skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats simply nonsense the only way fees could ever pay for it would be if transaction become extremely expensive. You can calculate yourself how much a Tx would have to cost if it should replace the current block reward.
6.25 BTC every 10 min that's currently about 120k USD. If we assume 4200 Tx in that time which is very unlikely it would result in roughly 30 bucks per Tx if and only if the network is on max load 24/7 which basically means a way higher fee to get Tx trough in a meaningful time.
ofc its possible but who would want that anyway. Tx are already moved off chain because the current fees are already too much for most transactions.
Combined that with the fact that almost all people who hold, mine or otherwise use BTC do so because it gains in value. If it stops doing that there is even less reason to move BTCs around and justify high transaction costs.
The sole reasons it doesn't matter now is because the average gains is so high it covers all that cost. If the gains are gone it over in the long run.
A collective of user literally must spend 120k USD every 10 min to keep that thing running. That money indirectly comes from price gains there is absolutely nothing else there. The people who just want to move value "fast" and "cheap" dont need BTC they switch to whatever is the best at a time. There is no way they will do 30 bucks transactions if the alternatives can do it for fractions of a cent. Even if some hypothetical risk is higher for other coins. Some kind of insurance will cover that and wont cost 30 bucks per transaction.
Thanks! The biggest delay while developing it has been me just getting carried away p̶l̶a̶y̶i̶n̶g̶ testing the game...
You're assuming the "other side" politicians would not act very similarly. Unfortunately, that assumption is usually wrong, so merely campaigning against such candidates is really not enough.
You don't need to have it installed on the disk, just run it from wherever.
> // Create a new bigint of 10^n. This turns out to be a bit
> // faster than multiplying.
> function exp10(n) {
> return BigInt(`1${[...new Array(n)].map(() => > 0).join("")}`);
> }

Could we replace the 0 generation code with `'0'.repeat(n)`? Or `Array(n).fill(0).join("")` if old JS engine support is required?
In theory yes, but in practice the people most involved (holding large stakes) would pull out of the system en masse, crashing the value and (probably) the whole network with it. Same with BTC. In theory anyway.
I mean, it really shouldn't make sense, because Bitcoin is a completely separate currency from ETH... but it's still way too deeply connected to 'anything crypto' in people's minds, it seems.
I hate to bring up a spoiler effect because it has been a toxic sour point between competing MCF designs in the past, but MIT is actively pulling funds away from attractive coil winding techniques that are public and subject to peer review. I’m rather close to this issue because I’m aware of grants being given to MIT to make prototypes. MIT is in the US and have a big reputation. The current grants are modest, but they are opening a path for MIT to be paid to develop a technology they will sell. This is all fine. Where it stops being fine is when the developed coil winding technology is proprietary. I’m not exactly sure how this doesn’t violate DoE grant contract rules.

Here is the competition, btw. Paz-Soldan’s technique seems sound and should be funded for prototype coils. I’m not saying MIT shouldn’t be given grants to do this work. I just wish that they wouldn’t use public funds to develop proprietary technology.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.02154.pdf
I don't understand this.

I don't understand any of it.

I don't understand cryptocurrencies.

I don't understand what problems they really solve.

> "Ethereum is open access to digital money and data-friendly services for everyone – no matter your background or location. It's a community-built technology behind the cryptocurrency ether (ETH) and thousands of applications you can use today."

I can do all these things already.

> Ethereum is a technology that lets you send cryptocurrency to anyone for a small fee. It also powers applications that everyone can use and no one can take down.

I don't have this need ever, to be frank. Who really does, looking at the larger population?

> It's the world's programmable blockchain.

I don't understand what this means. What does this do for real-life applications?

What problem / which problems are being solved here?
For reference, this was the post, in case you come around the author : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25101199
> the end goal is to simply cut the reliance on labor and cut staff or freeze hiring.

One possible explanation is to reduce labor costs while still keeping around key workers (and their irreplaceable institutional knowledge) most of the time.

For example, there is little point in keeping an old and experienced technician on full pay 5 days a week, when you know he's mostly overseeing others and fixing the occasional issue; might as well put him on 4 days, saving a day's wages (or moving the equivalent of his net wages to tax-efficient pension funds), and sell it to him as a quality-of-life improvement. Overall productivity is probably the same, but costs have gone down and morale up, as s/he moves towards retirement.

Or take a smart developer. Instead of haggling over 20% time, unofficial side projects, conference talks etc, sell him an extra off-day that is paid as a half-day.

Amateur athletes? HR people? etc etc... I mean, modern offices have people dedicated almost exclusively to organizing silly group activities; there is plenty of spare time that can be cut, to everyone's benefit.

I would sign tomorrow.
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I would claim that this is a technological advance that is likely to lead to many scientific advances.

