skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no love for Trump, nor do I think the forced buyout strategy made any sense at all.

That said, multiple security researchers have taken apart the app and confirmed it logs any and all data it possibly can regardless of if it serves any function in the app.

This is dangerous, and I feel the app should be labeled as malware. If users really want to knowingly install malware, I mean, fair.

I don't think smoking should be banned but having big scary (and accurate);lung cancer pictures on the boxes to educate consumers sure made it less popular in Australia.
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If there was a way to have the Pantheon desktop experience of elementaryOS on BSD or Illumos without having to build it myself, I’d be there in a heartbeat.
Money is intended to transact with, not for speculation on it increasing purchasing power, which is great, because it can be spent on or invested in things which create value instead. And at a rate of more than 10 transactions per second worldwide!
Deutsche Marks do not exist anymore.
I suppose the value judgment is between "very low but presumably stable income with small positive net worth" versus "very high but extremely unstable with massively negative net worth."
Right, va for 1080p is something like 3.5' for a 24" monitor. Most people will be able to see a diff between 4k and 1080p, but I'd imagine 4k vs 1440p would be negligible.
I have not used this list but I do block fb and ig servers in pi-hole. Though I will now move to using this list: https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporatio...
The 4 transactions per second is an artificial cap that is not associated with the power consumption of Bitcoin. The answer was, and is, to increase the maximum block size parameter, preferably making it dynamic.
I was under the impression it was a king kong like monster with at least one of its dimensions being several hundred kilometers in size. Luckily the brilliant minds at Terra Quantum set me straight.
Has it ever decreased?

> What is the maximum difficulty?

> There is no minimum target. The maximum difficulty is roughly: maximum_target / 1 (since 0 would result in infinity), which is a ridiculously huge number (about 2^224).
I don't know -- Pico-8 seems to be the perfect answer to what the author is asking for: it's a great environment to learn about these things, and there is a large and useful community and pool of resources around it which will tell you exactly how to develop 2D games (including the pico-zines, https://sectordub.itch.io/pico-8-fanzine-1, wiki etc). The0 "cartverse" and the already included games also provide plenty of examples of games that are both easy to learn from and actually fun.
A lot of equity talk in there.
I've done the opposite, disguising something that is a named pattern as anything but a factory to prevent structure-avoidant zealots from knee-jerk reacting to the word in a PR.
I mean ideally, the Nile would be made navigable all the way up there, allowing Egypt to benefit from Ethiopian trade (as Ethiopia is landlocked).
I got an invite. The UI I found a bit confusing and at first I didn't see much value. Closed the app and the next day got an alert the Ashton Kutcher and Adam Grant had a live chat. Tuned in and was interesting. However, the live nature just doesn't fit my schedule. I prefer async listening.
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It's not a de-facto ban either. In fact it's not a ban. Period.

Advertisers could invest time and money in explaining to users what their data is being used for and the benefits it brings. Making it seem like Apple is preventing analytics by simply asking users what they want is disingenuous at best.
A single digit percentage of a massive number is still a massive number.
> The institutional interest in Bitcoin I've seen lately seems to assume a thesis of dollar depreciation and Bitcoin usurping its role as the global reserve currency.

Aren't we losing the assumed federation in this system? A country whose banking system is under strain (Nigeria) or has collapsed (Zimbabwe) will have a bad-faith government acting to constrain the free-flow of money (because they want a transaction-fee cut).

Wouldn't that still lead to me wanting to go buy my groceries with BTC? Do we create a localised version/model where people can transact with each other without touching the blockchain (because of the low throughput), or how do we address this use-case; as it seems to be the most attractive one?

Has the energy requirement peaked, or is it still going to increase? Linearly or not?
I really appreciate the tips in the comments here.

As a beginner it makes a lot of sense to iterate on a local copy with jupyter rather than fetching resources over and over until you get it right. I wish more tutorials focused on this workflow.
I've always felt these things to be true, and understood the logic, but for some reason this is the immediate moment I had an emotional reaction to it and feel very anxious that indeed something needs to be done.

Population is growing. There are limited resources. One day someone's going to dam up someone else's water and wars will be fought.

I'm optimistic that technology AND population control can save us.
I think the distinction he is trying to raise is that messages can be lost in distributed systems. Building distributed shared memory is possible but expensive (readers must write, writers must broadcast). That is why he is raising that distinction and I think it is a good one to raise.
> Who are we to tell them how to use the energy they purchase?

Personally, I also criticize people who use private jets, drive large cars, air-condition/heat a building excessively, and so on.

