skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately most of the audience here has no experience with the situation you're correctly describing.

I find it both funny and a bit frustrating when people try to impose standards from wealthy developed countries on the developing world without further critical thought. Just because it's not a reasonable measure for your situation doesn't mean it's not a reasonable measure in a different one.
This actually already existed and it was (is) called Dissenter (https://dissenter.com/). It is built by Gab, a pro free speech social network that has been maligned by the political left and anti free speech crowd.

In an absolutely shocking affront to the neutrality of web browsers, Firefox banned Dissenter from their extension stores (https://reclaimthenet.org/firefox-rejects-free-speech-bans-f...) because they disagree with an exceedingly small number of offensive comments made on there. Chrome later did the same and Dissenter has its own browser now (https://reclaimthenet.org/dissenter-free-speech-browser/). But obviously being removed from those browsers’ extension stores seriously limits its reach.

There are many HN comments saying “you can just discuss these articles elsewhere”, but when tech companies are censoring/deplatforming any views they disagree with in unison, there aren’t ways to have honest and open discussions unless you align with a certain worldview (progressive views) or have incredibly limited reach. You simply can’t speak freely on controversial topics like gender identity or critical race theory or illegal immigration on Reddit, Twitter, on your own apps in App stores (see bans of Gab or Parler), or even our web browsers. I will be not at all surprised when it comes down to browsers or phones blocking which websites you can visit.
I rather think software engineering is bounded by battery life and disk space.
agreed, libtard/baizuo are typically anti-liberal control freaks who have undermined the classical liberal base by giving conservatives something they can (incorrectly) associate with liberalism and make simple jokes about.
The OP’s point is that education or not, if you’ve been out of practice for decades, none of these companies will hire you as an SWE.

Hell, the type of attitudes and personality that made these folks good at what they did would probably be liabilities from some the interview process.
Invest in your responses more, or are you truthfully thinking that cryptocurrencies are responsible for climate change?
Thank you for the feedback. Fair enough. I thought to make a tool which you could use to quickly withdraw your crypto (not only BTC). In case of classical withdraw operations over banks you normally has some maximum limits. The low price allows to buy a couple of objects in different countries with better risks diversification.
Unless they force binding arbitration in their terms. This is quite common and precludes you from going to court.
Science uses imprecise terms too, like "space", "probability", "entropy", "black hole".
As far as i can tell, their swap curve construction doesn't support dual curve discounting [1], which makes this a toy.

There's no reason someone couldn't make this library industrial-strength, but is anyone going to? Is this supposed to be a supported product, or is this basically a tech demo to show what TensorFlow is capable of?

[1] https://www.crd.com/insights-valuing-interest-rate-swaps-the...
> In 1934, the Gold Reserve Act prevented Americans from holding gold which was the global reserve currency at the time and universally considered hard money.

And to a very little success. People hoarding gold in US scored millions, at the expense of a average Joe gold buyer.

I believe the parallel is very relevant here. People buying bitcoin retail, and mining at gaming video cards are only a fodder for bigger fishes today.
There are lots of guesses in other comments. There is in fact something that you missed, and it was back in 2018. You also missed the 2020 SC case.

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/leezamangaldas/2018/04/18/under...
Even the "optimized" C version is far from what an experienced C programmer would write if performance was paramount. General-purpose memory allocation, using hash tables with inherently bad spatial and temporal locality, using buffered I/O instead of mapping the file to memory.
I say ban everything, the sooner the better.
How much energy does watching porn consume? Playing video games? Watching a movie? Browsing Facebook? Using a ski chair? Visiting an amusement park? Going in vacation? Cooking your favorite type of food? Making ice cream? Driving to your friends? Listening to music? Concerts? Having a party? Banking? Casinos?
As a species we use energy to meet our goals. Those goals may be situated anywhere in our hierarchy of needs. Some are essential, some could be considered trivial. But they are all important for their consumers.

Bitcoin is now considered by some important for our future finance system. While not everybody agrees, this may be more important than countless other ways we use energy, for much more trivial reasons.

Being judgmental about how others use energy they pay for reeks of hypocrisy, virtue signaling and holier-than-thou attitude.
I also have no idea who appeals it to get a settlement reviewed.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say. Bitcoin is the best performing asset in the last 10 years yes, and there are clear reasons as to why.

It's the store of value component of Gold and it can perform that role in a much better way. If we took that property alone, it should realize a market value of around $7T.

