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Bitcoin's absolute power consumption isn't at a critical level yet — Bitcoin consumes as much power globally as a single large power plant, and roughly 10% of the world's data centers.

However, I agree that its rapid and consistent growth rate is concerning and can't be ignored.

It's an area I'm really interested in and have been reading a lot about, because most of the news and "analysis" of the issue on both sides has been obnoxiously biased.

I tried to write a balanced summary article of the situation (below). Long-term, Bitcoin's electricity consumption could really go either way i.e. flatten or continue growing indefinitely. There are some causal factors like price that are out of our control, but there are others like the Lightning Network that are both feasible and in our control, and could significantly moderate Bitcoin's electricity consumption.

https://medium.com/@petershin45/bitcoin-is-killing-the-plane...
Technically now that net neutrality is gone, everyone who routes your packets can ask for money for them to pass through their network not slowed down and de-prioritized.

So becoming an ISP if you are a high traffic Web company changes nothing, unless you also own entire network from source to destination.
Good comment!

The paper you link also specifically mentions the results from Scandinavia:

> Our study did not find evidence for the plateauing or decline of the Flynn effect in the United States, as has been documented in Norway (Sundet et al., 2004) and Denmark (Teasdale & Owen, 2008; Teasdale & Owen, 2005), respectively. Table 5.6 in the WAIS-IV manual (Wechsler, 2008) summarizes an excellent planned comparison of the WAIS-III (standardized in 1995) and the WAIS-IV (standardized in 2005) scores administered in counterbalanced order to 240 examinees. This table shows results similar to our meta-analysis, with average WAIS-III scores about 3 points higher than WAIS-IV scores. In addition, the effect was similar across age and ability level cohorts. To the extent that the United States and Scandinavia differ on at least the variables proposed to be related to the plateauing of scores in Scandinavia (e.g., family life factors [Sundet et al., 2004] and educational priorities [Teasdale & Owen, 2008; Teasdale & Owen, 2005]), we might anticipate the difference in IQ score patterns noted. For example, Scandinavia’s parental leave and subsidized childcare might be indices of optimal socioenvironmental conditions and are generous relative to the United States.
I often go to outlook 365 to view mail and it logs me out. No reason. I didn't go to the logout url. Just logs me out. Happens almost every day now. Sometimes I get a content corrupted error. I have no idea what that even means and I've been doing web development for over a decade. There are at least two ways to reset your password and they each have different, incompatible password requirements with each other. And finally, I'm asked to change my password constantly and to follow stupid password rules as if my random 32 character string needs rotating. If this is the new Microsoft, it's just like the old Microsoft: absolute fucking shit. Garbage that now spies on us. We switched to MS email from zoho, a system that looks like it was last updated in the 90's and it's an absolute total disaster in comparison. I guess they're too busy rewriting everything badly in Javascript to care about actual, real user and UI issues, however. That's another stupid idea in of itself, but since I'm using a version of Office that no longer even gets security updates, it's irrelevant as I will likely never upgrade. If this is the changed Microsoft, I prefer 90's Microsoft. At least they didn't pretend they were something they were not, nor pretend like they actually care about users or developers, something they clearly don't.
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I’m an engineer in Office. This is not the case. The desktop app’s are fully native, and will remain so. They utilize React Native for a few components, but otherwise are written in C & C++.
I did read that. Independent of what you would prefer, they are still not synonymous and one would expect an article that says ways o become a 10x developer to address that specifically- not something else entirely.
>To address the disconnect between researchers in academia and standardization and the industry users of video coding technology,

This annoys me quite a bit. Because then it list out the so called large-scale video encoding from Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube. As if Video Encoding are only done by OTT providers. And the Video Encode from iPhone ( Consumers ) TV broadcast ( the good old content distributor ), livestream of events from Sports to Olympics.. etc doesn't matter. It is a very Silicon Valley mentality, and shown in AOM / AV1. After all they are creating their own codec for their own use. While other industry codec organisation will have to take care many "edge" use case.

>So how will we get to deliver HD quality Stranger Things at 100 kbps for the mobile user in rural Philippines? How will we stream a perfectly crisp 4K-HDR-WCG episode of Chef’s Table without requiring a 25 Mbps broadband connection?

It is interesting this 100kbps bitrate and rural Philippines comes up. Because this is the exact same quote from Amazon's video specialist Ben Waggoner mentioned on Doom9.

Shouldn't we be a little more realistic with the bitrate? We have 20 years of experience and research and yet we still don't have a single Audio codec ( two dimensions ) that could perform better then MP3 128Kbps at half the bitrate. Opus only manage to slightly edge it out at 96kbps, and that is with selected samples. There is only so far we can go, 100Kbps is barely enough for Audio. And we have Massive MIMO, and 5G, both will bring immense capacity increase to current Network. There is so much in the pipeline to further increase efficiency, capacity, lower latency, cost, and power. It is a little hard to think designing a 100Kbps for Video.

