skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The amazing thing is, that utopia still would not work!

Imagine you did that, everybody has 1 UniversalToken every newborn gets one (and people are absolutely not killing they own children for personal gain as it was done throughout the human history, I diverge). And by yet another miracle this token has some value.

You know exactly what those struggling financially do with that token right away. Food is better than tokens.

You also know who will buy it.

Thy system self-"corrects" itself right away.

I've been thinking about it for some time. Fiat system is flawed, it literally takes money away from the bottom and puts it at the top (inflations + being able to diversify outside cash + loans + bailouts). But even the most perfect forms of money seem to have inherent unfairness in them. Money makes money. Having time to research possible investments, having money to do them, being able to afford risk, liquidity that allow you to avoid loans (unless you want to use them for leverage) etc. At least as long as people sell their time which seems like the foreseeable future.

If you were hoping for me to offer some solution I have none.

<daydreaming> But on the long enough run (if we have one) I think money will become irrelevant and our society will be more like a single organism. A shift in entity and entities mindset to be more oriented towards information processing and achieving specific goals / playing specific role and less driven by the limbic system which now can be satisfied at will if still present. I mean, it sounds mooshy wooshy, but look around your lucky good coders bubble. I think money is already losing value for those who don't worry about basic needs (while of course still being solution to 95% of problems for those less lucky, which seems great to remember).

In more strict terms, the only valuable thing on the long run is information. I hope for some well-grounded disagreement on that.
Crushed :(
Pros and cons. It's also a new form of exclusion, haves vs have-nots.

Try being an international. https://www.thelocal.se/20190624/the-locals-readers-how-swed...

> Bob, a United Kingdom resident but frequent visitor to Sweden, said this system is difficult for non-residents.

> “As a visitor I can't pay at places that only accept Swish because I don't have Swish. And without a Swedish bank account I can't get Swish. And without a Swedish residence, I can't get a bank account,” he explained.

> Howard Drobner, who is a frequent business traveller to Sweden, also proposed a tweak.

> “Some small vendors, like at flea markets and craft shows, only take Swish which I do not have and can not get due to the fact that I do not have a Swedish bank account or national number. I would therefore really like to have a Swish setup for frequent travellers to Sweden,” he said.

Those are people with money, doing ok but inconvenienced. There are things they can't buy.

Now imagine being homeless, or an "illegal" resident. People can't even help by giving you money any more. Friends have to buy food for you themselves instead of supporting you with cash. It gets harder and harder to obtain essentials. Human rights should transcend that, and the cashless systems falling into place in Sweden do not even attempt to be available for all persons.
Overcoming censorship is not possible in a PoS system, as the censor has acquired majority stake and cannot be unseated.
https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Proof-o...
TFA says fuel is delivered to the nearest port and brought in with tracked vehicles pulling it in 200l drums on sledges. The cost is commensurate with the length of the supply chain. They prefer it if planes can fly in with enough fuel to fly back home unrefueled for that reason among others.
> So the Starship program is clearly making progress. But is it getting to where it needs to be? Three explosions in three flights are hard to ignore.

This is the dumbest statement I've read so far about Starship.
You're being overly pedantic over the exact difference between "scientific discovery" and "technical invention", a discussion which is completely irrelevant to the article.

That line isn't even important to the article, it's just a bit of flowery language intended to frame the subject of myth vs. fact.
Cryptocurrencies and their markets are anarcho-capitalist by design and intent. The entire premise of crypto is that only the free market determines legitimacy through profit and market share.

If gamblers and thieves dominate the crypto market and cannot be outcompeted by honest actors then by definition the market has decided it prefers gamblers and thieves to honest actors. If someone wants an economy with rules other than "lol Caveat Emptor" they shouldn't get into crypto.
I checked many of the files. The change took for everything I could see, but the billing was still affected.
Nicely demonstrated by Tesla which might be a good car but you see people showing off their (distracting) big screen, (immature) self driving or (insecure) phone app
It's hard to digest a title. It gives the impression of talking in percentages, where $1 == 100%, and of those, 49% are environmental damages which cause health problems.