Since I end up breathing the pollution they cause (and all the other effects), I feel I have a right to complain about it.
When I was in university, we had to submit working algorithms in C, Java or whatever the prof chose, but we didn't learn the language in class. The prof would show snippets of code, but never discuss the language itself. Same for Word/Excel. There were books at the university library if needed.
Wow, I never thought about this. It would be interesting to do a study to see what lead to more disease, child circumcision during that time, or hygiene complications later in life, not to mention and STDs that might be spread more easily. Fascinating new way to look at it.
I'd much rather see these sorts of posts as flow charts, with lots of If/Then functions along the way. For example:
- Are you entering a regulated market with unbendable safety standards? If yes, take time to get it right. If not, proceed faster.
- Do you need to hit the next milestone fast to get more money. If so, launch rapidly with what you've got. If not, consider taking more time to get it right

Individual anecdotes are often charming and sometimes inspiring. But with so many decision points, a series of "succeed like me" single-example posts, all with different messages, start to blur.
5 has also succeeded in the supermarket - just not as a separate business. Take & bake is in most grocery stores these days.
> the community has been begging for some kind of structured GraphQL support

They added GraphQL support a few weeks ago: https://blog.paw.cloud/paw-3-2-graphql-macos-big-sur/

I didn't know about the M1 support. Funny enough I looked yesterday randomly when I noticed that Paw was still running under Rosetta. And I saw no word about M1 support yet. I wondered how long it would take. I guess I just needed to wait 12 hours. Glad to see M1 support today.
I also read somewhere that the majority of the bitcoin "engine" was located close to renewable power sources that did not otherwise have good markets to sell their power.

Whether that's actually true or not, the possibility that bitcoin could find the low cost renewable sweet spots throughout the worlds power grid and make use of them is interesting and helps to address the efficiency criticism.

I think I'm still overall anti-bitcoin but I am questioning my assumptions.
Mass function overloading: why and how?
I'd bet even odds he's dyslexic, that condition is over represented among people in his line of work and would explain a lot of his behaviour.
You are confusing "currency" with "money", there is a difference and it is not insignificant.
Often this is a case of the right kind of regulation vs the wrong kind of regulation, as opposed to a some-vs-none argument. Few people are absolutist but many err towards none because they don’t trust politicians to understand what regulation hurts vs helps. A lot of regulation is rationalized as to “save the children” but conveniently creates grand benefits for established players. It’s not crazy to be default skeptical with the plenitude of examples.
Great article. I would say my two minor disagreements is that go's fast compilation is not... Typically used for tests, in my opinion the testing discipline in go is low. I would go so far to say that go is neither "a better c++" nor "a better c" but rather "a better python".
Absolutely agree with everything you said. However, it conflates two separate concerns.

1) Inflationary or Deflationary assets aren't useful money. Everyone wants to get rid of the former, and nobody will spend the latter. The very reason that gold and silver are useful money is because they traditionally have not inflated or deflated; they'll buy more or less (in real terms) about what they did 2,000 years ago. They only appear to be Deflationary, because we operate in such an Inflationary monetary milieu.

2) Return on investment on cash. Investing (lending) cash should return an ROI. It only does not because of central-bank interest rate interference.

When we return to direct monetization, ie. wealth --> money without a banker in the middle, and algorithmically value-stable money, this will spell the doom of our tragic central-bank fiat-money experiment.

This day is coming, sooner than anyone expects... ;)
When somebody writes EST in summer they mean UTC-4. Interpreting that as UTC-5 is almost always wrong.
I'm not very well informed on the modern banking system, but I remember hearing an anecdote about banks flying people with bags of checks on airplanes to handle exchanges (before the system was updated in the 70s iirc). In your example of transferring a billion dollars in cash 3000 miles, couldn't that transfer be done using the banking system for much cheaper than the armored car and guards? Is the metaphor valid only for transactions that don't want to trust some third party? Is there some reason why moving a billion dollars cash is something that anyone other than the CIA would want to do?
I'm also curious about your claim:

> Bitcoin's advantages in trustlessness and lack of a central authority are hugely important in international relations, where nobody trusts anybody else and there's no higher authority to appeal to.

Is this really true? I mean, what do large international exchanges use now? A majority of them certainly don't currently use bitcoin. Many large banks have a significant international presence, and most parties interested in exchanging can find a bank they both trust.
The submitted title of this page ("Stanford Makes iPhone Development Course Free") is misleading, and should just be the title of the page, "Stanford CS193p - Developing Apps for iOS."

Stanford's iPhone development course has been free online for more than 10 years.
Tezos is up and running and working just fine.
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Maybe it will turn out to be that way, but this is far from reality at the moment. There are not many sites that cannot be scraped statically and there definitely are very few sites/apps that are webasm.

It'll change, but who knows how much. At least currently, most scraping professionals are not even using headless browsers as their targets are statically rendered.
> It's interesting how it's easier to change time than to change the hours in which we work.

