skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel you. I think the only way out is to put aside time to actually start from scratch and actually learn it properly. A really big issue with Gradle is the pretense you can work with it easily without learning it. You absolutely have to understand its fundamentals (which are not obvious, btw) to work with it and not hate it I think.
Another idea I've heard is separate legislative bodies. One that can only add laws and one that removes laws.
If your only, or primary, experience building games was scripting systems in blueprints (or analogous visual scripting language), you wouldn't get hired as an engineer at most large studios. There is a role for that on those teams: technical designer. The (gameplay) engineer exists to build large systems that might have hooks that allow designers to script/customize the functionality through a visual scripting system. Engineers provide their value lower in the stack.
It can be stolen, and part of you goes with it. Think it won't happen? Really?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Railway

Snow isn't an obstacle to trains (unless you don't want trains to be a reality).
When visiting Austin what are the number one places a Silicon Valley resident should go to for networking?
A bit of a nitpick, but most residential fiber deployments are PONs. With a PON, a single fiber gets split into a lot of separate wavelength channels with prisms. It's still tons more usable bandwidth available than wireless.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_optical_network
>They aren't dumping radioactive waste, just water that has become radioactive from being near radioactive waste.

radioactive waste water is radioactive waste.
That's actually exactly the method I used! I had trouble finding the book again, so thank you for linking me to it.

I personally think everyone should learn at least one song on the piano using this method. It's such a great introduction to how the brain learns. I was amazed the first time I noticed I could actually get better at a song not by practicing longer or harder, but by taking a break and returning only once I felt the urge again (or even better, after a full night's sleep). It's a strange feeling to suddenly glide through a section that you previously found difficult without any additional practice in between.
its kind of funny that air France is considered worse then KLM considering they are the same company..
Yes, hippies, the perennial scapegoats for all our problems. It's unfortunate how they run energy commissions, governments, and military organizations around the world, preventing any progress.
BTW. I added Color to Alpha into Photopea: Filter - More - Color to Alpha. Works 100% same as in Gimp :)
Okay there's about a dozen reasons Librem 5 will never be more than a fun developer's toy. Here's just a few.

1) It's difficult to use as a daily driver even for experienced people. It's impossible for the average person.

2) It's not a premium device with a big beautiful screen, lots of RAM, the fastest processor, tons of storage, etc. So it doesn't attract the non-technical enthusiast crowd.

3) It doesn't have brand appeal like Samsung or Apple. It's not consider a "status" item by the general population. So it doesn't attract a beautiful young fashion model who wants to be seen with an iPhone 12 Pro Max XL Super Duper.

4) It runs an operating system most people have never heard of - Linux. Most people know Android, most people know what iOS is, or have at least heard of it. The people I mentioned above don't know Linux. They especially don't understand what makes this brand of Linux "special".

5) In order to this to eventually overtake the world, the entire world has to shift to a paid model for literally everything, because how else are you going to fund it? Everybody's exchanging data with everyone. Data about users. No exchange means increased prices across the board, for everything, because no data means no targeted advertisement. Hell, you can barely do untargeted advertisement with no data.

How's that? Happy now?
"Proof of stake" to establish distributed consensus will solve the energy problem related to cryptocurrency. Ethereum is one example of such cryptocurrency that uses this mechanism.
More than 2M Americans exposed to high strontium in drinking water
If you mean the hashing will stop - it won’t, because that’s how the system is secured. The creation of new bitcoins is irrelevant as far as energy use goes.
Say, what is honor? 'T is the finest sense

Of justice which the human mind can frame,

Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim,

And guard the way of life from all offense

Suffered or done.

-

Wordsworth.
>>"Why does Bitcoin have to justify its energy usage when the legacy financial system does not?"

These questions always strike me as disingenuous / intentionally obtuse. But charitably assuming an honest question for purpose of frank discourse, my simplest answer / understanding is that in general, in the daily transactional system, participants work to reduce energy cost per transaction and over most periods of time this energy cost per transaction has been reducing, or if it increases, it is to support some additional identifiable functionality. This strikes me as a rational system.

