skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd modify that to:

"Crypto is 'backed' by the value of the sunk cost of the energy used to mine it."

...which is to say: nothing.

But for as long as collective agreement persists, there is volatility. And where there's volatility, there are profitable trades.

The natural question becomes "Why does, and for how long will, the collective agreement persist?".

For that, I have no answer. :)
> But no, they stuck with C# for god knows what reason

Mainly because Rust (2010) and Go (2009) weren't around when SO was first created (2008).
Twelve Tips to Master Programming Faster (2009)
May I ask what region you're in? Thanks.
To put it in perspective. During the recent cold weather the State of Texas was short of 16GW of power for more than 40 hours making it 640GWh shortfall in amount of energy needed. You would need 6400 batteries 100MWh each to meet such demand. The only thing that a single 100MWh battery in Texas will be good for is stabilizing the grid against short-term load fluctuations -- the job a similar Tesla battery has been successfully doing in Australia.
It's interesting that the FAQ says:

> FairEmail will send the Autocrypt header for use by other email clients, but only for signed and encrypted messages because too many email servers have problems with the often long Autocrypt header.

That might be out of date, now that Autocrypt version 1.1 has been published:

> the 1.0 version of the Level 1 spec mandated RSA 3072 keys for ecosystem reasons and only the more recent 1.1 version from February 2019 now mandates that the new default scheme for creating Autocrypt keys is Curve 25519 keys.

https://autocrypt.org/faq.html#why-also-rsa3072-and-not-only...
A side question, sorry for invading the topic:

How do I go from knowing nothing about drawing, to being able to draw pixel arts (I'm mostly thinking about tiles, textures and characters for retro RPG, e.g. Ultima series, Golden box games)?
the title is "Why I Did Not Go To Jail"

Does anyone understand why having employee options set a lower price would be illegal? Or is there just more details that were left out because the specifics are not necessary for the story?
If you're confident, what features don't they have?

I subscribe to all their products so I can verify this :) I'm not sure why they don't have C# or C plugins but my guess is that it's because there's enough extra work in those IDEs that they want more money for them. Rider contains the ReSharper backend, which is a completely different application from IntelliJ.
Very much not challenging the experiences in this post but I will say:

“I believe everyone can become a good professional as long as they’re willing to learn.”

was most likely speaking to her youth than her femininity.

Source: Myself as someone who has given advice to a lot of different interns/new grads along the same exact lines.
Just a few days, at the top of HN, was this post[0]: "FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversight of Boeing’s 737 Max".

It links to a Seattle Times article [1] that outlines (from the inside) systemic failures in how the FAA attempts to implement it's own mandate.

That article would lead one to believe that it is in fact difficult to be _overly_ critical of the FAA.

It has a stranglehold on innovation in the industry, and... well, just because you grew up with it (presumably) doesn't mean it's not the laughingstock of international aviation-oriented industries.

The FAA is a trashfire. Persons who grew up in the USA don't have a benchmark on what it would look like for an agency that did it's job well.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26376549

[1]: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faa-s...
As far as I read the article they are really talking about 100 MW maximum power output; they mention that the Australian version can supply that 100 MW for a bit more than an hour (so store a bit more than 100MWh), so they seem to be aware of the distinction but apparently don’t know (?) the energy storage capacity of the planned battery installation.
What is a coder's worst nightmare? [story]
I agree with B. Gates and hopefully the crypto bubble will burst again with massive bank ran to sell their assets (it will happen but no-one knows when).
Good luck
The freely-printed, non-gold-backed flavor of USD?
* English language comma thousands separator

You'll never find . used as a thousands separator in the UK, Australia or English-speaking Canada either.
Yes. That's one of the reasons I record 'demo videos' that are not to be shown to anyone, because the process makes me conscious of the crap I unconsciously have 'accepted' . In reality, I mostly was aware of that crap but ignored it for a bit. The demo video only amplifies how bad it really is.
K9 has an export settings feature.
Sally Ride had insight into the O-ring failures, and tipped general Donald Kutyna. Kutyna subtly tipped Feynman. Kutyna had invited Feynman over dinner where they talked about Kutyna's car and the O-rings inside of them.. So the story goes.

https://emptysqua.re/blog/who-broke-the-challenger-investiga...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19032574
Still celebrated today as part of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah
PayPal is acquiring crypto security company Curv
I don't think your critiques are accurate, but anyway, the "similarity" here is that you have the same high-level critique of both languages. This does not make Rust "pretty darn similar to C++".

