skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I should have added some details to this one. My eyebrows had mostly fallen out by the end of 2018, and my dad (a dentist) pointed out that maybe my iodine levels were low. That used to be really common a century ago before iodized salt, and many of my elderly family members have had thyroid issues.

I took "thyroid energy" (NOW Foods, no affiliation) which has some additional micronutrients like selenium and felt shockingly better within just a few days.

Evidently gluten can sensitize the immune system into fighting proteins in the thyroid. Also Hashimoto's thyroiditis can cause the thyroid to spike up and down so it gets missed in yearly screenings. And celiac disease plays into it too. And it didn't help that where I live in Idaho had radiation levels 80 times higher than normal after Fukushima. Hormones are so powerful and glands are so sensitive to the environment that it doesn't take much to disrupt them. Also trace minerals like cobalt have been depleted from soils, but are involved with vitamin B12 which prevents anemia. I think that my high consumption of beans and foods high in anti-nutrients might have bound up minerals and made me deficient, even though I was eating plenty and working out.

Anyway, I was tested and my thyroid is fine, but it's important to remember that gluten is inflammatory for everyone. Even sugar and alcohol are inflammatory. So someone can get symptoms whose cause is difficult to isolate, even if their tests come back negative.

But I'm angry/concerned that I had to derive this information myself over several years. Why is this not one of the top news stories, when hypothyroidism and obesity are rampant? I blame the Big Ag lobby, factory farming and the passion with which people believe the mainstream news.
I very much wish so.

I tried using Godot at work and got turned down. They wouldn't even allow a demo or the "IDE" to be installed. Must use our licensed contract junk from leaches on government dole, because those are what's approved by cybersecurity.

I now have a few more interview questions to ask of future employers and things to look out for during interview tours.
> Most people on HN accept that there is some use for some cryotocurrencies.

I expect that's a false-consensus bias. But without some kind of survey we can't be sure.
To be fair, facilitating scams and organized crime are still technically uses...
On the other hand, Patreon bills supporters as one lump sum and then pays out as a lump sum as well - that should at least offset the flat per-transaction fee, if there is any.
San Francisco is dying
> that complex cell happend only once on Earth

Well, it's quite possible that once it happens, it voids any chance of it happening again just because life filling that niche already exists. If so, it only happens once, and this says absolutely nothing about the odds of that first occurrence.

> what happened once, happens all the time

That's a fallacy people do all the time here when talking about exobiology. It's basically states that all small numbers and all big numbers are alike, and that all small numbers are like the inverse of all big numbers.
I'm the CTO of a blockchain data analytics company. (I don't like appeals-to-authority, but I think it's necessary context for what I'm about to say.)

I feel like I'm almost alone in seeing no real purpose in the existence of cryptocurrencies per se; but nevertheless believing that there's value in the technology ecosystem of crypto/DeFi (e.g. in smart contracts as a substrate for security tokens; in NFTs as legal deeds; etc.) entirely independent of the existence of cryptocurrencies.

If Bitcoin and other "just a currency" ledger-platforms ceased to exist overnight; and the value of Ether and other "distributed-computer eStamp" currencies went to near-zero; and only stablecoins backed by governments continued to exist as representations of "stored value" on these platforms — these distributed-computer platforms would still be useful substrates for fin-tech innovation. They'd just be free of speculation + Ponzi schemes.
Better software than windows, though. Every time I go back to a Windows machine I'm traumatized by something that should be trivial within like the first hour.

The most recent example was navigating control panel menus while trying to figure out why a microphone wasn't picking up my voice. Somehow every tiny management task like that is an absolute disaster on Windows.
> I’m just going to say everyone is pretty bad and we are no better or worse than anyone else.

That is probably the closest to the truth. People in power will do things because they can and they are trying to extract the resources as much as they can.

