skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time is fleeting. I made this android wallpaper so I would be reminded of that fact. Every time I look at my phone I think "am I doing what I really want to be doing? am I making the best use of my limited time?"

App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.machineryc...

Source code: https://github.com/ethanmdavidson/DeathProgress
This is FUD, titles don't disappear from your Ps5 library when they get delisted.

If you buy a single player game digitally you should continue to have access to it for the life of the console as long as you aren't banned for doing something like disputing a credit card charge. (Which admittedly is a concern.)
How to Develop Good Taste
Of course not! The my parent's company is completely in the wrong, and running an online advertising business with a "pretend they're not there" approach to bots is a terrible idea. I'm just saying it's nowhere near as easy as my parent seems to expect.
It is false, members of the Bitcoin core team have already said as much - that in order for the base network to continue functioning, inflation will need to take place.

More than that, the supply is essentially infinite right now. You can already see this in the boom and bust cycles where AOSS (any old s*tcoin) will rise and fall in tandem - this indicates that any large moves draw speculators to those tokens they subjectively view as less or more expensive.

The biggest issue with this ultimately is that for Bitcoin to succeed, civilisation has to fail. You can't tax an asset you can't see and account for transparently (pseudonymous wallets), so you can't have electricity networks, heating networks, schools, police, military, welfare, public roads, running water, sewage, public facilities like libraries/museums, bursaries, national parks, ownership by right of any physical property whatsoever (there'd be no way to enforce physical ownership without public bodies, so essentially all ownership is decided moment-to-moment at the end of a gun last-of-us-style), or Bitcoin itself (as the public infrastructure supporting the network would not be maintained).
Having had economics classes in the past, I echo the teacher's feeling that economics is a somewhat stagnant or entrenched field.

I would further say that it is fairly ideological and terse up to being cryptic at times to some extent. Econometrics and how it's taught come to mind.

If you grant this assumption, I wonder how much students' lack of interest may come from the field's teachings clashing with a person's everyday life and experiences.
This is also related to one of those sharp edges of Emacs that can cut you. "C-x c" is pretty close to "C-x C-c", which is the shortcut to exit Emacs. If for some reason, you DID mean to type "C-x c", it's easy to let your Ctrl finger linger a little too long and hit "C-x C-c" instead. And since x and c are next to each other on a US keyboard, it's also very easy (for me) to hit x and c at the same time with a single finger motion. The odds go up since so many actions start with "C-x"

(setq confirm-kill-emacs 'y-or-n-p)
is one of the most important configs to start with, IMO. Or if you don't want to learn/use elisp, the equivalent Customize setting:

Options > Customize Emacs > Top-Level Customization Groups > Convenience > Confirm Kill Emacs
Very motivating! Thanks!
Ads, military and porn, the three pillars of the internet!
Or those who have better social skills are more likely to have imaginary friends, because they are more interested in social interactions.
Do you have sources for your cost numbers (trillions, billions, etc.)?

In particular I am skeptical of the idea that all the preparations taken only cost in the billions of dollars range. And the idea that COVID itself (opposed to the government response to COVID, i.e. shutdowns) have cost trillions.
Thanks for that. I look at the situation from a different angle - having a young son I put so much daily effort for him to end up in a life that he's happy with, whatever that may turn out to be. I'd hate for him to be ever held back his parents.

Im not saying that this move was not the right choice for him, but it's definitely not a general advice.
I’m in a similar boat — I am a founder and YC alum who became disabled a few years ago and I can’t currently work in a sustainable way. I want to work my way back very much.

For me, the rule is to keep making progress. If I’m always making progress I’ll eventually end up in the other side of this thing.

I push myself as far as I sustainably can in my current condition. I read papers and I do my best to control my medical narrative and experience. I try every new (or new to me) thing that I think might help. I just push and push and keep pushing.

