skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a documented instance of a game being removed from an account's library after being licensed via the online store?
Three main issues with Bitcoin: high energy cost and e-waste, fixed supply cap which incentivizes hoarding, and long-term security budget concerns.
> ... or any other blockchain (which basically is just trying to copy Ethereum).

#notallblockchains!

The privacy-focused blockchains generally resemble Bitcoin + zero-knowledge:

UTXO-based, commitment schemes instead of a shared, public global state.
The concrete is just to prevent internal punctures, and provide rigidity in case of punctures. Probably spray foam would serve as well.
Most people can be often wrong.
As for EVs, I don't think there's much development to be done, save for batteries - the powertrains are dead simple, and we have been building electric motors for longer than ICEs.

And the thing with battery technologies is that there is quite a bit of stagnation as there has been very little improvement in power density - higher densities, and safer chemistries that can do more cycles are still the subjects of research, and it's still a question of 'if' and not 'when' that a given promising technology (like solid state batteries) will pan out.

There are multiple solutions - plug-in hybrids, which Toyota makes can almost match EVs for emissions for a lot of people. I, for example commute about 30km per day, and take longer trips only every 2 weeks or so, and well made ICE engines have such a low emission for long trips that combined with the rarity of use, make their environmental impact negligible.
it's artificial scarcity, only if people believe in that notion of scarcity and can get others to believe in in it too. This continues until people start to think that it can't go up forever and people sell their holdings, some sooner than others. Thus goes the hype cycle of such things.

By contrast, holdings connected to the real economy are easier to reason about, as there is evidence all around as to how well things are doing.
Not to mention it can break stuff. If QA tested everything with the debug stuff being on the console but temporarily hidden, that's how you want to deploy it as well, otherwise you're gonna have retest and surely fix a bunch of stuff before deploying.

Yes yes, systems should not act like that, probably means everything is too tied together. But real world systems do act like that, especially in things with not too high stakes and with high focus on shipping stuff quickly.
> Discrimination, violence, and hatred are antisocial behaviors. They need to be reduced in a way that is just and fair and effective. Forgiveness is none of those.

The key thing for me is we give people the opportunity to change. This doesn't necessarily mean that there shouldn't be consequences. Only that the consequences are proportionate and finite.

In my opinion, hostility towards people who have made mistakes is a major problem that holds the left back. Identity politics has been very successful in driving a wedge between groups that would otherwise have very similar economic and class interests. I don't believe that was a mistake.
Bitcoin having an unfair wealth distribution isn't a problem beyond just that; early adopters were heavily subsidised for the risk they were taking. Unlike under a Fiat standard, that uneven distribution doesn't benefit them beyond having many Bitcoin; they can't use those Bitcoin to create more Bitcoin, increasing the gorge between rich and poor.

Even the most hard-core hodler from the 2010 era will eventually start spending his/her coins, at which point the distribution evens out. Also; many of the coins from that era are lost because the keys are lost.
There is a lot of flatly wrong information there, sorry.

First off, there are other cryptocurrencies which function better than Bitcoin in every aspect - efficiency, speed, security. Many enforce scarcity and are non-programmatic, without being "boring".

> We know, without a doubt, that the only way to bring a valid bitcoin block into existence is by expending real energy in the real world.

That's not remotely true. Block lattice tech has been around for seven years now, utterly disproving that statement.

Bitcoin is using a huge amount of energy and it IS completely unnecessary to the enforcement of scarcity. Saying otherwise is a harmful lie - you've been duped.

> It emerged purely organically

Seriously? It "emerged" through a secretive pseudonym. No one can say whether it was even completely created by an individual, and not a secretive organization with ulterior motives.

Acting as if this so-call "organic" emergence puts it ahead of subsequent evolutions is bizarre, and I hope you can see that once it's pointed out. Would you claim the Wright brother's plane is more organic and therefore more long-lived as a design? Edison's lightbulb? How about version 1.0 of Windows? Is whale oil more organic and therefore better than fusion power?

Bitcoin will be around in a hundred years - in the museum of human folly. "People used to think the only way to enforce scarcity was by burning their planet to a fucking cinder, lol".
After decades of using VIM, then NeoVim, I now use Emacs with Evil. The old joke that Emacs is a terrific OS but missing a decent text editor is truer today more than ever.
I guess it's time to buy one!

That kind of news always increase sales, so they can benefit from it if they damage control correctly, a new model is just around the corner, so it's all good i guess
From my definition of white collar (office worker sitting on chair in front of computer all day), and blue collar (factory/shop/traveling/working with hands not computer), I would have thought white collar workers were the ones most likely capable of committing cyber crimes.
I think the sense in which that counts as 'voting' (in the sense of a democratic political system) is only analogous in such a distant tenuous way that it is really a poor use of the word
Indeed, no one is telling you you have to or should do everything in Emacs.