US has been in war pretty much all its history (except for 17 years)[0]

It is nice to think we are different, but both history and political studies disagree. I think you want to be blinded by this because the war is not happening on US soil (not after WW2). In the recent times, it is the US who has been the aggressor.

[0] - https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/usa-only-1...
> many of us

There are 8 billion of us on this planet.

There are maybe a hundred thousand bitcoin holders.

A fraction of them actively use bitcoin.

By any metric, “many of us” is an grossly incorrect statement.
Gold has some uses beyond finance:

- electronics
- decoration/ornamentation
- if you give it to some people, they will have sex with you

This is 3 more uses than bitcoin.
You become a nimby. Everything is an assault to you and can just have to constantly fight.
It’s observed at Shipt.
Show HN: Git command for creating snapshot commits on a not checked-out branch
You can rest assured that I appropriately warned him. I personally took the Luna/UST situation to talk to him about fake APYs, risks, and why anyone offering more than the risk-free rate (~3% US Bonds) is making some kind of risk (just as the laws of physics prove that perpetual motion doesn't exist, the laws of finance prove that risk-free rates _above_ the risk free rate are non-existent).

In any case, Celsius has managed to convince a lot of people that their 10% or 20% APY stablecoins and "staking platform" was risk free. Sometimes, these people need to have their own money burned, before they believe in the potential of risk.

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I don't know anything about internet celebrity figures. But I do know a thing or two about risk-free rates and reasonable return rates.
But somehow it’s real?

> Since the NFT was stolen, Green lost the right to use it in his show.

Under what law or other principle does using a picture in a show rely on an entry in a blockchain? Or is the risk that ignoring the NFT and the using the IP anyway might further pop the NFT bubble?
>it's a sign that the crypto space and the alt-right have sufficient contact

That's a nice theory, and until a proof has been constructed, presented and validated it'll keep being a nice theory.
Yes. The core concept of progressive views is 'pain and sacrifice'. It doesn't matter who but someone should always be making some personal sacrifices for the whole to be satisfied. Some times it is plastic straws by common people and some other times it is billionaires's hydrogen jets.
It's not about the continuous construction. It's about the speed. Construction is way too slow but the world is spending more money on faster compute instead.
That they aren't held in slavery anymore -- similar to Passover.
Well I do want to have children, that's part of what makes it a hard challenge. Basically ... the Original American Dream I guess?
I don't think this is exactly right. As other commenters point out, Patreon does nothing to help people find new stuff - what Patreon really provides is a sort of escrow service for subscriptions and payments. The value they offer me as someone who subscribes to things through them is that I know that Patreon doesn't really care that much if I decide to stop supporting something. My $5/month isn't worth them making it hard for me to cancel.

The couple apps and podcasts I've subscribed to that did roll their own payments and subscriptions have been hell to cancel or adjust my subscription, riddled with dark patterns, and one seemingly just... removed the unsubscribe button entirely. There was no way to cancel at all.
They quote Milton Friedman, "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, resulting from and accompanied by a rise in the quantity of money relative to output", but they then ignore this while spouting much nonsense like "wage-price spirals", until finally mentioning monetary policy again at the bottom, in confused fashion (eg, contrary to their claim, mortgages are not money, either from the point of view of the borrow or of the lender).

Now, Milton Friedman may have slightly exaggerated (or at least it's easy to interpret what he said in an exaggerated way). It is possible for the general level of prices to increase due to events such as wars that interfere with production, rather than because the money supply was increased, and that may be a current contributor to inflation. But mostly it's the government creating money. Deliberately. Inflation isn't something that "just happens". It's a deliberate policy choice by government.
The no else statement shit drives me up the wall. Sometimes code is more readable when it says what you mean. Sometimes I want to branch, other times I want to return early. There is a difference in what I mean and code should reflect that even if the opcode is the same.
It’s tough to raise for niche B2B SaaS right now. As a category these are businesses that aren’t productive enough for Microsoft/Google/Amazon’s time to enter. So there’s a ceiling.
Yes, Target.
The other classic example is the washing machine. Insane time-saver. The effect? Spare time? Nope, we walk around is much, much cleaner clothes.
Another noob here, but I don't think you need to be a pro to understand really...

