skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the link. The paper mostly only addresses one issue I that mentioned: attempting to distinguish intermediaries from individuals. It does not make any conclusions about how adoption of crypto as a whole will result in 100x more unequal wealth distribution than the regular economy which is what the OP tweets seem to be implying based on this 0.01% statistic.

The paper does point to the fact that holdings are skewed; 400,000 individuals control almost half of the circulating supply, so—like with the stock market—a very small handful of players stand to benefit if the price continues to appreciate significantly. This is particularly a problem for crypto currencies like Bitcoin that have a fixed supply capacity and are primarily used as a store of value. (Disclaimer: I own no BTC and feel it has inherent problems.)

Another study comparing Bitcoin, Ethereum and other coins to real world Gini coefficients finds similar results: that a small number of addresses hold a significant sum of tokens, but that overall wealth distribution in crypto currencies is often in-line with that of real economies.[1] The idea that crypto holdings mirror the wealth inequality of real economies is hardly surprising considering this is where the investors are coming from.

Two more interesting points raised by [1] worth noting:

> Results from both Bitcoin-like and Ethereum-like cryptocurrencies suggest that the wealth distribution is initially poor likely due to only a select few participants controlling the majority of the wealth. But this concentration often dissipates as more participants join the system, as observed in Bitcoin and Ethereum.

> Bitcoin-like coins often have capped supply, i.e., the number of these coins are algorithmically limited to a predefined quantity to provide intrinsic value to the asset. Ethereum, on the other hand, does not impose a strict limit on the supply of Ethers. ... Thus the figures reported in this subsection will likely change significantly over time, unlike Bitcoin-like currencies in which a large proportion of wealth is already distributed.

[1] https://ulir.ul.ie/bitstream/handle/10344/11073/Sai_2021_Cha...
In my personal experience flour tortillas would fall into that category
The potential is 100x more with vocal synthesis imo. No need to make programmatic mad-libs style formats. Complete freedom, even though the quality isn't optimal.
>Return is directly correlated to risk

This is at least a weak EMH assumption. It's not a law. In crypto sometimes the opposite is true for short to medium periods of time because uninformed people are afraid of 'too high' returns. Best money is made on market inefficiencies like that.
Companies aren't allowed to auto delete messages for legal reasons. At any point communications can be subpoenaed for a lawsuit and companies will have to show them in court and if they are caught deleting messages, they could be in even bigger trouble if they don't have a legitimate reason for deleting them.
> They never did catch up on table stakes

What didn't they catch up on? To me Messenger seems like a better user experience than WhatsApp or any of the other three messaging clients I need to use.

Indeed WhatsApp is lacking basic functionality like a desktop app.
Also, a client tied to a phone number may work well for some people, but a pain whenever you change your number, and it makes discovery of people much harder.
IMO letting crypto die by itself is the best way to prove it sucks.

If any blockchain was forbidden, there would be a huge PR stress and infinite arguments about their viabilities.

Just let morons fail.
bill gates promoted one of the most brutal and polluting industries in the world, a complete environmental disaster rooted in slavery, with the phrase "a PC on every desk". he created a horrible and bloated ecosystem that has plagued our lives and he has just attempted to do the same with an insane biosecurity apparatus. i never want to hear any of these people's opinions on vaccines or anything like this again. they are dangerous worthless frauds. philanthropy is just what gates turned to after he got chased out of his own business for sexual harassment.
They could offer a flat rate based on the length of the procedure...
I’m just explaining the rationale. At this point it’s a moral discussion rather than legal: does the “war on drugs” et al trump individual rights? If yes, you’d be in favor of forfeiture, if not, you’d be against.
I have not found any real critical news about this.

I found much more on how to run it with solar.

There is also already an existing big installation base in Bavaria (Germany) without any big issues.

Are you referencing the short band interference of inverted?

