skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neat, but we are way behind in this area as a species.

We should be processing spent nuclear reactor fuel and extracting Strontium-90 ( sr-90 ) in mass.

Sr90 is a heavy beta emitters, orders of magnitude more energetic than carbon14, with a 28.8 year half-life. This lower half-life means a higher specific activity, which allows for more practical uses.

Of course, higher energy beta emitters are more dangerous, but we've been playing with fire for a long time now, so that shouldn't stop anyone.

At 10% beta emissions capture, a beta-voltaic device can be built now with sr90 that emits roughly 5w in a form factor slightly larger than a AA battery. With the current price and availability of sr90, this battery would cost around $3 million on raw materials alone.

By increasing the use of nuclear energy and reprocessing fission byproducts, sr90 could be made significantly more plentiful.

If you couple an sr90 betavoltaic with a power reservoir, such as a lithium ion battery, you would drastically increase the lifespan of the li-ion battery and be capable of peak-power outputs greatly in excess of what the sr90 micro generator can provide.

With more developments in betavoltaics, efficiency would likely increase significantly -- beta emissions are electrons, after all, they just need to be captured and utilized. If photons can be capture and used at such a high efficiency in solar panels, you better believe electrons can as well.
We have a strange situation in the UK where GDP is going up (thanks to immigration) but GDP per person is actually going down (thanks to immigration).
Duplicate comment from the other thread:

11 years ago I sold 100 BTC, and made pretty good money.
With that said, the more I think about BTC, the less sense it makes to me. Exceedingly few people actually use it for anything practical. The “store of value” functionality has completely eclipsed the practical use that Bitcoin maxis were preaching back then.
Since 2016-2017, it seems like people have bought it for the sole purpose of seeing someone else pay more for it.
It will never become some “universal” currency that overtakes national fiats. Right now it seems like people are only hoping for governments to hoard up BTC, to moon the price and provide exit liquidity for early holders - which IMO would be reckless spending.
It is the ultimate make-believe asset.

Also, when I ran the numbers some time ago, I figured a realistic max value for 1 BTC would be 500k-1M.

So the big money has been made, imo. Betting on a good stock could make you just as rich, as waiting BTC to reach its max. Most money will be made buying and selling between the boom cycles.
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My wife had a good job. She made the median household income in the area on her salary alone (my salary was still better, but that's beside the point).

When we had our second kid, the hustle wasn't worth it. Two kids in daycare took 90% of her take home pay. It was costing us more for her to work than to stay home with the kids.

Also, kids need their parents. An infant being away from their mom for that long is unhealthy for the infant
We can continue on to the petrodollar system (hence we I wrote et al.).

There are many reasons why the USD dollars is currently the de-facto reserve currency of the world. But it is much more nuanced than the merits of the dollar as a reserve currency that you initially indicated (That it isn't given and that people like to use it).
Are there theories why Trump getting elected caused such a spike?

Expected sanctions devaluing other currencies, higher risk of conflict (eg Iran -Israel/US war) causing economic instability, ... ?
What would be a driving reason to use this versus Brave?
The ones that can pay immediately, ok. But paying it over time for $400 is pretty much a sign of hardship.
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Unrealistic goals seem to be a core tenet of capitalist realism. You see the same thing in politics: Trump is going to stop the Ukraine war in one day, Musk is going to cut 2 trillion from the US budget with efficiency improvements, etc... . A couple of years ago my company gave OKRs a go. One of the principles is that objectives should be practically impossible to reach, i.e. if you hit 100% of an objective then it wasn't ambitious enough. It's a surefire way to ramp up anxiety and stress on a team.
>Also, when I ran the numbers some time ago, I figured a realistic max value for 1 BTC would be 500k-1M

In what units? What makes you think there won't be Argentina-style inflation of the USD?
This is actually the solution, not the problem. You seem to be assuming that the "correct" amount of tax to pay is the amount which is based on the market value of your asset. But the correct amount of tax is actually the amount which is based on the asset's value, to you. This keeps Blackrock from swooping in and buying up everything you own, since it's only worth market value to them.

