skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What matters is the % of miners who don’t collude.

Honesty isn’t the issue, collusion is. The entire concept of Bitcoin assumes dishonest players.

The only real attack is for miners to combine hash power to get over 50% of the network hash rate so they can execute double spends - and even that is self defeating as doing so degrades confidence and by extension price.
ICBMs are like nation-scale guns. Once you're at a certain level of technology, they don't need any more upgrades. They are proven technology and reliable. They can do a shitton of damage. They are best left unused. You can't reliably defend against them. And if you have them, even just one, others are reluctant to fuck with you.
> Sincere question: how does HATEOAS helps with this?

The whole point of HATEOAS is to address this. This is pretty much why it was developed and presented. Why on earth is anyone discussing REST not picking up on it's reason to exist?

> The only thing that HATEOAS helps with, is when the URL pointing to an entity changes, which is the most simplest change someone can make to its API.

It really isn't. At all. You're somehow missing the whole point of a resource-based architecture, let alone REST.

The whole point is that there are no fixed paths. At all. All there is is resources, whose representation might vary in shape and form, which are made to be discoverable by providing semantic descriptions of said resources. With REST you provide resources and metadata that points to representations of those resources. With REST your clients do not care about endpoints other than a root one, and resources. The resto of the process consists of tracking resource representations that you want, and you do not care where they are. At all.

This sort of profound misconception of what REST is supposed to be is the reason why somehow some people believe that it's reasonable to slap the REST label on APIs just because they churn out JSON. You can't. REST is based on design constraints that address a problem which these APIs fail to address at a fundamental level.
When public companies make offers to buy each other, they usually offer prices a few percent above the public market value, no?

Maybe Amazon is worth less without having a strong leadership. At least Apple gained a lot from the co-founder coming back. But in general, if he sells in small packages, he should be able to convert his stocks into cash if he wanted to.
Can someone explain to me why I uncritically need to accept the status quo of the 'open web', when it to me seems to be one of the primary reasons for shifting revenue from users and publishers to aggregators and platforms?

What exactly is wrong with the notion of having technology companies pay for links? The links and content are a form of intellectual property that is collectively produced by users and firms in a nation, and a law like the one passed in Australia effectively just functions as a form of collective bargaining over that information with Google or Facebook.

Why do we need to accept the logic that the most powerful and profitable technology companies in the world get to utilise our data for free?
Man, humans can rationalize just about anything.

Lucky for him he had thousands of dollars of computer equipment just lying around he could use to heat his home.

We’re not even close to peak Bitcoin I imagine.
The environmental cost for all the electricity used by mining is a major issue that fall under governmental responsibility.
> What if, per one of Plato’s suggestions, we essentially outlawed families and forced everyone to raise children communally?

This seems a swell thought experiment, but I contend that people do not scale, and the power of socialism tapers off along something like an inverse square of the population.

Dunbar's Number[1] and the Iron Law of Oligarchy[2] pack substantial truth.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy
It might matter to someone who wants their headline to still be true in two days, which this headline isn't at the moment, after Bitcoin's recent drop.

The value of any asset might change significantly in two days, but the odds of that are much, much higher with Bitcoin.
You have been here for a couple of years, surely you have noticed downvotes don't always make sense.
Why would you need liquid 185b? Why would you take 185b to the strip club? (I would even dispute your claim - I assume that strippers would absolutely not mind if you brought them 185b of paper assets).

Even if it takes a lifetime to see that value, you have a Richie Rich [edit: I mean, Brewster's Millions] problem of how to spend it.

Employing people's labour or buying capital is expected and won't tank the value - and what else would you want to do with it?
Thank you for telling me, I'm going to review my post and try to improve my communication in the future.

Yes, I am quite frustrated with frequently being told that I'm using the wrong browser or have it improperly configured.
> If you keep your coins longer than the one-year speculation period, it's tax free.

You still have to pay income taxes on the mining reward (same for staking rewards). The 1 year period is only for capital gains, so only for the benefits made when selling the asset.
https://archive.vn/FiJAP
> I think everybody who practices the field is unconsciously aware of it too which is why they lean on hand-waving charts and opaque math that anybody in a harder science would instinctively call bullshit on.

Hand-waving charts are how the subject is taught to indifferent undergraduates. And the charts aren’t hand waving, though they may seem like it when the undergraduates don’t understand. (Source: “hand-waving” chart using economics professor, though I do my best to help them understand.)

Research as practiced in university departments does not rely on “hand waving charts.” You’ve probably never been to a research seminar in economics. It is all about how parameters in a model are identified.

Whether “the math is opaque” I cannot say. Is it more opaque than computer science? Or math in math departments?