It’s not unlike being a founder. Everything is two steps forward and one step back. Sometimes a new problem is just two steps back. In both cases you have to plow forward on your own and make a path where none (or almost none) exists.

Edit: feel free to drop me an email if you want to talk to someone about it, it’s in my profile.
4 CPU cycles is too slow? Because SHA256RNDS2 is 4 clock cycles on Zen3 CPUs. 6 clock cycles on Intel Alder Lake (12th gen).

Source is the measurements here: https://uops.info/table.html
That was part of the joke (I meant macro on the right hand side, not micro), but will concede I am not a terribly funny person.

I think micro is much easier/more intuitive personally (I think you are projecting a bit saying anything in intro macro has clear usefulness in running a business or investing). But I am sure you could make macro more relevant/interesting than what I took in school as well via clearer analogies to current situations.
I‘m not surprised, I always thought Crypto will actually boom the most in places with the lowest trust in government and money, BUT having internet infrastructure in place. Countries with better systems of trust have less a need for another source of trust.
Wrong. Astrazeneca delivered. Japan didn't need them all.

> Japan has since canceled a contract for 62.3 million doses, and of the already acquired supply, it gave some 44 million doses to other countries free of charge. The remaining doses have been thrown out.
I didn't claim they made perfect products - but they do make products that tend to stick around and work well with each other.

I don't use iCloud with Keynote myself, but those sort of sync issues always happen in multiuser apps that also allow offline editing (e.g. I get the same conflicts in O365 with Powerpoint because they are inevitable if you are allowing offline editing).
> Why would we want to regress?

Because of the allegory of the cave. We animals have spent a billion years struggling to survive in the face of cruel scarcity, we've built all our systems and societies around the notion of managing scarcity and allocating scarce resources, and now that we're faced with a legitimate instance of post-scarcity our animal brains reject it.
Both

> other cryptocurrencies which function better than Bitcoin in every aspect

and

> Block lattice tech has been around for seven years now, utterly disproving that statement

are false statements of fact. To date, there have been no alternatives to bitcoin that are functioning better than bitcoin, because Bitcoin remains the most secure, most scarce digital asset. All other chains attempt to improve certain metrics at a cost of either decreasing decentralisation, increasing attack vectors/attack surface, or increasing the codebase complexity significantly.

> "People used to think the only way to enforce scarcity was by burning their planet to a fucking cinder, lol"

This is also an often debated point. The fact is that this is a multi-faceted discussion with a vast array of nuance and arguments to and fro. Yes, bitcoin is being mined on coal energy, also yes: Bitcoin is being used to reduce the amount of methane emissions.

Simply framing this as a "bitcoin uses energy" discussion and not a "bitcoin mining leads to carbon emissions" which is what the discussion actually should be is reason enough to scratch yourself on the head whether you are actively pushing biased arguments.

And yes, this discussion (Bitcoin mining leads to carbon emissions) is something most Bitcoiners have discussed and researched to a point where they can comfortably back this concept.
Currently working in ad tech. Your solution wouldn’t work today because so many current and upcoming privacy solutions being rolled out across platforms are run through a VPN or VPN-like service, and many with IP rotation. Many of the bots are using these services so that their IP appears as coming from a legitimate privacy service like Cloudflare.

The privacy service providers don’t have good incentives to attempt to identify which users are bots because it would undermine their privacy claims. Tough situation.

We do think we have a solution to this but it’s unlikely to last in a privacy arms race. There’s really only one logical place this ends with the ad model surviving, and it’s not pretty.
Housing market should crash through the floor AND private equity funded businesses barred from using housing as an investment vehicle.
We do have IPL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intense_pulsed_light) to stop growing hair where it's problematic.

We have hair transplants, not really a new thig.

For some woman washing hair is a hours long procedure applying various chemicals :)

Coloring is also "solved" a long time ago.

