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Wow, this got a negative reaction. As far as I know nothing I said is inaccurate. The solar/wind bitcoin not being bad is conjecture.

I hope someone will help me out by pointing out why my comment was low quality, so I know what not to do next time.
You can tell it’s folklore by the part where they stop making him fill out the form

3/10 for realism
> many financial instruments out there, derivatives, credit default swaps, funds of funds, the crazy options stuff going on ... and you drew the line at BTC?

That seems like you are putting words into the GP’s mouth.

Nobody is saying these other instruments aren’t also ‘greed’, just that Bitcoin is no better.

That’s relevant because one part of the Bitcoin narrative is that it is actually better in some way, and not just another speculative instrument.
> No, I think he is right. Assuming the aim is to optimise for profitability, the machines output items are chargeable but it is a lawyers hours that are chargeable

I have updated the post to expand on your observation.
There's a old Dilbert to that effect. Wally: "I'm going to write myself a minivan!"
The convenience of having the same view (via IMAP) of my email from multiple devices is worthwhile for me. It also makes supporting my parents from hundreds of miles away much easier when they are on IMAP vs when I had them on POP3 before. "Mom, your email is also on your phone, your laptop, your desktop, and on Dad's computer. It's all the same."

I already trust my provider to handle my email once; there doesn't seem to be a vastly larger trust requirement on my part for them to handle it multiple times. (And epsilon additional privacy concern.)
When I say prestige, I mean among the population at large. The average person in America no longer looks at the Times as a prestigious organization. A few decades ago, they did.
Yeah, I think bitcoin has been completely surpassed technologically speaking. Monero in particular solved almost all of bitcoin's problems yet still can't compete with it in popularity.
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I don’t know. I know many people just want to play all the new AAA games and then move on. For those subscription services seem perfect.

Me? I buy Albums and listen to them a lot. I don’t use Spotify. I buy games like Pathfinder: Kingmaker (1283h), Slay the Spire (1011h), Stellaris (762h). I sink a lot of time into those games I actually love. I might buy games that I don’t enjoy enough, but in the end for me it still wouldn’t be worth it to buy a subscription like gamepass.

But I think there are a lot of people who want that.
The importing feature needs to be more obvious, but it's actually a down arrow next to "add flashcard". Exporting is something we're working on.
most people dont actually care about looking like Thor. if you want to have visible abs and a decent amount of muscle (brad pitt in fight club), that can be achieved in a couple years of training/dieting for the majority of people
When I read Fooled by Randomness I found it useful. Not groundbreaking work, but it drew some nice analogies between statistical distributions and human's over-certainty.
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Very cool! Reminds me of the old days of ASCII art, I think I last saw it mostly on warez readmes (some really impressive ones)

Edit: I love the combo of ray marching and fonts too [0], as previously seen on HN [1]

[0] https://www.rykap.com/2020/09/23/distance-fields/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24569542
NYT: the paper of "record." Regardless of past or modern quality, it seems kind of arrogant for a promulgater of copy to proclaim they have undisputed monopolies on truth and facts, doesn't it?
> Yes, and the selective bail outs and inflation which favor the rich are just the opposite!

Doesn't inflation favor people having debt? Esp. since salaries follow inflation.
Yes, I'm aware of IMAP as a protocol. My point has to do with the location and trust. I need to be able to trust the server as a point of mail storage.

While I agree that POP still uses the server as a go-between, at least the mail doesn't reside on POP servers forever. Whereas with IMAP, if I have 25+ years of email I'd like to be able to view and archive and search, all of that has to sit at the server rather than at the client.
This is more or less analogous to Blackberry moving to Android, isn’t it? Storied, old-guard tech company loses most of its market share, trades in its first-party stack for a rising open-source alternative.

Is MIPS still a big enough name to make this much of a coup for RISC-V? Or is this the last-ditch effort of a fallen star of the semi market?
I've visited it numerous times. The label on it doesn't make it ok or not.

The issue is the circumstances there don't meet the factual criterion of apartheid. That's not a question of feelings. The fact the apartheid label is applied here while it is not emphasized or even applied to non-Jewish countries is a double standard. That fits the definition of anti-semitism.
2018 article. Should be reflected in the title. Took me a while to figure out “hey didnt this happen already”:
“ But on Monday, Google (GOOG, GOOGL) announced it would shut down Google+ over the next 10 months ”
I've tried to get into podcasts more times than I can count. I just can't get there. Besides the advantages you describe, I can "consume" the content SO much more quickly on a page than a podcast, even if I speed it up, which seriously degrades the medium anyway.
I know, nobody really cares about facts in these Crypto flame wars, any more: It's libertarian economic liberation against greed and ecological destruction, right vs. left, democratic versus republican, the usual polarization these days. However, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

If anybody's interested, here is a fair analysis of Bitcoin's carbon foot print (2019), I found recently: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243511...

