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> This anti-growth mindset is poison.

And endless growth is suicide. We could trade absurdist oversimplifications, but the reality is that we live on a finite planet and we are currently in vast ecological overshoot. We need to live within the carrying capacity of the actual world instead of an economics textbook and the stock market that's programmed us to think in quarters and single-year increments. It sounds a lot like we don't share the same urgency about climate change. I won't accuse you of being a denialist but I would encourage you to look at just how deep and fast we need to cut carbon emissions before we just splurge energy on speculation markets like Bitcoin.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't sync our schedules to the sun, I'm saying that we should sync time to the sun.

So in Toronto I can wake up at 12:00 and in London people can wake up at 8:00. It just changes the number on the clock.
Even if that was true, do you think it would scale? Let's say that in a sudden fit of consensus, tomorrow, everyone worldwide decided to replace the USD with Somali shillings. How long do you think it would take North Korea to start mass-printing shillings?

At any rate, the narrative that the Somali shilling maintained its value is directly contradicted by Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_shilling#Modern_history

It starts with "Following the breakdown in central authority that accompanied the civil war, which began in the early 1990s, the value of the Somali shilling was disrupted" and gets worse from there. The currency became worthless and they dollarized.

The only reason the shilling is - very recently! - recovering is because they once again have a central government and a central bank.
EVa have back seats and trunks just like ICE, and they need to be usable by the vehicle owner just the same so I’m not sure I see the relevance.

For retrofitting, locating some batteries in the engine bay is possible. This seems to be avoided by ev manufacturers in favour of locating a monolithic battery pack under the passenger compartment, for weight distribution, simplicity, and (I assume) safety reasons.

Physically swappable battery packs isn’t feasible because of the sheer weight of the packs (a leaf 40k pack for example is 210kg). Plus each car manufacturer has different specs and shape packs. Fortunately we already have a completely fungible, extremely portable unit that can be hot-swapped into every EV at nearly any location just like petrol - a kWh of electricity. Today it takes a bit of time to fast charge, but again with visible-on-the-horizon breakthroughs in battery tech e.g. solid state, fast charge times could drop from ~30 minutes to 3.
Bloomberg's presidential run would perhaps be a counterexample there.
OP here: Finally someone is asking the right questions... I don't know. Naming stuff is hard, and it was late at night.
this has nothing to do with AI, but an imbalance of power

An imbalance of power because of employing AI with suboptimal results, but not caring about the negative externalities because, well, they're external.
Ah, but if you send money to a bitcoin address the recipient could simply claim the address you sent the bitcoin to wasn't theirs.

And if they can sign a non-repudiable statement that a given address is theirs, they can just as easily sign a non-repudiable receipt when you hand over the cash.
Don't know about large scales, but just today I threw together a script using selenium, imported pandas to mangle the scraped data and quickly exported to json. For quick and dirty, possibly one-off jobs like that, Python is a great choice.
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I agree. You have to write your own software (offline, perhaps), not use a mining pool, plus not use an exchange to be trustless. And you’re still having to trust the other end to actually deliver on what they’re paying for, although they don’t necessarily have to trust you. That last sentence is one of the few changes that Bitcoin makes: it moves power from the consumer (who has ability to charge back if the goods are not received) to the one accepting payment (who now cannot be charged back). I’m not convinced this is a good move.

And I agree with your overall point. The only issue is when you end up having unnecessarily high transaction fees, as we do now. Satoshi was trying to fix that part. But unfortunately, Bitcoin isn’t better on that front.

Bitcoin has high transaction fees because of the lack of scalability of the blockchain concept at scale while Visa has high transaction fees (although for most daily transactions, less than Bitcoin) due to network effects allowing them to charge near-monopoly rents.

What we need is government action to enable instant ACH/payments. And to make that common. Visa ought to be unnecessary.
I find this method works best. Skip looking at the page and instead watch all the network requests as the page loads.
Let's Encrypt also mitigates this by validating from multiple vantage points, so a single man-in-the-middle is insufficient.
Maybe the guy you hired to drive the Tesla just stole all or some of the cash? How would you know?
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A car sitting in traffic, not moving, but releasing emissions, isn’t a problem?
I've had it on my TODO-list to try out that plugin, thanks for reminding me!

How many sites have you tested it on, have you had any issues? I'm gonna play around with it now but what I'm mostly concerned about now is how you manage the site if you point the web server to the static directory.

