provide uncensored access to financial services and a long-term hedge against inflation.
It is a function of the total quantity of the currency at any given time, that currencies distribution across the economy, and the supply of the products/services it is being used for trade.

Then the banking system gets involved and it gets a bit complicated, but essentially any currency that is used for fractional reserve banking will experience a slow (or fast, depends on regulatory control) expansion in its total quantity over time.

Of course nobody would perform unregulated fractional reserve banking with cryptocurrencies now would they? Well actually, this is exactly what tether, luna etc are/were doing under the hood.
I think the best criticism against crypto currency is that it is essentially “regulatory arbitrage”.

Things are allowed inside crypto that is not allowed in the normal world of finance.

Ie stable coins: promising people 20% on their savings account by running an obscured ponzi.

Ie pump and dump.

Ie insider information. Insiders on exchanges buying up coins they know are going to be listed.

Etc etc.

(And proof of work of course is the key enabler as it allows those who are running things to hide their identity.)
If you are determined to not believe all the report, why asking? This point came up from all sides - from soldiers, from putin, from spies inside Russia, from political observers of Russia. It is literally one of complaints against
FSB - they claimed support for Russia in Ukraine is high and that they build up collaborators.

But, if you are determined to not believe, because I dont know why ...
> A deflationary currency makes certain low margin economic activity extremely unattractive

There's absolutely nothing that prevents low margin activity from becoming high margin activity. You just need to raise the price. And if there's no consumer willing to pay the raised price, is that activity a really good idea?
Development of 60GHｚ-CMOS Transceiver Device for Near Field Gigabit RC (2017)
The point is that you didn't need DOM. You had a canvas to draw things on and to handle clicks in. Now you need the DOM either way and it's cumbersome. It feels like trying to build a UI in a word processor. Text nodes are such a terrible idea...
One thing I know for sure - if you go to an interview terrified, you most probably will be terrified. People feel your mind set and attitude even through zoom, through your "interview face".

In my experience the less i care about a specific interview (after some reasonable preparation from my side of course), the better it usually goes.
Well, if you want true privacy you should try Zcash.
I’ve seen them for sale in supermarkets.
I know mine has
just playing devil's advocate, that 45% is a little skewed though... the M4 instance was a "Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 Haswell processor" (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/the-new-m4-instance-type-bo...) and the M5 is a "Custom Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8175M series processors running at 2.5 GHz" (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/m5-the-next-generation-of-g...). so, you are jumping 2 generations from E5v3 to Gen 1 SP processors, plus going to custom processors for AWS (higher and more sustained turbo). I do agree that Nitro is a big change (less overhead for the hypervisor, faster IO and Networking, etc) but I wonder what the perf diff is just CPU upgrades...
Mail a letter.
Would be too expensive
You don't tell the teller your name as you give them cash to load the card.
Death is in part an evolutionary advantage.
The thymus of humans self atrophy in order to kill the elderly
“… As a result, JRC has developed Millimeter-wave wireless RF-CMOS of a conventional about 20 times the transmission performance. This device’s data transmission rates can reach 7.04Gbps（16QAM）”
> I don’t see that it is a question of perspective.

A sunk battleship is a sunk battleship, no doubt about that. And I certainly haven't heard any reports claiming the Russian attack is going well.

But the first time I heard a "top general" had been killed, my mind naturally went to generals I've heard of - the MacArthurs and Zhukovs of this world. If instead it was a one-star general and the Russians have 200 other generals just as capable, the loss might be far less consequential.

There are also a lot of figures floating around that are ripe for causing such confusion. Javelin missiles have a 90-95% kill rate; Ukraine has received 17,000 antitank missiles and says they need 500 per day; any yet, only 400 russian tanks have been destroyed in total?
It is my impression that at one time European, or at least French, publishers were accustomed to print with soft covers, the expectation being that the purchaser would see to the binding.
Jesus, yes that is totally the same. Why dont we all mail letter to each other
I guess the server should enable instant messages between its users and only offer email communication with people outside
My comment was asking about purely the economic side of things... That's the part of crypto that's hardest to judge.
I wonder what are the future plans and features of Watermelon? Currently it feels like it does not bring a lot, or any, new things to VS Code ecosystem.

- GitLens is the extension every Git user should have installed, and it for example automatically gives you the git blame on every line

Then depending a bit on the version control system & language used, there are "native" extension for PR and documentation.