What do you miss?
Two points

- I think it's worth pointing out anyway, because in my experience white-collar workers - especially outside of areas like finance, where they do get a lot of compliance training - often seem to be of the impression that their work is far removed from what could eventually be considered crime

- Hands-on workers can absolutely be part of cyber crime schemes. Money mules, various packing, collection and delivery activities, intimidation,... can be important parts of the cyber crime 'supply chain'
funny that a school assignment boosted your revenue and SEO lol
It's much more than exchanges and miners as exemplified by the 2017 block size war, won by the users.

The scenario you are describing - while possible in principle - is unlikely. Stakeholders understand that scarcity and change-resistance is Bitcoin's very definition. Take that away and there is no value left, Bitcoin becoming another malleable shitcoin.
That was my first thought too. But that headline will make for a lot of clicks, so there’s that.
Transaction fees currently makes up 1-2% of the reward and don’t seem to be growing.
That reminds me of a video that I watched a few months ago about how an earlier generation of PlayStation got jailbroken very late in its lifecycle because Sony decided to disable Linux (or something like that, I don’t remember). As long as that feature was available, nobody cared to hack the console because they could do what they want, but as soon as Sony pulled the feature, the console was hacked in a very short time.
because for many its impossible to conceive of value in any other sense than imposed by the market. As the saying goes, it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, even if that means doing to computation what is essentially the equivalent of driving around with the brakes pulled.

just take the hexagonal twitter NFT profile pictures on twitter. Are hexagons in short supply? Pictures of monkeys? So why can't everyone have one? Because the entire value proposition is other people not having one for no rational reason.
One man's bullshit is another woman's compelling, rewarding effort. I imagine Musk deals with plenty of bullshit in order to keep his organizations focused on the compelling goals he feels are essential. Ramping the model 3 or getting the original falcon into orbit for the first time come to mind.
It came out around time of the XT and AT, XT - being EXtended Technology, AT being Advanced Technology and both x86 PCs in effect. RT being Risc Technology and the birth of AIX, which I worked on back then. Was used in buisness, and I worked in reinsurance in which it was used. EVentually it got replaced by the RS/6000 line which was a the birth of the Power CPU, which we still have today.

One thing though, 5 1/4 in floppy OS installations on the RT was a real PITA, more so if you found a later disc was corrupted, get new one from supplier only to find their master copy was corrupted so you just got another corrupted disc, really chocolate teapot waiting for kettle to boil moment that.

They did well in finance, as they had good communication interfaces and things like SNA was a seller for linking to their mainframes and AS/400's systems, then then there was good serial handling via multiple ports.

The IBM RS/6000's came out around time of the PS/2 phase in IBM's life for a timeline comparison.

AIX2 was also a rewrite, as iirc AIX1 was written in prolog! Something like that. Back then for comparison, there was no Sun, you had VAX, and main alternative UNIX box of that time I encountered was the NEC Tower sorry not much more details but another common Unix platform of the time, though a little later on. Then around the RS/6000 time you had HP with it's HPUX come about and then Sun. Interesting times, but darn nobody wants to ever have to worry about termcap or terminfo, let alone link two different systems up for UUCP.

Alas no old documents left of that era my end, some later RS/6000 stuff, but buried.

BYTE was great, loved that, also UNIX World was another good mag of that early era that I lamentably miss.
That's not a meme, that's a joke.
I used to own a digital agency. I had a client who was the 80 year old CEO of a 120 year old military contractor. He sat through a meeting where his 27 year old marketing manager and I walked through advertising metrics for digital ads. At the end he said,

“This is all very interesting, and will be helpful for Kelly (the marketing manager). I’m going to decide if we renew next year with this: increase in sales divided by ad spend. I’m looking for a number greater than 3.”
$1.26 million fine for someone with a $1.8 billion net worth is like fining a millionaire $700.

You’re not going to change their behavior.
While it's true that the vanishing block subsidy will cause security issues within several decades, solutions cannot involve breaking the 21M limit that is the core essence of Bitcoin.
Must be great to have objectively correct tastes
Bitcoin is digital scarcity only if you ignore the reality of how easily it can be and has been cloned.

