skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can short miners and hodlers like Microstrategy. I’ve been at it for a while and am up a nice vacation or two out of it. https://paulbutler.org/2021/betting-against-bitcoin/
It should be noted that you should not handle security incidents as you would outages. I struggle to get this across to folks that came from an IT background all the time.

A lot of things feel unintuitive with security incidents because you are not solving a technical problem but addressing compromised risk and malicious human intent. For example, it is ok depending on the scenario to both cause an outage for seemingly trivial reasons or let a hacker roam free as you monitor their progress. KPIs by management that move from IT to security also have similar issues like measuring how long it takes to eradicate a threat as if it was an IT outage when you should take as much time as you feel to eradicate a threat (but ideally, but not always, the threat should be contained) because understanding scope of a compromise or attacker intent is more important. While more important KPI like dwell time are ignored.
“History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes” – Mark Twain
The investment of shareholders is at stake irrespective of whether they share the profit with the employees, success of the company is a different function altogether.

>For the shareholders, on the other hand, a company taking losses doesn't just impact future income. Their entire investment is at stake.

Investors who do not get more returns in the companies compared to a debt instrument will take their investments to companies which can offer better returns, that is how they should manage their risk without getting bankrupt.

There is a chart above where some companies have profit/employee close to a million dollars, intellectual property of the employees is not valued enough, value is only attributed to the capital invested , which if you look at companies which are overvalued is not the rarest commodity; employees are not a rare commodity but good employees are.
I don't think anything could be better for cryptographic currencies than most of the speculators having their investments crushed.
> Favoritism...

Hiring for the team done by an outside organization, the same that hired Kevin Lloyd.

> ...and enriching themselves

The winery, Grant Marie, is not owned by the Fellowship. As stated in the article.
It’s a checkbox.

We already distilled the complexity. It’s beautiful for the simplicity. A checkbox with an “experience” is the tacky chromed out Harley cruiser next to the essential cafe racer that is… well, a check box.

Less is more.
So many new entries for https://www.bitcoinisdead.org/

It never gets old.
Here's hoping. When stocks tank, one can decide if a company is undervalued and decide whether to buy in.

Bitcoin has no value other than speculation, so it's a hard ask for people to buy in as it's never technically undervalued...
But then you’re trusting those exchanges to be able and/or willing to exit you.

There’s no reliable way to short it.

(Unless the exchanges let you withdraw the fiat for your positions while they’re open?)
My toy FP language did. :) It’s perfectly possible to just parse a list of arguments and figure out currying in a later compiler stage. In my experience it even somewhat helps with producing nicer arity-specific error messages, which user might appreciate.
"can be as bad" does not convey the same meaning as "'may' be 'almost' as bad," as the article actually says. Furthermore the article does not say the 'badness' is equivalent. In fact it says:

> Once again, the researchers found that higher levels of free time were significantly associated with higher levels of well-being, but only up to a point. After that, excess free time was not associated with greater well-being.

The point made is more similar to wealth correlating to happiness up to a point. The article concludes that it's a sense of purpose that matters to people, not work. Your comment is a bit obfuscating.
I believe in the opposite; systematic incompetence is no different from malice, and this is usually well understood by the people who have influence over the system.
Why the US military is listening to shrimp
> Tether collapsing would have a far larger effect than putting BTC to 10K, it would probably be the end of crypto.

Tether isn't the only stablecoin out there. Tether collapsing is basically the end of Tether and will send BTC below 10K and will take the others with them.

It won't be the end of crypto due to this as there are other coins (not tokens) out there that are compliant (ISO 20020), have a use case and will survive this crash, but I expect the majority of useless memecoins, tokens, etc to be wiped out.
Material design a disaster in terms of UI and UX.

- Flat UI

- Lots of wasted space

- No clear distinction between element types

- Bland, lacking of color.
> The vast majority of alt-coins cannot be exchanged against dollars

I mean. You could, like, sell them on a forum or in person. With your wallet which is supposed to enable you to do just that.

I admire the success of crypto-exchanges' marketing in making them out to be the only way to conduct transactions on a friggin transaction management system. But then you'd have to deal with the fact that next to no one wants to organically trade <random myriad of altcoins/tokens>. I for one rejoice about the upcoming altcoin extinction event.
Yesterday I walked along a busy road with a decibel meter app and as I went behind a sound-absorbing wall, the level went down around 10dB.

The difference was significant and it felt as if the road was one block away.
> radius of the hydrogen atom [...] maybe something like 10-15 meters?