I made a prototype at one point where you have your actual WP site in a subdirectory, like example.com/wordpress, which is IP restricted (or behind http auth). Then you crawl that site with wget (or curl) to generate static HTML and to finish it off by search/replacing the HTML files (removing the /wordpress portion). Then you serve the static files to general users.
Oh! That's a good idea. My goto has always been pipelining along a series of functions, but never thought of just using Jupyter for some reason.
Bitcoin people keep trying to score points and if they can't they move the goal post. You tried to get the green energy point but when you can't get it its like "yeah... duh nobody else can either". The what are you good for and why do people constantly bring up this false stat.
Currently, managing dependencies correctly by vetting them with each and every version bump is huge amount of overhead and it grows with each dependency pulled in. The way we as an industry have been handling it has largely been to keep going like we don't need to.

It's going to keep getting worse until a) developers and project managers realize doing inherently unsafe things is bad and b) they have the resources to give the additional ongoing levels of scrutiny. I'm not hopeful that this will happen at large in the industry, though I know it _is_ happening within individual companies and projects.

I'm sure we'll mitigate the damage to some extent by making package managers smarter and implementing finer-grained permissions. That will improve the situation over time, but it also takes us in the wrong direction by allowing us to forget that when we're shipping dependencies, we ultimately own their behavior.
Always nice to see some private companies stepping up. Specifically Cisco, Luna, Thales, and Fortinet. I'm sure there are a bunch others that donate their resources to Lets Encrypt.
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This is too dismissive. Most of Fowler’s work is written after interviewing lots of real world practitioners.
> But at least after it died and came back from the dead a few times,

This choice of words amused me far more than it should
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> man-in-the-middling Let's Encrypt and a particular domain (or DNS, depending on the domain validation challenge)

Let's Encrypt issues multiple verification requests from multiple servers in different locations, both physically and in the network topology. If you can MITM that, you've pretty much taken over the domain and the ability to get a certificate isn't the worst of the operators problems.
in my experience it's rather conservative there socially, but overall it's like 2/3 democrat voters there.
I think the differentiation is in the first mover advantage of Bitcoin. Combine that with, difficulty of mining, no central control and proven robustness.
Ask HN: Why does DNS propagation take less time now than before?
It seems like it takes way less time nowadays for DNS records to propagate. I'm able to get an HTTPS cert seconds after making a record change. What changed?
Bitcoin uses electricity for security, not transactions. The transaction rate for bitcoin is basically independent of the hashrate
`ipython -i <script>` also works similarly for debugging, by having the powerful interpreter open after running the script, without the jupyter overhead.
This is hard to do in a one-size-fits-all fashion because there's a wide range of 2d techniques, tools, and processes available, depending on a multitude of factors, some example ones being:

- Game genre / mechanics

- Your team size/skill sets/experience

- Game engine

- Target platform(s)

- Monetization strategy

2d games in particular support a wide variety possibilities.
If you narrow it down I can more easily point you in the direction of specific helpful resources.
I'm sorry, I had no idea this was a thing and should have had more empathy. Have you formed a position about what would be the best approach?

My son is on the spectrum, what used to be called Asperger's. He does therapy with an Applied Behavior Analysis certified professional and also a group socialization therapy with half a dozen other kids. The group organizers mentioned they prefer the group to be diverse: not all kids have the same issues, so they can help each other. Other than that, the current wisdom here is that children on the spectrum should go to the same school/classes and participate in external activities as much as any other children, but have professionals helping bridge the necessary gaps (like the socialization group, or pedagogic helpers, or even food allergy managers).

Before being diagnosed, my son took classes which also had some other toddlers on the spectrum, one with Down Syndrome, etc. But it's always a diverse, inclusive group. I'd fight fiercely against any suggestions of restricting his social group to any kind/class of kids.

Of course, if other schools cannot provide him with the assistance he needs, you might not have much choice but to put him in "a kindergarten for autistic children". Ideally, you'd be considering what they offer, what he needs, and what other schools offer. This one might be the best. But IMO that makes you and the social system responsible for finding other venues where he can meet and play with other kids. Maybe if you explain that he will be effectively restricted to socialization with his classmates, it can change their suggestion? Maybe they have something extra to offer people who are in your situation (shouldn't be too uncommon)?

Because it's not just about "being taugh to socialize". He also need to have fun, to learn from example, to get frustrated and improve his abilities to deal with that. He will grow to be his own person, you know your role in this is so important that you cannot just go with the flow. So it's nice that you came to HN to discuss, but we're not adequately educated to offer the help you need. Also discuss with professionals and in parent forums (but beware the crazy ones).

