skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are misinterpreting the placement of trust when you're positioning your responses. You're saying that there are advantages to a monetary system that relies on "objective" third parties to adjudicate disputes, combat fraud, and stifle illicit/illegal activity. You're not wrong that these are useful utilities. It's why I don't believe Bitcoin will ever replace them. It will certainly coexist though.

The trust Bitcoin removes is the central banking component. We rely on governments who have shown wanton disregard for the value of their respective dollars by printing limitless supplies and dancing with the risk of hyperinflation. When we save money in a given currency, it's because we trust that currency as a store of value or we park it in a vehicle that returns value or at least staves off depreciation of value (savings accounts, bonds, stocks etc.) Bitcoin allows you to park your savings in a space that does not require you to trust any particular government's monetary policy. Maybe you're entirely comfortable with the USD or the Euro but there are folks in less stable countries with which Bitcoin is a godsend.

What do you do if you're a billionaire in China and you said something bold online about an atrocity your government has just committed? You hear that you're about to be disappeared so you wish to defect to another country. How do you move your wealth? Can you move it via the existing banking digital network? No because the banking system is controlled by the government and that type of activity is red flagged and stopped. Can you move it all in cash or gold? Perhaps, but it's a huge undertaking logistically and very obviously shows your intentions.

Bitcoin allows you to relocate the entirety of your wealth anywhere in the globe with literally just your brain power. You can memorize your seed and leave to where ever you want. That is insanely powerful freedom which is the result of removing the "trusted" third party through decentralization.
If something is consistently popular it means enough people like it or aren't bothered by it enough to be a problem. The popularity of these games that you really don't like is a signal that your view of the world in regards to this issue is lacking and incomplete.
I'm upvoting your comment but can you clarify on left brain/right brain? I thought split-brain/callosal syndrome showed us that a lot of our ideas about left brain right brain functional divide were true.

Edit for clarification: I was not expecting folks to respond to this by linking split-brain experiments; I am specifically referring to split-brain experiments showing us that our ideas about left brain/right brain were correct. This was in reply to "I'd agree with this author that they are oversimplified and generally incorrect - I'd add the left brain right brain divide to the list" -- I want to know what this person thinks, thanks.
> Miners and other people using bitcoins are going to get tired at some point of the loss from buying all this energy to keep their bitcoin assets going

Someone might have a better insight to me. My concern is that the demand for energy will push up the price for everyone and it's actually those on lower incomes who will suffer the most. While the economics might eventually get there to solve the problem, could it do a lot of damage in the process?
This article (currently) leaves out a detail mentioned by Jack in his tweetstorm about this [1]:

> [Jay-Z] will now help lead our entire company, including Seller and the Cash App, as soon as the deal closes.

Does this read as Jay-Z having an... operational role? I know Jack's leadership of Square and Twitter is fairly non-traditional but this was surprising to read.

[1] https://twitter.com/jack/status/1367460921937817602
> This is not just some article, it's a peer-reviewed study from the University of Arizona

Without going into the paper itself, why do you believe being peer-reviewed means that we cannot - and should not - look at it critically with our own brains and minds, analyze the evidence, and reach our own conclusions?
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"The survey findings estimate that on average 39 per cent of proof-of-work mining is powered by renewable energy" according to https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/alternati...
All money has cost. How does Bitcoin cost compare to the cost of the mint and keeping dollars in circulation?
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"Successfully applied" in what way?
Does no one in Indian govt think that of where India should go in the long-term (30-50 years). Sure few large Indian companies are with them now. What happens then?

Seems to me this will be a lost opportunity to be a leader (equal leader) in BRICS.

Or do they think that they can be self-sufficient?
No one cares as long as the money is rolling in. Dorsey and Musk have enough star power to get shit done, raise significant cash and attract talent. So the board supposedly just shrugs at the half-assed CEO situation.
Why are you better than other existing tools in this niche?
They take the average emission per kWh generated in the country, combine that with existing research of the social cost of carbon done by the EPA (which includes damages done through climate change), as well as the change in mortality rate caused by these emissions. Then they combine this by the electricity requirements of bitcoin mining, and they have their results. (in very global terms, there's a lot more work done in the results).

I definitely wouldn't call it pseudo-science, as their arguments seem valid, and their methods seem to follow through at a cursory glance.

They do note some weaknesses in their research, such as not having access to the exact sources of electricity miners use, however, which might change the results.
NULL terminated strings are quite bad for performance, because you need to transverse them to find the terminator.

Now try to concatenate a bunch of them in C.
https://tirereviewsandmore.com/top-10-longest-wearing-all-se...

