skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
is it the most transacted? And it's share of transactions has gone down (from being the only choice to lots of choices)

Largest market cap, yes, but also lots of probably lost coin.

One source shows Tether having the most volume, and it's very energy efficient to make coin out of thin air.
I think the essay isn't quite done. Needs more work:)
I remember the days when theregister could be considered good newsource.

Did the author need to crank out an "article" before the weekend?

This has been talked about for decades. It's not going to happen. The entire range is unusable at the networking core level, even if you magically had an OS that accepted it.

You can't tweak IPv4 any more. Accept the fact that while IPv6 may seem scary to some, it's the way we _must_ move.

Networking is not scary, learn it.
Again, if you can't stamp it out globally, you're very likely just shifting it to places that may care less to regulate it.

I would genuinely love to read a plan somebody has to end cryptocurrency on Earth, but I can't imagine one working even a little bit.
Stated a different way, the 5 year inflation is almost 25%. Does that feel like horseshit?
read the two, had not connected the dots. Thanks!
WTF is a "spin"
Your coffee shop lowered prices?!
> larger and larger usage of energy by design

It's actually the opposite: its energy usage shrinks and shrinks, by design. Every 210,000 blocks (~4 years), the block reward (mining subsidy) drops in half. At the limit, it approaches zero, and the network can only afford to spend as much on energy as users pay in transaction fees.

Admittedly, "the limit" is quite a few years off, and there's a big subsidy still. I'm surprised we haven't seen taxing authorities go after block rewards specifically - they're why miners are currently willing to spend 10~20x on energy vs what users pay them for transactions.
What goes through someone's mind that they spend all the time and effort to create a visual gag and then don't put images of said visual gag on the documentation?
They are gaslighting you.

Every administration does it. It does not matter which political party they are.

They play with the numbers to make themselves look better.
Millions of people play in casinos, that doesn't mean the energy they use isn't a waste and overall negative for society.

Bitcoin is like that times 1,000,000 when it comes to energy usage.

The energy and resources expended mining for diamonds is wasteful also.
Why is it bonkers ?

Bitcoins are just speculative assets . All crypto is, nobody is actually doing real economic transactions on them, I.e buying and selling services/goods for bitcoin. It is not practical to do so with transaction/gas fees .

If you think of it as an Asset transactions then it makes sense, those are always expensive.

A real estate deal for a house will have buyer agent, seller agent government taxes etc easily 5-10% , if you sell an artwork a gallery will probably charge upwards of 10-20% etc.
Would ChatGPT have omitted the article? Maybe ESL-ChatGPT
Yes, from what I understand their entire business model is based on selling "world record" certifications to people and brands for pr/marketing stunts:

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/business-marketing-solu...
> At this point BTC is, functionally, just an alternative asset that hedges against inflation

You are completely ignorant. I'm not saying that in a mean way, I mean it in the purest sense possible: You have no idea what you are talking about.

According to the graph below, BTC goes up when inflation goes down. That is the opposite of a hedge! It proves that Bitcoin is not valuable due to "not having sound monetary systems."

Bitcoin is obviously a speculative asset whose value goes up when inflation is low and people have money to spend on speculative assets. The fact that we use 2.3% of our nation's electricity on it is unjustifiable.

https://charts.woobull.com/bitcoin-inflation/
Does anybody know of a good reference text that can teach you the basics of optics? I've been messing around making little projectors out of old camera lenses and cheap lenses from ali express, and I've had some success, but I have basically had to design everything so I can get all the lenses in the right place by moving them around, because I don't really understand the principles.
you are not going to defer on everyday necessities, but you can defer on big item purchases. If you are in the market for an EV, and the report is that EV's are getting cheaper every year. You may just defer that purchase as long as you can. If you are in the market for a house and the report is that housing prices are increasing by 10% every year, you regret not buying that house yesterday.
A better title (supported somewhat by the article) is "standup needs to die". If you have a task list and keep it updated, you don't need to meet daily.

If you do meet daily, though, these 3 questions are still useful.
The major lesson will be to ask for the sale. And work that into the conversation, so less "that'll be $99", but more like "So, would you like the blue or pink one?"

If you don't ask for the sale, you won't get it. If you're solving a problem, making the sale is helping people. They came to you for help for a reason, so treat them well.
Astro SSR, deployed with Caprover on Hetzner Ubuntu machines. Tried Django, Next.js, React+Go/Gin, Blazor. Never been more productive in my life.
Don't use immutable distros on machines you might need for bootable disc or bootable thumb-drive use in the future. Found that out the hard way.
It also needs a permanent internet connection, as the inference for the paper detection is run in the cloud, and a subscription to keep it working.

