skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. That is what I said in my post.

They mentioned the denials, and then in the next paragraph went on to say it was bigger than they'd previously reported.

They didn't at any point address the broad degree of skepticism that exists among security researchers. This is a story which was met with a pretty wide swath of knowledgeable and credentialed people (much like the primarily alleged sources in the article) who pushed back on it, let alone the alleged targets.

In fact, one of the few named sources from the original article (Joe Fitzpatrick) made statements after the publication of the article against his contributions to the piece after its publication.

Again, I don't doubt for a second that these types of attacks happen/exist but I have a hard time accepting the `facts` as they are presented in this case and I think that is how a lot of people feel.
> This means upper bound on BTC price is $250K.

Dividing the total market cap by the total number of BTC relies on an incorrect assumption that BTC are never destroyed. But, in fact, we know that plenty of people have lost BTC keys. It's totally possible that the practical supply of BTC is far lower (e.g. 10%) than the supply of BTC on paper. In an extreme case (e.g. if less than 1% of BTC are actually usable), the paper market cap of BTC could exceed the size of the US economy, even while the true market cap is less than 5% (using your number).
Name a property right that meaningfully exists absent enforcement or threats thereof.

Give a single concrete example.
It's said that during dust storms Martian air carries some 100-1000 dust particles of 1-10um per cm^3.

Running the worst case numbers, 1000 10um particles per cm^3 adds up to about 1/3 the air density. Realistically it's maybe 10% of density increase.
“(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻” as an Issue Label
429 TWh is average yearly usage, current "crippled" usage is 77% the yearly average usage, so 100% worldwide bitcoin usage would only account for ~1/3 the current "crippled" power delivery.

Worldwide mining would have to pull a hell of a lot more than ~1/4 (of TX) of ~1/10 (TX of the US) ~1/7 (US of world) to be setting the price floor of electricity.

http://www.ercot.com/gridinfo/load note some figures are in power (watts) and energy (watt hours)
You still need one slow and/or expensive Bitcoin transaction to start using it, while having enough funds for a justice transaction. You can't use it trustlessly on your phone and it's also not scalable (no decentralized route finding that scales exists and is an intractable problem).

Just use another crypto if you want to pay for things. 0-conf are just as instant as credit card payments are.
There are objective meteorological records that definitively prove that you are wrong.
Ask HN: What are examples of companies with free product and later monetised
Looking for companies which are not social media / media companies
This whole meme is used by the "clean coal" and "clean natural gas" climate change deniers to say "and this is why we don't need this renewable junk."

Why don't European countries have these sort of problems? Are wind turbines in Texas different or maintained improperly?
Just be careful their meaning isn't lost as I doubt your congresscritter is part of the in-group that would actually get them
Or to use the usual philosophical questions, what is it like to be:

- A human brain in a human body

- A human brain not in a human body

- Half a human brain

- Some smaller portion of a human brain

I don't think "is me" / "isn't me" is a clean dichotomy. As you lose parts of your brain you're still somewhat you but you're less you than you were.
Also bear in mind Fortnite was in no means special in offering cosmetic items for microtransactions. The game just got so big that it's a convenient punching bag.
To add to the other advice - bring a change of underwear in your carryon to change into before arrival. Makes a huge difference to how you feel the rest of the day when you arrive.
Because the primary use is speculation combined with a pinch of ignorance.
I had this same realization a few years ago. One day it just hit me that I was working for a site for free. Answer questions, "moderating" content, etc...

Worse yet, you ask a question and it gets closed as a "duplicate" and the original is several years old regarding a different version and not even remotely the same. (think Angualar1 VS Angular 6)

SO has its place, but it isn't for me.
I don't understand where you are going with this. I can think of two significant things that would make sense to do here:

- More transmission lines with the rest of the US to spread the load.

- Improve the natural gas infrastructure to better withstand freezing temperatures.

Neither one of these things are about unique skills, let alone ours.
Plus they are not really screwed, they lost 5 days revenue from not being able to pump/generate, surely at elevated prices - but these businesses will not feel this event in a negative way on their annual report
Probably linked to failure rates due to significantly higher page updates than an ebook or sign.
I'm sure you can see that a rolling outage affecting 200k people for 4 hours is quite different than an outage affecting four million customers for 3 days.

Check out the map. It's pretty clear that what you said is wrong. ERCOT territory is all broken, panhandle, east Texas, and El Paso area are not having problems. https://poweroutage.us/area/state/texas
In Java, all pointers are GC pointers. But in D, not very many are. For example, objects on the stack aren't GC pointers.
For a full on description of how a good portion of furnaces, tech connections made a video not long ago: https://youtu.be/lBVvnDfW2Xo
Do you take me for a fool, sir? I know this can't be done.
I know. I was just constrasting it with D.
It already was. 24x7x365 geo redundancy SRE and Ops teams is pretty common place.

