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> Proof of work blockchains should be banned by various governments for this reason alone.

How does one ban a blockchain? Serious question.

Would you only arrest the miners or would you also arrest non-mining full node operators?

How could you tell if regular citizens were transacting with POW coins? Would you subpoena telecom companies for records where customers have visited known sites which transact in POW coins? Or would you go the AT&T route and pipe telecom traffic through a little cabinet that uses deep packet inspection to sniff out POW transactions occurring over RPC?

What about traders? Would you outlaw trading POW coins and make exchange exclude US customers? That could make for some serious arbitrage opportunities for tech savy citizens.

I would genuinely appreciate your answer to any or all of these questions.

I build cryptocurrency software and would gain a lot from additional insight into the threat model I face in the not-so-distant future.
China’s appetite for meat fades as vegan revolution takes hold
Is VISA an asset that protects against hyperinflation, is it permissionless to participate in, is it censorship resistant, is it pseudonymous?

You're comparing your bicycle to a cargo ship saying "see how much more energy efficient my bicycle is?". Meanwhile your bicycle can't tow 1000 tonnes of freight across the ocean. That's why is moot to compare them.
blockchain is a good thing. bitcoin is just a early adopter that refuses to go away because people keep pumping it up for one reason or another. there are many better alternatives to bitcoin that solve all the issues people here on HN complain about, but all you will read is people calling others "non-coiners", as if thats the reason anyone is against bitcoin.
I would disagree: if you close your eyes you can still tell the difference between 2 and 3 - by touch!
If those events happen, do you think the infra (electricity generation and telecom interconnection) that it relies upon will still be around?
Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic
It's less a question of if Bitcoin has utility and more about the proportionality of its utility to resource usage. The problem is that there's always incentives to increase the amount of processing power being thrown at Bitcoin but the utility of Bitcoin is independent of that. You can change the amount of processing power in the network without affecting the rate of transaction processing, rate of minting, or the perceived value of Bitcoin.
Note that our official Redux Toolkit package is the recommended approach for writing Redux logic:

https://redux-toolkit.js.org

https://redux.js.org/tutorials/fundamentals/part-8-modern-re...

It doesn't eliminate the "dispatch actions" concept, because that's core to how Redux works. But, it does simplify the vast majority of your Redux logic considerably.
ad-tech runs on a fractional of data centers right? So it's already eclipsed by crypto.
I like the game, reminds me of “Joust”

On the tutorial, I’d advise cutting into sections. Easier to read, you can go more in depth for each section, you get more posts out of it.

Nakama looks really good. Is 600 really the cheapest pricing? What about for just messing around?
I believe only a few of the original Zapier folks have options (I don't hold any myself, for example but I joined when they were around 70 people).
I think the answer is because it IS a tech site. Members here understand that Bitcoin is a vastly inefficient and ineffective way to achieve the end goal.

My view is definitely that Bitcoin solves a problem I don't have, in just about the worst way possible (proof of work).
Honestly, I'm thinking about buying a brand new Silverado with my crypto just because of how much I hate you whiny climate change bitches.
>> cloud-connected cameras in the office

While Verkada may have not been the best choice, I fail to understand why remote-accessible cameras are bad? In fact, I'd say they are crucial at the level of security & monitoring needed by a company like Cloudflare.
Weird - must have been some temporary dns issues. Thanks.
As a founder and CTO I had to learn about so much of that stuff on the fly. And most companies marketing is FUD. Happy to see someone take the "let's make this easy and approachable route".

As a software engineer, really happy that my current company started out with WorkOs!
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It tends to take the thread to a shallow place, when there are usually much deeper and more interesting aspects to discuss.
Cannabis: It’s a Climate Gas
That sounds like exactly what the headline says, though.
> Costa Rica is one idea so far

Oh, I was imagining remote rural in the US or a similar country (Canada, Scandinavia, etc). I have absolutely no idea what public safety concerns might exist in less developed places.

> want the dogs to not be able to be bribed with food

It's more that a solid looking fence, a few dogs, and some visible security cameras are highly likely to deter any attempts in the first place. If someone is armed and willing to shoot your dogs then you have much larger problems to deal with (and probably don't want to be living there to begin with).
Of course not!

I thought we were just listing things paid for in dollars. Like "the US military which backs the dollar, and the other armies which compete with it". The armies of the world ain't going away either. Nor banks. Nor status signaling.
You can probably tell that I'm a Taleb fan, but it seems that whatever we have in place for doing the same thing is rotten to the core. What happens when we get hit 2x or 4x as hard as 2008? The way financial systems are structured today is the problem, and decentralization seems to be the only answer. Bitcoin is exactly that.

Bitcoin's future value may end up being no more and no less than helping us preserve a functioning world economy given an unprecedented financial crisis. Is that worth double the energy of data centers? Yes, because without it you will have 0 data centers.

