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>Does anybody know whats stopping ethical and slightly less greedy companies from outcompeting these conglomerates?

I like this question because it inspires the thought of an "incrementally more ethical firm". Ethics can be roughly characterized as constraints on behavior, therefore if two firms, all else equal, differ then the ethical one is naively at a natural disadvantage, having fewer degrees-of-freedom in any situation. The classic response is that cooperation between firms is itself a powerful advantage, and that ethical behavior ought to yield advantages to cooperation that outweigh the cost of behavioral restrictions.

I believe that the equation changes when ethical behavior itself is successfully attacked and associated with weakness. What happens to a bank if everyone believes it will fail? It fails. What happens when everyone believes that morality is weakness? Morality IS weakness. At that point the reputation and cooperation effects are erased, and only the loss of freedom remains. At that point the culture shifted from the "cooperate-cooperate" Nash equilibrium to the "defect-defect" one. (Religious belief tends to unequivocally favor "cooperate-cooperate" and can therefore both resist this transition and assist in the reverse transition, which adds to religion's social utility.)
I’m not sure anyone has fond memories of Clippy?
Answer to what?

DLSS was designed to solve performance issues, not architecture problems and poor design.

And you absolutely wouldn't want your fonts or UI to be upscaled by it. You will hate every second of your experience.
> Nothing can stop by he centralization of power that AI provides to the powerful

The social acceptance of defeatism and quitting is incredible - they couldn't have a more ideal opposition. You'll never win if you quit before you start. It's mass cowardice in the face of danger, with an excuse of course.
Yes. But this too shall pass when the bubble bursts.
Public, yes. Interpretable- recent transactions- no. Have you done chain analytics on pay-to-Taproot key-path transactions?
>> I'm talking about cash here. Cash is literally an article of faith and nothing else. It's not backed by any asset.

It's backed by contracts to pay it back. There are powerful institutions employing people with guns and other means to make you pay back.
"Faith" undersells the situation. We developed the whole system to force people to pay their loans back.
Just in response to some of the other comments here. Render has been around for a bit, I always saw it as a better Heroku. Not so sure they need differentiate themselves, they have been around for a while. IMO they are a nice fit because AFAIK they have not invested any new paradigms and really built it up as a Heroku 2.0.
It's possible that the folks who find themselves working at Potatotrac are not genius leetcoders who can get a new FAANG job anytime they want. They're probably just ordinary people trying to make enough money to buy an occasional $10 potato for their family.

Airbnb or Uber, on the other hand...
totally same here! Never had such as issue before with any smartphone such as apple or even samsung!
Most Americans don't have enough money in reserve for 5% interest on their bank balance to make much of a difference†. If you're living paycheck to paycheck then you spend all of your money before it has a chance to accumulate any interest. I obviously don't know the financial situation of the store clerk you were talking to. But if you are trying to get typical American retail workers excited about 5% interest, you are probably a bit disconnected from the financial reality of their lives.

†https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/24/how-much-money-americans-hav...
> The word just is doing a lot of work here.

I find it always does, especially when people are talking about software.
>We still don’t know what Bitcoin really is and how it behaves
We know both of those things 100%, it's in the source code and ledger of every transaction that has ever occurred from it's inception. We certainly do NOT know that in regards to gold, nobody has a good picture of the world's total gold reserves and where they are, the extraction rate, or it's exchange. A lot of what people say is true of bitcoin but not of gold seems to be precisely the opposite.

As far as what should bitcoin's utility be valued at to the world at large, sure this is in a volatile state, but I don't see how that bears on it's classification as an asset.
Your rhetorical what now?
isn't that what the e2e encryption is for?

I guess they could collect metadata of course
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No, the idea is anonymity. How can you trust the contract between you and some user across the world? Yes, crypto solves it. Law won’t help when someone tries to scam you across the world, at least in majority of cases.
The article kind of jumbles the paper it's reporting on, the paper's headline might be better (or linking the paper directly):

"No blackouts or cost increases due to 100 % clean, renewable electricity powering California for parts of 98 days"

> This paper uses data from the world's 5th-largest economy to show no blackouts occurred when wind-water-solar electricity supply exceeded 100 % of demand on California's main grid for a record 98 of 116 days from late winter to early summer, 2024, for an average of 4.84 (and maximum 10.1) hours/day
War. It's fan-tastic!
Because Microsoft just pissed away their biggest brand after Windows and maybe Microsoft. Brand recognition holds value, a lot of value.

Imagine Pepsi deciding that they are done with Pepsi Max, arguably their biggest brand, after Pepsi itself, and decides that it's now Pepsi Cake. Just kill of all references to their biggest brand. That wouldn't go down well and Microsoft is only getting away with it because pretty much everyone who needs it already have their subscription.
how come I'm only seeing a Godaddy default page?
dupe, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42829149
>Cigarettes in prison is an example of a currency that is not taxed per se.

