skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because every transaction on layer 2 is not settled on the blockchain, its simply their cheap and fast ledger keeping track of frequent transactions. Rarely is there settlement.

Many dont understand Bitcoin was designed this way on purpose. L1 is for infrequent important transaction settlement. If it wasnt the chain would grow to a point where it could not be decentralized because the chain would be too big for hard drives and individuals to run nodes. It would naturally expand faster than memory advancement and centralize.
From the articles I've read they do:

> Even today, ERCOT is also not completely isolated from other grids — as was evident when the state imported some power from Mexico during the rolling blackouts of 2011. ERCOT has three ties to Mexico and — as an outcome of the "Midnight Connection" battle — it also has two ties to the eastern U.S. grid, though they do not trigger federal regulation for ERCOT. All can move power commercially as well as be used in emergencies, according to ERCOT spokeswoman Dottie Roark. A possible sixth interconnection project, in Rusk County, is being studied, and another ambitious proposal, called Tres Amigas, would link the three big U.S. grids together in New Mexico, though Texas' top utility regulator has shown little enthusiasm for participating.

https://www.kvue.com/article/weather/texplainer-why-does-tex...
I don’t think Texans are legally allowed to use non-freedom units.
The go:embed directive and embed.FS interface are great, as expected. If you're developing an AGPL or similarily licensed application it's incredibly easy to distribute source code with the application.

//go:embed main.go go.mod go.sum LICENSE README makefile static/*

var sourceCode embed.FS

// ...

func main() {

// ...

http.Handle("/source/", http.StripPrefix("/source/", http.FileServer(http.FS(sourceCode))))

// ...

}
This is also almost my first time that I've heard about "cargo cult" and that does sum up nicely a lot of things I've seen at my place.

I hope this is a valid example?

1. Project P fails spectacularly, really bringing the reliability targets of the whole production down. In reality we don't have proper targets, we have "100% reliability" target, but still, it was below 98.5% judging by my calculations which was unacceptable.

2. Management furious at that time. The team in charge of that project promises that they are going to regroup, start doing "retros", using "planning poker", and introduce more alerts (to some other team of course...) etc

3. Management gives them another (n-th) chance because the tools sound cool and think that employing "technology" will always fix social problems.
…but the primary reason for the current outages is that fossil fuel plants failed. Wind power etc has also failed but is a rounding error in terms of lost production.

> if Texas invested in coal instead of making the large investments they made in solar and wind, this never would have happened.

If they invested that money in coal and failed to winterise it in the same way they failed to winterise the other plants then there would be absolutely zero difference.

This is kind of a meta point and probably sounds patronising, but you’ve just said a bunch of stuff that’s flat out wrong. It’s time to start questioning your information diet. Where are you being fed disinformation from? What can you do to diversify your sources of news?
In the US, licensed hospital beds are pretty heavily regulated.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/con-certificate-of-need...

And then Medicare won't pay any old place for services (which is something that would impact many potential hospital sites).
Basically in this situation you have to inform the GC but realistically this extremely rare in practice.

Of the issues the GC has, this isn't one of 'em.
In a sort of dad-joke way, sure.
Lots of folks in these comments seem to want to use this event to litigate wind vs. solar vs. gas vs. nuclear vs. coal, but it seems like, across the board, power generation facilities in Texas were simply unprepared to operate in such low temperatures.

All of these technologies can and do work well in very cold climates.
The regional grid above TX is also instituting rolling blackouts due to this weather.
unexpected inflation is just so unexpected. its not that Bitcoin is the only option, its just the best option which is why its emerging as money
I think the second order effect will be from companies that accumulate too much cryptocurrency - only to see its value vaporize. Impact could be systemic if companies start to essentially gamble with their treasure chests.

Example: what happens if other companies followed the likes of Tesla and MicroStrategy? Sure the $1.5B Tesla invested is pittance in the context of their market capitalization, but if Bitcoin price crashes 80% then they've lost $1.2B. Even Microstrategy, with its alleged 85% of its cash reserves in Bitcoin, might well go under if the Bitcoin price drops even 50%.

A "run on Bitcoin" could become a real thing and as impacted companies are forced to cut production and expenses to offset the losses, it creates a domino effect across the economy.
The eventual distributed money could be bitcoin-associated without being bitcoin itself. For example, DAI[1] is (AFAICT) a derivative of Ethereum, but pinned to USD. It relies on the underlying store of value that Ethereum represents, but isn't tied to the value.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dai_(cryptocurrency)
It's per transaction regardless of amount. So a $20 transaction also has a $18 transaction fee.
Lots of kids back then weren't begging their parents for computers and lots of kids today are writing code.
I read this same comment in every single HN post even tangentially related to the Pi. As others have pointed out, the Pi can run just fine off of USB and the newer ones support it out of the box. I ran my version 1 256MB Raspberry Pi for off an external USB drive. I only had to _boot_ from the SD card.

