skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was the level I was at, which is why I wrote this software to begin with, it started out as a re-write of pianobooster, which is a very neat program with a bunch of hard to fix basic ideas. Now, about a year later it is very far ahead of pianobooster, and I've learned to sightread much better than I ever could have achieved with pianobooster.
Bitcoin is getting an unfair treatment here on HN.

The mining of Bitcoin uses as much resources as people are willing to pay for the resulting coins.

The same holds true for gold.

3000 tons of gold are mined per year. Which is worth about $150B. So the mining probably uses resources of about $150B as well.

The value of bitcoins mined per year is $15B.

So Gold mining probably uses about 10x as much resources as Bitcoin mining.
Link to one of the referred papers « Introducing Physical Warp Drives» https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06824
Here's an example :) https://content.spiceworksstatic.com/service.community/p/how...
Honestly at some point a tired Amazon driver is going to mow down a bunch of innocent schoolgirls and the issue will be settled.

Its how driving intoxicated became a felony.
> When I say "I'm eating a sandwich", the primary verb is "to eat". I'm telling you my current state as a side effect only.

I'm not sure I understand the uniqueness. In Spanish this would be, in the context of a conversation:

"Qué estás haciendo?"

"Estoy comiendo un sandwich"

Note this is idiomatic and the most common way of saying this, I'm not forcing it.

"Comiendo" (from "comer", "to eat", is the -ing form in Spanish, and it's widely used).
If you're referring to the earth's iron-nickel core, then the comparison is moot. Mining an asteroid is theoretically feasible. Mining the earth's core is not.
Are you learning 50 min long difficult classical pieces by ear?
Sort of burying the lede there, CBS. Note where they interview the expert on tax policy near the bottom of the article, explaining why this happens. For financial accounting, they report stock grants using the price at the time of grant. For tax liability, they expense stock grants using the price at the time of sale. This reduces tax liability from the raw accounting profit to the company but the individual who receives stock as compensation still pays tax on it. The government doesn't lose any revenue here. It just shifts who it collects from.

It's unfortunate that this seems to rarely get brought up in discussions of corporate tax rates, but corporations can't directly bear a tax burden. The burden is split between consumers, suppliers, employees, and owners. Charging the corporation instead of the consumers, suppliers, employees, and owners directly may or may not ease the administrative burden of collection, but it also obscures who the burden is placed on as it becomes determined by the relative bargaining power and price elasticity of demand between those groups, whereas taxing them directly allows the relative burdens to be reflected in the actual legal rates.

This is one of those weird things that is almost universally agreed upon in tax policy circles but oddly partisan anyway. Note that the Brookings Institution is hardly some bastion of conservative thought.
Personally, I would prefer to use a library without the React Hook wrapper - and do the wrapping myself, if/when needed.

The main functionality is provided by:

https://github.com/ethers-io/ethers.js

..But useNft seems to contain some useful methods, like "normalizeTokenUrl". It would be nice if all those were packaged up as a general-purpose library, separate from the React Hook itself.
This may sound like a paradox, but it's true:

Making nickel so easily obtainable that it's almost worthless, would be incredibly valuable to society.
Mainly because I did not know that existed. I'll have to test it before thinking about switching it out. I wonder if there's some sort of unit test suite for .htaccess configurations -- big changes like this could definitely break something, and my config works for me now.

It does seem like it might be more magic than I prefer in programming, though.
Where was Sumana when Jeffrey Epstein funded all sorts of centers at MIT? His proclivities and activities were well known since 2005, yet the social justice crowd stayed quiet. Epstein was in a position to cause damage, and he did. Prostitution, death threats, little black books, you name it. Donald Trump was sufficiently put out by his activities to ban him from Mar-do-Lago!

But the woke crowd instead targets Stallman because he is an easy target, he looks like a vagrant and has disgusting habits. Can please someone point out what he did? (No, off-colour jokes don't count, only real-life troubles for another person).

D & I much? Pass the bucket, I'm going to throw up.
But keep in mind, that data caps exist to limit the impact of single users to the overall capacity. With 5G capacity everywhere, the will look different (way higher).
I think this comes down to people having differences of opinion on what is important.

I read these complaints and don’t think they are very important. Especially over a period of decades. If this is the worse that people can bring up, then I just don’t get it.

In the future will we have two kinds of organizations, one where people file complaints about “ such as taking over sessions through loud disruptions” and one where people don’t care?

I suppose that people care about different things, but then for people who don’t care will we all end up being in one end, and everyone who wants “ Safe Space Policy” I partially applied in other orgs.

The challenge I face is that I don’t want the Postel’s law group full of only jerks. But I also don’t want to be part of an org that spends so much time on what I see as administrative bikeshedding.

