skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another major error they made, is that they assume that Bitcoin mining uses grid energy and assume that it follows the CO2 emissions of electricity generation in that country.

This is completely wrong. Most mining happens currently on underutilized hydropower stations, because grid energy or fossil fuels wouldn't be as profitable. Because of the mining difficulty adjustment and diminishing returns in improving ASIC hardware, the only way to profit is to find cheaper energy sources than all other miners.

In the long term, Bitcoin mining accelerates the development of abundant and cheap energy, which is not fossil fuels.
> That story is not unique to our generation or history more generally.

Indeed, though I don’t see how BTC could help — it’ll just be one more currency you’re not able to convert local money into, surely?
Why haven't we better stardized housing, education, and food to scale?

Human needs are not bespoke.
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That's what they teach them in University.
Civilisation? Possibly.

Humanity? Unlikely.

Even in the absolute worst case scenarios, climate change doesn’t wipe out humanity. Life would be very different (and would frankly suck), but some humans would still survive.

The question is how long it takes to get back to our current level (hopefully with lessons learned!)
Stop the Next Quadriga: Make Exchanges Prove Their Reserves
"One potential solution is to demand that exchanges issue periodic proofs that they actually have dominion over assets owed to depositors. These 'Proofs of Reserve' (PoR), if done properly, leverage bitcoin’s neat cryptographic properties and give depositors reasonably sound assurances that the exchange is not misrepresenting their solvency. Such PoR ceremonies purport to prove that deposit-taking institutions have sufficient BTC in reserve to satisfy all liabilities owed to depositors. After a brief period of enthusiasm for the public audits in the wake of Mt. Gox in 2014, today only one exchange routinely carries out these attestations — the London-based Coinfloor."
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Why not? To many he’s synonymous with shit so has entered common parlance in that way.
When Matrix enters the mainstream, it will be helped along by technical friends telling people about it. Hopefully friends technical enough that hosting their own server for their group isn't too big a deal.
what about food? wouldnt that be the limiting factor?
It's still wrong a wrong comparison. Bitcoin network's energy is expended for securing the block.

It means that to revert a 1 hour-old transaction, an attacker would have to consume double the energy the whole bitcoin network expended in that hour.

More energy expended == more security.

Number of TX is totally irrelevant.
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"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." -George Orwell, 1984
Bitcoin could still provide all that value without wasting all that energy. The mining process provides no real value.
I don't think so, I think OP just realized there's a 16-inch one now haha
Sleeper is awesome! They're definitely one that I'm looking at (along with ESPN). They currently only offer a read-only API, which means I can't actually set your lineups for you, but I may reach out to them to see if that could ever change. If it does I'd love to add support.
Only for so long until Rust is taking over.
Having the chef prepare a great meal allowed them to have people working 12 hour days instead of 8, and saved them the cost of hiring more staff. It probably was worth it.

Frugality =/= cheap. Frugality is about spending wisely; getting good value.
This makes a lot of sense. Very cool project.

Also, I noticed that the cost/month math seems off here https://www.buyforlife.com/products/10/kitchenaid-refrigerat.... For a 2 year warranty, looks like it calculates it as Total Price / 24 / 12, rather than Total Price/12.
> Is there anything else we could use a lithographic-like process to make massive numbers of very cheaply, yet still find buyers for?

Very few. The thing with litho is that materials inputs, and outputs are nearly the same, it's just the value coming defies conventional economics.

Thermodynamics limits all physical processes by entropy, but nothing limits the entropy itself.
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This is working well in parts of Manhattan - with group members in the thousands.. I’ve been able to give and get various things over the past 2 years.
> the ultimate in speculative assets

You could've earned +10% ROI in 2020 by holding AUD instead of USD. Every currency is backed by thin air, including Bitcoin. The average lifespan of govt-issued currency is ~100 years.

> a money transfer system so good it couldn't even power a small country's day-to-day transactions

You most likely utilize a credit card or bank card for your day-to-day transactions. Nothing would change about this with Bitcoin entering the picture.

> the solution to consumerism and world peace

I made no mention of "world peace". Just because governments couldn't conjure money out of thin air to finance war machines doesn't mean there will be peace on earth. But taking away the money tree from governments around the globe changes the game completely. It is also true that — sans inflation — absolute prices of goods and services decrease, which disincentivizes consumption.
The web, as it is today, already let us escape walled gardens of yore,... and jump straight into new ones, built on the web. And these new walled gardens are operated by much more ethically challenged companies. So all in all, the old devil was better than the new one.
Have you looked into fennel? Is it possible to use that within neovim?
I love this article, and have recommended it many times in discussion with young people learning programming in other forums (although it's rare for them to come back to me to say they'd read it, so...). There are some small differences in the social dynamics when it comes to mentoring in the workplace, but the vast majority of this is still incredibly on point. Thanks so much for writing it.
One problem with the data is that it's hard to know to what extent modern life changes how many kids you want. Meaning: if a woman knows she has to have a full time job, she may only want, or believe she can afford, two or three children. Conversely, I suppose a woman in agricultural setting might want 7-10 children knowing they could help on the farm. It's probably impossible to know what people would want "unconstrained" by reality, and maybe not even meaningful.

