skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favourite Gates moment of all time is when he got some pie.
Migrating from Chef to Itamae
> rather than using mining as an incentive to pay for capturing lost methane

Because that's a useless activity and no one wants to pay for it. FartCoin wouldn't last a day.

> If all mining ceased tomorrow, we'd benefit substantially from dirty power usage coming down and more clean energy supply being directed back into productive work.

I doubt that. Why would dirty producers cut their output?

Those arguments in favor of Bitcoin are nonsensical but your counterarguments aren't that great.
Lots of discussions around gold as a means to store value. Little about its industrial use. Using Bitcoin that way may pose a challenge.
> There is nothing wrong with having two young girls with you all times.

In a professional context? You bet there is.

When Joi Ito brought Epstein to the MIT Media Lab, he had two young girls with him. When he left, lab members looked through the trash to look for SOS notes the girls may have dropped.

Bill Gates is quoted to have told employees that he stated up late at Epstein's house with a beautiful Swedish woman and her young daughter (the Dubins, the daughter was engaged to Epstein when she was underage).
To the extent that Stallman used his position at MIT and the FSF to help Jeffrey Epstein evade prosecution under the federal RICO statute for several decades by colluding with Epstein co-conspirators MIT president Rafael Reif, MIT corporation chairman Robert Millard and corporate vice presidents Morgan, Newton, Ruiz and Lucas, as well as colleagues Seth Lloyd and Marvin Minsky, in hopes of receiving the kind of money that they witnessed Epstein donate to Harvard as quid pro quo for Harvard law professor and Epstein best buddy Alan "Dershbag" Dershowitz negotiating the infamous 2011 "sweetheart deal" with federal prosecutors, that was also facilitated by Benedict "Dick" Gross, Martin Nowak, Stephen Kosslyn, Steven "Use-of-the-Internet-to-Entice-a-Minor-into-Prostitution-is-A-Okay" Stinker of a Pinker, and former Harvard president Larry "Women Can't Do Science" Summers, then that's a huge obstacle to allowing Mr. Stallman to continue to serve on the board of the FSF.

As far as the examplars you quote above, namely Austria, Germany and Italy, along with some of their collaborators during WWII, I wonder if even Epstein, Maxwell, Reif, Summers, Pinker, Kosslyn, Minsky, Oxman, Dubin, Wexner, Black, Zuckerman, and last but not least, Alan "Dershbag" Dershowitz, would approve of citing these countries as modern role models for the protection of basic human rights.
it's hardly hidden! It's obvious to all who see.
How does this relate to a Fenwick tree?

(Edit: The article did not include its note on Fenwick trees when I commented this.)
PEMF, Treatment for Back Pain
it's not ignore. I think they'd be remiss to not mention the detail SOMEWHERE in their study, but I'd consider it bad science to conclude some other fact that your experiment/observational study was not designed for.

They should design an experiment suitable to justifying that conclusion, if that's what they wanted to prove. at best, the author's should conclude on that particular thread, "more research is needed."
We could save time with these sorts of Bitcoin analyses if authors disclosed up front whether they have a financial interest in Bitcoin.

It's fine for a VC to conclude "I believe the properties of Bitcoin’s battery are powerful and profound, and will lead to the kinds of solutions I point to here."

But when the author's firm invests in Bitcoin companies, that's not exactly a surprising conclusion.
I've seen people complain about that, but I've been using golang for over two years, and I haven't really had to face that pain, yet. I used python for twenty years prior to that, and love sophisticated programming constructions (did a lot of work with clojure, learnt haskell, went through On Lisp), so it's not as if I don't know what I'm missing.
can you give some examples

