skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It gives you more share of the 6.25 reward.

But this is zero-sum competition for a portion of a fixed supply. In the aggregate, more electricity does not buy more Bitcoin because it is a fundamental principle of the Bitcoin system that the supply of Bitcoin cannot be increased in response to anything.
Again, what can you point to saying that's the definition of a fiat currency? This Wikipedia article does not mention a mafia. It mentions:

> parties engaging in exchange agree on its value

That's Bitcoin. That's what Bitcoin is.
And here In thought people were talking about Cardano and IELE...
Meh. 5 years ago my house in Calgary was worth 380k. I just sold it for 385k. It might have gone up to 400k if I had waited a bit.

Its not 'bubbling' everywhere - just the meccas of Toronto and Vancouver and their bedroom communities are going nuts. Move to western Canada and prices are still very reasonable.
I believe this is the paper: https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12970-020...

Seems as though we're talking about MFO (maximal fat oxidization) of 10.7% in the morning and 29% in the afternoon. Interestingly you see an increase in VO2max as well - which I believe is essentially blood oxygen.

A few things I'll point out though:

1. This is just 15 men, aged 32 +/- 7 years. Doesn't quite seem like enough people to definitively draw a conclusion.

2. They are described as 'caffeine-naïve' (which I assume means they do not normally consume caffeine) - so it's unclear if this effect would be the same to somebody who already regularly drinks caffeine.
Yeah I understand how it works but none of the major vendors have actually implemented the emoji.

https://emojipedia.org/flag-for-texas-ustx/
Thank you for the info. I was completely in the dark about that. I thought 2008.3 was the last.

As for Linux' standards compliance, I am aware.
this guy really understand thermodynamics and physics of batteries... We are safe! I propose to entrust him with the solution of all the energy problems of the planet.
I think sheet music is a great way to see how a piece works since things are laid out spatially, and complex or subtle patterns can be teased out (e.g. voices in a Bach fugue). I often follow the sheet music as I listen as well.
I can't see bitcoin existing long term because right now I feel the only thing holding it up is it's brand. People know the word "bitcoin" and I'd venture that for 99% of the population that's the only crypto they know. BTC is however, pretty objectively, a really shitty crypto. Which is fine, it's the original one, it would be crazy if no one hadn't figured out how to improve on it.

I just think it is a matter of time before someone hits the right social cords with the right crypto and the wind is sucked out of BTC overnight. There are certainly tons of people trying.
> the others simply don't want to pay taxes that come with residency.

Well, 5 years implies paying taxes i the country too. So if they were not paying taxes there then obviously why would Spain give them the citizenship?
> There's no value created by crunching random SHA-256.

You can't buy drugs in modern world without Bitcoin. That's the value. And regardless of whether we see it as "good" or "bad", in the eyes of the people who are buying drugs, it's pretty significant.
However, exercise is very important ingredient if your goal is health rather then aesthetic.
Some other ideas: overlay additional data or insert other screens in the rotation like a local weather map and bus times. Add another mode to display portraits or fine art. I also want to try different dithering and scaling techniques to see if I can get the text crisper.

I also think it’d be neat to make an alexa skill for it so you could issue voice commands. Maybe have it show the song and artist data for what’s playing on Spotify.
utopian fiction generally requires some imperfection to be shown in order to have dramatic tension.
They quote "for fear of retaliation" yet tell us his name is Vic, he was a driver in Denver, and he quit in the last month. I wonder how many people fit that description? Even if they changed his name or location, there are only so many Vics or Denver-based drivers.
My favorite thing about 'study finds' articles on HN is that I get to read the comments and see people instantly tell me why the article (or sometimes paper as well) is terrible.