Texas was actually a preferred location as the time zone allowed both west coast and east coast work hours.
> There is no "you" selecting these films, its just your memory module skimming through films you've heard of and seen, then some "preference" circuit is acting to decide which film to "pick" for this exercise.

But my memory module and my preference circuit (along with myriad other subsystems) ARE "me", and when they select a movie, it's me that's selecting it. Just like when my motor cortex sends commands to my arm muscles, it's me moving my arm, not "just my motor cortex". That's what "me" means.
Maybe not a heating element, but heat punp?
Having worked at a water treatment plant in the past: if the power is out for a sufficiently long time, then your water is going to go dry. The time it takes is dependent on the distribution system (and time of year, you consume about twice as much water in summer as in winter), but where I worked, it was about 12 hours.

Also, we had no generators. Why? Because a) power outages of that length are extremely uncommon (2 in 70 years, IIRC) and b) the power draw of a large water treatment plant is insanely high. The water company was literally the largest consumer of power in the entire state, and turning on some of the pumps require the power company's permission because it draws that much power. It's not very feasible to keep a backup power system for such a large facility when the need for it is so very low.
Funny you mention that. Quebec is used to cold weather.

Aging infrastructure. There's not a single winter that you don't hear about water main breaks ;) Seen a few parking lot lakes myself over the years.
I don’t understand how people can stand to use Facebook. It was fun a long time ago. Then, when I didn’t use it for a few weeks, I started getting “notifications” that, instead of saying “someone commented on your post” or “someone liked your post” they were “someone commented on someone else’s post”, or “someone posted something”, and I thought “These are not notifications, these have nothing to do with me.”

And that kind of turned me off, and I intentionally stayed away from Facebook for a bit, and now whenever I log in, there’s a ton of fake notifications clamouring for my attention, and my “feed” is 30-50% ads, and the content that isn’t ads is 30-50% memes. There’s very little actual content, and you have to work way too hard to find it.

In an attempt to further force me to “engage” Facebook has turned their platform into something I can’t stand to use.

I wonder if this is what social media looks like to anyone who “gets out” for a bit. Maybe we’re all like frogs in water that’s slowly getting hotter and hotter, not realizing that the water is boiling; Facebook keeps pushing more and more forced “engagement”, and no one who is in it realizes it’s turning into all ads and garbage.
Ooph, yeah this is going to be a nightmare for home insurance to unwind it all and deal with everything at such a big level.
Hence, "if we treat Bitcoin as a currency."

But you're right that Bitcoin is mostly used as a speculative investment, and not to actually exchange goods. (That's not very convincing to crypto-people, though.)
Welp, yeah, nevermind then, he's in wanna-be-space-cadet tax brackets.
Again, unless the engineers are going to secure funding, they need to get politicians involved.

And the "free market race to the bottom" is why you have $1,000 computer in your pocket.

CA is nowhere close to a free market and is arguably worse than TX.
Not actually relevant, but I was at Disneyland one time and a large man was sitting on a bench at the hub on Main St. He proceeded to remove his shirt to unveil dozens of tattoos of Disney characters on his torso.

It took less than a minute for one of the security people (dressed in an old-timey police uniform, of course) to come over and tell him to put his shirt back on, in a tone and cadence which made it sound like this wasn’t the first time the two of them had had this interaction.

Anyway what I’m saying is, as far as I know he wasn’t bound and gagged and hauled off before a Disney magistrate.
> Really, i wonder why social media hasn't figured out a way to have meaningful microtransactions yet.

That is what's happening. It's a strip club model where the biggest tippers get the most attention. It is super effective, at least for live streams (see: all of twitch, every adult cam site).

If someone wanted to monetize this with static content, you could probably get people to pay for comment responses from content creators, but I haven't seen that done yet.
> there’s no way to trickle a toilet

If you have a tank toilet you might be able to adjust the floater (bend the rod upwards) so it never quite turns off the supply valve. Failing that, you can just manually prop the flap open with something.

If you have a flushometer, remove the nut over the valve and adjust the screw underneath until the valve never quite shuts off.

Warning: Take careful note of exactly how things were before. A toilet that never stops running can be just as hard on the spirit as a toilet that doesn't work at all.
If elon musk gave 2 shits about the environment he would promote public transit, not cars

he is a business man who only cares about money, and he uses effective marketing to make people like you buy in
It happened to me more than once on stats.stackexchange.com. There is one (ex) moderator who is very demeaning and from time to time delete mine and his comments to change the narrative of the discussion.