Two things I think are true though. First, women have fewer children than they want, even if what they want is declining over time. Second, women who don't want children, or who want children below replacement, won't ever become the majority of the population - at least not for any significant amount of time. Such women will be replaced by women who, genetically or memetically, want more children.
What does it matter what some historical US nationalist movement was going for? "Ethnic nationalism" is clearly what's gaining traction the world over, and being discussed. They use the not-unfamiliar conflation of race/religion/nationality based on some ethnic mythos, to equate patriotism with purity of a local monoculture. Is there some "true nationalist" group out there of any prominence?
Well I saw plenty of opinions of radical left wing people calling for pretty atrocious things against "CIS white males".

I don't believe violence should be justified, one way or another.
The warning sparked criticism from a colleague who took offense at the use of the word “Nazi” and prompted GitHub’s HR team to reprimand the Jewish employee. Two days later, he was fired.

Just what the hell is going on with the US? A professor also got sacked because he was using a Chinese filler word "Nai Ge" which sounded like the N word after a bunch of students reported him for racism.

I only expect to see this hypersensitivity and language policing to increase in America as the rest of the world glances at each other in bewilderment.

Amen and awomen.
Which claim? That there might be less wasteful ways to process crypto currency transactions? I’d love to hear the evidence..
Let's say that your search for mouse traps comes back with the classic type that kills.

Wouldn't it be better that you see an ad for a no kill mouse trap that you didn't even know was a thing?
Ads can sometimes inform people about products that they didn't even think existed.
If a junior member of HR was able to fire employee without review by other people and proper plausibly lookimg documentation, then the responsibility is 100% on whoever invented such process. Which is the lead.

Because really, that would put the company not just at risk of what is going on now, but also at risk of very expensive lawsuits.
I'm confused. Are they subtly suggesting readers buy their book (by linking to the publisher's site instead of a site to locate the book in local libraries). Would a publisher like Simon and Schuster agree to publish a book that would only be sold to libraries. Aren't there ways they could communicate whatever information is in the book without having to sell something (thereby encouraging people to buy something, violating the project's prime directive of "Buy Nothing").
you’re probably in a tech company. most security jobs (most software jobs period) are in non tech companies. insurance, healthcare, auto parts, you name it. in most of those roles, certs are very helpful if not mandatory to even get your foot in the door.
You're assuming competence that isn't there. It's a shared ip address, there is still plenty of tracking that is dumb enough to assume that it means that you're the same person and that gets thrown into her 'unique fingerprint'.

I'm not sure who gets the worst deal from tracking, the companies buying ads or us having to see them.
What you call energy waste others would call effort. Money should be hard to produce otherwise you end up with central banks putting magic numbers on balance sheets

You can use energy that would otherwise be wasted https://cointelegraph.com/news/oil-companies-will-dominate-b... or clean energy like Nuclear
You're not wrong about the alignment of design but it is definitely not minimalist design. I've been using and upgrading iPads for the last 6 years and with each release the menus and options are becoming more convoluted. But there is a certain consistency across all Apple devices which does make it easy.

JingOS seems heavily inspired as in a massive lack of any original concept. Even the browser shown in the demo looks so much like safari. The notifications on the corner. The swipe up gestures etc.

Even the design story of icons is heavily inspired.
What should be measured also is: less banks, bank tellers and massively less gold mining around the world IF Bitcoin is going to succeed.
That reminds me of one of the old tricks for resetting the password on a Windows machine, which involves renaming cmd.exe to the name of the binary that gets run (can't remember the exact name at the moment) when you chose the "Ease of Access" option. It certainly gives you easy access!
It should be pretty easy to tell what ratio of hits had JS disabled. If it’s more than a tiny minority, I’d do something.

I have plenty of things to talk to users about without getting them into whatever this is (still deciding if I class this as paranoia or being cautious or some kind of elitism). Based on the level of vitriol, looks like one of the outer 2 so far.

