skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment is a good summary of the kind of arrogance anyone pointing out problems with the vaccines was facing. When the AZ brain blood clots were discovered, when the Biontech and Moderna heart issues were discovered, etc.

IMO, your attitude is even more harmful than the typical vaccine conspiracy theories, because those are typically easily disproved!

But disguising a dogmatic attitude in the language of science is poisonous for discourse and misuses science itself.

Looking at the benefits and drawbacks of a new vaccine is the most normal thing in the world. And thanks to those that didn’t allow themselves to be bullied by misguided do-gooders is why we have a better understanding of the vaccines and doctors can explain to patients if the vaccine makes sense to them.
The entire point of my post is that parroting CDC statements without context and nuance is legitimately counterproductive.
> anyone can borderlessly lend and borrow in seconds.

You can only do _secured_ lending and borrowing, and only where the security is, itself, a highly liquid digital token.

Person A lending USDC to person B, taking ETH for security, isn't doing much for the world at large except allowing B to defer his capital gains tax.

Unsecured lending, backed only by the faith or expectations we have around future cash flows, is how the world creates opportunity for true investment and growth... and impossible in a trustless and anonymous system like crypto.

Hardly limitless possibilities
> Adoption has increased massively.

Adoption? More like, speculation. I still don't know anyone who's doing any real world transactions with crypto, but I know people who hold it for speculation purposes.
Lot of web devs know their website is slow but can't do anything about it, they don't choose where to spend time, the manager do.
> Who cares that Jimmy Wales drives a BMW instead of a Volkswagen?

Jimmy is not a wikimedia foundation employee (he is a board member, but that is unpaid). None of the donations are going to him.
I think of this as the Left having lost its way (in its own sort-of marxist terms). It's overly obsessed with identity and forgets the much more important discriminant of class. A cynical analysis is that the upper classes are using this as a successful divide and conquer tactic...
Don't believe everything (anything?) you read on the internet is my adage, good sir/madam ducktective.
I’m finding it difficult to summon the energy to read through these fully when the abstract of the first link has a political dog whistle[1] in the abstract before it gets to any actual hypothesis or claims. Finishing the abstract I see they end it with this sentence[2], implying this isn’t even original research? Is this actual research or a statistical analysis of the VAERS database?

This second link is even worse, it’s a blogpost with a a short paper riddled with citations linking to other blogposts from the same site making wild claims about how the vaccine actually makes things worse. I started on section 1 after his synopsis and he just points to a diagram included in his paper and then trots out the debunked anti vaxxer claim of

> vaccinees are now increasingly becoming asymptomatic shedders of SC-2.

There is no data or citation supporting that beyond his diagram. He just makes a claim and then starts making logical leaps off that claim.

This is the kind of “evidence” that makes everyone groan and roll their eyes when people claim that the anti vaxxers actually have proof and no one’s paying attention to them because it’s a conspiracy or doesn’t toe the party line. I am legitimately upset that I gave you the benefit of the doubt and wasted my time reading through these just to find out that your claims are as weakly supported as I had assumed.

[1]the sentence below, anti vaxxers commonly bring up lack of precedent as a reason the vaccines can’t possibly work

> The utilization of mRNA vaccines in the context of infectious disease has no precedent.

[2]
> We show evidence from the VAERS database supporting our hypothesis.
Not true! Cryptocurrencies have real-world productive use cases such as money-laundering, ransomware, drug and weapons trade, terrorist financing etc. As well as some less-morally-wrong stuff like hiding from oppressive regimes. A bet on crypto is a bet on the future of these activities.
> The name is reminiscent of several real high-tech companies, including the Gyrodyne Company of America, Teledyne and Teradyne, all of which were founded a few years before Pynchon wrote The Crying of Lot 49, and Rocketdyne, an aerospace company that manufactured, among other things, propulsion systems.

> The "dyne" is the standard unit of force in the centimetre–gram–second (CGS) system of units, derived from the Greek word dynamis, meaning "power" or "force".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoyodyne
That's exactly my point: if you demand that people only speak absolute truths and take any disagreement as a sign that people are intentionally lying, then you're killing any honest constructive discussion.

Clearly there was a disagreement about the danger it posed to children, and perhaps more importantly: the danger that infected children would pose for the adults around them. Because that's another frequently ignored issue: vaccination is not just about protecting the individual, but about protecting the community.

But that disagreement doesn't mean that someone is lying, and it certainly doesn't mean that everything is bullshit. It means that people disagree. And with a very new disease, that shouldn't really be a surprise to anyone. Now there was clearly also a lot of misinformation from various sources, including sometimes governments, but the only way to deal with that and figure out what's what is honest, open discussion by people who know what they're talking about.