I call it No-SaaS, No Stains as a Service.
Ah the dollar sign made me think you were in ARIN, and they used to charge $550 for new ASNs
As someone who has used cryptography† since he downloaded PGP 2.x in the early 1990s, and was around for the Crypto Wars (using the "non-us" Debian repos), I am aware what Bitcoin is technically-speaking.

† This includes using chained hashes:

* https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=opie&sektion=4

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1760

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2289
National adoption rates of IPv6 is often more determined by historical IPv4 allocations and decisions of a number of sysadmins in the 100s at consumer facing ISPs, not a factor of the population's size
> The idea that 2% inflation is good for the economy, and deflation is bad smacks of the government selling the idea because increasing government spending via inflation is a way to raise taxes without raising taxes.

I think the premise is that deflation is much much worse (and not amenable to the available controls that the Fed has available) and it is pretty impossible to reliably target < %2 inflation, so effectively the idea of "2% inflation" is the minimal possible amount of inflation.
Variables are written once, and data flow is made explicit.
So -- for the purposes of locating a base station that's connected to the starlink network -- the starlink network would rely on the base station reporting it's location? Hopefully not... It certainly doesn't need to just trust it when it has direct observation available too.

I'm not suggesting that whatever GPSish thing you'd be able to get out of a pure starlink protocol communication would give you super resolution, but it'd certainly be enough to identify "Crimea" vs "Indian Ocean".

And as far as base station -> constellation -- putting a GPS receiver in it is of course smart to speed that up, but I'm not sure even that's necessary or just helpful.
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Really? You feel the price increase from 2021-2023 seems the same as 2023-2024 to you. I see the prices have been elevated in the prior period ('21-'23) but they haven't moved much in the last few quarters. Perhaps everyone assumes prices will go back to 2021, for that we need deflation which is another ball of wax.
My IP space is PA, it’s allocated by a LIR.

RIPE does have a requirement that you use your ASN, and that it’s multihomed.

Multihoming rule isn’t enforced (meaning a single upstream is fine), but they do require you to actually use it.
That's an excellent point actually. In the current day, more-or-less every watt of crypto is actually on top of the traditional financial system and totally reliant on it.

That's not intrinsic to cryptocurrency, but it is part of the reality we're living in, which is what I want people to be looking at.
No, that's your store charging more for bell peppers.
Gotta make up for that lost revenue from police departments.
> Also maybe they would need to adjust prices, as they’re no way I’m gonna pay full price for a 1 year license (which is effectively what I’m paying for).

This is a large part of my gripe with the way things are now. I cannot make an informed purchase decision if I do not know what exactly it is I am purchasing; And when the goods that I 'purchased' can be arbitrarily taken away, it is impossible for me to have ever made an informed decision about the purchase.

For example, say that in this case, you bought one of these Blu-Rays with the digital code for Christmas last year, just two months ago, because your friend who bought it five years ago recommended it. They got to use their digital copy for five years, you only got two months, despite having agreed to purchase the _same exact product_. If the package said "free digital copy until March 2024" then there's not that much problem, you got exactly what you paid for, and you were fully aware of what it was that you were buying. But if the package said "free digital copy" then you might rightfully assume that you'll get the same amount of use from the digital copy that your friend did.

As it stands right now though, you have no guarantee whatsoever for how long the digital copy will remain accessible, so you're in effect paying for some nebulous vision of a digital copy in the hope that it materializes for long enough to make use of.
I disagree with your first point mainly because this is more of a symptom of what Americans want, not necessarily some sort of virtuous result of the banking industry. I'd also argue that it doesn't "make our entire economy run." What makes the economy run is people going to work and performing work, producing goods and services. Banking is merely an aspect of that, and it's perhaps propped up into a bigger piece than it may need to be because people prefer being able to (or in some cases need to) access credit to buy stuff.

I also somewhat disagree with (3) because it's ambiguous how many people constitute these mining facilities referenced in the article. You write it as though it means 137 individuals.

But overall I only dislike crypto because it has become a space for charlatans and people who want to get rich quick. Any original principles behind creating a new currency outside of fiat and actually using that for transactions have been forgotten since then and crowded out by people who pretend those principles still mean something but really just want XCOIN to moon.
Blindsight is by no means a hard sci fi book.
The best books I found when I was doing exactly this were the books by Harry Beckwith, starting with "Selling the Invisible". He focuses on services sales, and how you create a perception of value for your service.
Any blockers? If blockers have been resolved immediately then the short answer to the question will be no. Otherwise it will be yes.

Sounds like a decent question to me.
Hmm, just for fun I think that is missing like 10 or 20 9s. As per block hit chance is about one in 3e+23... 500EHash/s * 10min * 60s/min...
The name bard is tainted by ridicule.

Besides that, personally I always thought it was a bad fit. It sounds old and outdated to those that do not know what the word means and wrong to those that do: a bard sings songs and maybe does poetry.