If you want to persuade developers to do things differently, bad mouthing their tech choices is a really bad strategy.
Yeah same, just tried several fortune 500 companies in incognito.
they dont give it as a pdf?
There's also Voice on f-droid, with similar features. I can highly recommend it.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.ph1b.audiobook/
A 2019 thread on Hacker News has the Pixar Renderfarm core count at around 60K. That is...microscopic...in terms of data center scale and energy usage.

So you've built a tiny tower of straw men, attempting to use them to draw a false equivalence between the energy to maintain and expand the bitcoin system.

I suspect bitcoin adherents may also enjoy (along with mining) continuously spraying chlorofluorocarbons into the atmosphere. Big Bad Society does frown on that activity! Increasingly, Big Bad Society does not like the externalities from things like BTC.

Diehl is wrong about speculation being the only use of bitcoin. Investing in crime is the other.
I don't think we're far enough along in tinkering with subatomic physics or gravity to know whether we've passed the great filter or not.

Hell, we haven't even managed to guarantee human rights to every person on the planet yet. We've got a ways to go.
Not if you don't know that the better mouse trap was even possible. You are not going to search for "breathable, waterproof shoes" if you don't know GoreTex is a thing.

Granted somewhere in the last 20 years we have mostly stopped innovating and started optimizing and so now you get ads for branded Skinner boxes (sorry, free to play mobile games) rather than, say, cancer cures but if there were innovating products worth buying, you wouldn't search for them because you wouldn't even be able to imagine them.
Please provide references that she was in fact "telling the truth".
His channel is jaw-dropping.
All the popular SPAs I use have awful latency. It may have been a design goal, but huge failures all around.
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There's also a US approach to 'grandfathering' in existing structures as building codes are updated. The only time I will ever 'have' to bring something in my house up to date is if I voluntarily do something like open a wall or install a new HVAC unit. And then the only thing impacted is that item, nothing else even gets inspected for safety/compliance.

I understand it to some extent: TONS of people can't afford to just...replace all of their windows, for example.
You could look towards the EU today for some clues. You have 27 nations of quite different cultures and socioeconomic status with free movement of labor.

I have found though that people like their country's customs and traditions a lot and are proud of the country their parents are from.

However it's true that based on how strongly held some political beliefs are, some people would identify more with those from another country with the same political beliefs than those in their own country. Same with religion. It's important then to have things they share in common so they can get along in day-to-day life whilst disagreeing about other things.

Diversity of thought and opinion is important, and I would argue thats its actually a good thing to have GPS coordinates determining a grouping, rather than letting people form groups with who they get along with best.

What is the optimal grouping of countries and politics is an interesting question to ponder. Lots of lessons can be learned from history on this such as how borders of countries were drawn during British colonialism and also after each World War.

The goal perhaps is to find the largest groups of people to put together whose political spectrums are not too wide that people can't get along with one another.
You are doing it wrong. If you are using Linux, use a window manager (sway or i3 are a good start). I'm running Archlinux with Nvidia and it's going great. No problems with the card, performance, and I have 3 screens of different DPI. I'm yet to try Bluetooth, though.

ps: If you are using an Nvidia card, you can't, unfortunately, use Wayland.
Of course, find somebody to loan you some coin, sell it at current prices, buy some in a week when prices fall and return the coin to the lender, pocketing the price diff. Any fungible product can be shorted, all you need is a willing lender.
Communists aren't associated with violent activities in the US in the recent past. As in violence within the US. Nazis/Neo-nazis are. So saying communist would be a political statement as it doesn't pertain to safety while Thug/Nazi is about safety.

I personally consider both "keep safe, there's communists about" and "keep safe, there's trump supporters about" to be political statements that may be against company policies.
If you can lift exatons of steel into space, you can probably already afford to solve the problem of direct synthesis of all, and every fertilizer, and probably nearly every other chemistry process just by throwing more energy at it.
Hahaha you know things are bad when nature is pushing lame bitcoin FUD.
How E ink innovations come to happen?

I think it was developed by MIT and not by E INK, is that right?
I've wondered if the first of the great filters isn't simply water.

Assuming something like octopuses evolved into a relatively long lived tool-using species with complex communication, they would be infinitely hampered by their environment. Even if they were lucky, as we were, and their planet had available great reserves of fossil fuels, they could not burn them. They cannot invent fire. Without fire, they have no way to invent metallurgy. Or glassworks. Or plastics.

What are the odds of having enough water for life to spark without having so much of it that it blankets the surface? Anything evolving on worlds with little land seem unlikely to ever escape their world.

Life could be commonplace, but if most worlds it evolves on are 99% water, we would never see it or hear it. The universe would be silent.

It may be our luck in simply being terrestrial rather than aquatic that separates us from our apparently absent galactic cohabitants.

