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Your understanding is correct, however ETH is moving sharply away from PoW to PoS systems which are significantly less demanding systems in terms of energy requirements. I believe the roadmap expects the full PoS transition to happen this year (a multistage launch that we are partway through).

On top of that, there's other more specialised NFT blockchains like flow which are becoming very popular.
> On the other hand this type of extreme customization means that even for somebody very familiar with the language you still have to be on your toes because innocuous looking code could behave surprisingly due to comptime shenanigans.

Could you give some concrete examples of this?
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SEEKING WORK | Remote

Remote: Yes

Technologies: Mostly into Python and a bit in Go:

- ETLs
- Web Scrapers/Automation Tools.

- Rest APIs in FastAPI(http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/tag/fastapi)

- Web Development in Django, Laravel and Flask

- Crypto Integrations(http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/tag/stellar)

- ElasticSearch(http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/tag/elasticsearch/)

- Golang(http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/tag/golang/)

Résumé/CV: http://adnansiddiqi.me/CV2020.pdf

Email: kadnan@ gmail.com
I cannot use the docker-compose setup they provide on my server, because it interferes with my existing Docker containers. Settting up the Clickhouse container never worked because Plausible wasn't able to connect properly to it. After researching for hours, I gave up. Not sure what the issues was.
I live on the east coast near DC. There's no rent control here. Instead there's very aggressive construction and housing is very cheap. I'm able to live in a fairly large luxury apartment on a junior engineer salary and there are plenty of much cheaper options.
Location: PK

Remote: Yes

Technologies: Mostly into Python and a bit in Go:

- ETLs
- Web Scrapers/Automation Tools.

- Rest APIs in FastAPI(http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/tag/fastapi)

- Web Development in Django, Laravel and Flask

- Crypto Integrations(http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/tag/stellar)

- ElasticSearch(http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/tag/elasticsearch/)

- Golang(http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/tag/golang/)

Résumé/CV: http://adnansiddiqi.me/CV2020.pdf

Email: kadnan@ gmail.com
Not necessarily. Reading this article I actually find it quite obnoxious that Google would come in and tell HBCU computer science departments to redesign their curricula to focus less on "theoretical" concerns and more on like, Python scripting that G needs from its junior engineers.

But it's also worth noting what a dishonest dodge it is for these huge companies posturing like "oh we care so deeply about this issue, but it's a pipeline problem we can't fix!" - as though they can't build whatever pipeline they want to get the candidates they want to get.
This is on the assumption that the original buyers are only buying to make a profit.

What if NFTs are simply patreon for whales? In that context I think they're a great idea, allowing people with plenty of spare money to support creators they love while having a token they can use to show how big of a fan they are.

In response to energy use: what powered these networks before decentralization? Many humans all over the world, expending energy to distribute these goods and ensure they are legitimate. This wasn't free energy, these people could have spent their time on other things. It's simply more visible and calculatable now that computers are doing that work.
Stepping over needles is considered an acceptable tradeoff in SF. That's where the differences lie.
> You’ve hit it on the head: what does it mean to own an image when ten other people also “own” a copy of it, and any of them can create more copies other people can “own”.

Also worth remembering: doing anything with a digital asset involves automatic creation of countless of copies. When you're viewing an image from your computer's storage, you already have at least three copies at that moment - one in storage, one in RAM, and one in video memory. There may be another one in your screen's buffer too. If you try to send it through the network, every switch and router along the way effectively creates its own temporary copy.

This is to emphasize: ownership as a concept makes no sense in the world of bits. It doesn't exist. Ownership is defined by agreement between people; these days, usually through the legal framework.
Regardless how it is created, if it exist it can be made artificially again - it is just matter of time.

Same as with bacteria.
'In May 2019, researchers, in a milestone effort, reported the creation of a new synthetic (possibly artificial) form of viable life,'
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_life

Give human enough time and resources, we can replicate anything, that is in our nature.
Precisely. "What kind of economy do you want?" is a political question, that has no definite, scientific answer. And more restrictive economic questions, very often, also are political questions that should be democratically debated and decided, but are instead presented as "scientific" in nature, with the pretension that "we should do as our experts said" (whose experts exactly?).
We're hoping to start a conversation with browsers such as Brave and Firefox and blocklist maintainers about this.

One way to incentivize even more sites to move from GA et al would be to create some kind of privacy criteria and whitelist those analytics that fulfill it (open source, minimal data, no personal data, no cookies/persistent identifiers, no cross-site/device tracking, no connection to adtech etc).

Site owners want analytics. We offer self-hosted service but most sites don't want to deal with managing analytics server as it is not an easy job. So by blocking every analytics tool (good or bad) the incentive for site owners is more on trying to avoid being blocked rather than on moving to something more privacy-friendly.

