skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe. But freight and unmanned flight will boom. And, this is not even considering military usage.

Let's take some examples, BAE Systems or Rolls Royce. They make engines, flight components and are OEMs in the commercial and military supply chain. Their stock prices are at historical lows, and I am bullish on them not in the near term, but say 3-5 years time, it will be interesting.

Short term things get interesting because of the low stock price. They can be acquisition targets, especially for countries that are seeking this tech.
I think what people sometimes fail to realize is that the software ecosystem has simply become more specialized. There is now a higher-bar due to the competition between entrenched technology companies with armies of engineers continuously optimizing everything. So, depending on the industry/domain - aside from a useful product you need to consider a lot more: apps that work across platforms, performance, security, compliance, SEO/marketing, analytics, speed of iteration/delivery, infrastructure reliability, etc. All these contribute requirements that add complication.

So if you want a company that can do all that you are going to need specialists which typically come wielding specialized technologies. You can probably get away with generalists wielding 'boring' technologies for some period of time combined with SaaS solutions but it's hard to avoid the fast-moving increasingly specialized ecosystem forever.
>>A day earlier, in yet another legal challenge, a Rohingya rights group launched a case calling on courts in Argentina to prosecute military and civilian officials – including Aung San Suu Kyi – under the concept of universal jurisdiction, which pushes for domestic courts to investigate international crimes.

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/anaylsis/2019/11/21/Myanm...

https://burmacampaign.org.uk/argentinean-courts-urged-to-pro...

>If AASK spoke against them they would have imprisoned her again

She could just stay at the Haag and tell the truth...how about that?
> And then the incentive will be to buy up all available capacity and create artifical scarcity

This makes no sense. Which market is it you think can be cornered here? Someone buying up all of the natural gas in the world? All of the generators? What?

The thing about market prices is any time someone tries to corner a market and drive up prices, it incentivizes more sellers to enter the market.

If you’re talking about small periods of time, like cornering it for a week, that’s not really easy considering futures traded against this market would smooth the price like they do for every other commodity.

Same thing applies to oil, oranges, natural gas itself, coal, refined copper, etc.

There is nothing special about electricity other than the fact that people feel entitled to have it at all times and cheaply despite the fact that generation costs vary widely.

> There are far better solutions to this problem and they all involve more and not less regulation.

The California power system is a bastion of regulated electricity and it’s an unmitigated disaster. The prices and reliability are worse than the one in Texas. You just don’t notice because the fallout (other than burning down half of the state) doesn’t freeze people to death.
Composting is only a pipe-dream for plastic because so few councils have a plastics composting process in place. No one was ever expected to compost PLA at home, and it's definitely just a feel-good exercise right now. Most PLA cups end up in landfill because they can't go to the normal recylcing plants.
This study starts with existing laissez-faire energy demand projections. Hopefully another large part of the emissions reduction will come from people adopting less wasteful living, transport, eating etc behaviours and preferences.
A question out of genuine curiosity: Doesn't the nonce puzzle difficulty adjust to the amount of compute the network has, making it a zero sum game? If every mining pool buys 20% extra GPUs, isn't everyone soon back where they started, wasting hundreds of millions in the process?
So Boeing and LM should be wise to maybe invest or partner up with BO in this scenario. Could be interesting. But ULA still got some good contracts from the military afaik. On the short term they aren’t going anywhere.
It's a bit of a strange comment. One could certainly argue that in a proof of stake system a dynamic naturally exists where those who stake more earn more, and can stake more to earn more to stake more...

The thing is though is you could say the same for traditional crypto mining. In either situation one person holding too many opportunities to author new blocks is a chance to double spend (though highly mitigated by simply waiting longer for newer blocks to come through before accepting trades).
This has nothing to do with the specific of the healthcare system, but about child protection measures.

The NHS had no power to stop them, and did not. The courts did because the parents were taking actions that were not supported by medical evidence.

As for the rest of what you're saying, it is also unsupported both by evidence, and by the fact that the UK does have a free market for medical treatment, one that is far cheaper than the US, and for health insurance, that is far cheaper than the US. One might argue it would be paying twice, but the NHS costs about the same per capita as Medicare and Medicaid combined, so Americans pay twice. But the NHS offers universal cover for that price.

UK health insurance is in general cheaper than in the US because there's no demand for comprehensive cover - almost all the cover is "top up" and "queue jumping" type cover that assumes people go to the NHS first and get referred private if they need something that can't be offered quickly enough by the NHS or that isn't covered.

Yet despite the low cost, only about 10% of people in the UK feel a need to obtain private health insurance.

The free market has spoken - for most it does not offer compelling alternatives to the NHS.
Back in those days, it was ordinary for application software to ship with cardboard over-the-keyboard templates showing the commands associated with key combinations. The user could swap them out between different applications.

