skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies. Will refrain from that in the future.
Whenever people talk about how much wealth is comfortable (or ethical) to have, its usually just a notch above their own (well within their social class status).

To be fair I don't know your wealth at all but its just an observation I've had from talking with others about this. The end result of this would be to make these people some of the wealthiest in the country by dragging the wealth curve to just above their level. It sounds like a moral hazard to me.
Heya!

Happy to answer any questions about this.

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Aliexpress does this as well. You have to log in to see the real pricing.
I think any company that has more than 1 employee leans towards dysfunctional
AADSTS65002: Consent between first party application 'b26aadf8-566f-4478-926f-589f601d9c74' and first party resource '00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000' must be configured via preauthorization - applications owned and operated by Microsoft must get approval from the API owner before requesting tokens for that API.

So I don't think so..unfortunately.
> it's not clear that we should be paying people to burn energy to crack hashes.

In particular when we artificially increase the energy require to crack said hashes. If hash-cracking was, for instance, bid out on a competitive marketplace[0] instead of limited by difficulty bitcoin would need far less power to perform its 'role' as a 'currency'.

[0]Want to mine a block? Bid for the mining rights (in USD or BTC).
This general vague concept could be implemented in details in thousands upon thousands of ways, and has not resulted in better or more fair outcomes.

For example, my California city has "democratic" control of how many homes are allowed to be built, and therefore some control over the number of people allowed into the city. The city has decided not to build enough to meet the needs of the general population, but instead pays attention to a tiny minority of city constituents that profit from housing scarcity. They may profit in financial terms from their home valuations, but for some it's not about the money, it's just about keeping people out. It is an intensely unfair system, yet touted as "democratic" control of the means of production of housing.

So color me skeptical that democratic control won't result in even worse outcomes. If we had market control of the amount of housing, at least housing would be cheaper and we wouldn't be kicking people onto the streets continuously due to housing scarcity.
And the answer to that is totalitarian control on wealth accumulation?
How do you figure? Its not like Edison was born hyper rich.
Circa was definitely ahead of its time, and never quite replaced.

The anti twitter/reddit/facebook. And also an anthesis to something like wikinews.

The powers that be need to revisit the idea of organizing information in a way that stories get appended and built upon, instead of each new piece of information being a new post in an endless firehose.
Once again, what TFA describes is NOT the thundering herd problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem

> In computer science, the thundering herd problem occurs when a large number of processes or threads waiting for an event are awoken when that event occurs, but only one process is able to handle the event.

(emphasis mine)
I wonder if this book have a solution how to motivate people working more and creating companies if it does not make you rich.

Certainly a lot of people among most driven would work less or emigrate. If I can't earn more, I would work that's most joyful and relaxed. So, no banking or any other demanding job where there are a lot of rules.
Think Saint Petersburg will ever go back to Nyen?

Berlin, Ontario renamed itself to Kitchener in WWI. Now there's a (not very strong) movement to rename the city again because the British General the city was named after (Horatio Herbert Kitchener) was responsible for the creation of concentration camps in the Boer War.

Of course, like Saint Petersburg, Berlin wasn't the first name for settlements in that area.

People rename things and I personally am okay with that. Like Shakespeare said, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
The ‘central planning committee’ and ‘the 5 year plan’ certainly have some baggage attached.
In my mind, retirement isn't where I just stop working, it's more about being able to stop working any job that I don't like. I'll choose what I want to do, and the moment it becomes something I dread, I'll walk. Maybe I'll have a side business that I love but which doesn't really have to pay the bills.

I've never really understood the folks who strive for the day they can just park on the couch and call it good. I'd go stir crazy in a week.

Anecdotally, some of the happiest people I know work until the end of their life. They really love what they do, and don't feel the need to stop.
You can run the `strings` command on most executables (or PDFs) and get an output of the strings represented in the file. Of course you can obfuscate some of those strings if you do things right but a lot of people who don't know about `strings` could write a password protected feature in a compile bit of code and be embarrassed to see how easy it is to find out what the password is.
Just curious, what could the operator of the site do with your WiFi password? Wouldn't it only be useful in physical proximity to your router?
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Some things cost way more than 10 or 15 million in terms of investment.

Why shouldn't a billionaire be capable of starting a genetics lab to fund cancer research and pay for it in cash, if they are so inclined?

