skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, Bitcoin's Proof of Work is the biggest downside of that cryptocurrency (mostly due to extreme power consumption of the network). Moreover, the conservative approach of its developers to new concepts means that it's quite unlikely that the situation is going to change in coming months or years. Regardless, I wonder whether there are alternatives that could significantly reduce power usage of the whole network without making it more susceptible to various attacks. I've heard of Proof of Stake (Ethereum is planning to switch to it) or alternative PoW algorithms (such as Monero's RandomX), but I'm not experienced enough to tell how would these solutions scale for a cryptocurrency as big as Bitcoin today is.
Good reminder to talk about it (and other death-related things like funeral) with your family. They're more likely to respect your wish if you told them explicitely, than if a doctor they don't know tells them "they opted in, do you consent"
The Diplomacy set I bought used, in elementary school, had a set of back issues of Diplomacy World with it. This was before even Dungeons and Dragons existed. I think the way pre-Internet fan-presses had similar qualities to the Internet is a fascinating study.

And Diplomacy itself certainly was one precursor to the "addictive interface".
They won't be making "Star Wars" remixes due to copyright but they can blather on about it on YouTube. Internet mass media will dominate screen time and eventually dollars spent. Netflix's CEO bragged their greatest competition is Fortnite and sleep.

I agree that the explosion of mass media content means there's never been a better time to be a couch potato.
Humans can already create intelligence. Called human babies.

Human babies are already nurtured, educated and developed into intelligent beings.

AI is like alchemy, trying to create something of value from nothing. People pontificating about AI is like medieval monks pontificating about how many angels can fit on pin head.

What is AI? What are boundary conditions of AI? Calling faster computers AI doesn’t make it sound more interesting.
You mean cgroups, or zones don’t you? Docker (was, last time I heard) a security disaster, not generating robust layer hashes, lacking user isolation, and plenty just running as root...
Your argument is wrong in so many ways, but let me just show you one: A constructive proof guarantees that there is an algorithm, but it doesn't say anything about the runtime of that extracted algorithm. Now, what good is an algorithm that is much too slow to be practically useful?

In general, my hypothesis is that if you restrict yourself to constructive mathematics, you are limiting yourself. And that is true whether your chosen field is algorithms, or not.

Now, if you offer me for a given algorithm a constructive proof, that's great. But if you needed 10 years to give me that proof, and a non-constructive one can be had in 10 minutes, I might not be so enthusiastic if I had to pay your salary, or if I needed that result really urgently, or both. But on the other hand, IBM probably doesn't care.
I actually like the wood as material per se, but I still want to improve a bit on the processing.

I'd love to lower the price, too. I don't know yet if it's possible.
> Years ago, I managed a woman who was bright, talented, capable, and an all around pleasure. She was sort of new to the industry and could come across as timid, so I did my best to be a poop umbrella for her, fighting battles behind the scenes to set her up for success. She was on a steady track to land a senior role.

This is not the first time I have seen a woman doing favoritism for another woman. The sad thing is even men are expected to "help" and "protect" women. This reverse-sexism in tech industry is rarely talked about because men usually don't make as much noise as women when they feel discriminated against, because men are expected to "man up". And, even when men talk or try to complain the HR (usually filled with woman) rarely takes notice of any such complaints from men.
Would you please stop posting flamebait to HN? It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is why I think the snap store is going the right direction. My web browser and my kernel don't need the same level of attention.
> If it was possible to make fast money transfer system without hiring the army of lawyers in every country you want to operate then BTC would never gain any traction.

I don't know where you get the idea that BTC is being used primarily to transfer money fast between countries without lawyers being involved, because as far as I can tell that's mainly a hypothetical use case rather than one that happens often in reality.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Microsoft Edge here. No dog in the fight (I don't work for Microsoft), but I've found Edge uses significantly less RAM and CPU - my fan rarely goes on now except for Google Hangouts. There was a point after upgrading to Big Sur that the fan was spinning a lot with Edge (or for other reasons), but that seems to have been solved.

The other thing to mention is that the functionality provided by Flotato can be mostly duplicated in Edge by just creating Edge apps for common webpages. I've done this with GMail, Youtube TV, Youtube Music, etc. There are sometime limitations (you can't have Outlook as an app and Outlook Calendar as an app), but it's pretty solid. These apps seems to bring down RAM and CPU usage, but I haven't measured formally.