There's a lot of data you can gather to help you choose a position and arguments to defend it at the meeting. Do you know people on the spectrum that went to schools like you mention? And do you know people on the spectrum who went to generalist schools? What do you get from their stories? What are the reasons for Denmark to choose this scheme? Are they focusing on the affected children, or in not inconveniencing the other pupils and their parents? What does the science say about this approach? What are your options for arranging playdates for your kid outside school and family?

I hope you have a good meeting, I kinda have high expectations from the social system in Denmark. Your son deserves going to a place where he can be his best self and grow.
Yeah, and entire coal-fired power plants spring up just to feed datacenters to mine bitcoins.

We could as well put spare energy into manufacturing hydrogen fuel cells or running datacenters instead of blowing it on specially-shaped bits.
I love the imagery of this being "at the coal face" thanks for that
I agree on "not maven fault" but I don't find that much bureaucracy insane, for one changing dependencies on a mature java project doesn't happen that often, and for another knowing licensing, possible patent violation and a scan against a known vulnerabilities database is not a bad thing to do and it's normal for it to take some time as it passes hand between different people, after all you don't want devs working on licensing and you don't want to waste legals just to run a package trough vuln scans software.

beside, companies that care usually also have a database of previously cleared packages, so one can reduce one own work/delays by picking from the approved deps list.
Sure, fourth paragraph:

"Apple is also enacting a de-facto ban on these free analytics SDKs. The setup looks like this:"
Yea, those teeth are a bit gnarly. But I'm sure they'll nail it down real quick.
And Elon Musk has been on the record saying "We can coup whoever we want" in regards to our military's bloated international influence, so let's just admit he doesn't care about "saving the planet".
In the end, though, gold still has more than belief propping up the value. If bitcoin value drops to zero then it was all for nothing.
Might have been, it was so long ago.
I recently bought some Bitcoin with a bit of disgust but I'm not a fan.

It has effectively no utility except "volatile store of value". Most people actually buy it because they expect more than a store of value, they see it as an "investment" which will gain value over time.

But at some point an equilibrium will be reached where x % of world wealth will be allocated in Bitcoin and this x will remain stable over time and Bitcoin growth will slow down to global GDP growth (just thinking aloud, maybe this is wrong).

At that point, people may start to think, why the hell should I have my wealth in something that is expected to have similar returns to long-term government bonds but is also much more volatile and can go down to zero because unlike gold, there's no floor, it has no intrinsic value, it's all based on what people believe.
It's not all bad, many modern sites just expose a JSON API that can be used.
It really depends on how protective and large the company behind it is.
> Apparently, the builder of my family’s home here made a deal with Rogers to be the exclusive Internet provider.

Was that disclosed to you during the sale? If not, that sounds like you might be able to sue the builder.

I wonder why Canada just doesn't open up and allows world-wide players to compete. Sounds like the market is ready for new players.
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I am certain you are right and C++ could be used.

If you combined it with a strong theorem proof language.

But then, that's a large part of what Rust is so . . .
Can't do it in Venezuela. The whole point of that scenario when raised as a reason why btc is awesome is that you don't need an attached institution and your transactions cannot be censored.
forgive my naivety, but my understanding of the NPM and rubygems ecosystem is open source packages host their source code on github/gitlab. The source code is super easy to view. Often times, the author will use tags or branches dedicated to specific versions of the code.

For distribution, js and ruby use rubygems and npm to host packages. If a developer wants to verify that the package hosted on npm is the same code being displayed and worked on by contributors on github, they need to pull down both sets of code and then either run a checksum or compare line by line to verify the code matches up. Malware or a nefarious package owner could slip in unexpected code into the package before shipping it to the package host, leaving the github version without the changes. No typo-squatting needed.

Just because some form of the source code is published to Github, doesn't mean its the same code that is hosted on npm or ruby gems.
This is a very active area of research, and I'm pretty confident it will be a standard feature within the next five years. There are also light field displays, which are super interesting, but I'm pretty sure they are cost prohibitive for consumer devices.
Interesting. I think I have the opposite issue. I try to get FOV in to 85 - 110 range. Otherwise i feel sick (or i need to sit far back from the monitor, which i can't really do on PC).
We moved to Paw from Postman specifically because it has less (but higher quality) features. Postman is a mess of a UI, in my opinion. It's so much work to do very trivial things (like copy an environment). We had the feeling that it's hardly a productive solution, but almost makes work in and of itself.
Can you add more context around what you are doing such as the flow of DNS changes, what the TTL on the records were when you changed them and the process you are using to request a cert?
If you're on macOS, I can't say I really see the advantage to this over using the built-in Fontbook. Perhaps if you manage a lot of machines...
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tree planting ≠ forest planting.
But on that notion a “productive” artificial forest solves this issue.
build forest with plants that provide utility. But are family to the local environment. it’s a concept that has been proven
Honestly, it’s one of the things that makes me nervous about running Linux on all of my computers. At least with Windows (and probably OSX), my updates come from a single vendor who has strict internal code audits and security requirements. With Linux (I’m using Pop), my updates come from a package manager with a crapload of packages, each maintained by a different team / group with no central policy. There’s no way the small team at Pop can review and audit all of the things in the apt package system, and there have to be plenty of maintainers of popular packages who get sweet offers to sell out.