Yes, cigarettes, like the dollar have an intrinsic value. You can smoke them and nicotine makes you feel good. It is similar to the way that I can pay my taxes in USD and feel comfort in the fact that I won't have to barter for cigarettes in federal prison.

Bitcoin is not a currency because it no longer meets the primary economic definition of currency - a medium of exchange. It is a speculative asset. A security, if you will. It can be used as a currency in the same way as gold bars and bricks of cocaine can (barter system) but it's not a currency.
The primary definition of the word "economy" in the Oxford is:

> the wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services.

so, yes, it does have other meanings too, but it does not "literally mean home management".
The post-covid inflation hit hard everywhere on the planet. It’s not the fault of Democrats.
Pencil and paper, two questions "What is money?", "How does a money start?", half an hour in a park
I was thinking about that the other day.

I had a run in with Clippy last year when I had to install Office '98 to work with some old files. It installed Clippy and he worked really well.

My take on Clippy was that it was backed by a highly effective full-text search of the help, which was remarkable, because people didn't expect full-text search of help to be effective at all in the 1990s. (e.g. Google demolished people's expectations of full-text search)

The goal of Clippy the character was to get people to try the search, but I think a lot of people were turned off by the character and didn't get to realize how good the search was.

Cortana also had a lot of baggage because of trying to be a character, maybe Microsoft is right to give it a bland icon that blends into the background because at least people won't be offended by the icon.
> For those who haven't realized it yet, Deepseek-R1 is better than claude 3.5 and better than OpenAI o1-pro, better than Gemini.

Worse at writing. Its prose is overwrought. It's yet to learn that "less is more"
The price will move (down) until the sell is fulfilled - if there are not $50MM worth of buyers at that price point then the price will drop until buyers are found.

The 'market cap' of Bitcoin is irrelevant here, only the price sensitivity of buyers. Given there is no underlying income stream from bitcoin, there is no real floor. If nobody wants to buy it, a 50MM sell will go to zero pretty quick.
The great thing about this article is that it's equally applicable to both far left and far right posters. Very inclusive <3
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I actually would. Gaming monitors are the equivalent of fancy audiophile gear. It's a way to fleece people by making them think they can perceive a difference that isn't really there.
elb,ec2,s3 is still my favorite
Next to nobody is actually using it as a means of exchange because it is poorly suited for that purpose in practice. The only type of commerce for which it’s viable in practice are typically crime or crime-adjacent. There is of course a small market of users for “legitimate” and ethically reasonable purposes, but they are by far in the minority.

The overwhelming majority of users are holding it as an asset. Which it’s also poorly suited for in the long run: it generates nothing in and of itself and requires constant feeding of money and energy to keep it going. The only way to see a return is to trade it to a greater fool.
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Does the Nvidia FrameView app works under Linux (or more like under X11 and Wayland)? You can measure general system latency with that https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/technologies/frameview/
Yes. It shines with real problems.
The sense of "wealth and resources of a country" (short for political economy) is attested from 1650s That’s long before economists became a thing.

Kings looked about the economy in terms of tax revenue, so it’s not just some arbitrary abstraction.
Bitcoin could be more compared to a national currency like Argentinian pesos. The value can go to zero as it is no longer accepted (people do not want it), but there is no inherited promise in the first place it goes up forever.

All it matters that it will stay more stable than other assets. And we know from economic history that assets tied to nations may disappear overnight, e.g. Cyprus.
That's not the point of my post, but point taken.
"Lina Khan warns of ‘catastrophic consequences’"

And I believe the name is very important here because she was the only FTC head that managed to scare Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft. All of them donated heavily to Trump and they got rewarded with her departure. Now, it looks like the FTC will go back to looking the other way. And that's what she is warning against.
Wayland is a protocol. The problems people complain about are generally implementation details specific to GNOME or KDE or (in general) one particular implementation.

There's rarely any such thing as "universal superiority", usually you're making a tradeoff. In the case of X vs Wayland it's usually latency vs. tearing. Personally I'm happy with Wayland because there was a time when watching certain videos with certain media players on Linux was incredibly painful because of how blatant and obtrusive the tearing was. Watching the same video under Wayland worked fine.

Early automobiles didn't have "universal superiority" to horses, but that wasn't an inhibitor to adoption.
Gold is an economic sink, too. It is primarily used to preserve capital, even though it has unique atomic properties. Mining gold also takes real inherent value.

Gold as a store of capital isn’t accessible to a lot of people, though, because it is easy to steal and thus hard to store. So instead, I can buy a gold ETF.