Currently Youtube streams 1080p AVC @ ~2.2Mbps. Which seems to be fine with most people already, especially on Computer / Tablet or Smartphone Screen Size. HEVC can probably do similar quality with 1.5Mbps. VVC should be aiming at below 1Mbps. Netflix is doing 15Mbps 4K Streaming with HEVC ( And people are complaining about quality already, I have no idea why I don't watch Netflix) VVC should really be aiming at better quality with 8Mbps.
We should aim we specific bitrate and resolution with Real World Encoder as anchor, and specific quality to achieve.
Why would you say that?

`The last thing I did was an area graph that you could click and drag one of the edges and it would update the numbers in the legend as you did it.`

That doesn't sound like "just send my data to a bar chart" to me.
> to be doing everything and trust everything

Also, it's sort of weird how often people conflate these two things. There's this idea that home-rolling is naturally safer, and it's simply not true.

Everyone doing anything with software is relying on layers someone else built, and we should keep doing that. Layers I handle myself are layers that I know aren't malicious, but that doesn't mean they're secure. The risk of malice doesn't just trade against convenience, but against the risk of error. Using somebody else's programming language, compiler, crypto, and so on doesn't just save time, it avoids the inevitable disasters of having amateurs do those things.

We live in a world where top secret documents are regularly leaked by people accidentally making S3 buckets public. I'm not at all convinced that vulnerable containers are a bigger risk than what the same people would have put up without containers.
Everybody I support at my office gets super confused about this. Add on top of that local vs web versions of every app, plus UWP vs standard desktop applications (OneNote, OneDrive). Plus naming conventions that change, and applications that have 70% overlap. Just use the classic portal for this, and the new portal for that...
I agree with the spirit of your comment. But this:

> The option, for an institution, is a hedging instrument, not a speculative instrument.

is not entirely correct. It's not at all uncommon for institutional capital to use options for directional leverage. Options are sophisticated derivatives for increasing upside, not just limiting downside.
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Contact your insurance provider to get a list of doctors that are in your network. Otherwise it is word of mouth and research.
https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/

These guys are the leaders in small USB crypto keys. Yes their devices offload various crypto routines; and they are cheap.
Patent Tinder: Easiest way to review a ton of patents during a F2O study
Devil's advocate: "let's fund PhDs with respectable salaries instead of green cards."
Yeah, it's all been less functional and slower. That's the future of computing now.
This is a fantastic insight, and I hope someone approaches YC with it. A UX where you basically press a large red button and end up with professional psychiatric care would save lives.
Perhaps. I'd prefer it not to--I'd rather have an ecosystem with private and public competition, and one with net neutrality regulation. But it seems to me the discussion is generally really lopsided, with little to no acknowledgment of what ISPs get from the public. If the ISPs really want unfettered competition, then I say fine--but I think, as you say, if we really took competition seriously the consequences would be far more dire for them than I think people realize. The problem is the scope of what real competition would entail is often obscured, because what they get from the public is just sort of assumed to be a given and off the table.
If you figure out how to build a cross-platform application distribution mechanism that is better than the modern web, please do let us know!
I don't have any experience with them, so I can't say for sure, but I personally believe much of the benefit comes from seeing someone in person. I can't fully describe why, but I think it has to do with the bandwidth needed to convey mental health issues. That being said, I think any therapy is better than no therapy, so if the choice is between a remote service or nothing, pick the remote service.
> Honestly when the Redis Lua engine was designed, it was not conceived with this security model of the customer VS the cloud provider in mind. The assumption kinda was that you can trust who pokes with your Redis server. So in general the Lua libraries were not scrutinized for security. The feeling back then was, if you have access to Redis API, anyway you can do far worse.

This is an interesting point. Cloud computing and managed/hosted services require a clear separation of what the host can do and what the customer (who's paying for the managed service) should be able to do.

Just today, our startup decided to use AWS Kinesis (as opposed to setting up Kafka ourselves), despite the vendor lock-in and closed-source nature of AWS components. :-/
There's a neat Python application, ssh_ldap_pubkey, that not only retrieves the user's pubkeys (e.g. can be called by SSH) but also allows users to manipulate them (add/delete). So end users generate the keys and push them to the LDAP cluster themselves. The backend servers then validate SSH keys against the LDAP servers instead of locally, so it's a perfectly logical extension of existing LDAP functionality.

It's not specifically Teleport I distrust, it's most cloud-based software due to its often-woeful attention to security. Also, if we suffer a major internet outage and my systems lose connection, it shouldn't stop me SSH'ing into them. So long as my LDAP machines, on the same LAN, are up, I can get in.