Do you have a source which would describe the issue and the real impact globally?
I’m not sure why the weight matters. The factory that made the battery was many tons, but if that’s what’s needed then that’s what’s needed.
I instantly fall in love with someone I sleep with. In fact I make a connection to any girl I deem pretty that makes eye contact on the subway. I feel a little hurt when they get off the train without saying goodbye
NLP not being nearly ready. Some of the requests were powered by people on the backend and we hoped to use that as a training set. We could, but we only were able to automate the most basic things like reminders, weather, todo lists, daily transit, etc
> It's the right balance in-between React/SSR hydration and Railsy server-side apps, taking the best of both worlds.

This is similar to how React Server Components work, except that they work for arbitrary server-side rendering updates to the client as well as navigation. And it’s conceptually similar to how Qwik works, only the “partials” are typically client chunks. And again with Qwik, not tied to navigation, but that’s pretty much how I’d imagine a client routing solution for Qwik would (will?) look.
Thought you were about to say 'a Ponzi scheme'.
> "15% interest. No surprises."

I’m honestly not surprised about how things turned out.
I don't think it's stagnant. I continue to see stuff like small modular reactors making progress. The obvious reason why it doesn't get more play is because it doesn't serve anybody's political goals. Renewables and carbon taxes or other measures to try and reduce quality of life (or opposition to those) get attention because they have good political value. Actually spending money and generating sustainable power, not much you can do with that, it doesn't match an ideology. Same with carbon capture and storage. There are good technical motivations to climate change, they just don't have a political champion.
Qin Hui, 'Appeasement and Collective Security: Ukraine Series No. 6'
Are you saying that someone can't deposit money into random bank account?
All crypto is a scam and it's so simple to see, it's astonishing anyone fell for this.

Look.

Imagine an otherwise empty room with a table and a few chairs. A couple people come in with some money in their pockets and cards. They play a few round of a card game, some lose, some win. When they leave, the room as it was before so it is crystal clear the sum of their money couldn't change. Some won, some lost but overall the change is zero. This still doesn't change if, for convenience, during the game, they use plastic chips to count wins and losses and at the end they exchange it for money.

But if someone takes a small cut every time the plastic chips move then that person is guaranteed to win and everyone else together is guaranteed to lose. Now, a game where, without knowing anything about the game you can tell ahead of the time which group wins and which one loses is not a game, it's a scam.

Indeed, one of the best moves for players is not to play the game but to sell their chips -- and praise the game to increase the chance of a greater fool buying in. Those will sit on a greater loss than you did which might not materialize yet but it's certainly in the system.

So, any crypto"currency" with transaction fees is a scam. Those who collect transaction fees are guaranteed to win and the rest are guaranteed to lose.

And no, stocks aren't like this because they produce dividend. And no, gold is not like this either because there are uses of gold which transform your gold into higher value products than raw gold (integrated circuits, jewelry) which sell for real money. Neither can happen with crypto"currencies", there the only interfacing with real money is exchange.
> all the depositors go at the same time to claim their money at the bank.

If the bank did not create money, and simply loaned out the deposits, the depositors would still not find their money there when they run to get it.

Banks loan out a multiple of the deposits, meaning they create money.

Your theory that FRB doesn't create money is a fringe one, which should give some pause. What should also give pause is the gold example, which doesn't apply, and the false notion that bank collapses from runs only happen when they use FRB.
Author of Lobster here, AMA.
Most law firms are very small (relative to tech companies). In very large law firms, you'll see more of the typical managerial organizational chart at play, even though almost everyone employed there has passed the bar. Big law firms like Latham & Watkins for instance have a CEO and c-suite.
Interesting. The cheesecake here is nothing like ones found in the UK, which would be classified as toast!
When I think about how freeing having a personal computer was back then, and then think about how computing devices are used now to track people, control speech, and generally keep people in line - I don't think of progress.
>-99%

You know the scene in Office Space when Peter says, “I have eight bosses, Bob.” And then Tall Bob (Dr Cox) leans forward with a surprised look on his face?