Bonus: I have setup two different profiles in Edge - one for work and one for personal. What's nice is that if you create an app like Gmail under your personal profile, links from that app will always open in the associated profile - in this case my personal profile. This is, for me, absolutely groundbreaking but that's for me. In the past I've tried to use standalone email programs and it would constantly drive me crazy when I had, say, a personal and work inboxes, and then I click on a link in my personal email and it opens in a work browser window because that was the last one I clicked.

I've been testing Flotato and it seems really buggy - couldn't get many apps to even run.
Is this guy saying you can't pay rent with internet points?

Huh...
> Is the person showing off their work or are they just commenting on the work of others?

You are being reductionist. Comments don’t have to be negative, they can be positive - I.e just pointing out “new good stuff” and this allows one to discover content faster. The content here is the speed of distribution of new “worthy”.

It’s what negative reinforcement vs positive reinforcement is.
> Those are voluntary though.

It should be made quite clear that "voluntary" regulation is no regulation at all, but mere suggestions and tips that anyone is free to follow or ignore.

Thus, citing ERCOT is pointless, and would make as much sense as citing regulations of Kazakhstan as they are enforced with the same rigour and result in the same penalties.
Go back to reddit. RFCs are standards but real life requires acceptance of divergence from the exact letter of the law.
This is a great question! Lots of great answers already. I don't submit comments maybe half the time. Just seeing what I thought is enough. But after reading here, I have decided to put much more effort into my unsent "OMG, YOU SUCK!" comments, and enjoy the full benefits of catharsis.

You don't mention 1. votes and 2. dang's reprimand.. Q. Would people submit 100% of comments if not for these motivating factors?
Ted Nelson, in his own words, in a video by Notion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN1IBkAcJ1E
I agree with Tafster. I've been a consultant for 6 years and so I've seen dozens of knowledge bases and wikis. Some companies even have great processes to fill them in.

I have never, ever seen a company where those wikis are actually read.

One company I worked with had a very detailed weekly logging of changes, important things etc. The goal was to keep other teams informed of what each team was doing. It took many times many hours a week to keep it up to date. When they looked at the usage log, literally no one logged into to read the stuff except when going into to upload their part.
It is my understanding that FRC fusion could make good use of HTS tape.

We can still say that no amount of HTS tape, or of anything else, will ever make Tokamak hot-neutron fusion competitive. But that is not a reason to abandon HTS tape development.
And that causes problems too right?
It’s crazy that some people seriously think Bitcoin is anything like these stores of value.

All these are ties to some fundamental value to society. If gold goes down, manufacturing will buy more of it because they use them for ICs and lots of other things. Most companies have some tangible assets behind them. If a stocks price goes far enough down someone might buy up a controlling stake and liquidate all the assets. A fiat currency in a functional state is generally strongly tied to borrowing for real physical assets. It’s deeply entangled with the economy.

There is no bottom for Bitcoin. Especially now that it’s not a very viable currency for most purchases or for lending.

What’s more, value is continually being extracted from the currency. People cashing out and payments to miners (who are basically just burning a lot of the money they make by converting electricity to heat without doing much useful work).

In gold or stocks the money put in actually exists in something valuable to society, and you own a piece of that. The the value might be boosted up 2-10x its real value today, perhaps due to its perceived future value. But you do own a piece of something tangible.

With Bitcoin, the money you put in is already gone. Used by a miner to pay for electricity or an early miner/purchaser who is now cashing out to buy an apartment. You just gotta pray that a few years down someone is willing to buy bitcoins from you for its perceived value alone. Because nobody is going to buy it for any other reason. Not to make something out of it (gold), not to liquidate the assets behind it (stocks), and not to pay taxes or pay back their mortgage (fiat currencies)

There’s so much utter insane and thinking around cryptocurrency these days. Especially Bitcoin. It’s madness.

I mean, it’s a super cool tech. But I think that blinds a lot of people to the facts around it.
In the event you haven't already seen it, you may find this skit amusing and/or sob-inducing. https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ

Ed: I'm an idiot.
That you've got to pay for a copy of many (but not all [1]) ISO standards doesn't make them closed. Lack of funding for standardization work and the expectation that everything must be had at no cost is what gets you monopolies and dominating players, such as with so-called web standards. Nothing new really; citing from a post by Paul Prescod from 1997 in the context of subsetting XML from SGML [2]:

> Are you happy with the process for developing and improving HTML? Do you
feel that the results are of high quality? Do you think that you've had sufficient input? [...]

> In order to influence ISO standards you need only be recognized as an expert in your country. Unless your country is an oligarchy or dictatorship, this will cost you very little or nothing at all [...]

