skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could say only a tiny amount of the power is used for transactions. But given that the transactions are the entire point of the network, all power used by the network ought to be counted towards the transactions, just like we’d count the power used by the lights in a bank towards their transactions even though the lights don’t directly do transactions.

The fact that the power used by Bitcoin is essentially independent of the number of transactions is interesting, but it’s not a plus for Bitcoin, since the network is at capacity already.
This is why multi-sig exists. Put the funds in a 6-of-10 account, done. You would need a 60% attack (60% of the executives to collude/conspire, or 60% being hacked/kidnapped) to be robbed.
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Neither of those two articles mention bitpay. Did you reply to the right comment?
are you implying that despite the regulatory capture that has already occurred, somehow further regulations will not subsequently be captured? there is a saying about the person who does the same thing again and again expecting a different result.
The physical object however takes up much less space & through a multisig address breaching one storage point is insufficient
As someone who doesn't particularly like Electron, I have an honest question: Why all the hate?

Sure, it's slower and less resource-efficient, but is anyone making you use it?

Yes, it makes it easier to "just use your web developers" instead of hiring native app devs, but how many of those apps would even exist if the only path was to develop a native app?

Electron is too slow for me, so I just stick to e.g. Emacs and Sublime text. Other people get along just fine with Electron, and love VS Code.

Why can't it be fine for people like what works for them?
> Crucially, this study models scenarios such as AVs being _half_ as safe as human drivers

See, this is the main reason why AVs are great: accidents are caused by speeders, drunk, tired, inexperienced drivers, morons driving while high on pot or ecstasy, that is, those who are MUCH worse than an average driver used as a yardstick to measure the performance of the autonomous cars.

Replace them by an imperfect machine lacking common sense, and the overall driving skill still goes up.
There's no reason not to use BigNum type equivalent in your program where computation intensive tasks are not expected, when language supports them well enough.
This is pretty much why I stopped using Scrivener entirely and started using WriterDuet for screenwriting. Trying to sync on Google Drive was an impossible shitshow. Still pisses me off.
There is a reason the word con is in eCONomics.
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The US economy is at least $2 trillion larger than the European Union's combined economy.

$19 to $19.5 trillion for the US, versus $16.5 to $17.5 for the EU (depending on your source, however they all universally agree the US is several trillion dollars larger).

And that of course is despite the EU having ~55% more people.

https://tradingeconomics.com/european-union/gdp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union
Hey I'm also in the charting/data space for cryptocoins. The focus is on alerting (email) due to price movements. Currently its a simple percent-change trigger, with more complex triggers on the way (such as two-coin correlation). The roadmap includes user-provided code that runs on our environment for very customized triggers/signals. https://cointhink.com

Its written in Elm/Go, using protobuf-in-json over a websocket. I've been working on it for the past nine months and its becoming more useful all the time. All the code is up at https://github.com/cointhink/ Working with elm has been amazing.
Thanks, I'll revise.
Yes, if you're a $10m hedge fund or a small family office. But not if you need to manage $400bn; then you (really) want a custodian.

These people allocate and mostly invest in funds with exposure to certain asset classes (private equity, VC, hedge funds, equity and bond funds, etc).
I never said it was meaningless, I said it was subjective.
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I thought it was obvious how Bitcoin helped and didn't to explain... So it helps because it functions like cash: bitcoins are held digitally in your wallet and no one can stop you from transacting with them, unlike an account at a bank or payment processor that can be seized or frozen.
To answer your first question with regard to resources and getting into it first; you can start with the Go tour, and then move on to other resources. Absolutely install go and start playing around; maybe try to create a simple server or port one an easy to medium Python project.

Have a look at these resources:

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1. A Tour of Go: https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1

>> A nice step by step introductory guide through the language.

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2. Go by Example: https://gobyexample.com/

>> A concise collection of fundamental concepts, expressions, and implementations.

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3. The Go Programming Language: http://www.gopl.io/

>> The text by two authors of the language. You may view as the "KnR" for C but for Go.

>> It has end of chapter problems and the solutions are hosted on github:

>>> https://github.com/adonovan/gopl.io/

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4. Effective Go: https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html

>> Advice on writing solid Go.

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5. Official Go Page of Documentation and Other Resources: https://golang.org/doc/

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6. The Go Language Specification: https://golang.org/ref/spec
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> With the proper treatment, HIV has a negligible impact on your quality of life

Just to be clear your statement is 100% false:

http://nymag.com/health/features/61740/index3.html
When single, you become a philosopher. When married with kids, you are happy if you get an hour of sleep.