You can get an 80K mile tread warranty, and you can use tires beyond warranty. Of course, that is in no way specific to the powertrain of the car (unless you're using your powertrain to do burnouts...)
I take it that it's specifically the 'flip' that is concerning you here?
Solution #3: Use Bypass Paywalls

Free extension that can remove paywalls from many of the big news sites.
Works on Chrome, Edge and Mozilla.

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
Berger is very smart, and he literally just published a (good) book about SpaceX. A layperson reading the article without background knowledge would have those questions. So he, as a journalist, posed them, and then answered them (fairly, which turns out to be almost entirely in SpaceX’s favor).
They said if a human went over 40mph they would be torn apart, when locomotives were invented and I'm sure there were similar comments about the Wright Brother's at the time they showed the world their crazy invention that would never be able to carry humans safely.
Maybe this article is filler, but Eric Berger is a well-respected veteran space journalist, and generally his articles on Ars Technica are great.

He's just released a book on the early days of SpaceX [1] that appears to be the definitive account, according to the early reviews.

I'm not associated, but I have been wanting to read his book and am happy it has finally been released! :)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Liftoff-Desperate-Early-Launched-Spac...

[2] https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace
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> Privilege" is a terrible word to have become entrenched for such a useful concept, because many people instinctively get their backs up about being told they're privileged when they don't have to face a challenge that someone else faces.

I think people get their backs up because privilege checks as a concept are based largely on stereotypes/generalisations and confrontational behaviour, not empathic individual relating.

> And it's not just a question of generalization, but a question of whose stories get told through the media. Whose lifestyles make it into the "lifestyle" section

That's because the mainstream media is, by definition, normative - so it caters to what are considered cultural norms. The great thing about the Internet (and one of the good things about the postmodern breakdown of the metanarrative) is that while there are still dominant cultural norms, they're not standards to live up to anymore in the sense they might have been in the modern era. We're fragmenting into subcultures of subcultures where everybody can find a place where others share their tastes or beliefs. I find the idea that competing narratives have to share space in the mainstream media to be a strangely modernist-apologetic approach for a (progressive) movement that could do much better by embracing the breakdown of the normative standard by creating competing spaces.
And look at us being downvoted into oblivion. CensoredNews. I fail to see how the comment sections here are at all real when it's blatantly apparent it's constantly manipulated and censored. You can't leave honest commentary on HackerNews unless it agrees with the HackerNews Zeitgeist.
Try it for certain vintages of fine wine. The same as Bitcoin. Over time the quantity available for sale decreases due to loss. People lose their keys and the coins get lost. People drink the wine. Both naturally reduces supply driving up the price of the remainder.

BTC is a one way bet, right up to the point where people decide it isn't worth holding any more. Just like certain vintages of wine.
Majority of miners are companies trying to make a profit. Every variable is a consideration, like location, energy source, cost and so on.

The small mining operations run by the common person has almost no impact in the scale of the network.
>> not loading ads about as malicious as failing to read a billboard

Because, at this time, ad blocking tools are relatively benign. But what if we think of them more as content-blocking or content-management tools? What if I have a tool that blocks only right-wing advertisements or content? What if I have a tool that blocks all images of women showing too much skin? Block images of black people? Such not-neutral tools would radically change public perceptions. Legislation might follow.

There was a comical toll out there that would replace the text "Trump" with "The idiot" on viewed websites. That's the thin edge of this wedge.
This is the one I am waiting for: https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-thunderbolt-dock but ya, not cheap...

This one a bit cheaper: https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-thunderbolt-hub
90K for original tires and brakes? I don't know how EV brakes work, but tires should work the same. Are there any treads left?
GPL version is released year behind as per legal contract with KDE foundation.

Qt sales growth has been huge and QTCOM.HE stock price has skyrocketed over 700% in last 2 years. I don't think they will support open source more than they are contractually obligated any time soon.
Amazon was the only service that had storage that I could afford ($40/mo versus hundreds per month the competitors were asking.)

Backblaze, last I checked, has "unlimited" storage but requires you to plug the hard drive in every three months. A number of other details made it seem like it was not a good long term storage option.

I was focused on a solution that would let us store the film we spent a year working on for the next 50 years. We did this and LTO tape.
That sounds like the absolute worst thing I can imagine ever happening to computing.
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By the way for the hashing example in count() - Rust has the Entry API for HashMaps to avoid exactly this problem: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.HashMap.htm...

The PartialOrd trait also uses 3-way comparisons so I think the other issue is mitigated too, but it'd be interesting to check: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/cmp/trait.PartialOrd.html#tyme...
I often enjoy the time I spend repairing things (modulo frustration at manufacturing stupidities that needlessly prevent simple repairs), tbh.
yes, the tool is partly based on the mermaid, we use our own syntax that we consider more simple + features build on top of it like diagram saving, git repository integration, exporting options, link sharing, support, etc.

you are right. i am aware that name is somewhat controversial. in a way, you type quickly your diagram and gleek.io spits it out :-)
For some reason I imagine that you are not managing e.g. Chinese mining operations.