A bard does not help or assist you. A bard can be a creative person, but is generally not considered especially wise or knowledgeable. A bard is also always a man, which does not gel very well with modern sensibilities.

I can see why they dropped it.
The supporting code repo contains a sample PDF

https://framagit.org/Pathe/coffeestains/-/blob/main/coffeest...
For straight-line code, something like

%2 <- foo %0 %1
...

is effectively equivalent to

(foo %0 %1 (lambda (%2)
...)

Phis are sorta modeled inversely:

%1:
%2 <- const 0
br %5
%3:
%4 <- const 1
br %5
%5:
%6 <- phi [%1 -> %2, %3 -> %4]
...

becomes:

(letrec ((%1 () (const 0 (lambda (%2) (%5 %2))))
(%3 () (const 1 (lambda (%4) (%5 %4))))
(%5 (%6) ...))
...)

The nice thing on paper about both of these is that you've broken every
computation down into nice nameable bits; if you want to do some
analysis (e.g. abstract interpretation) over the programs, you can store
intermediate results as a map from names (like %4) to values.

The traditional downside of CPS is that requiring lambdas be nested in
order for things to be in scope can make some program transformations
require "reshuffling" terms around in a way SSA doesn't require.

The "cps soup" [0] approach used in Guile fixes this, but your terms
look like they violate lexical scoping rules!

[0]: https://wingolog.org/archives/2015/07/27/cps-soup
Simulation theory posits there might be an outside power.

Bostrom's version posits a "post-human" civilisation, but it might just as well be someone barely smarter than us.

For that matter, there are plenty of ways of positing simulation that does not require intelligence at all - computation is naturally everywhere, so if the "real" universe is infinite, and simulation is possible, then it is not unreasonable to consider the possibility that there might be an infinite set of "natural simulations" playing out in interplay between matter and energy in an "outside" world without anyone every doing anything for it.

If the "outer" universe is infinite, it only requires a non-zero probability and enough time.

The main reason to consider we're not in a naturally occurring simulation in some soup of matter is that it seems more likely, albeit a total guess, that more intentional simulations would have a higher probability of existing.

But arguing gods might be running a simulation, to me, seems borderline arrogant. Why "gods", and not a bored teenager playing a game? Who would those gods be anyway that'd make us consider them gods, rather than just another species?
ts-pattern has been a decent band-aid for the lack of native pattern matching, but obviously has downsides that could be avoided if it was built into the language.

https://github.com/gvergnaud/ts-pattern
Is it common to have more than 2 options for a power company?

I personally pick my power company, if I have a choice at all, based on their rates and proportion of renewable energy generated. Most people probably only care about the rate.

Power companies aren't brands. People don't make choices based on which one is more "woke" or whatever.
Sidequest: Ask yourself, if now after forgetting the allegedly important _what_ weighted your mind (laden/burdend) before, gives you something like to feel bestowed 'freedom'?
Seconded. All books by Gabriel Weinberg.

Some books you read to reflect upon or be better informed. His books instead, are likely to change the way you conduct your business, or validate correct behaviors you adopted instinctively.
At least they got over slave labor .. only taking 150 years from 1808 through 1948.

(The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves & United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Chasing profit with dubious or outright abandonment of healthy human ethics has been a hallmark of human business, sadly. [Energy draining via blockchain. Absurd re=use of human contributions to knowledge via GenAI.]

It is like technology becomes a disruptor. The disruption doesn't have to be so hard. It can be softened. But for the sake of profit, it is not and more people than necessary will be disenfranchised by GenAI.
What is the capital of France?
RIPE hands out a /29 to any member without any requirements. For anything beyond a /29 you need to prove that you actually need it, but /29s they hand out like candies. As a LIR you can then lease out /32s. And when you run out of space to lease, request more space.

I know a guy with 15x /29s.

I actually find this scary too, but I mean, it’s /29s, not /8s.
Intel was using it as an insulator back when the Core series started in ~2006
> Are there any examples of protocols that took a similarly long time to achieve adoption but eventually did saturate the market? That would be hopeful.

There are quite a few, but people probably haven't heard of them, because either they were involved below the Internet (think: physical links) or were used for things like telephony or other interconnects. There are also other interfaces that involve communication but aren't Internet or telephone like (think things like ic2 or canbus, etc).
Right before Chinese new year, wonderful timing
This x 1000.

"No askie, no gettie" is something my co-founder and I say.

I'm the engineering side and struggle with it, but he's really good at it.
Incredible! Thanks for sharing
> I'll bite - what are these relevant material differences?

For one, I can stab someone in close quarters with a bayonet. It is a feature designed specifically with killing humans in mind. A bayonet has no legitimate or legal use in recreational hunting or shooting. It makes the weapon less useful for legitimate purposes if only as a weight penalty.

