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> In other words, are there any blockchains that HN (generally speaking) has a positive opinion of?

I can't speak for all of HN but I seriously doubt there was ever a need for the technology to begin with.

I've read numerous investigative articles on Bitcoin, in particular, that document the environmental impact and harm it does to workers who live in remote data centers. The situation is poor. And few, if any, bitcoin enthusiasts see these as problems. From what I understand the consensus among bitcoin enthusiasts is that we'll technology our way out of this and somehow we'll live in their techno-libertarian-utopia once they figure these things out.

Frankly I don't share their ideology.
Except we aren't "post scarcity", not in the slightest.

There is a limit to the number of people who are both able and willing to become nurses. Nursing is not just "looking after people in a hospital" - it's a highly skilled job which also entails a very high level of stress, and which nowadays requires a degree level qualification in the subject. The number of people able to do this job, including surviving the stress levels it entails over a whole career, is relatively limited.

There's also another aspect to it - historically, a large number of women who nowadays would train to become doctors (assuming they stay within the healthcare sector) were effectively barred by either explicit or implicit sex discrimination so went into nursing instead. That largely doesn't happen today, at least for those educated in the UK.

More pay might move the number willing upwards (especially for those who are already qualified but not working as nurses for whatever reason - full time parents, those taking other work etc) but the structural problem of "how many people are able to do it" will probably never go away.
Is that useful though? The following requires a moral code to say it is bad:

Directly advocating for sexual violence against another group.
> I just find the overall syntax sufficiently unpleasant that I can’t get into Elixir.

Please, don't use such an excuse for not trying out a language. :(

The unpleasantness you speak about is akin to motion/sea sickness - the signals your brain receives disagree with the brain's predictions of what they should be. The discrepancy manifests as a feeling of unease at the very least, or you may throw up non-stop for 3 days on the deep end, but, eventually, the sea sickness disappears completely.

I believe I experienced something very similar to this many times while learning many strange, exotic languages as a hobby. When the syntax or semantics were completely outside of what I already learned, I was irritated that "I don't even know how to ...something...". When the new language was close to what I already learned, I was irritated that "it doesn't work as it should" due to the differences. Basically, I experienced some kind of rejection reaction from my brain every time. But then, after a few days to a few weeks, that feeling faded and disappeared.

There's a technique I thought up and used a few times which helped me with especially hard, complex, or simply exotic syntaxes. I'm not sure if it will work for everyone, but it helped me with Lisp and Prolog when I first learned them. What I did was to print several tens of pages of (syntax-highlighted and preferably heavily commented) example code and scatter them around the house at spots I was likely to look at. Next to the mirror in the bathroom, on the fridge doors, on my desk, and so on. I wasn't trying to actively read that code very much, just glanced at it from time to time, and sometimes tried to read a bit more when I was bored. When I returned to actually learning the language the next weekend (I think), it went much easier than before. I still wasn't able to write in the language, obviously, but reading - even if I didn't really understand more of it than before - stopped being a hassle, the feelings of rejection disappeared, and I was able to learn quickly from that point on.

Well, that's just my theory based on personal experience, so it may be utterly stupid or just my imagination, so take it with a grain of salt. Still, I believe the feeling of unpleasantness from the syntax should be very easy to neutralize and as such it's not, IMHO, a good reason for "not getting into" a language which is otherwise interesting (whether Elixir is such for you is another matter).
They’re not 3-prong, but many are polarized.
A counterfactual is something that has not happened, but could reasonably. The question is not what China has done, since China has not been a world superpower, but how they are likely to behave once they are a superpower. When you argue against the U.S., you have to compare it against what is likely to happen, not what you would like to happen. I think Russia, the last superpower, is probably a good example of how China will behave. And there the comparison makes the U.S. look somewhere between ambiguous to relatively benevolent, depending on how you weigh various wars and geopolitical maneuverings.
Can you give an example of what you would consider an "objective statement" in a legal context? I daresay no such thing can exist.
Is boredom mutually exclusive to a sense of safety? I'm sure I'd still feel bored even if I was scared the whole time.
Thanks! I hadn't seen that paper :)

From a cursory glance, all of these implementations are in C it seems like a C systemic issue, not an issue with RSA.

But I might be wrong because I've yet to read the paper.
As a business programming language?

It was used in teaching (I used it as such, at the time), and by hobbyists.

VB allowed creating whole business systems in conjunction with Microsoft applications. Which to my recollection was quite a step beyond. Earlier business office products might have been based on WP or Lotus macros, possibly DBase. VB unified much of that.
There’s nothing wrong with listening to your body! Someone once commented something to the effect of “if you work with your mind, relax physically, and if you work with your body, relax mentally”, and I’ve been trying to implement that change. Maybe something similar for you (sports/cardio/weights/taking a walk around the neighborhood) might work.