For me, memory and data-race safety and absence of undefined behavior are critical features, but it would be misleading if I were to go around saying "C, C++ and Zig are all pretty darn similar".
XMR is great but no, it does not have Bitcoin core devs developing for it. And no, nullc did not implement bulletproofs for Monero. Maybe you meant nullc designed confidential transactions. A modified variant of CT was then implemented independently in Monero by Monero devs.
not only will it never die, it's more important and has greater impact than all your hipster languages ever will.
The paper is linked on the page > https://xrpl.org/assets/pdf/xrpl-sustainability-methodology-...

The conversation is just multiplied yes.
My bank integrates with this service, which seems to let you send money to anyone via their phone or email: https://www.zellepay.com/
The book by Leadbetter, Lindgren and Rootzen is good too if a bit dated.
Excel is programming. fight me.
FairEmail does support POP3 accounts.
Fighting is only a subset of competition.

Male lions will kill cubs fathered by another male without remorse. It is not the same as our primate instincts of war, but remarkably close to ethnic cleansing.
Thank you for pointing this out. The misallocation of capital caused by artificially low interest rates caused by central banks printing money (and the "bust" and massive unemployment that follows when lenders realize that the investments are unprofitable at the true market interest rate) is not commonly discussed.
> you may be unable to easily upgrade/update to newer versions without a significant amount of work to update all of the tests.

That's a code smell. Tests should only be updated to reflect a new understanding of the requirements of the system. If you're writing tests that are dependant on the implementation of code and not the behavior of code, then you're too tightly coupling your tests to your code.
> Is MIPS still a big enough name to make this much of a coup for RISC-V?

No, not at this point. RISC-V already has plenty of momentum without this. The only thing that might change that analysis is if MIPS has some architecture patents that they could leverage to get some kind of RISC-V performance advantage. But I doubt they have anything like that now. And it's not like they have a stable of CPU designers that are now going to be switched from working on MIPS to working on RISC-V - they likely haven't had any of those folks working there since the 90s.
Isn't z/Architecture just emulated on top of POWER? That's been my impression for a while.
Paper USD is backed by something though isn't it? It's backed by the US Govt. It's backed by the USG guaranteeing they will accept it.

Crypto ain't even backed by that.
I was talking about the comments.
Parent is talking about the Unicode Consortium, not the character encoding, that the consortium is responsible for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_Consortium
> hobbyist programmers give way to highly paid employees of these giants

They all learned C++ somewhere, and I doubt that most of them had access to the official ISO standard while doing it. (Yes, I'm aware of the final drafts etc)
this dude needs to learn about libraries.
Mining gold is also a very destructive and poisonous business that is incredibly bad for the planet. So is copper mining. So is manufacturing computers.

Thank god computers and digital networks are so important that we recognize the importance to keep mining these limited resources to build and sell more computers and digital networks and places to store Office yearly subscription receipt pdfs.

That said, something like 40% of all bitcoin are in just like 1000 wallets.

If bitcoin were to suddenly fossilize into the world's currency the distribution of wealth would be even more inequitable and concentrated than now with national fiats.
I will never trust Excel for manipulating any real world data. Period.

Excel only keeps the first 15 digits of any number you give it [0]. If you want to keep the full number, you have to store it as text instead. And then you can't perform calculations with it without converting back to a number and losing fidelity.

The two most prevalent data types in business are numbers and dates. It's incredible that Excel is rubbish at dealing with both and yet the world thinks it's the gold standard for doing "business-y stuff" in.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/l...
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Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
Oh, those. I assume those are just supposed to be a demonstration of what they do-- though they should really be marked as an example/demonstration.

It looks like some of the other series are clearly marked -- e.g. https://beeketing.com/bundles/bkcore/sources/images/notifica... --- but not those you found on the home page.
> Also true. The lack of cost analysis cost in my classes worries me very much.

Time to transfer somewhere else?
Scope matters. The purpose of the iterator is to encapsulate the state. An induction variable is not an iterator. A physical loop of tape is not an iterator. I'm starting to doubt your general point, because the specific isn't holding.

Take a look at the Wikipedia page for iterators, under the heading "contrasting with indexing". It's not explained super-well, but it covers a few topics.
I think everything is a backup with the possible exception of the landing pads. You may need to land the Starship before the booster has been cleared from the other landing pad. In fact, the second landing pad is one of the new items in this iteration.

Basically, I think they want to keep up the testing cadence without having to delay things due to maintenance. They say in one of the applications that there will be no more than about 10-12 orbital launches from Boca Chica per year.
Readers, you are discussing Bitcoin before the 4th of 32 halvenings. Things aren't so clear to most and dust has not settled. One thing is certain, it is not too late to read the whitepaper and learn what the emergence of the first new base layer money in 5000 years truly means and get your head around the significance.

Now, to the article. This is a write up response to a comment one of the world's richest men said on the app, Clubhouse. These are the articles worth discussing with this audience? Look at the final sentence of the article. Seriously? "This currency is not good for Green Planet." Yikes.

