skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not even a binary choice. The price of the amount of the electricity spent by miners is pegged to the value of the block reward[1]. As the market value of Bitcoin goes up, so does the mining electricity consumed. And if the market value of Bitcoin goes down, so will the mining electricity consumed. So there's an equilibrium: the electricity consumed is already settled at the value being generated.

And value is being generated, because Bitcoin is currently inflationary. The inflation is exactly the block reward that is being forced, through the economics of it, to be "burned" in electricity. If that were all that were going on, Bitcoin would drop in value accordingly. But, for a decade now, that hasn't been happening; the increase in market value represents the value being generated.

My point is that the economics of the situation means that the electricity being consumed is already in equilibrium with the value being generated, and will remain so.

[1] Plus the value of the transaction fees paid in each block, but that doesn't really change the economics here. The reason it's pegged like this is simple: mining is profitable as long as the electricity purchased still results in a return, which provides the upper bound. Spending less leaves money on the table for other miners. So the price of electricity consumed stays in equilibrium with the fiat sale value of the Bitcoin mined.
Considering that Google pushes AMP, they aren't exactly speaking from high moral ground here.
(1) even a 51% attack can't generate fake transactions to transfer that money

(2) social power with blockchains (i.e. having people's ears on the social networks) is far more important than $$ power: If nobody wants to install and use your blockchain, no amount of $$ can fix that.
Amazing. I can install applications (thankfully) on the RDP instance I connect to, so I shall definitely give it a whirl.
Because money laundering is a crime that doesn't recognize borders. If the US wants to take a strong anti money laundering position that is something I agree with.

It is hard not to when you see awful people taking over governments the world over and stealing completely insane amounts of wealth from the people.

This isn't nickel and dime crimes. These are insane crimes that do damage to billions of people on scales you can't even measure. These people should honestly face life imprisonment, but they never do.
I call it "EVE Offline" but it's not really offline, it's outside the game world, in the real world.
Its not and for you to write that you didn't really visualize what I described

At the bare minimum you should realize that any KYC’d individual can convert billions of dollars of crypto to US Dollars in a day without moving the markets more than a few percent

and after that you should realize that classifying a transaction as clean is not difficult

But if you don't want any transaction associated with anyone’s identity it is simply more time consuming, eventually you are still getting to a KYC’d individual that can receive a wire transfer in dollars at any meaningful amount in a day

And finally, you can try to reread what I wrote earlier, jot the steps down on a napkin if you need to, its not that complicated you are just starting from a place that assumes an omniscient state and a culture of stigmatizing the movement of money, and thats just flawed
Speed is also extremely expensive due to the rocket equation- changing your velocity, that is.
No, I have not disagreed with the Word; merel served it up for discussion.

> In my mind, you're not really a Christian, but obviously in your mind you can be whatever you want.

[Curtsy goes here]

> You clearly denounce these parts of the scripture. How can you call yourself Christian and still disagree with these core beliefs of Christianity?

I suppose that I'm supposed to go all Newton's 3rd Law in response to your troll. Is that what you require?
You can also lock your credit down with the main agencies. I do this during normal times and only unlock when I know I need to secure a new line (such as a car loan or moving)

We don’t chnage credit cards hardly ever. But would need to do it for that too
I largely agree with you, but for another example: sportsball. I went to a school that was real big on it. We had a Rival Team, with an annual The Big Game. I had family and friends at the Rival School. I can imagine a reality wherein I give a shit about sportsball. In that reality, I might find myself rooting for the Rival Team: I'd belong to a counterculture. Maybe I'm already in the counterculture because I don't give a shit about sportsball. I don't see sports disappearing should society become more just; I don't see such a counterculture being inherently negative.
"isomorphic in the structures they produce"

That's a function: anything -> text. It doesn't mean anything.

EDIT: Also, I typo'd Shall for Dhall. My bad.
It really depends on which filter bubble you're stuck in. Mine is ok too, but some people see very different things: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/opinion/facebook-disinfor...
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Try vimeo.com instead. Lots of artists, quality on average is much higher than youtube.
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Fair point.