This behavior makes me think twice before using that SE site.
meet George Jettison.
If the penalty for ignoring scathing words is hurt feelings, then there's no reason to be scathing or not. (Well, except it might look good in an investigation someday.)

What's needed is real incentives, carrots and/or sticks, with real enforcement and follow-through. Speak softly, and all.
If all the world's governments go bankrupt I don't see any other currency than bitcoins working!
My favourite SO moment was when my comment had been edited to mean exactly the inverse of what I had stated. Whoever moderated it had assumed that I must have made a mistake and did not understand the problem space from the same depth I did.
I do front end, just call me a client engineer. But another question is, whats a mobile engineer?
It's just a public/private key generated. How would they ever find out who you are?
I wasn’t aware, but these actually exist: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_combined_heat_and_powe...
Unfortunately Austin has not done a very good job of designing it's grid. There are many sectors which can't be rotated as they contain one or more critical services, even as they also contain many consumers who are not critical. This means that instead of being able to rotate amoungst the ~80% of non-critical power users, they are only able to shut down about 45% of the power.

Unfortunately in a situation like this that means that 45% have remained off for the past 48 hours (no rotation is possible), while many empty buildings are fully illuminated. It is a technological failure of their ability to shut down specific power users.
Manufacturing e-waste in search of a market.
Criminal and black market transactions are a sizable fraction of the economy and bitcoin is a major financial innovation for this “sector.” The only problem is the price volatility, you don’t want to collect some money for Fat Tony and have it drop in value by 20% by the time you get it to him.
> Over the last ~9 years I've spent way too much time answering questions on stack overflow. I don't know why. I want to say it's because I like helping people. It's certainly not for "internet points"

I've asked myself the same question and couldn't find a satisfying answer. The best explanation I found was that StackOverflow had become for me a way to procrastinate, and then tell myself I've done something useful. I realized I don't care much about helping people, In fact the awful quality of the majority of the questions is depressing more than anything else. Perhaps I should consider stopping too.
Persephone: A Pluto-System Orbiter and Kuiper Belt Explorer
I could for a 10-20 year contingency, particularly if lost property and lives were my liability (which they should be for this case).
I invested a lot of effort into SO early on and came to the same conclusion. I mostly avoid even viewing the site now the same way I avoid viewing w3schools, but when I do happen to click in I’m astonished to see edits to 10+ year old answers that are often superfluous or just plain wrong. And lots of comments on similar answers that are perfectly well meaning but have no context of how the relevant technologies have changed in that time.

But none of that is why I find SO offputting. In theory that’s how it’s supposed to operate. What I find offputting is that despite all these edits and comments the general quality of a given SO page has become a much more visually noisy version of the hyphenated website its creators used to mock. Just absolutely bad advice on bad questions with no citation to be seen.

At some point the volume of activity overtook the will or competency to moderate and it just became a Reddit skin.
I'm confused about the scaling issue. It's not like every time I buy a cup of coffee, I initiate a wire transfer to Starbucks. I buy these things on credit and the issuer of that credit charges me and Starbucks a fee for the service. Then I settle up at the end of the month. Looking at my bank account, I only have a few transactions per month (salary, mortgage, credit cards etc).

Why couldn't something similar work for Bitcoin? I recognize that it's not a completely decentralized system anymore at that point, but it's still much less reliant on banks and the fed than our current system. It seems like something like this would be the obvious solution to the scaling issue.

Basically, if we think of Bitcoin as a replacement for cash, then why is there so much discussion of what effectively is the credit market?
Two units in my apartment building already flooded because they didn't trickle their water. Trickle means a tiny trickle of drops, not leaving the tap running. Use common sense, not FUD.
Stack Overflow has been steadily going downhill for years.

At least I learned about https://webglfundamentals.org/ and https://webgl2fundamentals.org/ from this, they look fantastic.
Doesn't the site advise you when you comment that comments were supposed to be for asking clarification or suggesting edits, Not for giving answers? People often use them to give half-hearted answers and I've had that urge too but written a formal half-hearted answer instead. It wouldn't get upvoted or accepted but if you feel you've got something helpful to say, why not say it as an answer?

I think people are afraid to put their half-hearted answers as formal answers because they can get downvoted for being incomplete. But if you don't care about points like Gregg (and myself), then it doesn't matter.

Comments like his "this site might be helpful" are annoying. You have no idea if the writer even understood your question and whether spending time digging through that site will actually help or not. They shouldn't post that. You can google for general information/tutorial sites.
I got lucky a few years ago and scored an answer to a VERY common iOS programming question. When you google the question, the top result is my answer and I have actually gotten some pretty strong moderator powers just from this question.