It also doesn't make the tax onerous; a revenue-neutral switch from our current taxation scheme to harberger taxes would be revenue-neutral, whether it was based on market value or personal value.
Chromium still includes features and integrations with Google, and telemetry going to Google.
Safari is great if your idea of a browser is from 2010's. Safari is not really on top of modern Web standards which is a shame because it really does have clean UI, albeit not too many options for power-users. No extension ecosystem, etc. They were right to question _some_ standards, but other than that they're simply behind. There's a reason Chromium moved on from WebKit, and many misgivings of Safari could probably be traced back to it being hard to develop / maintain.
Sure but predicting Bitcoin will crash again is like predicting the sun will rise tomorrow, obvious and not a novel or useful prediction. What is your long term prediction of whether/when it will die off and never recover? So far the "HODL" people keep getting vindicated every cycle with higher and higher peaks. Unless you can point to a specific strategy of when to short, what's the utility of this view? Even "just avoid it like the plague" has been a increasingly losing strategy.
as someone who follows crypto its crazy how much US dominates the prices

during euro/asian hours price will go sideways or go down, then during US hours you get the huge moves up or down

i'm guessing all financial markets are like that. it's like US is a behemoth
Not enough to compensate for everywhere else plus even there most countries are tapering off.
This was largely for relatively privileged people. Most families the mother worked as a teacher, nurse, domestic, secretary, nanny, etc.
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From about:

> Visual storytelling makes ideas more accessible

From an a11y standpoint, that statement is very ironic. Because for visually impaired people, the effect is the opposite of what the sentence claims.
One of my favorite videos on the internet involves DX7:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL_N3A5gVhQ
Read again... they said they consider it a settled matter. They didn't say it is a settled matter. Opinion vs Fact. If you wanna be pedantic, at least do it right.
Yes but how would that say anything specifically about a particular topic unless it was a defining and undeniable circumstance that happened during the presidency like a war or major scandal - and even then I think it's hard to confidently say "this is why people voted for X" without proper polling (and even that we know how accurate it is - but at least it'd be data).
Ah ha. From a decade ago now:

Clark - Superscope https://youtu.be/TKYrwuxLZtY

Clark - Riff Through The Fog
https://youtu.be/efnsrLg03e4?si=grC1M4XlXdV1L6VB
Firefox and Safari are nothing like IE.

IE used to crash ALL the time, and a lot of those crashes could be triggered by really nasty vulnerabilities in ActiveX which had kennel level access in Windows.
https://time.com/7173421/what-donald-trump-election-win-mean...

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Trump spoke glowingly about crypto this year on the campaign trail, despite casting skepticism upon it for years. At the Bitcoin conference in Nashville in July, Trump floated the idea of establishing a federal Bitcoin reserve, and stressed the importance of bringing more Bitcoin mining operations to the U.S.

Perhaps most importantly, Trump vowed to oust Gary Gensler, the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), who has brought many lawsuits against crypto projects for allegedly violating securities laws. Gensler is a widely-reviled figure in the crypto industry, with many accusing him of stifling innovation. Gensler, conversely, argued that it was his job to protect consumers from the massive crypto collapses that unfolded in 2022, including Terra Luna and FTX.

Gensler’s term isn’t up until 2026, but some analysts expect him to resign once Trump takes office, as previous SEC chairs have done after the President that appointed them lost their elections. A change to SEC leadership could allow many more crypto products to enter mainstream financial markets. For the past few years, the SEC had been hesitant to approve crypto ETFs: investment vehicles that allow people to bet on crypto without actually holding it. But a judge forced Gensler’s hand, bringing Bitcoin ETFs onto the market in January. Now, under a friendlier SEC, ETFs based on smaller cryptocurrencies like Solana and XRP may be next.

Many crypto enthusiasts are also excited by Trump’s alliance with Elon Musk, who has long championed cryptocurrencies on social media. On election night, Dogecoin, Musk’s preferred meme coin, spiked 25% to 21 cents.
Who takes care of the kids while the parents work?
He's been crypto-friendly during the campaign, but last spike is probably related to this[0], which solidifies state support for what was born as a state-independent asset.

[0] https://apnews.com/article/sec-chair-atkins-gensler-investor...
The arguments your making have a hypothesis that isn't supported by your examples. Mostly because they're not falsifiable. They're therefore incredibly uninteresting.
First comment of any bitcoin thread on HN is always something like this, generally negative and a bit grumpy.
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Just to clarify I used lawyers to do a secured loan against property to a friend. After saying it would take five days it took three months and cost about £2k. He was stressed because he needed the money in a hurry but they seem to take like a week to do anything in spite of constant chasing. Doing a secured loan is mostly assembling paperwork and filling forms the bulk of which could be handled by an LLM type setup, with a real lawyer maybe needed for an hour to read through it and check it's all ok.

And it wasn't particularly down to bad lawyers - I phoned quite a few and the majority didn't even want to handle the work as they were busy and it's not big money relative to other stuff.
What’s your point? That their type checks are incomplete?
The haughty projections about robots in the future with specific years seemed weirdly confident to me, too.
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Just curious, what is wrong with the Firefox source code specifically? I've used it for a couple years and haven't noticed anything awful, but if there's something I'm not aware of and it's as bad as you say I'll swap in a heartbeat.
I think it's as simple as expecting his administration not to be outright hostile to the industry, and maybe even encourage its development.

