skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some quotes about bitcoin from Jack Mallers in the video:

- "it's an abritrage on the trend" (multiple times)
- "humanity really found it's stride in inventing bitcoin"
- "we made and engineered the best version of <money>"
- "there's bitcoin and there's everything else"
- "a well engineered freedom fighting tool for our species"
- "gives everyone in the world real property rights secured by mathematics"
- "first monetary asset that we've been able to engineer with no natural issuer"
- "is a guaranteed fixed protected monetary policy and instrument"
- "accessible to everyone and equitable for everyone. no one has an advantage"

What? I have no idea what he's talking about because he never bothers to explain why bitcoin is pure magic and all other crypto is trash. He's just jumping on CNBC to hype his flavor or crypto for obvious reasons.
You fill in a form online (I think you can do it by post as well) and it's done.

There is a small chance they send someone over to check. They normally show up between 9-5, so if you're at work, chances are you'll never see them to let them in.

If you are home and they knock, you don't have to let them in. You can politely tell them to leave.

Or you can show them your TV and that it's not hooked up to an aerial. They'll ask if you use iPlayer, you say no and they leave you alone.

Source: lived in the UK, never paid for TV license. I let them in once to see what would happen.
I should move there immediately.
Very quickly skimming through the various chapters, it appears that content offers a gentle introduction to the topic. Attention has been made to provide clear and verbose explanations with supportive diagrams.

Comparable other "guides" that I have stumbled across is osdev101 [1] and "Writing an operating system from scratch" [2].

[1] https://github.com/tuhdo/os01/blob/master/Operating_Systems_...

[2] https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~exr/lectures/opsys/10_11/lectures...
Thanks so much for this! I guess because for my usage, most often I'm viewing photos and videos either via mobile or via my local directory (which is what gets synched to my nextcloud instance)...so i have not encountered some of these issues. But, now that you mention these, i tried a few, and see exactly what you mean. For me, it does not spell doom - though your list is spot on - because as noted i'm not getting hit too hard by most of these. But, this does help me because i am going to try nextcloud via Hetzner. Again, my goal is simply to lessen a few maintenance chores every month...so if i get a few cuts, maybe not so bad; especially since the Hetzner cost is quite fair. Thanks for your help; very informative and I'm very appreciative of your time and attention!!!
Equity based growth (eg startups) is much much smaller in $ amounts. There are like $140B in equity investment vs trillions in debt financing.
My goal is for market makers to quit publicly jerking themselves off over what great and noble people they are, since they're just useless scavengers.
I find this sort of discussion a bit too shallow and simple minded. What is Airbus supposed to do exactly? The author sort of implies that Airbus is somehow refusing to adapt or something.
But this is just not a good representation of reality. There are only two options to reduce carbon from aviation: 1. don't fly, 2. use synthetic fuels. The use of synthetic fuels is not really up to Airbus. They are not in the fuel business and they do not even build their own engines. So it's really not up to them at all as far as I can see.
That's a great article! 1) I'd seen a lot of other cool stuff from the same author over the years (see https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/README.html), but had somehow missed this one.

1) "Struggles with the Continuum" by John Baez
Wasn’t this debunked? Kids in China, when asked what they want to be when they grow up, overwhelmingly say influencer.
It's missing a top-level dang comment saying:

"This has been discussed before in these threads:

2013 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661

2014 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661

2015 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661

2016 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661

2017 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661

2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661

2019 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661

2020 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661

2022 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661"
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Fair, however modern sensor and control mechanics are much better than they were 50 years ago. If the media is to be believed, we're reaching the end of a fighters ability to defeat a missile through anything other than kinematics/stealth.
I think this take is a misunderstanding of the conversation. What they were discussing was the “Phillip Morris” question that he was asked earlier this year. Like if it’s so cheap to save peoples lives in poor areas with endemic malaria (which has some issues but I think most likely is close to true, donating to the AMF is probably one of the least weird and most likely to hold up EA ideas, better than all x-risk stuff) then why not kill 100 westerners (with tobacco, or whatever) to save 10,000 people elsewhere? And in interviews he was like, well you can’t do that heh heh heh, but uh, if he was raised a utilitarian, uh, well, why not? You’ve got some additional framework? And later interview was him saying, no, not actually, kill the westerners.

Which is a take you could hear from utilitarians, an-prims, and the tiny but not non-existent eco-fascists. It’s definitely one of those I am enlightened/logically superior takes that often reveals more about the person saying it than they think.
This comment lacks basic understanding of a human as an inherent whole of attitudes and values, and how these relate to actions, and in particular to the cognitive dissonance emerging from past actions.
I have written something about this which says SOA is quite the middle ground. https://architecturenotes.co/granularity-of-systems/
Yeah that’s rubbish.