Read Seneca's On the Shortness of Life.
http://nymag.com/health/features/61740/index3.html
Those benchmarks work ceteris paribus. All else being equal, a faster CPU, faster memory, and faster disk will translate to faster app launch times.

In this case, they don't, as you can see with your own eyes. That's because the platforms are different.

> Some YouTube dude has a video that makes your phone looks fast?

Every single video that shows app launching has the same result. Don't believe them? Try it yourself. If you get a different result and post it to YouTube, all of your fanboy friends will love it, and you'll get some revenue. The rest of us are happy to use the more productive and less expensive phones.

You're like a person who says climate change is due to solar flares but doesn't actually measure the effect of solar flares on climate to realize that there is a huge amount of warming that is not accounted for by that simple analysis.
> I do think Chance the Rapper is an outlier

Recently it seems to be the path to success as a hip hop artist, not the outlier case. Beyond Chance look at 21 Savage (who blew up before he signed to Epic), Lil Peep, hell, even Run the Jewels is independent.
I think that's cool that you're able to go to what seems like a version of an intellectual salon and have those talks. It seems that the person that stormed out wasn't as open-minded as some of the other participants.

Sometimes we're so focused on being right, or what we believe is right, that we can't open ourselves up to other thoughts or arguments. Across the political spectrum, we're missing empathy and the ability to have discussions beyond yelling at one another.
I like how you blatantly just google'd this and didn't even take the nominal effort to research anything further let alone think about your response, because literally none of it has anything to do with economic/business regulation.

1. Indians weren't citizens. I mean I could stop there, but it's also pretty hilarious that you think the actions taken at the time were somehow not without popular public support. Government as an entity had nothing to do with the expansions, to put it lightly.

2. Yeah, like when we stopped the government from enforcing such laws and gave more protections to people (via the government), all exclusionary practices totally vanished. Totally wasn't a societal problem at that point either. It took the power of the government to alleviate unjust practices, but the power of government wasn't needed to keep them as "virtues" within the society that implemented them in the first place. Something something government, right?

I mean for 3 and 4? Really? You're going to try to use Constitutional powers as an example of the government having too much power?

And no, please don't go on with an aggravating lack luster response like the one you've decided to put on display, I've only responded for the people reading this thread so as to not fall into such disingenuous misdirection.
Information sells.
I so had my hopes up when i found a Matter Transfer Utility...

http://www.juris.com/help/Content/Juris-core/Utilities/matte...
A WebSockets / realtime / push/pull exercise would be a good addition.
I'm not sure why you brought chocolate and caramel into the picture, but I'm going to stick with my opinion that peanuts are not candy.

I think you're attempting to redefine a word to fit your narrative, and I'm not having it.
Most of the cost is probably insurance.
For me it matches perfectly for each letter. Maybe you're on an older build?
> you can't get around all the patents

Just open a shop in China and obfuscate a bit. Job done.
>Sure, it's slower and less resource-efficient, but is anyone making you use it?

Yes. Is impossed on the users by the developers using it.
As part of the settlement, the judge should have required the boards of these companies to explain exactly how these employees were reprimanded. At the least they all should have been fired or forced to take a provable leave of absence for 2 years.
This is also present on outlook. I wonder why Cortana can't just use that same logic. I guess they had to justify their existence by coding up the same thing again.
As IshKabab hints at, there's a huge difference between defining a domain within an existing language and defining a domain-specific language. Yes, types and functions do define a domain, by detailing the data compositions and operations available. But those data and operations work within the confines of the existent language.
I’m a nerd and I wouldn’t switch.

I’d be pissed for an hour but at the end of the day my phone, laptop, watch, TV and car all syncing my music and crap with no effort is too appealing to scoff at.

Hell if I found out they had a meat locker of dead kittens hidden in the basement of 1 Infinite Loop Id probably stay loyal.
Any reason why there's not more support for the Progressive Web Apps standard on desktop browsers [1]?

It seems to me that many Electron apps these days (most chat apps: Slack, WhatsApp, Discord, etc) are super-thin wrappers around a web app that don't actually need the full desktop access offered by Electron (things like local filesystem access, multi-process execution, multi-window management, arbitrary node APIs, etc).

They just need a way for users to "install" the app so that it 1) has a separate shortcut and appears in a separate window from the browser, 2) can send notifications through the native notifications stack, and use a fallback on systems where one isn't available, 3) is available for use offline.

The Progressive Web Apps spec has answers to all of these problems, and it would vastly improve the resource usage model compared to Electron because each PWA would share the same browser runtime as the user's browser of choice, which is more likely than not running 24/7 anyways.

