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"Mining wastes electricity" is a trite talking point we will see in every discussion.
These low hanging counters have been discussed over a lot.

Transaction cost is pretty low in multiple views:

- You can globally settle billions of dollars worth of bitcoin for less than 10$ [0]

- FIAT Settlements between banks is a complicated and non-auditable process, which is internationally speaking also very slow

- You can build layers on top of bitcoin, i.e. the Lightning Network or liquid, which reduces transaction costs and time by a lot (sub cent range in the lightning network)

Energy usage is not tied to transaction throughput. It is vital to be very high in the future, as it secures this global and auditable settlement network. Mining is a very competitive business. Renewable and unused energy IS the cheapest energy available (without govt. subsidies), thus the most competitive miners will use them. Mining also "subsidizes" research in cheap energy, as it gives you a competitive advantage.

[0] https://twitter.com/CoreFeeHelper/status/1366787351985287168
"But they won’t be happy about it and it may bring some negative vibes to your tropical vacation, financed by the millions you’ve made from maintaining a FOSS project."

I love this line.

There's a tragedy-of-the-commons problem with respect to version pinning. What is good for you isn't good for the community.

If your project is closed source depending on open source modules, go for it. However, if your project is open source, you're caught in the middle between the interests of your sanity and your downstream.

If you pin too tightly, it increases the likelihood that your downstream users won't be able to construct a valid set of versions. If you pin too loose, then you're rolling the dice that the next upstream update won't break something.

The only real solution is to constantly evaluate your upstream and constantly update your pins, which is quite a treadmill.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24126065

and there was another thread about resources for CTOs but cant find it
> I'm not an economist, but nothing has convinced me yet that bitcoin is not the best form of money.

Contrary to the Bitcoin crow I don't spend my days thinking about it so my argument may seem weak. You mention bitcoin being 'the best form of money'. Assuming there is a hierarchy of forms of money, from what I understand the main advantage of Bitcoin is that Government can not manipulate its quantity. I wonder if a world where there is no possibility for governments to use monetary policy in times of trouble to stabilize the economy is desirable.
The CEO literally used a trans-phobic slur when describing the hack. Plus, it speaks to the purpose of Gab, to allow the voicing of the types of bigoted views held by the far right. It's the reason for its creation. Communities that were removed from reddit, Twitter, etc for expressing such views.
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Bash also has a -o posix option, which changes a number of things which may be significant, but I rarely see it used.

But none of those 3 solutions really check for POSIX compliance (including -o posix, since of course you can use many non-POSIX features when it's on). I am not aware that ShellCheck actually checks POSIX compliance; I am pretty sure it just checks for common errors in your bash/sh scripts (which is what it says on the home page).

I think what you may mean is "portable shell", i.e. portable between shell X and Y and system X and Y. That is a decent goal but many people use bash just because it alone is portable enough! The system tools are often unportable though. Limiting yourself to POSIX in that case is pretty painful and also virtually untestable. It's better to say "portable between X and Y" because I think that's what you mean.

In other words, there is plenty of stuff that's portable but not POSIX that you probably want to use. local variables are probably the biggest example. Every shell I know of supports those, including dash, but it's not POSIX (though maybe they're thinking about adding it; the spec is pretty behind)

I addressed this somewhat here: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/why-a-new-shell.html#li...
Conversely, cosmos is targeted at me and the lander made good sense. I understand the frustration with “inside” comments like “Don’t settle for localhost:3000”, but I appreciated it and it implied fairly heavily that this tool disrupts a very slow and tedious workflow.

I do agree that some things are buried. The docs didn’t lead me to the information I needed as quickly as I think they could have for example.

Overall I’m excited to give this a shot. It seems like a great tool.
You are basically restating this crappy argument:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26316375

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26316392

See the replies. There is nothing more to add to this deeply dull line of thinking.
I think you mean "is certainly a slur." It's not "transphobic" - the word "tranny" is not irrationally afraid of transgendered people.

:-D
i adore hugin, but it can just absolutely fall off a cliff in some cases. i was recently trying to get it to figure out the alignment of four separate cameras. i gave it a bunch of images from them, with all sorts of nice calibration targets, but it just kept churning out complete garbage and i couldn't get them aligned no matter how precisely i went in and laid out control points.

i went and fed it some real world images that should've been near-worthless for alignment (blue sky, empty fields) and hugin immediately produced a great alignment with no effort.

so... there's definitely room for some alternative software in this space. i'm excited to give mrcal a go when i've got the time.
Bitcoin has transitioned to "store of value", like gold, not "frequently transacted currency", like the dollar. There's plenty of other crypto currencies that fill that need.
I wonder if anyone has any reading resources for reversing old DOS programs written in fortran - namely SCORE, the music notation program, still unparalleled in productivity, beauty, and preciseness, but with a dead author and no source code.
Thought this was talking about blockchain tech, Cardano (Token $ADA) which I'm having a hard time giving a chance. Was hoping something could change my mind
that way of working was my only pleasurable experience in eclipse/java

start with interfaces and let the live type checker tell you where your incoherences are. Very very smooth way to work.
I've met plenty of people that prefer to write GUIs in Excel macros. If all you know about is a hammer...