There have also been, for a long time now, SD cards with much better durability than the cheapest ones you can buy on Amazon. I personally look for ones labeled "high-endurance" or for use with dashcams because those are much closer to a proper SSD in terms of wear cycles.

I wish the RPi foundation would make it clearer in their documentation and blog posts you're going to have a bad time if you use a generic SD card as if it was a general-purpose hard drive.
To make it effective, you'd only want it to apply to GC pointers. But the type system does not distinguish between GC pointers and other pointers, making such a mode a rather complex implementation problem.
Which part of the $28 average transaction fee is the paradigm shift?
They are to building the waste facility you need for long term storage of spent fuel.

See Harry Reid vs Yucca Mountain
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It's all a matter of perspective. It's the entire rest of the world that's unstable and undergoing wild price fluctuations, while the value of one Bitcoin stands eternal and unchanging by virtue of it being worth one Bitcoin. /s
Personally I would sell what I'd call the "FOMO holding" once it's worth a "life changing" amount of money. So if I held 100 Bitcoin as such a fund, that might well have been years ago, but then I'd also be retired and not care. The sister comment here is more nuanced and surely a better answer, though.
In this case, what was being tweeted about was politics. It's the content that makes it political, not who tweets it. The President was directly rebuking athletes for taking political positions that the President did not like, and they were responding to that criticism.
> How does a static rather than unconstrained supply make something a LESS good store of value?

Because a healthy capitalist economy needs an incentive to invest. A steady, low, positive inflation rate is essential to encouraging those with capital to rent that capital out to those who need it for productive uses.
> Truly is a paradigm shift and I think a big problem on HN is that VC can’t see they are being disrupted and have no way of avoiding it,

On the contrary, VCs are making bank on cryptocurrency. Retail investors are just along for the ride.

> plus they think they are untouchable geniuses, so being wrong this hard isn’t pleasant for them.

Again, VCs were all over cryptocurrency investments in recent years. They're ecstatic when the price goes up, because retail investors are pumping an investment they were in long ago.

I don't know how we arrived at this narrative that crypto was a win for the little guys at the expense of institutions.
Blueprints are text-based, though.
Right, but if you do that, is there any advantage over just allocating that memory directly from the GC instead of calling malloc and then registering the memory?
At that time it will be impossible to ban because a large percentage of the US population will be exposed to it. If in spite of that they do decide to ban it there is not much they can do except ban the exchanges. The Bitcoin network is impossible to ban without heavily censoring the internet.
Also what the US is going to do about the other countries of the world, invade them in order to ban the BTC?
Pretty sure you are off by a large factor. It looks like Dallas added almost 300k apartments in the last 5 years.
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The same can be said of any investment opportunity. It comes down to the amount you have available to invest, and how much effort you want to put into it.

For those who want a low effort fairly safe hedge against inflation and currency changes an index tracker fund is probably the way to go.

A small percentage on risky investments is probably fine, but then you do have to choose the correct risky ones =)

I wish I had bought Tesla shares in 2011 too.
Not a parent either, but constraints such as "you can only play videogames that you code yourself" could be an entertaining way to teach: they might want the reward, teach them to enjoy the path as well.

I am not saying they should learn computer science, but it's one of the best ways to use computers, and having some basic skills with it is incredibly useful still.
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A single cold snap is no more evidence for climate change than it is against global warming. The earth is huge, climate is chaotic and oscillatory with large variance, you need many data points over, at a minimum, decades (though centuries or millennia may be more appropriate) to determine with certainty that the climate is changing.
Doubling down on coal? What makes you think that would’ve worked any better than the natural gas and nuclear plants that failed too?
Yeah I did the same thing. Followed interesting people, but they never get recommended to me. Either because they aren't starting rooms or discussions or whatever its called, or because Clubhouse's feed algo thinks I want to see other things. I still have it on my phone, and will use it if the content changes, but it seems like it's very limited at this point (which is fine, it's not even a year old yet).

I just opened the app again and scrolled for maybe 45 seconds. Not a single thing of interest to me.
The coverage for Perseverance will actually have seven cameras for landing!

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/cameras/
Solar panels don't work well under a foot of snow.
I have not tried Sinatra, only heard good things about it I will check it out. Thanks!
> to be clear about what I'm claiming, I'm saying that if Texas invested in coal instead of making the large investments they made in solar and wind, this never would have happened. I don't see how anyone can dispute that.

