skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are two angles on Bitcoin that make some sense:

1. The true believers like labor theory of property a lot, and see having a mining rig as an extension of that(falliciously or no - there are plenty of critiques of labor theory of property itself). A bitcoin represents the "same amount" of effort relative to its value at a given moment in time.

2. As a lower margin use of energy premised on maintaining consensus, it has qualities that resemble perfect competition(in the economist's sense of that phrase) but actually go BEYOND perfect competition. While you can own a large part of the distribution or mining power, if you try to monopolize Bitcoin as a rentier you just end up forking it, as has been demonstrated by various events over the years. If people don't like your particular imposition of scarcity, they pull the rug in short order.

The second part is rather more important than the first, IMHO. Mining's meting out of energy usage as credit and the resulting price deflation is a way to get people on board with consensus and start engaging in speculative action, but there's a sense among the people interested in other cryptocurrency that that's just a starting point, and the development of distributed consensus tech itself is what makes this a "railroad" and not a "tulip".

"No rentiers" is really a pretty earthshaking concept, to the point where most of the people in the space can't see that light and look at the shadow puppets instead. But it does not seem to be refuted by anything I've encountered. While onramps and offramps to crypto are mostly controllable, this is still a huge upset to our models of what markets are or could be.
It’s not just that, but certainly some firms have sort of turned it into that.
So much this. You (op) cannot tell me with a straight face that if Amazon catches wind that drivers are considering unionizing they won't accidentally set their AI to flag any conversation recorded that mentions the word union for further review.

Recording your drivers 24/7 with a camera/mic is a step too far. If you want to have a "black box recorder" that's simply recording the telemetry of the vehicle itself, that's about as far as I'm willing to accept.
Because nobody is talking about heat pollution yet and Out of Sight, Out of Mind.
Not sure 100% adherence to an individual's particular political positions is the way to measure the worth and value of an organization.

I love and support the ACLU and disagree strongly with some of their positions.
Maybe, but given the worship of industry and industrialists as its counter, not sure it would have worked.
This is false. Bitcoin’s value is “backed” by the expectation that it will be valuable tomorrow — nothing more. It’s the same with gold. Gold’s value has nothing to do with the cost of mining it out of the ground. Rather the cost of mining it is justified on the basis of its expected value.
Very true. And sadly this works for all those amateur politicians we encounter every day too.
I couldn't find a good comment here about how property taxes work in Canada, so I dug up: https://torontoist.com/2016/12/how-property-taxes-work-toron...

If this is indeed the case, Toronto's housing will not price correct: ultimately, capital from China/wherever needs a place to be parked, and it will flow most to the places where taxes are lowest: hence Toronto (see above), Vancouver (see articles listed in this discussion along with some steps taken to patch the issue), SF Bay Area/California (Prop 13 makes it attractive).

I ran through this thought experiment now to understand why East coast real estate (e.g., Boston) as well as Seattle don't see as much absentee buying.
How does that tend to end?
Are you really implying that white supremacy, the very thing that in my parents lifetime was the law of the land, has been reduced to a boogeyman? That is unfortunate. I'd love to engage with you more, and provide some reading or sources that can maybe away your view.
> Seems like religiosity is a neurological need, but church is not.

So faith is, religion is not.
Technically Soyuz 1's fatality wasn't "in-flight"; the cosmonaut survived all the way to Earth.
Bitcoins price is basically unrelated to the energy used. Right now, it is an independent currency at best and a speculation object at worst. Energy spent is only useful in so far as that no single entity can take over the network; for all other purposes, bitcoin could run on a single 10 year old GPU.
For crimes they committed 10 years ago?
P.S.: this is why cursing in English is so simple and stunted while in Russian I can have a conversation with someone using nothing but the word “dick” and it would be not only perfectly understandable but also quite expressive.

Perhaps you just need an education in high quality English swearing? Although I’m informed by my partner that Spanish is a much better language to swear in than English, if you have the choice.
Returning to your original question, I answered that biomass is a more useful metric than strict census, as biomass gives an indication of net metabolism, energy throughput, carbon fixation capacity (for plants / primary producers), and tissue synthesis and maintenance (for animals / secondary+ consumers). It's denoted by population * mean bodyweight, and normalises measures across species with wildly differing bodyweight. It avoids the trap of focusing exclusively on "telegenic megafauna" (lions, tigers, giraffes, rhinos, elephants, pandas, etc.). Vertebrates and land-based, probably because they're easier to assess. (Estimates of marine consumer biomass trends are similar though more vague and harder to pin down.)

If you look at the linked chart, humans have increased net terrestrial biomass, yes, but virtually all of it now exists as just eight species: cattle, pigs, chickens, sheep, horses, goats, cas, and dogs. Variants of the original chart highlight this.

https://www.survival.org.au/images/world-terrestrial-vertebr...