All Linux Foundation projects separate business/funding governance (you pay to get a vote on how the money is spent) from technical governance (you do the work you get a seat at the table). If you show up and do the work, you should be fine.
Rental properties absolutely contribute to the problem. I even outlined one of the reasons as to why in the above comment. The problem isn't that housing prices have passed some arbitrary threshold. Rising housing prices and easy profit from buying up property and renting it out eventually leads to neo-serfdom with the non-property-owning class being locked to renting for life. Moving property ownership to the people who want to live there is by definition part of the solution, and you don't own a property you rent.
I don’t think we’ll see an (even) split. It’s more likely that all (most) orgs will have safe spaces. Like how all fruit juice is kosher: it makes no difference to people who don’t keep kosher.
Not sure it's happening as fast as you seem to indicate here. And if it is, what's the problem with Bitcoin and energy consumption, exactly the same thing will happen, but faster since Bitcoin is all about money?
> Ethereum is a far better coin for all practical purposes.

Pretty sure Ethereum scaling as a currency is even worse that bitcoin.

Ethereum has some very interesting features, but performance is not one of them.
That was annoying. Totally unbrowsable
These aren’t courses, but I recommend looking at TLA+ and Alloy. Some of my colleagues use Isabelle, Coq, and Agda too, but the first two seem most relevant to learn.
> Musical pedagogy follows classical music out of tradition

i think at some levels, of pedagogy, there's also an element of "and because it is cheap to free".

my piano teacher bemoans how we only teach music from "dead white men" (a common refrain in some parts of the internet), but is hesitant to suggest i spend money to purchase anything, instead, referring me to IMSLP for everything.

if you want music from living folks, it is still under copyright, regardless of their color or gender. that costs more.
https://www.mecmining.com.au/top-5-uses-of-gold-one-of-the-w...
Refusing to cooperate or exercising one's right to silence is absolutely NOT the best strategy in the UK. Whether you should or not will depend heavily on a variety of factors. If you plan to offer an affirmative defence at trial, you can't just spring it on prosecutors.

In addition, England (dunno about Scotland) does NOT have the "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine regarding illegally or improperly collected evidence as is seen in a lot of US legal dramas.

The best strategy if arrested in England is to seek legal advice, either from your own solicitor or from the duty solicitor.
No need to make it personal. Yes I have been to Taiwan, Yes I have been to mainland China.

Considering your hypothetical scenario, it is hypothetical. The reality of the situation is, in 1970 the United States already conceded that Taiwan is part of China in exchange for a Chinese guarantee that the matter would be resolved peacefully. In Exchange we gained access to Chinese markets for which we all benefit tremendously today. China's UN representation and vote, was transferred from Taipei to Beijing.

The real question, is a difficult one. How far are we willing to go to enforce the wests concept of universalism? A loss of an aircraft carrier and 5,000 lives? All out war? The point was already conceded 40 years ago. Seems like stoking fires isn't in my personal interest, especially considering that is a war we would certainly lose. Whats the point of playing games you can't win?
Mostly just personal experience. I think the common denominator is actually pre-paid vs post-paid plans, but it winds up having a similar effect because cheaper phones usually come with a pre-paid SIM and because pre-paid plans are usually much cheaper for spartan usage. Here are a few anecdotes from around the web.

- https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/About-Settings/Tracfone-...

- https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/About-Settings/Paypal-do...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/TracFone/comments/g42vl9/phone_numb...

- https://help.id.me/hc/en-us/articles/360017839774-Why-can-t-...
Only as much energy as people are willing to pay for.
Rests are a non-trivial problem, even though they seem to be very easy to solve. The problem stems from the fact that rests have no representation in the midi file, so you need to figure them out. Because midi files can be quite messy if not done perfectly you end up with all kind of spurious rests. So I decided to leave them out for now, but they will be added as soon as I've figured out how to do them well enough that they are not a distraction or teaching people really bad habits. The spacing of the notes should be correct.

This is the single biggest item on my todo list right now, and I wished I had more time to dedicate to this project.
> Clinton and Gates also had "connections" to Epstein.

You forgot Trump.
From https://www.swri.org/press-release/16-psyche-asteroid-surfac...

> “We were able to identify for the first time on any asteroid what we think are iron oxide ultraviolet absorption bands,” she said. “This is an indication that oxidation is happening on the asteroid, which could be a result of the solar wind hitting the surface.”

