skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least there was a point to the former: you got content. With bitcoin, just move the money to Helium or something and if everyone does it, you have the same investment scheme. There is nothing intrinsically valuable about Bitcoin, it's just that everyone agrees to put money into it. We can easily move away and still have an investment scheme. You can't easily move away from downloading movies yet still have that movie on your hard disk to watch. There is a difference here.
> Idk why I see downvotes here

discussion derailment

turning every thread into a debate about your pet sociopolitical issue is unhelpful.
You can make keyboard more efficient than mouse for everything, even browsing code and googling. Tiling window manager + vim or emacs editor + vim or similar keybinds for browser.

It takes some upfront work to get those keybinds into muscle memory, but once you're over that hump a mouse feels cumbersome and clumsy by comparison.
Nice, which clients?
> Mac OS UX is far from any kind of golden standard fanboys try to make it out to be.

Haters pointing out a few flaws (which it does indeed have) doesn’t invalidate the fact that it’s still better than Windows or most Linux UIs.
Before cryptocurrencies, ransomware would use gift cards or vouchers such as PaySafecard.

Even if ransom payments were made completely impossible, it would just move the problem - malware operators would then trade the stolen data directly or use it to extort users or profit from it in some other way. Hell, the stolen data itself could become a currency.

Also, how large of a part does ransomware play in criminal use of cryptocurrencies?

Finally, you could argue that "honest" ransomware (in the sense that they keep their promise not to further misuse the stolen data if the ransom is paid - which they have an incentive to keep otherwise the entire business model would collapse) provides a market-driven solution to security & privacy breaches, something that governments still can't solve as demonstrated by the Equifax case.
> So while Matrix could potentially (or already does) link up with Signal

Matrix doesn't link up with Signal. The Signal devs have emphasized time and time again that they don’t want any third-party applications talking to their servers. While there does exist some outside software that connects to Signal’s own infrastructure without Signal’s permission (e.g. signal-cli), that is only tolerated because those third-party apps have very few users.
Bitcoin consumes more electricity than Argentina
If they can undercut the resource consumption of Matrix then I'm already sold.
A clinical consensus on whether addiction is a choice? Perhaps you are thinking of a clinical consensus on how best to treat addiction?
This is often glossed over by the "addiction is a disease" crowd. The efficacy of treating addiction as a disease does not make it any more "true" as an explanation for the circumstances leading up to it.
> Consumer demand has changed a lot since SCADA was first thought up.

I find this hard to believe. In this modern world of connected convenience, I’d say what I want from the water company is 99.99999% safe water and 0.00001% real time billing. The idea that you would sacrifice the former for the latter is ridiculous.

Nothing in your comment makes me think SCADA is bad, it just makes me think connecting it to the internet is dumb.
> How are these questions still being asked, and more amazingly, still being upvoted? First off, there will not be a time when "all the bitcoins are mined". Mining rewards are on a geometric curve that approaches 21 million but never touches it.

These questions are still being asked because people like you still spout the wrong answers. There will be a time when "all the bitcoins are mined" - its in the source[0].

[0]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/validatio...
> Most bitcoin enthusiasts at this point are more likely to be speculators who enjoy amassing (currently) rapidly appreciating assets that can be converted back to fiat currency, than deeply-committed ideologues who are familiar with the economic implications of the project.

I think you may be conflating recent bandwagoners with enthusiasts.

“There’s a limit to the number of bitcoin but the government can print as many dollars as they want” is a value proposition that bitcoin enthusiasts are likely to be familiar with.
Too soon.

He's nowhere near fossilized yet.
You are right that Bitcoin specifically doesn't use GPUs anymore, but GP's point still firmly stands even if you eliminate #3.
Anti-trust is only a joke in the sense that it doesn't get wielded enough. No more of these enormous companies forming unaccountable pseudo-governments of their own. Break them up and let the fragments enliven the market with their revitalized sense of competition. Then, when a victor emerges fat and complacent, break them up again and begin the cycle anew.
Can you really blame Ruby when the project didn't have the right resources?

The team could have booted up more processes. Isn't that the answer?

Or have I misinterpreted your comment?
I doubt that. FPGA's are just digital circuits. They don't use any onboard "ROM" the vast majority load their programming from an external chip. Where are you getting they don't use standard CMOS tech?
Writing isn’t thinking. It’s a tool for thinking more effectively
Yes, I have heard of both Pelican and Lektor, I see that they both have plugin systems that allow you to hook in custom Python code via signals / events, should give them a try too (especially Lektor, which is newer, and which I know was written by the author of Flask et al).
Purpose-built infra is almost always wasted if the purpose is unfulfilled; sure, maybe someone else can find a way to use it, but it was built to do things nobody needed.