That is:

- Naturally-occurring vertebrate bodymass surviving on sustainable current-process nitrogen fixation has fallen precipitously, by ~99%.

- Net genetic diversity within and among those populations has similarly fallen, possibly below sustainable values for many species. Numerous species have gone extinct, many previously small, some prolific (passenger pigeon).

- A terrestrial vertebrate population of thousands of mammals and tens of thousands of overall species ... is now utterly dominated by about nine species. (The eight livestock/pet classes above, and humans.) A few other human symbiotes (rats, mice, deer) have also likely increased. All are dependent on nonsustainable nitrogen fixation among other nonrenewable or nonsustainable practices and inputs.

- Dense and interlinked populations are breeding grounds for novel trans-species disease, among other hygenic consequences. These affect both humans and livestock. The principle can be extended to plant onocrops as well, from tobacco to trees (in the non /r/trees sense, generally).
Will the AI detect a driver sweating and suggest they have some water? Will AI detect that a driver needs to use the bathroom because it has be so many hours since the last bathroom stop? What other benefits could AI provide should they truly be looking to make the work safer and better?
There's a book written back in the 1960s that deals with this phenomenon: The Revolution of the Saints: A Study in the Origins of Radical Politics, written by Michael Walzer [1], and which book in my view described the current political climate from most of the world pretty spot on. I don't live in the States, but in Eastern Europe, but I still can see firsthand new parties/new people who have entered into politics (they're mostly new) who see themselves as "saints", anyone who doesn't think like them is either corrupt or, generally speaking, not on the good side of history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Walzer
Unless the suspect was misinformed or misunderstood some questions / interpreted differently
I've seen this happen in the workplace, where someone was waving around and quoting literal chapter and verse from a book about coding interviews, as if it were doctrinal and any deviation of our process from this book was heresy.

I was a missionary (no longer religious) for two years and saw first hand the terrible fire that ignites in some when confronted with disagreement about fundamental tribal beliefs. It does seem this fervor is hard-wired, and now with religiosity waning it gets applied to everything.
> “The fucking fucker’s fucking fucked” is perfectly grammatical and comprehensible English, if somewhat colloquial.

“Come the fuck in, or fuck the fuck off.”
Look at Hercules, yes it is very much possible (in emulation). Performance is even decent-ish for “toy” use although of course you lose all production advantages of the hardware.
Every technological achievement seemed laughable before its time. Sure a "faster horse" was more understandable, but cars were actually more feasible.
Eulogy to M. Euler – Marquis de Condorcet (1783)
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Hey HN,

We currently use draftjs in our project, but we found later that it’s mobile support is lackluster, and overall it hasn’t been a great editor for us. Considering slate or TinyMCE, but right now all of our users data is sitting as Serialized RawDraftContent. Any good ideas on moving folks over, and what’s a good intermediary format to store rich text soo we can switch editors for the future. Raw HTML might take too much space possibly.
Perhaps they trained Watson to write business copy for them /s
We are going to be able to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere more by afforestation (terrestrial and marine) than by covering the planet in solar panels and turbines.
I bet PhD programs attract narcissists like flies to ...

In a way, a PhD could be seen as the ultimate intellectual validation.
Iceland is still one of two countries in the world that hunts whale (the other being Japan). Source: unwittingly had whale for dinner there.

Otherwise completely agree.
I really liked the book as well, and even the film! The author worked with the forestry service and it certainly shows in his understanding and deep love for the outdoors; making nature an integral part of the human psyche. The locale of Idaho (similar to Montana and Wyoming) is some of the shrinking open space left in the lower 48. I'm farther north in the Eastern Rockies and it's a very similar environment.

I also like Louis L'Amour, specifically his non-western short story collections. It's junk food, but perfect for interspersing with harder reads.
Bitcoin itself is energy or can be converted into energy. If I can buy wood to burn for energy with Bitcoin, I am converting mined Bitcoin into energy.
5G is for integrating very low-cost ICs into every "smart" device, TV, car, etc. to track you without you noticing.
> ...taking my kids would be a net positive.

Being raised in the church and briefly having taught kids there, please don't do this. Even in progressive churches the lessons they risk being exposed to will teach lazy thinking: trust in authority, testimony above hard evidence, etc. At worst they may be taught to hate or despise themselves, others, or natural desires.
Wow. Awesome deep dive in this article.

"async Rust is still in its awkward teenage phase. Almost everything is there, but it can be a bit of a challenge to live with."

Yes. I am confident it will get better, but this stage is a bit awkward.

I would prefer an approach that is conceptually simpler. As this article shows, the current approach can be complex and deep.
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Open source is certainly one way to do marketing, particularly developer marketing. I agree it's not a business model per se.
Obviously Whitespace : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_lang...