Stop demanding absolutely truths about things we cannot yet know, and instead try to think constructively about what would be the best thing to do considering the lack of information we have to deal with.
Can nodes in Etherium? Or is there a central governing body there which has the power to revert legitimate transactions, just like in traditional systems?

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-ethereum-reversed-a-50-...

Oh.

But hey, at least it's an unregulated, informal, ad-hoc process in Etherium with no justice system or oversight to enforce the rights of the little guy.
Really cool. Also, a nice origin story for Skynet. /s
"One in a million chances come up nine times out of ten"
And nobody knows enough about the flu vaccine currently yearly formulation in every year of the last 50+, but it was still recommended and administered to 40+% of US adults. Covid-related antivaxxism is just latent antivaxxers finally coming clean.
You do realize that the entire cryptocurrency space (all coins, regardless of their names) are using less electricity than the total of electronics that are in standby in US only. So, if you want to have an impact, better to reorient your efforts to have the industry do away with standby idea. That was a good idea 5 decades ago in 70's, when electronics were expensive and they lasted a decade. But nowadays, with planned obsolesce, it makes no sense to have standby technology implemented to make the electronics last longer because they fail after one year anyway due to other factors rather than transient response on startup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_response & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_state)

So, boiling the ocean is not done by this anyway, my point.
I can't comment on how much harder it is for a person to be a bussiness owner as problably we don't live in the same country and we don't live under the same laws/regulation, otherwise I'd challenge that.

> They take 0 risk.

For wealthy worker problably, but for labor worker is not risky free.

> building things yourself is much much harder

Unless you work alone you don't build things yourself.

> People like yourself clearly have no idea how much responsibility and risk, and emotional strain an entrepreneur takes on

It seems like you don't have idea how hard it is to be in the bottom layer of the wealth distribution.

> Don't expect people who take 0 risk to become millionaires.

I don't think no one in this thread meant that. They are just advocating for better wealth distribution.
Conceptually, yes. In reality, no major bank would ever do it.
> That said, it also isn't clear to me how money laundering can work if everyone suspects it at your business!

The huge wave of "American Candy" stores in the UK are apparently being investigated: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-61777445

In that case, the alleged fraud relates to business rates (effectively property taxes). If it was empty, the landlord would have to pay them. If there's a business there, the business is liable .. unless, of course, it simply runs for a while and then vanishes.
I would guess there is some kind of normal distribution, it’s not like people dies or were fine, there were lots somewhere inbetween that took healthcare to save. The safety measures save people from dying, but also save the people who would have been only mostly dead.
Paying for a gym membership is pretty standard perk in the industry. If anything, this is usually considered bare minimum

You can't get employees if you don't pay them. This is what paying employees means in the tech industry.
Or this?

Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_(film)
Got a source?

This one could not be interpreted as mostly-flat / declining meat consumption...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-meat-consumpti...
> Great, now all that energy can be "wasted" rendering pixels with GPUs instead.

Just like it was supposed to.
Hint: nobody here has suggested "relying on humans to just not make mistakes".
Little known fact: a website and an email are different things.
This reminded me of the "Victorian Laptop" that Justine Cassell and students worked on at the MIT Media Lab, in the late 1990s.

IIRC, in the original idea, the Victorian Laptop hardware was an antique portable wood laptop desk, retrofitted with PC electronics and custom software, and the purpose was to relate/connect the user's thoughts in a particular location to the writings of others who've been in some similar context before. With the time-traveler writing desk adding to the reflective experience.

(Physical craft-wise, this was before the steampunk DIY computers that we see today. Cassell collected antique writing desks, had inspiration from those, and some energetic students worked on figuring out and building it.)

http://www.justinecassell.com/publications/narr_intell.vlt.9...

Seems like modern ML tools should open up more possibilities along these lines. I'd like to see the focus on leveraging information and computation for genuine experiences and accurate understand (not, say, some of the currently more obvious automated content generation applications, for SEO, addictive engagement, demagoguery, etc.)
Please have a look at this table:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Financial...

Then read this 2013 post from a past Wikimedia VP:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-March...

So there is a difference between keeping the Wikimedia Foundation organization going and keeping Wikipedia going. Keeping the Wikimedia Foundation going at its current size costs about 10 times as much as just keeping Wikipedia going, under the assumptions of that 2013 post.

You can't use "keep Wikipedia online" indefinitely as a justification for raising ever more money in order to expand. The Wikimedia Foundation should talk far more in its fundraising about what those hundreds of additional people are actually doing, including projects other than Wikipedia, instead of projecting this image of a small raft of people struggling to hold Wikipedia together with duct tape.
So it turns out that when you outsource auth, you also outsource some of the governance on who can access your platform.