1) Price(t) = f(demand(t), supply(t))

2) Inflation hedges have consistent Price over time: Price(t) = f()

3) By the above two, this means that either:

a) demand and supply don't change at all over time

b) demand and supply both change by exactly the right amount given external factors

Realistically, a true inflation hedge does not exist because demand is almost never constant over time. BTC has constant supply, but obviously demand will drop hugely during a depression because people would rather have food than BTC. Same problem with gold. Same problem with land. The reality is simple really: you can't ignore the environment. If you want to properly allocate resources, you're just gonna need to actually speculate correctly about what future demand and supply will be.
The main thing that’s going to come out of this phase of crypto is curated lists of people who are suckers.
What word is a recent invention?
People were making equivalent accusations of vaporware when the dot com bubble burst but 20 years later and many winners have emerged from that era in addition to new ones.
This is a common misconception. It's the other way around: mining follows the price.

Miners can collectively earn a pre-determined flow of block rewards. If the price rices, then those block rewards become more valuable. So then miners can afford to spend more on hardware and electricity as they compete to get those block rewards.

Now that the price has dropped, the opposite will happen. Miners can no longer spend the same amount on electricity, so many will be shutting down their mining rigs. Only the miners with the lowest electricity cost can keep operating. The difficulty will drop until it is once again in equilibrium with the price.

For real world resource mining, it's different. E.g. if a metal used by industry can't be mined for less than 1 $/kg, then that must put a price floor on the price of that metal (in the long term, ignoring short term price volatility). This dynamic doesn't exist in Bitcoin, which confuses many people.
Yes.

In every Western country there is now a political constituency whose votes are available by displays of performative cruelty towards immigrants and their families.

It somewhat transcends the traditional left/right divides, as e.g. in Denmark these policies have been pushed by leftist parties too.
Observing it on Monday at Stitch Fix
Nope, not at all like that. Derivatives provide leverage to an underlying, real financial instrument. There is no real instrument behind your paid ledger entry.
Nothing of course. But obviously he's trying to shape the narrative in his favor.
> I guess the Toyota dealership could provide a private security force to recover my car in case of theft.

Ummm have you heard of this public agency called "the police"?
I never understood Patreon taking a % of money earned from creators. Seems unreasonable to me. I use Ko-Fi which has an optional “gold tier” with a fixed monthly price for more features. It also has an option for you to contribute a % of proceeds to Ko-Fi if you want. I happily paid for gold.

https://ko-fi.com/
Huh, I’ve never been at a company that did anything for Father’s Day - probably because it’s on a Sunday. What did your company do previously?
I think in the shorter term innovation does influence inflation a little bit. Like the article stated, if a product is new and offers some uniqe benefit everybody will want to buy it and that will drive demand up. Like first automobiles, internet, cellphones. Probably not a huge influence but not negligible.
The price inflation on sanctioned goods will only revert after the sanctions are lifted. Sanctions tend to last a very long time, so it seems like it’ll unlikely any time soon.
I think you’re basically right about this. When I make strident comments about avoiding ex-cons I’m of course talking about seriously violent offenders and the people who push back are (usually) thinking of drug offenders.

By the way, this is one reason eliminating background checks backfires. If people can’t look up your specific offense they assume the worst. Further, the evidence is that eliminating background checks results in a drop in employment for black men. If people can’t check whether a candidate is an offender, then they resort to broader statistics and patterns for their decision making, and the statistics being what they are, this mostly just hurts black men who have never committed a crime.

See, for example: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/705880#d3...
> Majority of people who would want to invest in Bitcoin has already done so.