But if my task is more specifically about fucking up the environment by wasting energy in datacenters, I would go with any JVM based programming language, like Java.
Yet Poland Spring is still in business despite everyone owning a reusable bottle.
> The photo timestamps, however, said otherwise. The images were taken 10 minutes apart.

Perhaps I'm stupid but could it be possible that the camera clocks were not set correctly?
On a related note, I've been following P90X workout videos for a few months now. They've been really effective for motivating me to workout consistently.

I wonder if "workout videos" for other domains would work to motivate people.

Like, if you wanted to get motivated to work on a side project, you could pop in an hour-long video of some charismatic leader encouraging a bunch of programmers, talking to them, pumping them up, encouraging them, P90X style.
Usually not in my favor, especially if it's my word against somebody else's.
Europe is full of atheist Catholics. It’s a pretty cool system.

You get the holidays and culture, nice set of shared stories and a shared common sense. Thinking any of it is factually accurate or that god is a thing or being that actually exists is almost considered weird.

In Slovenia (where I’m from), for example, about 70% of the population identifies as Catholic, but only 25% say there might be a god. Another 30% say there’s probably some sort of greater spirit, but not necessarily god.

The American version always seemed odd to me. Believing that stuff in the Bible is factually true, not just fables with lessons ... that’s weird.
I'm thinking about trials more as tools for the people in the legal system to advance their careers (unfortunately. I don't work there)
Grade school me always thought it was actually pretty simple. More heat means more energy. Just because we don't know how to harness it yet doesn't mean we can't. We live off of the sun. Why would were go farther away instead of closer?

Maybe naive thoughts, but are they wrong?
overactive mirroring neurons? j/k, I'm sure this pathology is very complex.
You can also declare access types as "not null" in which case initialization is compulsory.

http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12rm/html/RM-3-10.html#p13...
Not necessarily, it is not clear that it would be a positive thing for the woman.
Idiotic all the way. If aluminum can be perceived as a battery, then everything else can be. "Poop as a Battery (PaaB)" (am I the first to use this?)(no I won't DDG it).

In that sense, Bill Gatess "Reinvented Toilet" does kinda the same. People pee and poop, sewage is processed and is converted to clean water and can produce energy [0]. Thus PaaB(!?)

[0]: https://www.elitereaders.com/waterless-toilet-system-generat...
> They could have calculated that productivity increases due to the nanny cam were worth any blowback from unhappy workers and regulators

That makes no sense. Deeply/continually unhappy workers are less productive, especially if they leave. And action from regulators is bad for productivity, especially when laws are enforced via court action/penalties or when new laws imposed.

This line of commentary is just-so narrative to uphold the position that everything Amazon does is evil. But it doesn't demonstrate that Amazon actually has the incentive to do said evil things.
The FBI _loves_ those sort of misstatements.
I am a blind piano player. Would this be useful in anyway?
I think there are many great observations made in this discussion. Yours stood out because it specifically addresses responding to failure. In my experience, systematically confronting personal failings leads to explosive personal growth whereas copying someone else only gets you the surface stuff. Take thus with a grain of salt because I am not the <insert-successful-person> of anything.

OP, I wish you the best.
Yes, and the scary thing (as the covid handling in a lot of countries proved) most governments are incompetent to deal with such a disaster. The collapse of civilization, especially in the very integrated and inter-dependent world of today is way closer than most people think, and most government prepared. Ironically it’s countries which doesn’t do too well now but are too dependent one other that might survive better to such even. Also it’s not a if but a when.
The wording you use is very inflammatory for no real reason, it makes it kind of hard to engage.
>> Psychologists have long known how hard it is to spot a liar.

Absolutely this.

Lying is a loose concept. Is it lying if I believe it is true? Is it lying if it's just an omission of truth?

You can spot nervousness, you can spot defiance.

I work in a field where people deceive almost 80% of the time, and less than 1 in 10 where caught. The way we approach this is by flanking. Using falsifiable questions the subject cannot determine your intentions, therefore is much more likely to tell the truth (less cognitive taxing).
It probably isn't that simple though. This article puts forth that there was likely more going on, with the Tweets being the part that it was easy for people to be loud about:

https://mynewbandis.substack.com/p/my-new-band-is-teenage-mi...
It's not just a lack of experience-- Microsoft developers, Chrome developers, Mozilla developers, all have problems with memory management :) https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...
That'a very good point. Crypto heat use will be limited to windy cold places where some people live.

Unless there are some industrial processes that might use this mild heat. Maybe poultry production? Some green houses in cold climates?
You can still eat a potato though.
But I did read the article!

On the surface, it seems that the HAF is inserting itself to argue a side point. The core issue is about whether caste is a protected category, and whether discrimination actually occurred at Cisco. HAF isn't really talking about that at all! Instead, they're just trying to make sure that court documents don't describe the caste system as "part of Hinduism". On the face of it, that doesn't seem so bad.