I mean this sincerely too, since it's a very low-effort and quick way to find what is often some pretty critical flaws in the presented conclusions.
I do too for the most part. It seems too risky and I am not a professional athlete, so there is no need to push it too hard.

https://aaptiv.com/magazine/pre-workout-drinks
"Are Pre-Workout Drinks Healthy or Harmful?"
> The caffeine and creatine that most of these drinks contain can also have harmful effects on the body. “Excessive caffeine can increase your heart rate and blood pressure, causing cardiac issues,” Woeckener notes.
Ask HN: How do solo devs get feedback on their code?
For solo devs working on a closed source codebase, how do you get feedback on design and implementation decisions?

In the past, I've asked friends in the field I trust, but I'm wondering if there's a better option out there.
Not specific accounts but Reddit Public Access Network and Twitch are interesting services to discover this kind of content. Although the signal to noise ratio is low.
Can cryptocurrencies help the planet? How to harness crypto for good
Detroit went much further, with 122 towers at peak. Austin TX still has some.
> Ethereum is a far better coin for all practical purposes

Typical HN/SV response when it comes to Bitcoin. I'll give anyone on here $1000 in BTC/USD/ETH if they document how to run a full node on Ethereum before May 2021. It's impossible to do without state of the art tech and bandwidth.

Bitcoin on the other hand, can be run on a Raspberry Pi, and people can agree on how many Bitcoin exist at ANY time.

How many Ethereum exist right now? Pro tip: Nobobdy can agree
I'm a Christian who believes that all men and women are made in the image and likeness of God. I don't like the idea of giving money on the basis of race, but I dislike even more encroachments on personal freedom in the use of private property and on the constitutional right of free association.

But again, the government should not be taking race into account in its policies -- other than in following Chief Justice Roberts's dictum: The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
The difference is that this has shifted a whole bunch in the last year. And you have to put Alberta aside because its economy is so tied to oil prices that real estate there took a major hit that it's only really bouncing back from now. (And in a big way, just saw articles this morning about the seller's market in Edmonton. FWIW I grew up there and have family there, so I keep my eye on thing)

But with the COVID situation people are moving all over, and smaller communities in rural or small town southern Ontario (like my own) are being hit with real estate practices that used to be just confined to Toronto. Things going way over list, blind bidding, unconditional offers no inspections, rural places that would normally sit for 4-5 months (because of the complications of selling a rural place) off the market in a week, etc.

Towns like London and Windsor that have had depressed real estate markets for a long time are suddenly hot. Forget about places like Collingwood that might be considered luxury lifestyle places by some.

And then it's spreading out of Ontario; I've seen articles about the Nova Scotia real estate market starting to go crazy as people from Ontario are buying things there sight unseen, etc. Have to admit, we've looked ourselves. Why not work remote from NS? It's super nice there.

And forget about B.C. Last year we were browsing homes in Squamish as it was still "relatively" affordable relative to Vancouver. Prices seem a good 30-40% higher than when we looked a year ago. Interior BC is off the charts and not just in Kelowna where it's always been pricey. I've been watching various ski town (Golden, Revelstoke, etc.) prices for a while. They've gone bonkers over the last year. Friends of friends sold their acreage here in Ontario recently (for a ridiculous price) and relocated to Vancouver island hoping to cash out and get out; reportedly they found it really hard to find a place in Victoria and got caught in multiple bidding wars.

Buyers in Toronto and Vancouver have Stockholm syndrome in regards to the real estate market. They are used to practices that were just not a thing elsewhere in the country. And as they leave the city they're bringing those practices (and their frankly unethical real estate agents...) with them...
An end to double standards and a more honest and actuate world in general sounds quite nice.

Perhaps some guidance about where I fail to perceive or empathize. An analysis of where I have a lot of opportunity to learn. A personalized tutorial on overcoming my particular failings in negotiating, relating, or investing would be helpful.

There are definitely ways we could apply these things to make ourselves miserable. That is unquestionable. A social presence based on who I and those I know are rather than who we spend our time and attention to present ourselves as many do on social media today?