(I'm the Plausible co-founder)
those of use who use only single-letter variable names have this problem solved from the start
Buypass, ZeroSSL also provide free certificates with ACME.
Projector: https://jetbrains.github.io/projector-client/mkdocs/latest/i...

I've been using this to develop in CLion running on a beefy remote Linux server from my Mac. Overall it works quite well, with just a few teething issues.
Taleb did write about ergodicity:

> A central chapter that crystallizes all my work. Time to explain ergodicity, ruin and (again) rationality

https://medium.com/incerto/the-logic-of-risk-taking-107bf410...
This had me scratching my head earlier today when I was debugging why renewal was taking so long. I've taken Let's Encrypt's reliability for granted. Didn't even cross my mind that it might be a service issue.
Same reason you can’t build houses on land you already own. They won’t let you.
Some of the items on this list - namely AGI, biotech, nanotech - are actually not problems; they're dangerous, but very desirable developments.

Agree with the gist of your comment, though.
You don't know anyone who mostly eats healthy food, usually flosses, usually gets enough sleep, puts a reasonable amount of effort into their relationships and exercises somewhat? Or you don't know anyone who does all those things perfectly?
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No problem, I will be trying this out in my projects. I have been looking for alternatives to Google Analytics because of the privacy concerns and also does not require all the features they off.
I’ve never really understood this.

Is the App Store lacking? I’ve always been able to find what I needed.
I didn’t downvote and I’m very sorry you had/have to go through that. That being said, how I see it is that OP may be referring to the fact that the “hate speech” label is being overused similarly to “fascism” and other similar strong words.
Thanks for the link. The article hits the nail. That was a meaningful read.
First thing I would build: recreation of the mousetrap board game.
This is really cool (and will finally solve the problem of matrix.org/blog not having any comments currently!)
you can also do this in python, perl and C (if you use gcc or clang)
This idea that we need to be perfect optimisers is foolish and pure whataboutism . You could say the same for any recreational, non productive activity.
That's clever but there is one reason I think this would not work. Most pro-vaxx don't (and don't want to) spend their entire days thinking about why they are pro-vaxx. Being anti-vaxxer is a lifestyle.
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Sadly, antivaxxers already believe that scientific findings are "exaggerated pro-vaxx stuff".
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Oh don't get me wrong; I got my start on that machine too.

I still have the manual on my bookshelf - and as a matter of fact I'm having this print framed at the moment:
http://www.alisoneldred.com/john-harris/fine-art-prints-1/sc...

Just as you say, it feels as if I'd need another lifetime to get a comprehensive understanding of a single modern machine.
I think I know where you're confused: from the guide it looks like there is only a difference where you put -ss; but in reality, where you put -t/-to matters too.

In my Python script, I did input seeking for -ss (start point) part, and then output seeking for -t part (end point). As you can see, the -ss part is before -i {inputfile}, and -t is after.

-ss 1:00 -i file -t 5

is NOT the same as

-ss 1:00 -t 5 -i file.

The latter has a bug that happens frequently when I'm trimming MPEG-TS files recorded from HDTV. It literally doesn't stop at the -t/-to timestamp for reason I don't know. And it only happens when stream copy.

Below is a quick showcase: t.ts is the source, and the filenames show how I generate them with FFMPEG (for example, ss_t_i means input seeking -ss first, then -i t.ts, then -t 1:00).

https://i.imgur.com/lLUSzEM.png

As you can see, if I use -t/-to before -i, it doesn't cut the file properly.

>Also, input seeking should be inaccurate when doing stream copy

Yeah, it's not frame accurate, can only cut at keyframes, but enough for my application. By the way the same inaccuracy exists for output seeking if you're doing stream copy.
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“Privilege bashing”? Christ, how can it be “bashing” to have a candid discussion about why some people are able to turn their passions into a business, while others can’t? Your reasoning is dangerously close to “the real racism is suggesting that racism would ever be a factor in anything”.
> If you can't see through bullshit, you may think others are actually accomplishing some of the things they claim.

The converse is probably also true. I.e. if someone tells you something that is true but you can't tell whether they are bullshitting you, you might feel more justified in bullshitting or embellishing the truth yourself.
Consider baseball cards. I own 5000 cards with a total value of about $50.

A few NFT’s will be very very valuable. The first one George Clooney sells. The first one ever created. The 6 Banksy sells under a pseudonym that no one realizes for a year. The song Taylor Swift limits to 1 copy.

But almost all of them will be worthless.

The difference between baseball cards and NFT’s is that for generations, no one really cared about baseball cards. It wasn’t until the 80’s that people realized they had significant collectible value. By comparison, NFT’s have tremendous cultural hype.

