skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was that OP's point and yours, "there are technologically far-superior coins out there", is not true by any stretch of the imagination. Pardon my attitude but this is getting out of hand on HN lately. It seems the idea that you shouldn't authoritatively comment on subjects you are barely familiar with goes out of the window when it comes to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. If you disagree, I'd invite you to cite some respected cryptographers and researchers who have made such claim.
For something high risk like that it might be you only “produced” something if you placed.
> COVID helped a lot too, IMO. Companies realised full remote is an option and you can increase your talent pool to include the entire planet.

I think this will be the most important legacy of COVID.
True, but, there are only a limited number of specific things the junior can say and not upset the balance.

Whereas the CEO can just casually pickup a call, break conversation and walk away.
I saw ”PingPong” and ”video messaging for teams” in the title and immediately got idea what this is likely about (and it turned out to be correct).
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I don’t see that as a dark pattern because it’s honest - I will often open up a CSV and then turn on filters, sort the data, maybe highlight a few rows. The warning about losing that when trying to save as a csv is an honest warning. The same as opening a jpg in Photoshop or Gimp, adding layers and trying to save it back out - you’ll also get a warning that you’re about to lose work by saving to a simple file format.
The difference is exactly that you wouldn't notice and the other person would. There's a difference between a recurring piece of media being a drop in the bucket and having a specific thing you look forward to watching or listening to every week. If one week you're waiting for it to drop and it's mysteriously absent you might suspect something is wrong.

Seems reasonable to me.
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My first tech job in London was at a medium-sized (~300 employees) tech company HQ'd in Seattle, with London being 2nd largest. Not long after I joined, one of the team leads left for a largish fintech, and slowly brought the rest of his team with him over the next couple of years. Despite this constant brain-drain, management refused to address the salary issues.

After a couple of years, I left to go there too, with a ~60% raise(!). I learnt from my manager, who left a month after me to the same fintech, that HR only benchmarked against "comparable companies in the same area", meaning west London suburbs, and ignored the pull of Central London finance, despite literally dozens of people leaving to go there. You gotta be realistic against who you're competing against, and thanks to how mobile tech professionals are, European companies are competing against not just their area or city, but often against Silicon Valley.
I have one of the purple MIPS SBCs from back when MIPS was briefly owned by Imagination (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagination_Creator https://elinux.org/MIPS_Creator_CI20). Slow as hell even back in 2014. I wonder if one day it'll be a museum piece :-?
I wonder if more mainstream investors waited a while to make sure BTC is liquid. I don't know the details of this - I guess there must be reliable enough exchanges now to serve customers of that caliber.
If you want to read about flawed metrics, how they affect the production and what to do about it in a form of interesting novel - check out The Goal by Elijjahu M. Goldratt. It's a classic, but gets recommended seldom for how good it is.
No, that number sounds like a marginal number to me. Someone else commented that miners pay an average of like 4 cents per kWh, which works out to about $30 of electricity costs to miners per transaction. Recent per-transaction miner fees are currently in the $10-20 range, but don't forget the winning miner gets a reward that's currently ~$330,475 per block.
I imagine MIPS (via Atheros, Broadcom, etc) was broadly deployed in things like home routers because it was royalty free, power efficient, and already had Linux kernel mainline support. Though probably losing share to ARM now.
> The value of standards is in their adoption.

Tim Sweeney correctly observes this, then continues to talk about "millions of hobbyist programmers". I do not believe that ISO targets, or even has any remote interest, in this market.

ISO is comprised of nation-state members who will inevitably mandate ISO standards as part of legal compliance. Various stakeholders actually participate in standardization efforts and thus also both already know the standard and are able to push it through. All of these categories (government, industries in highly regulated sectors and large stakeholders) have large amounts of capital. The amount of money required to fund a purchase of an ISO standard barely even factors in on a balance sheet.

Hobbyist programmers arguably make a lot of open source software that builds the foundation for today's and tomorrow's platforms. However, when the big bulldozers from the previous paragraph roll in, hobbyist programmers give way to highly paid employees of these giants; be it by merging a patch or be it by being worked around with a greenfield project or fork.

On the other hand, ISO has an incentive in charging money for their standards because this adds perceived value: If something is freely available, it is easier to dismiss it as a non-serious effort when debating whether it is worth to bind personnel for participation in the standards committees; the standards come across as valueless, worthless.

Looking at this vector of interests of the various parties involved, I see little reason for this state of affairs to improve.
Bitcoin and Ethereum are two different things.
Arguably it's just quibbling over a trivial terminological difference, but I get the feeling that you're thinking more about "Decision Theory"[1] (or "Decision Science") as opposed to "just Statistics". Decision Theory, of course, uses Statistics, and I guess one could argue the question of whether one is just a subfield of the other, or argue exactly where the dividing line is.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_theory
Is there anyone solving this problem for a fee?

