skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having done the numbers to understand solar (and having designed and built a 13 kW array myself) the hubris exhibited in these conversations about solar continues to perplex me.

There simply isn't a comparison between nuclear and solar. Nuclear is a far better solution on all fronts. The reality of solar is very different from the dream of solar.

The simplest calculations clearly show this. In order to match the power output of a nuclear power plant you need to build a photovoltaic solar installation of at least seven times the peak power output. In other words, if you want the equivalent of a 1 GW nuclear power plant, the minimum size of your solar array is at least 7 GW peak. And it gets worse, much worse, from there.

Why doesn't anyone ever bother to do the math before they become blind champions of technologies they clearly do not understand at a technological level?

I understand the emotional connection with wanting to be "clean". Yet, at some point, you have to connect the dream with reality through numbers. Numbers of this type do not lie. The comparison is brutally tilted in favor of nuclear.
Nope. Just watch... this has all happened before and it will all happen again.
GPS is spoofable… you’re a security guy, you should know this :p
Wouldn't it be easy for the team to find out if it was a bit flip issue? Or May be too many bits decided to flip at the same time. :)
Are strings in Erlang rather inefficient? Or does the memory usage or string performance not matter in practice?

I have always ignored anything related to Erlang because I dislike the idea of a language that lacks an efficient string representation . . . even though I have spent over a decade using JavaScript! (so maybe I don’t actually care?)
> As an inevitable crash occurs, many of the swindles and alleged swindles are coming to light.

Yeah, bubbles make overvalued prices. Crashes occur. Losers fail. Winners gain bigger marketshare and mindshare.

Spectacular failures are actually a sign of a functioning market. The worst possible thing that could have happened last week would be the federal reserve offering Do Kwon a very cheap bridge loan to stabilize his section of the crypto economy, lest we risk broader market contagion.

Crypto failures are fast and painful as opposed to long and corrupt. This is a feature, not a bug.

Also, ironically, this author has spilled a fair amount of ink over all the market crises of the years. He wrote a whole book on the dot-com bust. The Luna saga was over in about 3 days.

> The list includes some traditional tactics for illicitly relieving rubes of their money, such as pump-and-dump schemes and phishing for passwords. It also describes new, more novel schemes, including the “pig butchering” crypto scam, which often involves an attractive person approaching you online and offering you spectacularly lucrative crypto investments.

Sure, I get these DMs on discord too. Don't fall for scammers. They were doing the same nonsense with "Double your Square Cash!" scams shortly before the crypto boom. Or offering great deals on "GPUs" during the shortage. This is not a crypto problem in the slightest and crypto probably makes these lower end scammers easy to prosecute.

> The over-all aim was to make crypto investing seem mainstream and draw in gullible investors who feared they were being left on the sidelines.

Does anyone seriously believe that etrade or robinhood advertising options trading to me is somehow different? There are constant commercials for precious metals and ETFs and all kinds of things.

I know a fair amount of bitcoin millionaires, all of whom were called "gullible investors" at the time.

What really bothers me is the incredible amount of ignorance I see in the comments section about crypto, blockchain technologies, poor understandings of economics, etc.

Wtf HN. Do better. I feel like I'm watching my peers get old and resistant to change and dismissive of new technologies and exciting possibilities.

Also, if you appreciate my contrarian (for HN?) view and are looking to take on more risk, now is the time to build for web3. The people chasing easy money will give up and the people moving the tech forward will build while no one is watching.
Nope, I dont agree, if this kind of cancellation was a motive our progress in academic research should already slowed down.
> meclizine

The anti-nausea drug?
Hmmm... It's a two party system right? Borrow and lend. Your example is the borrower's half. The lender [supposedly] assumes risk, and presumes the money could be invested in other profitable ventures (opportunity cost), therefore they charge the borrower interest - I think the paradigm goes something like that... Viola double coincidence of needs, deal accepted.

