skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might be wrong but I don’t believe that Vitalik had anything to do with the development of Proof-of-Stake.

See this article for a short history: https://cointelegraph.com/news/the-history-and-evolution-of-...
Well, at least it's cheaper than a Bitcoin transaction.
Oddly enough, some folks like doing this because of the dopamine hit of really understanding how something works. FWIW I'm that kind of person :-). But I certainly understand it isn't for everyone.

The platform I've been using to explore stuff like this is an Ultra96 board with a LimeSDR as the receiver. The Ultra96 has the Zynq Ultrascale FPGA on it. Given that USB3 latency is < 10 uSec I am guessing (hoping?) I can implement it in the Ultrascale fabric which is fed IQ data from the USB 3.1 port.
How high banking skyscrapers have pushed global warming? Why should I pay $50 (about 1000 kWh) for a swift transaction?
It's not about the hardware. In spite of the fact that they can nominally be broken into, most modern USB microcontrollers can easily implement being a security key.

The expense is that the security world hasn't converged on anything remotely approaching a single standard. So, a key has to support ... PGP, OpenSSH, FIDO, FIDO2, U2F ...

For example, you couldn't use some of the older YubiKeys with AWS because AWS only supported time-based TOTP.

That's a LOT of software work, and you can't be "Startup Sloppy" with your code or someone will break it.
Did I forget to mention that they store the application state on the server end so the back button in your browsers doesn’t work?
You mean peer reviewers of Nature did a bad job?
San Francisco has banned natural gas in new construction. And you'll need some heat source to get through those chilly San Francisco summers.
Of course she was famous, she was the empress of Rome!

Milonia Caesonia and Caligula were in love before he took her as 4th (and final) wife, after ditching the previous one because she gave him no children and was labeled as infertile.

Milonia gave Caligula his only daughter, Giulia Drusilla.

Legends say she gave Caligula a love potion that made the emperor crazy for her and they conceived their daughter the first night of marriage, other say one month later.

When Caligula was killed, few hours later Milonia was stabbed by a centurion and the poor Giulia Drusilla was crushed against a wall. She was only one year old.
You can’t lurk on Instagram anymore unless you’re logged in (2019)
This is actually an interesting idea...
We could power Bitcoin mining with solar energy, and then generate thermoelectric power with the heat it generates.
I find this kind of argument bizarre - if something is valuable to humans they will use energy for it whether it's for transportation, watching the Kardashians or mining Bitcoin. Saying one application of energy is moral and another is amoral neglects that people essentially vote with their time and energy what to consume it on.

If an application that uses a lot of energy is very valuable to people than it's a competitive advantage to also service that need with cheap energy.

Having sound money is not at odds with the environment.
Exactly. Every article about this seems to cut corners when it comes to this very thing. Even in this one, the small print admits that they averaged the amount of CO2 produced by power plants in a given country, skipping over the fact that cryptocurrency farms will gravitate towards cheap energy sources for obvious economic reasons, which makes them much more likely to be using hydropower than coal, for instance.
No. I use Festival 1.96 with CMU arctic voices. To most people they sound fairly robotic but I've been using them for almost 20 years so I like it.
Do you plan to convert this to a paid service? Seems like infrastructure costs would add up quickly.
I am getting very tired of Mark Zuckerberg buying up the internet.
I ran a consultancy for 8 years (sold last year), and we focused on the niche of internal business software - that is, un-sexy software used by mainly boring businesses to get their internal stuff done. I feel focusing on a niche ended up getting far more leads than when we were just a generalist "We can do anything for you!" company. We had a tailored website to focus on business automation, and wrote quite a lot of blog posts on the topic - being quite specific on what we can do and examples. It took close to a year after niching down like this, but eventually we started getting some good leads from good old google search. Keywords such as custom software, business software, business automation software etc.

Having said all that - at the end of the day my consultancy also get it's best and biggest projects via word of mouth. In the end I realised it was very stressful for a small consultancy to work with too many clients, and we we small (5 people), so eventually I decided we need to focus on going deeper with our current client base rather than looking for new clients. This was ultimately a superpower, and took us to a consistent 7 figurers per year with a tiny team and a few key clients.

I sold my agency last year and have recently started writing some insights on my blog https://devtoagency.com - you guys may be a bit past this (as my target reader is a full-stack dev wanting to start a custom software agency), but you may find something insightful - I actually found it really hard to find good information on the internet about software agencies/consultancies, which is why I want to try and capture my thoughts.
They definitely are that high. What you are talking about is not a bitcoin transaction. This is exactly what I was talking about - people don't even realize they can or should take their balance off an exchange. What you are talking about is the exchange fee.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees...
It is unlikely that a GPU is an efficient heat source.
Cryptomining should be done on green energy, or not at all.
Generally, we should move away from proof-of-work based currencies.
>I wonder if decentralizing the hardware into people's homes or putting it in very cold places that need to generate heat during winter would be a way to cut down on some of the excessive waste of energy and thus emissions.

