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>Bitcoin drops below $20,000, Ether cracks $1,000 — what this means

For me it means that I can finally buy a GPU at a reasonable price.
My favourite example is that authentic Zimbabwe $100 trillion notes go for >$100 these days on eBay. And I say "authentic," because there's enough of a market that there are forgeries in circulation. (Reproductions are much cheaper, $5-$10.)
What I think is something people easily overlook with Patreon and similar platforms is that it's quite hard to make a decent profit on $1 or $5 transactions that most of Patreon's income seems to come from.

They're definitely overcharging for more profit, but your margins won't be much lower if you handle payment yourself. Your 3% bank cut to receive money doesn't always work because often there's a minimum fee per transaction.

I know most iDeal (Dutch payment provider) transaction costs are 25 cents. It's a flat fee, so buying a €2000 TV will still leave you with 25 cents of fees, which is great for big stores, but when you use them do donate a single euro, the transaction fees are a whole quarter of the donation.

Tons of tiny transactions is a pretty terrible way to receive money. It's not "give up >15%" terrible, especially if your patrons tend to donate more, but Patreon needs to spread costs over all creators to make small content creators worth the effort.

Having a look at Donorbox, the same issue becomes clear: the cost for receiving payment in .NL is only 1.4%… and a €0,25 payment processor fee. These low processing fees are also only applicable to registered non profits in the NL which the author most definitely isn't. Even with the extra cheap rates and a non profit the fees to the lowest tier (±€3) add up to nearly 10% on a platform that's built around minimising costs for non profit organisations. There is the ability to use bank transfers for real cheap, but that's always a possibility anyway. One thing this site does seem to offer is the ability to offload all the site's cost onto the person who donates rather than subtract it afterwards, but that's just raising the donation price to compensate, not really a decrease in cost.
That might have been true in theory but since crypto has become a highly volatile speculative asset its the first thing that will be sold in times of crisis therefore bringing its value down.
>It's tulips all the way down.

you can technically eat a tulip. It's less useful than tulips
You don’t have to manually respond. But then you lose the chargeback dispute by default.
Price is an extrinsic property assets, which means it cannot be "baked into" an asset. The whole idea that bitcoin is a deflationary asset is complete nonsense and propaganda.
The thing about Patreon is that it sucks for users too (as in, the consumers). Both the website and the app really suck. They look horrible, have few features, and often work poorly. It essentially serves as a notification platform that I then try to bounce out of into YouTube or wherever as soon as possible. It's kind of mind boggling that they seem to leave so much engagement on the table when even a mediocre website would probably keep me on there longer and thus potentially get me introduced to other creators, vs. that being solely through YouTube or something else. Then again, maybe it's a better investment to figure out way to take 17% from creators than to figure out ways to get people to find more creators.
You don't see the leisure rich, because they don't "advertise" - they often have a few million in total assets and work on things they want to - you find them in non-profits, etc.

You could also consider the FIRE people to be leisure rich - often at even lower total assets. Paid off house, modest investments, even more modest expenses.
A large part of this is that many people feel that a two-person household must inevitably grow to more than two people.

If children aren't a life goal for you, it gets a lot easier.
Pretty cool!

How is the accessibility of such TUIs on different display tech?
Only when cities prioritize and are designed for pedestrians instead of cars will pedestrian safety improve.

We need more spaces that are pedestrian and bicycle only.
A lot of this is basically gambling. When people gamble, they are (subconsciously) willing to suspend rationality for some emotion born out of desperation or greed. Same as any other type of gambling where the odds are stacked against you, you're willing to be a little more naive in exchange for some (potentially unlikely) path in which you make lots of money.
Funnily in linux we've had kind of the opposite problem where dmcrypt at some point was changed to use high-priority, multi-threaded workqueues, creating a priority inversion situation.