I think the main pain point would be customers being confused as to when companies are open.

This doesn't even work well with smartphones; all the calendar apps are hopelessly manual and can't answer something like "what are good times to run an errand involving steps X, Y, Z."

At best, you can ask it when people are available for a meeting and it will show you that everyone important is booked solid.
I use this list - one thing to remember is that in the long term you need to update it periodically. I set a yearly reminder to do so.
Wife loves her iPhone and hates the Mac. Sounds familiar...
to receive payment overseas without payment a lot of taxes. I've been doing it for 3 years but can't find a solution that is both good for me and the government.
Likely just a case of feathering (ha!) the blades: changing their angle of attack so they don't produce as much lift, plus a bit of braking.

Presumably with a bit of surveying pre-construction you can make a good guess at your expected curtailment time and bake that into the financial model
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I agree with this, mostly.

Besides the "meeting time" exception others have mentioned, you should be aware of timezones when grouping records into days/weeks/months/years/etc. The timezone affects where you "cut" the continuum into groups. Does Joe's sale count toward his January quota or February? This has all kinds of interesting questions: do you use the user's time zone? The local office timezone? The HQ timezone? UTC for everything? What if the user moves? Stack Overflow's "fanatic" badge just uses UTC: https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/83/fanatic
IMHO the most useful features have is the ability to "pin" items to the browser cache for offline usage. Of course this could have just been added to a response header or something but there are a number of flexibility provided with service workers which is arguably useful.

One nice feature is purging no-longer needed cache entries for an old version of the site (Example old JS and CSS). Of course there is no reason this couldn't be done in the page context itself.

The other feature that service workers are for is receiving push notifications. Although they don't need to be in the way of HTTP requests for that.

So they really just allow adopting features faster then HTTP caching is updating by browsers. However they are a huge footgun if you ship a broken service worker. (You need to wait >24h for all of your users to update to a fixed version).

Unfortunately if you want to be eligible for "Add to homescreen" you need one, which is a shame because this is just for offline support, which would be easy to add with a cache header.

Firefox Requirements: https://web.dev/install-criteria/#criteria

Chrome Requirements: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...
What percentage of transactions are 1 billion dollars? I'm pretty sure VISA has never had anything over $10M.

This is excessively hypothetical.

The more obvious benefit is that a Tesla can't drive 3000 miles in 15 minutes. But a VISA transaction is faster and uses 1/100,000th the electricity. And neither are "anonymous".
Mine frequently drops to the low 90s (or even 80s) based on the Apple watch, despite normally being 98-100. I'm certainly not in good shape, but still, should I be worried?
From my wandering around the ruins, the plant life looked the same as the rest of the area. My hunch is that the difference from the CO2 is smaller than if the plants were being actively fertilized, for example.
I like this topic especially with the theory that wars are never fought over resources, they are always fought over status. These two can appear to be the same thing especially when it's impossible to separate the resource from the status it symbolizes in the conflicted parties. Add it's often the practical case, in which case war is inevitable.

For this reason I like the project of ecological wealth-making as a planetary concern and a sort of pan-cultural tonic. I'm not sure it can apply in time to these particular cases - if someone takes your water, that's a fight. But I do think it's really the only global solution to resource wars. And it's a problem with both a technical and aesthetic solutions.

Not gonna be easy tho.
>par?

What's par? Many countries in China's income quantile have environmental problems. China happens to be especially large, and India especially environmentalist, so they stick out like a billion sore thumbs.

Move just a little down the list and Indonesia and Brazil have both been all over the news for environmental destruction, while in Mexico, Pakistan and Nigeria, environmental issues are overshadowed by simmering civil wars.
And also moving to everything being explicit.

Many of us are actually okay with first-party data collection. But it is ridiculous how user data is being packaged and sold to so many faceless third parties whose you don't know and whose policies are not clear.
> individuals are willing to pay for the energy they spend mining cryptocurrency, but as a society it's a huge waste of energy and a massive source of carbon that is entirely unnecessary.

Society is made up of individuals. Assuming you don't believe a small cabal of individuals should, in the name of society and ideology, force other individuals to follow their dictates, the questions then are:

- will eliminating Bitcoin really reduce carbon emissions to a meaningful extent compared to other sources of carbon emissions?

- How much are individuals willing to pay to reduce carbon emissions? i.e. skin in the game. One way to pay to reduce Bitcoin's carbon emissions would be to sufficiently/relentlessly short Bitcoin to tank the price or develop/invest in an alternative green currency and let the market decide which is best.

- How much, in carbon emission, are individuals willing to pay for the benefit of a given technology like Bitcoin?
> Bitcoin isn't digital cash

This made me laugh. It's true, but the name literally means "digital cash".
> But again, that presupposes that there's some fixed supply.