This is already being done, especially the latter, in part because cooling is cheaper in cooler climes. Also some geothermal power is cheaper as well.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/13/how-iceland-be...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-miners-nordic-region-...

And, anecdotally, I know at least two people who have installed bitcoin mining farms under their floorboards and use them to heat the house in the winter. I assume there are more.
“Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders”,

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
Haha my mind thought the same thing!
> Large sums of gold are regularly moved on passenger planes, not to even start on the environmental cost of minting, coining, holding and protecting gold stores.

Citation sorely needed. A "large sum" of gold would fit in a small suitcase. Who the fuck is filling airplanes with significantly more than that, save for exceptional circumstances?

Most "store of value" gold sits in vaults around the world and is never moved. When ownership changes because someone buys a gold ETF, it's just bits moving around in a database.
Bitcoin isn't a replacement for them in practice.
9USD for a single article is a fair bit more affordable than the standard research article price. They normally run from $30ea up to a few hundred, depending on the source.
Is it true that e-readers is the largest market for e-ink?

Supermarkets alone use each thousands of e-ink displays for shelf price labels for example, I wouldn't be surprised if that was a more profitable market than e-readers for e-ink, and also much easier to cater to.
SpaceX get tons of revenue for selling a product to NASA. This isn't subsidy, this is purchasing a service SpaceX developed on their own.

Why shouldn't NASA take advantage of technology developed by others? NASA has saved a lot of money through this.
How do crypto emissions compare with professional car racing?
IIRC we've had raytracers since the 60's since they're basically trigonometry and vector math, but due to limited memory computers at the time had it was never really used.
I use Emacs inside VSCode's terminal just for Magit. And I've configured Emacs to open directly with the magit-status buffer. It beats all the VSCode extensions I have tested.

(when (string-match "code" default-directory)
(magit-status)
(delete-other-windows))
(with-eval-after-load 'magit
(define-key magit-status-mode-map (kbd "q") 'save-buffers-kill-terminal))
Steve Case's Pandemic Playbook for 2021
So I’ll ask here as there may be some lurkers who can help me in my quest:

I am trying to find a basic e-reader.

I have a simple want: I want a built in browser that will let me download ePub and pdf etc from the browser.

I’m not interested in bundled bookstores. I’m not keen on having to load books onto it via a pc app nor emailing them nor having an Amazon account neither. I just want to be able to browse and download FanFiction and stuff like that from a basic browser.

I am guessing I want an android tablet with an e-ink screen? What choices do I have and what do people recommend?
Hierarchical Structures in PostgreSQL
It's not unreasonable to think that a lot of current digital ad spend is 1) an arms race for slices of a pre-existing attention pie that also resembles a protection racket, 2) a huge waste of money.

There have been a couple of natural experiments showing #2 where entire digital ad spends were slashed at once with little to no impact.

As for #1, look at where a massive chunk of Google's revenue comes from: companies trying to squat their own name and similar keywords to prevent some competitor's product from showing up next to their own.
True, but if you're already running bitcoin miners, then you can turn off or get rid of the heat pump and save on your aggregate heating costs.
People are just salty they didn’t HODL.
When I actually held bitcoins back in 2012 I always made the comparison to the amount of energy needed to transport physical bills in armored cars, hire security guards, build giant vaults, printing presses, etc. Back then it seemed a reasonable comparison to make, but then the actual power consumption numbers seem very small back then by comparison.

I also remember Satoshi saying in the white paper that people in temperate climates might would be the miners because the excess heat could be used to heat homes in the winter. Again I don't see the sort of environmental responsibility currently.
So your argument is that if people want to do something, they should be allowed to?
Yeah “per transaction” cost is calculated by taking total energy expenditure rate divided by the transaction rate.

It’s a mistake to assume that the ratio is the thing that’s fixed. Energy expenditure is related to fees and the blockchain reward.
Furthermore, they assume that Bitcoin will follow "the adoption trends of other broadly used technologies", which is unlikely to happen. Even the cryptocommunity is starting to accept that Bitcoin has effectively failed as a payment network.
Rails, PHP, or Django. Tried and tested, strong communities.
I notice that the Windsor & Newton watercolour series has nothing called Perylene Red, but it has a nice looking colour named Perylene Maroon that seems similar.
We are supposed to assume it's carbon neutral because it's too complex to calculate.
I'd love to see a quality color e-reader, but mostly I just want a better black and white kindle. Smoother refresh and better contrast.
That's actually enough electricity to smelt about 40kg of aluminum.
I agree with you and I suspect many at NASA feel the same way. Sadly, it's not up to them.
I never understood this argument. The cost of mining already centralizes nodes to the point where block size is not a factor. People that are able to run cost effective mining setups are also able to support blockchains of any size. Given the current state of mining, how would switching to 10mb blocks increase centralization?
Fear of global warming ending civilization.