Also almost all of super wealthy people's "wealth" is tied up in assets that are funding entire economies. This money is creating jobs, allowing for affordable loans, the money is working for many other people... It's not as if the money wealthy people have is just in physical gold coins in their swimming pools.
Do you think people go just for the money?

There are a lot of healthcare systems where the wages aren’t that impressive and the hours are very long. There are benefits beyond money.

Job satisfaction, societal standing, caring about people, etc etc.
You should probably read the resumes than asking the candidates to answer your questions before an interview.
This is an insultingly out-of-touch article.

_Lots_ of people dream of retirement, and _lots_ of people retire happy. Not everyone's lucky enough to love their jobs, or have stimulating positions at companies, or work with people they get along with.

Lots of people work in customer-facing jobs in industries where customers are rude, entitled, and just generally disrespectful.

Many of those people don't have the option to retire because the venn diagram of those jobs, and jobs that pay too little to afford retirement, is pretty close to being a circle.

There's also the issue of there only being so many work opportunities, and whether or not it's correct for someone of traditional retirement age to hang on to a job, possibly at the expense of someone new to the workforce having one fewer opportunity.

I would give this article a bit easier of a time if it didn't conspicuously dance around the issue of having an aging population combined with (in many countries) social insurance-type systems not geared to support an age pyramid that top-heavy, but lines like this are just... bad.

> But can anything truly replace the framework and buzz of being part of the action?

Yeah, lots of things. Travel. Hobbies. Going dancing with your partner. Gardening. Hell, using your retirement and pension to kick off a startup of your own. For many people, above all, not being under constant pressure to perform at a certain level.

I say all of that as a millennial who both (a) loves my job, and (b) is unlikely to ever be able to afford to (comfortably) retire, barring major shifts in the economy.
It's not insurmountable.

There are solutions.

E.g. parental controls.
The reality is, we are planning our current society. It's just wrapped up in "markets are the natural order" rhetoric to obfuscate the fact that our current outcomes are intended.
Technically it doesn't even need to be in the .text section, it could be anywhere in the address space. You'll get a segfault if it's not somewhere executable though (assuming you're on a system with an appropriately configured MMU)
Never tried it myself, I’m on macOS. But if you go with an x86 one I think hardware support is good. If you’re interested in Apple Silicon, check this: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support
Shrug Google’s router thinks I have it. And it’s on by default.
Wilson’s warbler vs. black-crowned yellow warbler, I prefer the first one. For the same reason I'd choose zebra over "black and white striped horse". I have no idea who that Wilson in the name is and I prefer to be ignorant. The fact that both of the words start with "w" is enough to make the name easy to remember and kinda fun.
If you ever go to Budapest and even mildly enjoy pinball, you need to visit the Pinball Museum (https://flippermuzeum.hu/en/main-page/).

You pay an admission fee and get to play unlimited pinball from machines across the ages, even the old wooden units.
Is this format specified somewhere? How do you escape the separation characters if used in one of the keys?
I Get This Call Every Day
Sure, same for solar. I dont think anyone even tried to make an economic ROI argument for either.

There was a moral environmental argument for government establish the rebates, so presumably the government wants the purchases made and rebates claimed.
Yes, they are. If they weren't you wouldn't care if someone made more than $15M.
Real, per capita economic growth only really started with the Industrial Revolution - when companies started literally making money.

But the mindset of many is still caught up in the uber-conservative (from an economic point of view) mindset dating to the middle ages that wealth is like land: it's just always there, and if you want more, you have to get it from someone else buy buying or seizing.
There goes Edge's edge!
Yup. I’ve always said I never want to retire. I just want to change and control what it is I’m working on.
As I understand it, very few entrepreneurs ever said “this is interesting but if I can’t be a billionaire what’s the point?”.

Which are the examples driven by extreme wealth (note: not just regular 1%er wealth and not people who became extremely wealthy - I mean people who expressed that the reason they created something was because they knew it would make them extremely top-0.01% wealthy)?
I typically chose passwords that are long, easy to remember sentences (no caps or spaces).

Generic example: millionsandmillionsofpeopleliveinthiscity

Easy to share aloud, but long enough to protect against being brute-forced.
Sounds like your hiring is the problem. Not people applying with LLMs.
IF there were people running bitcoin rigs only 4-5 hours per day when the duck curve peaks, it would be plausible for it to incentivize building more solar because the profit is more consistent. Which could be a net positive even though that power gets wasted, since a lot of it would get wasted anyway.