We're all on our own journey an in time all roads lead to Bitcoin. This is not a technology story, or an energy story, but a human story. The story of Bitcoin tells about people working with machines to accomplish something that seems impossible to most of us.

Bitcoin frees the slaves. Literally, not figuratively. If you have to sell your time, sweat, and blood to earn money, it is unacceptable to allow corruptible central planners to create that same money out of nothing. This is a power that no group of people should have over others, and certainly one that future generations will look back on find it laughable that a society would entrust people with control over the money supply after time and time again history has shown what happens.

Bitcoin is ending the monetary enslavement that central banks have been desperately clinging to. Issues around central banking, inflation, and money supply manipulation are not new in the story of human history. The current chapter is unfolding to see Bitcoin demonstrating an incorruptible money and it is growing up rapidly.

How much energy do you feel is appropriate to put toward abolishing central banking and freeing humanity? Personally, I feel blessed to have discovered Bitcoin while it still consumes less energy than small countries. What a time to be here!
Unless that is optional, it's a bug, not a feature. Attachments should never be manipulated unless asked.
Free version. Not sure the server would survive Hacker News without it.
Yes pp can handle data. But vba can not. And most spreadsheets contain vba for reporting and magic interfaces for managers. Slow and unmaintainable.

Any day: rmarkdown and csv
There is a difference between short term utilitarian value and long term utilitarian value.

BTC might have no short term utilitarian value, but in the long term the utilitarian value is to create a globalized monetary policy.

1. BTC is speculative because it may not actually achieve the goal of a single globalized monetary policy. Some other crypto might become the defacto denationalized currency instead, or maybe nothing changes.

2. A single globalized monetary policy may not be useful. However, no one really knows. People investing in any crypto seem to believe that a denationalized monetary policy will be better functioning.

Speculation alone doesn't imply no long-term utilitarian value exists.
I don't think anyone's seriously proposing getting rid of any of the major electricity producing dams though, just the minor old ones that are doing nothing of significance.
Good; comments and optional trailing commas are the two things I thought missing in JSON.

(Some applications might have use for other things too, such as non-Unicode text, 64-bit integers, cross-references, etc. However, such applications presumably would use a different format rather than JSON anyways. For things that can use JSON (which is many things), this JSON parser is good enough.)
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I was having the same issue when I last used it.
I suppose that's what things like this [0] do?

[0] https://www.homedepot.com/p/Scalewatcher-Nano-Electronic-Des...
I'm curious if someone could explain the architectural differences between ppc64le and aarch64? I've always heard they are quite similar.
If transaction fees were reasonable, you could simply sell it to people and they pay you in cash. Nowadays I don't know how resistant it is.
Exactly. You can get to the goal of less lines rather easily but it results in absolutely disgusting code since you're doing things like creating overly complex lines with nested ternary expressions.

Easy to read code with fewer decisions should be the goal of a code minimalist.
> This take is probably going to be controversial here, but...

You then state what seems to be the mainstream view on HN. Certainly I don't see it as controversial, just kind of obvious
Saving you a click... since I, for one, had no idea who Tim Sweeney was.

"Timothy Dean Sweeney (born 1970)[4] is an American video game programmer, businessman and conservationist, known as the founder and CEO of Epic Games and as the creator of the Unreal Engine, a game development platform."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Sweeney_%28game_developer%...

"Tune in to hear Tim Sweeney (founder and CEO, Epic Games) during his SIGGRAPH 2019 Talk, “THRIVE: Foundational Principles & Technologies for the Metaverse.” You’ll hear Sweeney posit the state of the games industry, the rise of creator-centric and social gaming, what the “metaverse” really is, and what it will take to build the medium on a larger scale."

https://blog.siggraph.org/2019/10/siggraph-spotlight-episode...
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Most would likely not even understand them as they are written in the best example of newspeak (from '1984') I have ever seen.
New strain of backdoor malware found in Solarwind probe
My original comment said:

> So if I just assign the majority label to all of the population of a given demographics group, I would get the same result right? i.e., predicting "left" for all minorities under 30. You would also get ~70% accuracy.

I meant that even if you control age, gender, ethnicity, a very trivial predictor (i.e., always predicting the majority label) could yield similar performance. What I meant to say was that their model may not perform as well as they made it sound.
I love how much the HN community is invested in demonizing Bitcoin for its energy consumption.

I wish for you bashing Bitcoin to keep all your wealth allocated in assets associated with fiat currencies.

I also wish that you spend lots of time running political narratives in order to stop a decentralized piece of technology from growing.

Good luck trying to reach out the Bitcoin CEO in order to ask him to shut down his "environmentally damaging operations".

In 5 years time, however, once the US dollar has lost 50% of its purchase power, you'll be begging your employer to pay you in Bitcoin.