Perhaps a good analogy are the inventions of the microscope and telescope. They were advances in technology, which then led to advances in science. I don't know if this will have the same effect as the microscope and telescope, but it would be great if it did. It certainly seems extremely promising.
You're being uncharitable, which is part of the problem. These supplements are "recently invented" in terms of evolutionary history and it's not clear how well they work, compared to actual sun exposure.

"Not suited to" may be a contentious choice of words, but "not adapted to" is plain fact. Not being adapted to an environment confers disadvantages. Perhaps these disadvantages are minor, certainly in this case they are not lethal (in isolation), but from a healthcare perspective, they are important to take into consideration.

Consider that jumping at every opportunity to scold someone choosing their words unwisely does nothing to actually fight racism, but could indirectly harm those people you are intending to help. After all, why would a true racist care about the health outcomes of the races they ostensibly despise? Why would anyone risk investigating genetic differences in medicine, when the payoff is an accusation of racism by well-meaning but uneducated laymen?
I linked these guys here https://github.com/pts/pts-tinype. They managed to do something similar with the PE headers, and I might have to try that next although I'm doubtful win64 exes are permitted to run if they are >1Kb
Glad to see AI is progressing beyond annoying customer support chatbots and marketing tools. At this rate it will predict the covid pandemic anytime soon now.
tl;dr: Military switching to lead-free solder requires funding and act of Congress.

(oh my)
I assume better terms will be available for Mac and iOS instances available in some future Apple cloud offering.
ObjectiveSQL 1.4.0 has been released
ObjectiveSQL is an ORM framework in Java based on ActiveRecord pattern, which encourages rapid development and clean, codes with the least, and convention over configuration.

github: https://github.com/braisdom/ObjectiveSql

Features
1) Dynamic code generation with JSR 269 for Java API of database access

2) Automate your methods of CRUD operations in database, and much more

3) Easy to relation query, transaction and paged query

4) Dynamically SQL programming with Java syntax, and similar to program with SQL syntax extremely
https://neocities.org/ is another prominent example.
At least 1000 transactions per second if not more. In terms of language security, it is possible to use a verified subset of the language in order to avoid bugs, as you can with any Turing-complete language. Few currently do, however.
How an elephant gets food sometimes
I'm NZ born and raised. It can but pretty but also cold, isolated, poor (though last 20 years have been good), rural, friendly but blunt culture, multicultural but racist, welcoming but progressive-snobby, expensive low quality housing, high suicide rate. Lots of clean air due to low population density.

You dont realize how far away from everything it is. Sure there are the 12 hour flights to anywhere except Australia, but also the jetlag, opposite seasons from the North.
“Needing to put in effort” is not a marker of anti-trust.
If it's the compositor that causes the problem, can't it be disabled? I don't know phosh but in Plasma you can disable the compositing from the system settings.
How are web apps crippled on iOS?
It really doesn't other than that in the simple minds of investors all cryptos are essentially the same (i.e. tied to Bitcoin) regardless of their respective business ecosystem, technical attributes, usage, etc.

Basically, my small stash of XLM nearly trippled in value in the last weeks. The same keybase handhout has floated between 50$ and 230$ in the last year or so. Most of the price changes have very little to do with the amount of progress/change in the Stellar ecosystem; which actually is not that bad given that some non scammy people are trying to use it for real stuff and they've made some nice progress moving the platform and OSS forward. Actual merit has done little to nothing for the value of XLM. But somebody coughs in the Bitcoin ecosystem and it suddenly jumps by a few hundred percent.

Pretty much any time there's a change in value for XLM it is because something is going on with Bitcoin. Eth2 is a bit more widely used but it seems to have similar issues differentiating itself from Bitcoin.

The ecosystem is basically being driven by so-called crypto experts circle jerking bitcoin to new highs and lows via extremely biased web sites passing themselves off as independent blogs/news channels that are pretty much crooks for hire willing to write whatever in exchange for crypto. Most of that BS is so detached from reality at this point that it's hard to see any patterns other than some whales moving bitcoin around to influence the value of bitcoin and orchestrating lots of hype around this so they get to dump after their pump at exactly the right time.
Can you elaborate? Corporations are legal entities that aren't an individual or merely a group of individuals. Are you suggesting that corporations will be legally treated as the group of the shareholders? Something else? I'm not following.
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Social Protection and the Formation of Skills [pdf]
Facebooks success wasn't certain, but it did happen. You can start a better social network now, but success is far less likely than that of Facebook was previously.
My understanding is the fact that this was possible (even likely) was why they decided not to attempt repairs. Basically, the second cable should not have snapped if it was still at design strength, so its failure put the strength of the others (and hence the entire structure) in doubt.
I wish this was true, but everyday I see more dev shops moving from windows to mac than the opposite. I don't see as many moving to linux.