It reminds me of the wealth thing... I'd rather be rich than look rich. Many keep themselves from being wealthy chasing the latter. I'd rather be someone who people, particularly myself, like than appear to be someone people like. I'd rather be known than be seen.
I agree with the sentiment, but this part is way off:

> [...] despite being one of the most fiat currencies by definition [...]

FIAT currencies are by design inflationary to enhance spending. Bitcoin is deflationary _by design_. Since there's no bank or state backing Bitcoin, the only way that bitcoin makes sense was/is deflation. This quality makes BTC an asset and that's what it is, a digital asset. As a currency BTC has already failed.
> If you want to lose weight by far the easiest and most effective thing you can do is to get your diet under control.

Easy is the wrong word. Getting your diet under control is the hardest part of losing weight. Most effective, absolutely. Simple, yes, easy, no.
That's the whole point. You only need info about things you can run into.
If you want a headless server, you can use transmission-daemon. There are several clients available: CLI (transmission-remote), a web interface, and a desktop GUI application (transmission-remote-gtk).
Thank you. I think these connections are not known enough.
This is the last thing I'd be worried about. It's coffee, not some kind of anabolic steroid/cocaine mixture.

I know a lot of people who spend way too much time trying to optimize supplements and other tiny details instead of throwing down and getting on with your life.

Edit: after reading other comments yours makes more sense, but I'd still be more worried about what's actually in a pre-work out beverage than over-exertion.
> Amdahl's Law is very relevant here.

This is a gross misunderstanding of both software and amdahl's law.

Amdahl's law just states that the serial parts of a program stays the same as more cores are used for the parallel parts of a program. This also means that the percentage of time the serial part takes becomes larger as it stays the same and the overall running time goes down. It is not an incredibly mind blowing or insightful observation.

It is also assumes certain aspects can't be split up.

Multiple programmers means more communication (synchronization). If anything amdahl's law is an argument that having less but better programmers is much more effective than having more average programmers.
3mg/kg for an average weight man is about 3 cups of coffee.
The most successful company to come out of YCombinator is Coinbase, yet HN is still salty about Bitcoin!

Can't make this stuff up
This is not surprising to anyone who has ever walked into a GNC, or other health food store... is it even news? They’ve been selling shit like “redline” for many years to do exactly this.

Power fat burner: caffeine + blood thinner. That’s most of what things like redline do. Is it going to work if you don’t exercise? Nope, but it sure as hell does help if you are exercising.

I’d really only recommend it to people focused on losing a lot of weight. If you’re trying to lose 10lbs it’ll never make a difference. If you’re trying to lose 100lbs though, then yeah, 6-12 months worth of slightly increased metabolic rate will probs have a net positive affect.
Also known as Brandolini's Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
... such that it cannot be used by anyone else anymore for that price, since you can't double-spend, ahem, double-use electricity...
Interestingly I've heard about a strong relationship between heart attacks and consumption of energy drinks like Monster/Red-Bull.

I used to drink a lot of Red Bull and stopped as a result. But I sometimes think one of the reasons I haven't put on weight despite my lifestyle is because of my caffeine habits.
I like the display, but the need for a CMS running in a docker container on the other end to push images is asinine. Why is the eink market this weird?
I used poppler-utils but the OP apparently used imagemagick on PDFs directly which I didn’t know was possible.

(To be fair the device does HTML rendering by default and the API for pushing images isn’t super obvious)
Update: as of now, homebrew has updated to openssl 1.1.1k.
There is only one gold with gold's properties and that's gold.

The same cannot be said for BTC.
It's from an event I Praha - I mean that there's very little use for the word (as opposed to "kill" or "throw out a window". It's not like sheep and mutton.

Ed: see first part, and the section https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration#Origin_of_the...

It's not from old Latin, but rather from "new Latin".
They definitely do, I've worked with them.

As far as I can tell, it's mainly the ability to hold a lot more "connections" in their head at any one time, and extreme logical rigor.

So that instead of reasoning about just the function they're writing, they're always naturally reasoning about the entire framework it fits into, and so they don't tend to produce bugs where the function doesn't fit in right, where it has weird side effects, where it duplicates code elsewhere, where it will create unforeseen technical debt, etc.