The problem with extracting the maximum amount of mental energy from each day is that you might drain more energy than you can feasibly regenerate from a limited amount of rest per day.

Otherwise, my advice probably is to kill distractions, and block out time in your schedule for projects, and plan the details before you start to actually implement stuff, it might save you a good amount of time while implementing the project.

Also, sleep better if you’re not getting enough, people who sleep long enough can maintain a train of thought with much greater ease than who are sleep deprived. Sleep deprived people don’t even realize that they’re losing focus.
Work in the morning.
How do I find more of these sort of events...? I'm in the midwest and would be honored to do something like this.
I don't believe random numbers (certainly long strings of random numbers) would be an authorized transmission. They would serve no purpose allowed by Part 97.
That's true for convolutional networks. However, recurrent architectures aren't similarly limited, e.g SketchRNN:

https://github.com/tensorflow/magenta/blob/master/magenta/mo...
Same here, moreover: I've got friends and acquittances in Serbia, Bulgaria, Germany, UK, US, Spain among other countries, as well as through several states in my home country. Given that I have lived in 6 different cities around the world, and have made good relationships on each of those, I really like maintaining a "thin" contact thread with them.

Facebook does this really well for me. Before Facebook, I would have to "remember" to send an email, a MSN chat or even a postcard (around Christmas) to some of them. And the typical conversation through chat went "q: hey, anything new", "a: no.. no really". With FB I see when this people have had a noteworthy moment, and I can interact with them on that, even if it is just to say a quick hello.
I might be oversimplifying, but isn't this the perfect argument for certain digital voice modes? DMR for example uses TDM to put two voice channels in a 12.5 KHz band.
HN usually has lots of negative comments - some of them are even constructive negative comments. It's not necessarily a bad thing. I come here to read these intelligent criticism.

Besides, I don't think it's particularly more negative on cryptocurrencies - go to any other internet forum (that are not specialized in cryptocurrencies) and I think you'll find a similar mixture of opinions.

Finally, "Google also invested in X" isn't a very good counter-argument here. Have you seen some HN comments when Google is being discussed?
>>I think it's fundamentally fair.

That's the crux of the disagreement here. You assume that something fair is happening, and others don't. A meritocracy sounds great, but I've yet to see one actually implemented at any scale. Or rather, the skills that get rewarded don't feel like the skills that are actually important to the job (networking and personal skills often times up your earning ability more than your coding abilities).

>>I would rather live in a fair environment where I'm out of a job...

Sure you would, because you believe that you'd be able to find another job. And as long as that thought exists, you can rationalize that management is "fair" and a meritocracy is in place. Some of us think the system is broken and benefits the few at the expense of the many, and that doesn't seem "fair" to us.
I can suggest to give Future Shock (1970, Alvin Toffler) a go, it too has some thoughts about the effects of over-stimulation. Good thinking :)
Do you have specific example in mind?
> I still think it's a good idea

Hm, it definitely looks like it. What arguments against it were raised?
$15 Minimum Wage Would Leave 1.3M Jobless, Lift as Many Out of Poverty
The California High Speed Rail project failed miserably, and cost the taxpayers $12.4 billion[1] to go from Bakersfield to Merced or about 160 miles (two cities nobody commutes from...but I digress).

At it's cancellation point, it was estimated to cost over $98.1 billion for a Los Angeles to San Francisco route - but we should note the cost estimates were going up $10+ billion every year they were re-estimated. The entire thing was supposed to "only" cost around $30 billion when introduced.

To make a High Speed Rail line that covers the entire United States... you're looking at hundreds of billions, up into the trillions of dollars... if not more.

At these cost rates, it's well over $200 billion for a straight line between San Francisco and New York City... but of course it won't be a straight line and it'll need to go to more places than those two cities in order to attract any sort of reasonable ridershare.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail
Thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17311506

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8510094

A 2015 article: https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/je...
This is an older version of the bill:
https://www.legco.gov.hk/yr18-19/english/bills/brief/b201903...

Before they have amended it, conceding to concerns and up the minimum requirement for an offence to be extradictable from 3 years to 7 years.

SCMP has an infographic comparing the existing process with the proposed one:

https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/news/hong-kong/arti...

> One thing about Hong Kong that's a lot to take in is how western-friendly the culture is.

They might be friendly, but often they don't understand it fully.
Democracy isn't a silver-bullet that would cure all of Hong Kong's ills. And they're apt to label every change to be an extension of Beijing's reach.