If you can find a simple, not opaque way to do the same, the world’s macroeconomists will beat a path to your door to learn from you. They’ll even nominate you for their fake Nobel. You can refuse it if your conscience (or the sprit of Alfred Nobel!) demands it, but like all Nobel prizes it comes with a cash reward.

Also... no one in the field cares that it’s the “bank of Sweden memorial prize in honor of Alfred Nobel”. Make it just the “bank of Sweden economics prize” and we’ll still be excited about it. We could care less that it has Nobel’s name on it.

The paper you cite is published in... an economics journal! And it is not the only one on the topic. We are aware that the standards for empirical work may need to be higher. Indeed, this is the second time in thirty years we have come to that conclusion. This problem is not unique to economics.
I don't know if it helps discover Pinterest, but certainly makes me avoid them
All, except those in the European Economic Area (which includes the European Union), I think.

Compare https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/updates/terms-of-service-eea/... with https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/updates/terms-of-service.

The non-EU one has

“Affiliated Companies.

We are part of the Facebook Companies. As part of the Facebook Companies, WhatsApp receives information from, and shares information with, the Facebook Companies as described in WhatsApp's Privacy Policy, including to provide integrations which enable you to connect your WhatsApp experience with other Facebook Company Products; to ensure security, safety, and integrity across the Facebook Company Products; and to improve your ads and products experience across the Facebook Company Products. Learn more about the Facebook Companies and their terms and policies here.”
There are no tax free capital gains?
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I didn't suggest otherwise.
The book says there were stations every few days all the way around.
Amazing. My view on this is that the combination of electrification and autonomous flight removes most of the cost advantage large airplanes have over small ones.

People seem to obsess over replacing large jets with large electrical planes but forget that the reason those exist at all is fuel economies that you simply don't have with electrical planes. A big jet has a better fuel economy than a small plane per kg of load. Bigger engines run more efficient. That's why private jets are so expensive to fly. A transatlantic flight burns quite a few tens of thousands of dollars worth of fuel. But it's not a problem because the plane is full of hundreds of people that each pay quite a bit of money for the privilege.

The same is not true for electric because the battery mass means large planes are pretty much impossible currently. Smaller planes on the other hand are feasible now and could get to interesting ranges pretty soon with even only modest improvements in technology. The low cost of electricity means that even if there was an advantage, it would matter a lot less. That makes the pilot the most important part of the cost of flying the plane from A to B (i.e. variable cost).

Many small electrical planes without a pilot would be able to transport people for vastly less than a single big jet (autonomous or not). Initially over small distances but with the help of better batteries or fuel cells, long haul flights should be doable as well eventually. The fuel/electricity cost for that would be a lot more modest than e.g. flying a 777 across the Atlantic. There is not much of a benefit over using a large airplane vs using many smaller ones. Even the cost of buying them could be better. E.g. the list price of the Eviation Alice would give you budget for about 30 of those for the price of a 777. That's an unreleased first generation electrical plane using pretty outdated tech (because certification takes that long).

So, I would say focus on small to medium sized planes and mass producing those because that is where the action is going to be short term. Think point to point connections of airports that you currently can't fly to because of noise restrictions. Anything under a 500 miles basically. That's a new market that is currently not economical with conventional planes because of noise and fuel cost.
Yeah, if you're into a life that doesn't move forward, I don't think you have a lot of options. Many of our headlines today are ephemeral and true for now, but historically becomes false after a while. Bitcoin is no exception.
In my experience, anything plant-based comes off readily with just a good soak, unless it's been burned on to blackness.
Also this is a management illusion. There is no evidence for this assumption. You don't even know the probability distribution. There is no reason to assume that the percentage is equally distributed across all firms or countries. And anyway, the article is about something else.
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Especially if he tells you what the problem is, and how to fix it. Though it seems unlikely you’d ever encounter it again.
Typically not until it is realised
Hmm, I haven't thought of this use-case. I think this could also work if you put the registry entries into HKEY_CURRENT_USER (as opposed to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE).

If you'd like to experiment, you can change the register script to put entries into HKCU instead of HKLM. It might just work!
Sorry, my 17 year old high school self seems to be alive and well, after all these years. (Insert jokes about my dotage.)
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FYI, Reddit doesn't care if you complain about the site, as long as you still use it.
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I don’t think this is an argument. IT seems more like a quiet listing of the circumstances and a clear position on how its for the benefit of Rupert Murdoch, in other words corruption dressed up nicely.
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Journalists were asking people from DeepMind why winning in Go is important. They said because it may lead to breakthrough in e.g. medicine. Well it didn't, at least not yet and not directly.