What do the remaining 51% consist of? Benefits to human health?
> but there's nothing in the history of aerospace travel even remotely comparable to the level of risk this would be taking on

The space shuttle?
At some point we will have to confront the fact that younger generations supporting older ones is the ultimate ponzi scheme.
I love how most of the criticisms of this study amount to saying putting the word scientific in quotes and calling it a day.
Formal verification catches a lot of bugs, some of which won't be caught by usual testing. It's still valuable even if it doesn't catch all bugs. I just think it as a more efficient way to run exhaustive testing.
It's no different than any other "build vs buy" decision. If you think you can provide your core offering AND implement complex authentication requirements half as well as a dedicated authentication-SaaS company, good luck. Businesses "buy" because it's the low-risk path.
Well I'm willing to trade compile-time performance for run-time performance on parts where it does matter. But these parts are quite rare, most of the code of an application is not a performance hot spot where using emplace_back instead of push_back will make a measurable performance difference. So I think the author about compile time is interesting.
The X-Client-Data header is for evaluating the effect of Chrome changes, not ad targeting:

"Additionally, a subset of low entropy variations are included in network requests sent to Google. The combined state of these variations is non-identifying, since it is based on a 13-bit low entropy value (see above). These are transmitted using the "X-Client-Data" HTTP header, which contains a list of active variations. On Android, this header may include a limited set of external server-side experiments, which may affect the Chrome installation. This header is used to evaluate the effect on Google servers - for example, a networking change may affect YouTube video load speed or an Omnibox ranking update may result in more helpful Google Search results." -- https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html
Predictions of mass-migration due to climate change
Good point, thanks - I'm using CCAF's 3rd Global Cryptoasset Benchmarking Study as the source for my assertion: https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/alternati...

Their research indicates that a minority of mining is done using renewable resources:

> The survey findings estimate that on average 39% of proof-of-work mining is powered by renewable
energy, primarily hydroelectric energy.

It also specifically addresses this popular claim of mining being powered mostly by renewables:

> China’s oversupply of hydroelectric
energy during the rainy season has often been used as evidence in claims that a vast majority of mining
is powered by environment-friendly power sources. While it is true that the Chinese government’s strategy to ensure energy self-sufficiency has led to the development of massive hydropower capacity, the same strategy has driven public investments in the construction of large-scale coal mines. Like hydroelectric power plants, these coal power plants often generate surpluses. It should not come as a surprise then
that a significant share of hashers in the region equally report using both hydropower and coal energy to power their operations.
Thanks, and I received your email! I'll definitely consider switching and getting other filmmakers on the platform.
Has the author compared how much USD and CNY monetary systems are responsible for as a point of comparison?
Your $100 today will still be usable in 20 years. Sure, it'll have lost you a bit of purchasing power, but it'll still be backed by an actual nation, have its value recognized everywhere in the world.

Your bitcoin will have gone sideways three times, jumped up and down. Could be tripled. Could be halved. Still controlled by three chinese farms who could double spend at any point should it become less valuable.
That is definitely not what "Socialists" want. I apologise on behalf of any Socialist that gave you that impression.
XCode works amazingly well - compiling a small project, live preview and running the simulator just feels fast, not like waiting for a machine with too few resources to do something. The Air lasts roughly 10-12 hours on one charge.

Docker and PyCharm are also working well, but the Air only lasts like 7ish hours before it needs to be plugged in again.

Parallels VMs (Debian) work, but drain the battery and feel a bit more sluggish than I am used to. Something I hope will improve once Parallels officially supports the M1, not just in a tech preview.

I did not encounter any problems with any of the tools I use (Fork, Paw, iTerm) and last I checked most have support for the M1 (I try to use as many native apps as possible).
Staying off of Twitter and leaving the Bay are my two countermoves against it. Principled discussion only please.
In some places, you need to pay rights to play music in your store. As Square has a great number of business customers, it might be an easy upsell. Like get paid and provide a great ambiance?

Could also be a play to help reframe how people think of Square and be able to expand in other categories SMBs might need.
I hear what you're saying, but it's not nearly as "narrow" as you suggest. Remittances from the United States total hundreds of billions of US dollars each year [1]. Even with what I feel are bloated fees associated with Bitcoin, it is vastly cheaper than other services like Western Union.

1. https://www.pewresearch.org/global/interactives/remittance-f...
Original tires? How? Tires don't last that amount of miles.
Spotify have announced a 'HiFi' service coming later this year.

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2021-02-22/five-things-to-know-...
So, they just removed the entire article. Do they think, that they have too much documentation? Those methods are still there in the code.[1] Don't like it - update it. Why remove the entire thing?

That's just a griefing of the documentation.

1: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/blob/6ef0538f182c13e169...
why tidal is particular? as far as I can tell, amazon music HD is the same thing for substantially less money.
> Everything is O(1) if N is constant, including log(N), N^2, 2^N, N!, etc.

Not even close. 2^k is not O(1) by virtue of N being constant. Only 2^N.

