skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wondering if it's just going to be 25%.

How many investors actually understand the technology? Who (even here at HN) has read a whitepaper? I've read some, and have to say it became a personal running gag of how many pages it would take until the authors completely descend into fogging the reader with a mumbo-jumbo of made up words ("The Tangle").

But more specifically Tether stands at half the marketcap of Etheruem [0] and represents the largest trade volume (ie that of Bitcoin and Etherium combined) [1]

[0] Marketcap ETH: 147 Bn USD, USDT: 72 Bn USD

[1] Volume BTC: 63 Bn USD, ETH: 42 Bn USD, USDT: 103 Bn USD
> This is exactly the kind of non-nuanced, buzzwordy and handwavy advertising I was ranting about.

I spent four years working on a Meteor.js app. Meteor's main appeal is isomorphic code and a high degree of reactivity. As the app evolved we replaced the in-built MongoDB with GraphQL. It was nice to have one language and GraphQL was very useful. Eventually this kind of model may be the future, but the next project I did, instead of Meteor, I went with a more conventional Vue front end with REST & websocket api for the backend. The reason for the change is that while Node is really nice, Django and Go get predictable outcomes with less time spend on tooling, patching and updates. With a small team, losing lots of hours to "our build broke because an upstream dependency changed a function signature" is not a good thing.
I guess this is a good place to ask. Back in the 90s there was a humor mailing list that was like, "Top Five such-and-such" and it was operated by someone named Chris. Don't remember last name. Does anyone remember this?
Godot's high level networking is so nice because it's easy to do either.

Since everything in Godot is nodes, you can assign "ownership" of nodes to peers. Every peer has full control over their nodes and then you sync the data via RPC.

That way, you can do authoritative by just giving all the ownerships to the server node, or p2p by sharing which nodes belong to who.

In the context of drawing though, yeah if you want people to mess with other people's strokes it becomes annoying.
Except that information-causality flows both ways. There are those who have a strong self-interested opinion on "what should be done" that would be imprudent for most everyone relative to the factual reality. To convince more people of their preferred action, they work to undermine everyone's belief in the factual reality. So talking about what the public believes, independent of any proposed course of action, ends up being quite relevant.
Speaking of Bitcoin;

Satoshi was an excellent C++ programmer but s/he wasn't quite good at creating GUI and "Crypto" consumer apps that's why s/he open sourced it and left it to the community to build upon it and expand the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Btw at the time Bitcoin was in the experimental phase and Satoshi left the Bitcoin community pretty early that's why "Crypto" was user hostile and maybe still is.
Stripe and Moneygram have a business model that can exist outside of crypto. The others you listed enable people to be scammed. I won't go so far as to call them a scam company themselves.
Alternatively: Many people will not pass an opportunity of a "risk-free" 20% APY. (Not sure if Binance in particular is paying interest on deposits, but many exchanges do, as far as I know.)

Also, how are wallets the same thing as servers? That analogy seems a bit stretched.
Bitcoin is off ~20% against USD in the last two days, ~13% in last day.

That much movement is bound to drive transaction and redemption volumes way up at any exchange.
At least here the rates going up now means renting is cheaper than owning and the price have barely moved.
It all makes sense now.
Yeah it’s the only drm free one I could find.
https://celsius.network/ is doing this too. Not good.
For consumers to use and trust a reviews website like TrustPilot, that site has to demonstrate the they play tough with companies because I think the most important thing consumers are looking for is somewhere where negative feedback is published unaltered.

As soon as word that negative reviews are removed you're dead as a review site.

The flip side is that I suspect that people make the effort to leave a review when they are unhappy so reviews are likely heavily skewed negatively unless the company joins the site and actively requests verified reviews from its customers.
Generally by using the dimensions and heat conduction properties of the exterior surfaces of the house (area of foundations, walls, windows, roof), taking into account the heat gain due to sun, with some local fudge factors applied (loss due to wind, natural ventilation, outside temperature).

Then, after the building is actually built and inhabitated, the calculations are adjusted by the actual energy consumption over year).

As pointed out, competent HVAC companies should have people on staff comfortable with such calculations. However, my experience shows that it is not universally true, and many are just guided by intuition/experience with other projects (i.e. the roof insulation thickness on the previous project was X, so that's good enough for you, or "well, on average we recommend 50W/m2 of heating power when selecting a heat source"). Which probably works fine for many cases (e.g. renovating an older building, where even if the material properties when they were new are known, you can only guess the values after 20 years of service).
> Some porn stars say they will quite easily make informed decisions in that situation. But I think that is the minority...