Some people will do very well with this bubble, as a few do in every bubble. But it will be very few.
A large number of sites use LE, and only LE.

Perhaps this move will mean people actually update their scripts and get it working on another system
Altered Carbon sorta plays with this concept a lot. But it's set in a world were it is common place, and people have already detached identity from body.
Or a Kobo with an external SD slot!
Amber LED matrices are my favorite tech for signage.
The individual LEDs are sunken into the black matrix to provide extra contrast from direct light exposure. There's nothing that comes close for public signage that needs to be placed outdoors. These are by far not cheap though.

Still, this article is about 7 segment displays. It's a quirky article, but I get the point: many people abuse 7-segment displays as an aesthetic choice where there wouldn't be no point in it.

7 and 16-segment displays can still be a superb choice in many scenarios. The contrast is still unmatched to other display techs. For bench instruments, 7-segment displays (especially the VFD ones) are much more readable than the alternatives IMHO. The second best choice IMHO is OLED, however glare in bright environments is still worse, and getting a large OLED gets expensive very quickly.

For big machinery, a large 7-segment display can be read across the room in any condition. A large readable display on a lathe is much better in terms of safety than an smaller OLED display, even considering the chance of a stuck segment.
Pomodoro works in theory but ultimately requires a lot of discipline because it's easy to just ignore the timer. Worse, maintaining half an hour of deep focus just doesn't work for some people, especially the types the article describes. Anyway, pomodoro's only advantage if you want to try to maximize the amount of productivity in a day without mentally bogging you down.

What worked best for me is low-overhead simplicity. A notebook. Make it routine to realistically scope out, jot down, divide and conquer tasks. Just a few minutes every morning. No schedule. Take the task and work. Whenever your brain tells you to take a break, just take a break. But just keep on looking at what you aimed to accomplish for the day. That way, you're just mentally thinking about the tasks and not some stupid timer or how you planned it all out on a calendar.

Ultimately, it's about managing emotions, but having this down helps because it clears your mind a little.
Yes. But you could see the new crop of native languages as: as close to LISP as possible without codegen in the runtime. There is this 2x gap between JIT and AOT.
(EDIT: Other than that I'm not sure if any of the new kids can introspect on the content - lines of codes - of a function, like LISP would).
Here's the thing most people on Hackernews have missed. Owning an NFT does not usually mean you own the copyright to the image, and this is a good thing.

It's not introducing artificial scarcity, its purchasing collectable bragging rights that allow an artist to 'monetize' their work, while retaining the copyright.

Here's the relevant line from the Rarible TOS
"In the absence of an express legal agreement
between the creator of a Collectible and purchasers of the Collectible, there cannot be any guarantee
or assurance that the purchase or holding of the Collectible confers any license to or ownership of
the Collectible Metadata or other intellectual property associated with the Collectible or any other
right or entitlement, notwithstanding that User may rightfully own or possess the NFT associated
with the Collectible. "
Link - https://rarible.com/terms.pdf

Here's one example of an attempt to standardise this contract - https://www.niftylicense.org/
I'd say it's because the order varies between cultures and you might have them mixed up on your system

Not only ordering but equality. So for example Müller and Mueller might be considered equal in German.

Edit: Just found an interesting example, Linkedin orders Á after Z (where the correct in most places would be to sort it together with A), after that, letters in different alphabets (correct) then the emoticons (well, people do add that to their names...)
And if so, what can you do? Store a picture?
Someone pooh-poohing something while claiming to provide a "simple answer to many problems" is ironic at best, and insufferably arrogant at worse.
My thoughts exactly! I read 'On Bullshit' a while back and it struck me as an hilarious thesis attacking the social sciences in general. There is some type of recursive irony going on here.
The mentally ill meaning is not much used anymore. The #2 meaning at https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lunatic is the default unless context implies otherwise.
Exactly! Too many people in this thread are making huge judgements based off a very limited knowledge of what is going on in the blockchain space.

I agree with OPs inference that the art market is going to get over saturated, but ETH ecology is not an argument against NFTs. Plenty of alt-chains exist and interchain marketplaces are being built as we speak.
I see you getting downvoted for a profoundly true statement. These are sad times.
Which is exactly why this would probably work. It's all bullshit on both sides (in their view), so it might as well be balanced bullshit. Right now, the bullshit evidence points to potential for horrific outcomes, not worth it!

I think a similar dynamic is behind Trump's rise to power. First you confuse the people, them you can tell them what to think.
I think you mean something that maximizes the bottom x percentile (either by making the negative smaller or the positive bigger).

It's not going to be an easy solution, because for a sufficiently small x, the optimal strategy for a small number of bets is going to be to bet $0 each time (since the x-th percentile of the terminal outcome will be a loss on capital, or ruin), but the optimal strategy for a large number of bets is going to be to bet > $0 (since the x-th percentile of the terminal outcome will be positive).