If the farmer has a shit year, the lender has a variety of options for recourse. Including dispossessing the farmer of land. Historically there were other options like selling one's family. You could castrate yourself and hope to God you'll be accepted into court. Debtor's prison I imagine is also a probable consequence. This is doubly offensive when we consider interest, which can often result in multiples of the initial investment, and that many large scale first world lenders have developed world and the IMF backing them basically indicating they're not allowed default.

Hard to say with the information provided, but it seems typical of the trend.
You point out only the weak, sad dynamic code & ignore the enormously speedy & optimizing dynamic code. Shame. Have at least some nuance or balance in your decry-al.
Correct, just like it's correct to say that the president, and his appointees can set the agendas of the executive agencies that they run.
I think cryptocurrencies/nfts are crap and have no value, but to play devil’s advocate here; for all the people saying this is all doomed, the top cryptocurrency assets seem to more or less look like the tech market and BTC is doing better than, say Netflix. Netflix actually makes things and is 76% down from ath, while btc only 66%. So why is it so resilient? When will it die if it indeed has no value? Are we just grumpy tech people who are kicking ‘evil’ things that will never change or go away?
Would you keep all your cash in the bank? Frankly I feel terrified if I don't have enough cash on hand to last at least a month. For instance the IRS has been known to freeze bank accounts of completely innocent business owners on wild goose chase accusations that small deposits are structured, for instance.

It's also worth noting there are certain unique risks to exchanges that aren't really applicable to most bank accounts.
Ask HN: Why are all the chiropractors near me 5 stars on Google Maps?
Also, who makes the website for all of these practices? They look pretty similar.
The thing with crypto is it's getting rapidly enmeshed with main-street finance. For instance one can take loans against crypto, retirement accounts are offering crypto exposure and so on.

It's relatively easy to deal with money-like substances that are precisely confined (closed-loop as they are called sometimes) such as carnival tokens, or Starbuck reward points. Problem starts when they start leaking into day-to-day finances.
Have you considered writing in the horror genre? You have a knack for it.
Because the only practical way to spend the magical decentralized internet money is to trust a centralized intermediary to not only mediate transactions but hold your entire account with no accountability, regulation, or oversight.
although run Breeze search, I sometimes explicitly will search on Bing / Google to see what ads pop up when shopping for something haven't ever bought before as part of product discovery

Breeze search -> https://breezethat.com
* Breeze jobs -> https://breezethat.com/x/job-search-beta
* Breeze date filter examples -> https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Adotdotjames%20(date%20OR...
Nevermind me. I was being an idiot thinking crypto was cryptography.
Does the "GitLab Agent" need cluster admin privileges or can it be run in a single namespace with limited permissions?
That's certainly not true. P2P file transfer systems have long provided cryptographic guarantees that the file you receive hasn't been modified by anyone, even though you're fetching it from multiple untrusted sources simultaneously.

Merkle trees have made this more efficient and offered maybe more guarantees, but being able to have files be transferred in a distributed fashion but impervious to corruption is not a new invention.

The one thing cryptocurrencies have not figured out how to solve is the root problem of all PKI systems, which is establishing trust of identity.
Thanks, that's not my site - I've removed the link to it.
I thought I had remembered this post as well from way back then, but wasn’t sure it was a duck as well.
Yes, I am. I'm not aware of a threat model in which you can't trust the frequencies GPS is on but you can trust the frequencies that the FCC allows personal radio transmissions to be on. Seems like a lot of added complexity (and, notably, no legal recourse) for essentially the same failure mode.
Free markets need management to continue existing at all. When one gets to a monopoly or oligopoly, it's not a market anymore, so isn't counted. Monopoly is the natural end state of an unregulated market.
building that at Breeze if we haven't intersected here before

links:

although run Breeze search, I sometimes explicitly will search on Bing / Google to see what ads pop up when shopping for something haven't ever bought before as part of product discovery

Breeze search -> https://breezethat.com

* Breeze jobs -> https://breezethat.com/x/job-search-beta

* Breeze date filter examples -> https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Adotdotjames%20(date%20OR...

