skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of it is designed really well but squashing human stupidity on the scale of trillion dollar economies is a perpetual game of whack-a-mole. The message a lot of people got from 2008 that it was the bankers and the system that hurt the little guy and therefore we should no longer trust any of it. And create a new financial parallel universe in which to rediscover why regulation is needed in the first place. Vitalik Buterin today literally suggested an analogue of FDIC insurance for cryptocurrency banks.

My view is that the banks did hugely mess up and did not face enough consequences — and the correct approach is to massively enhance enforcement. (In many ways that actually has happened.) But moreover they preyed on stupidity, just massive massive stupidity that will always be there to contend with. Fraud always looks better than real investments to the marks. People have to overlook the shady parts, and to make them do that a product must offer unrealistic returns. Millions and millions of people are not smart enough to tell when that’s happening to them. As long as the SEC and its ilk let these run, people get hurt and everyone suffers, either personally, or from the inefficiency of fraud generally or the collapse of interlinked financial systems when the fraud gets big enough. Dealing with this is a huge task and often unpopular. If you tell millions of Americans they can’t invest in crypto scams, many of them will be royally pissed off, because they were promised riches! That’s even worse than whack-a-mole — letting frauds off the leash for one minute leaves your hands tied unless you are top of your game and have a lot of built up trust.

That’s why people keep pointing to the lack of arrests as a huge failure of 2008. As mistakes by government go it was much worse than the bailout, which was rather necessary to limit the damage. It meant people thought the government was in on it, or that they didn’t care. Frankly I think Bitcoin would never have taken off if there were a slew of high profile arrests. It would not have seemed necessary.
> Makes we wanna throw away my phone and live in the woods

What I tried to aim for in Digital Vegan 1[] is to get people thinking
about tech as a healthy balance.

It is actually rather common to have these extreme swings, all or
nothing, total technological connection or living off berries in a
woodland shack. It's called splitting in psychology, and the
conditions around technology are geared to maximise it.

That's partly because it is so aggressive, in it's marketing, and peer
pressure, in it's network effects created by deliberate lack of
interoperability, by the way it is forced upon people. Young people
are constantly bullied into over-connection by the idea they will be
"left behind", that they will "miss out", and that a total cybernetic
society of "ubiquitous" technology is "inevitable". All a total crock
of shit of course. Nobody wants that except a few silicon valley
pushers. But if you are immersed in that toxic narrative, which comes
through the medium itself, it's hard for anyone to exercise rational
choice, self-control and use technology in a moderate, healthy way.

So to me it makes sense to define "hacker" as someone who has mastery
over technology. A master is not dominated by their own creations and
desires. Part of mastery is choosing exactly how much, and what type
of technology to use, and not allowing other people to foist that upon
you. Real hackers make technological choices that may marginalise
them, instead of just following the crowd.

[1] https://digitalvegan.net
To what extent do CEO's height compare to the average?
It’s worth noting many of these regulations came into existence (or became stringently enforced) because of 2008.
> The EU is not a single united market like the US is.

You made the comparison between US and EU, so it's in play. QED.
Ask HN: Is there a news feed like HN but less computer science/science focused?
As I said: trade-offs. Huge spaces, cafes and other amenities of an urban walkable center, (relatively) affordable — you can only choose two. I don't see how a first-world city (where a barista gets $15 an hour and not $200 a month) can have apartments that would be the same size as a typical american suburban home that would cost less than $1 million.

Europeans choose urban centers with small or even tiny (Paris) apartments. Americans choose suburban huge homes.
There is no official migration path to a normal consumer Google/Gmail account. That's what they were indicating for quite a while that they would start offering around now, but with today's news it seems like they've had a change of mind.

Exporting your email data and importing it into a different provider (and perhaps more importantly, changing the MX DNS record on your domain) should work fine though. Your inbox on the Google side will just cease receiving new email.
> except our own behaviour

Oh, well, no risk of that predator disappearing anytime soon, then...
I'm not uncritical of capitalism, especially as we practice it with high amounts of monopolization over sectors and regulatory capture by conglomerates. But communism as historically demonstrated will not solve our problems, and will likely make them worse.

Which historical communist country would you like to live in?
You reminded me that I canceled my Google music and moved to Spotify because it was impossible to use the Google music account I had on my own domain instead of Gmail with a Google home.

I was really happy with the service. I liked not having ads on YouTube. Still dumbfounded by that.
I'd feel exactly the same way as you about that, and if we truly are in a tiny minority perhaps that does explain a lot about the world.
I took 1+ month break from Facebook and after I got back to check some groups, I totally forget to visit this social site so often. Like at the end of day, I remind myself that I wasn't there and still not missing anything. I was tired of bad news and angry comments.