In this case, though, the error was a transcription error in the birthdate. That caused a mess.
Why can’t the business pay the bill?
The apps being discussed will generate QR codes that the verifier will scan. But these codes are meant to be limited-time codes, so that if a new COVID strain appears and the old vaccines don’t protect against it (or it turns out that annual boosters are necessary), the person will no longer be able to report as vaccinated but will go back to the unvaccinated category.
Yw. Np. So I just searched for "site: readthedocs.io kids python" https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areadthedocs.io+kids+p...
and found a few new and old things:

SensorCraft (pyglet (Python + OpenGL)) from US AFRL Sensors Directorate has e.g. Gravity, Rocket Launch, and AI tutorials:

> Most people are familiar with Minecraft [...] for this project we are using a Minecraft type environment created in the Python programming language. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Sensors Directorate located in Dayton, Ohio created this guide to inspire kids of all ages to learn to program and at the same time get an idea of what it is like to be a Scientist or Engineer for the Air Force. We created this YouTube video about SensorCraft

https://sensorcraft.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html

`conda install -c conda-forge -y pyglet` should probably work. Miniforge on Win/Mac/Lin is an easy way to get Python installed on anything including ARM64 for a RPi or similar; `conda create -n scraft; conda install -c conda-forge -y python=3.8 jupyterlab jupytext jupyter-book pyglet` . If you're in a conda env, `pip install` should install things within that conda env. Here's the meta.yaml in the conda-forge pyglet-feedstock:
https://github.com/conda-forge/pyglet-feedstock/blob/master/...

"BBC micro:bit MicroPython documentation" https://microbit-micropython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

$25 for a single board-computer with a battery pack and a case (and curricula) is very reasonable:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Bit

> The [micro:bit] is described as half the size of a credit card[10] and has an ARM Cortex-M0 processor, accelerometer and magnetometer sensors, Bluetooth and USB connectivity, a display consisting of 25 LEDs, two programmable buttons, and can be powered by either USB or an external battery pack.[2] The device inputs and outputs are through five ring connectors that form part of a larger 25-pin edge connector. (V2 adds a Mic and a Speaker)
Pay attention to how clearly information was presented in those days. I've not come across any media today that can present information in systematic and concise manner without trying hard to grab my attention, perhaps a handful of YT channels are an exception.
Relative velocities are just a huge problem. Unless the object and the catching item are moving near the same speed, chances are the debris will just punch through the item meant to catch it and keep trucking (and maybe make more debris in the process)
> bacteria that causes wet dog smell

Is wet dog smell caused by some particular bacteria, or would this be more like wiping out an entire ecosystem?
> This is a non sequitur?

The gp said the problem was the price.

> Slaves are all, without exception, paid for their work.

My understanding of slavery and “[being] paid” is substantially different than yours.

> In most cases, though with some exceptions, they're paid at least partially in currency.

I’m not sure this is true either, but contributing food and housing for slaves is not in any sense paying them, but maintaining them as property, since food and housing is a necessary expense (they wouldn’t be functional slaves otherwise). Its more akin to maintenance on machines.

I think what you’re getting at is that while their labor is compelled, they are somehow compensated for it. Is that a fair statement of your assertion?
> It's the end-user that gets the brunt.

as they should.

At least it is in their face now and can entice curiosity.
Right, they bill on what Medicare/insurers (apparently) want, and then are unable to quote cash because of that.

Not sure why describing what they do is being treated as a defense of it.
Because the 1% isn't homogenous and a lot of them will want to keep the system working instead of killing the goose that lays the golden egg. The 1% is about 1.5 million people. Good luck getting most of them organized for a certain cause that will result in destruction of wealth mid term at the latest.
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Has anyone aggregated hospital cost data yet or is it something that is only there if you ask for it? Are there hospital APIs for this?

Not that they are mutually exclusive, just that I wouldn't imagine a pricing service exists yet if it's just manually gotten.
I think it’s lovely.
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“Spying” looks like editorial click bait. It isn’t even mentioned in the article. The concern I think is domestic use to commit genocide against their own people.
Ask HN: How do I deal with “maintanance” phase in my job? I have nothing to do
Hello, my job as Java programmer is tolerable if i have clear cut tasks to do for example: "You have 2 days to implement this feature thats solving this problem".

But many times there is no tasks at all. I need to raport hours spend in my job (at least 80% per month, otherwise i wont get paid), but i have no idea what to do when there is no new features to make. Most of relevant codebase (i meant services code) already has unittests. There is also case make for refactoring but i hate refactoring - i am always afraid of breaking something, and i have no ideas, where refactor is applicable and where its waste of time.

I dont know what to do at my job, and i dont enjoy it. Can i have some advices?

I am not 10x engineer, just mediocre developer
A cautionary note: Don't assume that the low price is "what it really costs". It often happens that hospitals lose money on negotiated rates with some insurance companies, and have to find other ways to recover that money (e.g. high prices for other procedures).

So the lower rate in the Chicago hospital of $4613? Quite possible the hospital is losing money when they bill that rate.
States’ already turned to contractors to design the system of digital signatures on their biometric passports, but these passports remain secure, so your sarcasm is unfounded.
The goalposts of what is considered career ending is always moving. Something you say today could not be career ending, but it could be career ending when somebody digs up dirt on you in 10 years.

Just look at the whole wokeness movement which has taken root in the last few years and compare what was acceptable to say in 2010 vs what is acceptable to say in 2020.
If we're talking about car phones, which I admittedly know very little about, those were released in 1946[1]. So that would mean it was ~40 years until they became popular for rich executives.