Please fix that into 10^-15 or equivalent expression for 10⁻¹⁵, before somebody gets the idea that "Scott" thought "between 10 and 15".
It was fascinating 10 years ago but useless all along.
The prayers and devotion of the faithful will always be answered with golden rewards.
Are there still people using graphics card for crypto? I thought specialized chips had made them noncompetitive years ago.
CME has a futures contract you can use to short. Much lower counter party risk there as well.
People here cheer for fall of Bitcoin and end of cryto not seeing that GOOG dropped from 2999.05 to 2157 and both charts look pretty much the same?
It just has to drop till it has a price/earnings ratio of around 15-20.
Right, so it would still be less stress-inducing at least.
The original doesn't say "10-15 meters" but ten to the power of negative fifteen meters, so his guess was off from the Bohr radius of 5.3E-11 in the other direction but by much fewer orders of magnitude than as rendered above.
It was always a bet on human stupidity+greed. If you are bullish on Bitcoin, it means you think the greatest fool hasn't yet been found
Once again, I don't give a shit about your link or what you have to say, so good luck in life.
Bitcoin mining is done with ASICs, not GPUs afaik. It's other currencies like Ethereum that use GPUs. I don't know what the extent of damage is though.
Could it be that we do understand progress but the world is not ready for it? We are worried about inflation, when the valuation of things explodes. What would happen if the opportunities of each human being explodes? E.g. if everybody can fly a rocket into space, there soon will be so much debris that further launches are impossible.

>You have a computer, TV, and smartphone. These are impressive inventions, and some seem like magic, but over time, you realise that your living standards haven't transformed quite as much as when you woke up in 1940.

The living standard of kings hasn't quite changed since 2000 BC.

What's changing is the life of the less fortunate. Women not spending time on washing clothes is a huge difference. [1]

What's holding society back is not lack of progress but conventions. When you have microwaves, but you still build houses with kitchens as if your wife stays at home all day, then resources are stuck and cannot be used to change living standards significantly.

Similarly, Smartphones are called Smartphones and not mobile computers because people still use them as phones. Living standards will change when the general public starts engaging with computers and crunches data to e.g. automatically choose the best product to buy, or to coordinate housing projects. The housing bubble exists because buyers don't coordinate to remove bottlenecks on the supply side.

In a sense, we have the printing press, but people are still illiterate.

>There is no broad-based intellectual movement focused on understanding the dynamics of progress, or targeting the deeper goal of speeding it up.

How about China? It would be surprising if they hadn't analyzed how they can out-innovate the US.

Then again, does progress need an intellectual movement? That sounds like increasing the study of arts to create more music and literature.

Instead of letting intellectuals assemble, where could people meet who would want to make progress? I would like to say HN, but my suspicion is that the bottlenecks are not easily monetizable so that angle investors and VC are not enough.

E.g. to build a city for the future with affordable housing, does it take nation states like China and Saudi Arabia, or could that be achieved in another way?

[1] General Electric also introduced its first top loading automatic model in 1947 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washing_machine
As someone who continually buys with no intention of ever selling, I welcome clearance sales like these.
You are approaching this from the flawed neo-liberal assumption that, to have good economic model, only inflation has to be controlled.

The rate of inflation is hardly more important than, for example, tax rate. From the Central Bank viewpoint, how much money is annually generated could be anywhere between 15-350%. The key to a good economy lies in proficiency in other sectors, like industry.

The bulk of money is generated through private bank loans, anyway.
It's not going to 'magically' drop to zero. It is going to drop to zero.
There were always been bindings, but at the time I was working with Qt the quality was bad, if I were to start a project I don't want to use some automatic generated binding or some one man side project binding, I don't have time to spend in debugging bugs outside my code.

Except of Python are there other bindings you would bet your precious time on? Foe example I had a few hours side project, I needed a simple GUI to let the user slect soem folder and files, then the code logic would do the IO , do some transformetion and report to the user. Would I spend more time messing around with the bindings instead of writing the code ?

I know my example would be a perfect use for CLI but the target user was a Windows person that just REFUSED to accept the concept that they are competent person and could use a CLI app and paste a folder path in.
"In essence, YouTube does not distinguish between Trump saying the election was stolen and a third party saying that Trump says the election was stolen. Suffice it to say this is not a very intelligent policy."
The reason UX in games uses animations is to give the illusion that something happens directly when it does not because of load times and so on. Animations in all other types of UX is just annoying.
Some of the issues seemingly stem from the model's either poor or mis-understanding of the input language... I wonder what a fusion of DALL-E + GPT3 or LaMBDA, where the text-based models perform prompt interpretations, would look like.