Most companies in the space have had "the government could, at any moment, make it nearly impossible for us to continue operating" as an existential risk, so if that risk goes down, the expectation for further innovation and development soars.
Taught or forced? That’s ridiculous.

My kids like to play in our yard. I do woodwork as a hobby. My neighbors spend summer by their pool. I like my privacy. I like quiet and space. I like strong community.

I spent 15 years apartment living all over the world, and couldn’t be happier moving to the suburbs.
Just for the last 5-10 years. Before, BTC was cool.
I don’t think people saying these things are inherently wrong. “Not working” is obviously wrong because using brain is work, and it’s exhausting work in many cases. The flip-side, and this is probably what is meant, is that you don’t break your body doing it. Similarly it’s obviously silly to think a higher education is necessary for a good working life. A lot of independent contractors and trades people have some really cool jobs that most office workers would be jealous of. Again what is meant is the perception that not having a higher education leads to a poorer life, which it can, but doesn’t have to.

I think that especially calling white collars out as not doing real work is often lovingly. It can be said by assholes, but the language around physical labour is often “tough love”. I’m not sure calling blue collar workers unfulfilled is very often lovingly though, so I think most people who do that are assholes.

What is interesting in the debate to me, is that I see a lot of IT work as blue collar work. Not all of it, but a lot of what we do is basically trade-skill related similar to how plumbing is. It’s just no physical. Over all though, I think it’s best to spend very little time on people who actually mean it hatefully when they call you X. Who cares what assholes think?
Few people use it for trade because few people accept it. Right now there are more people campaigning to have bitcoin not be used than there are campaigning to use it.

Perhaps that will change one day, perhaps it won't. Unless the price keeps going up greater than 20% per year perpetually(no exponential growth is perpetual) the electricity use will eventually drop. The people who are angry about the idea of it will eventually not care enough to be angry.

>* I figured a realistic max value for 1 BTC would be 500k-1M. So the big money has been made, imo.*

I agree that the big money has been made. If it did actually replace money it might be worth a few million. That's not going to happen anytime soon though, even if things went well for bitcoin it would take decades more to reach that point. It's a high risk investment with a possible yield of 10x to 100x in a timeframe that you could probably get a better return from something far more secure.

Sure you could make heaps buying and selling at just the right time, but trading on volatility can be done in any market, and usually results in people losing all their money to the inside traders.
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Sure you can. Check out what Ensoniq did with digital-analog hybrids.
I’d hardly call BMW’s current sales numbers “imploding” or “suffering”. They’re even doing quite well inside China.

VW saw a 12% increase in sales in 2023, the’re currently
#2 globally behind Toyota.

But that’s not really the narrative people have about European car companies. (Ed: Not that the nominal nationality of a company with global manufacturing and significant international ownership is telling the whole story.)
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I'd never suggested Firefox is akin to IE. Safari is, however, as it's tied to macOS. You cannot use it on Linux, and nobody really uses it on Windows. You cannot use it on Android. It's hopelessly behind on many modern Web standards, too. In that sense it's totally IE-like. Cross-platform is a must for a modern browser platform.
Never understood this kind of sensational statements without inflation adjustment. Although does not make difference in this case, but all these claims "X has never been this expensive" often ignore inflation adjustment; render them meaningless.
The Ringconn Gen 2, supposedly can detect sleep apnea. https://ringconn.com/products/ringconn-gen-2

The reviews I've read/watched about wearables ability to track sleep patterns seem to show great variability between what one wearable would say versus another.
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Because deregulation or non-enforcement means manipulation/pump-and-dump etc. will still be profitable. The market probably believes that Trump will keep his word [1] on this topic. Since Trump could continue to enrich himself using crypto and with guys like Peter Thiel owning him, sorry advising him, that is a common sense interpretation.

[1] https://archive.ph/KsI4s#selection-1575.114-1575.206
> my government is not run by lunatics

Oh my sweet summer child
>too much government regulation that was erected with good intentions, but ended up becoming a competitive Moat that reduced the competition and entrenched big players.

While I agree with this, that regulations are often championed and even written by entrenched companies to increase the barrier to entry, the government can sue to block any merger they deem a harm to competition. Unfortunately they choose not to.

AI is a good example of this. If the government regulated AI, the only companies who will control and profit from AI are the ones who already have it.
I ran the numbers some time ago, I figured a realistic max value for 1 BTC would be 500k-1M.