[1]: https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/in... (beware comically broken page on mobile)

[2]: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/199710/msg00189.html
They have usually gotten woke after becoming multi-billion-dollar companies. Being woke seems to be a luxury available when you have the money to spend on it.
From your link: "The most promising concept is a High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactor heating helium to a temperature sufficient to steam reform hydrocarbons into reducing gases for the direct reduction of iron ores."

That still consumes fossil hydrocarbons.

Hydrogen can substitute for hydrocarbons in the production of direct reduced iron from iron ore.

"Assessment of hydrogen direct reduction for fossil-free steelmaking"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965261...

Hydrogen can of course be produced cleanly from nuclear power. But it's questionable if nuclear-derived hydrogen will be cheaper than other clean hydrogen sources.
> 'It just blew fire': A passenger watched as an engine fell apart on flight 328
And radiations in Fukushima
will last for the next 1000 years. Do we have the same understanding of "zero error tolerance" ?
And here we see someone exemplifying why Gresham's Law trumps Postel's Principle. Bad protocol implementation drives out the good because of exactly this sentiment.
> There is nothing wrong with the web page. The Guardian, one of my favorite sources of news (NPR being another) has a solid web site, please try again.

It repeatedly crashed on my ipad, I’m a web consumer, if I can’t access content on a modern device, the webpage is in fact broken.

> If it is true what the article says, I think that it is healthy for our country to get it out, clean the air, and try to learn to have more over site in the future.

This is absolutely true, and indicates that journalists like the grauniad are negligent in putting important information on webshites.

> One of the shining moments for democracy in the USA was when McNamara admitted that he and President Johnson lied repeatedly to the US public about the Gulf of Tonkin episode to get us into the Vietnamese war. I hope that that was a learning experience for everyone to trust but verify what the government says.

“Trust but verify” certainly, I’ll verify that TS SAP’s are being executed according to the will of the people, just as soon as they give me access.
Trussed – a new Rust framework for security chips that could replace JavaCard
Journalists largely post to whatever website will pay them, and whoever pays them is more and more often a newspaper or org owned by private equity. Lots of people in between those doing the journalism and those deciding on dark patterns.
Yes, you are quite right, but the community around Lean's standard library heavily focuses on classical mathematics.
How about "a passenger"?
It doesn't matter to the content, but generally speaking, adding specificity to a story makes it sound more real and immediate to a general audience.
That's super interesting. I was thinking about consumer laptops, where in this analogy your thing would be more like car company fleet sales. I'm fascinated this business model is alive and well well into the cloud era!
Yes, the ad endpoints are locked right now.
Doors are opening on March 15th. I wanted to give this a slow start to have a credible amount of projects to show.

Only ads with the script tag will be included to the ad network.
Libraries pinning dependencies only fixes a narrow portion of the problem and introduces a bunch of others (particularly in ecosystems where only a single version of a package can exist in a dependency tree). In particular, it is great because it makes life slightly easier for the library developers. However, if every library pinned deps, it becomes much harder to use multiple libraries together: suppose an app used libraries A and B, and A depends on X==1.2.3, while B depends on X==1.2.4. It’s then pushed on to every downstream developer to work out the right resolution of each conflict, rather than upstream libraries having accurate constraints.

Pinning dependencies in applications/binaries/end-products is clearly the right choice, but it’s much fuzzier for libraries.
Is it just me that feels stuck in annual SaaS Contracts?
SaaS contracts have all been quite the same for far too long, specifically, always requiring 12 month minimum commitments.

Having worked at companies big and small, I've experienced a range of issues with this lack of flexibility. Would love to hear if the community has as well, and if so, any ways around feeling "stuck" in a contract?

To start the discussion, here are some issues I've had:

1. The software doesn't meet expectations, or a feature is missing. Forced to twist things around and spend my eng. time fixing gaps

2. Roadmaps change. 6 months after buying a tool, we realize it's not solving for a high priority project / challenge

3. A competitor emerges that seems far better suited to my needs better than the current vendor. We all know how quickly solutions pop up, especially in the martech space

4. Implementation is a mess, and an inflection point is reached where the cost of continuing to implement will lead to negative ROI. This has been a super tricky spot for my teams!

5. At scrappy companies, 12 month commitments are a big challenge from cash flow and risk factor perspective

What experiences have you all had?
Apologies.

I came across this found it interesting and decided to share. If I post something but later find a more appropriate place to make that comment would it be better to delete the old comment?
You really only need 5 people. I haven't played with seven very often and I didn't find it improved the play much, if at all.

Just as much, if you set a hard 15 minute time limit, you get the play down to 4-5 hours (especially if you also say victory is preponderance on the board, not total elimination of all other players).
Besides the bezel being wide compared to the actual screen, there is nothing else wrong with it, in my opinion.
Titles are kind of about enticing readers while explicitly not giving away information that matters a lot.