Regular userspace processes, even those with niced/lowered priority, could generate overwhelming amounts of CPU load just by creating a bunch of IO burden on a dmcrypt-backed mountpoint. Far more than their fair share in terms of their own process scheduling.

The effects of this were especially visible when listening to mp3 files on something like a core2duo (or older) machine. Audio buffer underruns galore, just because you had a big git checkout or rsync running.

It took me years to convince upstream to revert the responsible dmcrypt workqueue commit and fix this.
Intreasting, I don't really understand crypto but i've been a little interested in it as I've started to invest in index funds.

But damn that is a huge drop, good time to buy? Or is this really going to now be a hard time for crypto? I think bitcoin is just too confusing to be mainstream and i don't see much need for it.
What features should Patreon have? I'm not paying for website features. I am paying to support creators I like. I'd actually be happier if the platform did even less. Just get the money to the people I want to support in a low-friction manner, and get out of the way.
Thanks for this suggestion, I have seen this before and its not really my area of interest. I do want to read Petzold's "Code" though. I hear a second edition is out!
Patreon is a CRUD app and something you could build in a few months and consider it done if you wanted to. The core value proposition of Patreon hasn't changed since they launched, and the business problem is still "take $$$ from people, figure out how much to pay each creator, pay out $$$ to creators".

> And so many of these companies aren't even profitable, either.

It's not profitable because it's an engineering playground - the objective is not to solve the business problem described above, it's to build complexity for the sake of complexity to justify future funding rounds.

If they wanted to, they could literally consider the project done and run it with a skeleton crew handling support & maintenance, but why intentionally put yourself out of a job?
I hate tiger mosquitos. The worst invasive species ever. I hope the government can expedite releasing sterile males into the wild ASAP
Kotlin‘s return/break@<implicit or explicit loop label> handles the iterator escape idiom quite elegantly.
In this case, Green apparently thought that possessing the NFT implied controlling the copyright for the artwork:

"Green was planning to use his ape as a character in an upcoming animated show."

What's stopping him? The image is still there at the same URL where it always was, and if he had a copyright license to use it before the NFT was stolen, then he still had it afterwards. There was no need to reacquire the NFT.
This is one of the lies that people use to legitimize crypto while de-legitimizing stocks.

But it’s not true. With crypto you’re buying an entry in a ledger and the hope that other people will want to buy that entry from you later.

With stocks you’re buying actual shares of an actual company with actual assets, and you now have an ownership claim on those.

Crypto is like taking the stock market and removing the only thing that actually gives stocks value, then selling the stock anyway.
A huge part of it is now everything's outsourced - dual income families are the norm now, and the housework still has to be done. That alone would count for a large amount of lost leisure.

You also have commutes going from walking to driving - and the first may feel leisurely but the second rarely does.
You'd think it was obvious, but then it seems most people actually believe commercials, and buy more of the products they see advertised.

Let's call it cwkoss' law of commericals.
>The Stock Market, S&P 500, is down 20% year-to-date (6-months).

A more apples to apples comparison would be comparing crypto market to tech stocks. In which case yes there are valid comparisons.
Rust: Turtles All the Way Down
it will, once the over leveraged have covered their margin calls.

there is a reason people are still calling for the $400k price soon
Oh I agree that methane is a horrible threat if it is released at massive scale, like from the permafrost. We should absolutely do everything we can to avoid that.

My point is that if you compare hydrogen on propulsion equivalent basis and with realistic leakage rates, it is so much better than today's solutions that we should absolutely use it.

When it comes to batteries, yeah, that's just not going to happen for anything over 20 passengers and 200 mile operating range. It's physically impossible to obtain sufficient Wh/kg to run even a small airliner on batteries. Airbus is investing heavily in liquid hydrogen fuelled jets, and it's not because they are stupid.

> Also, you use a leakage at 1bar then you transpose it to a plane which would obviously not transport the H2 at 1bar but at a much higher pressure.

