skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be Vinay Prasad. Regardless of where he works he's still compared mask and vaccine mandates to the Third Reich. Most public health officials have a much lower tolerance for death or lasting injury than Prasad does. Even amongst laypeople Prasad's tolerance for someone elsedying is much higher than that of those other people.

A pattern of gross incompetence is the kind of thing you'd typically only level at people trying to Godwin their way out of scientific discourse.
ELI5 anyone?
As a person from Victoria, Australia, I can confirm this is exactly how we all speak.
Are you suggesting the high-end semiconductor shortage was caused by crypto? I don't think so. When you have Apple buying out the entire 5nm TSMC capacity for a year/more - in direct competition with NVidia, it's a hard proposition to make. And it's not like the GPU vendors were unhappy about the high prices and/or tried hard to get more production capacity.

BTW you don't mine Bitcoin with GPUs, that's impossible for at least 5+ years now. Bitcoin is mined with ASICs that are using older production nodes (+-30nm and the like).
The internet is fundamentally little more than the ability to send 1s and 0s from point A to point B.

So you mean like me calling you and saying 0 1 0? Well, yeah kind of, but faster! And we can even have conference calls! It's going to change the entire world! Yeah, ok... Well, I'm going to leave now. Wait, sorry... I mean I'm going to '0 1 1 0' now. Wow, I can feel the world shifting already.

The applications of a technology often are far greater than the most simplified fundamental upon which it is built.
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It's a reality to the people of Latin America who use stablecoins on Ethereum to hedge against their own country's inflation.
And more money at stake gives you more participation. It's not just a lottery for the rich, it's Capitalism unmasked
Yes, it is this one: https://opensea.io/collection/thetransition
By that definition, "anti-vaxxer" is so broad as to be meaningless. Certainly useful as a way for people not caught up in its expansive definition to feel superior, I guess.
This reminds me of an article (re-)posted recently here on HN:

https://web.archive.org/web/20031114161830/http://www.adequa...
The volumes of ETH trading are always orders of magnitude lower than how much the whales hold.

Market manipulation is prevalent in all markets all the time. The risk of market manipulation comes from other participants (the bigger a share of the market a whale has, the less risk he has) and from real world anchors (which are what sets the price of stocks in the longer term despite their short term randomness).

ETH whales always had the ability to do price manipulation. And they did it to some extent mostly to the upside. But they risked breaking the market if they manipulated to the downside.

The miners also had real world selling incentives. The game was rigged but at least price incentives aligned.

The problem isn't about whether PoS works. The problem is that the lack of real world anchors means the whales are free to manipulate price as they please. They can agree as a cartel on a price, low or high, beforehand, and keep buying from retail low and sell high and gain higher and higher share, manipulating both to the upside and the downside.

The problem is that PoS has no downside price manipulation disincentives, and it encourages hoarding. You'll end up like diamonds where most of those are hidden outside the market by a huge whale that exploits a monopoly on supply.
But you can't negate the fact that we have also been told a lot of bullshit. I remember the same speech in Jan 2022 where the health minister of France explained that covid was dangerous for children and therefore they will mandate vaccinating children, immediately followed by the minister of education explaining that covid isn't dangerous for children, that the number of children hospitalised for covid is less than for rare diseases, and therefore they will keep schools open during the covid wave.

Should I stop believe my lying eyes?
This is an authorization issue. You need a signing authority of some kind to verify the QR code.

A literal JWT (JSON Web Token) could be used, but a binary format could save TONS of space (30-50% smaller) which matters for a QR code.

QR would contain: binary data, datetime it was issued, QR creator ID, URL of signing authority (or a code from an approved list of authorities representing a know URL), a code for the algorithm used, and a signature that signs everything else.

When a user scans the QR, the software recognizes that it uses authorization mode.

It looks up the signing authority based on the ISO code for that authority and sends an API request for the public key sending the datetime and creator ID.

The signing authority returns the public key based on company and time (or a message if the private key has been revoked. If the key checks out, the user visits the URL.