You can also calculate density from gravity interactions, but I don't know if asteroids are big enough for that.
> those who support or implement it should be under an even greater measure of surveillance

One of the most memorable scenes for me from the series Chernobyl was when the nuclear scientist being tailed by agents complained about it to the first deputy chairman of the KGB. The chairman then pointed to two people who were trailing him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8oDEwvec1c

I'm not sure that going full-circle with surveillance is the right answer.
Don't forget Trump
Is it bad for a textbook to point out how hypoxia kills brain cells during drowning? No. Is it tasteful to bring up at a funeral for someone who drowned? Also no.

If it's in a useful and tasteful context, discuss away. Otherwise, just don't be a chode.
My high school was a similar object lesson in how the world actually works. I went from almost getting expelled freshman year for "breaking the library computer"[1] to having the assistant principal accept, but probably not believe, every word I said over underclassmen in any sort of conflict.

[1]

10 PRINT "C:\> "
20 READ
30 PRINT "Bad command or file name"
40 GOTO 10
This isn't even to take into account that we flub our speech (not to mention writing) all the time. It's easy to imagine someone saying "red... Metal... Big ball!" because that was the order that the features of the ball arrived in their mind.

So there's a difference between planned speech and rushed speech, and there's piecing together what someone means through their mistakes.

For another example, last night I was watching some Zoom comedy [0] and one of the comedians twice fumbled their joke, saying a word that was important to the punchline too early. So they abandoned the joke and moved on. Inferring what had happened was fairly natural, but you really had to have a robust (as in, fail-safe) grasp of English and, I suppose, culture, to roll with it.

[0] https://www.eventbrite.com/o/best-of-san-francisco-stand-up-...
I think you can design in error tolerance, with a bit of imagination. Imagine a flotilla of connected balloons, instead of one giant balloon; build in enough tolerance that a sagging balloon is supported by its neighbors until it can be fixed up.

Ultimately, it's a question of building a floating thing, and keeping it floating. This strikes me as not-too-hard, compared to the usual space problem of trying to hold oxygen in a bubble in a vacuum. You just need a sustainable way to 'recharge' the balloons; that really just means filtering lighter gasses from the air and pumping them in faster than they leak out. The Venus atmosphere is primarily CO2 with a bit of nitrogen; the game is then filtering out CO2 and filling the balloons with nitrogen. Coincidentally, we have people putting lots of thought into efficiently filtering CO2 from air already...
Cause they made a ton of money on some equally daft idea in the past?
> ...Aluminum has value to everyone in some way, not just those invested in it...

A sound monetary system has more value than anything else on this planet. There's a lot of information out there, but here's one article to illustrate my point: https://breedlove22.medium.com/masters-and-slaves-of-money-2...

> The energy is burned forever.

Wrong. I can use it to pay someone to do work, for example. "Work" in both societal and physical senses. That means the energy is not lost in a bitcoin.
Neural Network Batch Normalization Fusion
Bitcoin becomes more secure from 51% attacks the more electricity (cost) that is required
I used this
https://www.waveshare.com/10.3inch-e-Paper-HAT.htm

with a Pi Zero W with no issues other than occasional hangups of the signalling but that was solved with a software watchdog.

Here are some pics of my setup. I had to de-solder the Waveshare header and solder on a 90 degree header to get this to fit in the frame in a low profile. (Ugh I wish things were sold without headers soldered)

https://imgur.com/FQlan27

https://imgur.com/rot8knd

As far as getting hot really fast, the first thing I can think of is if you accidentally plugged in the GPIO rotated 180 degrees -- even briefly -- you might have fried one or both boards.