So we can already see that this is going to be a function of the number of bets, unlike with Kelly, and therefore is going to be a much harder problem.
"We rail against companies selling cosmetic additions to games. It doesn't add value."

That's not quite true. There are sub-groups of gamers, in particular with racing games (e.g. Forza Motorsport), who do value cosmetic additions quite a bit.
There are some nasty side effects of EUT through. Prospect theory for example shouldn't exist (when you handle the non-ergodicity part of the problem properly the theory vanishes into thin air).

EUT + Hacks works but anything built upon of EUT is subject to sudden collapse due to unstable foundations.

Ergonomic economics is able putting down stable foundations that other theories can be built upon of.
Zig doesn't have unlimited compile-time execution and what it has is strictly weaker than Rust's macros [1]. Rather, it has one carefully designed construct that is both very simple and very expressive, and yet isn't as weird or as dangerous as macros. It is not "extreme customisation" but just the right amount to make the language both simple and expressive without extreme measures like macros. Zig accepts that macros are problematic, and shows how far you can go without them altogether. OTOH, while macros are common enough in Rust that while you may not write them yourself all the time, you do use them frequently.

I guess that there is some small truth to your allusion to the static-vs-dynamic debate, but Zig does give you errors at compile-time, and elaborate things it can check at runtime are much easier to express than in Rust. But I would say that Rust is a language in a well-known tradition, and is clearly a "cleaned up C++", while Zig is something that we haven't seen before. It is not dynamic in the same sense as dynamic languages -- you get the checks done at compile-time -- but it is not part of the familiar tradition of typed languages or even any low-level language.

I'm not a devout minimalist, but when it comes to low-level programming in particular, language simplicity is a very important feature, and before Zig it wasn't clear it was achievable at all in low-level languages without significantly compromising on expressivity and safety.
Okay, sure I understand. At the moment it's really going from being a mess to managing life to that extend that I can at least be an mediocre student that passes exams and actually albeit late finishing some projects at work that require some upfront planning and reading. It's all pretty new for me and also working on getting exercise, relaxation and planning to work. The plan is to make a longer drug holiday 6 months in at the moment. But your are correct it's something to be careful with - but I've struggled with these issues all the way from middle school and I had so much trouble, lost opportunities, lost health, lost money due to messing simple things up so at the moment I'm just thankful that I have a tool in my toolbox that helps with these issues.
Are we still talking general purpose languages? What is your list of five languages?
Just replace them with land value taxes that are assessed for each block or maybe the entire neighborhood. Then split the tax bill based on the area of land owned so that you get a fixed rate per square foot.
In my opinion, it only has the possibility of making any sense if a game itself is (largely or entirely) an Ethereum dapp. I think a WoW NFT would make zero sense (and I think Blizzard would agree, barring the hypothetical potential of trying to exploit a fad purely for extra profit), but an NFT representing an asset in your Ethereum-based Second Life "d-game" could possibly make some sense. I know some dapp games exist and more will be made, but I'm not sure how practical or fun they are or can be.

Even then, there are still a lot of questions: what makes the d-game actually interesting/novel/unique/fun and an appropriate, creative, and clever use of a decentralized blockchain.

And although I mostly agree with this essay and the Medium essay it's referencing about environmental impact, I do think NFTs have some potential use cases outside of games, art, and bilking greedy people. I think those use cases just have to be a little further along the "blockchain from end-to-end" spectrum.
Demand for energy efficiency improvements already exists. All PoW adds is a new form of demand designed to scale up to consume all energy efficiency improvements; every time energy prices fall miners are incentivised to increase the rate of mining (unless the block rewards or coin market price also falls)

The Internet bubble was people making infrastructure available in the hope people would use it, not people converting DDoS attacks into money and claiming that stopping others using that bandwidth would be worth it in the long run if it lead to the invention of servers and cables that scaled to infinite capacity
The first thing I always ask when I hear claims like this is "Ok, so where's the demonstration of RSA public key in and private key out?" If that isn't part of the claim, I feel like there's nothing to worry about.
I think that’s a great idea and I’m firmly on your side.

However, we’re still on that slippery slope as described I think.

At some point Firefox, Chrome and Safari is going to start blocking almost everything by default - or at best severely restrict them.

The question is, how can we move to some kind of embedded analytics? It’s already kind of there in most of the larger platforms.
I bet people who find this worth optimizing are especially perplexed by variable-width fonts in programming.
I have to wonder if there is a statute saying Irish Breakfast is formulated to disgust the Queen or something/differentiate itself from English Breakfast
>“I have a theory that plays go off, like fruit,” Tom Stoppard

They do, but the classic plays are the ones that people considered as not having gone off.