Using key combinations for the operating system would have encroached on “application space.” Even today the standard keyboard has dedicated home, page down, delete, keys (etc.).

The cardboard overlay became less viable as bespoke keyboards were replaced by commodity designs with arbitrary key layouts and spacings.
>White people leave an area due to minorities coming. The new area property value increases... More tax money, resources for schools, better teachers get attracted to schools and districts with more resources.

This is a commonly held myth but it's not backed up by the data. Inner city districts are usually near the top of their state for per pupil spending. What they lack in residential tax base they usually make up for in commercial buildings. All of those high rise office buildings pay lots of property tax and don't send any kids to school.
I bow to you, you say it in the most simple of words.
There are 350 social media sites?
Higher temps are bad, but thermal cycles are equally bad or worse. Different things on the card have different thermal coefficients of expansion. Getting warm and cooling makes everything flex and stresses solder joints, wire bonds, and thermal interfaces.

Miner cards have longer, sustained high temps. This is bad for life.

Gamer cards have lots of thermal cycles. This is very bad for life.

Miner cards are more likely to be undervolted to improve power efficiency and thermals. This is good for life. (Lower peak temperature, less electromigration).

Gamer cards are more likely to be overvolted and overclocked to improve peak performance. This is very bad for life. (higher peak temperatures, more electromigration).

https://www.dfrsolutions.com/hubfs/Resources/services/Temper...
> According to the Department of Energy

Isn't that the department that corrupt US politicians staff with people who are partial to the interests of the industry they're supposed to regulate?

Anyway, the link seems rather propagandistic. Let the Secretary of Energy bury a football field's worth of nuclear waste next to his town.
I don't know if you were necessarily 'wrong' for having those perceptions. Homeschooling has become far more of a 'thing' in the past 20+ years, and I think it's been fueled by access to technology and growing concerns over school quality. Even info about 'school quality' is more accessible/shared/debated because of technology (forums/facebook/etc).

That said, the only handful of homeschooling families I knew 40 years ago were - to my recollection - exclusively religious in their motivations. Not everyone homeschooling family I know in the last few years is due to religious conviction, although that's still there in many cases.
Erm no it doesn't

You think I actually go and see the GP? No they call me instead and talk any problems through. I haven't been to a GP for about 10 years and have had a few appointments and referrals.

As for the transport costs, for referred appointments that's covered under HTCS if you can't afford to travel.
The threat model is heavily based on tamper-resistance of the devices. But I don't think it can't survive.

Also, tampering the device can ruin the network, but it can't print new money.
> I have a Romanian passport so it's easy to jump over the pond but I'd love my US residency and all the years I put in to be able to start switching jobs more easily. I don't want a ridiculous amount of wealth but I'd love to have a head start and secure financial freedom for my family.

That is 100% totally understandable, and is basically the American dream, as you know.

No matter what, as soon as you can: After you hold your green card long enough, make sure to naturalize as a United States citizen. A lot of green card holders never bother to become US citizens. I always encourage people I know to do so. But, generally speaking, once you are a citizen, you are a citizen: it can never be taken away from you. We need people like you and your family as US citizens.

I would get a lawyer, but many lawyers can be sketchy. My best advice would be to go to the Embassies of Switzerland/France/Germany/Canada/UK/etc. to the US websites' and go to their "legal advice" page. There usually is a PDF list of American lawyers. On there, it will specify their area of practice. Obviously, you want an immigration lawyer.

Lawyers can be sketchy, so you need to vet them out for any possible red flags, such as "positive counter-reviews", "any bad reviews", or "painting an overly perfect picture of oneself". If they are involved in commerce associations or any sort of business association (especially if it involves complicated laws or situations), this can be a good sign, as they have to get along with others and just get stuff done in general. From there you make a list of prospective lawyers, email them, and go from there. I would also ask for references, both on a professional level and from actual clients, too.
What you're saying is not incongruous with what I'm saying.

statement leads to contradiction -> "general-statement is actually false in at least one case", so if reductio ad absurdum is defined as achieving a contradiction, then the original statement is false in at least one case.
Miners will under volt, under clock, and boost memory speeds in order to keep temperatures and fan speeds at a lower level. Card failures affect profits.
Have you seen the state of SF public schools lately?

- https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/SF-Board-of-Ed... (which is clearly more important than https://www.sfusd.edu/services/health-wellness/covid-19-coro...)

- https://twitter.com/hknightsf/status/1359382113875755011

- https://www.sfgate.com/education/article/sf-school-lottery-L...

I think your idea of "rich parents funding SF public schools" would probably be rejected by the school board, so for most it's not even worth trying, given the proliferation of high quality private schools nearby. And even if the school accepts it, the community won't.