So this part was probably too brief in my first post to be perfectly clear. Imagine that you have the 700 bar pressure tank of the Toyota Mirai, and the entire leakage out to 1 bar (the atmosphere) happens in a single point. Then you put a ballon over that point and measure how quickly it grows. That rate is reported as "2 mL/min at 1 bar".
Well, theoretically the value of Bitcoin would be a function of energy costs and mining difficulty, but that hasn’t happened in practice, and would still be volatile anyway.
Are you talking about this article[0]? That's interesting. I'll have to do some experiments with that. Thanks for sharing!

https://medium.com/swlh/what-makes-godot-engine-great-for-ad...
In India, the cost of instant payments is exactly zero. Additionally, RuPay cards have a Zero MDR which has really really made Visa and MasterCard angry
It's a banking holiday. I have the day off and so does nearly everyone I know who works a white collar job.

At the software company I work at, there was some acknowledgement for it, but for the most part it's been completely overshadowed by Pride month.
That's probably also because Ethereum is likely to stop using GPUs by October, so any miner paying attention isn't buying new hardware.
How can they "get out of the way" when you need to use the app to play the content?

The player sucks, episode search sucks.
If you look closer you'll see that most HN commenters across all crypto threads are dancing in the grave if DeFi (aka illegal penny stocks), Tether, etc.

Most people on HN accept that there is some use for some cryotocurrencies.
I would say this is impossible to predict since is very much related to how the government & society would react.
I would say insurance is perfectly suited for that, but that has me thinking, is there NFT insurance?
As an anecdotal counterpoint from the people I talk to, anyone who watches YouTube videos regularly seems to know what Patreon is. That might not be a massive section of the population, but it’s not comprised of mainly tech workers.
I think it's also very easy to just look around at all the problems and mysteries in the world/universe and feel compelled to do something. Even in the absence of any kind of "religious work ethic".
Rust makes you feel like a GENIUS
I have clones and I have the real one.

The clones are a copy of the Saleae units from 10 years ago. They’re not at all comparable to the current high-end ones.

One of the killer features of the current ones is the ability to also record an analog trace. It’s fantastic when you need to record minutes of something that misbehaves electrically every once in a while.
More importantly for real investors, the stocks on the stock market are shares of a company that generates profit (or at least revenue and growth, with expectation of future profit). The value comes from that. The only "value" in Bitcoin is that it can be used to transfer money between two parties, but that function can be easily replicated, as it often is with shitcoins.
Show HN: Unclutter — A new approach to reader mode
Hey! This is a reader mode browser extension I built that hides noisy page elements rather than extracting and re-rendering only the page text. The idea is to not make all articles look the same [0], have them still render graphs, and ideally to work in more cases.

There are a few "tricks": patching the site CSSOM to apply simpler mobile styles even at desktop width, detecting the likely main text & removing its non-text siblings, blocklists for classnames that contain words like "sidebar", and testing this on a few hundred popular sites.

I got carried away and also added a dark mode, page outlines, private annotations & inline Hacker News comments. The last feature works by parsing every top-level HN comment with a quote in it (formatted with > or "") within a few minutes, and anchoring these quotes in the related article HTML. So when you click a link on HN you’ll see the parts people are talking about while reading. [1]

The code is all on GitHub!

[0] Screenshots comparing it to the Firefox reader mode: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/blob/main/docs/compa...

[1] It's fun to try this on some of the "HN classics" that got 30+ quote comments over the years. Another project I built, https://hn.lindylearn.io/best shows the number of "annotations" an article has beneath its title.
We can: https://www.fuelcellstore.com/

Their max fuel cell stack goes up to 6kw so its no longer in hobby territory.
But will they push the date back again?
I'm interested in building a good text UI for terminal, for a REPL language kind of system, but also showing interactive state, and being able to manipulate expressions, etc. Any cool tools?
This actually bit me earlier this week when I had to write a Windows 11 iso to a usb stick. Using dd on macos, everything seemed like it wrote ok. Checksums matched. All of that. Yet when I booted the target machine with the usb stick, windows installer kept asking for drivers. Back and forth with the motherboard manufacturer and debugging and I narrowed it down to this bug in dd which skipped a few bits (or wrote them incorrectly).