* @dotdotjames on twitter for DMs / etc
Is there? I wonder how to trigger that, don't think I've ever seen it. There's just green, grey and that little z thing for do-not-distrub for me.
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Receives $70M Gift
No mention of org-mode?
In the US the postwar heyday of modernism resulted in a generation where the skills of artisan craftsmanship in construction were unneeded, so the remaining workers never trained anybody.
FWIW, Rust has a strong "MIT or Apache" culture. These contributions to the kernel are "MIT or Apache," because what if the BSDs want to use these cool language bits for their OS?

Doubt GPLv2+ has much resonance here.
People buy illegal prescription drugs with their credit cards. Almost no one uses crypto.
I’m actually a well-known author and this is a pseudonym.

This really isn’t that crazy of an idea though.

Read “The Sovereign Individual” by Davidson & Mogg. Written in 1999/2000.
I rather enjoyed playing Q2 on a modem and aiming the railgun where someone would be in 150ms. It took practice :)
Bitcoin will (mostly) die when wealthy Chinese no longer need a way to evade capital control laws.
”Monkeypox was first identified in the 1950s when two outbreaks occurred in colonies of monkeys used for research purposes, with the first human case reported in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”

It has been around since 1970. Not a coincidence.
I loved battle chess!! The animations were so cool at the time.
It is not misinterpretation, and the precision matters. For example, discourse on abortion that is favorable to abortion rights would not talk about the opposition "regulating" abortion, but only in terms of banning it. With crypto, it is clearly not politically favorable to have a complete ban, so to get an effective ban under the guise of regulation is basically hoping for authority to act in bad faith.
Thank you, yes us all to win too. A lot of folks think the games are all rigged, and maybe this and everything else is too.

I want the money to liberate folks, not control them.
Ahahahaha.

Says someone who hasn't run into a SpringBoot application ported almost verbatim to Python.
Is that not actually worse?
Aren't those use cases mentioned for blockchain not crypto which seem the original article seem to be about

The so called rich people are trying to get more rich by investing in dog coin, cat coin and other crazy stuff instead of using the brains for greater good of humanity like CRISPR etc

Beyond issues of PoW and energy consumption, the bigger crime is the brain cycles wasted getting rich trying to find the next shitty coin and chest thumping that they are rich.

I know it can be hard for even the most equanimous individual but See crypto rich as a lottery which was earned without much hardwork. only thump your chest when it is put to use for greater good
I should have said the mass of ad-blockers users migrating instead of mass of users. Yes, only a percent of people use adblockers on desktop and even less people use them on mobile, which is the dominant source of traffic these days. It might move the needles of market shares for the alternate browsers.

No, we don't have any alternative to Chromium other than Firefox and Safari. But for the Chromium based browsers, Brave and Opera do have built-in adblocking independently of Manifest V3 [1]. Vivaldi claimed that they might maintain an alternate store [1]. So all three alternate browsers have the option to offer better level of ad-blocking to get more installs. Of course, they could also decide to monetize with an "Acceptable ads" program after they gain market shares.

[1]https://www.zdnet.com/article/opera-brave-vivaldi-to-ignore-...
It‘s not necessarily that it‘s cheap, but also constant updating of building regulations when more powerful earthquakes hit. In 1990 if you were buying a house older than ten years it might be the difference between life and death.

The latest (‘80s) regulation buildings have held up even through the 2011 quake, so this is the first generation of 50 year old buildings that also meet the safety standards of their day.
To be completely honest--and I don't mean to sound mean--that doesn't seem very cool at all to me. That's a lot of words to say that with crypto you can own a token that signifies you're a part of a community. And that's the coolest thing you can think of. The iPhone is much cooler than that, I use it all day. And Steve Jobs didn't talk about it nearly as much before it started being used widely.
Banks and large investment firms are more than happy to create exotic instruments. With enough money at stake, you can definitely find an institution willing to take the other side of a bet against crypto (specifically BTC or ETH).