There must be really some dopamine effect about these things. Like person is bored so you scroll 100 posts which fulfils your desire and after some time when your levels drop, you come back making this something like habit. Similar to drinking coffee, a lot of people complain about headache if they don't drink right amount of coffee they are used to every day.
> I referred to "people who hold positions that are at least internally consistent", and then you started talking about fundamentalism? What does it mean to be "fundamentalist"? It sounds like it's one whose "belief trumps rational arguments". Those people are the worst. I don't think that they're the same people as who I was referring to, though.

Yes I agree with you, and I should have been more specific that by fundamentalist I don't necessarily mean religion either. Your characterisation of "someone whose belief trumps rational arguments" hits it quite well on the head.

> Anyway, I think we both agree on the nit I was trying to pick initially which is that broad labels aren't generally helpful to anybody trying to reach the truth, but they sure do get used a lot in our modern discourse.

I generally agree, but what I tried to say with referring to the book above, was that there are different types of debates.

That said, I accept the criticism, we should try to keep the debates here on HN more about exchanging views in an "honest" (for lack of a better word) discourse, and use less labels. I will try to do better in the future.
> The study only included recommendations to the timing of food intake and did not provide recommendations for calorie and macronutrient intake or physical activity.

> 116 overweight and obese participants

Yeah I mean IF isn't magic. If you sit in front of netflix and eat three 800cal bags of chips it doesn't matter much if you're doing IF or not.

I'm doing IF for years and go to the gym every other day, most of the time fasted. I made good progress, lost fat, gained muscles, and most importantly I feel amazing.

Eating schedule is only a part of the equation. You still need to eat proper food and exercise.
There's an argument to be made, that the relative stability here is bought from volatility and economic suffering in poorer countries, because the US dollar is the global reserve currency. In addition, there's a few other relatively strong currencies, which are used as reserves for weaker currencies. It seems that globally, the success in these countries is bought from weakening the currencies in poorer countries.

There's also a lot of historical inaccuracies and rewriting of history to defend this system. For example, the great depression is partly blamed on the gold standard, but in reality it happened exactly because the gold standard was already broken (since 1914), which resulted in wildly wrong speculative monetary practices and policies.[0]

As you said there's plausible rational arguments from both sides. But then again, are the central banks even following practices based on economics, or did they become politicized and corrupted, because of their central position in the economy? We see blatant monetary corruption happening in autocracies, but is it happening in western economies too, but it's just less obvious?

I have used years to study these issues and I'm becoming more convinced every day, that it's time for a hard money standard, i.e. Bitcoin. And, I think it's inevitable, because historically, people always vote for harder money in a free market.

[0] From this perspective, the Austrian School of economics has the correct explanation for the Great Depression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression#Austrian_Scho...
Visual Observer: A non-verbal tour of obscure, muted imagery through time
Until you have users that want a feature in an older version that's not in a newer one. Oh, and companies are always saying "nobody uses feature X, it was hard to maintain so we got rid of it" which is infuriating if you're a user of feature X.
War destroy capital. If you think of production in non-monetary terms, war is always a net negative.
Lots of Americans are homeless. Most of them don't want to be.

Many Americans would like other options on the table. I'm one of them.
I made about 650k last year and I'm not even staff-level. I don't think paying 750k is going to attract anyone new.
This is very much not just missing a laundry list of legal disclosures. They actively lied to investors said increased sales of consumer graphic cards was due to a "Fortnite Boom" when it obvious to industry observers that is was a mining boom. Miners and Fortnite players have very different life-time revenue expectation, miners tend flood the used market with used cards dropping the prices that can be asked for future products, gamers tend to keep their cards and buy new cards when they want to play more demanding games. This leads to less of oversupply on the used market. The last mining bust had a huge negative influence on Nvidia.
> Despite its totalitarianism, China isn't very expansionist or aggressive

That's...debatable, but it has one particular clear, specific interest in normalizing reconquest of formerly-held territories, irrespective of whether it is “aggressive” or “expansionist“ in any general sense.

> Significantly less than Russia and the US.

While it has integrated as states some territories it already held in that time, the US has been anti-expansionist since 1947, voluntarily relinquishing formerly-held territories and seeking neither to acquire new ones nor to reassert sovereign control over former ones. (The US may exercise strong influence over foreign states, including many that it formerly administered as territories, and may entertain the idea of integrating existing territories as states, but territorial expansion hasn't been on the table for a while.) China, in the same time period, has launched several wars for territorial expansion.

> Wasn't their last war the annexation of Tibet in 1951?