I only have a problem with the ones among those hammer only people that are proud of not knowing anything else and proclaim everybody not using a hammer for everything stupid, because "look on all those perfected hammers we created! your choice doesn't have such nice ones".
Neither of the things you claim are tolerated on either platform. I suspect you've never looked for yourself.

Gab looks like a version of Facebook that's mostly populated by Christian conservatives. Parler looks like a version of twitter that's mostly populated (or was, before) by Christian conservatives with a small side of some conspiracy theories.

Christian conservatives don't subscribe to the beliefs you think they do.
> We need to get back to native UIs. Is it awfully hard? Yes it is. Do the users care? No, they don't. Many people want fast UIs.

I wouldn't say native UIs necessarily, IMO, but I definitely agree that something has to change.

Current systems are not only getting slower and less useful, but they're also getting harder to develop, test and maintain as well -- and, consequently, buggier.

The fact that there still are many old, TUI-based systems out there AND that users favor them over the newer ones exposes a lesson we've been insisting on overlooking.
Wouldn't the US become more desperate to hold onto its influence in oil producing regions and do so with violence? don't see why "wow, everybody is starting to use BTC rather than USD for oil transactions" would lead to "guess we don't need this aircraft carrier" instead of "time for some coups to install governments who will do what we want and not switch to BTC".
That's true. So, where are those currencies in the market capitalization charts and news articles?

Remember; the last time Bitcoin tried to change its mining algorithm, the democracy voted for a split. Ethereum has said they're moving from Proof of Work to Stake; I'm not surprised, given the Ethereum developers seem to abhor Work in all of its forms, including making progress on Ethereum itself, so we'll see if that actually happens in a few decades.

PoS is a theory right now, with some minor market traction, but nothing to the degree of BTC or ETH. Don't levy it as a promise which absolves the environmental sins of cryptocurrency, when its so obviously unlikely to do so. Bitcoin is the zeitgeist; its actively destroying the planet; its not moving to PoS.
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But did you really include Lightning Network in your mental calculations? If so, care to elaborate on what exactly would stop it from working? (I mean it already works now, there is nothing technical that is going to stop it from scaling)?
I don’t find it demeaning at all. It’s just offering something better.
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This article is complaining that people are taught a rigorous form of science that not enough science meets, and asks that it’s replaced by some sociology of science to determine which scientists to trust. It’s not wrong, and maybe I’m too much of an idealist in believing that “science as inquiry” is the right goal to aspire to, and that it’s feasible.

In my mind, we just don’t teach kids science as inquiry well. It’s too much like the heavily complained about way we teach math, where it’s formulas you just plug things into. Kids can plug a, b, and c into a quadratic formula but then can’t handle a word problem. Likewise with science. You’re taught it as a bunch of rote mechanical steps at the expense of teaching to do the “word problems.”

Any science education track that doesn’t include a stats and experimental design course isn’t teaching science as a tool, in my book. It’s just teaching facts.

Maybe I’m wrong and teaching kids more than memorization is too lofty a goal, but I think statistical illiteracy is more of a barrier than “science as inquiry” is.
Did you read the article? Your comment is copy-and-pasted on every cryptocurrency article, please discuss this article.

It is also completely wrong. A Ponzi requires a central actor (like Charles Ponzi) to actively pay profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors.

If you understood that you would understand it is not a Ponzi. I think you think you're trying to say "Pyramid scheme," which it also is not. It's hardly even a "scheme."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
> Bitcoin is essentially a proxy for another currency.

Yes, but this is only temporarily. It's like refactoring systems. You create a new system and a proxy and then have the old system communicate with the new one via the proxy (or vice versa). Eventually, the old system becomes obsolete, so you kill it and get rid of the proxy.
As someone who sometimes has spotty internet service, steam games work just fine when steam is in offline mode. I share the frustration of needing to update a game before playing it, but that actually can be prevented on a per-game basis, and obviously doesn't happen if running in offline mode.
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Wrong. It it fell 50%, many industrial uses of gold would resume. I'd have 4 gold fountain pens instead of 2.
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"MOV A, B" reads more naturally as "move A to B".