Second thing I can think of, although it's more likely to just damage the e-Ink rather than make things become hot -- is e-Ink displays don't like to be hot-plugged/unplugged -- you should have all the connections plugged in before switching the system on.
You don’t need to go under it per se. The supply of falcon heavy launches is still limited in both quantity and scheduling. I’m sure its price will go up when the demand increases to provide for ferrying material up.
Nope, I pretty much stopped once I got to college. At some point I decided I was going to learn Rhapsody in Blue on the piano, and got the sheet music (book) and started practicing. I didn't make it too far, but I made it a lot farther by trying to imitate what I heard than trying to play it from the book.
The fact is with these "social justice" initiatives is that they are completely orthogonal issues to the organization and their goals. The FSF is about Free Software, Linux is about Linux. These people want to impose their own specific politics upon others, in this case using intimidation and shame. Of course some organizations will sign these letters, they are much more worried about being on the PR approved right side.

These people should merely create their own organizations. This is what they would often say when for example a red team politician complains about being blocked from twitter.
For those interested in the collapse, I saw this live and it was fantastic:

https://longnow.org/seminars/02016/jan/11/1177-bc-when-civil...
It’s not the first time he escaped. Here’s his track record:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lee_McNair
Whoops, guess I'm late...:)
I have. It was very interesting, but I don't think it mentioned that McDonald's doesn't make most of its money from food.
If it's available where you live, very local news (like at the neighborhood or town level) is pretty useful to follow for info like why a road is closed or what local trails you should check out.

Professionally, I also follow academic conferences I'm involved in. They tweet announcements like deadlines and highlight new research.
Is the problem the fact that he had an unofficial office or the fact that he may have raped people in this office? 60 visits that's a lot for a dude who forged his carrier.
Al-Khwarizmi is right, the rests are not there - yet. The rests are very tricky (see other comment) to get exactly right. I've figured out most of the note timings to be precise enough to render the score accurately but the rests do not have any representation in a midi file, so you have to make them up as you go.

There are other problems like that, such as trills and other ornamentation, which show like a bunch of note on/off pairs in a midi file but as a single note with a decorator in the score. Reversing those is non-trivial, as are grace notes.
Nothing here suggests that you should need them to publish a security bug.
My SIM only contract has no data limit, for £37pm. I have replaced fibre broadband with a 5G router. I've been using this set up since September and have hardly had any connectivity issues (vpn, ssh, video conferencing, netflix etc). Pings are a bit higher for gaming though.
I think that will lead to ineffectual orgs as these safe spaces seem to be in conflict with stuff like ejecting RMS.

I don’t see myself stop supporting free software, but I’ll want some way to participate to fill that FSF shaped community hole.
The major differences seems to be the number of lives involved and the distance to average Joe's life: planes carry quite a lot of people compared to transport ships, and the average news reader takes a plane from time to time but never sets foot on such ships.

I believe planes should be better compared to cruise ships in that matter, and it seems that not a lot of cruise ships have major incidents.
The fact that gold is "Expensive, and difficult to find, transport, and spend." is mostly a problem for the havers of gold. The biggest problem for PoW cryptocurrencies is the wasted electricity and corresponding wasting of carbon output which is a huge negative externality impacting all the non-cryptocurrency havers too.
C++20 was supposed to have them, but they were removed on the very last minute, if we are lucky maybe C++23 will get them, but C++26 is most likely, if they ever go forward with them. [1]

For C you can have a look at Frama-C. [2]

D also has DbC. [3]

In case you can target Windows only, VC++ supports SAL Annotations, while not DbC they help to improve code security

[1] - http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2021/p233...

[2] - https://frama-c.com/html/acsl.html

[3] - https://dlang.org/spec/contracts.html

[4] - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/code-quality/using-sal-...
Literally anything that changes anything 'could be a negative for the ultra wealthy'.
No, BTC doesn't just consume leftover energy. It causes delays in overhauling our energy grid.

Renewable generation must be paired with storage to get past a certain % of share in the energy mix. BTC mining is analogous to just turning off windmills or solar panels during times of excess production. Presence of BTC miners removes market pressure on grids that make storage feasible.

BTC is actively harmful to the environment. Proof of work is an abomination.
But if that’s true, then either whoever is behind this criticism doesn’t know it, or they have other goals.
> we should also reduce drastically the lifetime and coverage of copyrights and patents.