Isn't access control a set of patterns rather than a service? When did it stop being a core competency of web applications?
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding but is it not 40-60% effective if well matched and 0% effective otherwise?

Flu shot efficiacy is typically under 50% so if they guessed the wrong strains you happen to be exposed to that season it is totally worthless. There seems to be a common misconception that it will somehow help you even if they guessed the wrong ones but I'm not sure why that is so prevalent. If there are 5 viruses, and they got 4 of them, you still have 0% protection against the missing one.

I don't know why COVID would be any different.
A relevant quote from the linked article:

> I implore you, dear reader, to set aside your petty grievances; trifling things such as the format of an article or website, the unfortunate repetition of a name, or the vexing loss of information when pressing the back button. They are so common and so lacking in originality that they have no interest whatsoever.

But for real, the styling is just copied from the original: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://commons.wikimedia.org/
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Thanks, it's always nice to hear things like that.
> 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.

No it precisely could not, because there's no transport infrastructure, storage or grid balancer there.

That's why they were flaring in the first place.
You're right. I just searched for "milk" and was not expecting the NSFW results...
Sweden does it that way (or at least my home region of Stockholm). 4th shot is only recommended for 65+ and 18+ with risk factors, but everyone 18+ can get it. It's free either way.
Idk... It's part of the culture in the US and seems to be getting worse lately.

As an example, I love the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, but after the pandemic they instituted this policy that pedestrians were no longer allowed to walk on the 3 Mile Drive. This is a service-type road throughout a park that people routinely walked on for decades. Not in a minor way either: it's a major pathway through the park that the park is designed around in many ways. It's difficult to not walk on the drive.

People also like to drive on it to look at the landscaping, and use it to get to locations in the arboretum. It really seemed to me that some wealthy benefactor complained to the arboretum about pedestrians as they were driving around, and the park in the process banned the pedestrians. In the process they immediately made the place much more pedestrian hostile.

It's difficult to describe how absurd this is if you haven't been there, given the layout and history. They also used to routinely have fundraiser 5ks on it and no longer do, etc.

It's like they're literally moving to prioritize cars in the landscape in a park for landscaping.

This is after also limiting the density of visitors as well by requiring reservations.

Anyway, this is a place I love and I am really disappointed in in the last couple of years (I could go on about a couple of other things). It's partially a personal rant, but it's also to me a very good example of how cultural norms in the US are very car-centric and that trend seems to be increasing lately.
Mastering Ethereum is great, and the high-level concepts all still apply, but I think it's important to mention that quite a bit of it is outdated. Basically, imagine you're reading a book on Kubernetes from a few years ago. Still applicable, but some of the details and API interfaces will have changed.
Austrian here. In my experience, good Bohemien food is hard to come by outside of where it's customary. Even in joints that don't seem to be money laundering.

I've had a similar experience with fellow classmates at a small osteria in Vienna we used to frequent when skipping English classes. But the food was actually decent and very cheap. But we never saw any other patrons.
It will be in 2027 and, unless you plan to run a SaaS that sells Dragonfly (like AWS), then it's Open Source for you today. (The license is Business Source License[0])

0: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/blob/main/LICENSE.m...
It has the same look as the HN guidelines.

Reader mode seems to work on the HN guidelines page, but not on this page, although the markup appears to be the same. Not sure what's up with that.
Yeah, this quote from the article made me groan out loud:

> I've had a role to play in removing a megaton of carbon from the atmosphere every week

You're not removing it, you helped create the thing that was putting it there in the first place, and fixed your mistake! It's still there, it's just not getting worse now.
Wow, that's a pretty weird misinterpretation of the data. My understanding is that almost 30% of the Israeli population refused to get vaccinated for religious reasons, which (even if you could make robust inferences from a chart like that) would throw the whole theory into doubt.
Why? Wiki doesn't say anything about it and when I run it, the result looks fine

> $ for((i=1;i<10000;i+=1)); do cat /dev/urandom | od -N 1 -An -i | awk '{print $1 % 10 + 1}' >> rand.txt ; done

> $ cat rand.txt | sort | uniq -c

1051 1
932 10
1012 2
1042 3
983 4
1015 5
1042 6
1035 7
992 8
995 9
Having read your article, I still don't understand one part. The claim that the honest validators in the face of a malicious superminority can eventually leak them out, but a malicious supermajority cannot do the same to an honest superminority. I figure there would need to be some other mechanism that would tip the balance in favor of the honest validators, otherwise it seems like majority should always win.
On the flip side a company may want to buy a bulk license so that it is available for free to all their developers.