For example, the change in school curriculum. No doubt that some of the content in there is objectionable to me. However, the often thrown around accusation is that singing the national anthem amounts to brainwashing. After emigrating in '95, I sang O Canada during the weekly assembly at school. I'm sure the Star-Spangled Banner is sung at American schools. I don't think a lot of them are aware of that.

Another example would be the customs procedures for the high-speed train in HK, in which they have harangued over and over. Canadian airports suffer from the exactly the same problem - US CBP operates at any Canadian airport. I did raise my concerns with my MP, and she did have an interesting argument. If a Canadian was to be detained, at least it would be far easier to provide support than if they flew into US, and then get detained at the US airport.

Or the case where the HKSAR government moving VJ day to line up with the mainland's VJ day date. Accusations of Beijing trying to erase history immediately flew. Honestly, under the Colonial system, they never taught us anything about that, or about remembrance day (I was there up til Grade 6). In Canada, they have no problems teaching students about it at Grade 6. I didn't even realize the scope of Canadian involvement until I went to the Canadian War Museum.

There is far more background context than a single article could put forth. But it's not hard to see HKers cling to the colonial past, when Hong Kong was economically bigger then, and mainlanders would bend over backwards if a visiting Hong Konger waves around HKD. Now the mainland economy and power is much bigger than Hong Kong, and to be fair, their increase meddling is really amping up anxieties. But it's so easy to focus those anxieties, and forget that the Colonial government shares blame for lots of the current issues plaguing daily lives there.
That's why context matters, and realizing that in this context "fictional" means "intangible" (kind of, in this case "fictional" more than just digital) would be important if we were having this conversation honestly.

This isn't an honest conversation though, because people are getting overly defensive about BTC.
TUIs are as cross-platform and network-able on as many clients as you are able to run SSH clients on. They also support resuming (via a terminal multiplexer such as Tmux/Screen; tmux itself can also support session resuming via a plugin), windowing/tabs (via term mux), scrolling (via term mux). So your TUI program does not need any of these features. If you have a computer running 24/7 you can connect to term mux over SSH from anywhere you want. If you have high latency such as LTE or bad WLAN, you can use Mosh to easy with the latency. Either you, you aren't using a lot of bandwidth with a TUI. You can also use the power of the UNIX shell easily together with a term mux. For example, jessfraz runs all her CLI commands in Docker.

Why I like it? Well, if you're a Emacs user and you can get everything to work with Emacs-esque keybinds that's great. Same with vi(m) keybinds. With Mutt, its a matter of setting EDITOR right and you can compose your e-mails with vi(m) (yes, you could set EDITOR to something more nefarious ;). You don't get to make such choices with a GUI e-mail client.
> Many of them are illegal.

No they aren't. Point me to a law stating that any of those are illegal besides the "revenge porn" example that I outlined.

That's dishonest quoting. The last quote should include my assertion that many of those would be evidence of illegal activity.

If I post the source code of your personal project online

If that was done without permission, if that information was obtained illegally, then that would be illegal. This would indeed be the case with my personal project under its current copyright, licensing terms, and repository disposition. That such a circumstance could be illegal is part of the intended shock value of your extreme example. If you didn't intend such an illegal scenario, it's still reprehensible and extreme. (see below)

If I post the contents of your diary online

Again, if that was done without permission, if that information was obtained illegally, then that would be illegal. Again, if you didn't intend such an illegal scenario, it's still reprehensible and extreme. (see below)

If I post the contents of a heated argument between you and your spouse online

If the contents were recorded from a private conversation in a home here in California, that information was obtained illegally, then that would be illegal. Again, if you didn't intend such an illegal scenario, it's still reprehensible and extreme. (see below)

The following two aren't illegal, but they're just morally reprehensible in a way which even transcends ideology. As such, the following examples are certainly "extreme."

Doxxing: If I post your address online next to a photo of your house

If I post a photoshopped picture of your kid online

But in any case, your position isn't defensible, because you're dishonestly or mistakenly conflating censorship and the principle of Free Speech. They are not equivalent. Again, the issue is the subset of censorship which interferes with Free Speech.

To be fair, there could be scenarios crafted for all of your examples of concerning activity which would make them Free Speech. If the information had a purpose to further the transparency of organizations, public figures, or shed light on legal matters, those would be covered by Free Speech. On the other hand, if the purpose is purely to hurt or humiliate someone for views, then this is reprehensible, and it doesn't fit the purpose of Free Speech.
Regardless, there's more effective ways to express criticism other than "fuck <X>"
There might be problems even for internal use because it's licensed under AGPL not just GPL, so the source must be distributed to network users, even if you don't share the binaries with them.

It might work for your company's internal chatroom but not for selling Mattermost as a service.