> and presumably created infrastructure jobs

Usually you hear people complain about dig-a-hole-then-fill-it-up jobs. But if we're going to start supporting those, it would be best not to tie them to scams, I think.
I would assume bandwagoners have outnumbered the "enthusiasts" at this point. And the bandwagoners are just as enthusiastic about bitcoin as the true believers, as they have skin in the game. It just happens to be monetary instead of ideological.
> Can you source that please?

This is like asking for a source on where 5G was shown not to cause corona. There is a difference between critical thinking and questioning generally accepted statements. You know as well as anyone that energy transportation isn't free or easy, why ask as GP to show that? You're implying that it's more environmentally friendly to build a big power plant in the middle of nowhere, then ship a bunch of ASICs there as well, and then mine bitcoin, rather than just not do that and use the investment money to renewable energy somewhere else. Heck, even if you did build a power plant in the middle of nowhere and intend to ship computers there, why not ship machine learning there?

For example I know that DeepL has megawatts of GPUs for learning for the purposes of translation. There is no latency issue here, they can do this anywhere in the world. It's clearly better to use the energy for these purposes than for mining proofs of work.
You could adopt a kid that's old enough to already know whether they like dinosaurs. I'm not sure how adoption agencies will feel about this line of questioning.
It gets worse: from when I had to deal with this some years back IIRC in Saudi Arabia the start and end of DST is set by decree every year.
Lets just take the shortcut: Who assigns the the proofing unit? The metric doesn't even matter, it is a question of who. Now, who controls that? Once you figure that out you'll realize that you are trusting parties that you either didn't know you were trusting, or you kinda knew but didn't want to think too hard about because nobody really cares about chucky cheese coin. You can't be rewarded for performing useful compute without some degree of implicit trust, which makes you dependent on the other party. You can dress it up with quorum algorithms, etc - but it only further obscures the underlying vulnerability. That is fine for a token system, but not for a cryptocurrency.
The best strategy is to use a BIP-39 seed phrase with an additional passphrase. The seed phrase should be written down/etched into a piece of metal and stored safely (with redundancy), and the passphrase should be memorized by yourself and possibly a family member (as insurance if something happens to you).

You can leave a small amount of coins in the wallet using the same seed phrase but with no passphrase as a decoy. This way, if somebody "stumbles upon" your seed phrase, they'll attempt to recover this small amount of money, and you can monitor using only the xpub to discover it has been compromised. You then have some time to move the other coins before anybody could potentially brute-force your passphrase (Since they need to compute PBKDF2 for each attempt).

You can reuse the same seed phrase for multiple wallets, using a different passphrase for each. There is no way for somebody to determine if you have surrendered all passphrases for a give seed, since there could be infinitely many. This offers plausible deniability in the case your thief is the government.
It's called Automation. Samsung can move senior people around to teach new people. It's not rocket science. Also they will never get that tax abatement from the current Austin city council. There's no way. They might get 20-25%
> Right except 70% of the hash power is concentrated in a few mining pools in the PRC. A strongly worded memo from Xi that unless you permit their compromise of the network you'll find a new hobby mining minerals in Xinjiang, and party's over.

What attack are you imagining? Chinese miners cooperate to do a double-spend... on who? And how does it help them to destroy international trust in the coin and make their own assets worthless?
Totally agree and very well said. Go just works. I find it insanely easy to read. The comments about the JVM ... no. thank. you. Single no-dependency go binaries are beautiful. Cross compilation and hooks to C when needed are also big wins.
The word Hustler being the first word of the sentence is unfortunate.
In the early days of FB, they relied on Google Docs and Gmail.

More importantly, they used pre-built social networks by letting you import your GMail contacts.
VR helping treat fear of heights
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I expect that's true. I got very strong motion sickness with VR, but after dedicating a few hours to it I can do low-motion games fine.

Mostly I've managed to make myself slightly ill with my own experiments in rendering motion in hyperbolic space, so I haven't spent too long in HyperRogue.
Open is Cmd-o

Expecting Return ("Enter" on Win PC) to open a file is a convention you learned from other OSes. Conversely, imagine my confusion having grown up with Mac OS and being shocked at Windows opening a file I expected to edit the filename of by pressing Enter? :)

Deleting a file? Command... wait for it... Delete

I mean, all of your gripes seem to be about expecting behaviour from other OSes/software and you're not open to learning something new. Different operating systems have different conventions and ways of allowing the user to interact with them.