Shouldn't it be more of a credit to the invention rather than a failure?
I warned about this a few weeks ago, and people were skeptical. But sadly “in retrospect it is inevitable”. Where is the flaw?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26220992
Let me refine my prediction to describe the transition period. Bitcoin will actually deepen inequality in the world, by robbing the third world countries of electricity first, and no one in first world countries will care. The politicians of the third world countries would be paid off similarly to how Nestle or CocaCola buys up lakes and pollutes them. And privately owned infrastructure and lakes will fall even faster.
Would be interested to see a similar comparison for a problem where the Python solution is unable to offload a significant amount of the computation onto its standard-library.

Also, nice to see Forth included. I strongly suspect that if the Python solution were unable to leverage its rich and well optimised standard-library, it would be easily outpaced by Forth.

Also, the Forth solution used Gforth, which is far from the fastest Forth engine around. [0] It would likely have performed close to C if they had used a native-code-compiling Forth engine (SwiftForth, VFX Forth, or iForth, all of which unfortunately are proprietary payware).

[0] https://github.com/ForthHub/discussion/issues/88#issuecommen...
Still seems to be a problem, when you click on a video. But the main page seems to be fixed
Show HN: Create your own Codecademy-style lessons
Better yet, imagine explaining to them how a couple politicians used to control money supply based on their whims and how the gov kept bailing out endless speculation losses on wall st.
Yeah this has nothing to do with engineers having magical brains. This is 100% caused by tech companies being worth gazillions.
The worst thing is that it’s not even “the world deciding”, so far the Bitcoin community has been quite small. Just a small group of hyper enthusiasts seem to be enough to create disastrous effects.

You can have a very small (in relative numbers) community deciding for the rest of the world that dedicating all our energy to making them rich is the future and so far we don’t seem to be able to say “no”.

Proof of Work has been a horrible poisoned gift to the world.
>Perhaps we should ask instead, why do we need the tourniquet? What conditions were put in place that capital is attempting to leave?

Being poor and/or corrupt is usually the source of the problem. Lack of capital makes it impossible to fix.

Without strict capital controls China's rise would have been impossible, for instance - much like a lot of Africa.
Optimized grep is as fast as the non optimized grep. Seems odd.

I've seen ripgrep (in Rust, also by article contributor Andrew Gallant aka burntsushi) outperform grep in almost every way possible, both in benchmarks and in my experience.
On one hand I can understand and relate why a government would implement such a ban. On the other I am really curious in which legal frame you can justify “doing math calculations on your computer is illegal” without destroying personal freedom and liberty. Bitcoin is a real curveball
That means having your capital tied up in in-transit drugs for two or three months. The cost of that may outweigh the savings from automation.

You also lose the ability to react quickly to market demand.

That approach might be suitable for established industries, but probably not for innovative, disruptive players in a winner-takes-all market like drug cartels.
So I happen to actually have such an account and there seems to be no difference to the normal subscriber account. However, commenting with this account means commenting with your corporate account. I would expect that people are more careful then, but it seems like this might not be the case.
Do you have info on how different providers stack up?
This would seem contrary to what Mozilla are saying https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1693028#c67
Do they pay an appropriate price for the energy the use? Do they pay a price that takes into consideration CO2 and environmental costs?
I think the point that the energy needed for mining is artificialy by design hihg/inefficient. As I understand some other coins are much more efficient.
Ah yes. The yearly reminder to companies that TOS still don't supersede EU law and aren't a magical way to weasel out of regulation.

It's hard to sign away some consumer protections even with an actual, physical, signature - what makes companies think some legal mumbo jumbo that isn't worth its bytes on a drive will somehow do?

Weaseling around consumer protections in their TOS to give Facebook a blank check to fuck over consumers? Yeah courts will just love that one.
Do you have any lobbying or political experience?
Obligatory "is bi-weekly 2 or 0.5 times a week" confusion comment ;)

Though from the context it's 2.
Well, there's absolutely nothing democratic about controlling Bitcoin. But that won't make China any more interested in giving up control to it.

Also, Bitcoin is not technologically capable of getting anywhere near close to functioning as a global currency on large scale.
fwiw, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1693028#c67 requests the inverse - asks people with non-technical feedback to keep-out of bugzilla and instead comment in places like this.
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Do you think the Roman Catholic Church will give up the Geocentric status of the Bible? Like it or not, political power structures have no ability to impose their preference on rebellious reality.

Governments lost the war against information, cryptography, and money. The most charitable interpretation one can have for tyranny is that if you're going to talk about the tanks in Tienanmen, it's more costly to do it privately.
I use gitlab daily and have not experienced any outage in last 6 months probably.
IMO, attack the message, not the messenger. Pointing out flaws in an argument is good, but assuming malice hurts the discussion. Now we are suddenly talking about the morality of the poster instead of the issue at hand.
> I'm curious (I know very little about assembly or what's on the CPU so pardon me if what I'm asking makes no sense), what's the benefit of having a whole instruction that both multiplies and adds?

