skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was always a hedge on inflation. The genesis block message: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/genesis-block.asp

Nakamoto instilled within the Block's raw data: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks."
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CBO confirms $15 min wage raises earnings of low-wage workers, lowers inequality
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Do you mean the consumption of open source software has been embraced, i.e. they love using free software but are not big fans of the backside of the model?
The answer doesn't have to be so tetchy as your ire puts it, it's as simple as reducing releases to once a week or once every other week. I respect your work greatly, but you've taken the "throw the baby out with the bathwater" approach to your answer here; two Production LTS kernels a week seems excessive to me.
Pitting people in a social game of who can be fooled the easiest sounds like a more effective approach than reading a dry textbook at them. There's shame in being seen as gullible. This happens already in casual conversation and people already have opportunities to believe false information from all over the internet or in books or tabloid newspapers or told to them by their peers or parents.

I don't believe the concerns about deep fakes and fake news. I think they're no worse than what we've always had. Those fears are exaggerated by arrogant hand-wringers who somehow assume their own beliefs are exempt from manipulation and it's only intellectually inferior "other" people who are susceptible. They're so fixated on the popular political ideas that they forget they should be on a crusade against religion which is the elephant in the room when it comes to people being misled.
That's fair. The point I was trying to make was that it's better to start any new thing in small stages, because you don't know what you don't know. For service businesses, the default mode of operation is starting as a side project - for example, starting a marketing consulting service.

Of course none of this applies to things with default huge capital expenses like starting a restaurant so it's not an exhaustive observation. Mostly stemming from my own experiences with software product dev.
Source: none, this is my pure supposition and projection.

Power. The sensation of raw power.

By and large, the best way to eliminate DST would be for one or more sufficiently powerful lawmakers or political executives to say: this is no longer benefiting the public at large, and we are going to stop!

These are the folks empowered to change the date on which DST transitions (at least stateside). These are also the same folks whose careers have been mostly defined by the deliberate and incremental accumulation of power into their own hands.

If you're wired for that kind of desire for power, the ability to tell the entire country: okay, I am changing time! It happens on this date! --must be simply _irresistible_. I mean: you're literally changing TIME. Hot shit! The entire population has to respond! You're changing TIME! Why give that up?

While I'm storytelling and presuming, I'll note that this needn't be a deliberate, conscious decision; I'm only suggesting that the people positioned to change this sort of thing are probably naturally wired to resist doing so, and may not even be aware of why themselves.
How much electricity does the world monetary system use?
>I started off with politics as an example because it's the first place I noticed this behavior, but it really stretches into any vein of interest that people have. There's entire rivalries that form around online personas or ideologies in a given domain that are just as divisive as politics, however, they stay penned up in their own domain so you only come across them when you're in communities of a certain mass.

Politics, religion, sports, nationality, money, and women are the given topics of trolling. That's where you will find all of the echo chambers and controversy.

Politics are easy targets because American politics are tremendously volatile. The USA has been at war longer than ever before. Obama got into power talking about ending wars(he earnt the nobel peace prize because of this) but instead he started multiple new wars. He killed people in at least 8 known countries under his orders.

Trump then got into power never really saying he was going to end any wars but at least he didnt start new ones? He was awfully close to multiple new ones. What did he do instead? He bullied the USA's allies.

The USA has ptsd and is finding enemies everywhere they go.

Will biden be different? Lol no chance. He already ordered a battalion back into syria and he's fabricating reasons to go to war with iran.
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It's a bit hard to begin arguing against someone who thinks that a country of people is less deserving of using energy than a massive online gambling scheme riddled with scams, that happens to consume as much energy as 45 million people.

Where does one even start?
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Nice edit :
>Truth be told, I really don't know what I'm talking about. It just sounded good in my head.

I sincerely wish more people had your ability for introspection!
I like it.

Is Bitcoin mining comparable to gold mining? It should rather be compared to the logistics and trading of gold maybe?
Eth prolly has the best constructed PoS system, just starting to roll out.

https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/consensus-mechanisms...
Buying US stocks takes 2 days to settle.

Sending simple wires in the US takes hours.

Last time I tried to send significant funds from France to the UK, it took me a whole week of back and forth with the bank to complete all the AML/KYC paperwork.

Let's not even talk about how long it would take to move gold from one part of the world to another cf.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-30/iran-is-h...