It does make sense that Vanguard doesn’t have a Bitcoin ETF, though: they don’t have a gold ETF either, for the same reason
Well, legally, many of those things are crime, and so people call it crime.

But public safety is more than worries about being violently attacked. If you have someone passed out on a narrow sidewalk, you then have to walk into the street to get past them: that's unsafe, and even worse for people with mobility issues. If someone relieves themself in a public space or throws away needles on the street, that's a matter of hygiene and disease.

And although opioid users aren't going to be violent, there are other drugs. Am I allowed to be concerned for my own safety when someone is smoking meth on the bus?
Yes, and I say this as someone who used Heroku for over a decade and recently switched to Render.

The Heroku platform has recently gone downhill. There’s a ton of downtime, minimal improvements, no communication via their status page, and incredibly bad support. They once shut off GitHub deploys for months with no explanation, because of a security incident they seemingly couldn’t fix… we had no way to deploy!

Heroku was amazing, but it’s dying rapidly. Render isn’t a huge departure from Heroku, but it’s solid and the team is very responsive.
I agree about Bitcoin, but other cryptocurrencies like Ethereum or Solana have use as gas to power transactions on their respective networks. So it's interesting to see Vanguard nix those two as well and then say "We do have a lot of interest in blockchain, the technology behind cryptocurrencies. We believe its application to a number of other uses besides crypto will make capital markets more efficient, and we’ve been actively involved in research to use blockchain technology."
I have to believe you are a bot.
How much energy are we spending to try to summon stochastic parrot but world-ending doomsday edition?
That was so funny they left out "and returns"

Like, it's valid to point to its historical volatility, but it struck me as intellectually dishonest to say it's been (historically) risky without also acknowledging that holders have (historically) been well-rewarded for their risk appetite. High Sharpe ratio, etc.
>after the recovery from the Global Financial Crisis

Depending what exactly you mean, that's less than ten years. It wasn't until 2016 that median home sale prices exceeded 2008's.
> Economy literally means "home management,"

No, it doesn't.

"Etymologically derives from an older term that meant" is not the same as "literally means", though for some reason the confusion of etymology and meaning is common on HN.
Based on the fact of them using a dark pattern to hide a subscription tier, and effectively hiding the one that they're claiming to no longer exist hence the price increase would have me cancel out of principle.
It's unfortunate that colour calibration took a while to be fully implemented (xx-color-management-v4 landed on most compositors half a year ago I think, though LTS distros may need to wait longer to get it).

That being said, thanks to Nvidia I never got colour calibration to work right in X11 either, so I have no horse in this race. Would be cool to finally get HDR working for the first time, but I don't know if that'll ever happen on Linux with Nvidia hardware. Guess I should keep dual booting for HDR content until either Windows 10 dies off or I get new hardware.

I do actually notice the lack of tearing in Wayland, especially under heavy load. Used to annoy me to no end to see my windows tear when just dragging them across a 1080p screen. I don't know if it was an Intel driver bug (I tried all the config settings) or something X11 specific, but Wayland did finally fix the tearing issues I had.

I haven't noticed any problems with colours in either Gnome or Gamescope (except for the lack of HDR, of course, but that's also true on X11) so whatever is causing issues for you seems to be DE specific. Looks like we both have issues other people never encountered, that's what makes graphics stacks so impossible to debug and code for.
It's mostly happening in the 3rd world with unstable/high inflation currencies but who have internet access. We here in the 1st world have relatively stable financial systems so most people do not feel the need for crypto, except the anarchists.
What is lacking when you are using Orca on Gnome with wayland?
> How do you feel about protesters who carry out acts of civil disobedience, violating laws to draw attention to the issue?

Some laws are just, some aren't.

I can even accept exceptions for proportional acts of violence against evil people... But the way you speak is normally used by people trying to perpetrate moderate (a few times even large) acts of violence against large groups of innocent people. So, if that's what you want to know, I normally make exceptions for proportional acts of violence against that last group.
How do you mean exactly?
Good article - very insightful
This is pretty bad methodology for someone to call it "Hard numbers"
Bitcoin is commonly compared to Gold and I agree with BTC proponents who state that most of Gold's value is driven by speculative investment, however in the long term (over centuries and even millenia) it has a demonstrated real return of zero. So Gold has preserved wealth.

Bitcoin might do the same, but for this to occur it will always need new liquidity as it lacks intrinsic value. But this also implies that the real return will be zero over the long term, like with Gold. Moreover, as it's value comes entirely from its price, the door to the 'price value' of Bitcoin (or any other similar asset) reaching the Moon or zero will always be open.

However, Gold does have intrinsic value (10% annual use in industry) and has, over millenia and at present, an aesthetic value (40% in Jewellery). Which would probably classed under Sign Value in semiotics. So it has intrinsic, exchange, symbolic and sign values too.