- Github pull requests & issues integrates nicely with the GitLens blame - hover the blame and you'll see the PR. Also has bunch of PR & Issues related functionalities

- autoDocstring (Python) for generating documentation "automatically" inside the code, where it belongs IMHO.
No, but it wasn't uncommon to have pro-Putin/pro-Soviet Russians tell you this phrase on the street (I live in CZ) - as an insult/threat, usually the next sentence was something like "Czechia belongs to us too and we will soon return". That's what would sound very funny now, especially if they delivered it in the usual manner (drunk rage).
[Edit: I don't want to get into this argument right now]
Haha. Everything else proved to be a bigger disaster
You can make every individual better off while increasing wealth inequality.

Just imagine how bad wealth inequality would get if you doubled everyone’s lifespan.
> So less crap being produced and bought in a whim and more decision making process on purchasing long lasting quality products (like it used to be). Less cheap plastic trinkets, less planed obsolescence.

Not really. Just more cash held instead of productive assets. The only thing a deflationary currency chang's about an economy is giving everyone a default investment strategy that wastes output.
What does “halting a blockchain” mean? It smells of central control?
Comparing the C FFI overhead on various languages
Actually not true. A lot of the 19th century recessions were "global" in that there was contagion across the Atlantic to Europe (or vice versa). Asia didn't get linked into the network until the end of the 19th century.

And the US money supply in the 1920´s was pretty stable as it happens, the 1929 bubble was a lending phenomena.
The aesthetic of the Fallout games just seems natural when you think about things like that!
Wasn't slavery already outlawed in the Northern states? I thought one of the main points of tension was the refusal of Northern states to recognize slaves that fled to the North as "property" and "return them to their owners".
> Putting out an EV battery fire basically entails dumping enormous amounts of water on it

That's a problem fire departments are still trying to adapt to, many resorting to putting out the fire conventionally, then submerging the car in a water-filled container.

But I'm unclear on how that makes the risk profile worse for ships? The initial fire should be easier to contain with EVs than with gasoline cars because EV batteries are much better protected than fuel tanks, and water for cooling affected vehicles for a couple hours is plentiful. It's a ship after all.

Maybe there's a discussion to be had about modifications to fire fighting equipment and staffing because of the different demands, but I don't see how the risk is bigger.
OP: one of the main contributing factors

You: was caused by

See the difference?

I don't know that part of history, but I know it would be much more fun to read this discussion and learn from you guys if there wasn't a moving of goal posts. Also, I'd like to actually see your counter argument, and not just a statement that OP is wrong without anything else. Preferably against the point OP actually made.

I found Wikipedia has this to say, but I don't know how to interpret it in the context of your argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857#Results

Excerpt from "Results":

> By the end of the Panic, in 1859, tensions between the North and South regarding the issue of slavery in the United States were increasing.

But it does not say that this was a direct result of the panic.

> The Panic of 1857 encouraged those in the South who believed the North needed the South to keep a stabilized economy, and southern threats of secession were temporarily quelled. Southerners believed that the Panic of 1857 made the North "more amenable to southern demands" and would help to keep slavery alive in the United States.

Sounds inconclusive to me, in the context of evaluating OPs argument. So I still don't know who is more or less right...
I was in the Army before smart phones really existed and did a 15 month deployment. While it does indeed suck, soldiers are capable of functioning without continued contact for long periods of time with their families.

I more recently was employed as a mobile device exploitation analyst at DIA and leverages many and more tactics outlined in the article against 'enemies of the state' if you will. The pragmatic thing to do is to properly educate the military and prohibit the use of these devices on deployments. Alas, that'll never happen though.
Tor publishes exclusively trashy sci-fi - Honor Harrington, which has the most confused politics I’ve ever read, is probably one of their best written ones. I hope that’s not the only kind of book you’re letting yourself read.
A friend once heard Herman Zapf say that he had not intended Melior--or perhaps Optima--as a text font but a display font. Some of the audience, which consisted largely of people working in book design and production, was shocked.

Edit: Actually, he probably said Palatino.
Their incentive might not be directly profiting.

They might have wanted Luna ecosystem to collapse, for whatever reason. (Possibly a state actor or a competing entity)
True though
Trivially traceable, once its hash becomes known, no?
you solve this by leaving an ad supported business model in favor of asking for donations.

Write a document website with a Patreon like gwern.net instead of some bloated ad-sponsored clickbait like BuzzFeed.
What is your definition of collapse? Is losing few tens percent of value enough for you to consider your prediction as worked?
It was easier, more or less, to buy a house in great depression for average person than it is now.
And yet dopamine is what make ADHDers focused.
Also, most portable devices on the market won't provide you with enough power for charging electronic devices in cloudy conditions.

My ideal combination to cover about 80-90% of power needs whilst camping/hiking/cycling would be a combination of water turbine (for rivers or tiny streams) and solar.