Not exactly the same but I’ve had a few LAN parties with 0ad. It’s still in alpha and lags up during the mega battles , but that’s been pretty fun too, watching armies crash together is slow motion when u finally throw everything at each other.

I’d definitely recommend 0ad for a small 3-4 player LAN party.

0ad.com
> It’s quite strange feeling like a “foreigner” in your home country

It's a bizarre feeling. I visited the UK in 2014 after being away since 2007. I felt so odd and displaced there, I couldn't wait to leave again. Not a reflection on the place, although I was disappointed by how unfriendly people were - almost like all the friendly Brits have left and are the ones I meet overseas.
Bad food and portion sizes carry most of the blame for obesity. You can be a gym nut and still addicted to technology though.
Unfortunately IRC has failed to keep up with the U/X of centralized chat services like discord which is a shame because an open protocol chat seems needed for the internet.

Why does open protocol usually mean crippled U/X?
I played around with Ergo and Kiwi IRC some months ago.

https://github.com/ergochat/ergo

https://github.com/kiwiirc/kiwiirc
To be fair they do have layer 2 to roll up more transactions, it’s just I think even with that it’s not a lot.
By "a couple" I meant something like several thousand. A tiny minority within the entire population.

How many are, for example, the Saudi princes? Five thousand or so?
This feels like an uncalled for ad-hominem attack. Also, I might be in the minority, but I actually _like_ brew?
Bolsonaro has authorized a transition...what do these people expect to achieve, lol

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazilian-court-order...
Very much so. Those who can afford it are going to go solar and batteries as soon as they can, and those who can't will be exposed to this low level of electrical service until solar and battery cost declines meet them at their socioeconomic level. The resulting system will be more resilient end state, but the process is going to suck to get there.

The average house in South Africa uses 967 kWh of electricity per month. That's roughly a 5kw-6kw system, or 12-15 400W solar panels + inverters. Payback period at current prices is ~6-7 years.

https://www.myggsa.co.za/how-much-electricity-does-a-househo...

https://www.handymanhomes.co.za/energy-saving/how-much-will-...
Even the idea that the U.S. could promptly launch a kinetic weapon into geostationary orbit is a bit fanciful.
I don't think that African dictators are rejecting reason and evidence in the course of administrating their corruption, although they might reject evidence of corruption in public.
Usually I like BBC's More or Less but their episode[1] on this situation really rubbed me the wrong way. They dismissed one elderly white couple's concerns with implied racism and didn't look at the trendline of per capita output from Eskom.

Any South African currently living there is completely unsurprised by this latest news.

[1]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07jm2zy
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It is all individual. One can find good and bad examples in either country. But one can't make generalization based on "I know someone".
All of this talk of regulation (or in this case, lack of it) reminds me that the US has repeatedly refused to allow an audit of our gold reserves.

Why?
He is okay siding with the Republican party, which is extreme right wing. US politics has a right wing party (the Democrat) and an extreme right wing party (the Republicans). Both of them incorporate a version of (neo)liberalism; they differ mostly on their social policies.

Regardless of his political affiliations, the guy's fortune is built on family wealth from south African emerald mines, and he's a billionaire. It's about as far from the left as you can go, which places him in the extreme right.
People fear their living standards will have to be degraded to that level. It’s not true though.

Those country comparisons are totally idiotic because they produce the wrong fears. Example: look at that table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di... , Switzerland is 4.8 tons and a third of the US. I like the US but Switzerland is another scale for quality of life on most metrics.

Air travel is one of the few things that’s hard to fix, but for example I can’t understand why everyone won’t buy an EV, that’s basically 99% the same as an ICE car and even better in many aspects. Probably less meat, that will make food cheaper and people will live longer. Else all pretty much the same. Hell, nothing can beat renewables at the moment. They are 4-5x cheaper than fossil fuels. So we’ll be richer with renewables, well save trillions in insurance and I have no clue how people can still thing fossil fuels are the way. Inform yourselves and start to think about the near future, not the past. Stop being a passive fossil fuel lobby repeater.
HN is also text only and it's the way I like it.
I don't find this parody funny at all because the site doesn't work without JS plus it's taking over my scrollbar. Not at all smooth in Firefox 3.11 with everything except HTML disabled.
The worst bit is that football is literally poor people's sport around the world. FIFA has a responsibility to bring the popular sport everywhere , especially in the developing world. This is bringing it to a petrocountry taking advantage of the poor.

The worst defense of Qatar that i 've heard was defending the uber-rich country on grounds of anti-europeanism.

EDIT: i got it mixed up, it was not from taleb but from Branko Milanovic: https://twitter.com/BrankoMilan/status/1593479684754444288
25 year old me wanted to go drinking with the boys every single night.