from my experience, we have no way of quantifying that statement because even many “sex work positive” forums will remove and ban any performer talking about their experience in a positive light

this whole discussion is based on bad assumptions partially because everybody with a platform has an angle, so far
Apparently that's too hard for the layman. Even though there are wallet apps that literally walk you through it...
Thanks Uday!
I'm surprised that wccftech doesn't get auto flagged on here like it does many other sites. It is well known for getting it's content from the rumor mill.
> faces a compensation bill likely to run to tens of millions of pounds

I'm guessing Binance doesn't.
I think a key difference with traditional currencies is that the countries that issue that currency will do anything in their power to maintain at least some of the value of that currency. I'm not sure how true that is for crypto investors. It's likelier they'll cut their losses and run.
No, I use the term "child porn" specifically because they are not synonymous. There is a difference between porn and child porn, and as a society we have decided that the latter is illegal and generally a horrific thing, and the people who produce it should be severely punished.
Why not just use air pressure for the whole thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit
I really don't feel legitimate to update a wikipedia article about Y-combinator, sorry. The bar is too high :)
I applied to Navy OCS after college, and got a soft rejection - the recruiter wouldn't return my calls.

When I finally got a hold of them, they strongly implied that my abnormally high score on the aptitude test, combined with poor GPA suggested I had cheated on the test.
> No.

If you got the same results in same conditions, what the difference?
I appreciate the Brazil reference, and I imagine few do these days.
> days or weeks

The eF150 gives you a couple days. The Prius is a better solution if you really need backup power.
Even Bernie Madoff only promised ~13%
People bitch about crypto all the time but I never hear anything about these contracts with adjustable rate loans. Those should be illegal; they lay people out. With crypto you only lose the money you put in.
Am I coerced or consenting to selling time and brainpower as a computer engineer? If I stop, CPS will eventually take my son from me, the bank will definitely take my house from me, I'll lose my health insurance, and my car, and the grocery store won't let me take food off the shelves anymore...

There's definitely a spectrum of dead-end careers and employment by debtors with resulting economic exploitation versus desirable jobs that you have to show up to maintain, but it's quite a stretch to say that any hint of economic coercion is not OK. We're not yet a post-scarcity socialist society, the globe is very much capitalistic, and participation in our capitalist society implies some economic coercion.
If you don't have the private keys, they're not your coins.
It's not in the spirit of decentralization to stop withdrawals
Once Ethereum goes to PoS, let's hope those transfers become cheap enough to compete with centralised exchanges.
HN broadly participated in the moral panic over lab leak theory being allowed to exist. This place is far more 'normie' than it likes to believe itself to be and is nowhere near as independent thinking as it pats itself on the back for being. But it does exceed Reddit in the percentage of posters who confuse their wealth for wisdom.
This year could possibly the worst time in a lifetime to start bulding a new home.
Lobbying/inter-service politics is part of it.

In WW II, the separation paid off. The British Fleet Air Arm flew lightly modified RAF aircraft, which were great for many things, but not for carrier operations. The US Navy would not pay for aircraft that could not take off from and land on carriers very well.

In the 1960s, the Pentagon imagined the F-111 as an all-purpose, all-service plane. Some USN captain told a congressional committee that it would not work, so becoming a hero to his peers and losing an prospect of promotion to flag rank.
Fiat currency has intrinsic value. You need it to pay taxes, don't have enough and you go to jail.
> As usual crypto in practice is the opposite of decentralized because people. Will. Not. Run. Their. Servers.

Nope, you just don't own any crypto assets if they are not stored on your own means. That's not hard to understand.
This hasn't been true for at least 2 major macOS releases.

But yes, there was a time when editing even /etc/sudoers required disabling SIP. That time is long gone.
> there are now mechanisms for one transaction to 'override' another non-confirmed transaction.

There's at least two, "child pays for parent" and replace-by-fee. It's pretty hard to get regular transactions really "stuck", these days.
Here you go, a whole list of decentralized crypto exchanges: https://www.coingecko.com/en/dex
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So they were too cheap? And now their customers can't rightfully get their "money" out... Truly currency of future...
So is command line, but that doesn't mean it has no value.
Probably the last remaining sane ones?
Game Design Mimetics (Or, What Happened to Game Design?)
I think you misunderstand what free speech is. Twitter taking down tweets they deem offensive is 100% fine and does not infringe—you can just use SMS or IRC or Truth Social. The problem is when the government requires you to keep something up or take something down—that is unconstitutional.