You can buy or send bitcoin in seconds if you're not trying to do it on-chain, the same way you can do it with stocks and other assets. But definitive settlement of a bitcoin transaction is faster than pretty much any other asset.
There are. They're not super present in the public consciousness because they're drowned out by the concerns about the prevalence of child labor in many countries' gold mines.
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Nano is a great tool for people who aren't used to using command line tools. I unashamedly used it for ages before switching to Vim. I always recommend it to people who are new to doing work on Linux remotely.
Miners benefit from deflating the supply. If there were only 50,000 bitcoins and the rest was locked up in sidechains, then every mining reward would be worth far more. They would like more sidechains to Bitcoin.

(Somewhere Joel Spolsky is yelling: “Commoditize your complements!”)
> How you brew your coffee also has health consequences. Unlike filter coffee makers, a French press, Turkish coffee or the boiled coffee popular in Scandinavian countries fails to catch a compound called cafestol in the oily part of coffee. Cafestol can increase your bad cholesterol or LDL (low-density lipoproteins).

Most Europeans are drinking espresso, I get the impression it’s not as healthy as filter drip coffee, which is somewhat rare to find.
So you are telling me that a parallel CSS engine can't be usable if written in C++ but large scale particle/molecule simulators, AAA game engines and other high-fidelity simulator environments are 100% C++ codebases?
It has attention, so it's a sexy thing to snark at.

When the Elon boom bursts, folks will be back to complaining about cow flatuence, birds getting killed by solar panels, or whatever the shiny environmental crisis of the day is.
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> oh man this is the stuff that high school math definitely taught us to solve

And if only it taught us on problems like this, people would be more interested in and able to apply this knowledge.
Using fossil fuels for electricity is very nice. Imagine all the forests that stayed intact in remote places of the world that just started burning oil.
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> population density (makes it harder to build wind or solar farms)

This is more an excuse than an actual reason. Because the Dutch have large patches of shallow sea: which is ideal for building huge scale windparks that are, relatively cheap. The "ground" can still be used for fishing, so you hardly loose anything. Yet even building parks in sea is met with strong opposition. From wildlife preservation orgs to people complaining that this will ruin their view over the sea.

Furthermore, the IJsselmeer and Markmermeer have often been suggested as "energy storage" where water is pumped up a few meters by wind, or overcapacity electro. The Netherlands, has, in fact, build some of the largest dams in the world, but "forgot" to use them as power stations. Anyone who has ever visited Neeltje-Jans, for example, will see the opportunity to harvest some of the enormous amounts of water being pushed through the Netherlands. I live on the riverside of the Waal (part of the Rhine), where currently over 7000m³/second of (in winter warm-ish and in summer cold-ish) water passes by my office-window. There must be ways to harvest some of this energy.

There is a lack of will and a lack of urgency. Not a lack of opportunities.
I disagree, sunk cost fallacy and just plain miners needing to ROI their equipment, facilities, and energy costs sets a base psychological minimum price that is rising every year as the hash rises. Now that we've hit a wall at the 5nm process it's anyone's guess what kind of effect that will have on new entrants. I imagine China will take an even larger slice of the pie as energy costs will be the main deciding factor of profitability.
The public does not have proof that USDT is collateralized with real life assets. I'm not sure about USDC.
All you have to do is combine combine HRV with "reported symptoms associated with the disease, such as fever, aches, dry cough, and loss of taste and smell." Simple!
I’m currently buying a house internationally. International wire transfers take multiple days and I have to produce all sorts of documents for the receiving country’s government showing the source of the money. It’s an annoying and lengthy process. I’d much rather send BTC to a wallet than this.
I watched on a phone for only a minute, it’s beautiful, came back to the comments section and I had some serious optical illusions trying to read the first comment. I had to put the phone down just to readjust.
Are you able to read the title?

"...novel supply chain attack..."

But HN is the typical groupthink it always is.
I think accepting Bitcoin as payment was tried before - it never worked since people buying it are either not selling (and using to store cash that keeps on growing), or buying it for speculative purposes via secondary instruments (gbtc, ethe).

Not really sure what’s point is for Tesla but my guess its speculative for them, with an attempt to get some additional value on cash they are starting to swim in now...
For folks interested in threads in C, I also recommend reading "Threads Cannot be Implemented as a Library" [1]. The summary is that Pthreads mostly works correctly as a library (1) because its functions execute memory fence instructions and (2) because its functions are treated as opaque functions by the C compiler, i.e., functions that might read or write from any global variable. However, these properties do not generate thread-safe code under a number of conditions such as under the presence of certain compiler optimizations. Thus, the paper argues that the compiler must be aware of threads and that threads cannot be implemented purely as a library.