I think it's fair to say that crypto's "release" was in 2009. But the point being, technologies rarely hit "widespread adoption" within 10 years of release. I'd be curious to hear counterexamples.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_phone
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Always thought it'd be cool to have a levels.fyi for different operational costs across various hospitals (obviously insurance and different coverage makes it a bit complicated and tricky but would still bring a lot of transparency across the board)
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We have no national ID in Australia and the federal government has limited constitutional powers. We have tax file numbers and medicare numbers but they are only used for tax or medical payments and for nothing else.

Like the US it is a federal system and states have constitutional authority over road rules, registration and licensing and can do their own thing. Every state has its own websites and apps for these things. Half our states do not have digital licences yet but some of them will be ahead in other areas. I suspect if we had to wait for something national to happen the less progressive states would hold us all back.
I think "rapidly expanding and exothermic" is equivalent to "explosive" at least functionally.
this is so much better than the average hn comment.

you so much better made me rethink everything.

thank you.

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This was an independent decision by Japan.
> The fact that nobody can simply say, "here is what Bitcoin does, this is why the energy consumption is justified" is a strong indictment against the supposed value that Bitcoin brings.

I argue the opposite in a separate comment. The fact that Bitcoin has retained and increased its market value, despite having being inflationary this entire time, demonstrates the value that it brings. I can't tell you where that value is, but if it weren't there, the market would collapse. And it hasn't.

Perhaps 10 years isn't enough for a speculation bubble to burst. But then, at what point would we say that there isn't a bubble? 50 years? 100 years? One might ask the same question about gold since we left the gold standard. Is indefinitely sustainable speculation a bubble at all? Or is that what we call a commodity?
I’m surprised GameStop hasn’t announced that they are going to release an NFT of their logo.
Pat McCarthy needs to go; under her governance hundreds of millions of dollars went missing, and now, they leaked records of millions of Americans.
The intent is to maintain status-quo despite evidence that it's a broken system for medical users. Profits are being made based on the system we have. It's boards & c-suite executives keeping their fiduciary responsibility to their investors by lobbying against structural change. The intent is clearly there.
It could lead to an ... interesting user experience if different services had slightly different data
Without a timezone the time is meaningless for many purposes.
Really? Most people I know are straight and in nuclear families.
I’m sorry, this is unacceptable reasoning.

We are owed a better API, let’s get the right people on this.
And guess what... they have been hacked:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/aug/07/hacking.s...

https://www.news18.com/blogs/india/jaimon-joseph/your-biomet...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/19/passport.security/index.h...

https://www.google.com/search?q=biometric+passport+hacked
Yeah this is very obviously punching down on 18 year olds who have simplistic ways of expressing their politics and who don't actually have a lot of power.
I don't think we should shoot the messenger.

There are too many academics with huge egos. Too many papers obfuscate simple results behind unnecessarily complex and brittle mathematical models, because huge formulas and proofs make the authors look smart, and impressing the reviewers is a requirement for publication.

Everyone who has a PhD in engineering knows professors who make careers out of solving made up problems with tenuous connection with the real world, and thus highly questionable utility. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I think engineering is about solving practical problems and building shit.

And then in physics, it's apparently now mainstream to produce theories that aren't testable. Of course, the math has to be very sophisticated and specialized -- dead-end work with simple math wouldn't get funded, much less become an entire field of study.

Which is to say: explaining reality is hard, and all the linear problems have solutions. Today, some find it more convenient to invent another universe that still has open problems, and solve those. To obfuscate, in comes a ton of math with weird notation invented with colleagues who also play this game.

It would be awesome if 3 generations of researchers got scooped by an applied physicist from a different field because nobody bothered to model galaxy rotation curves with general relativity. GR would be too boring, entirely lacking in crazy math.
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That seems... High? Does every, or even most people in the US buy non-grocery items every week? AFAIK most food is domestic, and I imagine most if not all the packaging for that is domestic as well.

Sure if you buy semi-durable items: clothes, shoes, electronics, etc.
Found it: https://www.captionpop.com/

It looks like there are a few browser extensions for displaying multiple subtitles as well; e.g. "YouTube Dual Subtitles", "Two Captions for YouTube and Netflix"
At least in USA, veal consumption is low enough that most of those surplus bulls are slaughtered as "mature" steers at ~20 months of age, not as calves. (Some people may not consider that much of an improvement!) Also there is sexed semen, which avoids the issue completely.
Pleasantly surprised to see this is actually about holograms, and not a volumetric display misusing the term.
I've been ignoring surprise medical bills for 10 years, at least $10k worth altogether. None have reported to credit bureaus yet so I will continue to ignore letters.
Considering the current culture of "canceling" child books (in this case nearly 200 years old) this will be interesting.
Spinning masses produce gravitational waves that are described by the same equations that describe magnets (a peculiar coincidence, to say at least). If galaxy cores didn't spin, stars in the galaxies would fly away as they are moving way too fast, but thanks to that additional gravitomagnetic effect, the stars experience the additional pull to the center.

