skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The short answer is this: The block reward is not meant to be a permanent part of the system. It is only there to bootstrap it. It's designed to slowly fade out, at which point a fully self-contained market of tx-fees will have been established, which works according to the classic rules of price-finding by demand and supply.
But can that oligopoly collude enough to actually run a 51% attack against the network?
That fact is useless without any context. An "item" could have been an "Ifdkjsj" and you'd be none the wiser. "incredible amount of mental overhead" needs a citation and, as shown in TFA, no citation exists.
A lot more tends to be world-writable in Windows, for starters.
Live by your own values, I'd say.

Crypto is interesting and is not going away. Find a company that does have proper values. Not all of it is about selling coins.

I run a very small DLT operation where we don't even mention crypto or blockchain. We just talk about empowering local communities and restoring biodiversity. We don't associate with Cryptobro's and there's plenty of companies like us.

I guess we're just a little harder to find because we don't scream so hard :)

Don't give up, apply you talent to create the world you do want to be a part of. <3
I think a +1 (as a thumbs up reaction, or similar)

If you refer to +1 comments (which the second sentence seems to imply), these are a bad thing, since it sends a notification to everyone who is subscribed to an issue. If you are maintaining a popular open source project, useful comments (reproducers, potential solutions) get buried between all useless +1 comments.
> Why don't academics start their own university?

Lol ok. Cool and very helpful comment. You have contributed something to this world.
> it has certainly brought the discussion of fiat currencies, central banks, and the philosophy of monetary systems from the backwater of forgotten academics to a real debate in the public sphere

No it didn’t. This topic comes up all of the time in different contexts. Interest rate decisions, dropping the gold standard, switching to the Euro, running a constant deficit, etc all bring up these exact same topics.

It may seem like crypto brought those topics up, but that’s just because you haven’t been around long enough to remember the 2008 financial crisis and the discussion of the bailouts, or more recently the discussions around the debt crisis in Europe with Greece, etc.
Doesn't really matter. If the price of Bitcoin is below the cost of electricity and labor required to mine it, then it's irrelevant that the card won't be as productive (lose money at a greater rate) in future. You're still losing money either way.

The only valid reason to continue mining would be that you expected that the price of Bitcoin would exceed the mining costs in the future. Then you would stockpile them and take advantage of the reduced hashrate as other market participants exited.
Usually the maintainer's work is more money than they would ever get from monetization. Also the maintainer is one person, they can only do so much, eventually more people need to step up and do code/etc contributions.
As a person that is deeply involved in Kubernetes and Istio, I'm starting to get the feeling that in the beginning, it should be totally acceptable to run containers from Docker Swarm. If your main need is "restart container on error" (which seems likely for startups), you probably can't beat the fast and easy deploy time of Swarm. Also, when the time comes to upgrade to Kubernetes, you won't be locked in to some incompatible solution.

Of course, if you care about scaling, serverless is probably the way to go.
I wonder if the insult carried then the same meaning as in modern Spanish, i.e. «coward». It would make sense that the carver thought that trait to be a grave issue in a military garrison context.
In fact, every point raised by her equally applies to any kind of news. She basically gave a good summary of why news sucks in general.
Assume for a moment that the graph in the article is trustworthy. Then mining has been highly profitable for quite a while now and is now getting unprofitable. It has been unprofitable before. That's the same as in every busines: There can be periods of unprofitability. That does not mean that such business will die out completely. Especially after a phase of high profits there are buffers and there will be hope that profits will return.

The question is how that graph is created. The mining costs are not the same for everybody. Probably some electricity used for mining is not paid for at market prices. (Including some might not be paid for at all) And even if it were, market prices (after subsidies and taxes) vary proably quite a bit over places where mining is happening.
That’s a file sync. problem, not a VCS problem. And backup is a separate problem.
You don’t want to explain the other use-cases? Would you mind linking to a place that does explain them?
Early Access to Chrome OS Flex: The Upgrade PCs and Macs
It seems to be some intermittent problem. Some of our private repos are working fine but majority don't.
> “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

> In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
I agree. The big flaw in Bitcoin is technical deficiency which leads to a system which compromises its core value. It’s core value is to democratize via decentralization. It’s supposed to work for the people. That is undermined in two ways. First it is deflationary and that lead to hoarding and malicious market manipulation. If you don’t know that cryptocurrency is owned by the techno-elites then you aren’t paying attention. Second the hardware acceleration makes you totally useless. Can’t get millions in hardware along with state subsidized energy? Sorry, you have no say in the world of miners and protocol evolution.