Now, I do see that some people view this as a diversionary tactic by the HAF, and that it should not to be taken at face value:

> According to Anil Wagde of the Ambedkar International Center, HAF’s intervention is an attempt to obfuscate the matter and confuse the court.

It seems you also do not take HAF's objections at face value?

But on the surface, their demands are -- a little distracting, but basically orthogonal. It feels like the solution to this is to say, "fine, we'll change the language used here (i.e., the description of Hinduism), and then get on with dealing with the core issue (i.e., the discrimination)".
Or so much of science is filled with jargon that a regular person isn't going to bother understanding. This is why I never call BS on folk stories and such. Even with every story there is a grain of truth to it. Regardless of how much BS.
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There are actually a lot of reasons masks are not effective. Obviously they block particles but do they actually stop the spread of disease is the question, and the evidence there is extremely questionable. Besides the posters arguments and comparisons, there is the obvious question of why did we see this winter surge when all lockdowns and masks mandates were imposed and at their highest peak? If everyone is covering their mouth when they sneeze then or appropriately staying home when they get sick, would that be as effective as blocking particles, your hand or elbow is much better protection than masks as they are non permeable. Why is it that the supposed white right wing anti-maskers have the lowest death rate of any ethnicity? These are not easy questions to answer and I’m not saying they are all not able to be explained but the effectiveness of masks is very far from proven.
One reason might be so that you have the option to live in the place yourself on short notice.
Has that been happening? I don't follow US-based media.
Best way to do it, honestly. “The weather is nice, I have a day off, but my only bike is broken” really sucks for your mental state.
Seriously? That isn’t how orbit works at all. With that plan you just reentered the whole thing, broke it into a million pieces, and rained it across the surface in a triumphant meteor shower of flame. Voila, everyone’s dead. Unless you had a plan for managing the atmospheric friction from orbital velocity that I didn’t read.

In orbit things move sideways with respect to the surface. Fast. So the only way that works is if your “standard orbital space station” has enough propulsion to deorbit itself and hover in place — now that orbit is no longer cancelling gravity — until cubic kilometers of balloons that need to inflate (with what?) could hold it up. That amount of dV is barely theoretical at this point and would require several technological breakthroughs. You’re basically proposing deorbiting ISS without the atmospheric reentry and fiery death part, and given the similarities between our planets and their atmospheres it’s not a poor comparison.
Depends, if a secular humanist believes that time, space and matter appeared out of nothing, which is indistinguishable from magic and on the grandest possible scale.
IPv6 makes a great deal of things more easy. It allows smaller routing tables for example. No more NAT makes p2p communication much easier. Yes, addresses are way harder to type now, and that's obviously annoying. But ip addresses weren't made to be typed manually, that's what DNS is for.
https://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/wang2/docs/iae...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6177659_Radionuclid...
https://www.adacore.com/uploads/techPapers/rtchecks.pdf
If you define Christian to mean someone says “yeah I’m a Christian I guess,” then perhaps. If you define it to mean someone actually studies the teachings of Christ and tries to live by them, there’s no way it’s more than 10-20%. If you go to church you’ll find most people there come infrequently as a purely social thing and don’t really listen or care about the philosophy much.
No sure, but I think QEMU-user only translates syscalls. Box86 (also) translates library calls. That way more code (libraries) can be run natively and, because of it, much faster.
Kinda funny as we know the free-market eventually will switch to a non-PoW solution. There is no way around it.
You'd think the establishment and its chattering classes could have a moment of self-awareness that their aggregate behaviour has been so appalling that people who have never been to church in their lives are turning to God.

What The Economist is missing is they have never understood evangelicals as anything other than caricatures. Most of the popular understanding of them comes from Jack Chick comics and the farcically corrupt televangelists of the 80s, coupled with music samples of fire and brimstone sermons in industrial music. That chapel who protested gay peoples funerals was an appalling example, but it has occupied the role of straw man ever since.

The Economist's view essentially reduces to, "let them eat stimulus checks," and along with the rest of the progressive establishment, they have profoundly misunderstood what a religious revival means. The reason all these people are getting right with their maker is because they are preparing for war.
Wow, this is interesting.

I feel conflicted. On one hand, kids do dumb things. On the other hand... those tweets were pretty terrible, and may hint at some deep seated prejudice. And this isn't a 50yo, those tweets were only a decade ago.

Ultimately I fail to be outraged either by her hiring or her firing. They could have kept her and I'd shrug; they fire her and I also shrug. The whole situation is sad. It's hard to imagine my child saying things like that, but who knows, maybe her parents said the same thing.

For reference, here are the tweets referenced in the story:

Outdone by Asian #whatsnew

now googling how not to wake up with swollen, asian eyes...

give me a 2/10 on my chem problem, cross out all of my work and don't explain what I did wrong..thanks a lot stupid asian T.A. you're great