In case I'd be hiking in an area with no water supply, I'd consider something like a wind turbine. Yet, I wouldn't know why I would want to hike in an area with no water supply ;-)
In the European Union there is an online transaction limit of 50€ for prepaid cards. That's no alternative to Monero
This brings back fond memories, grex was my first shell and a large influence on everything which followed http://www.cyberspace.org/grex.xhtml

Thirty years old this year, my goodness. Wild that an online space I was using 'talk' on when Hackers was in theaters is still around and kicking.
America Reached One Million Covid Deaths
Agreed 100%, I never understood Russians themselves using it and being proud of it.
>There’s a lot of propaganda meant to make Russia look far more incompetent than they are.

They are certainly extremely incompetent, no question about that.

Just ask any person in any army in the West. I talked with some of them. Nobody gave two cents for Ukraine against Russia, because Russia on paper was so overwhelmingly superior.

Specially the US believed Ukraine had no chance against Russia and did not want to send free weapons to Russia(after they defeat the Ukrainians and took their weapons).

Everybody was shocked and surprised by the sheer incompetence of that army. I have a friend that is Colonel in a NATO country and even today is shocked and say they find it very hard not to underestimate them after what we are seeing.

Obviously Ukrainians are not going to show their tanks blowing up on youtube, but the offensive should be already over if the Russians were competent at all.
One of the advantages of "quality paperbacks" is that they are handy. American publishers seem to produce their hardbacks for a library trade in which a volume will be handled roughly every week.
I am still holding that bag and buying more myself because I see utility in private, decentralized, and censorship resistant value storage.

I will have no regrets for funding digital sovereignty. It is a war for critical freedoms that if lost at least wont be as bloody as those with weapons.

The world I want to live in requires decentralized money and governance and I continually vote with my wallet.
Russia’s military really isn’t good.

Their problem is that the Russian military has an ongoing history of not fighting against militaries—it’s not their focus. They fight against civilians. The Soviet period was endless murder of their own people. Endless atrocities were committed in Afghanistan. Massacres and rapes against civilians in African countries are reported with disturbing frequency. Ukraine is following that exact script.

There’s no longer much of a worry of a prolonged war being beneficial to Russia. It’s that they’re just going to increasingly terrorize civilian targets and further expand their genocidal tactics. Rape and massacres of civilians are already being reported in huge numbers. It’s going to expand. Macron probably thinks Russia will just stop doing it if they’re allowed to have a nibble of Ukraine, but Ukraine knows they’ll just keep doing it until they’re driven out entirely.
"regulatory arbitrage" It is fancy way to call freedom. Yes it has been reduced to pump and dump scams but how is that different than the stock market?
Typical AES-XTS full disk encryption is not safe enough for the laptop case; it’s not authenticated and someone can edit encrypted files.

File-based encryption (like the one T2 and later Macs use) is safest.
Ask HN: Pay per article
I love to write long, in depth interactive articles on highly technical topics, and spend many hours on research. I'm aiming for articles that are more interesting and fun than immediately applicable, a kind of intellectual entertainment and learning.

This is something I'd like to monetize somehow. Nobody likes ads so that's not an option, and I think most people are fed up with subscriptions. Assuming that my articles are actually good and that the reader, someone who have been programming for many years, is interested in the topic(s) described, would it make sense to sell on a pay per article model? Every article would include a refund me button, in case things didn't live up to the readers expectations.

A concrete example: Say there's an article that teaches you how to build a custom embedded Linux, cross compile software to it, c internals, serial debugging in qemu with gdb/gdbserver, how to write a streaming parser in Haskell for Linux kernel calls, how to run Linux in the browser and use it from JavaScript etc. (all in the same article, with a common goal for all tasks). The article would come with a video walkthrough as well. Would articles like that be worth anything, and if yes, what's a fair price?
Google bought and shuttered Songza, which had playlists based on nuanced emotions, weather and nostalgia rather than musical genre. Like Vine, most people will never even know of it.
Covid won't help: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5....
I think that’s true for all speculative assets that have risen in value during a period of loose monetary policy
https://railway.app/

>Bring your code, we'll handle the rest.

>Made for any language, for projects big and small. Railway is the cloud that takes the complexity out of shipping software.

Not massively convinced at the moment.
Also the Bitcoin community is, almost by definition, made up of people holding a lot of Bitcoin. They have a strong financial incentive to make sure that it deflates instead of inflates so that each Bitcoin becomes worth more over time instead of less.
> Your elections seem to bring only corrupt elites to power? Randomly select citizens to govern.

