skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first question I saw is "What share of the population in high-income countries (like Germany and the USA) live in extreme poverty (with less than $2/day)?"

The answer, of course, is "basically none". It's also pointless. Plenty of people live in serious poverty, and many more live hand to mouth. Many have negative net worth and nothing in the bank. So focusing on that one statistic is misleading.

They acknowledge that: "Being poor in rich countries is a terrible experience that too many families have to deal with on a daily basis. They suffer from exclusion and lack opportunities that others around them have. The solution to their suffering is often within reach of the country they live in if only resources and opportunities were more fairly shared."

Which is great. So why focus on telling people they're wrong about the exact number rather than informing them from the get-go about what what "poor" really means?
It's just a divisive topic and people repeat the same things over and over again about those (including versions of what you've said here). It's been the same for many years already.
that's assuming you can exit vim to launch your browser in the first place :p
You can devise all sorts of distributed system architectures. You could for example have a synchronous system system composed of nodes organized in a ring.

There is not "one definition" of what a distributed system is. You have to define that. There are some common distributed system architectures that perhaps most of us are familiar with--asynchronous networked system, e.g. no shared memory with point-to-point communication. There are other dichotomies; though I'm not an expert in the field and am unable to succinctly define them.

As you add more "stuff" into your distributed system--people talkig about adding a memcached or whatever in other comments, you've introduce a completely different system. Maybe some sort of hybrid. And if you're interested, you can formally reason about its behavior.

Regardless, you have to define what you're talking about.

It's an interesting question to ask what is the most fundamental component of a distributed system? Could it be multiple processing nodes?
don't you think you make life a bit too hard for yourself?
This.

Not many people are anti-science. It's just when opinion gets passed for science that we should be worried because opinions are instructed by agenda. And if there is a funding motive behind that agenda, well, your gonna have problems with corruption.
The very premise of this article ignores the very point of moving toward 100% clean power. If all power is clean, then why does it matter how much power Bitcoin uses?

That is: Bitcoin's "dirty baggage" ain't Bitcoin's. Rather, the dirty baggage is that of electricity production as a whole, and that baggage gets a heck of a lot cleaner once we've moved away from carbon-emitting electricity production. Bitcoin doesn't give the slightest iota of a rat's behind whether a miner's running entirely off solar power or entirely off the dirtiest coal money can buy.

Kinda disappointed in Reuters for putting their name on an article that is outright antithetical to factual reasoning. This is the precise opposite of good journalism; it's a hit piece, and for asinine reasons.
A relative works at the Community College level of public education, and generally during economic downturns they prosper because a lot of people go back to school for qualifications, but they were telling me this year a lot of their math classes (remote only) had low enrollment while other STEM classes were normal or up. I can only assume that's because a lot of people just cannot handle learning math remotely for whatever reason.
I don't have a mac, why is it to be so hard for someone like me to learn ios development :(
I'd really like to know the energy cost of HD streaming in general. Including god damn hi-res GIFs.
Impressive. There is a cartoonlike quality. I wonder if that is there to keep the models from looking creepy or if they just wanted their models to look cartoony.
This was 360 degree mosaic, about 100kX100k
Valid criticism is one thing, but this wave of criticism ignores so many basic facts about Bitcoin mining and energy generation/transportation/storage it's unbelievable. It also ignores the benefits, handwaving them away as if they didn't exist at all (it's all nice and easy for the firstworlders they can't even imagine there's a world without reliable banks, but there is!) while offering no alternative. Why would people use Bitcoin if there was a better alternative, isn't one of the arguments that it costs so much? Try to find out how much does it cost to transfer money to Ghana or Congo by other means and how reliable it is...
Vespertine is simply magical, highly recommend it to anyoen who wants to push the boundaries of experiential dining/molecular gastronomy (in-person).

You didn't mention the best part in my experience... each dish had a QR code sticker that you scanned and it pulled up an evocative image and story of how they meticulously chose those ingredients and the story behind the dish and why they chose it/ties into the theme of the overall 8+ course meal.

Please scan the QR codes, it makes the experience feel way more intimate and connected like you are talking to the head chef and team directly!
You'd be protected from a passive attack and thus you could always (with enough effort) detect an attack. Someone who is snooping (e.g. fibre taps) is potentially undetectable (yes in theory there are quantum physics tricks you could do to detect this, but nobody much is really doing that) whereas an active attack is always potentially detectable.