I don’t think I’ve ever empathized with Bob in that scene. Until just now.
When I saw "Kinopio", I thought it's about Toad character (my favorite) in Super Mario universe. :) But I'm still pleasantly surprised to see a site that looks very unique.

I wonder if the word "Kinopio" means something other than Toad in Japanese (maybe someone here who knows Japanese can answer?)
Inequality is implicit. If you believe the banking system is a mechanism for enabling plutocracy, you don’t want the banks bailed out. There’s that, and also all of the writings on the forums in which Satoshi hung out.
The problem is that Russia has a sea blockade not allowing Ukrainian ships with grain to leave ports. That's where the missiles could help.
(in the same time Russia sells stolen from Ukraine grain itself).
> Well funded forks are rarely breaking from upstream

Well sure, why would they when so many resources are tied up in limping Gecko along?
I'd shy away from writing "one off" deployment tools myself, unless I had a very specific reason to do it. My preference for automation of infrastructure provisioning these days is Ansible, although I'm starting to work with Terraform a bit at the $DAYJOB. At Fogbeam, all of our automated infra provisioning stuff is just a wrapper on top of Ansible. I don't find the YAML files to get terribly large or complex, and even if they did, I doubt hand-rolled code to achieve the same thing would be any less complex.

For my money, if I wanted to do something that wasn't supported by Ansible (or similar tool of choice) I think my time would be better spent writing a module for the tool to add that support, than writing some one-off thing. But as always, "it depends" and YMMV of course.
You need to wake up and stop accepting this as normal or okay.

Hospitals are not just any business and if it starts to hurt us as a society we need to interven.
Use something like https://github.com/iGhibli/iOS-DeviceSupport to get the device support files, and https://pmbaty.com/iosbuildenv/ to develop apps
I think you misunderstood GP’s comment. Also, it is odd to see such stereotyping used to substantiate a criticism of a comment as xenophobic.
What do you mean "in secret"? The hospital received the form in full detail. There is nothing secret about it. It's like claiming the ToS are secret because none reads it.
greed is evil, and i see you all every day getting paid to fuck up our world. i see you online and i see you in person when you try to spend your money on me and services i provide. you have not succeeded in distinguishing yourself, you are all members of a technocratic class enriching itself at the expense of our environmental resources.
this is HN, it's full ob publicity for projects that are just $old_existing_program written in $language_of_the_day
So the main difference seems to be just claims about speed and cost. E.g. trading down payment/secured-vs-unsecured/etc for different rates is all perfectly possible by bank-shopping today in the US. Perhaps systems elsewhere are less open, I wouldn't know, but happy to say there could be value in developing countries with less infra, though the ceiling for the valuation of such a system seems much lower. But I'm skeptical that speed would hold up for a lot of these scenarios. Things like inspecting the property you claim to have that will be part of your collateral. The actual transfer of funds has never been the slow part of any loan I've gotten - even a bank wire in the US, slow as the US banking system is compared to what I've read about Europe, can go through in a day. All the due diligence to make sure I'm who I say I am and have what I say I am takes a lot longer. I don't see blockchains really changing that for the simple reason that whether or not a blockchain says I own a piece of property or the state government says I own a piece of property, neither of those guarantee that in the real world it's in good condition, currently possessed by me (vs trying to borrow against a stolen car, say), etc.

Re: the Trustlines thing - from a scan of the website, what does crypto bring that one of the non-crypto implementations of "help do microlending in developing countries" from 10 years ago couldn't do? When I looked at that back then, reading people's stories, what they said they wanted to do with the money, etc, was all manual and, of course.
Ah, I misunderstood you.
I'm saying people can close their bank accounts.
Hopefully the A.G. will recuse himself. He's under indictment for the same crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Paxton#State_securities_fr...
May I suggest another Office Space clip for this situation: https://twitter.com/liron/status/1527376821045473304
> That's very difficult to say, actually; the Moskova was sunk with them after all, but the bigger issue is the abhorrent and indiscriminate shelling of civilian populations by the Russians. Fields with farmers and homes and hospitals with civilians are not of military importance. And yet, Russia keeps shooting them.