But we still got AlphaFold. And AlphaFold is the type of breakthroughs DeepMind is meant to make. Not playing games.
The efficiency calculation here measures only electrical power in vs heat energy out. Heat pumps are always listed with greater than 100% efficiency. There is no problem with the laws of thermodynamics of doing this and it’s even listed in text books with the explanation of how it is possible.

The work of the heat pump is to move heat from one location to another, it does so with the byproduct of producing more heat, therefore it produces more heat energy than the electrical energy put in.

You’re right that conservation of energy says that the heat in being moved did come from somewhere but that’s outside the system, and you will always find heat anywhere but absolute zero. Calculations for turbines or engines don’t make any efficiency allotments for heat already in the air, which is also necessary for them to run.
And yet software crashes all the time ...
comparing Gebru to Hinton, wow... the woke crowd totally out of touch with reality
> I really want to do this, but it seems impossibly hard. For example, almost all the food I buy is in plastic containers.

Hacker News: colonizing to Mars is straightforward and natural. Buying vegetables fresh or organizing a farmers market is impossibly hard and goes against human nature.
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The third great truth is the only reason the editor published the article. The theme of the past few weeks from conservative finance outlets has been that Biden's $1,400 payment and $15/hr federal minimum wage hike are going to destroy the economy through inflation.

The fourth great truth barely counts as a statement, really. You can't make the first great truth that demand drops cause economic shocks through layoffs, argue that's not obvious, then make the fourth great truth that things other than demand drops can cause economic shocks.
> No gas stations is a huge downside. If you run out of juice, you're waiting for a flatbed tow truck to take you to a charging station. With a hybrid you can call AAA or you can walk to a gas station and grab a gallon of dead dinosaurs.

Another possible solution is a mobile off-grid charging station. A van or truck or trailer full of batteries and charging equipment. If you run out of charge, it comes to you, you plug your EV into it, it charges your batteries enough to make it to the nearest on-grid charging station. Quite possibly a better option than a tow truck.

https://lightningemotors.com/lightning-mobile/

(You could even have a truck with a generator set and charger for mobile emergency charging. Not so environmentally friendly, but it would work.)
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Apart from what others mentioned, proper insulation is the best way to keep your house warm, it is missing from many houses.
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> What mainstream economics can't handle is financial saving. Quite literally it is abstracted away from their models, yet it exists in the real world.

An extremely bizarre claim. Literally the first macroeconomic models you learn in grad school have savings. This is always an option to consumers so it’s always going to be in the model.

Moreover, actual macro models (even extremely simple ones) will permit you to save in cash or in some financial instrument (eg bonds).

Your claim is not well informed.
People who train themselves to reliably induce lucid dreams call themselves oneironauts (Oneiros = Greek god of dreams).

I was actively interested in this topic when I was younger and had much time to sleep and practice, but after I got my job and life problems kicked in, suddenly I realized that the only thing I require from a dream is to get a good night sleep so I will have strength to face problems during the day. A little bit sad but true.

But, during my lucid dreaming endeavors I realized the technique itself is incredibly powerful. Especially for people who have tendencies for daydreaming. One easy technique used during learning is to create a habit of looking at the watch and asking oneself if this is a dream or not. Doing it for a few times during a day will eventually create a habit, and will eventually increase the chances of unintentionally doing it during the actual dream. Then, the question "is this a dream?" will have a chance of recalling that we have consciousness, while still being inside the dream. It will be a lucid dream.

Maintaining lucid state of a lucid dream is another topic. Sometimes a few seconds after starting to be in a lucid dream, we forget about the state and we go right back to a normal, non-lucid dream. There are techniques for prolonging the state, but require training (like everything I guess).
In older honor-based cultures, this type of accusation would lead to a duel. We need a modern equivalent.
I actually emailed someone at BOINC in July 2015 regarding exactly this, I see the paper came out in December 2015 with the idea. Glad to see it finally becoming a reality.
Montana used trains to power its grid several years ago when they were having power generation problems. The conversions and hookups are fairly easy and documented.
Nobody ever got fired for choosing Ubuntu.
Folding@Home has an unofficial guide for it too [0].

At the end of the day, Qarnot rents this infrastructure to other companies for computation and use the heat energy to heat stuff (air, water, warehouses, etc.). Not a bad idea.

[0]: https://greenfoldingathome.com/2020/05/25/how-to-make-a-fold...
do you believe every paper that comes across without critical review?

This 31 page paper most definitely has not been fully evaluated by anyone commenting on it in this thread.
I was so surprised and annoyed that they tried to ask for my ID almost everywhere in the US. I’m 33, I don’t look anywhere near a student any more.

At the time I was allowed to drink from 16 in my home country.
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> What I conclude is that EV revolution is going to be way more democratized than we realize.

That's what we all hope. What tends to happen instead, is that mass market stuff gets monopoliged/oligopolized quickly, because there's just too much money on the table.