And then their logic is just watertight, always. They don't make all the kinds of basic design and logic errors other programmers tend to repeatedly make.

They sit down, crank out 1,000 lines in a couple of hours, try to compile/run, fix bugs around mismatched braces and misspelled variables, and it just works.

In contrast with someone else who takes a couple days to get it even kind of working, then winds up having to rewrite large parts of it twice because they'd made basic design errors in the first place.

But I still stand by my original point that most programming jobs don't require you to write a tight 1,000 lines often. Most work is plumbing, bugfixes, CRUD, etc. where the connections/logic skills don't really pay off in a big way.
ADA all caps could be taken to mean the Cardano cryptocurrency/platform.
No, I don't think I accept the idea that everyone who didn't sign the anti-Stallman letter has secretly in their heart signed the pro-Stallman letter.
I think your definition is faulty: are you aware of shell money? This served as money enabling international trade for thousands of years[1], and can you say these shells have intrinsic uses?[2] These shells had value because of their properties: compact, scarce, unforgeable.

In contrast, fiat value is held because an authoritative party says value is held, e.g. Chucky Cheese tokens, or the USD. Fiat requires this authority, as in its definition: “An arbitrary order or decree.”

There are no authoritative parties declaring that Bitcoin has value, rather the market is arriving at that conclusion through decentralized operation, just as has occurred for thousands of years with gold, shells, etc.

[1] https://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/

[2] To say that a store of wealth also has uses as jewelry is redundant, IMO - storing and displaying wealth are age-old desires.
Thank you for a measured response that doesn't categorize everyone on the "wrong side" of history here as inept, or miscategorizes Proof of Work.

What also seems to be thrown out with the bathwater in this discussion is that for the project of intermediary free money, with a long time horizon, the subsidy is only a small reason Bitcoin will have ever been mined.
Makes me wonder if structuring the school curriculum in a way that'll teach everyone to rebuild the technological civilisation from scratch to a fairly advanced level is a good idea.
This is the right way to approach it on my opinion.
One huge mistake admitted very early on: "Our".
This smells like design by committee. Or he thinks of himself like a kind of pope.

The most important point in designing a programming language is to avoid design by committee. Use a team for feedback, tests or docs. But nothing else. He didn't even mention that principle.
Unfortunately, that is not scalable. Even within academia, there is a lot of proof of work going on, it is a very natural phenomena if you look deeply enough. Consider some area of academia, you have to come up with a hypothesis, test it, collect data, analyze it and publish; your peers will review it and verify/refute it, there is no "top down" acceptance of someones word on face-value (if it is, then it is not science).
The comment next to yours gives up the game, pointing out that the letter you're citing was canvassed on 4chan.
So then we should ban articles like this?
It might be a stunt, but it also encourages experiments which is helpful for scientists (and even in software, product development, advertising, business, etc).
Wow, what a great article! And it links to one of my favorite botany papers every written: "The Medlar (Mespilus germanica, Rosaceae) from Antiquity to Obscurity" by John R. Baird and John W. Thieret,
Economic Botany Vol. 43, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1989), pp. 328-372 (45 pages)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4255177

https://sci-hub.do/https://www.jstor.org/stable/4255177

I read this by chance when it came out, and for a long while couldn't figure out whether it was a parody or a real scientific article. The whole story seemed so vastly improbable: a vulgar fruit central to Shakespeare that we've mostly forgotten about today, unable to be eaten until it's been rotted in sawdust for a few months --- pull the other one! Anyway, if the BBC article whets your interest in the medlar, you should definitely check out the full article. It's a gem.
To be clear the ‘bletting’ process isn’t really rotting. There isn’t bacterial or fungal decomposition. Instead it is enzymes within the fruit which slowly react with and transform it. This isn’t wholly dissimilar from normal fruit ripening which can happen after the fruit has been picked.
Funnily enough officially they still don't. For some reason you're in theory not allowed to buy the evaluation kits as a consumer.
Or how about the actual newspaper?
Mining bitcoin is exactly what the author mentions a heat sink not a battery.