30 year old me doesn’t want that. Once every few weeks is enough for him.
They worked beautifully in East Asia too.

It was the other imports (Communism, Prussian-like militarism) that would be better discarded.
No, but I’m building it again. This time in rust. There’s some stuff on my GitHub to download data in bulk from the HN API
From the handful of RISC-V posts on HN over the years I'm surprised to learn that RISC-V is still so nascent—to the point that simply hosting a webpage on top of it is bleeding edge.

Is it being used for anything yet or is it mostly still in early development? Excuse my naivety, still excited for the tech. Great to see this progress regardless.

Edit: and the song on the site, sounds like Dominican Bachata, like Anthony Santos or something.
not without ssl
Some South African politicians are heavily into AIDS denial.
>Surely an outage is right around the corner.

Hahahahahaha
We've done gold-backed for centuries and it was far,far worse than fiat. Fiat has been extraordinarily successful.
I sometimes wonder what would the great dystopian writers of the 20th century make of the fact that people would one day say "hey telescreen, show me recipes for spaghetti" after buying it for the low low price of 49.99.
Weird how twitter is running just fine huh
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Gotta wake the computer up from sleep too. And be able to unmute and adjust the volume. And give non technical users the ability to use it. And support Apple’s old infrared remote. And. And and.
“There’s nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.”
Many, many people point this out but most of them don't seem to have much insight beyond the symptoms.

I've thought about the apparent paradox that I keep distracting myself with a phone/computer while also not getting any fulfillment out of it. Right now I think it is about self-loathing and hating my own company. I hated being undistracted since that meant more attention for my thoughts. Those nagging, awful thoughts.

I've also had some experience with meditation. I was never succesful. But I did manage to have the mini-insight that I am not my thoughts. So I didn't pick up meditation again but I did try to carve out some 10 minutes here and there where I just sat with myself, focused on the moment, and didn't look at my phone. I used to get super-annoyed at myself when I did this because my mind would always start to wander. But that mini-insight might have actually had some lasting effect, since now I was able to not get annoyed when I noticed myself -- um, I mean my thoughts -- just blahblahblahing. Because chatty mind is fine as long as you can observe it with detachment. At least at my level.

I don't know if it did anything, but it has correlated with a change in attitude towards these distractions. I now have better impulse control, am more optimistic, have more initiative, less irritable. And I have a better attitude and partial control over those nagging thoughts—I can either let them play out in the background or pivot them. Sometime. Total mastery of the chatty mind is a long ways off.

So how do I resolve this paradox? Before I hated myself and my mind—which I identified with myself—so much that I instantly reached for distractions whenever nothing was happening. Was past me an idiot for doing that? No. He simply didn't know any better; he was knee-deep in the ramblings of the chatty mind, either reacting to it or arguing with it.

Writing periods like this down feels like I am a leaving a note to my future, possibly confused self. From my now-lucid self.
> Can you show me a smart contract that will let me exchange some amount of cryptocurrency for a banana?

Agricultural futures contracts technically do what you're describing, and trading them currently involves a lot of intermediaries that could theoretically be replaced with smart contracts in a straightforward way.

And Unisocks exchange lets you exchange cryptocurrency for a tokenized sock, by the way, redeemable on demand. Technically this disintermediates online shops and payment processors, though obviously it's a toy project and there's a whole lot more that it doesn't disintermediate. Systems like these are inherently composable, for instance you could imagine an international shipping company wrapping the sock token into their own token, creating a token that represents a sock shipped to anywhere in the world. In this way, smart contracts enable obligations to be nested in a way that is completely transparent to the public.

Your query comes off to me like a 70's computer critic saying "can you show me a computer program that will let me exchange some amount of money for a banana?" Of course computer code can't reach out of the screen and put a banana into your hand, yet software can and does help facilitate coordination between you, the distributor, and the grower.

> If you can't, then please understand that in the real world you will always need a counterparty and a thousand intermediary for something as simple as a banana.

Try something intangible. Like a banana futures contract, a share of stock, a domain name, a concert ticket, a video game license/skin, a stock photo license, a building key card, with proper regulation a property deed, the list goes on.

We live in a society where a few bits in a bank/government database somewhere are the biggest separator between the homeless and the wealthy. The vision of smart contracts is to bring more accountability, transparency, and predictability to the processes that handle those critical bits of data. A snippet of code isn't going to be solely responsible for putting a banana on your table, but eventually it might make it a bit easier for a South American banana farmer to financially hedge his crop, for a consumer to transparently trace which shipping companies signed off for the banana before it was purchased at the supermarket, or even enable a banana DAO which could make sure everyone in a banana supply chain gets paid without requiring a traditional corporate structure.
Link: https://www.science.org/content/article/mercury-poisoning-ki...
I'm an aerospace engineer and I find the F-15 (esp. the C model) to be a hell of a sexy beast (so to speak), very visually stunning, and the F-35 to be relatively ugly. There's a reason the U.S. fighter community refers to the F-35 as "Fat Amy".
When the Linux port is ready, Apple M1 laptops will (relatively) qualify as excellent perf/watt and interop with non-Apple OS.