Everyone will look for cheapest power, but that on its own does not make it renewable.

Plus, regardless of your source, as long as you haven't built your own plant, the grid has to cover for the loss. If there isn't an abundance of renewable energy on the grid, then the operation wasn't neutral at all.
earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26328428
> China regards Taiwan as part of China, whether right now or eventually depends on how much CCP koolaid they've consumed.

The problem with using "China" here is that it is always misleading if people have no prior knowledge of the situation.

Specifically "China" here means "People's Republic of China" because they consider that the "Republic of China" ceased to exist in 1949 and Taiwan, as a province of the Republic of China automatically moved under the PRC sovereignty. Conversely the Republic of China (in Taiwan now) does not officially recognises the PRC.

So it's a bit like if the two Koreas refused to acknowledge the existence of each other and claimed the whole peninsula for themselves, which I believe is actually not far from the situation there. But it's more complicated with China because of the existence of a "3rd faction" in Taiwan that would like to see Taiwan independent of any Chinese state whatever that state might be.
This is a reaction to opposing voices that wants to quell those quickly anytime they arise. There hasn’t been, and there won’t be, any action taken against supporters of the government or even government authorities even when they incite murder in prepared and recorded public speeches (search online for “shoot the traitors” remark).

This is also one more of those “all encryption should have backdoors so that the government alone can snoop” (as if the government is always trustworthy, responsible, and is one single, uniform and dedicated being). This playbook has been seen in other countries too, even the developed ones.

The government and authorities don’t even provide any information about random website blocking orders or any way to get incorrectly implemented orders resolved quickly.

It’s one sided to aid those in power and take power from those who are already on the other side of the scale. We don’t need more of this.
We have DEXs and it didn't take 10 years only 5 or so.
There is plenty more stuff only possible with DLTs. By the time mainstream uses its products they wont know it runs on DLTs just like people using tiktok dont know it runs on TCP/IP.
yet TCP/IP was once a stupid idea no one needed either. You couldn't even call someone with it.
I don't understand why you would feel as though this reply says anything. There is always something worse or has alternative consequences.
PulseAudio sits above the level of OSS/ALSA to do that magic. Layers are often a good things when it separates concerns and makes the whole easier to handle.
> And this is why ECC RAM should obviously be the default.

For routers and other hardware along the line this would (probably) be too latency-sensitive.
Even if true, I think it's worth it. It shouldn't be used for everything. But having a currency that respects how you want it to be spent is a fantastic thing.
The comment did not say anything like that. You're making a strawman.
Disclaimer: I'm fairly uneducated on cryptocurrency and failed miserably at economics, so these are just musings.

Do you think any of those negative effects are counteracted by crypto creating a new ecosystem for the exchange of value? I'm not certain myself, but I'm curious what your thoughts are. It is slightly different than gold, in the sense that normal people (that can afford expensive graphics cards) can "earn" value—at the expense of energy consumption and thus proxying all of the destructive nature of that industry.

On one hand, it doesn't really appear that it will increase the velocity of money, given that you're now just introducing a bunch of arbitrage opportunities in the exchange markets... That might even contribute to your point, that the larger "crypto" as a whole scales, the more it will serve to suck actual value out of the global economy.

It's an interesting thing to consider.
A similar service exists in parts of the American South to deal with kudzu.
For those that don’t know, usually the woman owns the bank account and gives the husband an allowance:

https://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/okozukai

Of course, everything is changing in a rapid pace.
The concern here is power use vs. utility relative to other options, not price. By cost I meant the cost under discussion: environmental and health. How much energy do remittance services use to move an equivalent amount of money? What about the cost to health and the environment?
I have no idea why you're downvoted. This is absolutely a valid concern and one of the biggest reasons why I'm staunchly anti-Apple.
Talent invested in the crypto space pales in comparison to what we waste in finance. Our greatest minds are more likely to be arbitraging pork belly futures (PrIcE dIsCoVeRy!) than working on crypto.
You gotta start with a model that does something using averages (and I say that in humour too) as otherwise you don't have a base to compare against.
Most ML is done because someone thinks its what is required
If the energy was previously excess energy being thrown out, is using it for bitcoin actually increasing the energy footprint?

Not saying all bitcoin mining is this way, but a portion of it is.
I think the really embarrassing part for Rockstar is that they didn't bother to investigate what took 5+ minutes to load in their star product, a simple profiling would've made the issue obvious. So either they knew and they didn't care, or they didn't know and they didn't care.