Note that over the long term, most commodity real returns have been zero or even negative. Unsurprising, as we have gotten far more efficient at extracting them.
I mean just pointing its flight deck into the wind with sufficient speed to hold it there, as opposed to heading into it at 25 knots (which required firing up six boilers, so I assume it was not initially steaming at that speed.)

It was always possible that the airplane could have gone off the bow with insufficient speed to do a go-around, but it might also be the case that the shallow approach was a consequence of trying to land on a target moving away, and that made it difficult to spot-land. My guess is the latter, though of course I can't prove it.

With a 40 kt wind down the deck, one would need the brakes to avoid being blown backwards off it, or into a reverse groundloop which might well lead to the same outcome.
Homicides are generally considered pretty reliable for statistics, and those have gone down. Though it's possible for those to go down while lower level crimes go up.
I did. I was working as a cashier for the first one, this was several years ago. I was asked to help put handcuffs on the shoplifter since our LP guy had is hands full restraining him. I should have objected to being asked to stand by as backup when confronting a shoplifter, but I'm a pushover.

But just this year I saw a grocery store security guard beat the shit out of a homeless person that they caught stealing (this was in the receiving area, not the parking lot--no cameras as far as I'm aware). This may not have been within policy, or legal, but it surely happens. It takes a certain sort to opt into a job where your primary function is intimidating people all the time.
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A project I started with high ambitions, but recently stopped working on because of lack of time. It's pretty much described in the Readme. Feel free to do whatever you want with it ;)
Why did you pick up 21 mln people? Just to make a contrived connection to the number of bitcoins?
I agree it’s a cool video. But fame and popularity aren’t external forces? YouTube ad revenue isn’t a financial incentive?
404 Media just released a great related article "The Powerful AI Tool That Cops (or Stalkers) Can Use to Geolocate Photos in Seconds"

https://www.404media.co/the-powerful-ai-tool-that-cops-or-st...
There was BigChainDB that tried to combine blockchains with SQL database, but it failed as it was too early.

The trick is that it must be triple accounting and the counterparty needs to share the ledger, which cannot be done without PK.
How does MiniKanren fix some limitations? MiniKanren corresponds to the purely relational subset of Prolog.
Complement to which of Meta's products?
The BJS crime stats are suspect, at best. Instead of relying on actual reports, it's based on polling with a series of interviews. I'm sure that is really reliable in the poor and wealthy neighborhoods. - https://bjs.ojp.gov/data-collection/ncvs#1-0
For me, a couple of years ago a vertical mouse almost instantly solved my RSI which I only once had severe before in 40+ years of computer usage (that was due to physical work, though they attempted to gaslight me into being a heavy computer user). Using a mouse, trackpad or trackpad meant trouble. Slowly, it healed, and I can once again use a trackpad. But nowadays I do not use normal mice anymore for any prolonged tasks. Only my vertical one. I had a different one before the Logitech one. Some cheap ass brand. It worked well for a couple of months of heavy usage and then it had hardware malfunctioning. I went with the Logitech and years later still goes strong, with a couple of weeks of battery life.

You're wrong regarding mice being always superior. Mice have their place, and I am not the only person who has benefited from vertical mice (there is a learning curve, btw). Mice have a severe drawback: they need more physical, flat, clean space than the other pointer solutions. Try a mouse with a cyberdeck and tell me how that worked out. I've done pentesting tasks with a small laptop the size of two mice. I would not be able to do that outside on the go with a mouse. I also had situations where back in the days I had no space for a mouse, so I used my trackpoint.
Yet if the large grocery store chain doesn't consider it even worth a phone-call or web-form-submit--knowing they already have the footage of the event--it does kinda blunt the idea that it's a big problem.
Ya, probably the relevant length from stern to the end of the waist deck - as I understand it if you need go around ("bolt") on a carrier landing, your going off the waist deck. From peeking at some pictures, it doesn't look like the midway waist deck is much shorter than on a Nimitz or something.
If this tells you anything, the CEO of Heroku (who was ex AWS), just left for Nvidia. I asked him directly before he left if he was interested in GPU compute and his only answer was basically... "only what it is available on AWS"... which is where all their stuff is hosted now.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/14/heroku-ceo-bob-wise-depart...
Would she be happy to wear a necklace that appeared identical to gold to the naked eye, but anyone with a $10 instrument could demonstrate was not gold but something relatively worthless? If so, I have something I would like to sell you that your wife would really love.
Old phones are an underappreciated resource, imo.

I keep a few handsets around for apps I don't want on my daily driver (ex:food ordering, 2FA).

More in line with the article: For alternate cell/SMS service I have a RedPocket SIM. (note: I see now it's $45/yr on ebay. I'm paying less, prob grandfathered).