skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A current ASIC bitcoin miner will do 90 Terahashes per second (1 Terahash = 1 trillion hashes) while consuming 3420 Watts which is equivalent to 38 Watts per Terahash (38 W/TH). Average power consumption will be higher, though those with big dedicated rigs probably make up the bulk of the network's processing power.

The entire bitcoin mining network which processes all transactions does 120 Exahashes (120,000,000 terahashes) per second. Were all mining done on comparable asics this would be 4.56 GW to run the whole network, which in turn means electricity consumption would be 4.56 million kwh per hour. At the time of this writing bitcoin is averaging 14,814 transactions per hour, meaning the average electricity consumption per transaction is 308 kwh.

You can see the hash rates and power consumption for bitcoin miners at [0]. Hash rates for the network at [1]. Transaction rate at [2].

[0] https://www.asicminervalue.com/efficiency/sha-256

[1] https://www.blockchain.com/charts/hash-rate

[2] https://www.blockchain.com/charts/transactions-per-second
Am I the only one that doesn’t want to allow alternative app stores on iOS? I specially don’t want developers to be able to accept non Apple Pay payment methods and I don’t want app developers to circumvent the App Store. If I wanted a bunch of spammy apps with annoying checkout flows I would buy an android phone. But I didn’t because I find Android annoying for all the above reasons. To everyone saying there isn’t competion: hello Android! Go buy one and side load whatever you want. But leave iOS users alone :)
Well, if you have an unexplained hatred for typing double colons five times per line of code, as I do, Go allows you to not do that.

Rust::Forces::Them<Colons>::Everywhere::AllTheTime();
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And Windows 95 https://doodad.dev/pattern-generator?share=hex-4-255_0_0_1-0...
Full disclosure: I didn't read the entire paper, I just know where the landmines are in these "Better than POW with no downside!1!!" altcoin papers - as they've been around for a long time. After the 5th or 6th time scrutinizing a self-styled bitcoin killer, it gets pretty familiar. But I certainly encourage everyone to read the whitepaper (and genuinely understand) for whatever cryptocurrency they're looking at, and then examine the source. That is the way it was done in the beginning, and those that did were always better off for having done it. Also, final bit of unsolicited advice: if somebody tells you to diversify your crypto portfolio, they're either dumb or they think you are.
Google are so unfocused on users nothing shocks me anymore. The most likely reason they haven’t updated the apps yet are because they don’t need to; their profits come from other things.

It’s becoming a huge liability - Google have their tentacles in so many things that average users take for granted. Just letting them wither on the vine seems irresponsible but honestly why are we complaining?

It was all free so Google could get all the personalisation and tracking data and now they have it there’s what reason to actually invest in user experience (not in the design sense)
Yep, 10.1 decades.
Versioning a bunch of binaries in a git repo isn't particularly good practice.
Apple's market share also pales in comparison with Microsoft's.

I'm pretty sure Apple never made anyone selling an iPhone pay them for an iOS license on all the phones they sell.

That's not to say Apple's conduct isn't egregious, but the context isn't the same either.
Not sure where you're going with this, but I was just referring to the ambiguity in the title since there are a lot of stories on HN about SV founders who are viewed as hustlers. Quotes or moving the word would work, not a big deal obviously.
Like others have pointed out, do not try to force your interests on your child.

However, “liking” dinosaurs is pretty likely to happen, if only for a time period in their life. All of my kids “like” dinosaurs, but one likes them far more than others.

For a time, we lived close enough to the Field Museum in Chicago to be able to ride bikes there. We got a membership and visited 50-100 times per year (seriously). They have a world-famous dinosaur collection, but it’s located inside a much larger exhibit that takes you through earth’s history and places the dinosaurs in their proper time period (if I’m remembering correctly it’s between the 3rd and 4th mass extinction event). There is so much information and it’s so well presented that you can’t help but enjoy it and learn from it. My kids have never seen Jurassic Park or any other pop culture dinosaur movies, and they didn’t need to.
That doesn't make any sense.

My amazon stock that I hold is going up in value, and is therefore "deflationary".

But it would be silly to say that I would never have a reason to sell those stocks.

I sell things, whether they are dollars or stock or crypto, because I want to buy something.
Time to watch The People vs. Larry Flint. It's been in my list to watch for a long time but never watched it.
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My analysis is a worst case scenario, if you use green energy sources it only gets better.
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> Fun fact for the UK: "UK police have a new tactic to circumvent strong iPhone encryption: steal the unlocked phone out of the criminal’s hand"

PSA: On an iphone if you hold down the power button and a volume button for a second, your phone will lock into the state its in just after you turned it on. From here it can only be unlocked with your passcode. You can perform this gesture without taking your phone out of your pocket.

