skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like this is mentioned as a possible change to the oath[1] from a 2015 report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission[2]. But if the current government of Canada website lists the oath without the phrase "including treaties with Indigenous peoples", then I would guess it was never officially changed.

Perhaps it was added as part of the ceremony in another manner but not officially in the oath.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/citizenship-oath-indigenous...

[2] http://nctr.ca/reports.php
I imagine they mean this specific use case where you need ip connectivity to Telegram anyway. If it were bridging to something local, it would make more sense.
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Yeah this just isn't true. Given the rally in coin prices GPU mining has come back to the black if you have cheap/free access to electricity.

With a 3080 you can make over $12/day in BTC and the electricity costs required are less than $2 in a majority of the US [0].

[0] https://www.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator/nvidia-rtx...
> You're right - we are a 'socially cooperative species', and we're good at it. Leave us alone to cooperate and don't invoke some government authority.

So it's cool if I go to someone and take their bitcoins from them at gunpoint? Or start Mafia 2.0 and create my own protection racket here in SF?
Protecting single facilities is very hard, protecting an entire grid seems impossible. Ild hope for a decentralized grid where every generator, user, and conveyer of electricity was assumed to potentially be a subverted actor. But that seems super hard.
It was for a Fortune 500 company, historically ranked in the top 10. The monthly premium was ~$950/month with a yearly out-of-pocket of $9,000.

Yearly premium liability: ($950/month)*(12 months/year)= $11,400/year

Out-of-Pocket liability: $9,000/year

So, the minimum healthcare liability that I theoretically have in the US (which is never the case for me), every year, is:

Yearly Premium Liability + Out-of-Pocket Liability = $20,400/year

However, I also have other uncovered medical expenses, encountered thanks to insurance issues. I literally generated well over 100 claims per year on medical insurance alone, so it was not like I never had uncovered expenses. Obviously you fight it, and you never give up, because that is what the providers expect you to do. However, there are a lot of situations that are just unwinnable.

In reality, my yearly healthcare liability in the US was closer to $30,000/year.
Cadmium and lead will stay inside landfill for 1000 -10,000 million years. It already kills people in China, due to the extraction process (probably in Africa too), and destroyed PV panels were a nightmare in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami, and it was often a small pv that just activated water pumps. If that happened now, it would be a disaster on top of a disaster. And one that would displace millions.
You know how sometimes people ask on HN ‘how can I use software to make world better?’, well, you just asked the opposite question.

Don’t make shit like this. I could do it too, but I’m not gonna.
Note that Kraken has a USD<->USDT trading pair, so it is convertible there (and only there AFAIK)
It is wealth redistribution, though, not wealth creation. These people essentially take money from newcomers to the btc ecosystem, but btcs themselves are not tied to any tangible asset or value.

More importantly, creating new bitcoins is not tied to the creation of new counterparts. Essentially, when someone mines bitcoins, they are not involved in a productive act.
Prove to me that these pro nuclear activists actually truly care about the land use from solar and wind power.
You are being overly literal I guess, there is nothing to explain.

Invalid line of thought sounds good ?

Try DDG next time.
You’re making a huge assumption that they could be resold, even if they’re the same chips. This could be an entirely new market for chips that have yield defects in the graphics units, that will not ever work for games, and were previously already put in the trash.

And your theory doesn’t explain two things: - how this hurts gamers now, and - why if Nvidia just wanted profit and the chips are useful for games, why wouldn’t Nvidia simply do nothing and let the miners buy all the 3060s. Wouldn’t that be the most profitable thing here?

In fact, why wouldn’t Nvidia just hike the price of the 3060? They could make a lot more money on miners if they wanted to, and really screw gamers. But that’s not what’s happening. So from a gamer’s perspective, I just don’t get being mad at Nvidia rather than being mad at the miners who caused this to happen, again.
My instinct is to build a native front end and connect to the back end over a REST (or similar) API. To me, that feels like the boring technology route.
how much of that is due to regulations or other overhead or inefficiencies?

e.g., "China Tariffs Blocked Bill Gates’ Plan for Safe Nuclear Power"

https://futurism.com/trump-china-tariffs-bill-gates-nuclear-...

also, SpaceX managed to make reusable rockets, I just have to imagine we could make nuclear energy feasible if we approached it from first principles and took a hard look at the entire process.
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> The alternative to this is offering more money, which isn’t even guaranteed to work.

This is true, but I feel misses the mark a little.

The absolute best development job I've had in my 15 odd years of experience was my first job. It wasn't about the technology. What I was using there was completely new to me, down to the text editor and keyboard (vim + Microsoft Natural ergonomic, you should have seen me struggling to do anything learning both at once). It wasn't about the pay. The company was paying an embarrassingly low rate because they were one of two companies in town hiring developers. It wasn't because we had a fancy office or a stocked pantry or beer on tap. We had none of that.