So it's not nothing, but it isn't very much without the Certificate Authority role.
Now that you mention it, I can't remember anything off the top of my head, but it's gotta stand for something, right?
inflation in common goods. lets talk about the housing market. or even proper biological food. don't see any inflation there.
I really appreciate seeing someone creating their own interface instead of re-skinning the popular shells. If the devs out there working on this see this thread, great work!
> Maybe I want to see the number of some custom event per week, ok, now show me number per session, then break it down by country etc etc.

There's this thing called SQL that the oldies used to generate such reports ... Jokes apart, I agree with the suggestion to build your own analytics, or host one using some popular open source analytic software. There is more privacy awareness among users now, and sharing your data with Google or Microsoft or Facebook is the easiest way to hurt your reputation with these individuals. Has everyone forgot that webservers still generate their own visitors logs? Moreover, if you think the data is important enough to collect and analyse, it seems quite foolish to trust a third-party with it, especially a free one.
My baseless prediction: A major conflict will be fought in the next 20 years over a direct "environmental pollution" disagreement. I used the word "direct" because there have no doubt been many conflicts that involve environmental concerns, mainly about resource protection.
China seems content in popping up dams wherever they please, no matter the human or ecological cost.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/8/china-to-build-the-w...
Buy a Tesla with them? No way for the IRS to notice that unless they audit you.

That is in fact the easiest way for the IRS to notice, as crypto is only taxable when it is transacted. And bitcoin is a public ledger.
There's no downplaying. A vulnerability was identified and system with multiple levels of protection worked.
Why do these SDKs ‘need the data to make money for their owners’?
All the people defending BTC because they a vested interest is hilarious. Ahhhh yes lets develop clean energy solutions to mine it before solving all the actual other clean power needs in the world.
Interesting, my local repeaters were full of liberal activists
Reminds me how audio engineers have to test their masters on old Toyota Corolla stereos, because that's how many people will hear their production the first time.
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Interesting, the idea of ECS is intuitive to me but actually doing it is kinda hard, mainly because the scope of ECS is kinda vague there're some stuff that you aren't supposed to do with ECS, if you try to do every single aspect of your game in ECS that might result in some messier code. I actually think the Unity way is not bad, it's also a series of components compose an entity, the only difference is not separating data and logic which I found easy to work with and not bad at all.
I'm not saying refactoring is always worthwhile (it usually isn't, in my experience anyway).

But the refactor is generally done with the benefit of hindsight of all the things you would have done differently if only you'd known then what you know now.

It's like saying that the second draft or edited manuscript of a novel isn't going to be better than the initial draft. Of course it's better the second time. In theory, you fixed what was wrong with the first one and implemented new and/or improved ideas.

If your refactored code is worse than the original, I feel like you're doing something wrong.
Well, there are alternatives consensus mechanism that look just as good if not superior like Proof of Stake that don't require all that electricity.
All of btc is useless! Please give an argument how it is not.
If you were all ears you'd know by now that there's no viable alternative to PoW. Or genuinely cared to find out for yourself for that matter.
the early adopters don't control the network. they are just actors on it. Even the richest btc holder can't freeze your wallet or prohibit you from spending/trading/sharing it.
Electical power is fungible and an increase in demand for any power increases the profitability of all existing sources of power including coal, reducing the rate at which fossil-fuel power sources will be replaced.

The idea that consuming more power is good for the environment is not supported by the evidence. Or any evidence.
Hey yes, we have been working on a React/Node app for two years some time ago, that grew to that size and some more.

I understand the skepticism, to be honest I was also pretty skeptical when we started (I am still a little bit, a healthy dose :D!), but we think now we can get to the level of flexibility of serious web frameworks - it all comes down to figuring out where the flexibility is needed.

Right now it is already pretty flexible - you can write any nodeJS logic and use any JS library, same goes for React components. What is tricky is hitting this right trade-off between flexibility and power, and we are thinking a lot about that.

So to summarize, I agree, but am hopeful!

e2e testing -> yes, that would be very cool :)! We don't have any testing capabilities yet, but will be looking into it.

Regarding bigger projects - one thing I am excited about is the possibility to model not just one web app via the DSL, but to capture multiple services - for example multiple (micro)servers - and orchestrate them. I haven't explored that direction enough yet though, since it is not the priority right now.
...unless you're not on a Debian-based distribution.
> But you can't have (commercially successful) adtech without invasion of privacy.

I think we (as a society, not just tech people) specifically need to take care of this point. Removing tracking will make it less effective, so what. We've had advertising without tracking since 19th century.
You’re missing the point.