The issue isn't "how many bayonet attacks have there been?", the issue is "how many attacks with guns designed specifically as human killing weapons have happened?". The answer is that there have been thousands.

People want to draw the line at weapons designed as weapons of war, or more broadly, weapons designed as anti-personnel weapons (which is how handguns get included).

Pretending that an SKS wasn't designed specifically for killing other human beings makes people rightfully doubt the honesty of the rest of the argument. I personally think that under the right circumstances it is not unreasonable for a Canadian to shoot weapons of war recreationally. But I also think that if you can't acknowledge that an SKS was designed to kill people, and it has been used to kill tens or hundreds of thousands of people very effectively, then you have no business handling it.

If gun people keep making arguments about "looks" or guns being "military" as a bad criteria, then legislators will come up with functional criteria, and I really doubt that it will be less restrictive than what they already came up with.
What would you want to compare? Google Quiche vs. Linux? Chrome vs. Windows TCP? What version of Linux, Windows, or Chrome? Under how much delay, loss, etc? There's a large parameter space to sweep.
In our benchmarks, open source models still have a long way to go (just breaking past the GPT 3.5 barrier now). We're excited to move to open source models when they're ready, but right now they simply aren't there yet.

Even when they are, it'll still be a while before you can run such a powerful model on your laptop. Thanks for the feedback!
This makes sense but job hopping seems to be much harder now considering the competition for laid-off workers.

There’s a Bloomberg article on the homepage now about how more people are retiring due to stock gains - so how is unemployment low (and going lower with more people dropping out of the workforce) while LinkedIn is filled with (formally?) white collar people on the verge of homelessness?
I do have some astigmatism so I'll keep this in mind.
You post a strawman IPv6 address to HN every month or so. Why not take a minute to learn what a real address looks like?

For example, 2eff:ff:a0ee::/54 is a prefix and 2eff:ff:a0ee::dead:beef is an address within that prefix. It is invalid for "::" to appear more than once, as that would be ambiguous.
Your first point kind of makes it impossible to call anything a waste, right? Everything we do in society is paid for by somebody so it must all be worthwhile.

For the second point, are you talking about Layer 2 solutions that track cryptocurrency in a centralized database, like an exchange, where most transactions happen? Basically just traditional banking but with crypto as the unit of account. Or are you talking about decentralized layer 2 solutions like Lightning Network? I don't think Lightning Network can scale to match what the banking sector does, even if you ignore all the services banks provide other than facilitating transactions. For example you could not pay the US workforce with Lightning Network because it would take several months worth of of blocks just to open a channel to each person, and quickly those channels would run out of inbound capacity and you'd need to open more on top of that, so the Layer 1 capacity still limits the ability to use LN at that scale.
I'd never considered exploring abandoned places until I randomly had the opportunity to explore perhaps one of the last batch of Woolworth's to be closed on the Eastern seaboard. The entire several story building used to be a shopping center, with a restaurant in the basement, fed by a kitchen and dumb waiter.

The street level had been retrofitted for shops, but the basement and upper floors were still abandoned and left essentially as is. I had the opportunity to work with one of the street level shops, and they had a key to the basement. I did my work there, and then got curious because the same staircase that went to the basement also went up. I very carefully and quietly crept upstairs, attempting to stay away from windows (which had been painted over, but you never know). I found a giant stove used by the restaurant, several rooms of shelves, gutted bathrooms, a completely analog cash register, and posters from halloween and Christmas events (which I dated to be around mid 90s). I felt scared the entire time, from getting caught (considering I didn't want to ruin my relationship with the shop) to anything bizarre I might find. I didn't record it and deeply regret that.

In the grand scheme of things, a middle class shopping center might be far down the list of places to preserve. Or perhaps not. Grand cathedrals inspire awe, but the mundane places visited by magnitudes more people are forgotten.
Who said Netflix was offering the torrent?
DynaVis: Dynamically Synthesized UI Widgets for Visualization Editing
The miners are rewarded as bitcoins are useful for scamming, and kept as speculative investments.

Many people don't think either use justifies the environmental cost.
Could you please explain how to get an ASN and a /40 for $50/lifetime? I only know the option where you pay a yearly fee.
Yes, but bitcoin is something of an outlier there.. I realize the "top 100" cryptocurrencies by market cap isn't necessarily very meaningful, but like 90% of those are proof of stake, including ethereum, which is the second most valuable cryptocurrency, and actually more widely used than bitcoin in terms of transactions or number of unique wallets.
a 2% change of your $100 bill is $2. you are not going to notice if your electric bill is $2 less.
> Even if a miner has a contract with a solar farm for all of their power, that's still electricity that someone else could be using instead of electricity from fossil fuels.

Not if the infrastructure wouldn't have been built without the miners.
This thinking drives climate change.

There is no perpetual motion.