Of course people are free to do whatever they like, but I certainly won’t donate to FSF if they go the way I disagree with. And I don’t think a safe FSF will further free software in the best way.
> ...made up currency...

Welcome to reality. https://breedlove22.medium.com/masters-and-slaves-of-money-2...
Oh no, of course is not the first time you tried to take down the free software movement. First time was fifteen years ago with the (now a hollow shell) Open Source Initiative. For the record, there is also a list in support of Richard Stallman [1], which right now is signed by more people, but less organizations.

Which comes to show the glaring disconnect between organizations and the user base. As the organizations are too busy showing each other how good and inclusive they are, while at the same time they give fat raises to their CEOs and fire their workers.

[1] https://rms-support-letter.github.io/
I hear about it from politicians. I hear about it from telecom companies. I hear about it from my tech-illiterate dad, who asked me "Does it have 5G?" when I told him I got a new smartphone.

Reminds me of when Bill Gates was on breakfast television flogging Intel's Pentium processor. My mom was suddenly of the opinion that all of my computer equipment was obsolete and that this one chip was going to solve all of the world's problems.
I started learning piano just over a year ago and picked up reading sheet music decently in an extremely short amount of time.

The gaps is the treble clef are

| F | A | C | E |

The bass clef is the same but shifted down one gap (and the highest note is G)

F | A | C | E | G |

And then middle C is, well, C. Just remembering that FACE goes in two places you get:

bass clef (C) treble clef
F | A | C | E | G | | | F | A | C | E |

And from that it's easy to go to the closest note and the count up/down one note and gradually memorize more. This was, at least to me, a drop dead simple way to memorize where everything goes.
It was well known what Epstein was up to, the people you list were often exposed to Epstein's true behavior:

https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/jeffrey-epstein-science...
To coopt Bender, why not go start your own [software project] with [diversity] and [inclusion]?

You could fork the entire FSF’s software suite, and mold a culture around it that matches your priorities. That’s the beauty of free software, you don’t need to ask permission. Or write petitions. You just go and do it.
This seems like the right way to think about it to me. Space manufacturing seems like an inevitability at some point in the future.
Do you have any suggestions for courses teaching practical formal methods?
I'm not the person you asked but I am someone who worked to change my accent (successfully enough that I have gone from a thick, easily identifiable accent to not having anyone guess that I was not local to where I live now in the last 15 years or so).

There's no real trick to it other than paying attention. Record yourself speaking, listen closely to how the sounds you use differ from the accent you want to have. Then practice saying those sounds over and over until they become natural. Keep at this for several years.

It's painful to do (though I find it less so if you focus mostly on specific sounds rather than listening to your full speech -- it's easier to separate the sound from the revulsion of hearing your own voice that way) but it works.
That doesn’t seem like the real problem being solved or highlighted? Communication is a vector here that is surfacing a fundamental competitive force and strategy between actors?

Information is power. Knowing something, and that being representative of reality and providing predictive ability related to that thing provides you power in a number of ways (ability to predict and intervene or not depending on desired outcomes being a huge one).

Someone presenting you plausibly correct, yet misleading information (a good lie) provides them a major advantage (short term, or long term depending on the situation). It allows them to influence your behavior and actions in a way they can likely predict and influence your ability to predict or react accurately to something.

A lie detector (as compared to an objective truth detector) would tell you if you were being manipulated or mislead intentionally. Very different from a ‘do they actually know what they are talking about’ aka truth detector like you are referring to, but a very valuable tool if one existed in a competitive world like the one we exist in.
The founder claims he has investments from Sequoia, Andreessen and Social Capital??!?!

This is from their Techcrunch https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/22/crypto-social-network-bitc...

I don't think this true which makes me think this is a scam
Then you aren't thinking too hard. Most of these GUIs have advanced features that can be quite useful as well as making it easy to set up sites that you would like to keep but don't want to have to remember the entire address of (aka a sites list). So they definitely have their uses if you aren't just a casual ftp/sftp user.
Once mined, gold is gold and we can just hand it to each other, or exchange notes of ownership on a very efficient ledger.

Bitcoin requires a constant supply of electricity to maintain its utility. Without electricity, Bitcoin would collapse.

Gold’s utility as a medium of exchange and a store of value is secure in a crisis, bitcoin’s is not.
Indeed, "theory" is not an all-or-nothing affair. There's a level of "theory" that's just learning why certain intervals are harmonious in the 12 tone system, and the names of things. I certainly learned those things, but if asked whether I know "theory," my answer is no. Virtually everything I know about harmony in jazz is due to hearing and recognizing recurring patterns.