[1] https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-209.pdf
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Too much stuff to do in so little time and if you do some of them in the wrong order, they’re often made much more difficult:
Are you advocating deleting threads over letting votes sort them?
It could become a backbone for large transactions, while side chains (Dash, Eth, etc.) provide faster, smaller transactions.
Are you saying that if you were buying a house with Bitcoin that the government wouldn't want to see where the money is sourced from?
Don't roll your own crypto if you are releasing a product or if you are working on critical software.

DO roll your own crypto [1] for learning, messing around if you enjoy recreational programming. It's an awesome topic to play with and rolling your own crypto can give you an appreciation for the solid algorithms that survived being cracked for a long time.

It is very sad there there are corners of computer science that are "forbidden" when the whole field should be about learning.

[1]: https://www.gkbrk.com/2020/03/encryption/

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fjkv4c/rolling...
Phimosis, I presume.
Thanks for this. Infrared imaging is a major selling point and I now am higly likely to get a Pixel 4.

Note: this is not thermal imaging.

From the video information:

Camera apps to try:

Open Camera: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...

Some people are reporting better luck with HedgeCam 2:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...

Tap the button that is normally for switching between front and back camera. Keep tapping until you get to the IR.
No it isn't. If you tell your computer that the timezone your machine is set to is called "LOL", then of course that's what it should report. What else would it do?

It truncated the name because of the underscores, but you can do `TZ=somerandomthing date` to see it just reports what you say it is.
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What I meant by "BS" is that most discussions about Bitcoin and its polluting effects are very superficial, and ignore some of the facts that I try to highlight in my post.

> just links to one of your own comments on HN!

No, the comment that I reference on HN is not mine, it's by someone else. BTW, I quite agree with it.

> The rest appears to be handwaving

I don't see why. We have used, and are still using, Gold as store of value. Each year gold pollutes tens of times more than Bitcoin. The ones criticizing Bitcoin should have been criticizing Gold all along; and they should criticize Gold way more than Bitcoin even now.
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I’ve actually seen a few startups which install small servers in homes for heating. The idea is to let the cloud heat your home. I think there’s still a cost to the home owner but their heating bill is reduced.
No but you could use the money you save on electricity to buy bitcoin if you really want to own it (a better question is why anyone would want to hold bitcoin?).
Maybe you don't want your bank to know.
I doubt counting this per transaction volume will yield close results, mining is computation intensive by design.
Absolutes are a curiosity, but comparing those is not constructive imho
I followed the instructions and the sql cells work, but the xvega ones return empty output and I'm not sure how to debug that.

conda create -n xeus-sql
conda activate xeus-sql
conda install xeus-sql soci-mysql soci-postgresql soci-sqlite jupyterlab -c conda-forge

In conda list I see, among others:

xeus 1.0.0 h78d96c3_0 conda-forge
xeus-sql 0.0.8 h118ccdd_1 conda-forge
xvega 0.0.10 h4bd325d_0 conda-forge
xvega-bindings 0.0.10 h4bd325d_0 conda-forge

Btw there's a typo in the instructions: soci-postresql -> soci-postgresql
It would be far cheaper and easier to do this on Earth. There's plenty of sunny desert, heat dissipation is much easier, broken things can be repaired, etc.
According to the article IPs downloading this image come mostly from India.

So replace it with the pakistani flag to solve the problem (or start WW3)
I work in this area. This is not a supply chain attack. This is a typosquatting "attack" people keep rediscovering every year or two.

I know, because I wrote an as yet unpublished paper on safely pulling packages from private and public repos.
The mining of Bitcoin uses this amount of electricity.

How much resources does the mining of gold use?

Afaik, 3000 tons of gold are mined per year. Which is worth about $150B. I would expect the mining uses resources of about $150B as well?

By my calculation, the value of bitcoins mined per year is $15B:

900 Bitoins per day = 328500 Bitcoins per Year

328500 * $45000 = $15B

So I would expect that Gold mining uses about 10x as much resources as Bitcoin mining.
Recently upgraded from a 1080p 40" TV to a 4k 55". According to this, at ~12ft away, we should have bought an 85" TV?!

That's crazy and dumb. Or rather, a misrepesentation.

This article states that we _could_ get away with up to an 85" TV. It is only at that limit that we'd start to see "imperfections" as they call it.

I don't want to see imperfections. I also don't need a TV that will take up my whole field of view while bathing me in light.

The 55" we have already feels quite large, much sharper, and is brighter.

This article may be interesting from an academic point, but people shouldn't misconstrue this to think they should be getting a bigger TV. Get a TV that fits your space and feels comfortable. Bigger is not always equal to better.
It's not though. It's been around since 2015, it uses multiple novel crypto concepts not seen in any other coin and elegantly solves every traditional problem with Bitcoin (fees, speed, energy, centralization) unlike those cookie cutter copy coins on the market.