You don’t want Bob being less productive just because he didn’t want to spend $10 a month.
What a silly take considering all these models use GPUs for inference in a highly parallel fashion.
In France, some banks have created a group and offer NFC payment via phone in their own app (for Android)[0]. They are not working with Google Pay.

So I have no risk of some company unrelated to my banking erasing my digital existence and making me unable to pay.

[0] https://www.paylib.fr/paiement-sans-contact/
Verified users shouldn’t be allowed to change their name without approval ideally. Guess it’s just too much work for the company.
5 years is quite significant and I would say that the progress reached a steady point around 2-3 years ago. There was likely much more difference between the 7 and the X than between the latter and 13
In 1936 they made a movie called "Circus" [0], very popular in the Soviet Union, summarised here [1]. It is about a white woman protecting her half-black child from racist villains. It was a personal favourite of Stalin's. Note that this is High Stalinism, not 1920s USSR.

Just thought I'd put that out there, for no particular reason whatsoever.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028420/

[1] https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0015985/
[0] "A network fee of 2.5% (with a cap of $500) will be deducted from your investment amount for settlement, custody, and trading costs associated with your payment in USDC". Very cheap indeed.

[1] [2] Blockchains offer no guarantees off-chain. Everything that happens in the real world boils down to the oracle problem. You need trusted third parties in supply chains, a cryptographic signature would essentially achieve the same thing.
> Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems for a defense contractor whose corporate offices feature the sign, "The future begins tomorrow"

That’s an interesting slogan, as I’d have thought that “the future begins today” seems more innovative. The future beginning tomorrow seems a bit of a tautology and procrastination.
It's not about the loan at that point. It could be a wrong account number, or a wrong amount (e.g. https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/01/australia-crypto-com-accident... ) and Bob would still be liable if Bob moved the money out and was unable to return it.
Could someone explain how? I don't grok the command. My best guess is this relates to hexadecimal.
Electricity production at any point in time must match electricity consumption, that's literally how the electricity grid works.

Price is them somewhat affected by this and many other factors.
That's what peeked my interest in crypto in the first place, and is also the reason I am no longer on that bandwagon.

Because you don't really own it in web3 either. Until normal people get comfortable with self hosting their own stuff there will always be gate keepers and places where governments can apply pressure.

You don't really own your crypto coins unless you have your own wallet on your own hardware (with proper backups as well). And for most normal people even just that is too much.

And we are rapidly approaching a point where we don't really even own our hardware any more.

And everything else, that is build on top of that needs to run on top of some machine somewhere and unless you own it, you can't really rely on it. It's all encrypted so they can't steel from you (unless bugs), but they can also shut it down. Sure there are plenty(and jet still not enough) of nodes on ipfs system now. But many someone's need to run them and it's always possible that people will loose interest or economies will change and number of nodes goes down enough that it becomes practically unusable.

Same problem is with much of the other web3 stack. With few companies controlling much of the developers/stack and infrastructure needed.

Sure it's all open source and distributed, but even nowadays in early stages, before the masses come in, we are talking about lot of infrastructure needed to run everything.

And right now there are VC's putting billions in investments in this space, so having lots of infrastructure for "free" seems like it works. But sooner or later this people will want their money back, with interest, and regular people will be even more screwed, because this is completely unregulated (which is why VC's love it so much ) as a design principle.

On the other hand if you are technical enough to be able to self host your own stuff, boring old federated systems, like smtp, jabber , matrix, ... are a lot easier, cheaper, with a lot less moving part - easier to administer etc.

I am all for federated content and people owning their own digital features in their own hands and I think crypto chains are a distraction/overcomplication at best and could possibly be a trap for ultimate corporate walled gardens.

So my focus is on boring old self hosted federated services.
As a West Australian, all I can say as a representative of the rest of the country is: we know.
> Looking forward to seeing Bitcoin play a pivotal role in renewable energy infrastructure build-out and capturing flared and vented methane to be one of the biggest carbon-negative industries on the planet.

Crypto-talk is so similar to satire as to be indistinguishable.
You're pretending that tech is more important than the uses of that tech or the outcomes. Which is doubly ironic because the comment above compared Ethereum to Youtube and Netflix.

The 99.999999999% of use cases for Ethereum (or for Blockchains in general) can be easily handled if not by a single Raspberry Pi, but at least by a modern laptop. Because those use cases are currency speculation, buying useless shit, and asset hoarding.

The remaining arguably useful usecases are an exchange of IOUs.
Does this "30-40% hit" includes taxes already? Because that's the whole point of ML, right? Pretending that money came from legal sources means paying income taxes on them. Your last sentence is confusing in that regard.