Hypothetically, a disk that's spinning sufficiently fast, would create the antigravity effect. The only problem is that it would need to spin unrealistically fast.
> But when it come to health care, you ask them for a cash price, they said they don’t know.

As with everything, "it depends".

You often can get an idea from your insurance company, who will often provide you with what's called the "usual and customary" rates for a given procedure (in-network). Depending on the procedure, though, it may be hard to pin down. The procedure you want may actually consist of 3 things, and you need to look at all 3 up.

Also, if you call some private practices, and if it's a standard procedure (ultrasound, etc), you will often get a quote if you tell them you'll pay cash without involving insurance (some people ask for the "uninsured rate"). Often that will be less than the insurance negotiated rate. The down side is that whatever you pay will not count towards your deductible.
A few hundred fines in a union of a half a billion people.Right. I'm based in the UK and from my own professional experience dealing with GDPR and ICO,all I can say that companies can and do play pretty wild with data because the reprecussions are simply not there. Nobody is busting your door with fines unless you do outright absurd things+ backlog of cases is so long that by the time someone will start looking into it, you may not even be in the business anymore.
But I didn’t like the way it was named as if it was something specific.

‘Matter’ makes it seem like a specific thing when it was just a made up thing because we didn’t know some other thing. (I like talking in past tense about dark matter)

In general I don’t like the way science is taught as if we already know everything. It would be much better to make more of the things we don’t know. That would be a lot more inspiring.
Also, according to the BLS, one of the 10 most dangerous jobs in the country. If met plenty of farmers that have missing pieces.
Bear in mind the PoS network is already running, with 100,000 validators and $6 billion staked, after years of R&D. This last bit is relatively simple.
> bacteria that causes wet dog smell

My dog had a terrible yeast allergy. His paws would swell, his hair would fall out. He was constantly itching. We had to bathe him twice a week with what was basically a shampoo form of Vagistat, and every day had to coat his paw pads in actual Vagistat, and in between the toes and pads. Oh and tons of steroids 10mg 2x day.

He HATED it, but it kept him itch free, and he never smelled like wet dog.

The steroids also served a second function we didn't know at the time, they kept his brain tumor under control for about a year until we found it and had grown too big to be controlled any longer. So it gave us an extra year with him before we had to put him down after 2 days in an induced coma trying to get the seizures to stop.
Simple. The people at the Capitol were not their rioters so they were armed hostage takers, a thrust for a coup, armed insurrectionists etc.

The people at the Portland Federal Courthouse are their rioters who are brave dissenters expressing civil disobedience in the tradition of Gandhi and MLK. They are advancing the cause of marginalized communities who lack a voice. Portland is a tertiary city so no govt business of note happens at the federal courthouse hence no disruption of normal function. /s

See how easy it is? Of course when the tables are turned the other side will do the same inversion and law and order will degenerate and so will our society.
To be clear, this is not a joke or something. Fairy tales in their original forms were very gruesome, and many of them still are. (This is the first time I've heard of the "bad" ending to snow white though.)

While not a fairy tale, the "Max and Moritz" [0] story by Wilhelm Busch is much in the same vein and to this day a common bed time story for children in German-speaking countries.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_and_Moritz
That's awful. I hit my head in Thailand and went to the hospital, excellent experience I was in and out in 2 hours, got CT scanned and fully examined by a specialist, then left with a USB drive of my brain scans all for $180 out of pocket.
Yes. As a long time Emacs user I do that routinely on _every_ machine I use.

For those that don't know, there are a handful of control key sequences that perform basic cursor movements that are the same in Emacs, bash, zsh, and every text pane in Mac apps. Using caps lock as a control key makes this very pleasant.

I am unlikely to give up this habit since I despise moving my hands from the home row to use arrow keys -- for me, this is the main pain point when switching between Windows and Mac several times per day.
Pretty much everyone in the space industry is in agreement that Space Force is a good idea. We have been in agreement on this for decades, and it was a bipartisan project that started under Obama. Not our problem that Trump took the existing plan and lazily stamped his brand on it...
A bit of survivorship bias here, if I may... the really crappy stuff from any non-current era does not get posted and reposted periodically here.
> to each its own

wow, that's a pretty famous nazi camp entrée. didn't hear that one in a while.

> i don't like regex

no. this is just not how this works. this just ain't so. you are confused.

but that's fine. like you said, jedem tierchen sein pläsierchen.