All of this would take a fraction of a second and be entirely transparent to the user (barring revoked permissions or the signature being incorrect).
regarding price, one can argue it both ways. at the point of the merge, most assets on ethereum are risky: if you were a uniswap LP and the two assets you were pooling chose different forks as their “official” one (most meaningful for off-chain collateralized assets like USDC), you can bet arbitrageurs would have left you holding the worthless asset on both chains. accordingly, Eth became the “safest” asset during the fork, since both forks will recognize it. that would create buy pressure leasing up to the fork, which goes away after the fork.

but there’s a million arguments on both sides of that picture. i think the strongest argument for price direction is that PoS miners are less likely to sell their Eth immediately after mining it than PoW miners because the latter purchased mining equipment with USD and want to repay that, whereas the former are invested in Ethereum itself instead of their mining equipment. also it sounds like block rewards are decreased with PoS, so the currency itself is deflationary now (?)
I remember the silk road, and bitcoin donations to wikileaks, and bitcoin pizza. I think it all got bogged down after that with the irrational exuberance of the bull run, and everyone was too distracted to pay attention to the XT dispute when it really mattered. But it is getting better now, I am optimistic that the crash will continue and we'll see sanity returned to cryptocurrency.

The problem is fundamentally that cryptocurrency requires network effects to work. Cryptocurrency is not an easy thing to explain to most people, and it can be quite dangerous, so the best thing you can do for new users is tell them to stay away.
Yep, the canonical Wikipedia example that aaronbrethorst mentioned above.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias)
> Once you become aware of ATM skimmers, it’s difficult to use a cash machine without also tugging on parts of it to make sure nothing comes off. But the truth is you probably have a better chance of getting physically mugged after withdrawing cash than you do encountering a skimmer in real life.

So keep your wits about you when you’re at the ATM, and avoid dodgy-looking and standalone cash machines in low-lit areas, if possible. When possible, stick to ATMs that are physically installed at a bank. And be especially vigilant when withdrawing cash on the weekends; thieves tend to install skimming devices on Saturdays after business hours — when they know the bank won’t be open again for more than 24 hours.

Lastly but most importantly, covering the PIN pad with your hand defeats one key component of most skimmer scams: The spy camera that thieves typically hide somewhere on or near the compromised ATM to capture customers entering their PINs.
>Note that Ethereum and the other "smart contract" blockchains which link general program execution with transactions, are very different from Bitcoin and the other "money only" blockchains.

Smart contract blockchains like Ethereum have a lot that classic blockchains like Bitcoin don't have, but all of the lessons of classic blockchains are relevant to Ethereum. The original Bitcoin whitepaper by Satoshi is still a strong introduction to the goals and basics of cryptocurrency; understanding the goals of Bitcoin and the idea of solving double-spending in a decentralized manner is critical to understanding cryptocurrency. (But anyway after reading the Bitcoin whitepaper, just move on to reading docs about other projects like Ethereum. There's little interesting to Bitcoin beyond its initial invention.)
Since 2012 the situation has changed quite a bit. Adoption has increased massively. It's just doing it so slowly you aren't noticing it's happening.

Not to mention the adoption possibly going on behind the scenes.
Making PoS scale to hundreds of thousands of nodes with commodity hardware is not simple though. Few projects managed so far, and Ethereum wasn‘t designed for it from the outset, so it‘s even more difficult.
Not only that, but at a certain age they can learn to get the things (comfort, sleep, etc) they want in ways other than crying. Past a certain age, always responding to crying right away is stunting that ability.
An electric heater runs current through a wire .. the waste product of doing so is heat. The more you 'waste' the more heat produced.

I guess the more efficient version of the same thing would be the move to using heat pumps.
Thanks for the well thought out response.

Perhaps my biggest issue then is I'm not all in on the purely digital world that you describe and admit doesn't really exist, yet. That is to say, my plumber doesn't care about any of this and just wants cash. In the future, that can and probably will change, of course.

But today, in our current world, very few industries and virtually no blue collar industries accept such currency.

So then the question becomes, what is the value of <insert coin here>. Some will talk about energy, or efficiency. Some will talk about scarcity. Some will talk tech merits. But nobody to date has been able to convince me that it has any real value. There are no armies or economies validating it.

I think in simple terms, perhaps I'm a luddite. If someone, say completely disconnected from modern conveniences, were selling an item, I could perhaps trade physical goods for it. Or perhaps shiny metals, and explain why they're valuable(assuming they didn't know). Or explain dollars, and the guarantee behind them. How would you sell them on cryptocoins having value? The tech doesn't matter a ton here to a person, so onto the value. Why are bitcoins worth more than say, beanie babies of yore? Both seem to be run purely on speculation, at this point.

Said another way, if someone gives me 10k in cash, I have faith it will still be worth 10k in a year(ignoring our awful inflation). If someone gave me 10k in bitcoins, I have zero faith it would be worth anything tomorrow.
> A) allow for secure payments without giving away something like a bank account # or debit card number

You can use PKI for this. The public key is public and the private key never has to be online. That's how (most?) crypto works, but the system doesn't have to be a cryptocurrency to work like this.