The Bitcoin network is literally designed to incentivize, with payment, bringing new energy-inefficient operations online to “mine”.

The efficiency of the network gets worse and worse all the time, all while processing the same limited number of transactions.

Worse yet, Bitcoiners seem to like it this way. Proposals to increase block size have not been welcomed, and they go to great lengths to discourage switching to other protocols with better energy efficiency (because it would harm their investment).

The entire system revolves around inefficiency, and unfortunately we pay for that inefficiency with energy consumption.
And almost all the respondents were German (apparently this is a big deal in Germany).
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Bitcoin exists for just over a decade now. Give governments and financial regulatory bodies some time to catch up and they will destroy it, maybe creating their own cryptocurrencies in process.
It's worth noting that current bitcoin capitalization ($600B) is also more than Argentina GDP ($445B), so it can be said that bitcoin users constitute a rather significant (bit)nation on this planet.
If we take it a few steps out, it sounds like wasting energy can save the world.

The more energy we waste the more energy we need, the more profitable cheap energy sources are!

Of course the more profitable wasting energy becomes, the more coal and oil will be burned to make money as well.
No sorry, that isn't it at all but it's easy to see how you would think so.

You can do whatever tracking you like, however you like using whatever SDK you like, as long as you obey basically two rules:

* If you are tracking identifiable information you must present an opt-in dialog. It doesn't matter if you roll your own or use an SDK to do it.

* If you are doing 3rd party tracking, and generally these SDKs are designed to do that, you must indicate this in the App's privacy information.

Honestly, that's all there is to it. The whole article, and the "de-factor ban' narrative being pushed so hard on this forum are predicated on the assumption that doing either of these things is simply inconceivable. However if you are willing to do them, all the restrictions melt away. It's really as simple as that. Ask the users and tell them the truth. That's all that's being required.

The only complications come if you want to weasel your way out of doing these things. That's why the blog post author, and the 'de-facto ban' crowd here think this is such a fiendishly difficult problem.
I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site (2018)
How do meals compare with eating in an actual restaurant? I've been ordering takeout a little more since the pandemic began, and I've had disappointing meals. Bad estimates mean that I might pick up the meal late, and it didn't always microwave well.

The food photographs really well, and I'd like to try it. But I'm assuming that it's priced high enough that I would not want there to be a hit in quality.
What stack did you end up using ?
> If you don't want irreversible transactions, you don't want bitcoin.

You brought it up as an upside.

> Maybe spending 1% of the world's energy to have this public infrastructure is actually a good deal?

That seems highly unlikely, especially at a time when we don't have negative externalities priced into that energy cost, and we know we're damaging the climate, and given that the only thing it really brings to the table is decentralisation. Which itself is firstly a bit of a sham (mining tends to centralise) and not even that important to the speculators.
I'm torn on the idea of body cams. On the one hand, there really needs to be more transparency in public service. On the other hand, no one wants their boss looking over their shoulder all day. I know I wouldn't take that job.

Ideally no one, including your boss, can review body cam footage without a good reason (checking to see if the officer is slacking is NOT a good reason). I can't imagine that being practical though (it would be ignored).

Body cams don't seem like the right solution. Society can come up with better ideas. Improving training, increase penalties when wrong-doing is proven, etc.
I was an ios dev via Objective-C in another life.

Swift and SwiftUI is such a fundamental shift in experience for the better.

There are a few esoteric things based on full interoperability with ObjectiveC and the cocoa API's, but for most apps, it's really straight forward.
>Did you mean to imply that effeminate -- showing characteristics more associated with females than males -- was at the other end of a spectrum from athletic?

Agreed, the terminology used by the parent comment was a bit strange, but I got the idea of what they meant.

They were talking about an effeminate skinny type of a male compared to a very masculine athletic "macho man"-looking type. In terms of celebrities and purely their appearances, think of young David Bowie vs. Arnold Swarzenegger.

I guess the parent comment simply conflated athleticism with masculinity, but that's just an aspect of it, and not all kinds of athleticism are inherently "masculine" (think yoga or acrobatics or figure skating).
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I've used Taste before and it worked really well. The quality of the food was high (we ordered from a NY restaurant we really liked) and putting together the "finishing touches" was the right amount of work. Made for a great date night at a price pt that was much lower than actually going to one of the restaurants.
Try 5 years. The CCP is diverting the Himalayan headwaters to Xinjiang from several neighbors, including India and Pakistan. Half of their populations rely on that water.
I don't know nano, I don't really use vim (kind of, I'm an Evil person ^^).