Needless to say, I used a friends windows machine to make an install stick using Microsoft’s media creation tool and that worked out of the box. Strange. The only other explanation I have is that their direct download iso was corrupt or that this dd bug prevented it from writing correctly.

UDF file format.
Bootable image.
UEFI.
SecureBoot enabled.
Standard Intel chipset.
Is this book the reason I see such bad UX trends across the web?

In many of the visual examples, the recommended approach looks worse than the criticized approach, and in some cases is much less parsable. A phrase like "Use more whitespace" isn't some simple-yet-woke millennial web mantra, it's just crappy advice, too vague to be useful and vague enough to be harmful.

Truly, some of these examples are the antithesis to good design. The chapters of the book seem highly opinionated and forcing a particular set of (unvalidated) opinions upon me instead of generalized, objectively applicable tools.
Many others were involved. Likely even some nonbinaries; only the word is a recent invention.
Good time to load up on more low-fee index funds.
I hadn't heard of this. Interesting.
The difficulty and energy cost is a function of price, not the other way around. If the price goes down, miners aren't profitable and some have to quit, which makes the difficulty adjust downwards.
Hi! OK that's good to hear. In Portugal it came up with false positive detections of Hawfinch and Little Owl. Both those species were present in the area (saw them!), but if you think about Hawfinch in particular, it has such a nondescript vocalisation (a quiet, short monosyllable) that it is really easy to imagine that it could be spuriously identified by the neural network (after being allowed as an ID by a prior/filter based on the species plausible in that geographic area at that time of year). I don't mean to sound like I know about the details of their neural net and classification algorithms, or like I know how to do better, but I do suspect that it will improve with some tuning to essentially make it demand stronger evidence for a call like Hawfinch. Little Owl is a bit more distinctive, but I don't really think one was calling when it said it was. I think it also spuriously identified Blue Rock Thrush, but maybe it was right and we just failed to hear/see one! The habitat seemed right. I haven't seen as many misidentifications in Eastern US (a couple of days ago I did think it said Kentucky Warbler for an Ovenbird).
This last cycle was supported by literal celebrities and a legion of Super Bowl commercials.

There's no one else to "grow" the audience anymore. Cryptocoins are 100% within the mainstream consciousness.

There are now three kinds of people out there:

1. People who know about Cryptocoins and never trusted them. (They saw the superbowl commercials and decided it was stupid).

2. People who bought in within the last 2 years (because of the big advertising spree) and only know what a 60% loss on their assets feels like.

3. People who bought in _before_ the last 2 years, a very, very small minority of people.

#3 is not enough to return BTC to $60,000+ heights. And with #1 and #2 distrusting the coin now, I dare say its over.

Type #4: "ignorant" people who haven't heard of BTC yet, are completely non-existent now. Superbowl commercials, Cable News, Facebook ads, and more have ensured that everyone has heard of this by now.
The sad future is, the browser is the new desktop gui.
Yes that's absolutely a lot considering the code to solve Patreon's business problem has been written long ago and works just as well. The core business problem can be boiled down to a set of spreadsheets - based on payments going in and creators subscription timeframes you work out the payout for each creator. If it takes you 150 engineers to do the aforementioned I'd look at you in a funny way or start suspecting ulterior motives (and in this case there indeed are ulterior motives - hint: the objective is not to build a profitable product).
I agree.

All I care is that all GHG are accounted thoroughly, including H2 leaks. Then, if at the end we are reducing atmospheric GHG contents at the planned rate, all is fine.
> What's the acceptable minimum? Society could become like an army, with the same clothing for everybody, a small personal area to sleep and a canteen for food. Everything could be highly automated.