Anyone can easily create their own fully functional variant --- even Kim Kardashian can do it.

Simply being scarce doesn't make something valuable. The real facet that makes money both scarce and valuable is *consensus*. Allowing anyone to create their own is an absurd and self defeating way to reach a *consensus*.
The author seems to argue that the Bitcoin hard cap (i.e. the 21M limit) is as inalienable as a law of nature. But it's not. Even if it's in the code itself, it's made by humans who can build consensus around a change in the future. The decentralized nature of Bitcoin might help prevent or delay this, but if there are sufficient incentives for a majority of miners/contributors, changes to rules could occur.
Eh, it depends. Every hobby has its benefits and its drawbacks.

I learned a ton of English, strategy, stress management, shortcut keys, programming and whatnot from games. Some games also took a lot of my sanity, sleep, relationships with living beings, etc. :)

Don't feel bad enjoying a hobby. The universe is your playground.
> Tata's vehicles may undergo some price inflation, but they're not suddenly going to become $50k vehicles intended for the US market.

I get that, and I get the car mentioned will probably never even get close to $30k+USD equivalent.

> As for Tesla, why on Earth would they bother selling a $35k car when they're having trouble keeping the $45k one in stock?

As for Tata, what if they similarly can't keep the 8.5 lakhs version in stock? Why would you bother selling it for 8.5 if your entire output of those cars could sell for 9.5 or 12 lakhs? What's the secret sauce that means Tata can manufacture infinite cars while everyone else is seemingly so supply limited? How are you so sure Tata won't experience the same kinds of pressures Ford and Tesla and everyone else seems to be experiencing IRT making EVs?
For many things, scarcity will always exist. But with the rise of the digital age, many things that were once scarce are now post-scarce. Our society is still coming to grips with this notion.
It’s such horrible logic. So the way to make fossil fuels green is to make them even more valuable? Ok, sure, let’s place the value so high that burning or using them in any non-sustainable/recyclable/fully contained way is infinitely costly.
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The vaccines are very effective in preventing severe illness and death. That's an enormous success, especially if you consider the speed of development.

The difficulty of developing vaccines varies a lot depending on the characteristics of the virus. For some we still can't manage to do this, others we have fully or mostly eradicated by vaccines already. There are ideas for vaccines that might help to also prevent infection with the newer COVID variants, e.g. the nose spray vaccines. But those have to be funded and developed, and that seems rather slow right now.
> It's much more than exchanges and miners as exemplified by the 2017 block size war, won by the users.

Was it? Did you get to vote on that? Or was it decided by a handful of pools and large players?

> The scenario you are describing - while possible in principle - is unlikely.

Whether it's likely or not is beside the point. It's possible in theory, therefore (and this is my main point here) the digital scarcity of bitcoin is not some emergent mathematical property of the universe, it's a social phenomenon.

However unlikely, it only takes a critical mass of people to change their minds and it can be changed. The article talks about this property as if it is something akin to a hard universal property or mathematical axiom, but it's not, it's a very human property and very malleable as a result.
Somehow, despite being on Twitter 870 hours a week,

people write stuff like this and then act surprised when their candidate is not elected president.
I see no reason to outright dismiss Sokrates' analysis, nor the professor's, who is giving quantifyable data (deteriorating grades, grade inflation) and mentioning plausible issues (deteriorationg attention spans).

The world is constantly changing and influencing each upcoming generation, for the better or worse, and Sokrates considered this issue important enough to discuss.
JWST launch cost was 0 for NASA for european access to the instrument. https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/jwst-is-ready-for-launch-...
> Typically, professors announce office hours during which they will be available to answer questions, so this is not an issue.

Saying something once or even a couple times that is at odds with the listener's inherent behavior doesn't count as communicating.