Say what you want about Zuck, but he donated $75M to the only public hospital in the city and they don't even want to keep the building named after him and his wife (who worked there no less!). Comically, they can't actually do anything about it, so they stick to meaningless non-binding resolutions.

Therefore, if given the choice, those who can are much more likely to spend 30-50k/year to send their kids to private HS than to try and go through the process of dealing with the city government. I assume that dealing with Cupertino/PA/etc. is frustrating, but not nearly as insane as SF.
Social darwinism is a culture, not a fact of nature.
it's an open question.

but obviously there's no such thing as perfect regulation. it's imperfect, just as with everything else. so you have to ask the question.

regulations are often good and necessary, but they also often outlive their purpose and we end up with stagnation and regulatory capture from large corporations, where startups can't compete. or in the case of nuclear, even a Bill Gates' backed company has a hard time being able to build.
The chromium bug ticketing system is all but unreadable to me. The OP ticket itself is closed and links to another instead, is there recent movement of note?

I know igalia[0] was working on this but I haven't been following the bug trackers directly. Their site and news section gives a better sense of the progress and includes small demonstrations with many of their updates.

0: https://mathml.igalia.com/
NIMBY on steroids: Not on my back-yard planet :-)

Luckily for you there aren't other sentients in the Sol system.
After the Nobel, what next for Crispr gene-editing therapies?
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
--Herbert Simon, economist
Brilliant! I'm gonna find me a girlfriend for sure now!
Capital gains are. Dividends ends up effectively taxed similarly to income when you factor in that dividends are taxed after corporation tax. This is very intentional in that it closed much of the loophole of paying yourself via a limited company paying dividends. Still a bit cheaper but not much.
Honestly that whole system is nice idea on the surface that rapidly becomes a nightmare - in my view doing little except encouraging health inequality.

One of the big problems is that "choice" is much more expensive for some people than others; this means that while I might be able to take a day off an visit a hospital a couple of hours away, it's much harder for someone who does't have access to transport, healthcare, funds or whatever else is required. So that system ends up offering choice only to people who can afford it, and you end up shuffling the poor people off to the less effective local healthcare facilities and your postcode lottery is back.
What you’re asking for is to get royally screwed by miners now - again - just so you might have the chance to get a cheap and very-used card later. And you’re blaming Nvidia for losing this imagined opportunity a year from now.

Right, like you point out, in 2018, Nvidia was making a lot of money on leftover 1080s. And they’re proposing to not do that this time. Are you suggesting that gamers are going to bypass a $330 card for a year in hopes that mining will crash and they can get a used one for $200 that’s been running hot for an entire year, and then after waiting, give up on that and buy a brand new GPU?

> The reality is that there is simply not enough silicon being produced.

You say potato, I say demand. You’re hand-wavily suggesting that mining is not affecting supply at all. That’s just not true. Mining demand is making an already bad problem (for gamers) much worse, just like it did last time.

What is the huge profit windfall you’re suggesting happens after this current mining bubble pops? Nvidia isn’t going to have an oversupply of cards to sell, and they aren’t hiking the price of the 3060.

This all seems completely speculative too. You’re complaining about a supposed future problem, and ignoring what this does for gamers today.

And it’s weird to frame this as gamers being screwed by Nvidia just because there could have been some awesome second hand market later. The fact is that gamers were totally screwed by miners in the first place when cards weren’t available for a year and the second hand prices were quadruple the list price. It’s not a huge gift to gamers that the market is flooded with cheap leftovers after they were hosed and frustrated and extorted by miners for a year or two.
> I'm not one to pick on someone who's doing their best to communicate in a second language or anything

In that case, please don't. It doesn't help to shame people.
Would you say that the existing PoS systems (like Ethereum 2) aren't as centralized as he mentions, then?
I never understood the big deal. The rental stores all had super fast rewinding machines, it couldn't have taken the teenager staff more than 30 seconds to do it themselves.
I think it’s important to note that the 3060 is not for sale yet. Nvidia is telling everyone up front that this is how it’s going to work.

The analogy is improved like this: Ford announces in advance that their upcoming truck requires a certain usage, and if you want whatever special commercial usage, you need to pay a premium. You might be grumpy about the upcharge, but this is a very different situation from them changing the terms of the deal after the sale.
Peer review is an ok idea.
Academia is the problem. I saw two wasps fighting on the carcass of a dead bird the other day, it was a very apt analogy.
It is projects like this makes people dont' want to be on any public social media. It is creepy.
Surely you don't expect ordinary people to "find holes in their [online] presence" using this tool...