No. It was entirely because of the people I worked with. We would all play World of Warcraft after hours. We would joke around at work during the day and eat lunch together.

That's it. That's the entire secret to a happy job. And you can't bottle that magic sauce up and sell it at trade shows and conferences. You can't write a book on it. Because it's situational. If you've ever worked at a place like that, then you know what I'm talking about. It has little to do with the company. In fact, the CEO was a bit of a narcissistic slimey toad.

Businesses spend a fortune trying to force such an environment through cargo cult. "If we provide X, then developers will show up and work all night." So every company is a "campus" that resembles a college dorm environment. And it all falls flat and infantile. Because we are adults and see it as the pandering it is.
Police sure seem pleased thumping skulls.

Anything we can do to make it easier for them.
The reason you know about academic fraud is that lots of the process is public and has many unaffiliated people involved that are potential leaks. So, sure, fraud happens and clearly that’s bad. But you do hear about it.

By contrast the same events within corporate culture happen behind veils of secrecy and HR departments & heavy hitting lawyers to make life hell if you don’t toe the line. And the cult of personality and oversized egos is very well represented in boards and upper management.
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NHS has nothing to do with electing to pay for your own treatment - people do it sometimes for elective stuff.

That was a court of law which ruled in that case (and then again for multiple appeals processes), the NHS has no such power.
NHS won't forbid you from paying, such an order would come from the Courts. It's an exceptional case that a family would have this kind of rule imposed on them, but Courts will consider the patient's best interests before the family's.
Im not saying that following the checklist is particularly hard, or the mechanics of what you need to do is outside the skill level of any competent pilot.

I’m saying that practicing engine-outs/fires is psychologically different than bringing a flaming aircraft safely to the ground with several hundred souls on board.
It's very common in German universities that taking exams for a particular requires acquiring a "Schein" (certificate) for that course. Which are often harder and require much more work than preparing for the actual exam.
See also Jef Raskin's book "The Humane Interface".

(And by "see also" I mean "stop what you're doing, get a copy, and read it now.")
I find this a really interesting take. Wouldn’t someone be able to produce his own FIDO key that can send two transactions with the same sequence number though?
This is probably THE most HN comment I’ve ever seen.
Recycling is just getting started, but so far the most expensive part of recycling is shipping the panels to the recycling plant. Which is to say, that end of life recycling will not be a significant cost in any way.
All those individuals will respond to the incentive of cheaper energy bills by installing roof solar voluntarily. Provided their government doesn't pass pro-fossil fuel legislation that actively punishes that decision, as some have.
Winter is hard to store for, but in general there aren't times where both sun and wind are low production across wide areas.

Of course solar isn't operating at night, but wind keeps blowing.

One way to check this would be to find a wind farm that publishes their output over time. Looks like NREL has some good resources: https://www.nrel.gov/grid/wind-toolkit.html
Assuming that we can keep burying it forever is not a healthy attitude.

People used to assume that dumping sewage in the streets was just fine, but it led to cholera outbreaks [1]. There was no push to change that until it became a major problem and something had to be done. Sure, we can assume burying plastic will be a solution forever. But is it not better to avoid risking the event where it suddenly is a problem, and try and mitigate it now?

(Personally, I think so, but it is one of things that will be forever debatable.)

[1] http://www.hubhistory.com/episodes/boston-in-the-time-of-cho...
Obviously what we need is some sort of "Manhattan Project" for nuclear energy! :)
Fun fact: The penguin used to have a contender: https://xenia-linux-site.glitch.me/

I got an avatar made in the style (male though).
Read her statement she made at ICJ. I think you’ll find the situation is more complex than the simple narrative the international media presents.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/12/12/transcript-aung-sa...
Stuff like that is exactly why I just invest in boring market-wife index funds.
I don't know what percent of Tether's funds are actually backed by USD. And I don't trust them as a company.

But lets look at the economic game theory of it:

- There is currently no premium on Bitcoin prices on Tether exchanges vs non-tether exchanges (http://www.untether.space/)

- USD/USDT pairs can be traded on legit exchanges like Kraken and are currently trading evenly

If the theory is that unbacked Tethers drive up Bitcoin prices, then we should see a premium on Bitfinex/Binance, because that's where buying demand should prop up first. A premium doesn't exist at the moment.

And further, lets say Tether is exposed and crashes. We would expect that users race to buy Bitcoin with their bad USDT and withdraw. The only bag-holder is whoever is using USDT. Bitcoin holders would suffer in the short term as speculators become cautious, but technically should not be affected other than a couple of albeit large crypto gateways potentially going under.
I've been enjoying Kodi 18 "Leia" as both a NAS video client for the TV and as a game system emulator.