I like this idea... just like jury are selected...
They require you to log in and identify yourself before they can be activated.
OP here..

I in no way meant the title to be misleading…I included the specific company (Better) because they’ve been in the news recently for multiple rounds of layoffs.

Likewise, this is one of the few times I’ve seen a founder personally guarantee such a big loan for their startup, and it’s more notable considering Better’s business (and valuation) seems to be in shambles.
But they can't be activated until after you identify yourself to their website.
Yes, there are a ton of papers up on arxiv on all sorts of topics around mining and PoW [1].

There have been plenty of double-spend attacks that have happened. For example, ETC has a 6.5 day deposit time on Kraken.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=arxiv+mining+pow

[2] https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/203325283-Crypt...
This is called sortition and would probably work okay. I’d prefer a system where we vote for every person who seems good enough and then randomly select from them.
The first game using this concept of gameplay that I can remember is Worm of Bemer, circa 1984. Typed in by hand, of course, from COMPUTE! magazine.
Since the cache poisoning days, I have always run a local custom root.zone. These days I use it to redirect traffic to a forward proxy that holds DNS mappings in memory, but one can put any DNS data into that zone, e.g., the A record for example.com. This reduces the number of DNS queries to resolve example.com (assuming it is not cached) to one instead of three or more. One can prevent any DNS queries from being sent over the network if one runs an authoritative DNS server serving a custom zone with the required DNS data listening on the loopback. In any event, an authoritative DNS server that functions as a root server does accept recursive queries.

For this approach, I require bulk DNS data. However I do not need DNS data for every domain on the internet. Consequentially, it is not a large amount of data. Contemporary computers usually have more than enough primary storage space to hold it.

When I request zone files from czds.icann.org or extract DNS data from publicly available UDP scans, two methods of obtaining bulk DNS data, I am not disclosing any information about what domains I plan to look up via DNS in the future. Obtaining bulk DNS data does not reveal as much as doing piecemeal lookups, not to mention doing them contemporaneous with HTTP requests to the IP address returned by the queries. Intermediary DNS caches will see all lookup activity, as would authoritative nameservers for a domain if I query them directly. Obtaining bulk DNS data generally does not suffer from this problem.

Even more, I am not sure I understand the privacy issue around an authoritative nameserver seeing one's requests, e.g., from a stub resolver or a local cache. If I am going to visit example.com, the the operator of example.com will see the HTTP request. Why would I care if the operator of example.com's nameserver sees the DNS requests. If the concern is that network observers, not the operator of example.com, will see the contents of DNS requests made to example.com's authoritative nameservers, then that is exactly what DNSCurve prevents. Encrypt the DNS packets.

In the end, I believe bulk DNS data served from the loopback provides the greatest privacy, not to mention the best performance.
Idiocracy a documentary?
> long-term hedge against inflation

lmao. no it's not.

it failed as a currency, failed as a hedge and failed as a store of value. for 99% of holders like me it's just a speculative asset. nobody really cares about the pie in the sky idealism or libertarian nonsense spouted by maxis.
Approximately top and bottom halves. They didn’t actually line up properly, which was endlessly frustrating to me.
What to know as crypto such as Bitcoin and stablecoins plunge
A ship at sea can have a cloud repository of data etc, immediately available, not 10,000 feet underwater as well as no data loss. Good job for a mobile Starlink the monthly cost is trivial compared with the annual budget
That would require a teaching workforce somewhere between four and eight times the size of the present one, wouldn't it?
I would say .html, .css and .js and the browser are becoming over-engineered.

HTTP and SMTP are fine however.

I have stopped coding .html and only use HTTP now from a native OpenGL client written in C.
While there are several good comments here about how Russian social problems have contributed to their poor military performance, they all neglect what I think is the most significant factor in this conflict. From before the start of the war, US/NATO has been providing enormous intelligence aid to Ukraine.[1]

Consider one guy with a sniper rifle running around the countryside. He's not going to be anything more than a minor annoyance to an invading army. Provide him with real-time intel on the exact location and vulnerabilities of high-value targets, and he's now a serious threat. Extrapolate that to the entire Ukrainian armed forces.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-intel-...
Consider yourself lucky you live today and not >20 years ago, eh?
That might actually make sense. The main danger with batteries is thermal runaway, meaning if you keep them cool you can prevent the fire from starting. So what if you shrink-wrap each battery assembly to waterproof it, and ship them submerged in water (or another liquid of your choice). The water should easily absorb the heat from a couple damaged batteries without reaching a temperature that harms the other batteries as long as you leave some room for water circulation.