TL;DR: While there is this "energy consumption of Argentina" number in circulation implying Bitcoin's carbon emissions equates that of a whole developed country, in reality this number is closer to that of Kansas City.
As stated in a sister comment, it looks like Netflix is using DVC NICE for their VMs.

For the vast majority of this industry, the two larger players are Teradici with their PCoIP protocol (also licensed to VMware) and HP Remote Graphics Software (now known as ZCentral Remote Boost). Teradici is definitely the most widely used, but I know a couple of shops using RGS. NICE is an interesting project coming up in AWS, particularly since it's free for systems within the AWS cloud, and available outside of the cloud for a price.

I don't have any HP RGS experience myself, but with Teradici it currently supports Windows and Linux hosts, with software clients for Windows, Linux, and macOS. They also have hardware solutions (zero-clients) available so end-user operating systems aren't needed. Those clients are provided by third-party OEMs (e.g. 10Zig, Dell, etc) using the Teradici supplied chips[0]. macOS host support is coming later this year[1]. The host support is split up into two different categories: hardware with the Remote Workstation Cards which have a hardware encoder on them (uses a PCIe slot) that you plug display output into, and their software agents (standard and graphics) that don't require hardware and encode on the CPU and/or GPU depending on the agent you're using.

Teradici has also been fairly clear that software is the future of the product line, so the hostcards are not a good buy for long-term support. However they will be continuing the hardware clients with a "next-gen" zero-client coming out this summer with a boatload of new features over their older clients, but it's not really a zero-client in the truest definition of the word.

[0] https://www.teradici.com/resource-center/product-service-fin...

[1] https://connect.teradici.com/blog/macos-release
You're definitely correct that its a nuanced question whether for a given (user, analysis) pair they are better off in Excel or Python/R/etc. Specifically with respect to building intuition for a dataset, however, there is a huge benefit of having an interactive data representation (if only for the ability to scroll and see all of your data).

Because you can think of Mito as a frontend interface to Pandas, using Mito doesn't prohibit you from building intuition or analyzing your data in the same way you would if you didn't have the spreadsheet frontend. It just helps you write the Python/Pandas code faster + see the most up to date version of your data set in live time.

The typical Mito user uses Mito multiple times throughout an analysis. A common pattern is: start by just visualizing the data in Mito, create a few graphs to help understand the distribution using matplotlib (right now we only have a tiny bit of graphing support), passing the data back into Mito to do some filtering and cleaning, then lastly creating a pivot table output using Mito. Of course, it varies greatly from user to user, but that's a general flow we see often!
Quite to the contrary, it was obviously part of their point. :P Poster is definitely not endorsing violent invasions.
Purchasing power has been consistent. https://i.redd.it/7qqhlk5i48l61.png

The graph uses average hourly wages which does not include overtime, bonuses, shift premiums, and employer benefits. It also doesn't account for all workers.

https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/publications/es/07...

total compensation tracks pretty well.
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This has everything to do with our societies being powered by fossil fuels and nothing to do with bitcoin. High energy usage may be deemed wasteful, but if it was coming from solar power, it wouldn't be bad for the planet.
Well, cost of doing business. So it’s not perfect, nothing is. But is it still a better store of value than your bank and pension which you may not realize, but are getting robbed by the Robinhoods you voted to power to replace the manchild?
I'd expect nothing less wise from Dijkstra. I feel like every week I learn something new from that man.
sounds like traits in common with criminals.
I'm 40 years old with a masters in computer engineering, working in aerospace since grad school. Not even close to a millionaire WTF you talking about?
I think the carbon footprint of one btc transaction is probably enough to power all the gameboys in the world for a few weeks at least!
Just as a note the Dir of Eng from SoundCloud reached out to help me fix this, so hopefully it will get resolved.
Nifty, where are the specs that explain that? I got as far as the ldif files from ICAO with all the signing keys in then, but couldn't find examples of the part you are talking about.
I'm in control of my server (host) which is a shared-hosting account. While it is possible for them to store copies of the email, it is much more cumbersome for them to do that than if I just had my entire IMAP store residing on their server. For POP copies to work, they would have to purposefully copy and store all the email, whereas with IMAP they would just need to query the data store.
put those descriptive words in a markov chain generator, set the order low (like 2 or 3) and look at what comes out

this one's my favourite: projects.haykranen.nl/markov/demo/
Will the early access users get access to the treatment recommendations when the ability to give recommendations for treatment becomes available or will they have to do another round to get that? If I can do the test now and get the updates later I’d be a lot more comfortable signing up.
Google sheets has a 5 million cell limit, and can't usefully do things cross-workbook. In practice complex spreadsheets substantially smaller than that are slow and unstable.