Solutions will have to be implemented to curtail that energy use. Could be better power sources, could be more efficient consensus mechanisms.
Love to read more about these stories rather than the same crazy cloud costs that get normalized all the time. Just by looking at Hetzner and others, I can see this kind of thing would be extremely doable but concrete stories of those doing it would be something I think a lot of people would enjoy reading about trade offs etc.
I love SQLite's software model (embeddable library rather than a separate binary), but I often sorely miss the rich data model provided by postgres. I miss things like strong type checking, special types to represent times/coordinates/etc., and advanced index types like GiST indices.
Having used this in production before, it's an absolutely fantastic tool for specific use cases. My use case was indexing fairly static medium cardinality geo data for lookup within a microservice that we hit from our primary monolith. You get fast spatial indexes and essentially zero additional operational overhead.
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>The same could be achieved by having different work hours in different seasons, no need to change the underlying metric of time to achieve this.

This is a mere pipe dream. Business aren't going to change their hours to different seasons. It would be much easier to just stay on DST then try and coerce business to change their employee hours based off the season.
The switch to DST for me is something along the lines of: "I've been noticing how it's getting measurably lighter in the evenings and now it's really light."

(Of course, ST is the opposite effect.) I care less about light in the morning as I tend not to be a particular early bird and where I live it's pretty dark first thing in the morning even with ST.
> The research topic isn’t blockchain related, isn’t based on buzzwords, isn’t Twitter driven, etc.

Well, one of the criteria appears to be "the potential to positively impact Ethereum", so it's hardly unrelated.

> The Ethereum foundation is using their funds to finance open research in a lot of different domains, you can check https://esp.ethereum.foundation/en/grants/.

So why should I believe they're more able to choose worthwhile projects to finance than any other foundation?

As your link says, the "ESP team will work with you to refine and rescope your proposal as needed, then evaluate the final proposal with input from technical advisors before a funding decision is made".

There are lots of foundations that finance research projects in whatever areas they're interested in, based on the funding decisions made by a panel/committee/team/whatever-you-like-to-call-it. What makes this one different/better?
You don't ban the blockchain, you make it illegal to use the coins. Then the network loses value and mining doesn't pay off. If you don't do KYC or AML, you will likely become part of the banned list.

Also you can look for energy consumption. Towns in upstate New York are banning new permits for mining. So it's already happened.

In short, society has certain expectations and if you violate those there will be consequences. Govt and laws are always behind the publics will, so it's coming for cryptos. Which survive is the real speculative bets that will pay off
I didn't say that. I said:

> A lot of their costs are for printing paper, but one of the main draws for paper is that they lock down the PDFs with onerous licensing restrictions so the paper is often far more efficient from a legal perspective.

The reason to publish paper is primarily because of the paywall. Oasis does not bother, nor does the ietf.

If ISO eliminated billing and stopped publishing paper then I would be unsurprised if most of their costs disappeared.
Holding 106% can be perfectly rational, it happens just because shorts create a loan.

Suppose we have a company and an institution has analyzed the books and knows is worth $10/share, shares are currently trading at $5. Suppose this is an unusually small company and there are only 100 shares outstanding total. Institution buys them all up since it's such a good deal.

Along comes Citadel who decides the company is going bankrupt and decides to sell the company short. Borrows 50 shares from the institution's broker and puts them up on the market. Now the institution sees that 50 more shares are available again at $5. Still the institution knows they are worth $10/share.. it's completely rational to purchase those shares and increase the holding to 150 shares even if the official shares outstanding is only 100 shares. Institution can sell all 150 for $10 a share assuming they are eventually right about the validation and Citadel will be the one that needs to make up the difference.
[Citation Needed]

The scrollbar is the only way to scrub/seek through a large page's content efficiently.
> since nobody wants the elementary school students out in half-light

Lol why? What do they think happens at half-light?
Sounds like a humanitarian disaster to me.
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This site is way too fickle
AWS Chalice (Awesome-Chalice)
How close does DuckDB get to fulfilling your needs?
Of people I worked with two are brewers, one makes furniture, loads doing agile scrum roles or PM'ng or BA roles
Whenever you make a submission, always check the title. The automatic title editing from HN often makes sense, but not always.
Are you being dishonest with rhetorical questions ?
Any other good sources, like books or articles ?
Dude are you even trying
To qualify the anecdote below, let me be clear that I’m an outlier: I have shipped‡ software on _lots_ of different stacks and 35+ different languages°.

I know exactly the difference between having to deal with the Java ecosystem for SOAP and the Microsoft ecosystem for SOAP—I had to deal with both at the same time at one job a decade ago. At that job, I worked with a lot of really smart people, but it was a Windows shop. Most of the people I worked with _could NOT_ work with the non-Windows platforms we had to deal with (HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Linux, VMware, and HP-UX). They would _constantly_ break code that was written to be cross-platform safe because it wasn’t what they were used to. On the other hand, at least I didn’t have to become familiar with how Exchange worked in order to integrate with _that_.