Every once in awhile I go through the queue of things that people have proposed should be deleted and I almost always vote against deletion. Even most of the lower quality stuff has some merit. A comment asking to rephrase is much more constructive than just deleting their post!
It sounds like in texas's case, the backup generation (renewables) aren't built up enough to take over for when traditional power goes down
You do have us on the regular fuel backup :) don't have that but we also don't have a backup generator in general. I wanted to last time we had a >12 hour outage but couldn't get the expense approved by the "finance minister" (i.e. the SO). When the electricity goes out for more than an hour or so the neighborhood is suddenly very loud though coz several next door neighbors go and bring out their generators so I'm not too worried about our survival and there's always the firewood pile in the backyard.
If gregg ever reads this, I understand.
The energy required to provide standby power for every electronic device in the United States is a tremendous amount of electricity.
> Because our government just printed a LOT of money.

That may be true, but the broader money supply hasn't really changed much:

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m2

It's also not really clear how it would. Banks aren't out there giving out loans like candy to everyone for anything. The little bit of helicopter money doesn't even cancel out the lack of spending due to COVID layoffs. You just can't have CPI inflation that way.

> I just loaded up on gold, platinum, silver, art, crypto, and real estate.

One of these is not like the others.

> Those will all fare better than cash or savings as hyperinflation grips the country.

You've probably listened too much to gold/silver salesmen who have been warning about the next crash and hyperinflation for many decades.

In reality, inflation is arguably bullish for all these heavily indebted companies in the stock market. A market crash can be hedged against too, just look at how Universa Investments performed in 2020. How did gold perform though? Unimpressive.
Radiation buried far below the ground in a remote region where it will never impact anybody or anything is not an externality of any magnitude.
FP is a unified theory on how to model the world: as functions, where equivalent inputs will always produce equivalent outputs. If there's something that makes outputs inequivalent, you should (under this theory) represent that with a corresponding input.

It's not the only possible way to model the world, but it absolutely is a unified approach that you can apply to a whole system, and it tends to work better when you do - trying to apply "FP as a tool" within a fundamentally mutation-oriented system (for example) gets you a very limited subset of the benefits, IME.
Despite seeming like polar opposites they have a lot of similarities. A great knack for “triggering” their detractors, and a hyperdefensiveness in the face of criticism.
Is it possible to plug these into a VR/AR system?
As someone who came out of the same "prestigious and selective place as you", this take hits hard. I will say, part of what you learn doing research is if you even enjoy doing research.

You play to win the game.

Love the artwork!
That's another thing that reduces the effective wage in europe: it's much more common to go to grad school (for engineers)

Effectively no one in the US gets a master's in CS, other than immigrants who get higher priority and possibility different visas (think like O-1) with said degree, so it makes sense for them. There are certainly PhD students, but they tend to genuinely want to do research IME rather than just do more school for more money down the line.
I'm in Dallas too. What we did was pull out our generator that runs on propane then run an extension cord from the garage to inside the house connected to an electric heater. Close the bedroom door. We were about 75 degrees.

You are crazy to not have a backup generator! It is an essential item to have!
"Get reminded about the phone you left behind with a blink of light or a haptic buzz on your cuff"

Ah yes. As if I'm not stuck with it enough.
That’s interesting about copyright law. Please pass along my compliments to your cold medicine manufacturer.
That's exactly what's happening.

Decentralized, trustless version is the Lightning Network, https://www.lopp.net/lightning-information.html
I discovered that her channel had episodes for Dyson Sphere Program, too, which I :heart: bunches
"Several people claimed comments have absolutely zero value. Therefore their deletion is irrelevent."

What? Purely anecdotal I suppose, but I have found immensely helpful information in comments on SO.
Welcome Aboard the R-100
liquidity never mattered because its not a currency
I don't know if I've ever been immersed in 'memes', in fact I don't think you really could be immersed in them around the turn of the century. They were just amusing gifs being passed back and forth, that seemed to be especially good at catching peoples' eyes.

Think dancing baby, zombo.com, cheezburger cat... they were funny, we passed em on, that was that. I do remember saving the ones I liked in a 'funny pics' folder -- which I still have -- but I'm not sure there were very many people 'immersed' in them any more than any other fringe part of internet nerd culture.

That said, AYB was probably the first meme I ever 'immersed' in, in that it was the right combination of weird and zany and that it fit my zeitgeist back in the day.

But then icanhazcheezburger.com and KnowYourMeme came around, and that their efforts to collect and categorize probably marked the beginning of the end.
Absolutely is. It's an intelligence (i.e. spy) agency under the Director of National Intelligence, specializing in signal intelligence (SIGINT)
Neither Visa nor MasterCard have ever told me something like that.
I think this would be covered by the "judgemental dismissal of market rationale" explanation I was talking about.
Making jokes is for Reddit, not HN