There are myriad key-commands which can also make your life easier, and they are all pretty easy to remember. I mean, I learned all this stuff when I was literally like 6 years old. As a child I was able to easily remember literally every key command available to the user, in every program I used, including fairly complex DTP software like Quark XPress.
You can also disable biometrics by spamming the lock button.
Why would Foxconn care who governs Wisconsin?
D language is probably the Goldilocks of programming languages for the rest of us in terms of compilation speed (comparable to Go), program execution (comparable to C/C++) and ease of programming and debugging (comparable to Python). The author of the D language despises macro more than you, and has designed a solution for modern and sane approaches to template programming [1][2]. If you want to program like C in D modern eco system there is a safer betterC. Heck now there is even borrow checking capability if you want safety guarantees similar to Rust.

[1]https://mobile.twitter.com/WalterBright/status/1343128003178...

[2]https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/29/std-variant-is-everything-...
You are correct that energy consumption that relies on fossil fuels is more damaging than energy consumption that comes from many other sources, but your claim that massive energy consumption means nothing it comes from other sources is not.

Even "clean" energy isn't free energy.

We need to consider both the costs on the supply side as well as what's driving the demand side for our energy consumption if we want sustainable systems.

The costs of running both our Internet as well as the Bitcoin blockchain are components of that, and if we aren't considering them, it's a mistake.

The energy costs of the Bitcoin blockchain will become highly significant very quickly if the network continues to grow at the pace that it has to date, even if the work is done by machines relying on energy sources multiple times cleaner than those that currently exist.

If we want to alleviate this, I suspect that we'll have to consider what the underlying social factors are that are driving the demand for such a network.
Free-speech activist. That's what I love. Here's raging into the night.
> Haters pointing out a few flaws (which it does indeed have) doesn’t invalidate the fact that it’s still better than Windows or most Linux UIs.

I agree that it's marginally better than Windows, but it's inferior to Linux given the fact that you can have a superior UX on Linux. Obviously this is based on my personal preferences.
It's TWh per year, so you have to multiply your figure of 0.00445 TW (without H!) by 24*365.25 hours giving you 39TWh/year; I guess if you add cooling and different gear you can get to 120TWh/year.

I agree it's kind of strange to measure stuff in TWh/year instead of just TW...
Java is insanely verbose. Fact.
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Plastic recycling by and large is a farce. The majority of all "recycled" plastics in western countries winds up being exported to developing nations who then extract a tiny percent that can be melted down and reused. The rest winds up in rivers, or the ocean, or being burnt. It's horrific that countries like his is being used as a global rubbish dump.

If western countries actually want to make a difference, we need to take a hard line and ban all single use plastic.
They can nuke the currency by executing a 51% attack on anyone. There’s no fundamental value to Bitcoin except faith/trust. Kill the trust kill the chain.
It shouldn't be. The hardware and software development toolsets used by modern game systems get ever-so-closer to commodity PC hardware with every market cycle. Older hardware is actually harder to emulate than newer. NES cartridges had their memory controllers built into the cartridge. The newer ones used by games such as Castlevania 3 are imperfectly understood and many games still have crash glitches. Only roughly half of these controllers were made by Nintendo and not all of the ones that weren't were licensed. The situation with the
SNES is in some ways better and some ways worse.
If the long-term return from solar cells were higher than the cost involved, Samsung would do it themselves. Since they don't do it, that means it is not efficient enough. So why force them?
How do you deal with JavaScript then?
Nairobi has a particularly acute problem of plastic trash everywhere which this really scratches the itch of helping solve this in an economically incentivizing way. I'm sure there are likely other places where the problem is prevalent.

I'd certainly buy these if they were available and competitive with concrete paving stones in the U.S. There are some use cases where I think they would be preferable as they would be less likely to crack than concrete.
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I think you misunderstood greatly. What I am saying is that powerplants are built close to human settlements because electricity can't be economically transported or stored, and that there are many times when electricity is given out nearly or completely for free as there is too much of it and it can't be stopped - actually there are many times when powerplants pay you for taking electricity - and that's when Bitcoin miners step in. I'm sure they'd happily give that electricity to DeepL too, if they asked.
Okay, thank you for deigning to explain your objections in detail. That is actually quite helpful, as it has decreased my interest in GRC. I appreciate your time in reading the whitepaper and pointing out the deficiencies in the design.
tl;dr Gentoo requires users to build packages locally meaning they are dependent on the build software for a library to have Gentoo support for their architecture. Rust has limited support for some of the architectures Gentoo otherwise supports. Since this is an important crypto library adopting Rust Gentoo may have to drop support for certain currently supported architectures.
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This humble letter follows some good rules for short persuasive prose:

- Don't generalize or pontificate

- Draw from specific facts or experiences

- Qualify your thesis statement as a suggestion or polite request
The "fair players" could simply coordinate to make a hard fork from before the attack.
did the TSMC project get mothballed as a boondoggle for Wisconsin?
Bitcoin will benefit anyone who wants to save (create capital). It will not be kind on those who merely want to consume. It's low time preference vs high time preference.