I agree that we should just pick a convention!
Aye, I forgot it was EU only rather than EU+UK (ala Revolut), and as a UK resident it would be a bit silly having my primary account be an EU one (if even allowed).
Would you care to elaborate on what happened in your case. My company is using ElasticSearch extensively, and it is mission critical for us. I fear something might happen one day
Shellspec is delightful to use. Every time I go to test with it I end up finding bugs. But also every time I go to test with it I end up convincing myself to not use bash. I imagine the same would be true of bash_unit.
Erm, there's a good portion of the world's population (I'd say over half) that doesn't think the US military's activities support it's safety.
I'm not really familiar with Roam as I'm not interested in a non open source tool for this type of app (why I am more interested in what you're doing). What are block references?

I guess I can see perf becoming an issue for a company wide knowledge base or a wikipedia type of thing but for a personal knowledge base which is my main use case currently I'm not clear it's necessary to have a real database and the benefits of just a bunch of markdown files are more compelling to me right now. Maybe that would change if my knowledge base got big enough or my needs more complex regarding links and references.
we're in a time of moral panic. this is what it looks like.

familiar to those who lived through the D&D satanic panic.
Why are you having a hard time giving it a chance? Maybe wait until it (Gougen) launches and make up your mind then?
Gta has made billions off of its shark card micro transaction system. So the incentives are probably pretty similar for player retention. Granted, the players leaving over load times are probably not the players who are invested enough to spend thousands in micro transactions.
TIL, I always thought advances had to be paid back on underperformance.
It’s a component sandboxing tool which allows you to test your components and pages in isolation. Storybook is similar. You’d pick one or the other based on preference, mostly.
He doesn't sound so senior. What can I do in Python 3 that I wasn't doing a decade ago in Perl 5?
The new icon is still hideous anyway.
Some links with feedback on Lambda School, if you're not familiar with them:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415017

- https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/11/21131848/lambda-school-co...

- https://www.theinformation.com/articles/lambda-schools-growi...
I know the US military won't go away as long as USD is used as the world's currency. Getting off USD is a prerequisite to ending American imperialism, it's not the only thing that needs to be done by a long shot though.
>Doesn't the same hold for PoW systems, except the X amount is in the form of mining resources?

That's not as true as I would have thought. Surprisingly, a single person can have a profitable mining setup on Bitcoin today. It might only be $10 USD per day profit, but it's something. To me, that is an achievement.
This was just posted recently: https://github.com/kuchin/awesome-cto
The technical heavy lift is rarely the success determinant, so having a company implement half-baked (enough for internal use, but without the edges polished off that are needed to support it with external customers) versions of N related (but not yet mature) technologies is pretty normal (if they are full of good engineers) and getting advantage from it.

Most of the time these implementations are too tightly tied to the rest of the company's infra to be useful standalone. When one of those companies succeeds a common pattern is for engineers to cash out, leave, and build a new startup around one technology from the success story.

I would not be surprised if this is one of the forces that drives the consumer -> infra -> consumer -> infra cycle. A consumer wave leads to inventing lots of interesting but bespoke infra while it is growing like crazy. When it plateaus, folks spin out the interesting infra bits until the next consumer wave (generally larger) starts rising.
The 2000 election was a mess. (https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/publications/working_pa...) makes what I consider a credible argument that Gore was in the wrong.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_election_vo...) has a pretty good summary of the issues. The voting machine claims were a big deal at the time; I remember a lot of news coverage about that the voting machine companies were owned by Republicans.

I think the 2016 fraud claims were about Russian hacking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidentia...). (https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2018/09/11/many-democrats-...) claims that many Democrats questioned the 2016 election.

> On the left I see claims of disenfranchisement done through legal means, which whether you agree with or not is at least something real and concrete.

I agree that disenfranchisement is an issue and am in favor of federal voting standards and protecting the voting rights of convicted felons.
EV also has a long way to go to become feasible. It is currently only feasible in large metro areas, same as public transportation. However, EVs have a long way to go before it becomes affordable for every class of citizens.

You also cannot compare the public transportation occupancy in off-peak hours to EV occupancy. They haul orders of magnitude more people during peak hours. Also, they cost less to maintain when you look at the infrastructure (roads and highways etc.)
Of course that’s true, I’m talking about US citizens not the world population.

What makes you think the US wouldn’t put it’s population in front of the rest of the world in a life or death war scenario?
This is the first entry in the new Bungie Tech Blog, and it details the story of fixing a very tricky bug in Destiny 2.