The number of people who can make the level of context switch you’re referring to, or working with multiple contexts like this, is vanishingly small in our industry. It can be done, but I think that you deeply underestimate the surface area of those ecosystems and the _willingness_ of people to put themselves in uncomfortable positions. The OP who talked about knowing C# but being interviewed for a Java position would have been _deeply_ uncomfortable writing Java because the tools they were used to weren’t available.

I would not make the same judgement you’ve made here. That said, if someone _wants_ to learn a new ecosystem, I’m happy to have them explore that (I prefer ability to learn over proven experience when I’m in a hiring position).

‡ Shipped: made it so that others could use, not just myself. This would include a project that I ported from Ruby to IO so that I could learn IO and a project that I ported to Elm in order to learn Elm. It does not necessarily indicate pickup. If we restricted this to stuff that I know that other people used, I might lose a couple more than the two I just mentioned.

° Languages: I include variants of languages that are _sufficiently different_ from their predecessors so as to require translation. This mostly affects the shell scripting variants (Posix sh, ksh, bash, and zsh are all _similar_ but sufficiently different that I count them; I have shipped substantial scripts in each). I don’t count gawk vs awk. Regardless, I vary between 3–4 languages and ecosystems weekly at my current job.
Web infrastructure companies keeping track of hundreds of millions of users.
Related HN threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26406969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26405056

Cloudflare's post doesn't mention it, but the Twitter account that claimed credit for the hack (and made all kinds of ridiculous boasts like "we could have owned half the internet") has been suspended.[1] Before that the owner of the account posted plenty of personal information, including selfies.[2] A Mastodon instance is where they're posting stuff now.[3]

It really seems like this person is mentally ill and it's only a matter of time before they get in trouble with law enforcement. I mean, it's standard opsec to avoid posting your mailing address on your l33t h4x0r account.[4] I realize the address is a PO box, but this is practically begging the authorities to intervene.

1. https://twitter.com/nyancrimew

2. https://archive.is/8IJ8G

3. https://notbird.site/@deletescape

4. https://notbird.site/@deletescape/105548475573915843
Misinformation travels swftly on Facebook – case study
> Visa does[n't] need to hold the balance of my account.

Yes they do?

> Visa does[n't] need to or makes available all of my equity worth of assets for me to transfer.

This is a horrifying bug, right? A thing that no person would ever want, and it's so rare that visa would make you talk to a person and raise your limit first, or they'd get more people involved to make sure you're not being coerced because it's such an abnormal thing to do. Lawyers in some cases, just because you're being so silly. But if you REALLY wanted to make a $1b debit card transaction, you probably totally could, just call the visa billionaire line.

> Visa does not custody my assets.

But a regular bank can, and visa will send to and from there with a debit card.
A blockchain could, I suppose, do something to guarantee the identity of the individuals, so you can track them down if something goes wrong.

But they already seem to have that much, in that TFA says that over a dozen people have been arrested. As much as I'm sure the trader would rather have had the supplies, the next best thing is to ensure that they don't get to do that a second time.

Stupid criminals might be worse for the economy than smart ones. Smart ones are limited in the damage they can cause by restricting themselves to harms that don't also harm them. Stupid ones can do any damage at all, with no limits.
I can’t tell if this is satirical, but rockets have not proven their reliability much better than 94% for an unmanned rocket and 99% for manned. Airplanes have reliabilities on a per journey basis around 99.9999%. Even if SpaceX is full of 10x engineers who can produce rockets 10x safer than before, that gets them to 99.9% reliability.

The airline industry, for all of its faults, is multiple orders of magnitude safer than rockets. Perhaps rocket based vehicles are the future, but rocket failures must first become drastically more rare or at least less prone to everyone dying onboard in the case of a failure to be used in lieu of traditional airplanes.

Rockets - https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/8566/what-is-the-s...

2020 Airline safety - https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-airlines-safety/aviation-...
It's a precise gesture, meaning that it happens when you want it to happen and not any other time.

I certainly cannot say the same for scrolling with a trackpad. If I happen to brush two fingers on the thing, things start scrolling when I don't want them to.
Correct - accelerant can be traded for “equity for lots of cash plus advice” or purchased “cash for advice” - I’m a big fan of bootstrapping to a financially stable state and having the option to take either route without the business being reliant on either - then again, in Australia we don’t have much choice anyway - venture capital and banks are both exceedingly conservative which perpetuates this approach more so than in other ecosystems with more funding liquidity.
> Trump had two neo-nazis in his administration

Bold claim. Who? Proof?
(The submitted title was "Zapier reached a $5B valuation without VC funding". We've changed it now.)
100,000 isn’t a “bunch of kids” it’s a small town
I think this is a problem for any "deep" occupation which can't readily be measured by immediate financial benefit.