This has been covered above. It is more common to consider the complexity of hash table operations in terms of the number of operations, or the size of the table; the size of the key is very often constant. These are different variables; the constant size of the key does not trivialize the complexity of inserting N items each with a constant key size.
How does that differ from mermaid, plantuml and the myriad of others?

Do you protect your clients in any way for the risk of loosing diagrams if your company goes down the drain?
It's self-reported by the logging system after glfwShowWindow() returns for the first time, so probably not 100% accurate, but reasonably close.

A truly fancy system would be something like Tristan Hume's keyboard-to-photon latency system:
https://thume.ca/2020/05/20/making-a-latency-tester/
Honest question, how is Jack Dorsey (and Elon Musk) able to be a CEO of two different companies? His time and capabilities are halved, while the stress and responsibilities are doubled.

How does the board approve of something like that even?
Amusing. Any time someone says some cool thing from a big company is "limiting for the experienced" I know it's probably a great product for me, the amateur.
Bitcoin is not sustainable even for providing for it's own security let alone from an environmental perspective. Bitcoin also gives the world very little in exchange for these massive externalized costs. It will eventually fail and the ethical loop-jumping that proponents espouse will become clear.

But other blockchain platforms are the mirror opposite. They can provide sustainable security, provided without environmental degradation, along with utility that will radically change most sectors of the economy in a similar if not even a greater degree than the internet did.
I did the math.

Based on US Gov't estimate the average single family home uses 11 MWh per year. [1]

And a 2018 snapshot of BTC according to the paper:
price per coin: $8000
MWh per coin: 80
Damages per coin: $3,170
Damagers per MWh: $39.62

Therefore, the typical single family home produces $435 in health and environmental damage each year.... not outside the realm of possibility.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/electricit...
The space shuttle had no escape mechanism, and they also did no substantial unmanned testing.
The way I understood GP they were explicitly insinuating he was a supervillain, so I don't think it's hairsplitting.
If you have an army you don't need bitcoin. You just need to know where the guy with bitcoins live
A long-term impact caused by money laundering may be more significant.
Hyper competitive market forces in the west have created the wrong incentives for everyone, especially institutions. When there is a demand to weaponize or politicize science then we naturally get stuff like this.
This is such a meme'y reply that boils down to pure whatabouism.
That's a valid point, but that's an argument for "crypto is an expensive distraction from more worthy goals" rather than the original "computers used for a certain purpose are dangerous to the environment"
Out of curiosity, what would market rate for a sysadmin run to order a snowball and sync 24TB of data to it, ensuring that it ends up properly in Deep Glacier?
Who is the opposition?
Exactly. Bitcoin advocates like to point at the fiat economy and ask, "but what about the banks and the offices and the ATMs and the security vans, ...?". Yes, added up, they use more energy than Bitcoin (looking at the trends, probably not for long). But the core difference is that for fiat economy, energy use is upkeep. It's the cost they want to minimize, because it eats into margins. They have every incentive to make all operations as energy efficient as possible. Bitcoin, on the other hand, structurally relies on ever growing energy waste.
>> most social status systems developed organically from networks of trust, common experiences and mutually held values at a micro level like within a family, town, school, religious group

I don't see how size or organicity are useful factors to appraise actions by certain institutions as "unreasonable". If you have ever read the Scarlet Letter or the Crucible, those "smaller" centralized institutions (i.e. families, towns, schools, etc.) have played the part of censorious zealot just as much as the bigger ones.
Free software was a movement.

The FSF was an echo chamber of RMS, and I was comfortable with that. I don't agree with RMS on everything, but it's a vice which needs to be heard. I don't mind having an organization with someone at the helm who has a firm moral compass, and always follows that compass, even if it's not my own moral compass. I supported the FSF largely to make sure that voice was part of the dialogue.

I do likewise for many voices I disagree with less or not-at-all, so...
Human life in general is harmful to the planet.

So what are you saying?
So in that sense, Bitcoin generated a net gain of $0.40 of planetary wealth for every dollar mined. Obviously, we should put as many resources into cryptocurrency as possible - we'll finally raise the money to eliminate climate change!
When adding items to maps it becomes less obvious (when learning from examples at least) whether map.emplace({Key(args), Value(args)}) avoids copies for Key, Value, pair<Key, Value>, or all of them.
The equivalent of bitcoin happens on small servers all over the place. Bitcoin doesn't replace the need for civil defense, it doesn't replace the need for contracts (if anything it makes them more important), it doesn't replace the need for a legal system, etc., etc., etc.
Does it seem like a game that's consistently getting millions of views on videos about each update is experiencing some kind of serious decline in popularity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrH9vMZBwAk
The US military certainly consumes more energy than Ireland.
You clearly haven't actually looked at how the damages are modelled have you? You just in your head inveneted a naive way in which to estimate damages and then argued that that doesn't work.