But mining bitcoin and capturing excess heat produces a provably scarce and globally accessible digital asset.

You are not transferring energy across time or space. Instead you are directly converting cheaply available energy (usually hydro) into monetary value that can be easily transferred through time and space.
Right, but is that not merely because cryptocurrency is a nascent technology?

The modern financial system has required an insane amount of capital (energy, resource, human) in order to get where it is.

It seems very Luddite to think that the pure-digital system is not more than capable of outpacing (in terms of efficiency and effectiveness) a system that involves massive amounts of human capital, when that (humans > machines) has literally never happened in human history in the long-term.
The whole point was to get scrolls past all those ads. It was a listicle.
If you can't see that Amazon's motives in this

do not stem from good aspects of human potential and nature,

whether they themselves realise it or not,

then you lack insight.

-

I've stopped ordering from Amazon.

Even if it costs a bit more,

it feels so good.

It's the right thing to do.

I refuse to work for them,

and so should you.

Shame on the weak, greedy, and fearful that do.

-

Government regulation seems to be the only way

to prevent a perverse, grotesque future

and present.

-

But standing in the way -

Cursed human delusion,

confusion,

greed

and fear.

Cursed ideology.

-

It acts in all of us.

Damned be this condition.

May we all see the light.
> There's no value created by crunching random SHA-256.

So I shouldn't have to pay high wages if my employees aren't creating anything of value?

People seem to pick and choose when they believe the labor theory of value.

The point of the matter is that value *is* what people are willing to pay for something.

You could argue that a Van Gogh is just arbitrary colors applied to a canvas, it's not worth anything inherently other than through the subjective valuations of other people.
To spend $2500 on this is a bit outrageous. You can't carry it with you or fold it up. Who reads a newspaper standing in front of a wall... Unless you're at a urinal?

The price needs to come down to make this useful.

It's $250 a year for a daily paper subscription to the NYT. I could get it for ten years for the cost of this tech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G
It's easy to define 'cheap': relative to the wages market, market prices for driving are relatively low compared to other jobs.

'Underpaid' is a value judgment, you claim that prevailing market wages are unfair so presumably you have a better model to determine and protect higher wages.
I really like Eric's work, especially "From Boolean Algebra to Unified Algebra".

His algebraic approach towards building software is really refreshing as it starts with the absolute basics and then slowly builds to a whole framework. Recommended!
The nice thing about Box86 is that it intercepts calls to things like the libc, SDL, font rendering and OpenGL, and runs the native library versions.

In that regard, it's actually more like WINE than something like QEMU system mode. QEMU only emulates kernel system call interfaces and any library code is also emulated, and so is much slower.
The Curious Case of the Y Combinator Bookmarklet
I really hate this. I grade myself a C on spontaneous insight, but an A+ on insight after multiple rounds of editing alternated with multiple rounds of defense from the nitpicking of smart friends.

It makes you not want to venture anything online, or at least anything with your name attached to it. I have a deep fear that something dumb but pithy I've said will become a flag for morons long after I realized that I was completely wrong.
Cherry Blossoms and Climate Change
I think you're struggling with the meaning of "provide value".

What exactly do you mean when you say something does not provide value?

I mean that it is accomplishing a task which has utility to some person.
any idea what the 25.3" e-ink monitor will cost?

its €1500 for the 13.3" version, so …

https://www.ebay.de/itm/Dasung-e-ink-Monitor-HD-FT/133442474...
I've lost significant weight twice (~20-25 lbs). Once was purely diet with very little exercise, and the other way was way more exercise, but less diet control.

The first way made me feel tired and light-headed, and not that great overall. The second way (high exercise, a little diet control) took longer, but also makes me feel 10 years younger and pretty much as healthy as I've ever been.