You can also read the new Tech Blog introduction here - https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/50139

Disclaimer - I work for Bungie, but I did not write these articles.
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I'm either missing something but what's the difference between this and zappa?
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Except that now it is generally 9-6 :(
I think it's silly that Hitler had a particular moustache 80 years ago therefore that moustache style is permanently verboten. I rock a moustache very similar to Stalin's, thankfully that one is allowed.
> there is still some progress needs to be done

That's an understatement. There are two restaurants within 100 miles of my home that accept BTC, let alone use LN.
Good to know, I'll give it a shot!
The theory of it is good—-the more efficiently the human race can produce goods and services the better. If ten people can provide the entire world’s stand up comedy needs that frees up all those other people to do other valuable things. The issues are: 1) distributional (i.e. wealth gap) and 2) people get value out of the work itself and not just the compensation.

Although we fight a lot about #1, #2 strikes me as a thornier problem.
Just because you are the core infra provider, does not automatically position you to provide the best security. AWS does not provides the best web or network firewalls, microsoft never had the best AV, so forth and so on.

If security is not your core mission, it is always hard to create a fundamentally good offering. That is at least the less of history of such companies. May be Github surprises, but that is what it is.
I think I even discovered "intentional O(random)" complexity with this gem from Acey-Deucy:

270 A=INT(14\*RND(1))+2
280 IF A<2 THEN 270
290 IF A>14 THEN 270
So... your problem is what exactly? Downloading files takes time? Steam has to be installed? Automatic updates?
Well stated!
COBOL has MOVE ... TO ... which seems to be the logical order for a command named MOV/MOVE.
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>People clearly see the flaw in PoW if they are not emotionally attached to it because they have no money at stake. You should not misinterpret that as hate because they missed the train to richness.

The vitriol that Bitcoin evokes from HN commenters can really only be explained by jealousy, the environmental concern is just a cover for covetousness.
When I was a teen, we got the ProTeste magazine at home and I read every issue cover to cover. As I grew older and wiser it became clearer that both their product reviews and their editorial content was misguided at best, wrong verging on malicious at worst.

I don’t want to assume I’ll-intent here, but I’m not willing to dismiss it out of hand either.
Add that to the fact that it's reasonably simple to make a cross platform TUI, and I think you're on to something there. I'm ready to move forward to TUI's over the terrible GUI's we're all stuck with.
that's an odd take considering the article is comparing JS/TS which have an identical amount of curly brackets
Ah, so if you're doing an 8 hour day you leave at 3PM (if you skip lunch)?
> the scientific method is not in itself based on evidence-free magical thinking

However, the scientific method is, in many ways, based on faith. In science, you can only measure what you can observe. We cannot "observe" what occurred in the past. We can guess but it is a lie that we know without a doubt what happened before recorded history began: Nobody actually observed it.

Each religion makes its own claim about its epistemological systems. It different for each, but each system ought to be internal consistent for it to make sense. Some systems are far more consistent than others. Based on the internal consistency, one can make an objective assessment as to the validity of said belief system. You can test it based on what it produces and how it judges itself.

At the end of the day, science and religion do not stand on equal footing—but religion has to make sense first because our scientific method was built upon Bacon's own religious beliefs:

"Bacon's entire understanding of what we call "science," and what he called "natural philosophy," was fashioned around the basic tenets of his belief system."

This belief system was Christianity—the idea that a creator created a system that can be known and studied and has order rather than chaos.
A company with an impeccable code base? Fake news.
I swear I can see the lag while typing into Slack and I feel like it is definitely getting worse the longer Slack has been running. What the hell is going on there? What are we doing wrong as a species to develop software like this?? Shit should be small, fast and simple.
It is obvious now that some "doctors" and "scientists" have been lying constantly in 2020/2021
"Theory" does not mean "guess", it means a comprehensive explanation that has been shown on many occasions to make predictions that are more accurate than any alternative explanations.

A guess in science is called a "hypothesis", it is only after it is proven right that it is properly called "theory".

There are infallible truths in science. We call them "observations". Any idea that follows from existing observations and has been used to predict new ones can be reasonably believed to be correct, but the truth is not the idea, it is the observations that inspired it.

And this is exactly why the public needs a better understanding of how science works.

If you really insist on making religious comparisons, a theory is neither a guess, nor an infallible truth, but a prophet who we trust because they make no predictions that cannot be verified, and because they have never been wrong so far, and so we will continue to believe them until the moment one of their predictions proves incorrect, at which time we will stop believing without hesitation.
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