This is not some left-vs-right partisan issue.
Exactly. Gold still has these properties btw ;)

If people don't understand stone age economics and why gold was seen as valuable even before modern electronics, oh boy... How do they make sense of more modern concepts? We often discuss a lack of education, especially in terms of science and technology. The situation regarding economics education is so dire most aren't even aware there is an issue.
Atomic swaps exist
It's a very costly experiment, both in terms of the energy required to power the experiment, and financial losses of the participants (many of whom are almost definitely not treating their investments as an experiment)
Transacting with it is one thing, withdrawing into fiat is quite another. Let's not pretend that most people holding BTC are holding it to buy goods and services rather than as a speculative vehicle.
Celsius is also pausing all withdrawals, swaps and transfers between accounts [1]. Very convenient time to have a “stuck transaction”.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31723286
There's two counter points to this. The first is that in terms of day to day likelihood of losing the bitcoin, you're probably generally safer with an exchange than holding the crypto yourself. Secondly, if the exchanges actually do collapse, then whilst you won't lose your BTC if you're not on the exchange, your BTC are probably going to be worth a lot less anyway, so you're still exposed to the risk of exchanges collapsing. If you're the average joe who has bitcoin (you probably shouldn't have bitcoin) but using an exchange isn't crazy.
What’s most amazing to me (as somebody who’s tried more beer styles than operating systems) is that the comparison doesn’t really make use of actual beer styles. There’s just the suggestion that Amiga is now an “import” beer.

It’s a good reminder that >25 years ago most bars and grocery stores has just a few different brands of larger, and maybe a light option or two.
This is the greatest comment I've read on HN in years.
Apple to Ad Tech: “Fingerprinting Is Never Allowed”
While Apple didn't reveal any technology to block fingerprinting, my sense is that it escalates enforcement henceforth (1/X)
Journal de Montreal has this (published 6 minutes ago) https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2022/06/13/cryptomonnaie-c...
>Just let them eat cake
It's guy that promised you private chats by asking you to register with a phone number.
The "series of tubes" comment was Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, not Al Gore.

"Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet [email] was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. [...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."
One possible example: their usual transactions to fill up the hot wallet are not going through because too low fees, or timelocks/multi sig issues, and now unexpectedly they need to go to the cold wallet and this takes time.

I bet they are doing waay more withdrawals today, many times over their usual volume so they are hitting some capacity issues, and you can't rush these things.
Being pressured into doing work that isn't the "gravy" part of your job is part of literally every job.
I am curious, what all kinds of issues you ran into?
I guess “sex acts to be broadcast for someone else’s viewing”?
The US Government has an absolute monopoly on taxing every single American person and business indefinitely. That's, uh, substantially different.
> Sounds like the problem's with trading, rather than using it like currency.

The context here is an exchange limiting withdrawals, so... Yes, exactly?

Decentralised exchanges have massive fees in practice. If you want to buy in and cash out after a year, sure. But show me one that takes <0.1% for the whole transaction including transfer/signing fees and supports BTC.
There are cryptocurrencies with sub second transactions and zero or almost zero transaction fees. Welcome to the world of Proof of Stake.
>> Turn off the computer, delete GitHub...

I've met a few people on github that could become real-world friends if circumstances ever bring us to the same place or we clicked in some additional ways. But yeah, that's not really happening in a pull request ;-)
Where do you initially buy that crypto, then? And where would you sell it, in case you need other currencies?
> I'm still waiting for the actual bitcoin infrastructure or algorithm to break.

It already happened: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident
The 1979 invasion of Vietnam was less than five decades ago.
Some subs do sail as part of a carrier battle group, but most subs are either hunting other subs, or are on deterrent patrol. Ballistic missile sub have substantial firepower, and are much more survivable, and therefore, the less visible and most important part of a Navy's deterrent mission.
If you cannot trust a single third party to hold your money, it's no better than cash under the mattress.

We have guard rails in banking for a reason.
Did you not read the subject matter the article talks about within the first few paragraphs?
One of the major problems with Bitcoin is that it is being treated as both a currency, and an investment vehicle.

As an investment vehicle, it's exactly as you say; there is no fundamental value it represents. As a currency, it has no governmental backing, and while it's possible to trade in currencies, the profit lies in the trade, and the various differing rates of exchange, NOT in the underlying currencies themselves. No one holds currency expecting deflation to make them better off.
Currency value is relatively stable through actual use as a medium of exchange, salaries paid in the currency, government backing to maintain relatively stable pricing.

Crypto has none of these. And if it's a good investment, then it's definitely not a good currency
The apples to apples comparison of capacity kWh is misleading. The cheaper lead acid should not be discharged below 50% regularly, cutting the useful kWh in half for regular use.

When I did the math for my RV on Lifepo4 vs lead acid, the cost per usable kWh was higher unless you looked at the expected lifetime replacement costs, then it was even. I haven't followed battery prices too closely but my impression is that Lifepo4 has dropped in price ~30-50% since then so is probably now cheaper for usable kWh×cycle than lead acid but still might have a higher upfront cost.

The supported tempurature ranges, space contraints (venting, size, weight) and other factors all seem to favor Lifepo4.