(Edit: When the phone is unlocked, you need to use power + volume down. Power + volume up while the phone is unlocked takes a screenshot.)
The wii and gamecube had only CDs for storage so it doesn't run in to that issue.
Find a seasoned co-founder who has had an exit and doesn't need another exit to retire, but does need a mission to stay sharp till then.
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I think you're both trying to define a general category of things which aren't all the same. The term is just intended to point out that it's a system whose computing is spread out, typically with the intention of building a single computing system that is more powerful than its individual components. It just happens that there's a lot of commonalities between the different "spread out systems", but there's not necessarily some grand unified definition for all of them.

The only thing the average person needs to understand is they're complex and error-prone, and their cost was more justifiable when we really needed to tie hardware together to compute faster. I do think the article should review the popular distributed system patterns of yesteryear; there was a lot of really useful tech that none of the young whipper snappers today have even heard of.
Am I a bad person for buying the book immediately after reading the title? I guessed the arch/i3 setup from reading "mouseless", and after watching the youtube video from the comments I dislike the _specific_ environment but enjoy the fundamentals that led to the environment being built because they remind me of my own journey.

I don't think I'll ever read this book, but I want other people to read it. Actually scratch that, the entire world needs to know this is an _option_. This needs to be required reading in K-12 education systems.

EDIT: Is there a paperback copy available?
> for many the compilation costs are worth it

If the rust syntax and borrow checker wasn't masochistic enough...
I have the good fortune of working remotely in a country much cheaper than the USA, so I can afford to be selective about what I'm willing to do during a hiring process. For starters, I haven't had to do an unpaid take home assessment in a while, so I would reject outright a request like the one in TFA, but I'm aware that many are not in my position.

This type of expectation of free work during the process needs to change. Maybe if enough people reject stuff like this, it will, but again, many can't afford not to jump through all the hoops the company decides to put in place. It's a tricky problem, to say the least.
Do we really have to censor or edit titles to suite a bunch of potentially "offended" people? Oh the irony.

We all know what Hustler is. And if you're a gormless startup founder picking that as a name for your app or product, well that's your fault, learn you some history and watch "The People vs Larry Flint"[0]. Flint's case in the Supreme Court was hugely important, despite being a "purveyor of filth", and strengthened free speech rights in the US, in particular Hustler Magazine vs Jerry Falwell[1].

[0]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117318/

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Flynt#Legal_battles
The 7 transactions per second limit would suggest it is not a suitable replacement. Considering the energy cost and environmental consequences this article references, we'd need the ice anyway.

Edit: this (older?) article says 4.6 transactions per second and a propagation (read: transaction) time of 14 seconds. This is with near-zero percent of transactions in the world taking place in btc. https://hackernoon.com/the-blockchain-scalability-problem-th...
All states by definition requires a monopoly on violence and resources to retain legitimacy. The currency is just a freeloader, and the consumption of resources to sustain a cryptocurrency is purely strictly additive.
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In the authors table:

- Building an ecosystem: building for developers

- Building a product: building for users

This and this alone explains why people flocked to Signal rather than matrix or xmpp, which the average user couldn’t “flock to” even if they wanted to. Signal made a conscious choice to be user friendly rather than nerdy/wonky and that is why tons of people have more secure chat now.

The single “point of failure/compromise” point is valid and I like the authors idea of “balancing” the two approaches, though it sounds a bit like “we’re building a new protocol,” practically speaking. If I send a threaded reply and your XMPP client doesn’t support that, then what?
It's just confusing if you don't know who he is. It's easy to misread it as "(Hustler), (founder) and (free-speech activist)" instead of "(Hustler founder) and (free-speech activist)".

Of course reading TFA alleviates that confusion pretty quickly.
I have been hearing this argument for over a decade now.

In another decade, when this mythical attack on this scale l (as it applies to BTC. Some smaller coins have been attacked, but they are nowhere on the same scale) continues to fail to materialize, are you going to say the same thing?

I just want to know how many decades from now of your position being falsified, that you need to wait for you to change your mind.

Or will you never change you mind? Is you position truly unfalsifiable, no many how many decades go by?
Nobody in this chain mentioned anything about making the author change his decision.

The discussion is about whether his decision may be criticized. Which it absolutely can be.

Again, saying, “if you don’t like it, leave” is not the genius rejoinder you seem to think it is. It doesn’t add anything to the discussion.