I know PWA was designed with mobile apps in mind originally, but it'd be a shame to limit it to that use case, as there is clearly a lot of demand for building desktop apps with web technologies, and PWA sounds like an excellent alternative to the current status quo that's dominated by Electron.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Progressive

Disclaimer: Please excuse me for recycling this old comment, because I do think the idea is still worth spreading.
Does anyone have an opinion on this one, also on Netflix?

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

It's pro-veganism and the narrator is a goofy manchild, but has credible (to me anyway) medical experts.
People downvote things that disagree with their biases. I thought Hacker News was better than this though.
Ring a ding. This.

Every time I see a comment about an open source phone I am curious if the poster of the comment is actually going to fine comb the code base.
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Bruce Perens, however, is entitled to not be the victim of Spender's legal harassment for exercising his First Amendment rights to disagree [1].

I have no dog in this fight whatsoever; I don't know anybody involved. But in general I have little sympathy for people, however talented, who waste taxpayers' money with bogus legal action.

[1]: https://thenewstack.io/open-source-pioneer-bruce-perens-sued...
Another quesion: if somebody you loved was killed by a driver's human error (quite possibly their own), would you be angry about the delays in making autonomous cars available?
"I like walking around Baltimore because I like the potential of being violently mugged, because you do have to keep your wits about you. If I walked around with a backpack and got mugged I would blame myself."
The main issue isn't this particular lock out; it's that Google feels it's correct to police documents and lock out users in the first place. Honestly, at this point, if you're using cloud products and lose your data, the fault is solely your own. People should know better than to use tools like this for important data. For example, as a writer of fiction, Google makes it abundantly clear in their Google docs terms that fiction is simply not allowed based on their random criteria (see article for details). My point is that technical people have various solutions to this problem while non technical people are generally left behind. Even emailing a copy to oneself is not always a good backup solution (especially if Google is you email provider). As the world gets more digital, I see only regulation by law that can prevent companies like Google from being judge, jury, and executioner of their users' accounts.
Being overweight is a much stronger correlate to cancer and heart disease than "sugar".

And, despite what you might have read in the press, it's nowhere near a consensus that sugar is the primary cause of being overweight. You really think a 50-year-old study is the smoking gun that's going to usher in a consensus among nutrition scientists everywhere?

Personally, I buy Stephen Guyenet's theory that palatability is the driver of overweight. I think it's increasing palatability and falling food costs.
I actually tried using Scrivener for writing half a novel, then realized that one plain text file per chapter with a plain text editor with a good display settings is all I need.
it's interesting with Yudkowsky - I've never met a person who's lukewarm about his writing, you either love it or hate it.

Personally I hate it - it's condescending, weirdly tone-deaf, scientistic (is that the adjective of scientism?), without a trace of human warmth, and way too verbose and over-long to keep me interested. Then again, opinions clearly vary.
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A bit less space, unless you're talking about storing hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars worth of gold. Not to mention for a common thief it's a little hard to turn gold into cash anonymously whereas that's very easy to do with BTC.
I believe you should be assisting in writing a goal statement for a revised H-1B VISA program.
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I did something similar [1] though not nearly as detailed, whereby as of Sep 2017 I estimated the total hash power to be equivalent to 712,672 S9 miners, which roughly adds up to

8.584 TWh/year
8.584 / 109613 = 0.00008 = 0.008%

(109613 TWh is the annual world consumption number you used)

[1] - Electricity cost of 1 BTC https://grisha.org/blog/2017/09/28/electricity-cost-of-1-bit...

P.S.: I think this is a high estimate, because companies like BitFury have access to much more energy efficient asics which they're keeping secret. We should at least re-calculate this using the new DragonMint miner numbers instead of S9.
Good, exactly where it should be highest.
Yeah, it's been a while since I've used windows seriously (e.g. the last version I used consistently was 2000), but afaict, selection in Finder's detail view works basically the way it works in list-boxes on all platforms: shift-click selects a range from the last selected item, command-click (ctrl-click on non-Mac) selects individual items.

Unless, perhaps, Windows Explorer doesn't behave like a list-box and selects individual items with shift-click? Or, Windows lets you select a range in icon mode, while Macs don't?
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There is something much deeper happening.

As you become successful in your field (or wherever), and further internalize the habits that are necessary to be successful, it's clear that many of these things are easy to do, it's just that people don't want to do them.

In other words ... it's obvious that many people don't want to be successful, and if they were to introspect deeply, they would see this clearly. In fact what they want is to be somewhere comfortable in the middle of the herd, not having to do too much work.

Most people want to be comfortable, not 'successful' in a way that requires ambition. But many people are brainwashed enough by the rhetoric of success that they don't realize it's not what they want.