> B) ensure that, even if those payments were secure, there was no other cheating, such as people at a bank just deciding to initiate an account with one million?

You can have public ledgers without crypto, there's usually no reason to do so, and good reasons not to do it (privacy, funnily enough).

Crypto is _a_ solution for this, not _the_ solution, and not even the best solution at that.
> They get into the details of why we know annual influenza boosters are effective, and that we really don't know yet whether COVID boosters will have the same effect.

Let me stop you right there, let's quote famous antivaxxer site called CDC:

"Recent studies show flu vaccine can reduce the risk of flu illness by between 40% and 60% among the overall population during seasons when most circulating flu viruses are well matched to the flu vaccine viruses."[1]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm

So 40% efficacy IF WELL MATCHED to virus, if not matched it's somewhere between 0-40%.

I'm not sure why you think COVID boosters not matched to current variant will have somehow bigger efficacy than influenza boosters which have only 0-40% efficacy, if not lucky. That's one of the reasons why it's pretty much pointless to get vaxxed against influenza/coronavirus for healthy people, the efficacy is next to zero in both cases for healthy people. For seniors, if they are lucky it will help them, if not it hopefully won't do more damage than good.
I’ve been very pleased with the quality of JetBrains products. My dev team has recently switched to VS Code and to get the same level of functionally we need several packages all in various states of maturity and the UX is no where close. It pays to pay JetBrains in terms of productivity.
It doesn't have to be super accurate or super certain, for advertisers to catch a general trend.

Even if the price adjustments lag significantly behind the actual decrease in effectiveness - the loss of effectiveness will still drive down prices.

As for personalized ads - I think the worst is still to come. Right now, most it is just about looking at a person's profile to decide which ad to show to them. But we are getting close to ML being used to actually create individual ads, optimized for each respective viewer.
If normal public health messaging was as forthright as TWiV then misinformation might already be less of a problem.
I'm happy if you want to pay to shower with hot water. I'm not going to pay you to shower with hot water.
It'll be okay like Medium used to be until it isn't and the funders turn it into Medium while seeking that return on investment. You're still better off owning your own blog in the long run.
Citation for boosters not working?
Here’s an example of a well-hyped, well-funded crypto startup being loose with words that have well-understood technical meaning outside of crypto.

> The "Helium 5G" network is instead a 4G LTE CBRS network, which right now has significant advantages over 5G but doesn't have the "5G" moniker Helium and its partners wanted for marketing. So it's just calling it 5G because, apparently, anyone can use any word to mean anything.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/is-heliums-new-5g-network-just-ho...

Helium was, until recently, one of the companies bound to come up if you asked around for real-world use cases of crypto.
It and all the other energy wasting planet destroying "coins" need to be forbidden.
The biggest actual market proposition for mainstream arguments is unlocking region locked content, so it isn't really 'techy' people that are targeted here, but younger consumers of international media.
I loved that too, saw it when it came out. Did you hear about the lawsuit? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Be_and_to_Have
The Zen of Programming • Sander Hoogendoorn
I think you mean "the website is down!"

https://youtu.be/uRGljemfwUE
It depends...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32844350
No one; I'm referring generally to Copilot and similar tools. But god, who needs an AI to write their fucking shell commands?
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Tongue tie is so heavily over-diagnosed and even treated right now. Just an aside to those in the thread, get a diagnosis from a pediatric dentist or other doctor, not a lactation consultant and not from the doctor that is responsible for doing the revision.
Most got their booster shots, but not as many as I thought or would like. 80% got the two shots, but only 61,7% got the booster. Both numbers are honestly MUCH lower than I'd expect.

It's honestly not economical to keep up the high level of testing and vaccination, not if most don't really get that sick. People are also a lot better at staying home when sick, compared to earlier.
Discord revolutionizes online conversations with forums
Not to mention the fact that Google et al. do everything they can to avoid paying taxes in the countries they operate in, including developing countries. The global South loses billions of dollars that way that they could use to fund education and healthcare. The odd "philanthropic" project does not make up for that.

https://www.southcentre.int/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/TCPB1...
I disabled mine on the card, and exclusive useless NFC payment from my banking app. That still requires my explicit authorization and is therefore a lot more secure. I started doing this during Covid when we weren't allowed to touch anything anymore, and I'm not going back.
The first one is easily solved with one-time-use card numbers, which credit card companies have offered for well over a decade.

The second one is a dubious benefit if you're at all interested in stopping crime (eg money laundering is very easy if no party can block a transaction.)