No, it doesn't! Exactly the opposite!

Again: if a BitCoin miner generates 1 TWh/yr of their own electricity, how does that reduce the burning of fossil fuels?

Likewise, if power companies create more green power to supply the needs of BitCoin miners, how does that reduce the burning of fossil fuels? You're simply consuming whatever new green energy you're creating.

So the whole "it will make power companies produce more green energy, and therefore it's good for the planet" argument falls flat.
the general rule of thumb for American Timezones is that Arizona is its own special thing and as long as you stay out of that state then you're in America/{los_angeles|denver|chicago|new_york} for pacific, mountain, central, and eastern respectively.

Just stay away from Arizona and American time zones are easy and what you did would work.

Arizona is special because it's in mountain time, it doesn't observer daylight saving time so half the year it has the same time as pacific time except for the Navajo Nation which does observe daylight saving time but the Hopi Nation which is entirely inside the Navajo Nation doesn't follow daylight saving.

edit: picture of the Arizona timezone situation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Arizona#/media/File:Ar...
Maybe it's because Fowler's target readers are developers of enterprise software who are not familiar with distributed systems at all, and Fowler's background is not in distributed system either. Therefore, he chose to use colloquial terms.
We can spend all day coming up with slight variations of this scenario where one or the other person is to blame.

In the end, this situation is one of the few things humans have grown really adept at handling. We're (compared to many other things) very good at negotiating complex social situations and teasing out who are getting shafted in a situation, and we have techniques for dealing with it. (Spreading rumours and/or going to the local leader are prominent among them.)

We have set up economic systems based on trust since forever, and they generally work very well. The only times they stop working are when too large authorities get involved. But there are many responses to that that aren't cryptocurrency.
This seems really awesome. I read the sample project, and was able to understand it really fast. It honestly would make our engineer onboarding really fast! Since it's all in one simple place. And the architecture is standardized.

The authentication model is what I liked most.

I think the biggest blocker is the use of Prisma however. I've never heard of Prisma before, and I'd have no problem using it. But I use DynamoDB for practically everything, not sure how that translates to that world.

The second concern is that most of projects are written in Typescript. I'm not sure how this works with TS. I'd hate to write an entity twice - for example, a user entity, and a user interface in TS. Because they have to be typed anyways.
Total power consumption is the wrong metric; we should talk about the average consumption per transaction. If the totals are close, it means Bitcoin is an extremely inefficient system, since it only processes a fraction of the number of transaction per year that the mainstream financial system processes.
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«a single Bitcoin transaction consumes 165kWh»

This needs to be repeated in every HN thread about Bitcoin: no, transactions don't consume energy. The proof-of-work is completely independent of the number of transactions. A block could have 1 or 1000 transactions, but the energy consumption would be the same.

People have this wrong idea that more transactions imply more energy consumption. That's just not true.
It is quite noteworthy that Ethereum trusts proof of stake so much that they want to move to it though. Ethereum has some really good devs.

Last time I checked for altcoins that are trying to solve Bitcoin‘s various scalability problems I ended up with a proof of stake coin too, Nano (using the rather new idea block lattice, small but so far quite low-toned development team that seemed to focus on problem solving rather than scammy marketing).

I’m surprised that Ethereum is convinced that they can „just move“ from proof of work to proof of stake. Should be possible for Bitcoin too then, shouldn’t it? (Maybe I’m missing something about this transition.) Nano required a whole new development.
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The above product does a very good job looking scientific. There are even papers and university departments referenced but the product is clearly woo. It's a shoe inner a sole with a "chip". I made fun of the product on facebook and the owner then got in touch with me. I'm curious if there is any smoking gun here that is easy to point out.

https://www.powerinsole.com
https://www.powerinsole.com/science-en/?lang=en
If you're ever in the area, it's worth driving over and walking around. It's a bizarre place.
Brazil spent 3 years talking to everybody, publishing the change, and making sure everybody was on the same page. Yet, all the companies providing software got it wrong at least once (some more than 3 times). The only software that got it right were community based FOSS distributions (not raspbmc... that got me).

At least all the institutions got it right, so it was enough to announce "Windows|Red Hat|iOS|Android|whatever is wrong today, ignore it and use some other clock".
Exile is a bit of a silly suggestion.
A while back I saw a way to take an SVG screenshot of a webpage, which seems like an excellent intermediary format if you are warping text etc and not wanting to run into aliasing problems etc. Is that what you are doing?
Totally agree on the macro front !

I use them to do compile-time code gen from Omnigraffle and iThoughts files.

Definitely a super power but probably one that only works if you're the sole developer. Macro magic in a team environment is problematic.
SourceGraph? https://about.sourcegraph.com/