How do you know that? Why can't the market grow as time passes?
GPT 3 really reminds me of the kind of fluent, but ultimately incoherent, speech someone with Wernicke's aphasia produces. It's like we've done a really good at artificially building the language part of the brain isolated from all the other parts
I always felt the same way, that construction is a sign that the city is alive. Places devoid of new construction always had signs of urban decay, e.g. East Des Moines IA.
Even if the applications are just weird forms of entertainment, that's still demand that people are paying real-world money for, since they have to spend their real money to buy the ETH. Non-blockchain gaming is a fairly big industry and all the money people spend on in-game purchases doesn't have any more connection to the "real world," but is still valid for financial valuations of the gaming companies.

There are people (especially at EY) working on using Ethereum as infrastructure for things like B2B transactions, but that's still in early stages. And here's a recent piece by Vitalik on non-financial applications of blockchains: https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/06/12/nonfin.html
you can just view it with part of your 27" monitor
Yes and No: A binary philosophy to being productive
On the billing side, I’d guess it’s unlikely to help. I’ve never paid more than $6/mo total on Patreon and I’d expect this is typical.
> Most investors are happy to not have gambled on cryptocurrency over the last 10 years.

You can argue that it would have been a bad decision. Sometimes a bad decision ends in a good outcome due to luck, and a good decision ends in a bad outcome. And that doesn't make it less good or bad of a decision.

But happiness here is about the outcome. I would for sure would be happy to have gambled all my money into bitcoin 10 years ago now that we know the outcome. And I'm sure people would think that way too. I would be happier to have made a (arguably) bad decision and be rich, than be "right" but non rich.

So going back to what he said

> Fortunately, about 10-12 years of stock market investing showed me a lot of patterns.

It's the opposite. It was bad fortune, as if he had been (according to him) more ignorant he may have invested in bitcoin (even if it was a bad decision), and he would have made a lot of money with such investment.
Please use /dev/rdiskN instead of /dev/diskN.
What the hell is an “excess” of leisure time? Not working enough?
That's a required security feature in the UK.

Also, any gas appliance with non-functioning security features canmot be reconnected to the gas mains.

There's plenty of people willing to risk it but forcing the service people to follow rules cuts the risk.
People will do whatever makes better sense according to experience and instant circumstances. There is no need to speculate.

But LH2 aircraft, wherever actually deployed, will be impossible to compete with.
The good thing is that the banks have mostly held the line against the traders who wanted to get into it. Some places have some exposure, but almost everyone was pretty skeptical. GFC memory is still in place, thank god.
no bugs in the library? no new feature requests?
I used to think more along those lines, but less so now. I cannot really think of a library I actively use that doesn't get any changes to it.

But I also won't be surprised if this is true for some. Do you have a good example?
It's really the same thing isn't it? If your Tinder date asks for bus money, and then ghosts you (and probably wasn't the person they claimed to be to begin with) is that a scam or a hack?

If Seth Green goes to NotAtAllSketchyNFTTrader.com and confirms their ToS, only that was a transaction transferring his NFT to them, is that a scam or a hack?
Your point about fiat currency is also irrelevant here. Bitcoin has been inflationary in the real world in actual practice. At least over the timescales we're talking about. While fiat currency has been inflationary, Bitcoin has been even more so.

And again back in reality, measures (interest rate increases) to counteract inflation in the fiat currency also make Bitcoin an unattractive "investment":

"The higher [interest] rates go, the more cost to hold an asset that does not produce anything." - Jamie Dimon, CEO JP Morgan

Bitcoin for a while was an unproductive but speculatively "profitable" (for non-greater fools) place to shove money when interest rates were low. Now that money is moving out.
Warren Buffett charity lunch fetches record winning bid of $19M
Yes — turntable.fm
Thanks, I was unaware of that concept. Certainly seems relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung
This is just a tiny Bash script, but I feel like it might be useful to someone other than myself. It's basically a poor man's Dura (https://github.com/tkellogg/dura) that is triggered manually instead of using a background process and a timer.
Wolfram could easily reach out to the top 10 experts in the field to bounce ideas off of each other. The cumulative time would be nothing in comparison to going down dead-end paths he could've avoided.