So in this case the island name, gender, and flight number are all just part of the tease.
>in a time when institutions and experts are failing all around us

I'm sorry but that is not happening IMO. What is happening is non-experts decide what to do without listening to institutions and experts. We are seeing the result of what you seem to be advocating. We should listen more to the experts and institutions and look at other places that have less of these kinds of problems, like Scandinavia.
Not really a general counterpoint, but I do think that if documentation is concise and useful enough so that stakeholders keep it up to date, it can work.

For example, I maintain a document that helps me keep track of bioinformatics files and some of their quirks (which files have two-line headers, etc). I do it for myself, but this information is also referred to by dozens of people in our group.
Precisely the opposite, Sir.

Employing PoW to protect against Sybil attack in anonymous network is the very invention that made Bitcoin possible.

Without PoW you must ID participants, which makes system trivial to regulate or shutdown (see Facebook Libra, or security fraud case against Ripple). And no, PoS isn't the answer, because PoS implies a handful of biggest exchanges control the coin, because they genuinly stake the most.

If Bitcoin was PoS, Mt Gox would run Bitcoin to this day!
Personally, I'm not invested in Bitcoin or any other altcoin so please don't assume I'm biased, but theoretically Bitcoin could increase in value indefinitely.

There will always be people that lose their private keys and the population of earth/universe will (probably) also increase over time.

Therefore, even when all the hype dies down, it is still designed to get scarcer and scarcer over time, regardless of the demand.
Is anyone here running a view/click farm?
Hi all!

I wonder if someone here got any inside experience running views/click bot farm. I have heard that nowadays people runs farm to grow and again money from views/plays on Spotify/YouTube etc.

I wonder if that really works, and how come these platforms do not protect themselves from this kind of practices.
This might be fine at a smaller company, but as you grow, having people verbalize these things results in slight variations that over time grow into very big inconsistencies.

Setting up MediaWiki and throwing it up on a Linode server costs 20 bucks a month and can be deployed from a Docker image in roughly 15-20 minutes. It can referenced by everyone, anyone can contribute to it with a full audit of changes, and it's easily searchable.

I use it to document technical and non-technical things like company policies, work flow processes, security practices, coding style, pretty much anything. New employees have a standardized on-boarding process that is clearly documented step by step for them to get setup with everything they need to start being productive by their second day of working here.

It's actually fairly low effort to do this and is a lot easier than having a bunch of people have to remember God knows what and when, or forgetting and then having to ask someone else who may have a vague recollection of it.

An authoritative source of knowledge that everyone has access to and anyone can contribute to is worth setting up.
Oof! Thank you for pointing that out. I'll check into why this file isn't on our public CDN and why a spam site has our document. Meanwhile, a few safer links:

* https://caraham.org/resources/Documents/Learning%20Conferenc... - page 37 in the PDF (29 in the document) shows various radio towers atop of mountains

* https://cdn.codancomms.com/general-downloads/Products/User-G... - overview of radio communications fundamentals
That is roughly what transaction costs are. In some camps this prohibits the technology ever becoming a widespread method of payment. If we’re going for decentralised currency and 10 exchanges control all the low fee movement stuff...
No wobble, juggle, jumping in the live version. I'll remove the animation now. haha
GP meant Go run-time speed, not its compiler’s.
It's funny, because the Manifesto is usually weaponized the other way: people appeal to pre-industrial (and often reactionary) ways of life, to conservatism, against political correctness, against policing, or statism, or capital, or popular culture, or indoor plumbing, or whatever, and the dunk on them is that they're supposedly espousing Kaczynskism; it's ordinarily a way of discrediting an argument.

(It's a bad way of discrediting an argument; there's little in the Manifesto that isn't a regurgitation of some other previous thinker, and unless you're in the cabin pooping in the hole with him, there's really no such thing as Kaczynskism).
The main problem with nuclear is that when something goes wrong, it last for way longuer than any other form of catastrof.
>> No. It's time to push back on Bitcoin.

>> It is disgraceful to watch people such as Elon Musk and most of the VCs put money ahead of the environment.

> I am sorry you did not buy it when it was cheaper. No need to hate it now because you were stupid back then.

You're obviously defensively making some false assumptions. The big one is probably assuming that people are primarily motivated by greed and jealousy, and that other motivations are fake and meant to disguise that.

And for the record, I agree with the GP, and I've made quite a bit of money off of this bubble by selling some bitcoins I mined a decade ago.