In my case, I've gotten through 40 years of performing with jazz groups, so in some sense I'm doing OK, but I also know that I struggle with ultra-modern jazz harmonies. This came into pretty sharp relief when I played with some musicians who were composing all of their own tunes. I reach the end of my mental map, and then I have to fake it, or improvise directly from the melody.

But I agree that "ear" and perception of harmonic structure are closely related. It's hard to describe, and might make a psychologist cringe, but a musician develops a "mental ear." And I wouldn't recommend my approach to a young player. Most people want to become proficient in fewer than 40 years. ;-) There are things I can't do. I can't compose or arrange anything worth playing. Without exception, every musician I've played with who could compose or arrange decent jazz material has a music degree.
They're simply discrete initial steps on the way to a more elaborate syntax, it's not either or.

Parsing nearly killed my interest in programming languages, it's rarely the part that get people excited.
Doesn’t the live feed being triggered after the detection of a safety or policy violation, allow them to be berated by a real-live person?
No, but that's a necessary part of the solution.
The first one might be because companies that make a big deal about being pro diversity have already identified a problem and are trying to combat it by making big deal (not necessarily by doing anything else), whereas normal companies don't need to advertise that because they already have a wide variety of employees.
Why is it weird? It requires an open and trustful way of thinking. The same that lets me believe in global warming. I just think the outcome of subcribing to that ideology has good outcomes for me and my family, and I accept there are events beyond my reach and understanding, and that I cannot do much about it.

Because Occam's razor is clear. I successfully grow flowers on my balcony and my verification and peer review of temperature is not alarming. It's hard to make a living as a scientist, and journals need sensationalism, so of course people in their 30s+ would show me numbers that fit the agenda. From logical thinking the deduction is there is no global warming, but I do believe there is in some parts of the world, and we'd best do something about it.

Same thing goes for what ancient civilisations believed within the concept of their lifestyles.
I agree with you that Stallman's proclivity toward making tactless and contentious statements at the worst possible times on topics that have nothing to do with Free Software make him a poor spokesperson for the FSF. I haven't yet made up my mind on whether they should bar him from being a board member.

Yet, I find it extremely questionable that the authors of <https://rms-open-letter.github.io> decided to throw in an accusation of transphobia with no apparent basis and for no apparent reason. It's a serious accusation and enough reason for me not to sign this letter. I'm not signing the support letter [1] either. I feel no need to hop on either of these bandwagons.

For what it's worth, Stallman's latest statement on pedophilia seems to be this:

> Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it.

> Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why.

I can forgive the previous statements given that RMS has never done anything remotely approximating acting them out, that they've all been made quite long ago (I believe), and that RMS likely has some form of Asperger's.

[1]: https://rms-support-letter.github.io/
I do not know, no Android tablet here. Let me know if it does/doesn't though, assuming the Chrome implementation on Android is close to the regular browser on non-mobile OS's I see no reason why it would not work.
Bangladeshi protestors attack Hindu temples
You can only be sure about an upper bound on gold mining (they’d likely not continue mining if it was at a loss).
I was not familiar with the original argument but it's so ridiculous at face value that I wonder if a rebuttal was necessary.

Mining Bitcoins is like Iceland smelting aluminum? Mining bitcoin "converts electricity into value"? Preposterous.

The value of bitcoin is driven by speculation, and in turns that increases the incentive for the miners, not the other way around. There's no value created by crunching random SHA-256.

As a thought experiment, let's assume that tomorrow a breakthrough slashes in half the cost of energy worldwide. Nuclear fusion reactors become viable or something. That would probably make aluminum cheaper, since processing it is so energy-incentive.

But what about bitcoin? It'd just lower the bar for mining to be profitable, and it'll temporarily increase the size of the mining pool as the difficulty adjusts, but that's about it.

There's simply no direct relationship between the cost of electricity and that of bitcoin that I can see. There's not even a direct relationship between the cost of electricity and the service provided by bitcoin. Bitcoin doesn't become more or less useful based on the cost of mining, it's always one block every 10 minutes give or take.
> This is a good article that lays out how this was common knoweledge:

The article names three different people who claim to have had no idea. Maybe they're lying, but I hadn't heard about Epstein before either, so I'm inclined to believe them. I don't think you can claim that it was "common knowledge". (Did you know?)
The Game of Craftsmanship
Simple solution: just crash this 140 mile diameter asteroid into Australia so it's accessible and cheap to mine. Afterwards the prices of iron and nickel would drop to zero!
Bitcoin is a fiat currency though...
Bitcoin is not a battery for the very simple reason that it does not store energy: you cannot turn a bitcoin directly back into energy.

Proof that energy has been expended has no intrinsic value at all. If it did, we would not throw out burnt toast. But it is mere entropy.
Interesting! Do you perhaps have any sources to share?
Bitcoin is the digital gold for the cryptocurrency universe atm. It's not really useful anymore for any of its advertised goals - Ethereum is a far better coin for all practical purposes. But since it's the first and it's accepted everywhere, it's going to maintain its dominance. Obv. Bitcoin is also deflationary having a fixed supply.