If I look around me, I can identify only a very few who are paid a living wage to do a) a thing that they enjoy that b) doesn't have a direct, immediate benefit to others.

It's not just physicists, it's theorists of all kinds, the arts, history, and yes, underwater basket weaving too.
> In service of the BTC network, which has what utility?

The safest safe haven asset. A global currency of fixed supply controlled by computer algorithms.

> There are quite a number of criminal or at least grey market uses for BTC.

Criminals the world over prefer cash. Should we ban cash?

> But what are the legitimate uses that are not as well or better served by the traditional payment networks?

A programmable, internet-native inflation-proof store of value with transparent fully-auditable supply metrics. Or to quote Elon Musk, “simply a less dumb form of liquidity than cash”.
I can. The churn causes a lot of wheel reinvention, bugs out the ass, security vulnerabilities, dependency hell, and I know others here could go on a rant about something I'm completely missing.

We shouldn't stop innovating but we should sure as hell should stop chucking half baked shit into production.

One measly example: Cypress. Everyone raves about it in blog posts, some dev immediately downloads it into their project and does a POC and calls it good. Fast forward to mid-late project and you are upgrading, downgrading, refactoring, and spending hours and hours trying to work around the issues. It's a great innovation, but my god. Self-induced stress.
Yes. I'm talking about financial collapse, not destruction of infra.
Apple fire: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fire-rages-throug...

Google fire: https://www.google.nl/amp/s/gigazine.net/amp/en/20060313_goo...

AWS fire: https://money.cnn.com/2015/01/09/technology/amazon-data-cent...
Google, Cisco, Microsoft, AWS, Linux, OpenBSD, ...

... Tailscale...

You may not be in the class. I only live next to people in that class, I'm not in it myself. But it exists.
I go back and forth on my opinion of public unions but since you said you weren’t aware of the argument of why some feel they aren’t favorable, I’ll play devils advocate.

Typically, in private union shops there is a check and balance between union demands and the viability of a business. Meaning, if a union gets too greedy they create a threat to their own existence by potentially driving their employer out of business. I witnessed this in the automotive sector when unions had to renegotiate their rates in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Workers brought in afterwards were often making less than half of what they would have made if brought in before renegotiation. I don’t think that same check exists (or is at the very least slower and weakened) in the public sector because the govt is a monopoly and can often raise taxes. Sure citizens can try to elect politicians that buffer this but at best it’s a process that takes years to enact and at worst is ineffectual. Because they have a captive “customer” base and a “company” that can’t go out of business, it provides a theoretical avenue for extortion. Besides all of that, civil servants are intended to serve the populace (hence the term servant) and not be strictly motivated by personal gain; they generally take an oath, meaning they are expected to answer to a higher calling. (I also have lots of reasons to believe public unions are beneficial but like I said, just wanted to potentially give a side you weren’t familiar with)

Regarding PPP, there’s been some good links in this thread that show public sector unions are quite strong despite the dwindling private sector unions. Meaning government policies are not enacted devoid of union influence. High level policies will almost always be driven by political appointees so I have doubts that an even more unionized public sector would impact on these policies
Never heard of Nakama before, it has some really great documentation:
https://heroiclabs.com/docs/index.html
So when you said "Bitcoin would do just fine if its energy consumption dropped to 2008 levels.", the phrase "do just fine" means "rapidly grow its energy consumption back to present levels"?
On the topic of scrollbars and UX, I like it when a program shows a mockup of the rest of the window in the scrollbar area. For example, Kate from KDE does this. It's helpful not just to know where you are, but to see the basic structure of the document that's left to view.
A New Lens on Understanding Generalization in Deep Learning
I'm another in the camp of "Why not standard time?" It seems like a lot of experts agree Standard Time is more healthy. Plus two whole countries (admittedly in Europe) tried permanent DST and either stopped it or flipped to permanent Standard Time. So is this just an uninformed position we're pushing forward or is the US truly unique?

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
It's amazing the volume of bad faith discussions regarding this that came out of the last four years that was nothing more than orange man bad.
Maybe, but being a free system everybody is more than welcome to build something better. I'll be the first in line to hop on.
Malice implies intent.
It’s getting old seeing the same posts with no new data or analysis day after day.

I get that people feel this is important, or perhaps are excited to share something wrong with Bitcoin, but I’d be surprised if 99% of the regular visitors to this site haven’t heard about Bitcoin’s energy use and perhaps heard some counterarguments already several times.

It really does seem like a grudge more than a genuine care. For example, you can often find some of the same accounts parroting cherry picked takes or intentionally misleading comparisons in the comments.
No matter where you fall on this politically, Parler is clearly steeped in incompetence.