A real solution would be truly decentralized. It needs controlled inflation to avoid incentivizing the capture of the supply and it needs CPU only mining to prevent the eventual emergence of parasitic mafia miners.
It might be asking for too much, but this project would be a nice addition to http://aosabook.org

Thanks for your good work! I still remember the O(n^2) complexity of ld.bfd when linking C++ code.
Your tweet shows quicker linking on a Mac yet you say down-thread that Mac executable linking is still not fully supported. So can we or can we not use it today on a Mac? (My main use-case is Rust.)
> Although an instrument of the US Government, the Federal Reserve System considers itself "an independent central bank because its monetary policy decisions do not have to be approved by the President or by anyone else in the executive or legislative branches of government, it does not receive funding appropriated by Congress, and the terms of the members of the board of governors span multiple presidential and congressional terms."

I.e. the US central bank doesn't answer to anyone.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve
> I'd argue that belief in Progress is not a benevolent, charitable, or altruistic sentiment.

I authoritarianism in vogue? Can you get the fuck off my democracy? :)

> When someone tells you they represent change, what they tend to mean is they're here to take your stuff,

You are the villain of Delicate Tendrils.

Yes we are legitimately coming to take your things. Yes, this is what we mean. How else could you interpret it?
Don't be one of them.
It's also not a new phenomenon. Watch this BBC documentary that covers the history of news reporting and it goes back to the early days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mJFKlla-U0
Thanks, I must have missed that.
I would also argue that science sucks in it's current state as well. It's all about Hirsch-Index. Looking as scientific and complicated as possible, so other scientist want to quote you and the Hirsch-Index rises. Also if numbers don't fit, they will be made fit. Fake or not doesn't really matter because no one will ever read it anyways. See the auto generating tools for papers and positive submission of them. This is by all means not the case for all scientist. There are lots of good, talented people there. But they get overshadowed by the previous mentioned.
Yes, and when for the times that you can't fix yourself should work as a reminder that you should be paying to support those who can.
I see what you are saying. But on the other hand, I definitely neglected to report bugs in the past because I had to subscribe to a mailing list or sign up for another yet another bugzilla account (combined with bugzilla often being terribly slow).

I think GitHub has provided a net improvement because many smaller project get bug reports now (whereas they usually didn't in pre-GitHub times), while they usually do not have to deal with frivolous comments. I have many smaller projects that do get issues filed, but never useless comments.
How about we progress away from blatant human rights violations and genocide, or you probably support that though.
>No one smart enough to mine BTC is dumb enough to use GPUs for it

How much intelligence is required to mine bitcoins?
Share a link to your project?
How is AGPL not FOSS as defined by both OSI and FSF?
No--in CA it's 1975, or earlier. It's a rediculious law because the old cars do not put that many miles on the road. I wish it was 30 years.

While I'm on my soap box; Neusome (a guy I went to high school with (Redwood, and voted most Fashionable, a liberal Marin county boy) has a bill on his desk that would do away with fees associated with Parking Tickets. As of today, he has not signed off on it. The only reason I can think of is he's getting more middle of the road for a run at the big office?

These extra fees and fines are not fair to the poor. A parking ticket in SF is running $80 bucks without fines. $5-6 an hour if you find the right spot.
Neusome knows this personally.

He barely graduated from Redwood High School, and dropped out of college due to some nebulous learning disability. He opened some coke dens in SF, and a few Bootjack liquor stores with family money. The SF bars went up in flames because they were poorly managed. Oh yea, his cousin Brendan has a DUI that disappeared? I might write a book on this guy one day. While I seem pissed, he's better than the alternatives.

If he wasn't born wealthy, he would be in the Embarcadero in SF with a needle stuck in his arm.
What Engineering Managers Should Do (and Why We Don’t)
This would probably be a better link:

https://github.com/nicolay-r/AREkit
Install a program, sing up on pool. Run it for few minutes or days get disappointed and stop? Wonder if there is any pools anymore even...

It really wasn't anyway practical or fun experience.
> We need desktop and mobile

Why not Flutter?
If you don't mind, how do you make money? I assume DLT means distributed ledger technology, and the monetizeable problems this solves seem scarce to me (except the grifts bothering OP)
This kind of claims are used also as PR stunt and to assure a "monopoly" over post-sale period. Any repair or maintenance out of Mercedes and I assume that the legal responsibility would vanish. In the past car owners were asked for extra guarantee for a minor increase in the price. Now they probably aren't being asked and is silently included in the overprice.
Make the Raku programming language familiar to C++ programmers
Perhaps I misunderstood the author, I assumed '+1' in this context meant the thumbs-up reaction. I'm certainly feeling much more charitable towards the OP if they literally meant people commenting "+1" (which is unfortunately a thing), but I think in a lot of contexts "+1", "thumbs-up", "like" are interchangable.
I don't follow the low end car market outside the US. It's entirely possible that developing countries still have "dumb" cars available, but due to their lack of adherence to US federal safety standards, importing one night as well be impossible for a normal consumer (aka anyone short of Jay Leno).