This may be a naïve thought as my understanding of all models mentioned is superficial at best.
AFAIK an investment is when you put money into something expecting it to increase in value.

Buying a house just so that at the end you own it is not an investment, that's just a purchase with a loan.
The earliest match for this popular quotation appeared in an essay by Theodor Reik in 1965. Currently, he is the leading candidate for coiner of the saying.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/
new technologies unlock newly realized low hanging fruits - what counts as 'low hanging' is based on current capability.
Or until Beanie Babies are 1 BTC each. Both are rock-solid wealth-building investments.
This is a misleading and dangerous service.

You provide a distributed lease, not a lock. A distributed lease by itself doesn’t provide mutual exclusion. Distributed leases are typically accompanied with a fencing token (which your service cannot provide out of band) or an optimistic lock on the underlying "exclusive" resources (which could be implemented by the consumer of your service). I think of distributed leases as an optimization e.g. they provide soft exclusion in the happy path, which may reduce thrashing on the underlying real mutual exclusion mechanism (like an optimistic lock) under general use.

Your docs and terminology guide users into building incorrect systems e.g “ensure only a single instance of a process runs at any given time” is simply not true.

edit: I had a quick look at your Python library, and while Python isn't my forte, it looks like it can be trivially induced to break the mutual exclusion mirage: the "requests" lib's default request timeout is None e.g infinite, so what happens when `client.try_heartbeat` goes out to lunch indefinitely? Looks like `locks._run_heartbeat_loop` will hang, the lease will never be renewed, and within 60 seconds a competing lease holder will claim it. Boom. So you fix the timeout issue and problem solved right? Still no dice... what happens when you hit a pathological hang in your non-real-time runtime or OS? Boom.
I've heard of signs that Tether could collapse too. I guess that would be the Lehman Brothers for crypto?
There are things like cryptdb:

https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/9/154574-cryptdb-proce...

Update: It's been a while since I've looked into encrypted databases. They do a reasonable job, but they are limited in various ways. Private Information Retrieval is also interesting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_information_retrieva...
No. Properly maintained card in a mining rig is usually in a better condition than the same card that has been used for gaming, simply because it was less often thermally stressed.
Now that I'm poking harder at the mobile Tailscale app, the seams are starting to show. When I open the three-dots menu, it opens instantly without an animation. Tapping and dragging my finger off a menu item triggers it anyway, and tapping the "Expires" text at the top of the menu closes it the moment my finger lands (rather than when I release, or leaving the menu open).
Maybe the classic early net crack pot website The Time Cube will prove to be true after all!
I use an old laptop plugged into the TV with a wireless mouse and keyboard. Smart TVs and consoles are just nothing but unfixable problems like this in my experience. I don't get the appeal.
Wow. Could you please open a GitHub issue with a `./redbean.com --ftrace` log? I only need the fifty or so lines of the log. Since that tells me which system call is likely the culprit. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues Alternatively you could email it to me: jtunney@gmail.com Thanks!
I hope that legislators are actually technically illiterate. If they were, they'd know what kind of stuff gets posted on any underground porn torrent tracker and probably geo-fence the whole internet.
What earnings? There's no return on Bitcoin apart from price increase.
As part of this guide should include a day off for on-calls who handled on-call tasks outside of standard working hours.
A lot of jobs, if not a majority, tend to be jobs with no future prospect, low pay, little to no healthcare insurance, and an absence of meaning. Those jobs didn't offer something to drive or strive towards then, and still do not. Why would one want to live for this, slaving away?

Thinking there is inherent meaning in salaried or at-will work is more ideological than factual. This can be scrapped for: being creative or productive with one's time. And this isn't tied to a job contract to an employer that is, more often than not, brutal to you.
Prisoners of war generally have more legal protections against slavery than those incarcerated under the US justice system.
I thought that went without saying, but you’ve gone and said it anyway and you aren’t wrong.

Unless your power is generated by coal, in which case you’re even better off using natural gas.
uhm, i spend less than 40 cents a day on avg on gpt3 queries...

a bit more accessible than like a hackerspace membership or building a factory or something
You seemingly are portraying people who worry about long term risks of ai as members of a religious cult. But you also acknowledge that AI could end humanity? The question of why AI would want to kill us has been addressed by other people before, simplified: your atoms are useful for many objectives. Humans use resources and might plot against you.
Thank you.