If you want proof, refer to what happened in the lead-up to the 2008 Sub-Prime Mortgage crisis (or check out the movie The Big Short if you want somewhere to begin).
When I took an AI course in 2009 it was largely about game playing algorithms that use graph traversal (possibly guided by heuristics).

Stuff like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm

Such algorithms are still a viable approach in many situations (and I'm sure A* is used in production somewhere today).
Apologies, I read that wrong.
If you buy from Home Depot or any of the hawkers putting flyers in your mail, payback time is long. But they charge 4x the FOB price for a pallet-load.
> Society will evolve towards being trustless as the moneyed-class pursue sovereign citizenship and shop for preferential territory on a global scale.

Then I believe it is up to the rest of us to put a stop to this, rather than facilitate it.
The fountain of youth is regular strength training, cardio, quality sleep, good relationships, indulging your curiosity and learning new things, and a diet high in protein (for the exercise) and plenty of plant based whole foods like leafy green vegetables.

You'll delay as many of the diseases of aging as much as you can by doing those things. Packaging their effects in a pill would make you the richest person in history.
That's the difference between an investment and money. I've never said that bitcoin is an investment, but it is a form of money.
People were all warned... So many things now are based on "Pump and Dump" culture that social media greases so well. Celebrities themselves, movies, cars, technology, humanitarian aid, mass shootings, and even dead celebrities are all commodities only worth their ability to trend (profitably) now. The more we buy in, the closer we get to that black mirror episode where you can't escape your social stats as a life-worthiness value.

Celebrities, influencers, and the rich gain pop followings they manipulate so easily into these traps where they can then pull the rug out and still play innocent for the next heist... This is the way the world works in our current Globalist Internet Based $ocial Media Celebrity Mining Capitali$tic NFT MLM phase.

If communism was better though, there would be no exotic sportscars in China and Russia though. Really it's vanity and the value we place on it that is most at fault, but the people that said it was a scam from day 1 are the people we should be listening to, not still the people that said "go all in". We also need to de-emphasize social media's strangle hold and have some serious and ugly public discussions on non-denominational morality.
Sounds a lot like Simlish!

Katy Perry - Last Friday Night in Simlish:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxyW6AJ-yIk

How the Language From the Sims Was Created:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGsbeTV76YI

Simlish Voice Video (Gerri Lawlor and Stephen Kearin, inventors of Simlish):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_E6026i9tA

Steve and Gerri improvising together in English while playing The Sims:

https://donhopkins.com/home/catalog/sounds/Steve_And_Gerri.w...

Gerri Lawlor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerri_Lawlor

At the University of Maryland VAX Lab in the 80's, we had a DECTalk attached to the VAX over a serial line that we'd play around with, but I think the protocol must have used two byte tokens, because some times it would get one byte out of sync and start going "BLLEEGH YAAUGH RAWGH BRAGHK SPROP BLOP BLOP GUKGUK BWAUGHK GYAAUGHT BLOBBLE SPLOP BLAP BLAP BEAUGH GUWK SPLAPPLE PLAP SPLORPLE BLAPPLE"! (*)

Just like it was channeling the Don Martin Sound Effects from random Mad Magazines.

https://www.madcoversite.com/dmd-alphabetical.html

(*) Bulemia Meeting Attendees Vomiting, MAD #266 1987, Page 45, On Thursday Evening on West 12th Street.
Good luck with getting popular support for that one!
The mock screenshot on that page still shows UST for sending money… And a large Do Kwon logo near the bottom!
Reddit is the classic trump card haha, you got me there.
To address the latter case first: what you gain is standardization and interoperability, where the crypto toolbox acts as a protocol. Even if you're doing KYC in a centralized way, you can plug your token/DAO into any tool that supports it and use their interfaces. At least in theory. Good interfaces don't quite exist yet (it's being worked on). I'm sure there's already web2 tools out there, but the ideal web3 case is far lower friction, requiring no web hosting, deployment, trusted middlemen, etc. The proof of this will be in its success or failure, I'm still not sure how it'll play out.