No biggie though, eh
Indeed. This reminds me of the cobra effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
Lol. Well, I'm also making money at the same time, albeit only about $10/day. So I get to ultimately reduce the price of the hardware and not pay to run my heater.
Partial disagree. Pay for good people to make the most out of the tools available. If there is something you need that would improve revenue then get it when it becomes clear but don't just buy top tier X because. Start-ups need as much runway as possible if things dip until the business model is sustainable.

Edit: Even if the business looks sustainable just wait till a disaster like covid comes by and rocks your supply chain and your customers prioritize other expenses.
That guide is for non-vnet jails. If you want vnet, use this one:

https://blog.uidrafter.com/engineering/freebsd-jails-network...

Why VNET?
"VNET jails give each jail its own isolated copy of the network stack"
https://klarasystems.com/articles/virtualize-your-network-on...
All traditional currencies are backed by military might and the constant threat of war.

If a cryptocurrency could decrease such centralization of power and consequent waste of human lives, money and energy it would be excellent.

However, bitcoin has no mechanism to democratize banking - on the contrary, the more wealth you have the more mining you can afford doing.

This makes the whole conversation fall into whataboutism.
Irrelevant because wire transfers are only a tiny fraction of what banks do. Bitcoin is not a replacement for banking; it’s a replacement for physical gold. A banking system would still have to be built on top of it.
Between my wife and I we actively use 3 different banks (until recently 4), and we've also been through a bunch of redesigns, modernizations and acquisitions. I must have used some 10 banking UIs by now, not counting mobile apps.

One thing I can tell is: they get worse over time, and the more JS they involve, the worse they end up being. I can talk a lot about the UI design itself and it won't be nice (suffice to say: it's getting worse, and it's most likely because the goal of the bank isn't to provide a productive financial management UI, but to confuse you and upsell you financial products), but beyond that, performance goes down with each iteration.

(My least favorite piece of garbage of user interfaces is the offering of IDEA Bank in Poland - an Angular.js monstrosity where every operation - like opening account history, or downloading a PDF with transaction details - seems to take 30 second to one minute on a good day. The interface itself lags a lot, starts to visibly slow down if listing more than couple dozen items - say, transaction history for the past 6 months. But showing such long lists isn't a good idea anyway, because if you scroll to the end of it, some random XHR will fire and reset the list to "last month" or something like that, because of course it's a reasonable thing to do.)

Banking pages absolutely do not have anything in them that would require "desktop like functionality". They're the poster child of the document model - their job is literally to be digitized bureaucracy. They present you with forms and respond to queries. Every interaction you want to have on a banking interface boils down to that. Request a list of this. Request details about that. Send that much money there.
The problem is that the people who need to be convinced are not the people who are being harmed by phishing. The people who are being harmed by phishing (non-technically-savvy end-users) are powerless. The people who need to be convinced of the merits of the solution are browser vendors and web site operators. Both groups would need to work together to solve the problem. Getting that to happen is the hard part. It's a very real problem, but it's a political problem, not a technical one.
This kind of gives me the Mr Robot vibes.
As a way to make it somehow relatable to readers
What’s the second factor with yubikey? The site seems to say it’s passwordless.
Proof of Reserves
I mean, you say all this, but more or less these are the same complaints I hear from even seasoned IT professionals every single day when it comes to security.

Even the "the key is in my coat" is not a joke at all -- I've had clients who got compromised by a malicious insider because some admin wrote passwords on a sticky note simply because "password managers are cumbersome".

I get what you're saying on each point, but understand that security is as much about discipline as the actual security you implement. You can have the best of the best, but it doesn't mean anything without the discipline to use it, and I suppose that's what the author is trying to convey.

You even touch on it in your response about developing the right habits, and that's the author's port -- without discipline, the Yubikey means nothing.

>Again, this is not a Yubikey's problem. It's a website problem.

On this point I can't really agree at all; Yubikey might have a solid solution for a problem, but if no one is implementing it, then it's a solution looking for a problem. The mythical "average user" won't be persuaded to drop any amount of money on a dongle that does nothing; if it doesn't work for a large majority of their most common sites, then it's just a waste of money.