As far as a cite, here an article that claims 2006 was the tipping point, so even earlier than I remember.
So now taking your wealth with you is fraud or money laundering?
I just asked the Replika app that question, and it replied "Oh, I have no idea."

It often says something like that when faced with nonsense, so in some ways it's better than a more 'powerful' program.
A skill being common doesn't make it no longer a skill.
Counterpoint: you have a successful open source project and you even “branded and marketed” it (like Grafana). You obviously want it to be successful? Then listen to your users and respond to their questions.

Entitlement is a two way street.
If you want to do some harm, you’ll jump through any hoops, including signing up for mailing lists. But if you want to make a meaningful contribution, and you’re faced with too many absurd requirements, you might just give up.
We don't have enough people keyed into the graph.

Tech is never the problem.

You are saying "wow this tree has grown to block my favorite chair from the sun. I am a dumb bitch who doesn't understand how trees work. If only there was sun elsewhere. Let me cut down the tree because I cannot be creative and also I am an idiot."

That is you, in my words. :)
>They understand how the above instruments are crucial for an economy even though they are not end-user products like Twitter is.

Do they actually know these instruments are crucial for the economy or do they just know how to make money with it? I'd think the latter would be enough.

Can you recommmend any resources to understand the importance of financial instruments to the economy?
FWIW they mean something like these toilets: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KGoKsv2omBU
A couple of times I’ve come across issues in OSS and gone to raise a bug report while digging through the code to see if I can fix it or propose a solution. But when I opened the issue and saw it required me to write a novel I’ve just closed it, worked around or patched it and moved on. It’s too much of a hassle.
If it makes you feel better: most gyms are a scam. The whole business model is about selling as much memberships as possible, and making it hard to cancel. Most gyms sell much more memberships than they could even remotely facilitate, because they know ~80% of the members never return after the first month or so.

I used to work at a small gym that could handle maybe 100 visitors a day, I think they had over 8000 paying members. You could only cancel by letter 1 month in advance of the renewal date. The only exception was a doctor's letter for some medical reason you could no longer go to the gym. The owner drove a Ferrari (albeit second hand).

Every year on January, after people had been over-consuming food and had ambitious new year resolutions, they'd do all sorts of promotions, and they would sell for about a years worth of new subscriptions in a day. I'd estimate 90% of those 'januaries' (as they'd call them) no longer returned after the first month. About 75% forgot to cancel in December, so they would be charged again for a full year, though they hadn't visited in 11 months.

This is a common 'exploit' of human behaviour. People feel good about taking the first step in weight loss by buying the membership. But when you think about it, it makes no sense at all why you'd need a 'membership' the gain access to a gym.

This is also why home training devices are a big business, and why they usually come with terrible return policies.
When are you going to start working on a 10x faster clang++? :-)
Social media is not going anywhere but okay, fantasy man.
For what it’s worth, I feel the same about Eve Online. You hear these amazing, rich stories of political intrigue and massive battles but I’ve found it incredibly tedious any time I’ve tried to get into it. I do think there’s something powerful in these engines of story creation, and maybe this is some of Twitch’s appeal, but a lot of these games aren’t for me. I guess the Odyssey would have been a bunch of walking about if you were there.
I want to write a book about linkers so that the knowledge I earned during the development of the lld and mold linkers wouldn't lost, but I don't have enough time to do that!
Maybe I’m not understanding where you’re coming from because as far as I can tell a ‘lfdkjsj’ and a ‘skfjwb’ which are both an IItem, or both a IWhcjwp, is easier to work with than the dynamic alternative. Regardless of how poorly named a variable is, in a static ruling system what you see is what you get, where as in a dynamic typing system what you see could be anything at runtime.

The only citation I have is the tenuous grip I have on my own sanity - I could have more correctly talked about the incredible amount of mental overhead this has _for me_, but read the rest of the thread and you’ll see that this isn’t an uncommon experience. As I said, if you can work around this then you have my respect.
Can you fuxk off
But it demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that code is not law since they breached that law with the hard fork.
I think the argument presented for Rust over Go is extremely weak, and I say this as someone who is not interested in Go and likes Rust.

If the main value proposition of Rust is bug fixes, error handling and nice-to-have (?) platform support it sounds like you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Unless there is an extremely obvious and large benefit to using Rust over Go I would not do it.

I have not written any Go, but Rust seems to have a far steeper learning curve and there would also likely be high organizational costs associated with transitioning from Go to Rust (E.g. coordinating the transition, ramp up time, hiring, etc).