Not all rich people have low time preferences. Particularly those who are involved in the fiat system and who benefit from the expansion of debt. They think in quarters.

And not all poor people have high time preferences, but under fiat, saving money is highly discouraged because it loses purchasing power. People are encouraged to spend or invest in stonks - where the markets are rigged to benefit the big players.

Everyone benefits in a society where capital is accumulated, rather than debt.

As for "rich versus poor," this is a distraction because their is nothing you can do about it besides resorting to theft, which makes the problem worse.

The problem has always been "thieves versus hard workers." The current system is one where central banks and those close to them are stealing the time that other people have put into labour by deliberately devaluing their money.
would "Hustler" (ie quoted) be better? What specifically about this did you dislike? The idea of a generalised hustler type, as a founder (somebody who founds, and hustles) or .. ?
The idea is great, I see lots of potential in this. Especially from a user quality perspective.
A lot of the failure is just the basics, and it's not always technical incompetence. It can be managerial.

For instance, most SCADA and IT vendors can do a lot better than (probably not patched) Windows 7 with TeamViewer. However, there's two prevailing attitudes that interfere:

1. We're not big like Boston or New York, therefore we're not going to be targeted and are fine, nobody cares to harm us.

2. When you have a working SCADA system, nobody wants to run updates or make security policy changes when that might lead to not having a working SCADA system. Security vulnerability remains the constant invisible bogeyman, you never know if you did enough until it's too late.
Let's unclog the FDA and save lives
You can’t parallelism those... you need a building to install tools in it. You need the tools installed to qual them. You need the tools quaked to qual a process...

From personal experience I would posit scaling semiconductor manufacturing as 10x to 50x harder than getting a process flow to work in a development fab. Ramps are absolutely killer.
I don't have solidified idea for reinventing web dev but I'm oscillating between two opposing strategies. One would be to have a micro app server in hardware - think RPi nano or even less, where each http session gets a dedicated "box" thus returning to the model of development that reduces everything to a single user, single process system. Persistence becomes a challenge. Ideally it would be a truly shared hardware component or alternatively it would be a swarm of tiny disks that can be queried independently and in aggregate.

The opposite idea would be to build a single OS on top of distributed hardware that presents resources in a truly unified fashion where the illusion of programming and deploying to a single machine is unbroken and none of the underlying abstractions leak up. Think VMware but in reverse.

The other thing that must be done over is the DOM/JS paradigm. It's so absurdly and ridiculously complex for what it does that it makes most developers laughable unproductive. There is no reason there couldn't be an environment like Delphi or VB but geared to the web developer. Wasm is a ray of hope here as its cutting loose the inane JS/DOM paradigm and finally offering a plain programmable canvas to the browser for the first time since the demise of Flash an Java applets before it.
Win Pro still annoys me. And they have telemetry baked deep into the OS. Pass. Same for macOS these days. Linux is quickly becoming the only viable privacy preserving OS.
"The founder of Hustler" would be less confusing.
The underlying mechanism doesn't work the same though, e.g. in C assigning to a variable "mutates" the contents of RAM, in Python it mutates the namespace dictionary (which of course also results in some RAM contents changing too, but through a relatively elaborate abstraction.)

> Shouldn't terms like this be cross-language?

Variables in C are different beasties than variables in Python, and variables in Prolog are different from both, and none of those are like variables in math. It's a source of confusion that we use the word "variable" for a host of similar concepts. The word "type" is similarly overloaded in CS. (See https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/srk21/research/papers... )

FWIW, I'm just explaining what wendyshu was on about above. :)
And I believe they already own the land where they'd put it as they'd been planning expansion. I don't see the city/county council going for their plans on 100% tax free infrastructure and property taxes though as Texas pretty much substitutes property tax for income tax. I think it will actually end up being built in Arizona as Austin is doing fine without Samsung trying to bully it in to ridiculous tax incentives.
Andrew Torba is following the footsteps of folks who pushed the boundaries like Larry.
Report it, then.
I've been happily using it for the last 3 years on my Mac. It had a few crashes, some were fixed by the port author, some by me.
Twitter has a different culture. It's mostly public, whereas YouTube is mostly anonymous.

It _does_ sound like a "corporate messed it up", because if they had understood the culture surrounding their products they would have probably done things differently.

Here's a blatantly obvious example of that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B#Commenting_on_YouTub...
Key part being "while BTC is appreciating". Which seems based more on the greater fool theory than a sustainable asset or currency. (Lightning network not withstanding)
A big difference is employee and organizational expectations too. People expect to be able to monitor things from home, not pay people to sit at a desk and watch it.
well.. certainly it has stopped 'some' people from using it though for many the compilation costs are worth it
I would bet money on this one. No first complete wafers in 2023.