But much like Linux itself was in the Windows 9x era, it is a gravity well for your attention, and you will want to do more and more with it if you can.
I've seen a gas station photo advertising $8/gal prices in the LA area. When that goes nationwide, the energy-intensive lifestyle of Americans will come to an end including driving 700 miles to a ball game and towing jet skis around.
> As an adult, you're making your own decisions and building your own family.

Yeah, this is 100% true. You can, and should, sever ties with abusive individuals where you have the power to do so.

You have the power to choose your family, but some people think it’s an unbreakable life bond and will try to guilt you for all eternity for disagreeing.
Your old man sounded like a legend to me. What a reply. I would have loved to have had a chat with him.

I hope you're finding peace and happiness in whatever you decided to do, friend.
It usually does apply to skilled labour, as the new worker will need to be trained to fill the position, with profit loss for the duration. Everything is a tradeoff.
Ez. The majority of miners vote to increase the number of Bitcoins. Don't worry it's just a small number and a one time thing. Maybe.

And for those purists out there Bitcoin classic will still be a thing! Sure nobody is using it and it's worth nothing...
I learned english and programming because of video games.
Hi,

thanks a lot for your hints and comments. Will look into "learning the hard way". Much appreciated!
This guy has another article where he discusses AP economics (college level econ taken in high school with a test at the end that can be applied for college credit) as being superior to undergrad econ 101. I think that's an interesting position to write about. I tend to agree. My decade past high school experience found the AP courses were excellent. I did almost a dozen of them.

https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2022/09/ap-economics-is-a-mo...

I think most of his points in the featured article are missing the point even if his thesis is generally correct. In my memory, most students were pretty poor. Lots of them did not understand how to learn. They tried to get through class and make up for it later, and then found that hard, and so they gave up, then scraped by because the classes themselves weren't really all that hard and you could do fine without understanding it. I can't imagine this guy's econ 101 is very different.

Now imagine that cohort after a couple years of being half tuned into remote learning classes? Yeah they probably suck at school. I only learned how to be a student in the last couple years of high school. If I was instead just playing video games while half listening to a zoom for those two years I'd probably be a lot worse off too.
Ah yes. Bringing democracy democracy, but also arming terrorists just in case people vote incorrectly. How not to be grateful for this?
Please note that Bitcoin's energy consumption is nothing compared to other industries, and that it is rapidly becoming a net carbon negative industry because of the use of miners to prevent methane emissions.
Do people still think the free market is so great at allocating scarce resources given the lived experience of the last few years?

Seems to me that market participants at many different levels needed a fair bit of help with their reaction to events recently. For example...

- vaccine designers were allocated additional resources to accelarate testing their designs
- in many countries, employers were allocated funds to retain employees to do nothing long enough to weather a period of reduced production
- currently in both US and Europe, the "free-market" price of energy is held down by a variety of centrally controlled measures

It's not like these measures are taken by "lefty" governments either. Taking the example of the UK because that's where I live, the last two cabinets have been full of the authors of Britainnia Unchained, a document that argues Britain needs to adopt a "far-reaching form of free market economics".

The questions I have lately (as an Economics graduate myself) are....

Would things would have turned out better if only those in power had held their nerve and let the market do it's thing? (e.g. allow vaccine development to continue unassisted by government grants, massive unemployment as people voluntarily changed behavior in response to the pandemic, energy bills that rise from taking up 1/12th to 1/3rd of a family's disposable income).

Or are that the events of the last few years are so unprecedented that they merited a market intervention whereas for "normal" events, the market will respond better than centrally planned decisions.

Will the next few years be full of unprecedented events? Or will we be back to "normal" if/when the war in Ukraine is over.

Is the free-market allocating enough resources to solving the problem of climate change?
By the time you buy it, the patch will be out already.
I think the idea is that you can have everything else, and non-bullshit work with a bit of effort.
Seems like short term thinking. Our descendants are just not gonna be good stewards of an energy asceticism regime.
you can start your own startup, be your own boss and earn loads of money

but to get there you need much more dedication and smart work than you currently do as employee

so, instead of trying that, you choose to lease 8 hours a day to a corporate overlord

you will earn money, but no legacy and no respect
I mean, every professor sets aside time for office hours, but ignoring them while you are getting in bad shape in a class is a time-honored tradition.
I've recently begun reading Harari's Sapiens. Does Dr. Pääbo's research throw any light unto the interbreeding/replacement debate regarding extinct humans?
> Simple, they switched to the webextension API a few years ago as it makes development of extension across browsers much easier.