It's still commonly said that RISC processors are faster than CISC because they are "reduced", as in they have fewer instructions. But really it's very beneficial to add instructions that do a lot, if it's something that can easily be done in hardware and replaces several simpler ones.

Multiply-add is an example of one; others are bitfield extraction and rotation, SIMD shuffle, AES encryption, and some of the complex memory operands x86 and ARM have. I even still think x86's memcpy instruction is a good idea.
I have a feeling that GDPR is actually mostly about giving tools to reign in the tech giants rather than stomping on the little guys.
Proof of Work does and will contribute in non-significant way. That’s exactly what the incentives are. It’s by design.
> I'm okay with deplatforming, but only when it suits me

Jesus, just shut the fuck up.
“The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own”

-- Frank Zappa
Wouldn’t you have to have an ec2 open ? We are trying to minimize infrastructure and do it all in lambdas
This is why we have "fortnightly" in the English language.
> “But if we remove the tourniquet the person will bleed out!”

This is an amazingly apt analogy, just not the one you think it is.

Sure, you can debate about how the person should/would never have been injured in the first place if everybody involved in the situation did everything right. But they are injured, right now, and they will die, right now, if they're not provided with first aid and further medical attention - and until the patient is stabilised, those lofty questions are useless pontifications.

Except it's not just one person at risk. It's millions and millions of people and their livelihood.
Love compact mode; use it all the time. I guess there's always userChrome.css
*any non self-hosted git provider
They use over 0.1% of the world's energy at the moment, and growing rapidly.

All the climate savings that Tesla advertises themselves as having achieved over the lifetime of the company, Bitcoin cancels out in a month.

Bitcoin is currently closing in on having the carbon emissions of the Gulf War oil fires at their peak.
This law if intended for capital preservation is solely aimed at the middle class, the rich already have means of moving their money out. Panama papers and Swiss Bank fiascos proved that well.

India's iron handed squeeze of the middle class via insane policies is already causing a massive brain drain, the government seems either too stupid or willfully ignorant in recognizing the insidiousness of this issue.
Bitcoin is just doing calculations on your computer, the same way crystal meth is just doing chemistry in your RV
I don't think that's quite a fair comparison. The US Dollar and Gold coexist just fine. A new store of wealth doesn't threaten the US's economic dominance. Though this is colored by my own opinion that Bitcoin is not and will never be broadly adopted as a means of exchange, but rather only as a store of wealth.

As others have probably already mentioned, Bitcoin's transaction costs are very high and transaction time is quite slow compared to most other transactions. One major exception to this is international transfer of small amounts, though I don't think that's enough to threaten government backed currencies.
Part and parcel with free speech (in America it's also right there in the first amendment) is free association.

You don't and can never have, a right to an audience, because people have a separate right to choose whom they associate with, and everyone can choose not to be in your audience if you're terrible/boring/stupid enough.
Vice probably doesn't want anyone correcting their articles or pointing out bias/hypocrisy either..
At the moment we have real gold and the petrodollar etc. So why does a belief that bitcoin will become digital gold imply a belief that the US will let go of the petrodollar?
Space telescope may come under threat from pirates during earthbound transit
Github seems to be doing worse
Covid-19 has made the obesity epidemic worse, but failed to ignite enough action
Not everything is about China. Owning starlink infrastructure is a game changer is the US and Europe just as well
"And he who dares write Unsafe code shall be strung up and scourged. His limbs broken, his flesh stripped from his body, and his eyes pierced. For he has defiled the glory of Rust, and the righteous should not suffer such a man to live."
I think they would much rather hear than than that we literally destroyed the planet so fraudsters and gamblers could try to get rich.
But it isn't the case (asset appreciation as hidden dollar inflation). Assets among practically all classes appreciate, but consumptive commodities don't. So it isn't devaluation of the dollar, but really just appreciation of the assets.

Expansion of M1 alone doesn't make inflation[0]. For inflation to occur one also needs rising wages across the board and thus more demand than supply.

What the US (and to a lesser degree many European countries) experience is the result of decades of stagnant wages means more than half of the population is decoupled from the gains of asset appreciation, but the assets themselves actually behave more or less normal. Have a look at the last 100 years of stock growth, for example: https://www.macrotrends.net/2324/sp-500-historical-chart-dat...

The asset prices don't really rise (much) faster than in previous decades! The current trend is pretty much identical to the growth between 1980 and 2000.

[0] Otherwise we would see it all the time, because the money supply is theoretically infinite already, without QE, because banks are actually the instutions creating new money via credits they offer. It's just that banks were frightened and stopped giving out credits post 2007/8, which created an illiquidity that QE tried to compensate.
Might doesn't make right on moral issues, unless you subscribe to moral relativism (which I don't). I specified "majority of humanity" there because majority consensus is the best proxy for the "morality" that we've got when looking purely at the material world.
I assume you're asking why the "simple" Rust version is slower than the "simple" Go version?