It just looks "democratic" during the scramble, before the winners are decided.

If anything, since EVs are simple, we're going to see <<more>> centralization, not less. There will be a huge race for the cheapest/most efficient engine/battery and all these efficiencies will come from huge scale (in research, development, production techniques).

Look at what is happening with electronic circuits production. There are what, 4 state of the art producers? TSMC, Samsung, Intel, I'm probably forgetting someone.
I got really excited about the Linode/mediawiki solution. We're looking at Jira/Confluence right now, and it seems pretty heavyweight.

But then I remembered nothing takes 20 minutes. I'll bet it takes 20 minutes to set up the wikimedia server and then 4 days of Googling to get our single sign-on to work. We'll have to figure out what to do with backups. Plus we'll need to document the documentation process itself and do the painful change management with the organization. Finally, we don't use Linux, so it would probably take more than 20 minutes to figure this stuff out.

It's a great idea, but it's a non-trivial amount of work. Not that I disagree with your approach, but I'm saddened when I think about how to get there.
>50% bitcoin mining capacity is already in China since like 2014 (unless something drastically changed).

The beauty of the PoW blockchain is that if a nation attains this kind of power, then still, the most profitable thing to do would be to keep playing by the rules. This is why bitcoin works.
There isn't much support there. Telsa's bubble is over. It's extraordinarily unlikely it'll be worth more than $900 / share 10 or 20 years from now.

The treasury party that has begun is starting to rob the mania of its precious fuel and it doesn't take much to break a mania. The Fed is going to have to do a lot more if they want to stave off plunging asset prices, as rising mortgage rates will tank housing activity as well.
AlphaFold may bring millions if not billions to DeepMind, Google and Alphabet. Figuring out structure of a single protein may cost up to 100 000 dollars.

Bert as applied to search from late 2019: https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.google/products/search/sea...
Interesting note: Douglas Crockford's version of JSON's origin story is great. At Yahoo Crockford wanted to return data from an API as a Javascript object because it skipped a translation step and avoided messy XML. And his bosses originally objected because there was no JSON spec. So Crockford bought a website, quickly wrote up a JSON spec and published the spec to his new official looking JSON.org site. With an official spec in place and documented on the web, there was no longer cause for his bosses to object to APIs returning JSON :)
It is resolved.

Everyone except bitcoin bagholders can see that the BTC proof-of-work protocol is obscenely wasteful. There are already superior cryptocurrencies that use different consensus algorithms and have similar or better security/anonymity properties.
I think most people are into a life that doesn't move forward 15% one day then backward 15% the next, leading to ephemeral "profits" like these.

For those who would rather live in a world where headlines are true one day and false the next, and wealth is ephemeral, Bitcoin is a good place to find that thrill.

And prematurely reporting unrealized profits seems to fit the Bitcoin mindset nicely. Goes well with "money" not actually used for (legal) transactions and a "store of value" that regularly changes value more than 10% in a day. The hype train must keep on moving, lest the party end.
It's almost like there are different scales of waste and contributing to a system that burns about as much energy as Argentina to secure a paltry number of transactions is on the higher end of that.
I don’t think any rational person argues that Facebook isn’t doing anything useful at all, lots of people value the connectivity and ability to share photos during lockdown.

Facebook has a good and bad side just like humans do. For example, if Facebook got rid of the ability to post news, it would be a much better place.
Is this on a no-cure-no-pay basis?
Can't wait until we grasp that 'can'!='should' and figure out how to leave things up to nature.
> Hedonic adjustments is a trick to steal the benefits of progress from workers.

This claim is crazy. Sorry. No one in the BLS or BEA is trying to “steal benefits”. They are trying to understand the very hard problem of valuing consumer goods for which prices are generally falling and quality is generally increasing.
I think you are thinking of something very different than what "heat pumps" actually are? They don't involve storing heat, they're just an inverse fridge.
Apparently while lucid dreaming the brain doesn't renegerate the same like during normal sleep, so it's like less sleep / interrupted sleep.
You also don't risk falling off. If you get hit there is some protection between you and whatever hits you. There's frequently AC even in smaller vehicles, so you don't get super hot during summers or freeze during winters. They also have more cargo capacity. Etc, etc.
I enjoyed your photo despite this. ;-)
According to Alexa, Reddit gets more visitors than Wikipedia. I doubt they're going anywhere.
In Venezuela we've had a crippling gasoline shortage since last year (Don't vote for communist dictators). Within months we saw EVs appear everywhere. Tiny Fiat EVs imported for the rich who could buy a new car on a whim, sure, but also thousands of scooters and Ebikes popped up everywhere. Really small, 40km/h tops, cheap from china; exactly what you say happened in a few months.