Anyway. I’m sticking with Pop / Linux. But it does make me nervous!
> Nobody can know with certainty what will happen but if you compare Bitcoin with something like gold you immediately realize that Bitcoin is better in any possible way.

Again, this is cargo-cult nonsense. Gold does not take the electricity resources of a large country to render it secure and make transactions possible. People cannot vote for a greater gold supply or fork gold, or create an alternative gold which lacks the need to use the electricity resources of a small country to secure it but is in every other respect functionally identical. Gold is pretty to look at and can be made into jewellery, not intrinsically worthless. Gold's price might be pushed higher than that intrinsic value by interest in its use as a store of value, but it's driven by millenia of desire to possess gold as a status symbol and currency substitute across a vast array of cultures, not a 12 year bull run propped up by counterfeit dollars and increasingly unrealistic claims that it will replace currency. There is literally no reason to believe that Bitcoin will ever 'replace gold in terms of market capitalization'
It really isn't. This quote is just saying that you probably can't afford the size of TV they're going to recommend, so you should "just get the biggest TV you can afford."
Is there something else like the WHOOP band, but sold as a standalone device (the WHOOP band is given free with a fitness subscription service!)?
Sounds like a single bitcoin transaction is like transferring a few billion dollars at a time.
Sounds like no amount of evidence will convince you, even with evidence that contradicts your opinion. The stuff you are talking about was the strategy for most big software vendors in the 90's/early 2000's. They sold software licenses and support.

If you look at current MS, it is all about services. Services do better when you have a larger addressable market and not embracing OSS will reduce who they can sell to, which is why they are going to.

VS Code is a perfect example, MIT License... OSS, wide support and well regarded.
I use this docker container `roest/docker-speedtest-analyser` [0] to auto-run a speedtest every hour. I am running Unraid on my home servers and also like the Speedtest plugin [1]. Lastly I use a docker container `adolfintel/speedtest` [2] so that I can test the speed to/from my house from outside the house (or on cellular). This is a pretty cool idea but if you are already comfortable running docker containers locally I encourage you to take a look at the first container I linked so you can keep all the data local.

[0] https://hub.docker.com/r/roest/docker-speedtest-analyser/

[1] https://forums.unraid.net/topic/41810-speedtestnet-for-unrai...

[2] https://hub.docker.com/r/adolfintel/speedtest
Curious that there is not a single mention of Erlang or RabbitMQ, which follow patterns of distributed systems quite nicely.
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Most subjectively "useless" objects are used as a store of value. Only 7/8% of gold is used in the manufacturing industry, the rest is sitting there with no active purpose other than existing. Same goes for collectibles (you can't eat or live in a baseball card or a valuable artwork).

Also the "live in" is a big misconception. Real estate doesn't increase in value. What does is the land on top of which it sits. A house depreciates over time exactly like a car (prefabs on rented land are a great example of that).

The only question that matters is: is Bitcoin better than commodity X? Where X can be gold, silver, oil or whatever else. And if the answer is yes there's no reason to believe it wouldn't take over X in terms of market capitalization (and, therefore, value).
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Maybe get a doctor's note too. It will help offset the cost if it's treated as something medically needed.
Jesus was a great NFS server name:

nfs: server Jesus not responding, still trying
Also interested in this. I've explored a few Android courses, but most online content I've tried so far hasn't really given me the "college lecture" vibe that I'm looking for.
I'm here for the bad takes by the hodlers.
I think Python makes sense, at least for the prototyping phase. There's a lot of trial and error involved, and Python is quick to write.
Yup, we aim to get the finishing component to be less than 5 minutes. That's the best tradeoff we've found - minimal work and way better quality.

We're open to new ideas on the word too!
I don't understand how a designation in front of the name solves anything. The designation is basically just a name itself, you've just made it a two-part name, and a requirement that all names have two parts. ok, so?
Bitcoin is a way of converting externalities into cash with no byproduct.