Insisting it does sounds like the type of out of touch professors GP is talking about.
"interrete"

Heh.
There are a number of retorts to this comment where you posted it elsewhere in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33066160
A Eurozone-wide system is really lacking here.
Prior thread on hacking competition:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33041733

Within that thread I posted links per video to related content, including official Google blog posts, open source code, etc:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33046349
> To quote LBJ, "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, ‘You are free to compete with all the others,’ and still justly believe that you have been completely fair." That's what Kendi is saying, and he's completely right.

My problem with this quote is it intentionally ignores the plight of anyone who has nothing and isn't African American. Kendi's approach is an inherently selfish one and that's what makes it so polarising.

The answer to the societal issue of wealth disparity is not to give the poor of one racial group an advantage over the poor of another. It's to actually address the source of the problem in a manner agnostic to race. Doing anything else only serves to stoke division and racism.
The threat of nukes was already done by putin. I don't know how many more warnings he will be willing to give, but if putin's regime wants to "wipe clean" a front line, I don't think they will give the ukrainian army time to move away.
more like
steam deck user: hey can i nuke steam os, install windows and play games and dual boot and and add a water cooled nvme drive and water cooler and replace broken parts with aftermarket parts?
valve: lol, go ahead. its your machine, do whatever you like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabant_killers
It would destroy a nascent financial system that would empower billions of people in the world. You are basically saying: a baby dying in their cradle wouldn't generate as much impact as a harvard professor dying. Well, it wouldn't, but if that child would have been the next Newton or Einstein, the world is still significantly poorer for it.
Huh, hadn't thought of that, same in my experience in the UK - 'jab' rather than 'shot', but same thing.
Waste wood for power is fine.

Similarly other biomass from agricultural waste is good.

Key word here is waste, because it'll naturally be cheaper and more efficient to use animal droppings or the inedible bits of food crops or post-consumer food waste or sawdust or offcut branches that are only going to be dumped in a way that releases methane. This can make them GHG negative, and so better than even renewables, though they can't scale as much so they're only part of the solution.

If that primary forest was sold and cleared to make planks, then that might be a problem for Canada to look into, but people using the waste from the process is not.

The article tries to imply that the whole forest was clear cut and burned for power but they don't actually state that, presumably because it's not true. It would be a much bigger scoop if it was.

Once we get rid of the need to burn stuff for power by rolling out more renewables, it'll probably still make sense to process waste biomass via pyrolysis to achieve carbon removal.
> > Ethereum (functioning as a distributed VM: boring, and funded by VCs: double boring)

> [...] Many enforce scarcity and are non-programmatic, without being "boring".

The word "boring" has a very not obvious meaning here. Clearly there's nothing boring about Ethereum, since it's a high-stakes experiment involving computer science, economics and a lot of money. Ethereum is really "too interesting".

> [...] huge amount of energy [is] completely unnecessary to the enforcement of scarcity. Saying otherwise is a harmful lie - you've been duped.

Care to back that up?

To my knowledge, PoW offers an unambiguous measure of what block to bet on.

On the other hand, PoS is either subvertible (capable of being overthrown), or subjective (not objectively verifiable) when determining what block to bet on.

Maybe you are referring to a proof-of-something-else-entirely.

> Acting as if [Bitcoin's] so-call "organic" emergence puts it ahead of subsequent evolutions is bizarre

I totally agree.

Bitcoin's origin is atypical in that there weren't widely adopted cryptocurrencies before it.

Any subsequent cryptocurrency happened in the light of Bitcoin. But a hype train is a hype train, and there was one for Bitcoin. It just didn't enter with an ICO or a similar financing model delivering promises, which makes it seem less scammy.
Obviously the variants make the situation much more complicated, that's why I cited the overview page of the CDC. Please don't cherry-pick the lowest figure you could find, this is highly misleading. Even for adolescents and Omicron, the studies find a very robust reduction in severe disease and hospitalization.
I tried this and had very little success.

I just switched to a double edge safety razor and never looked back.