But really it's really about it being the gateway to the altcoin universe, where actual useful stuff is being built. The Bitcoin Core team has fallen prey to corruption and collusion with miners, unf.
Feel free to keep all your wealth allocated in gold.

We'll talk again in 5 years time.
Yea, right now i'm looking for resources that at least attempt to describe and teach posture, hand patterns, etc. I may at some point hire a virtual teacher, but that seems difficult to setup. I imagine they'd need cameras, my hands, body, etc - and it sounds like work. So i'm going to pursue some non-live methods i can find, if any.
...30 orders of magnitude more than a nuclear power plant.
The P-515 is very good for what it costs. I tried a whole bunch of them before deciding, Nord Stage 3 wasn't as good at almost 3 times the price. And what it lacks in gimmicks you can easily add in software.
It's definitely less of a magical explanation than that everything was created by a magic personality of endless love and ruthless judgment, whom you know personally through auditory hallucinations and the writings on ancient scrolls.
If you think HN has a pro-China bias, make some posts that express pro-China ideas, and see what happens to your karma.
No no but gates is our hero now... It disgusts me how short public memory can be.
Yea, i think the tradeoff between liberty and privacy with security and safety is a tough decision to make and is why this hasn't been fixed with a law. Can one have both liberty/privacy and security/safety? A father living in a war zone would gladly give up privacy for not having to worry about whether or not he will outlive his children. I think a father living in a stasi-like regime may also be willing to make a similar tradeoff so that their children had the potential for a happy life. There are monsters on the fringes of the internet that do stuff like child exploitation and sex trafficking. There are also monsters across the world that want to hurt our society. Whether or not it was our fault in the first place is debatable but there are people who's job it is to prevent them from harming us. I can see the point of those that are tasked with finding those monsters. They are not ludite simpletons, they experience the horrors that some people can commit and want to prevent those horrors. I don't want to live in an orwellian state and I'm not sure the right answer is to create tools and policies that would allow for something like that to grow. But at the same time is it ok to just sacrifice a tiny portion of our society and allow some horror to be more easily committed to that tiny minority? I don't know how we find the least bad compromise or what something like that might even look like.
At least one scientist on your list is a notorious harasser. As the kids say today, rather than letting his associates update your priors on Epstein, instead let the well-documented multi-decade abuses by Epstein inform your priors about everyone he worked with. Nearly everyone associated with him and his foundation should be non grata in all parts of the academic community.
There is no set amount of electricity needed to move Bitcoin.

The exchange of Bitcoin costs just as much as people are willing to pay for it. That amount can go arbitrarily low.
It’s weird seeing consistent downvotes of folks trying to clarify how/why Bitcoin consumes energy.

Is there something better than minting new money that we should be using this energy on, and to which we can economically distribute said energy from locations with excess capacity?
The Bitcoin takes too much power narrative is absurd. It's clearly an anti-narrative by the media to maintain some FUD around cryptocurrency.

It's only that it isn't being fixed right now, but there are plenty of altcoins who are aiming to be fix this issue. You can just patch cryptocurrency to stop having this issue, same as any other software.
Do you know what "fiat" means? It means "mandatory".

How is Bitcoin being imposed on you?

On the other hand, if you live in the US and you decide to not use the US Dollar, you'll go to jail.
5G can also more efficiently make use of spectrum, which means 5G networks can reach further than 4G networks built on the same frequency.

This part I don't understand. I spend a lot of time on business and pleasure in places where cellular coverage is unavailable or unreliable. I thought that 5G signals don't go as far as 4G, so how can they reach "further" into towns and places that don't have cellular service?

(FWIW, there are a number of places in my regular [pre-pandemic] travels where the 3G signal is better and even faster than 4G signals.)
Secular humanists are fundamentally sceptical, whereas theists are fundamentally credulous ... is that how they are distinguished?
The author is arguing that bitcoin mining does not produce a marginal asset in return for the energy used to mine it. Do you think your gold mining analogy fits this?
Relative to other languages, the premise might be correct but learning English was still not easy due to all the irregularities and overloaded words one has to memorize.
It is true, Chamath from Social Capital mentioned it towards the end of the recent All-In podcast
Will gold lose its value in the next 5 years?
How do they detect when the fallback should be used?
Actually 5G is a big improvement on the system architecture. More and more of (dedicated) HW is moved to SW entities and virtualized computing (cloud stuff). This should bring down the investments for large deployments and coverage everywhere.
The New World supplied Spain with untold amounts of gold. It had an effect but gold continues to have value.