I could flip this back at you and say “if you don’t like this discussion, leave”. I’m not doing that because I choose to engage in a good faith discourse.
Afaik no developed-country government “backs” gold in any meaningful way. There are some reserves here and there, some historical, but they are not directly linked to liquidity. It’s just a market for a commodity that happens to be fairly practical to store value in. Whether governments will start using digital commodities in the same way, is really a political question. I agree that it might be a cornered market, but the fact that forks do seem to happen might well turn out to be the way out of that problem.
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seems like very little traction with snowy metal on metal.

you'd think it might have special wheels.
This tool just downloads .debs from sid:

https://github.com/alexmyczko/fnt/blob/c9204949ddf77e31fd519...

then it copies any fonts in them to a per-user directory. I don’t see any real benefit to debian users vs apt pinning (apt pinning supports auto update; fnt does not), but it does support installing to other operating systems, which is nice for those people.
"50% abatement for 20 years?"

The article reads like that's what they are asking for from the City.
Dinosaurs, space or cars. You don't get to decide, they'll pick their own major.
I don't think this person is complaining about the title being offensive, just grammatically confusing.

If you don't recognize who he is it's hard to tell whether the title is saying that he's "a hustler and a founder" or "the founder of Hustler".
This is all the same reason I and the company I work for use Go. It’s good tool and powerful in hands of smart people.
Once again, there is a choice -- support old hardware or have secure software.

This happened before with the web browsers, and the solution was to either stop using using old computers for web, or run ancient versions, only go to "known good" websites, and hope really hard that you don't end up on a page with exploit by accident.

And now this trickles down to the non-web world as well, and this is potentially much worse -- after all, most of the modern languages require network connectivity of some sort.
> In fact bitcoin enthusiasts are likely to have a better understanding of fiat than the average person, due to the value proposition of cryptocurrencies." is just as dubious due to the lack of data.

We have plenty of data, we have the discussions and promotion efforts surrounding bitcoin where the contrast between the hard cap on bitcoins and the continually depreciating fiat currency was a prominent selling point.

> It seems presumptive to think that this entire enterprise is being sustained by ideological purity and noble goals, rather than a ton of people interested in trading a valuable (in fiat!) asset, facilitating capital flight from restrictive regimes, attempting to justify Tesla's stock price,

Its not really ideological purity to be aware of the fact that one asset is designed to depreciate and another asset is not. Its just basic fundamentals. Why would enthusiasts and bandwagoners sink money into bitcoin in order to support tesla’s stock price? That sounds like a conspiracy theory.

> facilitating capital flight from restrictive regimes

Thats certainly another value proposition that appears alongside the hard cap on units.

> than a ton of people interested in trading a valuable (in fiat!) asset

Why would a ton of people be interested in trading an asset? What indication do you have that they are unaware of the implications of the asset trending higher and higher relative to fiat?

> Occam's razor would suggest more people are driven by the profit motive from bitcoin than actually realizing a utopian future.

Doubtful. The simplest explanation is that they are purchasing based on the stated reasons that people have purchased up until now. Your alternate hypothesis is more complicated, so Occam’s razor does not suggest this.
Everyone sleeping on Cardano, but it's creeping. It PoS consensus protocol in action. Tokens and smart contracts coming to mainnet soon.

Keep sleeping and balking at PoW. Stellar and Cardano will reshape the future of fintech transactions.
The metric is political stability, not quality of democracy. Are you saying that years of elections, smooth changes in leadership, free and fair elections as observed by international observers doesn't account for anything? That's the kind of reporting typically expected from folks who have no idea about the ground realities in developing countries. To contrast, the report has France at a high political stability score of 80 whereas it has had 5 prime ministers in 6 years. How is that politically stable?
The previous poster misunderstood your comment because "hustler" is also used to refer to a male prostitute. Therefore your post was "insufficiently sex-work-positive"...or something
It seems like this is your argument:

1) If some religions are false, then all religions are false

2) Pacific-tribe cargo cults and ancient Greek mythology are clearly false, plus there are some stories in the Bible that are hard to swallow

3) Therefore God doesn't exist

Is that right?
The kinda-response from cryptography thread:
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/5771#issuecommen...

>> You can't really expect volunteers to port the whole Rust to other architectures just to get cryptography back.

> It sounds like you're saying that your time as a Gentoo and NetBSD maintainer is worth more than the time of cryptography maintainers. They are volunteers as well, y' know. You expect those volunteers to keep their security-focused project dependent on inherently insecure technology because it would make your own job easier. Your goals and requirements might not be matching the goals and plans of the maintainers of cryptography. It might be unfortunate for you but it really is as simple as that.
> The 7 transactions per second limit would suggest it is not a suitable replacement.

Thats something people will have to decide for themselves.

> Considering the energy cost and environmental consequences this article references, we'd need the ice anyway.