Moving applications to the cloud and the slow deprecation of old windows apps made this possible.
This is not a matter of incompetence. They even had auxiliary cables installed some time ago, one of these was the first to fail.

All well-known best practices don't matter if structures cannot be maintained because the governing bodies deny the necessary funding for maintenance/repairs/operation.

In a sense Arecibo was knowingly "given up".
> It's not reasonable to speak concretely about the result of multiplying a rough estimate by a large number.

I didn't speak concretely, and it is reasonable if you clearly list your assumptions! But the broader point is that if we were looking at QALY as a measure that's very different to deaths.

> there would likely have been much more death

There might have been more death, but it's also worth considering what this is in terms of net-QALY as the average age of death is >80. If we lock down 30 people for a year to add 3 years of life to someone, is that a good trade?
This is basically to files, what gmail has done to emails. (If you can remember emails before the gmail era)
I feel that no one is using crypto currency for it's original intended purpose, and in the way it would benefit the citizens of the world the most - as liquid currency for regular & cross-border transactions.

Everyone just seems to want to use it like gold, to store wealth or speculate with. This is stupid. But alas.
Never heard of this. Could you give an example of a library that does this?
I am also in Germany. I wouldn’t be so sure about right. Article in German: https://www.haufe.de/personal/arbeitsrecht/gesetz-zur-befris...
There are many conditions and practically impossible in smaller companies.
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Talking about a free market with perfectly informed, rational actors is like talking about perfect, frictionless spheres in a vacuum in physics. It's fine for theorizing, but useless once you're building things in the real world.
Perhaps you found your blog. Imposter syndrome blogs are rare and you can speak from the heart.
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We moved on to 9p.io a loooong time ago.

And 9front has its own hg server and 9p server.
Small-m monopoly. Apple picked their business model and killed off the others; for now they’re the only game in town. I’m not claiming they’re going to use their position to control the market or anything.
What other thing is worth doing on MacOS at scale in an off premise cloud? I'm genuinely curious if there isn't something I'm missing out on. Build and test for Apple related stuff is the only thing that comes to mind.
I couldn't get it working and was familiar with the `llvm_asm!` syntax. Although, I may have to go back and switch it around again.
> I don't understand why your comment is trying so hard to frame MacStadium as hypocrites.

MacStadium customer here. It's an arm's length setup. They don't ask what you're doing, just give you the keys to the machines. BUT, when MacStadium's (likely) biggest customer is running thousands of hosts for CI jobs, and even lists you as the vendor in their docs, it's perfectly obvious that multiple end user jobs are being run on that host per 24hr per.

It really boils down to who Apple is going to bother to audit / sue.
The author seems unaware that covid isn't science. It's politics.

>Advocates on both sides have dug in, hurling dismissive and vitriolic attacks at individuals in the other camp.

In other words politics. Only in politics are your opponents uninformed, unenlightened, rude, and careless.

If we create a venn diagram of science fields and politics fields. The only place in science where we call the science deniers or call for censorship is where politics get involved.

Now that you know it's politics and not science. Evaluate the goal. Evaluate which politics is behind it. Weird I keep hearing about a great reset.

For example, https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/09/france-thousa...

Why France has made it illegal for you to leave your home and police can enter and search your home at any time.
From what I've perceived, the anti-religion SJW types in the workplace cause more "unsafe spaces" than any of the religious people I've ever worked with. The latter barely ever share their beliefs with others (unless asked), while the former constantly push their toxic beliefs on everyone within earshot.
But companies would only push for this at scale (as in saving a days worth of wages across the company is noticeably profitable in comparison to output from the workers). Identifying this as a net positive towards profit leads to the harrowing conclusion that, at scale, they don’t need as many people.

Not taking away anything from your point, just pondering the implications of shifts like this in the economy.

Edit: I also want to add that many people in the service economy literally fight for extra shifts. The only hopeful outcome from these types of moves from companies is if they genuinely maintain salary and headcount amongst white collar workers. We have watched the blue collar economy get fleeced over and over and it’s important we remain vigilant against companies bearing perceived niceties. The incentives just don’t align.
I might not have been clear in my comment. I understand why they didn't go up and repair it. I just wasn't sure if if they decided to go ahead and demo it or if it fell under its own weight just a week or so after they decided to not try to fix it.

That much isn't clear from the articles I have been able to find through a quick google.
But isn't this the name of the game? Use things to the best of your advantage?
That really isn't the major problem. The major problem is that a large institutional effort has gone down a blind alley. It's not that it's making inefficient local choices; the global choice to pursue fusion at all is to blame. The badness of the top level goal will seep down to the rest of the program.
What do you mean about shitting on GPL and adopting Chrome?