This tool is recipe for stalking.
Let me get this straight. You think every time I mention solar, I mean solar without storage? Lol have fun arguing with yourself.
From what I understand of German law, all of you may have lost your German citizenship, depending on how you handled the Croatian and Swiss paperwork - Germany allows for dual citizenship at birth, however, obtaining any other citizenship means loss of German citizenship unless you have obtained a specific “Beibehaltungsgenehmigung” permit beforehand; so the German passports you have might be legally not valid if you haven't filed for and obtained this permit in both cases (which you hopefully have done).
I believe it is district funding that suffers for low grades and that it takes a few years of consistently low performance before the state applies any action. I should note that our schools are primarily funded from county taxes but state funding is enough to matter.

However, the testing dynamic tends to nurture a perverse incentive for counties to showcase their high performing schools and increase funding to them. Some school boards resist that temptation better than others.
Backyard composting piles aren't really the solution in my opinion (they're great if you can do them, but few people ever will). We need municipal compost pickup.

My city actually has this - we were all given bright green compost bins and instructions for composting. The amazing thing about municipal composting is that they can handle way more types of food scraps (e.g. bones and fruit pits) than backyard composting bins. They come pick it up every week just like the trash and recycling.

Unfortunately, it seems like I'm one of two or three people on my street who compost my food scraps every week. I think composting should really be easier for people to figure out than recycling - it's so simple to know what you should and should not compost (as it says on the front of every green bin, "If it grows, it goes").
I’m running at 50% gpu which lowers my tdp to 165 watts and gpu temp of 70C.
I've gotta say, this was the most irresponsible Kodi release yet.

It's never been fun to upgrade Kodi (something inevitably breaks), but this is by far the worst upgrade of all. And now to find out that the automatically updated version that showed up on my Android TV is unmaintained..?! That takes the cake.

Even though Python 2 was set to EOL with 6 years warning (12 if you count the original timeline), Kodi didn't announce a change until last summer, I believe. So of course the vast majority of completely useful, basic utility plugins weren't updated, there was no enforced transitional upgrade path, and now we're stuck with an unmaintained Android version that contains this massive codebase change and 80% broken plugins.

Don't get me wrong, I'm very grateful for all the work the Kodi devs do. It's an immensely helpful program and by far the most used in my house. But this whole thing reeks of bad decisions.

There are no doubt going to be a significant number of issues found once plugins are upgraded (how can you tell the new system is stable enough for release when there are so exceedingly few plugins that work anymore?), and Android users are indefinitely in the dark as issues arise.

This version didn't have to be pushed out to Google Play, and knowing there was no maintainer makes such a choice hugely irresponsible. "We had to upgrade from Python 2.6 in case there are CVEs in the now defunct version!" makes sense. But now we have an unmaintained version in Android that broke everything, so if there are CVEs... guess who's not getting them? (Granted, it's sandboxed, so I'm not sure the concern makes a lot of sense on Android, but still.)

The Python 2/3 netsplit has been such a thorn for so long, so I can't entirely blame the Kodi devs. And it's not like a Kodi 18/19 netsplit would be a "good" idea. But this automatic, breaking change with no warning and no maintainer is seriously bad form.

"We're lucky we got the final Android 19 Matrix build out at all," is definitely not how I see it. "Lucky" would be Android users missing this very broken upgrade until they got all their ducks in a row and maybe more plugins are updated.

(And the whole, "well fix it/maintain it yourself," is a pretty poor response to bad project management in a project of this size, in case anyone is so inclined to suggest that. I maintain enough other OSS right now, thank you.)

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> I haven't been to a GP for about 10 years and have had a few appointments and referrals.

Good for you? What about people who do need to regularly go and see their GP?

> As for the transport costs, for referred appointments that's covered under HTCS if you can't afford to travel.

What about those GP visits some people less fortunate than yourself need?

And HTCS is for extremely low-income people. It doesn't cover normal working class people's extra costs.

People less fortunate than yourself struggle to get equality in the NHS. Sometimes they don't even have the knowledge and confidence that you do to use the systems you're talking about.

Fundamentally they shouldn't be required, rather than fortunate people saying 'I'm alright Jack'.
The link in your article to the primary source of the Cambridge University survey is unfortunately dead. The alternative metric given (https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/) currency predicts 36.95 Million Tonnes of CO2.

That's 0.1% of total CO2 emissions per year (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...) and 0.074% of global CO2eq (https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector).

I'd probably agree that this is still pretty high for what amount to digital hording.

On the other hand the seccond most popular blockchain Ethereum is estimated at half the energy consumption (https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption), has a plan to move to proof of stake and has a lot more economic value.

The space is still new and bitcoin has first mover's advantage, name recognition and trust (most hashrate, most reviewed codebase, etc).