Thats not to suggest there's no benefit to ETH, or even that crypto might be better than traditional money in some ways, but those two specific points are fairly easily argued.
Nice comment. That's basically the same conclusion I came to as well. Crypto's real impact is political-economical. The tech doesn't matter too much. The whole point is that users get to own a portion of the systems they interact with.
Cryptocurrencies impose some complex constraints on themselves that require complex solutions.

Conceptually banks and exchanges solved the consensus problem decades ago and they did it with a highly secured simple database and lots of crosschecks.

But if you trust nobody (except some developers somehwere) then things get tricky
> Crypto is actually innovating in ways that are broadly applicable to computer science in general

Most of it is just companies putting blockchains everywhere because VCs give them money in that case. Nothing scientific about that.
One, they are going to sasturate the market which will drive the prices down significantly. They cannot not saturate the market, because GPUs age due to new developments by manufacturers. This already makes the prospect of recouping initial investments rahter dim.

Consider that non-miner market has a huge distain for miners and are willing to pay premium on new cards just to stick to the miners. I don't think resale value is going to be spectacular.
You said anti-vaxxer which encompasses all vaccinations, but especially in Germany it makes no sense. In Germany most people are vaccinated[1] against something, so they are not oppossed to vaccines necessarily. This illustrates the blind crusade against people that do not want to participate in the mRNA therapy study that is still being conducted.

[1]:https://www.gbe-bund.de/gbe/abrechnung.prc_abr_test_logon?p_... (vaccination rates among child school starters)
That's exactly what we're planning to do! We are currently talking to publishers, such that they can integrate us on their websites. Every time a reader hits one of their pages, they get compensated for it. We currently have an open demo that shows how it works, but this is not our final product, we're just getting started :)
Cool! What's the prompt for this? ("on-topic" doesn't sound very Victorian though).
Chaum's ECash: Anonymous Electronic money pre-blockchain era
Let's be clear: Bitcoin is NOT reducing methane emissions or carbon emissions. Crypto mining cannot reduce anything. This is just a straw man.

The study you reference discussed burning waste methane to turn into electricity, rather than gas flaring.

That electricity could be used for anything. Water desalination, stored for grid balancing, powering agricultural needs or offsetting the electrical needs of the gas facilities.
Is Ethereum Classic going to be relevant?
Restarting the free accounting search (2017)
Sensors at CMU: What are Kinects doing above doorways? (2019)
Guess who pays Mozilla foundation salaries.
If payment can be authorized through the chip by mere proximity, without any explicit authorization by the owner, then it's still insecure. Of course the thief would need to have an official payment terminal, but those are everywhere.

I use my app, not my card, for this reason.
So far my career has been secured by the small details, edge cases and the field of scientific computing. I think these tools will not work well for the latter.

But I’m still planning my career change. Not because of AI.

If the level of complexity in todays development is any indicator I probably can’t do this past 40.
Of course it's not.

https://www.shaunpoore.com/why-is-airdrop-fast/
To me in the current age also appears crazy to think that we need incentives for energy development, as without crypto PoW we have enough energy
I found those stories of "enlightened hospitality" creepy and presumptuous. Don't eavesdrop on my conversations and respect my choices. Are you suggesting my opinions on expensive wine are sour grapes? I didn't want wine or salad. God, I'm happy I don't live in a country where waiters are forced to be a hyper-social adult circus clown to compete for tips.
The "innovation" in the original blockchain is that it is computationally expensive on purpose, to create "economic value". There is no computer science innovation there. Computer scientists didn't come up with the idea because it made no sense.

And it all went downhill from there.
Casual HN readers get a very interesting article without banner ads or paywall. People who are interested in more related content are encouraged to pay for a subscription. I don't see much wrong with that.
Indeed, Sir, I am not; a mere gadfly on the rump of society, such is yr. humble correspondent. Yet even one unskilled in letters, such as I, may become sensible of a certain terseness, an unaccustomed lack of elegance, a rude brevity, in a communication, when it is flourished in front of his nose.

It is an unfortunate habit of mine, the subject of well-intentioned chiding from my friends, that I return like for like: thus, my response. I cravenly pray your indulgence for my peccadillo.
I'm not paying for it, I have my own solar arrays. And after I am finished I'll redirect the unused energy to BTC mining again - the grid pays less than half of what I get from mining. Nobody's business.
Banks would never switch to a system that makes all transactions publicly traceable, and they shouldn't.

The industry has investigated blockchains for many years, since distributed consensus for transactions is a problem they actually have. They might run their own private chains. But it won't be ETH.
Isn't September even Q4?
Let’s talk about modern technologies pls