There is a large and robust literature to assess these type of damages (search for Social Cost of Carbon). The methodological challenges are discussed really well in the paper actually. Much of the damages calculated here aren't even climate but direct air pollution, for which we have robust data and damage models. Insurance companies use these type of damage models at large scale for risk assessment all the time.

The article looks fairly solid to me.
> [..] Like, in the sense that you can transpile any bit of Python or Lisp or Haskell or Rust or JS into C but the opposite isn’t necessarily true because not all those language support all the features exposed in C [..]

How would you write this (admittedly contrived) Rust function in C without invoking UB:

pub fn foo(a: &mut i32, b: &mut i32) {
let (new_a, new_b) = a.checked_mul(*b)
.map(|new_a| (new_a, b.saturating_sub(*a)))
.unwrap_or((10, 20));

*a = new_a;
*b = new_b;
}

For those unfamiliar with Rust, it multiplies a by b, and if it didn't overflow:

* a = a * b

* b = b - a, saturating at the minimum value (as in, it won't wrap it just stops there)

If it did overflow:

* a = 10

* b = 20

And finally, does it compiler better: https://godbolt.org/z/66n8W9
No, without those miners, the energy supply wouldn't have increased in the first place. In the energy market, demand drives supply, not the other way around. It's very uncommon to spend money on converting energy supply from coal/gas to other sources, as it doesn't make sense in terms of money for the companies. Instead they focus on creating new supply with renewables.
Every day we see a renewed attack on Bitcoin from the establishment media. Almost every day it is couched in the SV-friendly terms[1], even if - as pointed out by others here - the merit of the attack is thin.

By now I ascribe ulterior motive to those attacks, and I encourage you to also take them with a large grain of salt at the least. The establishment media seems to treat any emerging[2] technology as its opponent, and feels morally excused in posting continuous attacks.

--

[1] I half-jokingly expect a "Bitcoin deepens gender inequality" headline tomorrow

[2] or perhaps any "unregulated" technology
So, what are your experiences?
System engineer here: An Issue I have with the whole economic system is that external cost to the environment is not priced correctly.

I think that crypto currencies is a good thing but must move from proof of work so something which consumes less energy,

I think the fix is that you price negative carbon in the atmosphere, carbon capacity and you pay for all carbon you emit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax

Its currently quite insane that cryptocurrency is using energy on the equivalent of the country Argentina and that as a gamer cannot get hold of a Geforce 30x0 series graphics card to use for playing games.
source: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56012952

I think the current capitalistic economic system is modeled on infinite environmental resources / capacity and exponential debt growth which is simply not true. That system held up in the early 1800/1900s but the flaws I think are emerging in the 2000s. Ie you do not pay for external cost of polluting, but you as an individual or company may benefit short term but the rest others pay an external cost long term which is not priced.
And this does not even include the horror future scenario in which rogue states burn their oil (which they cannot sell on the global market due to CO2 taxes and other regulations) to directly power miners...
In case you missed it, there is an audio quality section in Spotify's Settings menu, and the default is "automatic", which might not be the highest. I'm not sure but I think the "very high" setting is 320kbps ogg, which I've never heard of anyone being able to discriminate from lossless in a blind test. Also, Spotify is coming out with lossless later this year.

(not affiliated with spotify and not very pleased with the service in general myself, just saying.)
These employees are not all software engineers getting paid out the yinyang with RSUs...
The marketing for this one hasn't reached me yet. Thanks for the recommendation.

EDIT: looks like Amazon HD might force re-sampling of 44.1KHz to 48KHz on Android, which is a shame if true.
Wouldn't many bugs only surface in multi-instruction and status register interactions?

But those are also probably way harder to verify.
It's not technically. Worst-case guarantee is required for some applications. Hash Maps have better amortized complexity but some implementations have bad worst case time.

Java uses balanced trees instead of linked list in their chained-hashtable implementation, if I recall correctly.
Auth0's GitHub account and documentation basically sold me when I was comparing auth services.
Categorizing OpenGameArt using Grid t-SNE
Yes, Ethernet frames are CRC'd but some (most?) memory isn't. The web address is bit-flipped in memory, and then the network stack generates a valid Ethernet frame using the already corrupted address.