According to western media.

> The truth is Putin's Kremlin is to blame for this wide-spread shortage

Yeah that would be easy, however it's not as cut and dry (it rarely is). You could as easily blame Zelenskyy for killing thousands of east Ukrainians prior. And then their is the coup d'état in 2014 as well and the constant provocations of the NATO in general. So I am not so sure that Putin's Kremlin alone is to blame.
Sure.

For dates etc - you got it. I think from memory it would be 'Wednesday' + 'the 18th' + 'of' + 'may...' + '20' + '22'

For the narrative speech it would be more words in a file. There are plenty of files (EDIT: just checked 350ish files that cover all the variations of script that can be generated at the moment)

In general the TTS - part of the project is the 'art of the almost possible' (if TTS engines sounded really good - I'd have just used one of the shelf)
Second largest, even collectively. Lake Baikal is REALLY deep.
"but the outbreak takes place during a national holiday with extensive domestic and international travel by Brinians"

And an almost impeccably timed platinum jubilee to go with it.
WhatsApp has had a desktop app for years.
What would it take to “fix” the US hospital system, and prevent others (the UK’s NHS, Australia’s public hospital’s etc), from falling into the same trap?
All nuclear waste ever produced in the US could be stored in an area the size of a football field
yeah, Ken Paxton is … let’s go with “not clear and free of scandal”.
makes me wondering maybe I was in a sterile information vacuum. I used to think Angular naturally protects me from all this BS mediocre react projects because of its ’enterpriseness‘ and ‘the choice for serious projects’. Thank you for the note, I’ll take this into account
Thank you again! I updated the website to at least have the hook from Google Play and the screenshots.
15% interest? No, surprises!
Creating a public permanent record of having fallen for the latest crypto shitcoin will likely be too embarrassing for some. But then again I'm having trouble relating.

Successful "crypto startups" hardly exist, and most of those are selling shovels to suckers. What was the expectation here?
There were some devices that would let you copy the ID over but they fell out of popularity / couldn't keep up. Just not worth it for a low margin item I guess.
It's a Web standard, currently implemented in Chrome, Edge, and Opera: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Serial_...

So it works e.g. with Chrome on Windows. And yes, no third-party driver required.

The GMC Geiger counters provide a Serial-over-USB connection. THe GMC devices can then be controlled and read over a byte-oriented protocol.
It starts just as abruptly on my laptop. Not sure what the editor was thinking.
> After all, why would they have to convince you to invest money if they could just do it themselves?

Capital. Taking a 5% cut of billions of dollars is going to be worth a lot more than 20% of whatever tiny amount of capital you are able to muster yourself.
How so? NVIDIA GPUs have their own APIs, AMD does, Direct3D is its own. The Apple platform acceleration APIs are Metal. The MS acceleration APIs are all generally Direct3D, etc.

The fact the you want Apple to support other platforms doesn't mean that they're wrong for not doing so. They same arguments to require Apple to support your preferred API also applies to MS, NVIDIA, AMD, etc and the same arguments to not do that apply them all as well.
> Seriously, this is the fucking stupidest thing I’ve seen in _YEARS_

C'mon, let's not forget about NFTs.
investment cost and payoff. a gas turbine plant can deliver returns in as little as six years and requires minimal oversight. a nuclear plant may take as long as 30 years before it returns a profit, and it lives under a government regulatory and security magnifying glass.

personal opinion but the modern american investor has no patience for anything but instant profits. nuclear could be great but the executives you have to convince are all well familiar with and scarred by their 60 year old reactors.
no one ever mentions nuclear proliferation risk associated with the production of plutonium.
Quiet! The kool-aid tray is coming round again.
gRPC: A high performance, open source universal RPC framework
Meet the man who has eaten a Big Mac a day for 50 years
In my opinion this is the purpose of a commit message. Header: short description of the change; body: details, including justification for the change. But I agree, it's also good when people preemptively make comments on their own commits in the code review interface.