I'd suggest it __is__ Yubikey's problem as they're not promoting their value to sites in a way that implementation is a no-brainer. Checking on their compatibility list fo common chat-applications, common forums, common message boards/imageboards, and common shops world-wide, the adoption is very limited. Surely the admins of popular sites are aware of Yubikey, but at some point there was a decision not to add functionality -- Yubikey needs to make the efforts to promote adoption and figure out where there resistance comes from.

Of my daily sites that I might expect to be aware of/implement some hardware security, only reddit is on the list of "works with Yubikey", and I pretty rarely use reddit. Listing sites my friends and family use on a day to day basis, only Google Accounts comes up.

That's what the post is talking about. Yubikey does not have the penetration to be viable to "average users", and even for tech persons, the device is useless without the discipline to adjust habits in the first place, which most people just don't have.
It easily functions as a self-breeding terrestrial reactor that reaches criticality with 1/500th to 1/1000th the fuel of existing nuclear reactors (~20kg). The design requires active power that shuts down the reactor on failure, making any accident a complete nonevent. It can even be kickstarted without huge amounts of enriched fuel with the addition of a neutron gun (which they used to test the design without nuclear fuel). The core infrastructure required to support such a reactor are also covered by far less red tape (mostly centrifuges).

It would have changed the face of power generation at a critical time for climate change if it was allowed to reach fruition. Instead it was locked away in UTC & NASA archives.
> Because it’s bad compared to every other digital display.

DASUNG seems to have a very fast refresh rate on their e-paper displays, enough so that they’re marketing an e-paper monitor.[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGblzUc_Z1I
In some scenarios, Windows 10 will also require a PIN to use a key:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/user...
> We need to either slow down on the exponent - not just population

We did this. Population growth is slowing rapidly.
Saying that BTC provides nothing other than itself is too reductionist -- indeed the Playstation Network also provides nothing other than itself, the ability for users to play online games with each other. If bitcoin crashes tomorrow, it will still have enabled censorship resistant, peer to peer value transfer for millions. People use it to pay for games, buy things, sell things, donate and preserve the value of money earned in depreciating fiat.

I would argue that BTC has provided significantly more value to its millions of users in its 12 year history than Playstation Network; What is PSN really -- a matchmaking service, and social contact platform. What is a global, peer to peer, censorship resistant, non-government fiat backed economic system worth?
Official sources say trees can absorb 3Gtec per year. That’s what we emitted in 1990. Since then we increased emissions by 2.5-3. So we need to divide by 3. And more than that, because what is already emitted is already warming the atmosphere.

So we can EITHER choose between heating our house, having a car or travelling once London-NYC per year.

We won’t reach it if everyone is finding excuses.

- You need to isolate your house so that human heating is enough to warm it up.

- Why is anyone even living so far up north. Barely no-one was living in Sweden in 1900, so why do we have to invent schemes so that you can do it (at great energy expense) when clearly, nature wouldn’t allow you to do it?

- Unless all the figures of IPCC scientists are fake, which I’m starting to doubt about, because I’ve studied feminism and I know it is possible to persuade an entire country of false figures. Let’s call that the “mass science” effect, where processes can be twisted in order to gain political leverage.

But if the “mass science effect” isn’t here, you sure shouldn’t think that using mining as a decent offline activity for your computer is a viable solution.
He did, he claimed a Bitcoin transaction takes half a million times more energy then a credit card transaction. 621 kwh
Population growth is predicted to effectively stop by 2100.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds-popu...
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Most open source applications are released for Linux and have to be adapted to FreeBSD. So FreeBSD maintainers have to keep up with the ports. Sometimes port maintainers drop-off leaving stale ports until they break.
It is not at all uncommon to be running applications that are several versions behind.
*Citation Needed
How much energy is consumed by AC systems in USA only? How many ACs are in bank branches, supermarkets and all offices? Please somebody compare AC is USA only to all bitcoin miners.
> nationalism of any kind is one of the most pernicious scourges on humanity...That's not nationalism.

I would suggest instead of using an `-ism` just say what you mean. It just leads to needless arguments otherwise.

X are Ys. Ys believe Z. Therefore Xs believe Z.

The fallacy is that not all X's believe Z, but painting everyone with the same brush is a much easier way to channel one's anger.

You inflame the discussion when you say "whatever the flavor" and "of any kind", because there are clearly many kinds and different interpretations as exemplified in this discussion.

Also try the definition from Wikipedia:

> Nationalism is an idea and movement that promotes the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation's sovereignty (self-governance) over its homeland.

Seems to counter your definition quite extensively, which is why I direct you back to my original suggestion.
What happens if a player gets injured mid-week?