If I remember the statistics correctly, there is more coal power offline right now than wind power offline. If that is true, that rather debunks your theory, doesn't it?
I'm keeping the closest watch that I can on this age and being a default assehole gig that I have heard all my life and am guilty of using myself to blank out some of my parents behaviour that was beyond salvation. I'm 50 now and looking for the SMaaS app I need the Shoot Me aaS when I default to asshole cos of age app is desperately needed in society.
As if supply chain attacks, ransomwares and all the zero click wormable vulnerabilities we receive every other day were not enough.

I like gardening my small personal home server, services and backups but there is no reason debian packages could not be subject to the same supply chain "evil maid" or upstream "evil new maintainer". Everything being done in the open and reviewed makes it less probable, but not impossible. Sigh.

As a company, "risk" is mostly insurance. As an individual, it’s anxiety.
I have migrate from lastpass -> bitwarden. Coulnd't be happier.

However, bitwarden cannot import data from lastpass csv. If you are havy lastpass user with custom fields, long note, than it can fail on free bitwarden tier(limit 1000 characters).

I ended up code a Ruby script that shell out to BitWarden CLI to import them.

Put this up here in case anyone needs it https://gist.github.com/v9n/ae05edd9dba16df503b5b2c0b11e8c04
Oh, fair enough. But if they really are rolling than that's not nearly so bad as the areas in Texas that have been out for days.
I only joined clubhouse to join Tim Dillon's rooms that discuss the most important topics such as "how to monetize loneliness & despair" or "should women allowed to own bitcoin".

Edit: for anyone who's not aware of the nature of his rooms, I found the "should women allowed to own bitcoin" recording on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bysynpT93yg
> It’s bad faith to pretend slavery is the same as a limited
time monopoly to incentivize people to create things.

But copyrights and patents are a form of slavery. They
are in no way, shape or form, a form of property rights. In
fact, they are the exact opposite. You cannot have
property rights and copyrights and patents. You get to have
one or the other [0]. The only way you can reconcile the 2,
is if you allow the possibility of having property rights
over another person, which is by definition slavery.

But moving beyond the semantic and rhetorical, who do you
think benefits from patents and copyrights? People and
corporations are still benefitting from copyrights from the
years 1926-1965, when most African Americans were still
fighting for their basic rights to vote. Do you think
these laws are benefitting the descendants of slaves, or the
descendants of slave owners? This is not a rhetorical
question. You can do some research into who is getting the
revenue from these laws and you will find an interesting
distribution that resemble some earlier periods in
history.

There is no reason why people in poor cities should
be barred from transmitting software peer to peer peacefully
and instead forced via threat of violence to pay tithes to
people like Bill Gates.

> Imagine you’re creating a new country and you want people
> to make things, how can you incentivize this?

This argument is so asinine but very typical of the
arguments proffered by those pushing #ImaginaryPropertyLaws.
There is ZERO incentive NOT to innovate and make things.
ZERO. "What's that daughter, you are hungry? Sorry I have no
incentive to invent a better plough and feed you because if
I were to do without patent laws then I can't stop other
people from also benefitting from my idea."...."Oh Grandma,
you're sick? I would try to find a cure but I have no
incentive since if I were to find a cure I couldn't charge a
royalty to other people who read about it." None of our most
important things were built by people who gave a shit
about copyright and patents and none of them ever will be.

> There’s nuance and complexity here

There is not. The sun does not revolve around the earth.
There is no compromise ("I think we should compromise and
say it revolves 70 percent around the earth"). You either
decide to go with math and numbers and logic and first
principles or you decide to go with whatever those in power
decree.

There is truth and lies. And some times the true things
aren't the most well known things, and the lies get more
airtime.

#AbolishImaginaryProperty

> Are software patents...stupid? Yes.

Okay at least we agree on that.

[0] https://breckyunits.com/an-unpopular-phrase.html

P.S. Not trying to harp on your personally, it's the industry as a whole that my anger is directed towards.
I remember hearing this same advice when it peaked at $1,200 many years back. The honest answer is, nobody has a clue where this thing is headed.
Texas had blackouts due to extreme cold as recently as 2011. The findings from the investigation after that event were ignored and we are now seeing a repeat of it exactly 10 years later. It has not worked "just fine" for decades.
I'm super eager to hear if the small helicopter manages stable, repeatable flight.
Also quines become incredibly easy:

package main

import (
_ "embed"
"fmt"
)

//go:embed quine.go
var src string

func main() {
fmt.Print(src)
}
Econ 101: the value of ordinary goods are determined both by supply and demand.