Many, many years ago I typed a BASIC program listing for a macro-economics simulation from a computer magazine into a computer. As with your game, the only lever was the bank interest rate. The outcome (for me) was always economic catastrophe.

I'd love to play an economic sim that also has a taxrate input; I realise that's normally not set by the central bank; but then again, it's often not the central bank that really sets central bank interest rates; it's the government.
What's the opposite of "aged like milk"?
You do realize that a huge percentage of violent criminals are never caught right?
I'm really happy this is happening and hope to see more. Namely, the AI safety & alignment challenge attracting our best minds who would previously have prioritized other math, physics and comp sci.
Then, automate politicians?
Try this:

git clone https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
cd cosmopolitan
make -j8 o//third_party/python/python.com

Then put Django in the zip under the .python directory. You can also use the `.args` file just like redbean to have `-m module` run by default.
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It's like adding functionality to legacy code
The one who handled an error external to working hours on day x gets a day off on day x+1 otherwise you will burn out.
The biggest disaster of the 20th century happened when nuclear weapons spread outside the US.
That’s exactly his point !
I may sound overly optimistic however crypto is still the most easy and often cheapest way to transfer money.

I work in a weird field credit card providers don't like to work with. The only real international solution is Crypto, everything else are more local solutions with their own issues.

Even thought I am losing money every day, I don't see any other solution to my, and some others, businesses.
I wonder how the bitcoin mining industry is doing. Bitcoin's hash rate isn't falling [1], which suggests miners aren't able to reduce costs. Revenue on the other hand is tied to bitcoin price, which is falling. So what does that mean... are they headed for bankruptcy?

[1] https://www.blockchain.com/charts/hash-rate
Thanks for the explanation. I've always wondered if the government could keep a "To do" list of tedious tasks that they can get under/unemployed people to do for some reward. Kind of like Mechanical Turk but with a base amount if the person refuses to compete any tasks. Or for more educated people, doing research for the Government.

E.g. a Department of Health could have a ToDo list that includes: "Collate information on Tropical diseases for use by Doctors." A qualified person, such as a biologist, would be given an existing list of diseases and a list of recent research papers. They could simply flag papers that have info not in the Government list. In this way, when the actual Department worker goes to update the Tropical disease file, the references are all ready to go if the worker wants them.

Spending 35 hours a week looking for jobs that may not exist seems incredibly foolish.
Until it restarts again a little while later. Tide goes in, tide goes out.
What I'm saying is that not every opinion deserves to be taken seriously enough to merit an argument. There are plenty of opinions which deserve mockery and contempt.
Bitcoin has value for the same reason Visa has value.

A medium of exchange is a tool, and tools people use have value.

I grant the majority of the market is speculation but many of us actually regularly use Bitcoin for things like payroll, settling debts, cheap international value transfer, buying coffee, and for cash-like privacy for online purchases.

For those like me that have been continually buying, saving, and spending bitcoin for a decade, vs simply speculating, dollar cost averaging kicks in. Even 300% price swings do not matter all that much in the long run.

Those that go all-in short term looking to gamble get wrecked, but that is often the case in trading. Bitcoin will be healthier when the short term traders are forced out.
Even without waking up or handling an issue, a silent on-call also has a psychological tension and should be compensated with time off.
I wouldn't call it the end, but it would set crypto prices back 5-10 years
* People just usually choose not to pay extra because it's not actually that important to them*

Do they choose this, though? Or are they either renting (absolutely no choice) or not monied enough to upgrade their house in this way? Is this something that your average builder offers the average person building a home? (My parents didn't have that choice when building a house in the 90s)
> "fermented vegetables like kimchi have shown to increase prostate adenocarcinoma."

Since you did not link to any literature backing up your claim, I want to share this paper[0] as a counterpoint. Kimchi has been found to have active ANTI-cancerous effects, opposite to your claim.

Please change my mind with referenced material.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4285955/
Google's data plans in Saudi Arabia 'will risk lives': activists
The money saved can be wasted or used to build new prisons since there might not be much pressure (political or market) to put it back into the state budget.

You know what would be the best way to save money? Cut the prison population in half..
> The vast majority of alt-coins cannot be exchanged against dollars and have a value only if they can be traded against USDT or other stablecoins.

Even in a hypothetical world without any stablecoins at all (which is different from a world without Tether), fiat-less exchanges could still exist: just exchange fiat for btc or eth, and then btc or eth for altcoins. Altcoins existed long before stablecoins.