After posting a "Warning", I left my phone on the bed as it is on the bed where my 9 month old daughter was sleeping soundly (as it seemed). But a minute later when I came back, she had the phone in her hand and already zapped about 500 Sats/CCs on two posts...#1062884 #1063070

¨BREAKING: THE US CFTC JUST ANNOUNCED IT WILL LET FUTURES EXCHANGES OFFER SPOT #BITCOIN BUYING AND SELLING DIRECTLY

ANOTHER WALL STREET BARRIER BROKEN. THIS IS HUGE 🔥¨

I think the function we want for boost is

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION item_boost_to_votes(x INTEGER)
RETURNS FLOAT
AS $$
BEGIN
    IF x <= 0 THEN
        RETURN 0;
    END IF;
    RETURN POWER(LOG(100, x), 2.5);
END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

This gives some power to even small boosts (similar to an equally sized zap from a trusted stacker ... with the zap not going to the OP) yet extra power to large boosts. Then I think we want boost to expire in a week rather than a month for top boost.

We'd probably also want to make it so that territory founders boosting their own content in their own territory don't get the revenue from it. Otherwise it's a no-brainer to boost their content ~1000 sats and dominate the front page.

seeing two opposite takes about me on the Stacker News front page at the same time, is a good reminder i am neither as good nor as bad as people think

made an appointment for an eye test at noon tomorrow, hopefully that will fix my sleep schedule

I stumbled again on this all-time favorite of mine.

From dagsson.

With all this inflation talk my phone bill and my fiber internet access has not gone up one cent!

Did Wallet of Satoshi incorporated Spark to give a partially self custody btc allowing to unify lightning and on chain in a single balance?

Is there some caching on the notifications page? I just received a push notification for a post in a territory that I’m subscribed to, but when viewing my notifications page within SN, that post is not there

Fiction is fun, especially at the beginning of a story when you're unconstrained and it's arbitrary. It's really hard though after you've made enough choices and have to make it sing.

These song titles feel like they are invite-only, because how do you even search for it?

Happy 235th Birthday 🎂 Cost Guard!

Day 587 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 511 sats on 3Aug2025! Running total: 394,338 sats!

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

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Happiness Journal 4/8/25

My Foundation students’ Maths teacher wasn’t around today. This opened up the window of opportunity for me to step into class and get all of them, except for two, to finish their corrections and undone pieces. What’s more, I didn’t take the easy way out by letting them copy the answers. I asked them guiding questions to elicit the right answers, constructing their knowledge, one morsel of information at a time.

Took me an entire hour, incidentally the first two periods of the day, but the sense of accomplishment that ignited my energy tank was immeasurable. One seemingly insurmountable burden lifted off the shoulder right off the bat. I can focus my energy on the Circulatory System this week.