Also, what do people usually do if they don't have a residential address? (specifically for example people who live in RVs or off-grid but maintain a modern lifestyle with driver licenses and credit cards and all)
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> Swiss nationals have won more than ten times more science Nobels per capita than Italians have. Ten times! And yet they're neighbors, and Italy certainly isn't lacking in scientific tradition -- Fermi, Galileo, the oldest university in Europe, etc. The "how" of science just really matters.

One thing I worry about in the US is homogenization in the way science is done. You won't find all that much difference between how scientists operate in California versus how they operate in Massachusetts or Idaho or anywhere else. There's pretty much the same grant application process, same peer review process, same journals, same conferences. And that would be fine if we knew that we were doing things the Right Way -- but as it is, it just feels like putting all our eggs in one basket.
... it's relevant because to the end user, moving money from place to place is moving money place to place.

Yes, moving money to protect it from hyperinflation. Protecting it from being seized or appropriated by corrupt regimes.

Bitcoin moves money very well in those contexts, can Visa do those things?
This is basic DRY violation. The number is duplicated twice and that can get out of sync (as in the example).

I think everyone has coded this way out of expedience and some of us have eventually messed it up too. But you could, for example, use a macro in C to only list the number once. It might not be a trade-off worth making though.

Personally, I've used reflection to do this kind of mapping of enums to functions in a language that supports reflection.
I used to work for a well-known tech blog, and I kinda saw this happen in realtime.

It's all about speed. The way articles would work would be that they'd be posted immediately by the author, and edited after. Sometimes they wouldn't actually get edited (after all, it was already out there and the views were already trending downward after an hour). And at best, the editing would just be spelling and grammar rather than structural, because you can't change a live blog post that much.

So, the result was first drafts of articles were basically the final draft.

I always hated it, but I don't know what else can be done? Google and Twitter and others give a huge boost to the first one with the story, and there's no much reward for doing it right.
How many examples of this exist besides gold and silver?
Embedded is going to become way less of a bestiary, at least in the five digit gate count RISC space.

ARC, Xtensa, V850, arguably MIPS, etc. all worked in the "we're cheaper to license than ARM, and will let you modify the core more than ARM will" space. I'm not sure how they maintain that value add when compared to lower end RISC-V cores. I expect half of them to fold, and half of them to turn into consulting ships for RISC-V and fabless design in general.
If there is anyone on earth who could reinvent the internet, it is Tim Sweeney. The metaverse is coming, and it will exist because of him. Think I'm being hyperbolic? Go listen to his SigGraph 2019 talk
I don't know the political climate in Oregon about hydro, but it's starting to turn a bit in Washington. Dams are pretty awful for salmon and so much of our ecology is salmon-based as well as the culture/livelihoods of Native Americans.

The biggest story in recent years was the Elwha dam removal. It's stunning to see how much the landscape has changed since: https://therevelator.org/elwha-dam-removal/

And a recent story about a Skagit river dam: https://www.king5.com/article/news/investigations/seattles-s...
(edit, but too late: The quote was by Dijkstra)
South africa also had water pipes, so your country is an apartheid country.
See? This is silly.

Israel is in a tough situation where there are civilians with relative who swear they want to kill al jews. Israel tries to be fair in this scenario.

A matter of fact is, non jews can vote, join the police the army and the country has laws that gives non jews the same rights as jews. There are scholarship for non jews, and even programs to make sure they are getting to be doctors lawyers etc.

Heck, there are non jewish judges (in the supreme court!), parliament members, and government ministers.

The situation is far from normal or sane, But this is very different than what the situation in SA was.

Now, all of this might change, as there are very dark forces that through the political situation in israel are trying to change israel from being a liberal democracy (at least striving to be) to become a theocracy/ethnocracy.

If they succeed, you might be right in calling israel an apartheid state.
>"But one free password app, BitWarden, has registered a fivefold increase in new users since LastPass announced its more restrictive policy last month, according to Gary Orenstein, its chief customer officer. “We’re understandably thrilled,” he said."

+1 for Bitwarden. It's open source, works on every device I've ever tried, and has a clean interface. I've got no idea why people are handing out 50 bucks a year for proprietary software when there's a competitive alternative around.
I believe Nielson also uses audio tags.
In raw economics terms, the price LA pays is lower than the cost of them opening their own coal plants, otherwise they would do just that. Therefore, it is for some reason cheaper to open a coal plant near portland (maybe closer to the coal source) and run a wire down to LA, than it is to come up with some other source of peak demand electricity for those 3 million people in LA who rely on this capacity. A private market does what is profitable, ultimately.