Regarding the former case, of money and power... this one is a little harder. In theory, if you're a part of some community, and a very rich person wanted to fuck up or infiltrate your community by leveraging their wealth, they could probably figure out a way to do it, crypto or not. At least in this case, the existing community members stand to reap some sort of benefit from it, in the sense that a new whale's buy-in will increase the value of their existing holdings. Then they can all cash out and start a new thing someplace else. It has a similar form and moral valence as neighborhood gentrification (but without the racialized element).

I tend to think most communities will solve this by having some external aim of coordination that discourages people from just speculating (which makes sense given that social proof exists relative to the community in question), even if the balance of power is determined based on buy-in. But again, I don't really know how it will play out in practice, if more regular people will actually take up these tools for non-speculation reasons, etc.
Creating IPs take time. I think one of Netflix mistake is that they don’t make sequels easily.
> correlated with a general cryptocurrency market crash.

Which will be correlated with a general market crash.

As we are going through one now, it seems to follow that cryptocurrencies should crash more as a lot of tech companies have actual value and make/offer things we want while cryptocurrencies do not.
BTC and ETH are doing fine, in comparison with regular stocks such as NFLX, PTON.
Oh lord, a hybrid cross of "sovereign citizen" and "cryptocurrency geek". This is an unholy combination. No, none of your fantasies are correct or true in any way. Rich people don't need to escape government, they can influence it just fine.
Take it, if it's fair enough. Then kick butt for a year and re-evaluate
If building, running and evolving very large and complex systems over many years is not a measure of software engineering quality, I don't know how else to compare companies.
People interested in knowing more about Bitflip. "The Universe is Hostile to Computers" by Veritasium is good video.

https://youtu.be/AaZ_RSt0KP8
Were the murders you mention streamed live on video games?

I'm quite sad to see race-baiting on HN. I don't buy the naivete that, golly shucks, there just aren't any other differences between this case and the ones you listed above except for race.
Prefacing a statement with "not to be snide" does not magically make it not snide.
Just speculating, but in this age of big data, maybe they or a recruiter somehow knew you were a developer, and you recently passed some milestone (years of experience?) that put you onto their radar?
With Python it's possible to do tail-call optimization yourself. See this all-time great Stack Overflow answer and the linked repo for details (the actual code is quite short): https://stackoverflow.com/a/18506625.
i wish what you would write about is why MDL became MDC became Lit / MWC, and while it's still a complete mess.

the last time Material worked flawlessly with Bazel outside Google was arguably MDL, if you could even count that as working.

i just don't understand why Google isn't investing in OSS the way it used to. why it cannot seem to do the thing that should be easiest: to make its own software work with itself. it seemingly cannot do this even in high-value categories it cares deeply about, like Cloud.

i loved MDL. thank you for writing it. but i wish you would write something that cuts to why it is 2022 and Google just announced Flutter integration with Firebase like we all don't know that absolutely should have been a basic staple feature from the get go.
If you do the math without your thumb on the scale you get a different answer. Everybody knows rooftop solar costs several times utility-scale solar. If you get only 14% duty cycle, you are doing worse than most.

Ask the people in Georgia and South Carolina how much value they got for the $15B they were made to spend on their 0W nuke plant.
When your bank goes under, the FDIC uses your money to pay creditors, same as Coinbase. You get a new account with money funded from the Deposit Insurance Fund. You have already paid for this insurance. You are also free to purchase insurance for your Coinbase deposits. There’s not a difference except one’s compulsory.
It certainly fulfills my wallet.
Sounded to me like they didn't even have the milk, and like they're in rural areas of developing nations.