Most Google fanboys I know have come around and accepted that it is now a publicly traded company and not the small underdogs where good engineering and design came first.
Apologies, I've edited it now. I did consider this initially, but the guidelines ask that the original title is used, and I wasn't sure if this fell under misleading.
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/st...

Podcast on Catholic ethics re vaccines and stem cells derived from aborted fetal remains
Ok, but suppose someone owns 50% of the tokens. Doesn't this mean the system is de facto centralized. Even if the majority holder behave well, how is it better than a centralized solution?
Can you provide an example of this? I’d like to understand this technique.

Edit: is this an example? https://stackoverflow.com/a/1757915
…that Apple randomly selected, so now they’re the only thing that handled this right now. It’s a monopoly in that they are the one that exists and other things cannot, legally, since they had a business model that they must now change.
No discussion about concepts, analogy and metaphor is complete with a mention of

Analogy as the Core of Cognition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk by Douglas Hofstadter
Greenwald is tough on both republicans and democrats. He really doesn’t play fair because he uses well documented facts and, being independent, can cover any story he wants without being blocked by monied special interests, the DNC, or the RNC.

I pay $5/month for Greenwald’s (and also Matt Taibbi’s) newsletters and it is money well spent.
>Everyone just seems to want to use it like gold, to store wealth or speculate with.

Except ethereum has a decentralized composable financial ecosystem gaining traction as we speak with over $15b locked up.

[1]https://blog.coinbase.com/a-beginners-guide-to-decentralized...
[2]https://defipulse.com/
The difference is that it's a shift in perspective. It's acceptable to say that white people aren't suited to live in Australia. It's not acceptable to say that black people aren't suited to live in the UK, for example.
Ethereum is very different from Bitcoin, so this comment is offtopic, and it's tackling a different problem space, but if you are really interested, I'm reading the Bitcoin Standard book, and I can recommend it if you really want to understand what problem Bitcoin solves. There's no simple answer, only learning about the history of money and monetary theory from a non-Keynsian view.

https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Altern...
> politicians in democracies should be responsible to their electorate, shouldn't they?

Unfortunately, I don't think we can say that they should.

I mean, in democratic ideology they should, but democratic state institutions, legal and organizational arrangements are not fashioned to achieve this outcome; and most democratic states were not, after all, created by the mass of people setting up those arrangements. Rather, elite groups and powerful interests set such states up, with democratic elections being a mechanism for legitimizing the new regime among the masses, or a concession to public pressure.
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A wave for the Python reference!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_analogy doesn't put it that way.

Argument from analogy is a special type of inductive argument, whereby perceived similarities are used as a basis to infer some further similarity that has yet to be observed. Analogical reasoning is one of the most common methods by which human beings attempt to understand the world and make decisions.

The python reference indicates you imply a form of fallacious reasoning which the general "argument by analogy" isn't. The below is a good example I found though -

"There are seven windows given to animals in the domicile of the head: two nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and a mouth...From this and many other similarities in Nature, too tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of planets must necessarily be seven."
– Francesco Sizzi, 17th-century Italian astronomer
If you search "short story" or "short stories" you get quite a lot of compilations and old periodicals on http://gutenberg.org/
Separation would probably be a better term in my case. "Balance" as I used it doesn't really make sense :-)
As for Ethereum itself:

It is basically a distributed computing platform designed to handle money, idea is you make a program that handles money, and it runs in a decentralized manner, this way noone can interfere with it, for example you could make a program that tells the users the password to login on a dissident newspaper if they donate something, since it is decentralized the government would have a harder time taking it down. (that is just a simple example, people doing all sorts of stuff with this)
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You do know that creators of the network also created positive feedback loops to get people addicted, right?
Why CAC Doesn't Matter Sometimes
It only goes to show that there can be only one winner in space, not that solar concentrators can't be built.
Thanks, "dynamic" is a good term. "Very large" would not describe it well: for non-contrived irrational numbers, the chance of an improper rounding to a rational is much smaller than the chance of a meteorite strike in your room within the next five minutes (slide 60).
It would be useful to have a client list for this company, then I could avoid doing business with all on that list.
If Global Warming were in fact a nuclear-tipped communist regime directly threatening American Way of Life, instead of a creeping international issue jeopardizing food and fresh water, creating distributed violence threatening American Way of Life, we would have had Fusion licked in the 70's or 80's.
> The basic problems have all been solved

The basic problems of power density and complexity have not been solved. Putative REBCO magnets do not solve these problems. Yes, these are engineering problems, but engineering problems are perfectly capable of being fatal. After all, fission has faced only engineering problems since 1942, and yet still has failed.
We may still vote but we aren't the only democracy under strain and the pressures bring put on it are even more exaggerated in other places, like those where Facebook is the internet ala mid-90's AOL, accessed on phones for free or cheap, and separate from general data plans.