We could experiment by making that available as a baseline - anyone who wants to can sleep in the flophouse, wear the durable clothes, eat the soup kitchen food.

And anyone who wants more could continue as they are.
DNA doesn’t help as much as you think with single celled organisms thanks to HGT. Bacteria, at least, share DNA and thus we can’t use it to determine a linear evolutionary sequence.
Maybe look up the definition of "passive voice". It is probably not what you imagine.
I believe the thinking behind Bitcoins being a good hedge is that there are some similarities between it and gold. I'm not saying that's true but I believe that's where the idea started from. They're both rare (arguably hard capped at some point) assets that have no (or little) inherent value and their price are based on the value people assign to them.

There are gold critics like Warren Buffet who've argued that gold investing is pointless because, to paraphrase him, "You pay people to dig it out of the ground and refine it and then you pay more people to guard it and let it sit there." Despite critics like Buffet, gold has held its value and often goes up during a downturn. So I can see how Bitcoin proponents might draw the parallels between the two, including the same sort of critics, and thus reasoned if gold works as a hedge then Bitcoin might as well.

There are also some overlap between gold people and Bitcoin proponents, especially in the early days of Bitcoins. My friends who were interested in Bitcoins in the early days were the same types who would buy gold as a store of value. Maybe it's from this early origin that the idea was passed down.
There are lots of mitochondria in a cell (almost always, ignore red blood cells, for example), and the mitochondria have their own mechanisms for detecting when they need to divide (exercise and the resulting stress being one of them, which is why working out makes you more fit).

Also note that the DNA for most of the mitochondrial proteins is in the host cell's nucleus-- the mitochondrial DNA is stripped down to coding for just a few essential proteins.
We need laws now to outlaw securities and commodities fraud, and other types of Ponzi schemes! On wait, those are already on the books.
Cash buyers may literally buy in cash, but they are almost always leveraged. Either they then finance the house, have financing as good as cash secured, or something similar. Cash offers refer to the lack of a financing contingency on the sale, and less towards how that interacts with the debt market.
Language/website author here: nope. Just good old fashioned html, css, and a pinch of vanilla js just to get a few things working.

I had tried out making a forth a while back. It was not, in the end, as usable as I'd like. I thought something more in the vein of scheme might be useful (to me) and fun to work on. Some scheme features I think are tricky and not needed for beginners and I think somewhere along the line I started making this to be a beginner focused language that is easy to learn and hold in your head. I had a few people in my technology community in mind as people that it would be good for. In the end I really enjoyed coding in it, so have continued to work on it.

It is definitely not meant for wide usage, for anything other than just messing around having fun, etc. To be honest I am a little bummed it made its way to hacker news (I havent and wouldnt have posted it), as I really like my group of 6 users that I know and we all have fun contributing and coming up with ideas and cool use cases. I don't need it to grow or be used by a wider audience than the pubnix we all hang out on (rawtext.club).

That said, I'm glad you like the website! and if you like the lang that is nice too :-D
> I'm sure it varied considerably. I'm certainly no subject matter expert.

It did, and I readily admit that I’m not either.

As I understand it, with a few exceptions, the further south an enslaved person lived the worse off they generally were. Further south meant a more agriculture-based economy, with higher labor demands and less “civilization”. More isolation means more opportunity for enslavers to literally work their slaves to death.

I think not recognizing this does a disservice to the people that actually lived through that era.
My convenience as a customer was impacted by the laws in the EU. The law had no positive effect on my experience as a user.

Apple did more for privacy with a 30 line rule change on the App Store than the GDPR. As evidence by every company dependent on tracking admitting during earnings that they are losing money by the change. No company announced any effects by the GDPR.

Imagine that a private technology company knowing more about technology than the EU.
True for Bitcoin. If you want to use applications built on Ethereum, you have to burn ETH, which provides the same sort of demand as for oil.