By that time you'll conveniently forget the narrative about energy consumption.

You'll even claim that Bitcoin is one of the most important technologies ever invented, and that you always believed in it.
They will truck in thousands of load of soil to build it up. The production site is probably in greater danger of flooding at the moment.
Actual source: https://www.eejournal.com/article/wait-what-mips-becomes-ris...
A lot of long form articles are like online recipes though: A giant barely-related narrative about the subject’s home town and hobbies and life philosophies, and hidden within are the 5 lines showing ingredients and how to cook the food.
FAQ: OpenTTD is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenTTD

SpaceY[0] already available as online content package[1] to install directly via OpenTTD's in-game menu "Check online content"[2].

Reddit discussion threads available on /r/OpenTTD[3] and /r/SpaceXLounge[4] (addon developer is a Reddit user /u/javelinnl).

P.S.: SpaceY addon source written in NML — a NewGRF's Markup Language.[5,6]

[0] https://github.com/javelinnl/spacey

[1] https://bananas.openttd.org/package/newgrf/4a565101

[2] https://wiki.openttd.org/en/Manual/Online%20content

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/openttd/comments/k8hzs9

[4] https://wwww.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/lztto3

[5] https://newgrf-specs.tt-wiki.net/wiki/NML:Preface

[6] https://wiki.openttd.org/en/Manual/NewGRF
I had to do a quick context switch to make sure by ISA they meant Instruction Set Architecture not Industry Standard Architecture (ISA Bus)...
Providing your email will subscribe you to a newsletter that will send you (remote) FAANG job listings.

The upvote/downvote is not entirely wired up at the moment, but the intention is to eventually sort listings similar to that of most content aggregators - by relevance - as opposed to just sorting by date desc.
ANSI for languages now operates under the aegis of ISO. For the C and C++ languages, ANSI is one of the voting member bodies.
Stronglifts has a nice app that I don’t remember being overly intrusive. I just wish it were easier to use for other lifting programs.
The Fortnite money printer has made it possible for Sweeney to tilt at as many windmills as he likes.
We can (and China already does) use energy that would otherwise be wasted to mine bitcoin: https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1369007894969122816?s...
I think we should clarify what we mean by "lack of political will." The stakeholders who don't want (lots of government-supplied electricity | lots of low-cost housing) have plenty of political will. Their opponents also have a political desire, but a lack of political power.

"Lack of will" as a phrase suggests nobody feels like doing anything about it, when in fact, lots of people want to do different things and those with more power are winning out over those with less, regardless of which thing would be maximally beneficial.

This isn't a slight against you or the GP for using the phrase - it's just something that sticks in my craw when I hear it. Don't even ask me how I feel about the word "unprecedented."
After making the rounds last week and getting some feedback on our tool, we wanted to show HN what we wrote that catches the backdoors that Salesforce's Endgame (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26154038) targets. We would love to get your feedback and we hope you find it useful.
I'm not sure why you would think this is controversial. Fot example, Goodhart's law is commonly cited around here and its saying roughly something similar.
I feel like many if not all podcasters are my “friends” who I chat with, only I don’t need to speak. I don’t see why they should convey their ideas any faster. I enjoy whatever time we spend together and it’s usually enough to fill the time on my commute or washing the dishes.
I think it would be fun to create a version of this which pushes writing towards other recognizable styles like Raymond Chandler or David Foster Wallace. Maybe you pick a style from a dropdown and the analysis changes. You could possibly take it even further and automate some transformations of the input to stylize a piece of writing.
You bootstrap the pos chain onto the pow one, so you have your trivially checkable first part. After that it.s not exactly trivial to fake the whole chain without holding validators private keys (remember, they had stake in pow chain).

Im kinda at a loss about what other vectors of attack possible, hard to find any digestible info, and pos protocol designs are really complex.
It doesn't take it any prejudice to know there aren't likely to be many Asian people trying to illegally enter the US from Mexico.
This is why the body is so hard to understand because all these viruses like have multiple feedback loops with each other or with groups.
Entire planet talent pool but also all the noise
It's a glorified VNC client with all its inherent drawbacks.
I think they would have to fly out between Florida and Cuba on orbital flights so a little more restricted than Cape Canaveral.
The real answer is revenue generated/hour
An experience I had relating to medications and the stomach: I had salmonella food poisoning, week later I'm better and then I get a call from doctor who had got tests back saying I had salmonella and was insistent I take this medication ciproxin. I questioned it as was feeling better. Anyhow took the medication that turned out to be broad-spectrum and it killed all the bacteria et all in my stomach. Week of shitting like a baby (green) and was worst that second week and had gone back to work, yet ended up off ill again. Since then had issues with stomach, mood, even tendons and few other aspects and went from sporty type to not being able to do any sports.