I wrote the simple Rust program. I've also been writing Go for a long time. It's tough to say precisely why, but here are some guesses:

* The simple variants, by virtue of being simple, do a lot of extra allocation. Go, because of its GC, might be able to do a bit better here. (I believe the Rust program also does more allocations than the Go program.)

* In Rust, all strings are UTF-8 validated. In Go, they are not. In Go, strings are only conventionally UTF-8.

* A good portion of these programs is spent interacting with a hashmap. Rust's default hashing algorithm is chosen to prevent HashDoS attacks[1] at the expense of slower hashing. I actually don't know whether Go's hashmap does the same. So I'm highlighting it here as a potential difference that perhaps someone else can elaborate on.

[1] - https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.HashMap.htm...
> doing math calculations on your computer

Isn't that true for all computing?
They specifically say to go here: https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#fx-desktop-community:mozill...

So I did.
You are right in the short term. Most governments will fiercely fight Bitcoin and all true cryptocurrencies.

In the long term though, it is inevitable, like all technological progress in the World.

You can only contain it for so long.
Rust is already used in Bible (6 or 7 times).

Ezekiel 24:6 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen on it.
Mozilla should embrace it's niche browser role and cater to power users. It will always be a worse choice for the typical user.
Here is a similar excercise. Ad-hoc programs in different languages generate a long list of random numbers. How long does it take? https://github.com/posch/generate-random-numbers
Spanish workers earn closer to 6 $/hour.
If Apple ends up tumbling down in the next, say, 5 years, with Cook still at the helm, what would that say about Cook as the CEO? To me, Apple seems to be in the Microsoft's home-run stretch where they dominated the market with 99% desktop penetration for a while, but no clear "where next".

Apple certainly won't fall because of their sheer size and momentum (just like Microsoft never did), but we look at things differently at that scale and for a while, Microsoft was "stagnant" and "backtracking".

I don't know how people define "most successful CEOs of all time", but I do know that predicting future is a fool's errand (you can go into statistics and risk evaluation, but here we are talking about one person thus not much room for "statistics": I mean, everyone who's hugely successful but then hugely fails has been mostly hugely successful right until they failed).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition#Death_toll...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_cultu...

You can find plenty of sources there.
The servers hosting porn consume Certainly less energy than Bitcoin itself. And people actually make use of the content!
This is a very important question. But shouldn't we be asking this of every company and every consumer of all electricity everywhere? What does it have to do with mining. This has to do with electricity production, its regulation and proper taxing.
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

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Our self-hosted GitLab instance is running fine!
endless banning is the downfall of the west. I pray for the apocalypse to come sooner.
I find it extremely alarming that law enforcement almost everywhere around the world is attempting to undermine almost a century-fold of legitimate mathematics and science with regards to encryption and cryptography.

It's a tad embarrassing that lawmakers (who aren't even computer scientists like c'mon are we for real here?) somehow forgot how and who broke the Enigma Machine. Alan Turing did that.

Same thing with the Tor browser developed by the US Navy. Either everyone has access to a tool which can guarantee that you can blend in with the rest of the crowd, or every civilian has a special color and we all pop out while the lawmakers and police are somehow wearing grey.

How did cypherpunks and computer scientists get blasted from the government like this? Shouldn't there be some laws regarding digital privacy for US citizens?

Somehow AD revenue is caked everywhere but I can't use a computer without the FBI wanting my social security card? What the duck. Shucks I thought this was America.
Heh. I guess since I engaged in pedantry, I can't complain if others do as well.

I disagree though. Your argument is akin to complaining that we shouldn't use temperature because in the fundamental quantum field reality, there is no temperature. Or maybe you would complain about using various equation of fluid mechanics (all of which are at best approximations) instead of field equations to calculate behaviour of liquids. Or maybe complaining in programming that it is incorrect to reason about objects or monads because it's just bitshifts and logic gates underneath.

The notion in art that 'white is the absence of color, and black is a combination of colors' is a useful abstraction for that particular domain because the canvas is white, and black can be made by mixing paint colors. It is as real as anything else that we, as humans, engage in.

>the perception of color is still determined by the wavelengths of the photons reaching

Not quite right. Color is not a physical process. It is brain experience and does not exist independently. It is USEFUL to sometimes map physical wavelengths of light to colors but that is context dependent. Not only would different species experience color differently for some specific wavelength, but also different humans will experience them differently as well (color blindness is one example, another one is that you can train your brain to be more receptive to color variations)
This is backwards. The energy needed for mining is the only reason the product (Bitcoin) can exist and make any sense.