Multiplayer arcade games from the early nineties have been especially well received when we have company over... Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles work great as 2-3 player brawlers.

Raspberry Pi 3 is great for the sprite-based graphics but basically can't keep up with 3D graphics; no big deal though as long as you respect that limitation.

I'll keep an eye on Kodi 19 Matrix and see if I spot a compelling reason to update.
I've seen a few variations on this that are less blatant but equally effective at gaming the system. Note that these all happened in college, rather than in HS--I never recall seeing this in high school.

The first is professors providing previous exams for students to study from, and then only changing the numbers, not the questions (e.g. the test is a template). This wasn't the norm, but it wasn't uncommon either--several professors gained nicknames to this effect, and you knew if you were in one of their classes how everything was going to work.

Even if the professor didn't provide the exam, fraternities and sororities usually kept prior exams from folks who had done well, and I believe the "learning center" also would keep copies, to the point where I am occasionally recognized when I come back to campus (mostly for recruiting) because one of my completed computer architecture tests has been given out as reference for the past decade.

The second is providing study sessions the day/night before an exam where professors would run through common scenarios that might appear on tests. When done correctly, students would ask the questions and the prof would get another student to demonstrate and they would help as necessary--when done poorly (and unfortunately, in my experience, the more common of the two), it devolved to the first scenario.

Neither are explicitly "cheating" in the way outlined in the parent (I don't know if they'd show up on accreditation, for instance), but they achieve the same end result.

As a bonus, I worked as a proctor in the learning center for a year or two, and while the majority of students came in because they were legitimately struggling with one concept and needed tutoring to jump the knowledge gap, there was a core group of frequent fliers who were there every day basically getting their homework done by others, and thus boosting overall grades (and ultimately graduation rate).

As has been stated many, many times in this thread, incentives (staying accredited, getting some arbitrary US News and World Reports ranking, having a high graduation/job placement rate, etc.) push this behavior to the detriment of student learning.
As long as flint's heat is still natural gas based then lights going out is the worst thing. I'm guessing an average winter in flint (if it's not then shift my statement to MN where it is) is much colder then the mess Texas just went through. Things just break when things are that colder, particularly electricity. Just try starting your car when it's -30F.

Power generation for Billions of people seems like a complex problem that everyone seems very willing to boil down to solving with "Just focus on electricity and use wind, solar, and batteries." Sounds a lot like the "just use mongoDB" talk from 6-7 years ago.
Yes, but do they really start out like that, or is it a gradual descent? There's usually a catalyst that starts it in kids. Parents demanding success at all cost / rampant cheating around them (or just being surrounded by ruthless kids) / a very competitive rat race that turns out to be pretty dirty / the parents themselves are without conscience / etc.
Based on what I've read, my understanding is that the separate Texas grid and ERCOT exist because Texas politicians wanted (and still want) to avoid federal regulation. The parts of Texas that were not on the separate Texas grid, i.e. El Paso didn't lose power.

Are you saying that the rest of the US does not have a power market with appropriate regulations? Because as far as I can tell, this crises could have been completely avoided if we didn't have our own isolated grid.
Another reason to stop using social media.

Everything you've ever posted can be used against you. Plus your more likely to make friends / meet partners in this place called real life.
Stallman has repeatedly stated that game art can be proprietary and still be free software.[0]

> > They could sell DRM-free copies on their site that license the game art but keep the code free.
> This violates the spirit of free software.

Stallman sold copies of the GNU compiler. To be fair, he also says "but everyone's got to be free to non-commercially redistribute exact copies." However, charging a "distribution fee" is allowed and encouraged. 0 AD themselves state they cannot afford the bandwidth costs.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-versus-community.ht...

"What about works of art and entertainment? Here it took me a while to decide what to think about modifications."
The direct impact of turbines on wildlife (e.g., from direct strikes) may be negligible. But the secondary effects of carving-up large blocks of intact grasslands in the Great Plains with infrastructure like service roads, wallpapering desert soils with panels, or placing high-capacity transmission lines, are not. This clearly contributes to habitat fragmentation and scientists have not thoroughly studied how recent infrastructure change is influencing habitat for wildlife.

I'm not arguing that increasing green energy production like wind and solar should stop. Because climate change is arguably a larger existential threat to the planet. But we do need to do a better job planning where infrastructure lands so we can mitigate habitat fragmentation. Habitat fragmentation doesn't really factor into the planning calculus at all.
Forgive me, my terminology may not be correct. What I'm trying to say is it's better to have idiots saying that plastic is completely harmless and idiots saying plastic is the end of the world, than just idiots saying plastic is harmless (which is pretty much what's been happening in the past, and it's why the ocean and every living thing has a lot of "harmless" plastic in it now).
Hah yeah, coincidence for sure. I don't have hard numbers in front of me but based on reference links to the boring tech site it's been mentioned at least half a dozen times. I know innovation tokens have been spoken about a few times outside of those linked episodes too.
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I claim it's positive sum for society. To be concrete, suppose that moving the troublemakingest 5% out of a school lets the remaining 95% of kids learn 20% more. And the 5% learn about the same. So overall society is up 20% * 95% = 19%.