No. Excluding internal (even arguable, like several with the ROC) wars, since 1951 they've fought in the Korean War, several wars with India, the Vietnam War, several wars against Vietnam after the Vietnam War, and some others. Against both India and Vietnam, particularly, their goals in involved territorial expansion.
I remember I was short the stock via puts quite a bit and they kept saying crypto was 5% of the business which I knew was a lie. It turned out great for me. Fast forward to 2022, you see how much of the GPU “shortage” was due to crypto mining especially in Russia (there are enough anecdotes of people in Siberia heating their kitchens with GPUs).
That is a separate issue. Stock buybacks can be done to reward insiders. A dividend would be distributed equally and has the effect of directly cutting the share price. A buyback distributes cash unequally and puts upward pressure on share prices. Only insiders know for sure if the action is being done to buy back shares on sale or to distribute profits.
I played BaK several times and never knew that.
> they prefer to feel bad

Kinda the premise of The Matrix
Excellent, thanks for this @dang !
What really put things into perspective for me was seeing how despite the terrible gap in living conditions the "families" category just showed a bunch of pictures and videos of what looked to me like perfectly ordinary families.

It really helps show that people are just people and highlight the disparity of their circumstances.
I've held BTC for well over 5 years now. I already got much more out of it than I initially put in so I'm not really too worried.

I actually did invest based on my principles. My faith might be a little bit shaken, but at this point I feel like I might as well see the experiment out. Maybe I am a fool.
I emphasise to some extent definitely. It’s a shame micro payments never really took off.

But crypto is not the answer for micropayments, if that’s the goal we can do it without all the blockchain nonsense.
so it got all the way to the bottom, digging up "no u" arguments. ok.
Which parts of the site do you interpret as describing "degrowth" narrative? I had a look at the solutions listed and the general theme seemed to be smarter use of existing resources and didn't really mention growth, or reducing growth.
- Producing energy using less fossil fuels, not necessarily producing less energy
- Producing food in a way that uses less fossil fuels, not producing less food.

I think what the site is saying is we depend on ecological systems and natural resources to sustain our current standard of living, but we are consuming them at a faster rate than they can replenish. We need to use the available resources more efficiently - doesn't necessarily translate to less or even slower growth though.
If you have a publicly-listed company you have to disclose all macro, market, and sector/industry risks (as well as company-specific risk) that might impact investors. The mere fact that they didn't disclose it (in 2018) is blamable.

Their stock price doesn't tank on this news, it's trending down along with BTC and other crypto assets. The market isn't stupid, it's pricing into NVDA price the risk of cryptos going into a prolonged bear market.

Investors will probably never get their money back. First of all, NVDA stock is up a ton since 2018, and second of all, shareholders are considered full risk-on and should diversify. Class actions are possible but highly improbable to work. The company has been buying their stock back too which show their commitment to reward shareholders as well.
Companies are not allowed to lie to their investors. Part of the deal of being a public company is that all communication is communication with their investors. If they told their investors that they were selling GPUs to gamers, while in fact selling most of them to miners, they violated the law. The principle of it being that said investors might have had a different outlook on the company depending on who they were selling to.

Besides, there is a difference. Because whenever crypto collapses (and it has twice already in the past), a lot of the existing mining GPUs end up on the secondary market. If this happens now, it will have a material impact on the prices of GPUs going forwards.
I think they misspoke and what they meant to say was that bodybuilders use a zero/low carb diet, in which case their statement holds true.
Also the whole blockchain seems to be model of distributed centralized. Okay so same thing runs in multiple places. But it is still same centralized thing. Everyone has copy and some lucky get to do next part...

That just seem stupidly wasteful approach. I have nothing against actually p2p where everyone controls and runs the parts useful for them, even if there is some duplication. Think of Bittorrent. You don't download entire bittorrent network, but parts that you want...
I'm not sure if starting something like a 7-day fast without medical supervision is a good idea, and I'm also not sure if any medical professional would allow you to do that, just thinking out loud.

Don't you think it's too dangerous to name it essential life experience and recommend it to random people on the internet?

I'm really asking, I'm not knowledgeable about this at all, and my questions stem from pure gut feeling.
While the game itself is not getting remade, there is an “inspired by” game in the works: https://www.callofsaregnar.com/
Marques Brownlee Using DALL-E 2
Musk appears to care less and less about the law or his word. He broke numerous SEC rules in the bid and the share buying beofre, he's broken agreements with Twitter. He could let Twitter take him to court and drag it out for years whilst they stagnate in limbo and not really care.