I'll add something more: having dialog with others help you iterate and explore new surface area much more rapidly than sitting at your desk or walking in your garden alone.
Ask HN: Does Apple's Magic Trackpad improve your productivity?
I've been wondering if Magic Trackpad adds any value to my workflow. I use my MBP in two ways:

(0) clamshell mode when connected to an external display;

(1) as a laptop.

If (0) is the case, I use mouse and keyboard but sometimes I miss the fact that I can just scroll quickly on the MBP's Trackpad. However, pressing on the Trackpad for long hours isn't fun either as my fingers get tired.
They are proposing that the new floor will be (aka "historically has been") 15% less than the previous all time high, which would be roughly $18,600
It's funny seeing so many people who spend hours every day on social media or Netflix or Steam claim that they have no time. We can see the data on how many hours are being consumed.

What explains that?
And that is if there is only one universe, which might not be so special as well.
> As expected, same problem as all the other UI toolkits.

Qt and Swing have this problem?
Yes, on Monday. TVision Insights.
I’ll trust the upcoming CCP digital currency more than Bitcoin.
There are obviously tradeoffs when building things to last a really long time, but people in the US aren't roofing their houses with crappy asphalt tiles that'll be lucky to last a couple of decades for ease of expansion.

Modifying a well-built structure is often easier than completely tearing down and replacing a poorly built structure too.
But hear me out...

What if we could make every car $5-10k more expensive instead?

</satire>

I once thought that using AI to make all cars self driving might be the key to making pedestrians and cyclists safe. Self driving cars are playing a game of Russian Roulette. The systems will get it wrong occasionally, with LIDAR or without. Not if, but when. Whether or not someone dies depends on the situation.
I have a "subscription" to support a business. You can signup on a website but have to reach out to them via email to cancel which they only tell you later when you login to try and cancel. It's working I'm still subscribed but will get into it with them and the retention flow they have eventually. With patreon I can click, instead of doing the back and forth email thing.
What is leisure anyway? Is it just an easy work/not-work split? I'm not sure it's so easy anymore when so much of our off-work activity is either stress-inducing or basically working for free. Sure, we're not darning socks anymore, but consider this:

Is managing one's 'personal brand' on the many social media sites leisure time?

If you're doing mundane activities that generates value for a social media company, is it leisure time? For example vetting, posting and re-posting ad copy is basically a low-level marketing job, yet a large percentage of the population say that they spend hours a day doing this.

What percentage of our 'leisure time' is spent watching or listening to ads? Is that truly leisure?

I guess the argument goes that we choose if and when to do these things - I wonder how much people really feel like they have a choice in the matter anymore.
Your argument is that bitcoin has no growth potential in India? They have 1.3 billion people.
It matters when the writer wishes for the reader to understand the written words as intended.
Some great material here, but I think the real cause of inflation is due to the strain of trying to read on a page with too much animation.
That is the argument that has been made by my few friends who are interested in PLT as well. The other option I’ve considered if starting a blog or similar (although my son keeps suggesting a YouTube channel) and doing a longer series of posts concerning the language, type theory, and category theory inspirations present in the semantics of the language.

I would love to imagine I could be the next Andrew Kelly (creator of Zig), I don’t know that I can actually be a language founder.
Let’s assume random website use Stripe checkout or PayPal to process cards. Will you fell better and safe to type in your bank card?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_(computing)
This reminds me of the bottled heads from Futurama.
For me, I use evolution for email, which uses the GNOME keyring and I couldn't for the life of me figure out that I needed to install seahorse to manage it.

Of course I'm not even remotely in their targeted user base since I don't run GNOME, but it annoyed me nonetheless.