Maybe if we had public utilities, however, we would actually invest in 'unprofitable' nuclear energy and save our planet in the process, since we wouldn't be beholden to making shareholders a profit.
The guy is pound for pound the worst polluter of all the billionaires, flies everywhere in a jet, has a completely ridiculous and wasteful $150M house, imports the sand on his beach from the Caribbean, hoards farm land (biggest farm land owner in the US... farm land which is generallly pretty bad for the environment)... and on top of that, he's not a climate scientist, he's not a medical doctor, he's a former computer engineer and a manager. He also likes burgers. THAT'S IT. Why on Earth would people listen to him on any topic other than how to manage an IT business is beyond me.
And you know the depicted individual is wearing a queue... how, exactly? There's no hair depicted at all from what I can tell.

As for the wardrobe, no, it doesn't look that dated, especially for the time. Maybe the style of it, but conical hats and wooden shoes are both practical and still commonplace throughout East and Southeast Asia, last I checked. The clogs are probably the most objectionable aspect, and only because I don't know if anything resembling Japanese geta was common in China.

And further, the whole book is from the point of view of a child's imagination, so expecting it to map particularly closely to reality is entirely ignorant of literary context.
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You’re welcome. The article also gives some interesting insights into the mining business.

I actually I would love to see some Bitcoin miners to comment about this whole topic more often on HN. I know at least some of them should be lurking here but for some reason decide to keep completely silent.
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Would IETF where the specs are publicly accessible but it's vendors and so on in the various working groups be a better model?
> Whenever you read some article about advice for men or women specifically, try to substitute it with a power relationship: the person with more power or the person with less power.

I don't think this particular example is about the power dynamic. if I ask my boss "do you want...?" I really am just asking what their preference is. if I'm asking for something I want, I will ask "could we ...?" or "do you mind if I...?".

from my perspective, it takes a lot of inference to interpret "do you want...?" as a request rather than a literal query.
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INSAG-7 includes a soviet report as annex. That report is really fascinating. Already in 1976 the soviet authorities and relevant institutes were aware of the design related issues of RBMK reactors and had identified necessary changes and modifications. Obviously, none were taken, but all these recommendations were included in the initial soviet report on the Chernobyl disaster.

And in my lay man eyes, the RBMK reactor (which was also found to violate soviet requirements from the 70s) was a disaster waiting to happen. Inherently unstable, optimized for grid stability instead of safety, lacking control and monitoring, erratic behaviour under certain conditions and no clear operating procedures.

Edit: Also nice is that the first reaction was to blame the operators and not the system as a whole. Kind of what always happens with aviation accidents as well, it always the pilots fault first.
You're missing the point. A deed is only as good as the legal framework that enforces it as a representation of ownership rights. The thing that matters is that framework, not the technology use to implement it.

There are people who sell deeds to land on the moon (https://lunarland.com/), but they're worth little more than the paper they're printed on, because they have some of the same deficits in legal recognition that NFTs have. Those people have no more ability to will their certificates into having legal force than NFT advocates have.

In short, an NFT is little more than a trading card (representing only itself) unless a court would side with the possessor of an NFT against competing claims for whatever property it's suppose to represent (e.g. transferring ownership of the property/rights to party A using traditional means AND transferring the NFT to party B). If the court picks party A, the NFT meant nothing.
How's his private jet for the planet?
Everyone's right to celebrate the success of RISC-V, but part of me thinks it's a shame that there's relatively little architectural diversity (edit I should have said ISA diversity) in modern CPUs. MIPS, Alpha, and Super-H, have all but faded away. Power/PowerPC is still out there somewhere though. Apparently they're still working on SPARC, too. [0]

At least we'll always have the PS2. ...until the last one breaks, I guess.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC
Direct link to the Apalache model checker: https://apalache.informal.systems/
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This can happen with any enum to function mapping. You cut and paste and forget to change one or the other.

In C, you could use a macro in this call to make sure that the name/number is only specified once.
Rmarkdown theoretically supports python. I haven't used it though.
But I think the ISO paywall prevents adoption in the market you're describing too. I've worked in enterprise and government facing commercial databases for half a decade, been involved in dozens of discussions about whether some proposed piece of syntax is standards-compliant, and I haven't once encountered a reference to a section or page number of the actual SQL:2016 ISO standard.
Bitcoin depends on a worldwide network of computers which are indeed bad for the planet. The USD depends on a worldwide network of military assets which is 10x worse for the planet.
> general 'let them eat cake' style behaviors saying that iPads are 'so much cheaper'

This is a good visualisation of which things got cheaper and others got more expensive, over the last 20 years in the USA. It shows how a "consumer price index" in which, for example, the price of tobacco is weighted at >50% the price of education, can make it seem like it's all okay.

https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_p...