I also dislike paying for something we could build ourselves for little-to-moderate effort :)
Biggest thing I figured out is that it all comes down to energy management. Most of the time when you feel too tired to workout, it’s because you’re not working out. You have to bootstrap your own energy by forcing yourself to work out. Lifting weights or some kind of resistance training that builds muscle and strength has far too many health benefits to list here.

Sleep is critical.

Sunlight is too, also supplement D3 if you’re not getting enough.

Get your levels checked quarterly. (I’m writing for men, I know nothing about women’s health. Not trying to exclude anyone, I just haven’t researched it.)

If you’re in your 20s, T levels below 700 should be a cause for concern. My T is naturally decently high so I choose not to use TRT and focus on all natural things (diet, exercise, sleep, sunlight, etc.)

Watch your macros. Keep carbs lower than fat and protein. Adjust based on your level of activity.

Don’t drink any sodas or fake drinks whatsoever. Coffee and water, tea, natural juices in moderation (watch your sugar). Red wine is good. Dark chocolate if you must. Avoid sugary cocktails and beer.

Supplements: whey (after lifting, watch out for fillers and soy), D3, fish oil, mg, multivitamin, the occasional caffeine pill, turmeric, athletic greens.

Walk 10k steps a day, do some kind of combat sport if you can (boxing, BJJ, etc.)

That’s my basic regimen. There’s a lot I don’t know and you have to find what works for you but this is how I stay happy and high energy.
How many games have you played in the last, say, 5 years?

I suspect that many people in this discussion reference big names because they played in the past, but don't play anymore, therefore talk about what they actually see advertised.

> Largely because of improvements in graphics, game budgets have gone way up and studios are afraid to take risks [...] 1997-2004 [...] good enough that cool things could be made yet bad enough that small-ish creative studios could compete

Big studios are only a part of the gaming production landscape.

There is a lot going on in the small/indie studio segment; I've randomly picked up the first link for "Best 2017 pc games", and roughly half of it was not AAA.

Nowadays, with the availability of game frameworks, the entry barriers to game development are pratically non-existent, to the point that at least one critically acclaimed game was made with... Game Maker (in fact, lauded for the narrative).
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It's not the same semantics at all. Using the top type is not even close to using a type parameter.
Wouldn’t they have to beam that energy down to a dust-free sensor?
> “To be clear, this is not a vulnerability or bug in Apple’s code... basically just unclear/confusing documentation that led to people using their API incorrectly,” Wardle told Ars. “Apple updated [its] documents to be more clear, and third-party developers just have to invoke the API with a more comprehensive flag (that was always available).”
10x developer is absolutely a thing, in the easily observed phenomenon that some developers are 10x more productive than other developers. The "other developers" are earning good wages and doing good work; the 10x developer is usually found making 2x or 3x the norm.

That said; I just can't believe that a team can perform 10x by the actions of one person. This claim is so outlandish I may just have to skim the article. It is often the case that having a 10x developer nearby can greatly improve the quality of a product, but that's not the same thing as improving the team.
> So Intel tried to shut *BSD out of the process again (like they did for the original Spectre/Meltdown) so they didn't feel they had to respect any embargo?

Yes and no... It's really important that this be viewed from the context of the discussion opened by theo in the video from the previous HN post (provided in this thread by codewriter23).

Here's My TL;DW from the irritatingly poor quality video:

Yes, they are pissed that they are being excluded (rumour is amazon and google have been implementing fixes).

However, they are not necessarily "not-respecting" the embargo according to the proposed methodology Theo outlines in the video: to (speculatively) exclude _any_ potential source of speculative execution vulnerabilities to ensure they are safe without giving weight to any one rumour. And then gradually prune back the precautions as they become publicly disclosed.

Apparently they used a similar strategy previously to provide patches for sshd before they were allowed to publicly disclose the vulnerability... prevent the bug from being reachable without revealing exactly what is broken in the commits by never touching the offending code. In this case the idea is to be non-specific, disable a whole class of things even though it might not be necessary (because in this case they really don't know where the problem is exactly).

Disclaimer: The above is not my opinion, it was my interpretation of the relevant context from the video, i do not know if it matches their actions.

It seems possible the commenter on the oss-security mailing list is not aware of this strategy and is giving more weight to openBSD's patch than it deserves (and perhaps wrongly implying openBSD have disrespected the embargo as a sideffect).

However these patches are way beyond me so I cannot tell.
I often offer up my therapist's practice as a recommendation to friends.

The way I think about it, all you really need to do is:

1) Call someone, anyone, to make an appointment
2) Meet with them, ask lots of questions. There will usually be an intake process that takes a lot of time but will give you some answers as to what kind of issues you want to work on.
3) Start talking to someone regularly. If you don't feel like it's worth it after a while, consider finding a different therapist. For me, just having someone, anyone, to talk to things about felt great right away, even if it didn't "fix" anything.