That's the intention anyway, I'm not a lawyer, I don't know if AGPL was tested in court, and whether it would hold up.
Like commies in 50..60ies.
Check out Home Assistant, it’s exactly what you’re looking for.
Open source, easily extensible, plugins for every iot device out there.
Get a Raspberry Pi, install Hassbian and components for your IOT devices. It can run entirely on your home network without connecting to the internet and be easily extended via Python.

If you’re comfortable with Arduino, get some $5 Sonoff switches and flash them with custom firmware.
How does this integrate with a synology nas ? I've been thinking about picking up a synology nas.
> It's as if we're taking away compute from "productive" processes that are in a dire need of compute!

Compute? No. Energy? Yes, because today energy comes at the expense of environment which is running thin on the ground.

> I suspect this is just an intellectual circle jerk.

Come on, was that really necessary?
There's a specific exemption in the part 15 rules for home-built devices. You need neither a license nor equipment approval to design, build and operate ISM-band equipment.

https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=2ae3224dc711208e8b...
Ask HN: How are you using FaaS in your startup?
I am seeing more and more companies in Who's Hiring mentioning serverless/Lambda/FaaS. I'd like to hear some of the use cases for how AWS Lambda and other FaaS offerings are being used in startups.

What are some of the challenges you've faced in going that route, and why did you decide to build on Lambda (or equivalents)?
Gabriel really has his finger on something in his identification of the chasm between the systems versus language people that goes right down to the vocabulary.

The dynamic versus static debate is basically systems versus theory, and in that debate, the word "type" often means something else: meta-data describing an object, available at run-time, versus logical property of a program node.
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The successive governments have been utterly idiotic about it too for a long time, even recently cutting nursing bursaries, constantly freezing pay, while simultaneously claiming for the last two decades we need mass immigration for the nursing shortage.

Scrap the high income cap on national insurance contributions and pay for the nurses!
Why don't you think there are serious problems with how central banks around the world control money? Inflation steals from everyday people to varying degrees around the world...look at Zimbabwe and Venezuela. We're all beholden to secret monetary policy decisions made a small handful of people, sometimes just one.

The bigger picture, in my mind, is that in the future you should be allowed to choose your citizenship, which may be something like a digital country, and decide for yourself what sort of government you want to live in. Cryptocurrency enables that future more so than anything else that currently exists.
I specifically mentioned rejecting this proposal out of hand for rights-based reasons earlier. You don't have to read our further cost-benefit discussion if you don't care about it or it makes you feel uncomfortable. I prefer not to focus on the things you would like us all to focus on.
This is a difficult decision in science. If you are too perfectionist you will fail. If you are not, then your contributions can be bullshit. However, there is no such thing as a perfect experiment (at least in cognitive sciences), so we depend on converging evidence, so pretending it can be perfect is procrastination.
Wondering if this is an alternative to some other lightweight git hosting services such as gitea/gogs. Good reason to consider switching?
These are called CLASS II devices and they are designed with double or reinforced insulation. In plain terms it means that the current carrying components are themselves insulated AND surrounded by a second layer of insulation. That or the current carrying components are protected by reinforced insulation like a hard plastic case.

A practical example is the humble power brick or wall wart. These are class II power supplies which are enclosed in a hard plastic case which protects the user from electrical shock.

Reference: https://www.cui.com/blog/class-2-vs-class-ii-power-supplies
Tried it on whatsapp, pretty good in throwing up options, and as fast as a regular travel site. The good part is that (I guess) they try to show only the best options so you can choose quickly, instead of the hundreds that ticketing sites generally throw up.
Hey! I've made https://github.com/deepsyx/home-automation about 2 year ago, it might give you some inspiration :) It controls the lights, ac, heater and displays the current temp on mobile app
That's how Neil Gaiman writes, he gets bored. He gets most of his ideas from boredom. And when he needs to write, he sits down and lets himself only do two things. Write, or look out the window.
One lesson might well be that the relative pay gap between senior nurses and senior doctors is too big - i.e. senior doctors should be paid less / we should employ fewer doctors and more nurses. But that's probably a very very hard thing to actually do politically both in terms of internal hospital/NHS politics and national politics.

There are strongly entrenched interests in the NHS which I suspect constrain relative pay between professions and grades much more tightly than they constrain absolute pay numbers.
"saw it" bit did not "read it"
That sounds cool! Do you have a reference handy?
Xkcd: Trained a Neural Net
I have found that doing some physical exercise (gym or sports) in the evening helps me offset some of the mental fatigue and create bandwidth for other stuff in the evening.
This sounds great and makes a lot of sense, but how do I get bored? Last week I walked the Jurassic Coast alone, and I loved it but I don't think I ever felt bored. If I'm at home I love to read or program and in the mornings I love to go out and run.. No headphones or music or phones, just me and my thoughts, but again I don't really feel bored.