That said, if your house battery is a backup for power outages and not intended to power your house every night, then lead acid may still be the way to go because you don't care about kWh not kWh×cycle.

Edit: replaced * with × to fix formatting
Basically you bid for someone to deliver a packet for you. They promise to deliver it as soon as your bid is high enough to get into bunch of deliveries they are going to do. If others pay more they might end up never delivering your packet...
How They Make Fake Snow for Movies
>jewelry
>art pieces

yeah, so exactly like I said, it was pretty much useless

>In an age before modern plastics, that is basically miraculous.

have you heard about glass?
The goldbugs' saying that 'if you don't hold it, you don't own it' seems to apply...
It is a single pass compiler, that doesn't do many optimizations. Fun factoid: TCC is sort of predecessor to QEMU.
I can list a number of valid, real-world use cases. Bitcoin can be easily held either online or offline, in a number of solutions ranging between paper wallets, through hardware wallets, to dedicated laptops.

Holding bitcoin on exchange is like giving people the keys to your safe because it is easier if they can open the safe for you while you gamble.
WSJ debuts new commerce site “Buy Side”
I’ve only heard of this mythical “risk free 20%” after the crash.

I never heard anyone advertising that rate before.
That he was paid is not enough reason to invalidate his testimony. Everyone in court that day, the lawyers, the judge, you, were paid. Why not him? If he indeed has expertise that would win his party's case, what exactly is wrong with getting paid, even paid handsomely, for his being there? This seems a lawyerly sort of ad hominem to discount expert testimony without directly challenging the evidence.
FairEmail seems a lot more feature filled and better than K9. I think it even tops Desktop Thunderbird.
> "Modern" frontend code requires:

Not necessarily, at least in the case of React and Vue.

Rather than using NPM, you can self-host react/vue (or preact if you need something even smaller), or serve it from Unpkg.

You don't need node/transpiler/bundlers if you're only targeting modern browsers. You can use modern syntax, async/await, ES6 import and a bunch of other features with static .js files.

JSX is a tough one, but there are solutions to that, packages domz and HTM are made to allow using React/Preact without NPM/transpilers.

Typescript is also a tough one. But it's also optional, although a good idea to have. I hope optional type annotations land in ES6 soon so typechecking can happen without anything resembling compiler phase.

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> To being able to "hydrate" some server-side rendered template? Not good enough reason.

The "hydrating" parts is entirely optional in "modern frontend". It also needs some stuff on the server that is IMO significantly more complex than what I described above. But apart from some very specific cases, one don't necessarily need it.
If this is true, crypto is dead in the water and always has been. It's not hard to understand that people are simply not going to go through that trouble in order to own something.
Just a fun fact: ~90% people outside academia I ever knew had jobs unrelated to their formal education so the questions about education level and field always seemed pointless to me.
Does this line of reasoning imply that if Bitcoin never goes to zero then it must have some utility even if the random person on HN cannot articulate it?
Please stop the urbanism spam.

On average, Americans like suburbs. They like driving. They like space, a yard, a DIY workshop, and sunlight. They don't like cities. "haha go live in a city and bike to work" is not a fair response to high gas prices and inflation. It's not how people want to live.

We've got a better chance of the USA banning oil exports to lower crude prices, or enacting substantial EV subsidies to get people off gas before we can convince the suburbanite with a 5bd house + quarter acre lot in a good school district that they should move to an urban 2 bedroom apartment instead. Even if we can, I guarantee you that the apartment won't be considered an upgrade.
> That's just your choice of how to build your app, right? You could've avoided this by rendering templates on the server and sending static HTML to the client, keeping the business logic on the server.

Exactly. This way of working is such a breeze. PHP does the logic, the state is firmly in the database, and I'm from a time when peopling talking "frontend" meant HTML and CSS. Occasionally some plain JS, and I'm good.

Years ago I was out of the webdev field for some time, and I must admit that HTML and CSS alone have made big strides.
I recently watched some traditional cable and was shocked by the number of crypto ads bombarding viewers. I have to imagine that this market was goosed up by retail investors trading on coinbase and binance just as the e-betting market was. The only difference between crypto and e-betting is that everyone got to be a winner on the crypto markets for a while. As users lose out, and exchanges stop ad campaigns - how long will that last?

Crypto needed a tangible market/reason d'etre to be valuable. This required lower transaction fees, cheap audits, and a reasonable degree of price stability. We haven't seen any of that materialize except for cheap auditing. Cheap auditing isn't much use if there isn't anything of interest to audit.

I'd doubt BTC will go to zero, but I wouldn't be surprised if the entire covid rally gets wiped out and we see BTC 6k again.
If all the exchanges lock users out, you can “transact” with BTC But can you convert it into US dollars? Where does one spend BTC these days, buy some furniture off overstock?