Since you're in a big city with lots of options, try to find somewhere that is convenient for you to get to every week (near work or home) and just make the call. I would recommend just starting with a therapist at first, and if you think you want to pursue medication, you can ask them for a recommendation for someone to prescribe you medication.
Par for the course with everything else they've rewritten then.
Antarctica is screwed and so are we
I'd assume when you are going 40 mph and hit the brakes as hard as you can that you'd hear squealing and leave skid marks?

Not with ABS, you won't. Yes, I've tested this exact scenario. YMMV, based on the manufacturer.
I still can't tell whether this is a meme or not. Architects make 140-170k in "important" flyover states.
Well, I doubt it. If anything, Spectre points us in the direction of dedicated, simple, low-power cores that do no speculation for security sensitive tasks. Shared resources is the root of all sidechannel leaks, so my prediction is we will see, or at least should see, IMO, systems with multiple, separate physical chips, and maybe separate physical RAM, to run untrusted or sensitive code.
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Maybe SWAT can use this to validate that it's actually the right house when serving a no-knock warrant. I'm cynical enough to feel like there's no way this is good for any of their targets, though.

Edit: Kolpa makes a really good point! This seems like a really good counter to SWATting, where the claim is that someone is holding hostages or something -- this could pretty effectively demonstrate that to be false if they see one person in an apartment sitting at a computer.
> It's really hard to know what to do here.

Is it? It looks like the natural language processing part is simply not very good. Improve that.

> I'd try to detect that kind of pseudo-science question

That wouldn't fix the general problem that this system seems to treat sentences of the form "some people incorrectly claim X" as an assertion that X is a fact.
I think I find this cultural cold war in our industry a lot more entertaining than most
Amazing what a bit of military funding can achieve.
The article says "A 10x engineer isn’t someone who is 10x better than those around them, but someone who makes those around them 10x better."

I'm guessing you disagree with the author's definition of a "10x developer". I don't really think there is a clear accepted definition for it.. so how would you define the term?
I needed a therapist about 5 years ago to deal w/ a specific event in my life, and I asked my mom that question. She's a former therapist, and she taught me a couple tips on how to find a good one. Instead of passing those tips on to you, I suspect the advice might be different for each person, my suggestion is to call a therapist that looks legit outside of your local area and how they'd find a therapist. Also ask a couple questions about what you can realistically expect in therapy, as you're likely going to discover it's much different that you expected.

Also, you don't have to limit yourself to providers that accept your insurance, as many do not. My therapist didn't, and she only worked on a cash basis. I manually submitted claims to my insurance for out of network therapy services, and was reimbursed later. Some insurance plans have an out of pocket maximum for that applies to all expenses, both in network and out of network. If that is the case, and your out of pocket maximum is $5K, then everything above that is "free"!

For me, therapy was the best $10K I ever spent in my life. It changed everything, but I had to work my ass off to make those changes. I hope you find success on your journey for more awesomeness in your life.

BTW, exercise helps a lot :)
I find it amazing how clean the diff for something like this is within the BSD source tree: http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/9474...
I'm a developer who has Type 2 Bipolar and ADHD, and I wrote a bit about finding a mental health professional here: http://baugues.com/find-a-psych

It's one of the more frustrating bits of the getting better process.
No one does, for the same reason that no one makes a 'lossy' CPU.
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Most shrinks I've had experience with act like pez-dispensers for your typical SSRIs and benzos. They listen for half an hour and then change the dosage a bit. I would do a psychological evaluation and look for someone with experience in CBT.
It's certainly not forgotten in the music world. It's still a fantastic midi sequencer. I've definitely used mine within the last fortnight.
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All the wavelet based codec shown good results in lab or test, but in practice they are extremely hard to tune and the engineering hours that needs to put in before it being variable is far beyond any one single company are willing to invest.

I think Daala will likely live in AV2. But let wait for AV1 to go out first before they work on that. As the promised bit stream frozen still hasn't happened.
We need multiple home robots to fake our presence now!
There's a lot here. Thanks for responding. I'll hopefully have the time to read that document and get back to you later.
There are no legitimate uses of this technique. It only applies if you lack the consent of the target. If have that, there are many easier and better ways to monitor them.
These kinds of articles keep making it up the HN front page even though most are fluff. It's like we keep hoping this will be the list that finally tells us how to truly be some multiple better than we already were.

If anything, this is a list for being a x10 manager, since managers are the ones who need to focus on people and elevating your team.
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Well, they are the same group, or same organisation that created the group for HEVC.
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Nope. You can't solve it declaratively, because for therapy to work, you need to find a therapist that "clicks" with you.

Pick a therapist. Tell them you're shopping, you'd like both a trial session and recommendations for alternatives. If they're not willing to do that, they're not the right person. Most are.
That was my thought. They need to crank the noise way up and aim for some surreal memes, not these ancient fossilized memes from 2010.