Does nano has a very rich movement system such as Vim has? I think that's one of the main selling point
But that doesn't seem to square with your GP post in my mind. If cigarettes went away, the world will keep moving just fine. They don't need to exist.

But you posit that people choosing cigarettes provides some value, despite the negative effects. Why is there no value than in people being able to chose a money/investment vehicle they believe to be to their benefit?
> However, if the ultimate utility of Bitcoin is to store trillions of dollars of value, [...] then energy-per-transaction is an inappropriate metric.

The amount of energy used in equilibrium in Bitcoin mining is proportional to the price of Bitcoin (between halvings and holding the fraction of total mining costs spent on energy constant). If the price of Bitcoin rose enough that it had a 2TN market cap tomorrow, miners would have incentives to burn 3-4x more energy.

I agree that transaction-based accounting is flawed, but it doesn’t make the problem go away.
Surely the comparison should be against conventional systems used to store and transfer value? Consider a bank, with its datacentre, branches, and people employed to eyeball and verify transactions, maintain the supporting systems and infra, to begin with...
Old entrants that may have bought it because they believed in it pushing it to mainstream.

How do you feel about the government that's about to print 1.9 trillion dollars, therefore devaluing your money?
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Ha! I am currently building something very similar at work, and JS links are driving me up a wall. Its interesting because you would think its super simple, but I still haven't found a good solution. Luckily my boss is understanding.
Please add an extra AI layer generating WASP DSL !

GPT-3 -> WASP -> Web APP
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In the Mac, terminal apps use Control-C without any problems. Only native Mac apps use the Command (Apple) key, so I see no conflict between these two key combinations.
Why do I care if delusional people get help? For the same reason I'm in support of universal healthcare as a human right. Again, if you want to claim something like religious persecution, can you define what it means. I would love a clear and concise definition of what is and isn't a religion.

As a side note that many readers might find interesting, delusion as defined in the DSM-5, the book that defines what is and isn't a "mental illness", EXPLICTLY makes an exception for "religious beliefs" when it comes to delusions. I.E., if you believe in Zeus and Thor and claim you pray and worship them, you can can be admitted for delusion because those "religions" aren't considered socio-normal, I.E. no big groups of people actively practice them. It's kind of the idea why cults are considered delusions. Now, you take that same exact logic, but apply it to someone who claims they talk to Jesus or Allah, bam, exemption and it's perfectly normal delusions.
> Worse yet, Bitcoiners seem to like it this way. Proposals to increase block size have not been welcomed, and they go to great lengths to discourage switching to other protocols with better energy efficiency (because it would harm their investment).

That's exactly why the Bitcoin Cash fork happened.
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Then you won't have apt in the first place ;)
Not moving any goal posts here, I just meant to say that some part of the energy usage is renewable, and we as mankind have been moving towards more energy consumption each year anyway. In the coming years, we'll start using more renewable energy.

As far as the question what are you good for is concerned, we've been printing money at an alarming rate ever since 2008 crisis, if the new stimulus is passed, the us will have printed 40% of all dollars in existence in the past year alone, I don't know how you think that won't cause inflation/it's acceptable that the cost of printing is borne by other countries because the us dollar is the international reserve currency. Bitcoin has been adopting a store of value narrative and is synonymous with digital gold at this point, so in effect a hedge against inflation.

Two, I'm not sure if you relate with it or not, but maybe we just believe in decentralization of financial institutions just a little bit more than you do, everyone who got burned because of banks in the past decade has developed a deep distrust of the modern financial system.
I'm not a photographer so please excuse what is probably a naïve question: why would the lenses vary so much? Does it mean that photographers in the UK have only a one in three chance of getting a good lens each time they buy?

If the quality is so variable wouldn't this generate a bad reputation and thus reduce the sales of the brands that were poor and increase the sales of those that were better?
Hahaha, that's a fantastic find. Thanks for brightening my day a little.

For those who are not sure whether to click on the link or not, here's a little pearl from the former Commander in Chief:

"I was asking the Air Force guys, I said, how good is this plane? They said, well, sir, you can't see it. I said, yeah, but in a fight — you know, a fight — like I watch in the movies — they fight, they're fighting. How good is this? They say, well, it wins every time because the enemy cannot see it. Even if it's right next to it, it can't see it. I said, that helps. That's a good thing."