It depends on the numbers, of course. If the 95% of kids only learned 1% more, it wouldn't be worth it.

It's notoriously hard to measure those numbers because everything is confounded by everything else and experiments take decades to run. But I think 20% is plausible and 1% isn't.
Yes.[0] You just need to share it from your main computer over whatever protocol you prefer, and add it to the Kodi library.

If you're talking about streaming from Kodi, both the official web interface and Yatse[1] support that. Yatse will even update the Kodi library metadata based on it.

That said, if streaming from Kodi is your primary use-case then Kodi is probably not a good fit. It doesn't really have a headless mode, and it'd be more efficient to just access the file share directly. Universal Media Server might be more up your alley then.[2]

[0]: https://kodi.wiki/view/File_sharing

[1]: https://www.yatse.tv/

[2]: https://www.universalmediaserver.com/
USDT and USDC are fungible. It’s almost a certainty that USDT has leaked into USDC.

Imagine this:

1) Print USDT out of thin air

2) Send USDT to Binance and buy BTC

3) Send BTC to Coinbase and sell for USD.

4) Convert USD to USDC

You’ve now turned imaginary USDT into what is properly backed USDC. Why do this? Because then you don’t have to worry about pesky USD money trails or bank account seizures.
That was not a dispute about payment.
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The source for the BBC article (https://cbeci.org/cbeci/comparisons) even gives it as 0.48% of total electricity production and 0.55% of total electricity consumption. The graph it and the article shows us misleading as it only compares electricity and not total energy consumption.
That's the point. The question is specifically US citizenship because of the onerous reporting requirements it ensues that none of them want to deal with.
> You are assuming the worst intentions

I'm not assuming anyone's intentions.

> singling out the worst actors

I might be doing this unknowingly. I only have my own perceptions to draw on. Those perceptions, as you rightly observe, may be distorted by what bubbles up out of social media and HN commentaries.
Again, what the hell are you talking about. These are bad faith arguments. Moving goalposts, redefining everything. What a joke.
The amount of plastic bags strewn across the environment in Morocco has drastically declined since new laws against them. There is still progress to be made, but the result has made me a supporter of plastic bag bans.
> The question is, if the giant US internet companies acted more in alignment w/ the speech values the US professes to believe in (at least when convenient), would that contribute to those values being more widely adopted?

No. Why would people and parties who have journalists arrested and tortured become true believers in freedom of political speech because a foreign website allows it?
Big Tech's social media actually has skewed quite close to US censorship norms (i.e. you can censor anything you like but be very careful if it claims to be political) for most of its existence and the results are not something most liberal democracies see as admirable, never mind paternalistic ultraconservative countries or outright dictatorships.

> Now, in reaction, we are seeing rising censorship (since the internet suddenly made speech much more available and powerful)

It's not "rising censorship" because a couple of companies decided EULA policies they'd enforced with varying degrees of consistency against everyone else since the beginning also applied to mouthpieces of the POTUS or the Burmese military. Censorship has been around everywhere forever, and claims a website which has long censored people for not using their real name or showing a nipple has stepped into unacceptable censorship when reasons for bans were political violence is a very narrow, US-centric concept of "rising censorship" that apart from anything else is highly unlikely to convince most cultures that "rising censorship" would be a bad thing.
> I don’t believe it’s possible to find an efficient consensus algorithm, which would be truly decentralized

Unless I misunderstand the meaning of "truly" decetnralized, there is one known. It's called Ouroboros, it's being used by both Polkadot and Cardano. It's a decentralized Proof-of-Stake protocol (currently ~80% of Cardano block generation is decentralized, the goal is to reach 100% in March).

The 2019 paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/889.pdf

(Edit: the article is still an interesting read, thanks for sharing)
I just want to upgrade my 9 year old pc. I’m not looking forward to spending $400 for what should cost $170
If the reward is being able to print money for yourself (that's what a double spend does), there will be very strong incentives to research a way to taper with a FIDO device and keep the results private.

This threat model would not survive the real world even at low adoption rates.
Yup - it's possible to build uncomplicated software in Java, especially in recent iterations of Java and more... restrained modern frameworks. However, there's no guarantee that you're actually going to either join a team or hire a Java expert with those tastes.
Seems like a pump and (soon to be) dump. Not sure why it's posted in HN.