Being in a position to be capable of taking advantage of burnable trees, and later coals and oils may be beyond rare in the universe.
This is probably the most interesting thing I have seen in a long time. This just seems like something that simply shouldn't be possible. I tried looking up more info but most of the results are this guy.

Does anyone know if it really is as simple as putting some dirt and water in a pot or are there more specific requirements for it to work?
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> There is zero actual evidence of anyone communicating with any non-human intelligences.

And that is your belief.

Here's a whole documentary about interactions between Brazilian military and something weird:

> In 1977, numerous UFOs were seen in the Brazilian city of Colares, Pará. The UFOs fired light beams at people, causing injuries and sucking blood from 400 witnesses. After a rise in local concern, the mayor of the city requested help from the Air Force.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThkmRsEBOY0
Alternatively, make the cost to renew a patent each year increase exponentially, with the base proportional to the worth of the individual/company filing the patent at the time of filing.

That ties the duration of a patent directly to how much value it provides to the company over time, which is the rationale for having patents in the first place. A company could only afford to hold onto a patent for as long as it causes the company’s revenue to grow exponentially. Once the patented technology matures and growth plateaus, keeping the patent would become prohibitively expensive. This would completely eliminate patent trolls and patent squatting/speculative patents.
First think you read is that OP doesn't understand economics and thinks Bitcoin is air. End of reading.would be so much better f he made an argument about ecology and his his biased beliefs about what society should use for money.
> In the long term, Bitcoin mining accelerates the development of abundant and cheap energy, which is not fossil fuels.

Yes, but does it reduce the total reliance on fossil fuels? If we start with X coal plants and build a Y hydro plants to support btc mining, we're still running the original X coal plants.
Sure. But you even quoted me saying not just population, which is the key point. Stabilizing population doesn't buy us much if the market - and thus resource exploitation - is still growing exponentially.
http://www.etwright.org/cghist/juggler.html - similar work from 1987 on an Amiga

Realtime raytracing didn’t exist until recently but people have been dabbling with doing it at much slower speeds, and sequencing the resulting frames, for a long time.
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Not really. Android, Web, Embedded, Networking can be done in Linux.
I have also 20 years of Linux experience. XFCE (I love XFCE btw) does not solve this points mentioned. I think you're biased and this are valid points OP mentioned:

- nVidia's drivers are poor, and there are a lot of sharp edges. I'm using one of their GPUs. No, I can't switch to AMD; I need it for CUDA, and anyway GPUs aren't exactly cheap.

- AMD's drivers are of inconsistent quality, and I couldn't buy a 6800XT even if I'm willing to sell my first-born. Ok, that's also true for nVidia's newest GPUs, and Zen 3, and... different rant entirely.

- HDR basically doesn't work.

- Mixed-DPI screens basically don't work.

- HiDPI in general is glitchy.
How do you kill fingerprinting, though? It's impossible without limiting what web developers can do with their sites.
But energy isn’t cheap, abundant or clean?

Also because of how the Bitcoin algorithm and economics work, if energy is cheap then the market will scale up mining thus the Bitcoin algorithm will scale up difficulty. Cheap energy results in more energy waste from Bitcoin.
Probably because the network is consuming more electricity than ever right at this moment.
For transactions yes you need local money for long term savings would rather hold Bitcoin or Lebanese Lira?
> Ultimately, you are probably stuck in the cloud until you can hit that point of being able to dedicate 2+ full-time engineers to the task of managing your infrastructure.

Um, exactly?

People think about cloud as outsourcing the hardware when you are actually outsourcing the system administration.

So, when you have generated those system administrators in house (you can't hire them anymore because system administration as a career path is dead due to the cloud vendors) because they are troubleshooting the "cloud" so much, it's time to pull some things back to on-prem.

The other time is when you have one particular characteristic (network, storage, etc.) that the cloud providers are killing you on and you will save a whopping amount of money by changing. However, by that time, you presumably are successful enough that you have generated those system administrators anyway.
> it's worth considering the arguments of people like Michael Shellenberger

I'm sympathetic to the argument for nuclear energy as part of the answer to global warming, but... Schellenberger? No, sorry, it's not worth considering his arguments for anything. His arguments go like this...

- We don't need to worry about the Amazon burning and being cut down because it's not actually the "lungs of the world"

- We don't need to worry about sea-level rise because the Netherlands

- Burning wood is much worse than burning petroleum, so let's keep burning petroleum

Etc. Schellenberger is an idiot trying to be an iconoclast... and failing miserably because the icons he's tilting at are windmills. Let's leave Schellenberger out of this.
Gold doesn't swim. It needs to be mined too. Not with shovels.