That said, the multi-user editing is much smoother than excel and the remote API is better.
These companies really don't need any additional attention. (I say this as a fan of most of them.)

As a "startup guy," I'd strongly suggest looking elsewhere unless you have a spouse and 3 kids and really need those FAANG bennies
I think it depends on the page content and the type of audience you have. For a meme/reels page, for example, I don't think the audience is willing to try another platform just because of you. There are already thousands of pages and it wouldn't matter if your page is gone.

But for a more serious page, like training/news/store, I would make it clear to my audience that they can have some richer content from the same creators on another platform/website. Stories don't work as most people mute them. Videos also don't work as people usually mute them. Put the link in the Bio and let them know where they can find you outside of IG.
That's actually why I said we should zoom out a little. Disrupting global financial monetary policies or Gold itself which has a timescale of thousands of years => 12 years is a very short time (in fact the first 5 years can be counted off as extremely experimental, not-serious for-nerds only thing).
> with predictable results

Care to elaborate, because *if* there is going to be a fallout from these massive stimulus packages, it certainly doesn't feel predictable to me.

Indeed, we all like to think doomsday scenario, and covid-19 have trained our brains to think the unlikely is likely.. but it's not even obvious there is going to be a fallout from all this stimulus.
Sure, I wasn't disagreeing with your overall point. I was just pushing back on the last sentence:

> But lawyers? They're in the business of selling time in 15 minute increments. Their productivity is simple to measure in this respect.

I don't think all lawyers are in that business. There are plenty of in-house counsel that aren't in that business. Just as there are plenty of engineers and software developers that _are_ in the business of selling time in 15 minute increments.

I just don't think the productivity question actually breaks down along professional lines, but rather on business model lines (which, again, I think we're in agreement about your main point)
Outside of germany and poland most jews died in greece in the Holocaust. Salonika had a vibrant jewish population in early 1900s and now virtually no jews live in Salonika. During ottoman times greeks and jews were fierce enemies and killed each other in many occasions in Istanbul, Smyrna, Alexandria and Salonika.. Jews, mostly loyal to ottamans during the greek independence war were punished (aka murdered) by the greek army in many occasions.
How is it possible that a HN user espouses views like this
you'd asserted a simple statement that houses are (edit: only) assets, which is trivially rejected by showing just one of many other valid perspectives. that there is a spectrum of goods and diversity of economic intricacy among that range doesn't validate your original statement.

the broader point is that asserting a house is just an asset is more a value statement (and more abstractly, an aggression) than a truism. investment has generally become decoupled from its intended purpose of producing value for the many, not just the few (i.e., the efficient allocation of capital), and this kind of misguidance contributes to that kind of misallocation.
How much Swamp Dogg has the High Fidelity series sold? (2020)
I agree that spontaneous interactions are important, but we get spontaneous interactions via density, whether it's tiny but compact towns (walled villages, even) or large cities.

Busywork and drugery should not be the foundation of social interaction. Period.
Ah yes, this sense still eludes me.

Her: I had a huge crush on you in high school/college and dropped hints all the time.

Me: But you told me you had a boyfriend/were a lesbian/hated my guts.
I heard GAANDU (Google, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Dropbox, Uber) a few years ago. Apparently it's a hindi word that means asshole.
>Unless you know of a bank that will loan me seven figures at sub-3% interest rates based on 10% down and my income, and then let me spend that money in the stock market :)

That does indeed make a x% return in the housing market more attractive than a x% return in the stock market, but has to be considered against all the other factors as well eg. diversification, actual returns (historically stocks have higher returns), risk (10x leverage also means 10x more loss), costs (stocks require no upkeep, houses require yearly maintenance), etc. At the end of the day though, it's still an investment as opposed to something you consume.
I think the label you’re looking for is “woke capitalism”.
A single inverse-designed photonic structure that performs parallel computing
The parenthetical "(Consider a loaf of bread, with each slice being dithered Mona Lisa)." is one of my favorites of any technical article
Also a description of how many of the employees feel
My historical skepticism on the acceptance and proliferation of RISC-V looks more antiquated by the day. No real dog in the fight, but I would love to see this take off like ARM did.
> How do you explain banks and hedge funds putting their money into it?

Banks and hedge funds put money into cigarette companies and arms manufacturers and all manner of scam companies.

Their decisions are based on estimated risks and rewards over different time periods.

Taking a position in Bitcoin doesn’t imply anything about it’s nature or long term prospects.