There's also something I haven't figured out yet. Every time I give advice, I get a number of responses from people with self-defeating attitudes, explaining how this advice can't possibly apply to them because blah blah blah. These people build up belief structures that are obviously intended to keep them mired in their current situation, smelling of low self-esteem and defeatism. "Obviously" it's better not to be stuck in these belief structures, yet people will defend them vigorously, and in some cases fiercely. I don't yet fully understand why, except maybe that if someone believes there is a solution to their problem, then it must be their fault that they haven't solved it, and/or that there will be a clear failure that is their fault if they attempt to solve it.
Happy Jax => Sugar Crisp => Super Sugar Crisp => Super Golden Crisp => Golden Crisp

But it's still "Sugar Crisp" in Canada, where Sugar Bear still says "Can't get enough of that Sugar Crisp"! Do they have better truth in advertising laws there or something?

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

At the 1904 World Fair, the Quaker Oats Company made a candy-coated puffed cereal, a wheat-based product similar to Cracker Jack's candy-coated popcorn. The product concept was re-introduced unsuccessfully in 1939 by another business as Ranger Joe, the first pre-sweetened, candy-coated breakfast cereal. Post Foods introduced their own version in 1948. The Post version was originally called Happy Jax, and was renamed to Sugar Crisp the next year. The name was later changed to Super Sugar Crisp, and in 1985, it was changed again to Super Golden Crisp. Finally, it was changed to Golden Crisp (during a time when many cereals dropped the word "Sugar" from their titles) in the American market.

In the early 1970s, there was a short-lived variation on the original Sugar Crisp, called Super Orange Crisp, which had orange-flavored O's in it.

The product is still sold as Sugar Crisp in Canada. In Canada, the box still displays the Sugar Bear mascot and the phrase "Can't get enough of that Sugar Crisp."
I couldn't have written two books without Scrivener. Now I use it for a Commonplace Book.
Can you provide a source on this?
The app should never know the user declined usage of an API. When any app uses a privacy reducing API, the user should be able to know when that occurs. Microphone, location, etc, should be a small overlay like maybe the battery indicator icon where they can know when the app would have violated their privacy.
Was trying to see how a 1960s machine is relevant to a discussion of brand new linux syscall behavior... Took me a while to see that the systems of today will look like the 60s do to us in ... The late 2060s. So if the 2067 tax database picks up an older kernel than this new madvise flag they are hosed, for some definition thereof (more like they need to be more careful when forking RNGs).

Somehow that seems pretty fringe.
Franz de Waal's "Chimpanzee Politics". It's nominally about the social relationships of a chimp colony in a Dutch zoo. But it made me see the extent to which humans are just another great ape, and a lot of human dynamics are really primate dynamics, especially around social power.

Johnstone's "Impro". It's about improvisational theater, and mainly meant for people learning improv. But the section on status transactions helped me see a lot about how we express those primate dominance dynamics. There's also great material on the nature of creativity.

"Getting to Yes" is a great book about business negotiation, but is lessons about shifting discussions from zero-sum to positive-sum are things I use a lot.

Braitenberg's "Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology" is a way of thinking about psychology (and our inference of mind) by examining imaginary robots.

"The Toyota Way" and other books on Lean Manufacturing are about running extremely effective manufacturing operations. But they have deeply changed how I think about systems of making software and running businesses. Other great books in this category include "Toyota Kata" and "Principles of Product Development Flow".

"Crossing the Chasm" is about how tech products get adopted. But its mindset around segmenting audiences and building credibility taught me a lot about any sort of social change.

"Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men" is nominally about abuse in romantic relationships. But its insights about power and control have been useful to me way beyond that. E.g., so much behavior in large corporations is inexplicable if you look at it in business terms, and perfectly sensible if you think about if from the perspective of, "What would a person with abusive tendencies gain from this situation?"

Also, hearty +1s for books "Design of Everyday Things", "Finite and Infinite Games", and "Punished by Rewards".
"Impro for Storytellers" by Keith Johnstone is so relevant to pretty much everything about life and communication that I'm reading it the way people used to read the bible -- every night or two I take it off the nightstand and read a random passage, and think about it.
Ask HN: Has HN Entered Eternal September? What's Next?
So in my opinion hn has entered Eternal September and the dialog is largely not worth participating in any more. Anyone have recommendations on places to go next.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_SeptemberEternal_SeptemberEternal_SeptemberEternal_SeptemberEternal_SeptemberEternal_SeptemberEternal_SeptemberEternal_September
Logged in just to upvote you .. Everything is the fastest search tool I have ever used. It is ridiculously good. From memory, it doesn't index files, just reads the File Allocation Table.

You have to wonder: how is it that a single developer can build something so much better than a behemoth like MS? They should be seriously embarrassed.