The best leverage Twitter has is to threaten to take away his twitter account - hit him where it hurts.
Such a society would not fly. Imagine being a parent and unable to be able to give your kids an advantage. It would devolve into pure chaos.
I heard about this from a co-worker only an hour ago. Apparently all you need to do is to go to this support answer:

https://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120

Look for:

> opt out of the transition to Google Workspace by clicking here

Then select the "for personal use" option. You need to be logged in as super admin of the organization.
> We already have payment networks that work well.

I assume you don't live in a country built around M-Pesa or EVC Plus, but it's very hard to build banking records around mobile credit. For example, in Somalia which uses the USD, has US, UK, and many other countries financial sanctions. So you trade airtime in the form of USD, but without a real banking infrastructure behind it. There is an increase in moving from this to a crypto-based system over SMS that allows for unique accounts, credit histories, international payments for remittance and micropayments (these SMS tools don't work out of the country), etc... So here Crypto might be the better payment network. Here's a guide for EVC Plus to understand how they trade there:

https://www.hormuud.com/personal/services/evc-plus.aspx

Crypto, in the way I think it was meant to be 7+ years ago and how I still want it to go as an industry, solves these issues quite nicely :)
I can't speak for all of Europe, but here in Amsterdam most people have a decent supermarket within walking (<15min) or cycling (<5min) distance, with plenty of unprocessed / raw ingredients (so not mini-markets that mostly sell sandwiches and microwave meals). So we tend to buy groceries often (daily or every other day) and in small portions, or even on a whim. We also don't own a car (yes we do have a child, and we know plenty of multi-child families without cars).

AFAICT, that's a lifestyle that's not available to most Americans. The flipside is of course that our houses are tiny by American standards.

In the few Asian cities I visited, there were also plenty of small cheap eateries in walking distance.
Meeting the opposition on these grounds is playing into their hands, though. They came up with the abortion is murder framing. Conceding to that viewpoint is like agreeing to play a game of tug of war in which you’ll be standing on a muddy hillside and your opponent will be standing on on concrete atop the hill. You are guaranteed to lose ground that way.

Speaking of things that are frustrating, it’s incredibly frustrating how many people who claim to be pro-abortion seem to be mollified by the legal arguments that are being used to dismantle it. Sometimes I think the real genius of the US Constitution is the seemingly magical ability it has to appeal to men’s innate desire to feel like very smart, very rational beings through nitpicking, pedantic debate. Who cares whether Alito’s argument makes sense? Who cares whether RBG thought Roe was built on a solid legal foundation? The thing that actually matters is that a very important right - the right to not be forced to risk your own wellbeing for the sake of another - is being taken away.

Whatever Constitutional interpretation got us there is about as meaningful and impressive as Joseph Smith putting on his stone glasses to interpret the word of God. The rationalization was reverse engineered from the conservative justice’s political viewpoint, not the other way around. Whatever the Supreme Court was intended to be, it is absolutely a political body now. Unfortunately only one side - the ones who successfully ramrodded this change into effect against the wishes of most Americans - seems to recognize it. The other side is so caught up in the childish fantasy of Smart People Openly Debating the Tough Issues With Logic and Reason™, so enamored of this Aaron Sorkin inspired belief that the right soaring speech with a well thought out argument will always win the day, that they are and will continue to be thoroughly trounced by the other side, who at least realize that politics is a dirty game now where anything goes.
These kind of interactions are why I love HN.
This is actually my understanding of it as well, though I kind of arrived at the conclusion on my own pulling from various sources and experience.

People think about fat as if they have access to it all, but it's a surface area per unit time problem. Like all the chemistry in life, on some level, it's diffusion limited.

What you should be thinking about while fasting is not letting your basal rate/time + exercise expenditure/time exceed your total energy available/time. I got pretty good at estimating this, but I wish there were an easy way to measure it.

Everything is stream processing, not discrete units.
The Wider Trajectory of Crypto
They were just making a joke.
> and the strategy behind the German government's policy towards Russia for 15 years.

Seeing what the likes of Gerhard Schröder is doing and given other economic incentives that favoured Germany I don't think that was the main idea behind it.
Thanks for the context! It actually seems like something worth taking the risk, too bad it didn't played out better
After head trauma or a variety of other issues, some people enter a vegetative state, are deemed brain-dead by their doctors, and do not seem to be aware of themselves or anything.

Are they no longer people? The machines keeping them alive are taking up resources, maybe it would be fine to disconnect them since there seems to longer by anybody home.

The thing is, some of those people actually recover: https://www.macleans.ca/society/health/the-story-behind-a-ve... .

What about the mentally handicapped? How are we to assess the internal state of a non-verbal person to determine whether they are aware of anything?

Making judgements about a person's quality of life and using those to justify killing them is inhumane.