Only that there is a perceived path to potential gains over a time period known to the investor, and not to us.
A large complex application seems like exactly the kind of environment where being stuck with a single allocator would be enraging. I personally like the idea of being able to give each component of a large system its own fixed chunk of memory (and an allocator over that chunk), such that if one component goes crazy with memory consumption it's isolated to that component instead of choking out the whole system.
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It's hard to compete against free as in beer. I hope users of LastPass have a way to export their passwords and import them in another password manager.

I've been using one of the several versions of Keepass (actually 3 of them, one on Linux, two different ones on Android.) It works well, I sync with SyncThing. Other people sync with any of the many cloud services. I don't know if it is appropriate to be used in a team.
Google's business model requires evergreen data though. They can't just take their current trove of data and turn into an Equifax that knows things like you searched for bread recipes in 2020. So they require continuing buy in from their data subjects.

Their power also comes from employees that can do intelligent (albeit evil) things with that data. Nobody thinks it's hip to go work at IBM. Microsoft had a bit of a mindshare resurgence because they pivoted from their Big Evil brand into more of an open company, but that's in spite of being a boring company rather than because of it.

Eventually when the shine wears off, big tech will be forced to give up the pretenses. But I think it has to happen memetically first, rather than vice versa.

> I think producing loss leaders into the market is a form of dumping that wrecks the markets

You'll get no argument from me about this. I'd state it a bit differently, being more concerned about Free/Secure options, rather than a "market" of competing centralized (inherently surveillance-based) products. But I do agree, and I'm really just trying to explore what's keeping them in their current state.
Not my field but from observation: Other security researchers watch when a CVE/vuln is announced and many have enough experience/knowledge to then know how to reproduce that vulnerability.

I suspect that the researchers involved all saw how bad it was and didn't feel that it was safe to let Microsoft wait, as (although I don't think it's particularly common) they may drag their feet on a patch. Leaking this vulnerable forces MS's hand sooner. So it's not really necessarily totally off from what I've seen in the past. Just not very common.

This tends to happen when researchers discover the zero day is ALREADY pervasive in the wild.
Signing the transaction does zip to block a double-spend without committing it to the ledger. The buyer could walk around town signing dozens of transactions for the same money and only the first seller to submit the transaction gets the money.

There's a similar problem with handing someone the private key to a wallet with a pre-set amount of money as an offline transaction. Besides not being able to verify the amount in the wallet without checking with the central ledger, you also don't know that the other party isn't handing out the same private key to multiple people.

Paper money or even metal money can be counterfeited, sure, but in low-counterfeiting environments individuals transacting can verify the authenticity of the script locally with reasonable confidence, without consulting a (distributed, decentralized) third-party to verify.
Metcalfe's law is also an interesting way for measuring value of the network

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
It’s a shame because Apple has some of the more interesting faang jobs I’ve seen (personal opinion ofc) but I just continuously see negative things about it from relatively poor pay, to forcing people to give up their side projects to requiring cult like obsession with the company.
The "not ARM based" MCU market might be interesting to watch as well. Not just for RISC-V, but also as ARM MCUs continue to drop in power needs and unit cost.
A growing pie doesn't refute the opportunity cost argument. Even if you grow the energy supply, you have to consider what else that energy could be invested it, be it food, or housing construction, or transportation, or even space travel. Energy is the real currency in this world, convertible between different forms, and mining bitcoin is sort of like an unavoidable thermodynamic loss for doing any work -- a high cost one.
Some of the “foreign threat actors” are also major Microsoft customers.
One issue is that most deep thinkers who challenge the neoliberal, corporate order have been ostracized to dissident status: Ralph Nader, Chomsky, and Chris Hedges come to mind.
Energy scarcity is a thing of the past for anyone who wants it to be. Between solar and nuclear, it's a helluva lot easier to get basically unlimited renewable energy than it is to go to war. Malthus hasn't been right about the way the world works in 200 years
There was an article linked on HN talking about exactly this.

https://dergigi.com/2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/
https://archive.is/ex59g
Wow Bill Gates is just an expert on everything these days.
I prefer the Gates version. Dijkstra's implicit premise rather naively assumes that it is somehow less expensive to produce fewer lines of code. It's arguably such an absolute statement that it subtly encourages people to engage in undesirable behaviors such as playing code golf at work.

Gates's, on the other hand, accurately captures the reality: while, all else being equal, a lighter-weight design is preferable to a heavier one, it takes some skill and effort to actually produce the lighter design. Which leaves open the possibility that doing so may not actually be worth the effort.
For people who want to roll their own system, I suggest following https://www.reddit.com/r/cloudygamer/. That's focused on commercial game streaming services, but there are many threads about people who roll their own game streaming system.

The low-latency high-quality requirements for game streaming is very similar to the requirements outlined by Netflix in this post.
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>The contractors built the on-campus housing without drainage

Reminds me of 2009 Dubai rivers of shit fiasco.