Bitcoin-fanatic-USD-bears claim that Bitcoin is a good store of value because it has constrained supply. But they miss the demand side of the equation. Similarly, they claim that the USD is a bad source of value because it has "unlimited" supply. That also misses the demand side.

The demand for USD is robust because people need USD to pay taxes and to purchase most goods and services offered by US-based organizations. The demand for Bitcoin is based on... how many people Bitcoin-fanatics can get to buy and hodl Bitcoin.

(I don't count organizations that accept Bitcoin as payment because almost all of them exchange received Bitcoin into the local currency, negating the demand effects of the original Bitcoin purchase. In the US, that's usually USD.)
If we're just passing money around, why do we need a separate currency at all? Stablecoins already exist, but they're not popular because all of the speculative value has been removed.

Bitcoin's real invention was censorship resistance, by incentivizing distributed miners to arrive at consensus about transactions in a way that no single miner could control. Sadly, that same distributed incentive is responsible for Bitcoin's ever-increasing energy usage.
Most of the capacity lost was fossil fuel based. In fact solar generated more than expected. So how exactly are renewables the problem here?

Even nuclear went down due to frozen pumps.

And how is more coal the solution when these kinds of event will just become more common with global climate change?

Should we not push for changes which halts the ongoing climate change?
> I would add however, that you can reach out and touch an atom with a certain definition of touch

And unfortunately for your argument, the bit you elided here is the critical bit. If we understand "touch" meaning to interact with something "physically" rather than "chemically" or indirectly (light, sound), then "touch" refers essentially to electromagnetic force and the Pauli exclusion principle. Since the latter can only be defined in terms of yet more "matter", in fact we have no way to observe matter in any way but electromagnetism in its various forms, viz. "light" in a wide sense, chemical interaction, and via magnetic repulsion on macroscopic or microscopic scales. Given this, I would say it's largely correct to understand atomic theory as useful abstraction; indeed, an abstraction which dates back hundreds of years which has been refined and found still useful. That said, something being an abstraction doesn't make it not real! Indeed I'm not entirely sure I know what else "real" is supposed to be.
Not many people are talking about home solar but its a real problem. Its nice to have your own solar power and then use the grid only when you need it. However that means you need idle power plants and transmission 90% of the year just for those cold un-sunny days. If power prices are regulated its a mugs game.

I see bans on home solar coming. Maybe if you can disconnect from the grid with batteries it solves the problem too - but those people would be suffering right now.

If you downvote me please tell me what is wrong and if you have ideas on how to solve the problem.
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The board linked is an example board, but any modification you make will create a copy on your own board so feel free to make changes! Or you can always hit the new board button to start from scratch.
I don't have a problem with "F2P-with-purchases" as long as the "purchases" aren't random lootboxes and aren't gating progression or buying power.

For example, I always felt that League of Legends had a good F2P-with-purchases model. There are a lot of characters you can play as, but you have to either unlock them by playing or pay a couple dollars to unlock one. But the more expensive characters aren't necessarily more powerful, they're typically just newer, and it doesn't take much play to unlock a character.

Once a character is unlocked, there are skins you can purchases with money, but they're purely cosmetic.
Linux 5.11 is out with AMD and Intel improvements (and Linus Torvalds is happy)
I think we need new, better concepts to judge type systems by. Eg TypeScript has convincingly shown to a large crowd that soundness isn't an important property for many key goals of static typing, such as programmer productivity, refactoring support, preventing stupid mistakes and navigating large codebases. Soundness was Flow's big claim to fame and it just made day to day programming harder with mostly academic/cosmetic benefits. I'm sure that there's more reasons why TS won the popularity contest, but TS's pragmatic forgiveness surely played a part.

And I don't even see how "decideable" is a desireable property at all. So what if the type checker can infloop? It won't in practice.

At the same time, most people will agree that eg Go's type system is very different from Idris's. They have very different pros and cons, both in terms of how hard they are to typecheck and how great they are to use. In fact I can't think two somewhat popular type systems that could be more different from one another, but if you only read this page you might think they're comparable.

We need words for "totally anal" and "basically Ruby but some typos are caught" and everything in-between.
> Mastercard is without a doubt supporting Bitcoin.

Source?

The only statement Mastercard has made is that they will support "crypto" on their network in the future.

They have not mentioned which cryptocurrencies they will support at launch from what I've seen.
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People not carrying phones outside the house isn't just less common, it's an absolutely tiny edge case which no company is going to redesign their products around.
Besides z being much faster (looking through a sorted list of directories visited instead of recursively walking from the current directory) your snippet looks from the cwd
Even on cloudy days my small solar on my roof generates enough power for my house. Large solar farms sure have reduced production but they're not as useless as you'd think.
Wind was performing above expectation throughout the event.