I don't think basically anyone is doing that.
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We've seen enough attempts at planned societies that ended badly, so most folk are justifiably wary of further attempts, even putatively democratic ones. Make it easily opt-in, easily opted-out, and successful, and then people will be interested again.
It's just not practical to enforce a cap though. Even with a very authoritarian world government to stop people moving assets elsewhere, there'll be too many ways around it.

So you can only have $15mil of assets? But your partner can have $15mil too, as can your kids, and parents. And if that's not enough, you can still try to hoard extra wealth in easier-to-hide forms - whether it's physical gold, bitcoin, art, fine wines, etc.

Or worse still, the super-rich will realise that they can spend many times the wealth cap per year consumable/disposable items (so long as they stay under the cap, or get back there by year-end), and become more wasteful. "Might as well spend a few million on a private jet, if I don't, I'll hit the wealth cap!".
If not Infinite Jest, then probably something else David Foster Wallace wrote.
Yes. They do now. Not because of boredom but for ideological reasons. The pay and working conditions at the end of the road certainly aren't worth the debt and stress required to get there. Not everyone's a specialist surgeon catering to the elite.
You're right. With that in mind, if Bitcoin were hypothetically shut down, the rest would probably use even less energy.
The problem is that Amazon is selling the same stuff at double or triple the cost of these direct marketplaces.

Too much of Amazon is just marked up imports sold by meaningless brands.

Companies like Temu keep happening because Amazon is not operating a cost efficient marketplace and they are vulnerable. Presumably Amazon would win because of reputation and the reliability of their return guarantees, but they’ve lost their trusted status by letting their review systems be corrupted and no longer have the high degree consumer trust that gave them such defensibility.

So, some significant marketplace extraction will happen here as their suppliers essentially move up the value chain and start to eat their market, which looks like company-after-company from supply side countries making an entrance into the Western markets selling the exact same or similar products for much lower prices… exactly what we are seeing.

This flattening out of the supply chain is a phenomenon that Amazon has not done a good job of protecting against.

The only other big defense besides reputation is shipping speed and the risk annd complexity of importing, and perhaps at some point Amazon will wake up and start to lobby against the subsidized shipping policies. But in the short term they benefit from it too much to do so.
I mean ETH is pretty darn popular.
It's put to use by making the other person go in debt. Happy?
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I understand the goal of separating it by age, I'm confused by the methodology they would have used to calculate the data on the second chart and get to 65%.

It seems like you are saying they got to the 65% rate because it's a snapshot of homeownership % for "older millennials" in 2023. But that doesn't make sense because they also give data for 18 year old millennials.
I don't pay the NAT tax.

I just use public IP addresses.

It's fine, it works. Worked for EC2-Classic, works today.
Tons of respect for Ben Thompson, but reason for not shipping visionOS apps (or allowing your iPad app to work on them) for these big co's is literally a matter of "Bang for your buck":

> Building a new app from scratch makes zero sense for the size of the install base. Only reason to ever do that would be to get some love back from Apple in the form of features and attention (which, for YouTube / Netflix / Spotify are hardly necessary)
> Allowing YOUR iPad app to function on visionOS means that your customers will hold YOU responsible for its functioning. At the size of customer base of these companies, that's a bunch of risk for no reward
> When your users use a browser that promises 'regular access to all websites' (built by Apple) to access your service, the responsibility for that experience lies with the browser builder, not you

There's 100% no negotiation over fees happening with individual developers, regardless of how big they are, regardless of what type of support for a platform they promise Apple, as that's exactly what has gotten Apple and Google in hot water with regulators worldwide.

Ben worded it well in the article:

"It’s certainly possible that I’m reading too much into these absences" < Yes
Let's get rid of bitcoin. Then we can use "green" dollars. They don't need servers to run. Well, except for all the banks, federal reserves, and credit card processors. I wonder how much electricity they take to run. Well, probably not 2% of all US electricity.

But why are banks so secure? I guess because of police partially. I guess those police need electricity too. But we need them anyways, so I guess that only partially counts.

But why dollars? Why not pesos, or euros? The dollar is backed by the US military, of course. I wonder how much electricity the military uses.

Anyways. Let's get rid of bitcoin. That will solve the climate crisis! We can sell anti-bitcoin stickers made in China on Amazon to show our support!
It also doesn't really fit the definition of money, certainly not good money, it's a speculative asset or at best a transaction intermediate. Almost nothing is priced in Bitcoin, it's priced in dollars and converted to a Bitcoin quantity at the time a transaction is to proceed due to extreme volatility. There's no closed-loop economy where pricing is so specified - even in El Salvador - because you then have to sell it to pay your suppliers and your taxes. You don't sell money, if that makes sense.