Question for you though: do you have a size limit on this requirement? I.e., changes that are small enough don't need to do this?
Haven't taken a look yet, but as a general attitude, biggest does not mean best, and size only makes a list more difficult to currate; it becomes the kitchen sink.
One major difference is that a law firm makes money by selling billable hours whereas a tech company makes money by producing, selling, and distributing an actual product.

You don't see law firms raising millions to open shop, but it's almost a pre-requisite for serious tech companies. A law firm can be profitable from day one. This difference makes it much harder to use the co-op model for tech companies unless all the workers are independently wealthy and don't need VCs.
You’re actually defending (alleged) collusion, (alleged) fraud and (alleged) insider trading on the basis that the ship was going to sink anyway?
>Obesity

Sadly, in the US, there're obese people who're strongly into nonsensical movements like HAES (Healthy At Every Size), fat positivity. They think being obese is good, healthy, and doing nothing to address is a great thing. If one so happens to tell them about the health risks due to obesity, they are termed as fatphobic.
Just look at the success they've already had in the US! That system is hardly supportable in a wealthy country like the US, let alone Ukraine.
https://archive.ph/44EbP
It isn't just the Chromium monoculture that supports WebP, though. Firefox and Safari both do too. What other browsers do you want to support it before you'll consider it universal?

And for people with operating systems too old to run any browser version that supports WebP, they're also way behind on security updates, so we should be encouraging them to upgrade to a newer OS.
If Ty had come out with a Beanie Baby NFT project this whole thing would’ve come full circle. Do you think they’d have taken off or tanked at the height of the NFT Bubble?
So yeah one hypothesis is there was an advanced pre-historic culture that's now buried under the Persian Gulf and the fairly rapid filling of the Persian Gulf dislocated and drove dissemination of culture and common mythological elements we see in many cultures today in all directions.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/657397?seq=1
http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ust-luna-the-biggest-collapse-...

These guys discuss some details (that were known as of this publish date). It closely resembles the 'attack' on GBP in the 90's by a billionaire.
This reminds me of the situation with the telecoms in the east europe - it's almost the same. There were no incumbents, so both internet access and private healthcare are leagues above US. It's just not comparable. Also include online banking here.

You need stuff done - you go and get it, end of the story. No bullshit, no courts, no nothing, and it's orders of magnitude cheaper.
Isn't that massively stretching the definition of a "cake"? When I wrote "cake", I meant this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake#/media/File:Pound_layer_c... -- do you put a sausage in those?
Stablehains sounds like something from a 2am infomercial. I have no idea why people would fall for this garbage.
Maybe, shoot me an email if you want to chat about it kirill at getfillet.com
As long as someone pays for cryptocurrency somewhere in the world, you will be able to algorithmically mint a coin tethered to USD or any other asset, and there is absolutely nothing the US Government or anyone else can do to stop it. The Pandora's Box is open.
Your comment makes it seem as if the title has been editorialized unfairly, when, in fact, it is very apt and to the point. Also, your attitude.
Why would there be a "fundamental" reason for an inability to block/reject payments in cryptocurrencies? Ethereum smart contract can already do that. Just exit with an error while processing an incoming payment.
What is it called when someone has a problem with the atrocities the U.S. committed but are willing to excuse the same atrocity by an Eastern power?
The crypto economy does not automagically solve all the old problems, but it does allow them to be more transparent and visible.
Nothing beats Miro. Very sweet version though
Looks like it’s missing Google Analytics alternatives such as Fathom, Plausible, Simple.

Edit: Am aware I should submit a PR but not able to at present.
> if I'm reading it right, I am not a zoologist.

This had me in stitches. I'm also not a huge fan of obfuscatory jargon, irrespective of how cromulent such language may be.
Might be referring to https://twitter.com/freddieraynolds/status/14639606234029137...
Isn't it already "a public permanent record" because it's already in the news?
Looks crazy verbose compared to $ and $$, especially if you're actually using it intensively.