The main reason it's not well known, is people like you. You made no effort to learn about it before dismissing it, just like you did for Bitcoin first time you heard about it.
I'm guessing (from your name and enthusiasm) that you live in a place where 0 approximately corresponds to midnight? :)
I find using ES Modules in Node.js to be full of gotchas and anti-patterns - sticking with CommonJS seems more functional in most cases.

1: With ES Modules, imports are asynchronous.

Synchronous imports are incredibly powerful. You can ensure that your application doesn't block on first requests, but instead on load. Initializing connection pools, setting up caches, etc.

You'll also find quite a few packages in NPM that explicitly depend on require over import just so that they can perform the bindings they have to before things get going (see https://www.npmjs.com/package/honeycomb-beeline as an example).

2: With ES Modules imports are commonly destructured.

I know it makes your code feel lighter to have const { add } = import("whatever"); - but as your files grow larger, and those imports start to become complicated bits for middleware or other features, you're just making it more difficult for future maintainers to figure out what those functions mean. A bit of context never hurt anybody, and for my money I'll be that this:

app.use(check);

is not nearly as useful as

app.use(Validator.check);

The example may be contrived - but 9/10 times I find this makes code better than the alternative.

All of these arguments go out the door for Frontend work - that's a totally different terrain. I think one of the big arguments is that developers want to use the exact same JavaScript on frontend and Node applications - but that's an argument unwilling to admit the fact that they're two very different tasks. :)
When in doubt, zoom out.

On larger timescales, this isn't really that much of an issue.

Volatility is also trending downwards. The bigger it gets, the more stable it becomes.
I totally don’t understand what this chart is trying to expose. What is meant by the distance here?
Bitcoin every consumption halves every two years since the mining profit halfs. Thus mining bitcoins becomes less profitable and thus more energy efficient over time.

In the other, if the price increases faster than the mining yield drops, efficiency is decreased.
Forgive my ignorance but aren't there a finite number of bitcoins? A casual search says the world has mined 18.5 million out of a total of 21 million, after which, doesn't the mining process stop, along with the current environmental impact?
Proof of stake is relatively simple. You agree to stake a minimum amount of tokens (decided on by the network) and you get to run a node and validate transactions. If you attest to a malicious block and other validators call you out on it, you get slashed (i.e. you lose some portion of your stake, if not all of it): https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/consensus-mechanisms...

One of the problems with it is that it's difficult to bootstrap a network on a proof-of-stake system with a fair distribution. You end up with the pre-sale participants (i.e. VCs or founders) having the majority of the tokens.

I think what Ethereum is doing is a decent approach. They started as Proof of Work, so they were able to bootstrap the network for 6 years and now ETH is widely distributed and no single holder owns more than 1% of ETH, for example. So now they can migrate to Proof of Stake and they won't suffer from the centralized allocation problem.
I think it works very well in Elixir which is also dynamically typed. It was there since the beginning though and it's more than just a "match/case" construct, it's built deep into the core of the language, so maybe that makes a difference
That's like saying Oxford Dictionary shouldn't be able to make money off their dictionary because it contains the word rape.

It's a damn definition, not an article or essay on rape. Facts shouldn't be censored because someone feels it might offend their delicate senses.
Yeah, skating is only applicable if there is a lake between where you are and where you're going.

But what I did as a kid up in the mountains in Norway was using a kicksled if it was icy, or skiis if it was snowy. Full send down the 2 km hill to school, I think everyone in my neighborhood grew up learning to be adrenaline junkies.
The main reason for a lot of that documentation is know your customer/anti-money-laundering laws. Even if you were sending BTC, you would still have to provide that documentation to not break the law.
I'm not sure where I said what you believe I think.

My opinion is that using more electricity than Argentina is not as dramatic as the comments make it out.

Bitcoin is never going to be as destructive to the environment as these countries.

Saying that PoW is immoral or that Bitcoin is horrible because of electricity use is fine. But the immorality or horribleness is magnitudes away from what the rest of the stuff using electricity does to the world.

If we want to optimize something, make reductions, Bitcoin is at the bottom of the list, rationally.
USDT claims to be collateralized with real life assets. But their story keeps changing, they refuse to allow an audit, and they're under serious investigation by the NY Attorney General. It can reasonably be thought of as a fraud that hasn't popped yet: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/
Isn’t a million dollar yearly budget really low considering how rich those companies are?

That’s like 4 full time engineers. Not even a 5 a side football team.