Using the fact you can sell it for minimal slippage, you could call Apple shares money, but they're not. They're shares. Nothing is priced in Apple shares.

The attributes of money are: durability, portability, divisibility, uniformity, limited supply, and acceptability.

Bitcoin is not accepted basically anywhere (the overwhelming majority of places that claim to, use a service like BitPay that immediately sells it and gives the merchant actual money). It's also not uniform, because each sat carries with it the entire transaction history. It's also not particularly portable because its global transaction count is limited to 7tps and it costs an unbelievable quantity to do so from time to time. It's also not durable because everyone keeps losing their wallets and the lost bitcoin is effectively destroyed. All it has is limited supply and divisibility -- and portability, depending how compelling you find my argument against -- but you really do have to get all 6 to win.

Coinbase attorneys regularly compare crypto to Beanie Babies.

> "It is akin to the sale of a parcel of land, the value of which may fluctuate after the sale. Or a condo in anew development. Or an American Girl Doll, or a Beanie Baby, or a baseball card," Coinbase attorneys stated in a motion it filed in August 2023. [1]

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/01/19/crypto-beani...
What other ideas should we ban?
Less forceful but the real title sounds more like a desperate plea from Klaus Schwab.
There’s no answer to “when you should give up” even in the case where you say you are gonna make the next Facebook, who’s to say you should give up? You give up when you give up and you learn about yourself so the next time you can make better judgement.

I do think sometimes it helps to finish a project and ship, you can be surprised that your internal dialog is different than what others think when they use it
As an iPhone owner, I just don’t allow Android people into my home.
> "We" ain't all americans.

The vast majority of English speaking countries signed the Genocide Convention, if not all [0]

> This is why many people want NO politics here at all.

They're not a majority, far from it. And the rules don't say "NO politics"; that would be absurd. Tech and politics overlap often - as they do here.

0 - https://www.statista.com/chart/22194/countries-that-havent-r...
A better comparison is that you bought 10 million bottles of forever chemicals, and poured them down the drain.

Dupont would be ecstatic, but it would still not be a good thing.
I don’t follow. Companies don’t vote but voters have to answer robocalls.
I think it was Byte Magazine that printed this marvelous rant soon after the speech. Modern corporate culture has definitely gone the way of managers not understanding and explicitly not wanting to understand what their people are doing. Did Ada pan out the way Hoare had feared?
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Doesn't the security of proof of work consensus depend on the work being fairly expensive?
> let’s examine the hypocrisy of singling out bitcoin specifically

It isn't being singled out though. There's widespread concern across a broad set of cases where energy is being used.

Also, if you recognize that the use of energy isn't always bad, but it's the overuse of energy that is problematic, it's natural to prioritize: you want more of the energy usage to be on the more beneficial things and less on the less beneficial things. So you might target bitcoin on its merits, not because of hypocrisy.

The problem with your argument is that it means either everything should be addressed simultaneously in any discussion of energy usage or nothing should be, since you can make the same argument no matter what the specific topic is.
https://archive.ph/2024.02.02-202235/https://www.newyorker.c...
It’s also a feature in the AT&T Smart Home app. The printing from iOS is not ideal so I have an 8" square QR code taped to the wall for people who want to join my guest network.
Can we have it sorted in descending order by date?
I would retire. I don't think I'd ever possibly be able to spend more than single digit millions if I tried. Wanting to hoard hundreds of billions is just baffling.
What happened here?

> â€˜The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealthâ€™ Richard WilkinsonNo-one deserves to be a millionaire.

Mobile Safari.
Agreed, surely if there's one button in a GUI that will just do the thing you need (say, spitting out a PDF version of the document you're editing) but you'd otherwise need to recall multiple command-line programs, options, and/or arguments.

However, often I'll open up a GUI I haven't used in a while and feel like I'm just as lost as I am with a command-line tool I haven't used in a while. I rely on notes I've taken and try to stick with stable software.
The trick to going back to sleep is often, after waking too soon, to do something boring. A chore. Try it for 5-15 mins, go back to bed. Repeat if you're not nodding off. The thinking is, you'll prefer sleep to the boring chore.
Ironic that the WSJ is saying that greed actually isn't good, while 37 years ago, Wall Street's (the movie) Gordon Gekko was saying the opposite.