Extremely curious about your methodology here. Also I'm not sure how to process "the max value is only 5-10x from current prices so the big money has already been made". Can you explain?
Gensler has confirmed his intention is to resign on January 20.
Investopedia agrees with what I wrote. People use USD because they want to. No one is stopping petroleum sellers from accepting other currencies, but the petroleum sellers believe USD will buy them what they want (more than other currencies).

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/petrodollars.asp

> Petrodollars are crude oil export revenues denominated in U.S. dollars (USD). The term became widely used in the mid-1970s when soaring oil prices generated large trade and account surpluses for oil-exporting countries.

>Then, as now, oil sales and the resulting current account surpluses were denominated in dollars because the U.S. dollar was—and remains—by far the most widely used currency.

>The U.S. dollar's global popularity doesn't depend on the goodwill of oil exporters. It's based on the U.S.'s status as the world's largest economy and goods importer, with deep, liquid capital markets backed by the rule of law and military power.
What bonds have to do with it ?

What can you do with bonds beside speculating?

my understanding was that you can
basically decide what's happening

How so?
Sounds like a mix of the ancient Athenian liturgy tax and Georgist land-value tax. I'm a big fan of the second one.
Some cultures, it's normal to shower at night, others in the morning.

The majority of Americans I know shower in the morning. Japanese bath/shower at night as a general rule. A western person I know married to a Japanese person said their partner thought they were gross to climb into bed all dirty (not bathing at night). My friend thought "waking up sticky from sleep and staying sticky all day is gross". My friend's solution was to bath both in the morning and at night. Their partner still only baths at night.
...just like, fiat money.

At least, Bitcoin can't be printed and not centralized like a government-controlled money.

Bitcoin is not perfect, also not fully decentralized either, but still much better than more-centralized fiat which are government-controlled and are still used for all the harmful purposes already.
Weren’t the last spike in crypto prices mostly done by major holders who needed to unload? I admit I don’t follow it very closely but I seem to recall some Danish articles about it essentially being a form of market manipulation largely unrelated to anything that was actually happening in the world.

I’m probably wrong though.
The big move above $100k happened after 9pm Eastern time.
I hate that you are right regarding the cultural aspect. I wish we were better at preserving our respective identities. That's why I like going to small movie theatres; they tend to play local films. And you do stumble on gems from time to time.
I long for a US-like entrepreneurial attitude here in the UK. Business people here think that they are playing zero sum games. Everyone looks to the govt for funding and direction.

I am reflecting on Deepmind. This company saw the AI revolution before anyone else. London based. They did an amazing job. Sold to Google. The problem is that long term the growth and money now goes back to the US. Maybe the UK is just too small to produce world leading companies.
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They forgot to mention that the number one cause of death is a disease associated with by a lack of physical activity or prolonged periods of sitting or inactivity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rat...
I’m not inclined to think cutting the doctors out of the equation and allowing everyone to self-prescribe would have made the opiate epidemic better.
Developers should do at least some testing in every reasonably popular browser engine.
Do the definitions of these two overlap? Apart from having music and images?
In a sense, the AI hype itself has been quite repetitive too. It's small wonder that articles debunking it would be as well.
No, it's not like that. In any case go through this list and tell me you cannot find a single beneficial one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebell...

Here, I'll leave you one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution

I don't even think you're wrong in your dislike of revolutions, like I said, I was clear in saying I don't want to live through one, but the extreme view that nothing good every happened is simply, blind.
One cool thing WASM-4 has over TIC-80 is built-in networked multiplayer with rollback: https://wasm4.org/docs/guides/multiplayer
What makes you think BTC is an inflation hedge? BTC did not hedge the inflation event in 2022.
How much warmer do you think the world would be from running Bitcoin for 100 years?
Indeed. Look at the most expensive places to live in the Bay Area - it’s not the urban centers, it’s the suburbs.

Americans like space. They like big houses. They like not hearing their neighbors. They like to live on a street that is quiet.

Even the ones that don’t like driving are willing to do it as a trade off for all those things.

Most of the young people I knew in SF who lived there in their 20’s - about 90% moved to the suburbs when they got older. Being close to bars or restaurants doesn’t matter much for most older people. What matters is low crime, space and good schools. They can drive to the city if they need to.
If you are sure of this then congrats, you’ve spotted a pattern in the market that you can exploit and get rich off.

Seems unlikely tho for this reason.
Surely you're not serious. The price of 1 bitcoin was less than a dollar in 2010.
How is Safari "behind" modern standards? Seems pretty up to date, if not ahead in come cases, to me.

https://caniuse.com/?compare=chrome+134,safari+18.2,firefox+...
According to Mozilla's "Firefox vs Brave" page, the foremost reason is Brave's ad blocking might be too good and block pages you don't want to block.