That being said both for GTA and for TFA the issue is a very similar sscanf call:

sscanf(data, "%f", &f);

I already posted a similar comment in the GTA story but I really want to emphasize it: scanf is almost never the right tool for the job, and it's definitely not the right tool in this situation. Just use strtof. That's literally what it's for. String to float. There. Done.

Scanf is crappy and if it were up to me would've been deprecated a while ago. I can sort of see using it for a quick one-off "script", for instance to parse user input, but seeing it in the middle of a program will always raise a huge red flag for me.

Use strtok_r if you need to split a string, then parse every entry individually. It's more robust, more flexible (you can parse custom types and formats that way) and allows for much better error handling and diagnostics. And of course it's also usually vastly faster.

Scanf is an antipattern in my opinion. I literally never use it and I'm better off for it. The last time I interviewed for a C coder position I managed to answer the full C test quizz except for the one question regarding scanf. That's how much I don't use it.

I think it's even worse for developers who come from higher level languages and (reasonably) expect to be able to deserialize data easily. You simply can't do that in C, the type system and general philosophy of the language won't let you, but scanf may convey the illusion that it's sort of possible. Don't believe its lies.
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I have it set to "Very High" and have their normalisation turned off. I can provide samples demonstrating distortion and break-up; the waveforms even look completely different visually. It's even audible over non-audiophile headphones. On my HD800S it's unlistenable. I have no idea what they are doing to the sound, but I have found many recordings that sound awful on both Android and Windows.
I believe companies are starting to figure this out. I recently sent out resume (heavy on data engineering and analytics, light on AI/ML/DL) for data scientist positions. I have 80% response rate. Previously, with same resume response rate was less than 5%.
What is pro audio? I'm naive when it comes to this.
Would a circular track function? It might have some added benefits
The mortality rate for COVID-19 is far lower than ~1 in 20, and yet we take that awfully (and justifiably) seriously.
> Miners and other people using bitcoins are going to get tired at some point of the loss from buying all this energy to keep their bitcoin assets going

The only reason miners mine (at least most of them) is because they get a return on their upfront energy costs by the rewarded BTC, so why would they suddenly get tired of it?
This is such a funny post because formal verification techniques tend to see a lot of success in the hardware world, from lightweight ones to heavy ones, much more so than software, because many behaviors can be bounded over some finite amount of time (or inductively proven over all time, or equivalence checking, etc), and because hardware designs have massive incentives to get it right the first time and not blow a billion dollars on a mistake.

If you write the basic cookie cutter "but but but, it's all just a spec, so we can't ever know anything!!!" it should be a requirement to submit a 5 page essay describing the algorithms/theory behind formal verification techniques, so they can prove they understand them, as opposed to only "understanding" how to make cookie-cutter bait posts.
Consistency checks do check multiple instructions. Status registers are work in progress.
So what are you saying, that because other things are also bad we can't have a discussion how bad one thing is?
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C also does lack few features which can provide better performance or provide hints to the compiler.

computed goto, non-aliasing guarantees, actual "const" - just a few on top of my mind.

Generic code is generally faster in C++ unless you manually reimplement it in C.

Rust can be faster than C in few cases because stronger aliasing guarantees, but few compiler bugs prevent it.

Doing some good-performance stuff is also more difficult in C. Strings are null terminated etc..
I don't think it's reasonable. The maintainer is the only person standing in the way of enabling the abuse of real people. Just say no.
Ok, assuming for a moment this is true, I never hear anyone talk about how much energy bank branches and ATMs consume.

Everything needs the Internet, servers, etc to function. That requires electricity. BTC or cryptos aren’t the problem.

Focus on sustainability of energy production, renewables.
... Roughly eight minutes after landing, however, SN10 exploded in a massive fireball.
The scammy thing is that the links contain Amazon affiliate tags -- that is, it's just sleazy attempts to earn affiliate revenue, not even book recommendations as an attempt to be helpful. If they didn't include an affiliate tag, they'd be a little strange but not really a problem.
You have to include the energy used to power the US military, among other things too. The value of the Dollar is inextricably tied to the threat of force. Bitcoin, on the other hand, offers trust through proof of work, not violence.
"displace productive investment on an economy wide scale"

Yes we need to keep buying overvalued equities. Instill fear.

The matter of the fact is if something is worth investing in, it will get the investment regardless if btc is with us or not with us. Venture capital is still thriving today.
Why ???.
Even if this were true, hydro also has an environmental cost, doubly so if the demand from crypto is causing hydro to be constructed in places where it cannot be used for other purposes (which is often a linked claim).