Great idea to prioritize interop when the people who you're trying to interop with are gulping large chunks of your userbase. Very important to make sure that Firefox had parity with Chrome in extensions, the only area where Firefox previously had a massive advantage over Chrome.
They also rejected the Chinese and Russian vaccines. China and Russia are pretty much as much of an ally as North Korea is gonna get.
The only difference is the general public's perception. What you assert as fact is not scientific.
Bitcoin is scarce by consensus, and not your consensus as the small-scale hodler. It is scarce by the consensus of the major players in the bitcoin ecosystem - large mining outfits and a handful of major exchanges.

Such players could come to a consensus that the scarcity rules don't work for them, and may do so in future if, for instance, they decide that block rewards are too low. Sure, it would be a hard fork, but if the major players decided to go with it, the small players would be dragged along, or they could cling on to "Bitcoin classic" and see a major drop in the value of their coins.

The ending line here is pure grandstanding-

> (BTC) transcends all other monies that came before it, by introducing something that cannot be improved upon further, something that did not and can not exist in the physical world: absolute limitation via zero terminal inflation.

BTC scarcity is not some emergent property of the universe, it is a property of a protocol. A protocol controlled by people, some of whom have disproportionate amounts of power over the system. You have exchanged trust in a government for trust in a shadowy and unnaccoutable group of loosely connected wealthy folks. Best of luck with that.
Bitcoin is rapidly turning into a net carbon negative industry because of using bitcoin miners to prevent methane release into the atmosphere. It is literally the single best solution to make prevention of methane emissions in landfills and trapped oil wells profitable.
I credit Diablo 2 for helping me understand crypto very early on, and now I'm basically retired. Guess all that time spent playing wasn't wasted.
Hydrogen makes sense for semi-trucks and cargo transport - which are incidentally responsible for a huge chuck of ICE emissions.

That means even if we can't quite build out the infrastructure for civilian use, and the fuel cells are too expensive for the average Joe, we can still convert semi trucks to hydrogen use.
> I wonder how many times a student has taken time out of their day to trek across campus to the professor's office only to find the professor away, or head-down busy grading papers, or just about to leave?

Typically, professors announce office hours during which they will be available to answer questions, so this is not an issue.

From a professor's perspective, online options for tutoring students are vastly inferior. Helping a student understand a concept is interactive: you must ask the student questions, listen to their explanations, and formulate explanations to give back to them. That is very difficult in a text-based medium, particularly in a course involving mathematics or other things that don't really fit in plain text. (And while I can write LaTeX math quickly, my students cannot.)

You'll also often have multiple students asking questions. In person, it's easy to group together related questions, and to jump from student to student -- or to say "why don't you talk to Sarah, she's working on the same problem." In an anonymous online setting, you lose that, and students can't connect to each other.

I've used asynchronous online platforms like Piazza, and you lose all the opportunity to listen to students and figure out what exactly they're thinking. Instead you just provide a wall of text for them. And of course students learn to expect responses within hours at any time of day, including weekends, and start getting annoyed if you don't respond quickly to a question posted at 4am Saturday morning. You start to dread the Piazza notifications. Yes, you can set expectations and insist you only answer during certain hours, but other courses will have that one fanatical TA who answers at all hours, and so your students will still be annoyed.

edit: That being said, you're right about students being more willing to use anonymous options. When I lectured online due to COVID, and students could send a direct message to me in the Zoom chat, I got loads of questions. I had to learn to keep the chat open on a second monitor to follow the questions and respond in real-time. As soon as we switched back to in-person teaching, the questions stopped, and the class would just stare at me blankly if I asked if they had questions. But I'm not sure how to replicate that option in person.
I don’t disagree it’s clickbaity. It was just interesting even so. I now now dislike the author, but like the point.
If you don't care, don't post <3
This point is really bizarre:

> The expectations at the college or university level seem to be falling. In other words, the AP course has actually adapted more to changing and challenging economic conditions, particularly macroeconomic ones, than has the more stagnant college-level course.

How is it that a college has more stagnant material than a curriculum designed by a bureaucracy? This sounds like a Davidson problem.
There are two numbers doing the rounds lately. One is 4000 - that's the number of weeks we have in our life. More specifically for most of us it might be the number of weekends and hence might make us think about how we recreate or best spend that time which we often look forward to.

The other number is 80000 referring to the hours we have in our average working life. Again it probably seems such a small number and yet so many of those hours are filled with less than productive tasks like attending meetings that we shouldn't, and we aren't making the most of those others to make sure our career is fulfilling and productive
All. The. Time.