There are cheap used HP/Dell thin clients based on the venerable AMD Puma SoC family found in the coreboot-based PC Engines APU2 (an excellent classic device which even has ECC memory).

Hardkernel (small company from Korea) ODROID M1 is a capable Linux SBC /w NVME.
Perhaps wrong impact in short term, but gains in long term?
https://files.catbox.moe/9ljmyv.jpg
>You can't literally point to a single African country that's developed and successful

/me lifts hand and point finger to Botswanna.
I'm using a Razer Huntsman V2 keyboard, which has 8kHz polling and optical switches. I do not notice any obvious latency from it, and the specification claims sub-millisecond latency from switch activation point. This is better performance than is possible from a PS/2 keyboard, because the PS/2 interface is bottlenecked by the slow serial link.
>Compare this, written and published post, to the list full of “blog post ideas” that never materialized

I feel called out...
This is an argument against democracy itself. If you don't think democracy would work for you, then I can't convince you a union would either.
Nice write-up. Still a lot to go through, I hope the author have the will to continue further (they already put a lot of courage in it.)

If I may, regarding the "BUND" magic. I'm sorry to disappoint, but it's likely just "fourcc" (as in, a stirng that fits in an int32) for "bundle".
reading your comment, brought me to the following article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33684686 (october, 22, The Hunt for Wikipedia's Disinformation Moles)
Why would you correct someone about what they call themselves? That seems incredibly condescending.
Using certain types of denial that western politicians have a history of as a reference, are they doing that because that's what the voters want to hear?
I'm appaled at how ignorant you are
If the bunkers are destroyed in a sneak attack with the fighters still in them, it won’t matter if the bunkers can be replaced, the fighters are toast.
Is there any way to contact the webmaster for the site? It's important to let them know of any extraneous linking that may occur.
I've been excited about EVs for a while now. But this week's announcement about the new Prius is making me think twice.

Great times are ahead for car buyers.
I installed 400a service on my 1100sqft home. I was getting solar installed, and my panel had to be updated anyway from an old fire-trap Zinsco. I asked the company how much more to do a 400a service and they said $500 more so I went for it planning on eventually being able to charge 2 EV’s at max amperage in the future.
> accessible to everyone and equitable for everyone. no one has an advantage

That could have been true if Bitcoin had a never changing block reward. The miners in the first 4 years (including Satoshi himself) had a huge advantage.
Who pays for the UI to be developed?

If open source/community, then chronically starved for resources and contributors have divided directions.

If commercial, then they want to differentiate and do embrace, extend, extinguish, in order to drive everybody to their client.

I have come to believe, that the protocol spec and servers, is just the easy part of chat apps.
As a short person who has been fairly decent at free throws in the past but would probably be completely unable to make even an easy shot with someone trying to block me, I always need to jump just to get enough force behind the ball to throw it in the right arc. Obviously I'm probably still shorter and definitely way less strong and and skilled than even the shorter NBA players, but I do wonder if jumping is more necessary for smaller people in general since it's less strenuous to generate the force from your legs compared to your arms.
He wasn’t. He knew what people like you perceived a crypto bro to be and filled it while simultaneously filling the Wall Street trader wunderkind like Christian Bale played in the Big Short. He’s as crypto bro as the “pimple faced white kid in his mothers basement” that people like you call all hackers.

Edit: upon reflection, maybe he is indeed a crypto bro - nothing in your definition is untrue. Using my analogy above, Crypto Bros are the Script Kiddies of crypto. Apologies.
I'd expect better from Nassim Taleb. He's lost the thread on this one.
It's also important to point out that the key is E2E-encrypted using keys that never leave your device(s).

https://security.googleblog.com/2022/10/SecurityofPasskeysin...
> we must safeguard that hard-earned desert fertility for our descendants

Must we?
Yeah, true.

All-hands-on-deck after hours work is ALWAYS done under duress.
the "tft community" is a nebulous (like thought itself) thing centred mostly around twitter as a space, and around (again, mostly) note-taking tools as a subject. I'm not part of it.

This HN article is a nice summary. If you want a deep hyperdive into their "ways of thinking and linking" (IA is actually not that far), you can follow some rabbit holes on are.ena like this one https://www.are.na/krish/tools-for-thought-lnujvshtshi
Reading the comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33657301 on another relative thread, led me to this article. I wonder if wouldn't be possible to group edits by user, try to categorize the posts done by an user and see if we can spot many of such "Disinformation Moles"
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