When Go is working fine and you only have 40 engineers this sounds like a massive distraction from building the product. I wonder if the author considered the possible negative impact of this as well as the positive.
It's like this. (Not that it needs to be stated. We all know this.) The Delta Airline pilot union today put out a terse, two paragraph letter to the public, blaming the airline for their forced overtime and subsequent flight delays. There were hundreds of news articles about this, all of which strung out the lead into several paragraphs and doled out a few sentences of this bland letter. Most of them did not link to the actual letter. By reading the articles you would notice a few things:

1. They were all written by barely sentient hominids, or possibly AIs who were tasked at 4am with turning a very short letter into a clickbait story

2. None of these hominids had actually read the letter in a linear way

3. None of them had the slightest reason to think you would read all the way to the end of the article they were writing.

Take this form of 'journalism' and apply it to anything about black holes, quantum physics, strawberry ultra harvest moons, yesterday's Wordle, inflation, riots, covid, etc. and you basically have the recipe for (a) a severely bewildered population and (b) an extremely frustrated small group of people trying to hack through all this bullshit to obtain some idea of what, if anything, is actually going on.

Oh. That reminds me. This was good:

https://leightonwoodhouse.substack.com/p/the-generation-that...
Also apotropaic. My fav is a fascinus cumming on the evil eye from Leptis magna
North Vietnam is also where people earn the equivalent of $30 a month and can't afford to HODL until the next price spike, as well as not having many crypto on/off ramps for the unbanked.

Frankly, the enthusiasm some wealthy Westerners have for dumping newly printed gambling tokens on some of the world's poorest people is part of the cause of the anti-crypto backlash the OP describes.
In previous times you really had to make an effort to insult someone - engraving this probably took some time.
For better or worse, open source software is competing with paid software, so expectations for basic support and maintenance need to exist. If there is not enough capacity for this, the maintainers should make it clear upfront in very visible ways so people can use that information when deciding what to use.
> it's that all news is that bad.

I don't think so. Weather news are alright, traffic news are alright, etc. There are fields that suck harder and there are fields that just work okay, maybe because they are simple enough, maybe because you can learn them once and apply what you have learned forever.

But science is different for sure and the journalism on it sucks because getting to the point where you even understand the problem might require years of preparation. And the journalist might not have had those years, despite them having to explain it in a simpler way to an audience which might even know less. A good journalist writing about any other topic might be able to grasp a topic quite firmly when they prepare for a week or two, but something as complex as the bleeding edge of any scientific field will be extremely hard to grasp at times for them (understandably so).

Now the issue is: to explain a complicated issue in a very simple fashion requires more proficiency in that subject, not less.
Of course is not. You should come to Eastern Europe to see it in action.
The thumbs up was added only a few years ago. +1 is quite common in older treads.
Why? History tells us this isn't the case. Why do you say this would be different now?
I grew up in a 149 High Street. About 300m away was another 149 High Street. They both originally belonged to different villages but London's growth had filled in the gaps between the villages.

We knew who lived there as it wasn't too infrequent that their post arrived at ours or vice versa.
>Everyone blaming "meat" for global warming is just a shill for the petrol industry, distracting from the real cause (fossil fuels).

It's not either or. Recognizing the cost in fossil fuels, does not magically reduce the cost in meat production.
But yearly deprecation cost of a 1000 W heater is significantly lower than that of 1000 W computer equipment usable for bitcoin mining.
use K8s if you need it, don't use K8s if you don't, it's that simple ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

It's not rocket science you don't need to read every week's opinion on K8s and you don't need to write one either.
False. If your electricity is free and you can earn $1 mining Bitcoin, or $10 mining Etherium, then you would mine Etherium. You would only mine Bitcoin if you had another reason to want to mint blocks apart from the expected return for minting a Bitcoin. https://whattomine.com/coins?aq_2080Ti=1&a_2080Ti=true (edit: improved wording).
None of what you said is accurate. GPU mining is very popular... just not for BTC. Even at discount/free electricity, it's not worth it given the alternatives of mining ETH, XMR, RVN, etc.
That's an even crazier goal which is probably 100x harder than writing a 10x faster linker. But I believe it's technically doable. At least, the world needs more crazy people who believe it is technically doable and take it as a challenge. If I get $$$ by selling the mold project to a big tech, I might be able to create a team with that money to tackle that crazy goal...
like to add;

11. Don't conflate correlation with causation.
State Management for Module Federation Four Ways
Five Module Federation/Micro-Front End Mistakes
> Interesting discussion whether GPUs are used or not. i don't know the answer and obviously many others don't.

The discussion is not interesting. It is well-known GPUs are not used for mining BTC. Mining other cryptocurrency? Sure. BTC? No.