Don’t worry, when it melts they will make more.
baybal2's comment is incorrect. this is merely an expansion on top of their existing capacity in Texas.
Navigating code using Vim keyboard commands (in Vim itself or another editor with a Vim plugin, like VS Code) is actually efficient and comfy once you become fluent with it. I also use a Vim Firefox extension to minimize my mouse use browsing the internet.

(That said, creating a fully mouseless Arch Linux desktop environment is way more hardcore than anything I want to do, especially considering the less-than-stellar stability of desktop Linux.)
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Let's say it took the US 80 years to industrialize, from 1760 to 1840, and then another 130 years after that to form the EPA in 1970 with the Clean Air Act.

So, then let's say it took China 40 years to industrialize, from 1960 to 2000. So if things move twice as fast these days, China should be advanced enough to start transitioning to a clean industry by 2065.
Interesting, though a little odd. It references three books, and gets the titles of two of those books wrong. It appends an "X" at the end of Little Brother and calls Fatal System Error by the wrong title Critical System Error.
We do this at work. And you pay per user per team so we’re paying double or triple in some cases by managing access via teams.
Yes. Which is why no one invests for the long term by amassing cash alone (fiat money). They invest it in stocks, assets, real estate, and other non-cash holdings.

The common fallacy in Bitcoin circles is that Bitcoin is the only way to keep your money safe from inflation.

In reality, inflation means that your house, your car, your stock investments, and other holdings are also worth more in dollar-denominated amounts. The only thing that becomes less valuable is cash (and fixed return investment vehicles and such).
On the latest iOS, on the latest/largest iPhone, this does not appear to be true any longer.
I love how respectful and helpful the paleontologist they connected him with was. I'd imagine it's quite fun to have a career that you can nerd out about, but which also is appreciated by curious 8-year olds.
The evil attackers don't necessarily care whether in some sense your system "doesn't commit" one of the duplicates. Especially if they can manipulate it to choose whether the "not committed" one is the one they created or one emitted by a real user.

I know it was intended flippantly but the attackers do not get the HTTP response code - they're obliged to conduct this attack blind, if they can decrypt the messages then your problem isn't a replay attack but some previously unimagined TLS flaw.

So, suppose your system sees three versions of a transaction to transfer $1M to Dr Evil. You're not worried because two of them "won't commit" but do your end users understand that? (hint: they do not). Let's call these versions A, B and C. The real user's web browser believes transaction A succeeded, and is unaware of B and C.

Dr Evil complains that the money never arrived, and our user checks, alas they see that eventually transaction A failed (it was judged a duplicate of B, and so was C) and this explains the problem. They initiate a new transfer, let's call that Z. This succeeds and Dr Evil is satisfied.

Unfortunately now Dr Evil has $2M instead of $1M.
I'd be interested to know from someone wiser than me, their thoughts on this library and the impact vs the Cryptodome python library (if any at all).

Having once upon a time preferred pycryptodome for some reason or other (various additional support to the standard at the time), perhaps I'm out of date or confused as to what the best standard python cryptography library should be for someone who might occasionally play in the "hazmat" space (to use the terms of the article's library).
If compiling 7 lines of code in release mode takes few minutes in Rust, just like it does in Crystal (I don't know exactly how long, I got bored and gave up, so it's possibly more), then I wouldn't touch that language with a ten foot pole either. It's fine to make trade-offs, it's just not a trade-off I'm personally willing to make. As to the productivity thing, it's debatable I guess.
Not to mention, there's no walled garden of applications on Linux. While the "free for all" aspect of applications may be scary for some, the "welcome to adulthood, now make your own decisions" is a welcome change for many. Again, this is my personal opinion.
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I don't reproduce this. Did Google fix the issue?
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That worked out great for Wisconsin residents recently
ah, ratpoison. I passed many a fair hour doing network-appliance dev with ratpoison + screen + vi (not even vim) back in the day.
If you wanted to save money, you wouldn't use Azure or AWS anyways.
There's actually quite a difference between Classic Mac and Alto/Smalltalk. (Both sides would argue that the other one totally missed it. There's even some evidence hinting at the Lisa having experimental windows even before the PARC visit, and these screenshots look actually more like the final product than what came after the visit. [1]) Just install an Alto emulator and try it yourself. Also, the Mac System was famously programmed in Object Pascal (like the Lisa).

[1] https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
There is a blank wafer shortage, but - strangely - for 200mm wafers (not the state-of-the-art 300mm ones)

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/318554-a-massive-chip-...
That's not at all what a monopoly is, just a very constrained product. Which...can describe Apple from day one. And you know what? Even if you despise Apple, you should give them credit for being relevant in even the most dominant days of the PC just for providing some competitive pressure.
Cement releases a shitload of CO2. In what world is that a vague link? It’s literally the definition of the issue.