Here is one website keeping track of it happening to various degrees: https://delistedgames.com/

Sometimes the game simply disappears from the store front but you can find it in your library. Sometimes it disappears from your library too, and you can request it via some process (https://delistedgames.com/get-your-games-back/). Sometimes you need to write the company in order to get a new key to whatever platform it is still available.

And sometimes it's just lost, with no recourse.
I don’t think anyone actually thinks it’s anything other than a joke. Hell, many Emacs users use a very complete Vim emulation package called Evil. In fact, the two most popular “pre-configured setups” are designed around Vim keys.
??? history does not care what is boring and what is 'backed by VCs'.

The most applicable things, those that people find useful and gain market share, will be used. How long they are used depends on other things.

Hopefully, Bitcoin will be seen for what it is in 10 or so years, an experiment gone awry, absorbing far too much time and talent, and in 100 years nobody will fathom what BTC was just as we don't remember the names of any 'spindle' manufacturers from 100 years ago.

Digital currency will surely exist.
You certainly got a radiation dose because of the town's 7300 foot elevation. But not from waste made by the lab.
VAERS is hilariously low quality. I can add an incident in it that says I turned into the incredible hulk as a side effect of ibuprofen.
> effluent

I dont think that is what you meant to say.

You were right, though.
Nice! System programming languages are having a revival.

I wonder if big companies will eventually rewrite their systems in those new languages. Will I live to see a Rust XNU/Linux/NT kernel?

What's certain is that the periphery is already being reworked - kernel modules in Rust, the shift to Swift, etc... Exciting times
Hi, not everybody talks about having an imaginary friend.
A friend of mine not only has an imaginary friend but a complete paracosm since early childhood. The paracosm is still maintained through imagination and writing and a very personal matter, furthermore the person has an internal dialogue going to discuss issues. I sometimes overhear my friend talking (not to the imaginary friend, but to a copy of himself); appearently it's helpful.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/smarter-living/benefits-o...

As far as I can tell it's not trauma induced, the person is neurodivergent though, intelligent, a good parent, counselor and has a healthy and developed ego. We sometimes speculate about the parallels with a religious outlook as it's a personally experienced living and breathing reality (I'm a bit jealous of), there is no claim to an objective reality apart from our consensus reality.

About paracosm: "The creator of a paracosm has a complex and deeply felt relationship with this subjective universe, which may incorporate real-world or imaginary characters and conventions. Commonly having its own geography, history, and language, it is an experience that is often developed during childhood and continues over a long period of time, months or even years, as a sophisticated reality that can last into adulthood.[1]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracosm
> Young people can be extremely sensitive to how they impose themselves on other people.

> Professors need to get with the times and make themselves available through channels that their students are more comfortable with

Let’s all do whatever the students believe it is more convenient for them, so they don’t have to impose themselves :-)

(For the benefit of young people who may confused about the timeline of technology in the dark ages, telephones were already quite popular in 1972.)
It is if you just don’t play current AAA games. I mainly do my gaming on a WiiU. Console and everything cost me $100 used. It plays pretty much every Nintendo game ever made short of the switch titles. Games are very cheap and of high quality.
You can’t make dollars from dollars in any way that you cannot also do with BTC.
That's a pure lie, look who ended their backward combability promise? your buddy Microsoft

https://geekculture.co/xbox-ends-backwards-compatibility/
Building and Operating High-Fidelity Data Streams
Note that this can be forked into Bitcoin if this feature turns out to be very desirable.
There's really not much advice to give beyond applying for relevant jobs and learning as much as you can for a few years at a junior level. Importantly, stay curious and try to understand the full stack to at least a basic level of competency.

"Senior" (at least in my opinion) just means you're not going to need hand-holding. If a company is hiring a "senior" dev they tend to mean someone who is competent enough to get on with things on their own.

As soon as you feel you don't need hand-holding I'd start applying for senior positions, but like I say you really need a decent competency across whatever your tech stack is to do that. If you can't use the Linux command line and struggle with Git, but you're a great 3D engineer you're probably not senior enough.

I find it's all the stupid little skills that make a good senior dev. We had a senior frontend guy come to work at my place recently and it was a disaster because he wasn't familiar with basic Git commands and couldn't get his dev environment set up on his own. To be fair with him those weren't "frontend" skills, but skills any good senior dev doing the kind of work he was doing should have.

That said, it's okay to ask a few questions and not know everything, but those should typically be higher level questions - "what's your Git workflow?" not, "how do I use git?", for example.