Agreed. And when you do the math you realize the ideal length === 0.
This letter appears to be signed by random twitter people, unlike the opposing letter, which is signed by Free Software contributors.
> Afterwards the prices of iron and nickel would drop to zero!

...and so would the prices of everything else. As well as the number of life-bearing planets in the solar system.
The Secrets Philip Roth Didn’t Keep
My output:

613 cat
623 ls
875 rg
996 sudo
1037 vlc
1079 cd
1190 rm
1219 make
1330 vim
4812 git
Not in this case, though.
How did you conclude that I was implying that USD being fiat is an argument for the use of BTC?
From the start it seems the most prolific real applications of bitcoin have been on the margins of law and order. Sometimes this can be good -- when your government is oppressive and there is really no better way of transacting and storing value; anonymous writers or activists needing a source of income; etc.. But for the most part, it has no use in a functional society.

From the start the most frequent real world use cases were buying drugs and illegal services online (silkroad), and eventually other cases like ransomware (cryptolocker, wannacry), and a few other marginalized cases.

So in my view the mainstream adoption and glorification of Bitcoin is a tragedy, that I do think Satoshi himself (or Hal Finney) would eventually disagree with. The result of it is a colossal amount of wasted energy that could be prevented with traditional technologies (banks, public records, government databases), or more efficient alternatives (proof of stake, other forms of consensus) and hopefully more transparent as well.
Trump, Clinton, Gates, Reid Hoffman, Joi Ito, Naomi Campbell, Dershowitz, Nowak, David Copperfield, Minsky, Bill Richardson, Woody Allen, Prince Andrew, MBS...

Epstein had deep connections to all of these people (and plenty more). It's actually quite terrifying and depressing when you start to look at the big picture.
> I'm not saying there's no innovation here. I am saying that I don't see any evidence that Bitcoin's largest proponents care about that innovation. I don't see any evidence that any of this matters beyond giving them an excuse to hype a speculative asset. If they did care, they would have abandoned Bitcoin and moved to basically any other coin -- anything at all that did Proof of Stake to reduce transaction fees and environmental costs, or that fixed its price to the dollar, or that had better privacy.

To be fair, a large part of the ecosystem doesn't actually deal with Bitcoin at all. The total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies seems to reach up to 1.5T USD at this point. Bitcoin is 1T USD of that, with the rest of the ecosystem quickly catching up[1]

It's really hard to generalize that everyone in any given ecosystem are the same way or act with the same interest. Yes, most people in the oil industry probably don't care about the environment either, but I'm sure there are many in the oil industry who actually care about the environment as well. Same goes for cryptocurrencies.

- [1] "Percentage of Total Market Capitalization (Dominance)" graph - https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/
“5G” is a marketing umbrella term. It refers both to the next generation of LTE (Long Term Evolution, the incremental improvements that have been added to 4G) and also New Radio, a new cellular protocol which uses new portions of the radio spectrum.

The features of 5G are higher bandwidth (especially in situations with high interference/poor reception), a higher density of users supported (up to 100k users/per square kilometer iirc), and better performance at high speeds (e.g. on bullet trains).
If Epstein wasn't allowed to donate to Harvard, would that have somehow prevented him from sex trafficking? Would it have made the world a better place?

I don't understand this contemporary system of morality where if you something wrong without doing anything wrong yourself, you automatically get tainted with its sins. There's no consistency to this system either. People generally only care when someone they already hate is being "complicit."
Can't you just assume that anyone who is pro-bitcoin owns it, and anyone who is anti-bitcoin does not? Anyone who doesn't fit into those categories would (I guess) be unconvinced of their own analysis, but publishing it anyway?
I think this estimation severely tests conventional wisdom around the quality of code in most of the GNU projects.

Unless, of course, you meant good at writing large volumes of code, which the GNU projects have historically excelled at. But we all know the other bit of conventional wisdom about that.