This post is also good in that it layers the hike in the price of insulin on the above graph. Be prepared to scroll.

https://insulin.substack.com/p/the-price-of-insulin-vs-the-p...
> France today gets three quarters of its electricity from nuclear power.

Yup, and one of the surest way to loose an election and / or media support in France is to ever mention the fact that you might even consider this to be a not-entirely-terrible thing.

Anyway, this person seems really interesting.
> This is definitely annoying behavior, but you do know that if you format the cell as text prior to pasting the data in it will keep it as text, right?

This only works sometimes, and I have no idea when or why.

The most reliable way I've found is to copy more than one column and use the text importer thing, where you can specifically mark columns as being text.
> Ok - but then you need to include all the exchanges and wallet developers etc.

Yes indeed we should consider all factors.
For Bitcoins we should count the number of active full-time people employed as miners and developers.

I feel like the amount of people required to maintain a system should be counted in green efforts.
Like for example bio supermarkets they provide you with products without packaging. Example you get your cereals from a giant glass container to your reusable container. Now that requires extra effort on handling/trasportation/refrigeration/storage.
If all those things require a lot of more time we should consider the time of X people vs the saving in Y plastic or the saving in Z plastic.

It might turn out that Bitcoin employees less/equal/more people time for transaction.
People's time is very expensive.
Just to clarify, what do you mean "instead of commenting out the code"? The above is equivalent to

if (my_var == 'some value') { ... }

which is not the same as commenting it out entirely.
> This is basic DRY violation. The number is duplicated twice 2 and that can get out of sync (as in the example).

I think it's pretty clear that the number is a placeholder for something reasonable, e.g. making an association between two distinct sets of concepts. You'll still be vulnerable to copy-paste or typo issues.

> Personally, I've used reflection

Now you have two problems (and still have to maintain an association between two sets of concepts).
Specifically, Hemingway was a journalist. His style is one I would expect to be a reasonable standard for newspapers in particular.
I find it "interesting" that Facebook doesn't allow that URL to be posted.
I didn't downvote you, but I suspect the reason people did is that for gaming, energy usage is a cost and for bitcoin energy usage is the point. They are completely different systems. Bitcoin's energy usage expands more and more as Bitcoin gets more valuable and/or energy gets cheaper.

If game consoles/PCs get more efficient, they use less power for the entertainment value delivered to the world. Or, if renewable tech makes energy cheaper, the fixed amount of energy gaming uses becomes less of a big deal.

If ASIC miners get more efficient, difficulty and hashrate goes up, and they use the same amount of power for the same amount of security delivered to the blockchain. Or, if renewable tech makes energy cheaper, miners will use more of it.

The "W" in PoW means work but it could equally mean "waste". The whole reason it's secure is that you look at the total hashrate of the network and go "wow, that is so expensive, nobody would ever burn so much energy just to double-spend some bitcoin". No matter how good hardware gets or how freely available energy gets, it must always be incredibly costly to operate the network, because that's the premise its security is built on.
> With Excel you can manipulate 200k rows easily. The same can not be said with Google sheets due to the fact that it remains a cloud based tool.

How is the number of rows related to cloud-based?
I feel like I'm alone in saying this, but I found Skylines to be a pale imitation of SimCity 4. It's a city-building game, where SC4 is much more of a city management game; you fill the map in Skylines, and there's almost nothing else to do.
Your argument doesn't really "disprove" CPI, as it has many components - https://www.businessinsider.com/consumer-price-inflation-com...
> what kind of impact this stupidity has on financial markets

Almost financial market professional, including those at the Fed, is tracking multiple measures of inflation.
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Like anything it's going to heavily depend on latency to the workstation in question. With cloud providers that have reasonable region coverage, it's not really that bad. In our tests, ~40ms latency is the upper bound of where you want to be before artists start really complaining, and Teradici themselves suggest 25ms for optimal results. However, depending on the task said artist is doing, you can venture above that, though for Cintiq/pen displays it becomes pretty painful and a "live with it" type deal.
Microsoft PowerToys on Win10 will let you remap keys. If nothing else you could make F1 do what F2 does.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/
Disposable wristbands (the type used for stuff like event ticketing) are also generally Tyvek-- water resistant and doesn't easily tear (so not likely to fall off and get lost), but does cut easily with scissors.