With bitcoin, my understanding is that effective energy usage per transaction / for the system as a whole has been increasing. This strikes me as iterational.

I am eager to be corrected if my high level perception of bitcoin is incorrect and energy costs have been rationally decreasing / becoming more efficient over time.

If NOT.. Then how does anybody persuade themselves to believe this is a rational currency system, or at the very least, that it's energy usage in particular is in any way whatsoever defensible??
Thank you! It was.

> No creativity makes it sound like the market has been figured out

That was my bet. It has, so far, been a good one.

> does that mean that the risk/reward of strategies has flattened off (I.e. same risk for less reward) because there are less opportunities to exploit?

Your instinct was on point. You don’t need someone with a feel for volatility to make money (or not lose it) in options market making anymore. The work consists of, and will for some time, re-implementing existing ideas. There are still mis-pricings. But they aren’t inherent to the pricing model. The commodity component can be isolated and run with an eye towards costs and economies of scale.

(This has been a fun conversation, by the way. Thank you.)
I agree thee kind of papers seem like a hairsplitting contest.

Especially if you talk to people who ACTUALLY and SUCESSFULLY control their size... for (non hardocre) bodybuilder its pretty much IIFYM and for fighters who cut for fights its "just eat less bro, yes its hard.. are going to complain lol ?"
At that point you may as well just use a smart watch for payments.
If you think that is crazy, check out Muller's Recurrence: https://scipython.com/blog/mullers-recurrence/
This would make particular sense in a language like python, which no one (should?) be using for systems programming.
The BP oil spill[1] in the gulf of Mexico was incredibly bad too... specially knowing that they let it leak for months...

And then they used toxic chemicals[2] that were more toxic then the oil itself to sink the oil to the bottom of the ocean to hide it all.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill

2. https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/public_lands/en...

I still avoid BP gas stations whenever I can even if it probably doesn't help. They bought most gas stations in the small town I was in at the time, next to the spill. Can't wait for nuclear & solar power to take over ;)
Reality disagrees. By any objective measure, MW per MW I challenge you to find an energy source able to supply baseline (not a myth too) with a better safety profile then nuclear fission.
I would say it’s nice to live in a society with laws but also that none of that is a reason to go back to subsistence farming.
Some day the miner subsidy will stop, if mining stops the network stops
Dhando Funds: the shamelessly cloned 26 Percent Fund
Anxiety is in your body, not your mind
Mining can't stop. It's required to keep the ledger true. The block rewards will stop, but miners will still earn the transaction fees.
The barrier of entry to theft is raised from pick-pocketing and mugging in alleys to chopping off a limb, no doubt it'll happen but I'm certain it'll be MUCH much rarer.
Second answer includes:

> If I’m completely honest, I’d be perfectly willing to drink a glass of the water they’re planning to dump. I’m not heading all the way to Japan for it, and I doubt they’d let me do it anyway, but I’d drink it. Make of that what you will.
Ethereum doesn’t use PoS. They’ve been promising it since 2014, but the network is still on PoW.
And of course it was hippies who designed this reactor...

And it was hippies that enabled and encouraged burning coal and petrol without a care in the world for centuries before we got nuclear (and after), not engineers...
Other examples are Cardano and Nimiq.
The definition of "the internet" that you are using, is sort of like defining "the U.S. government" by the constitution. Yet, it is more useful in most cases, when referring to "the U.S. government", to include the way in which it actually, typically works. If your point is that it is possible to make an internet which did not violate privacy, sure, it is possible. But, that's not the internet we have, and this is not just a coincidence or a bit of bad luck, but rather an intrinsic feature of the very ease of networking and communicating on a vast scale which is also what's good about it. Making an internet which respected privacy might be possible, but it's much, much harder than before the internet.
Ethereum does not use Proof of Stake, it is a proposed change that is being worked on, with a timeline of several years before it will be put into action, and that's only if the network accepts it.
Do you have a source where I could read more about Israel’s goals with the JCPOA? Even with the sun setting, the idea seems to be to keep reimplementing a new agreement under threat of future sanctions, just like you refi a TLB, and the Israelis should understand this.
flying with a toddler in and of itself is already hell on earth, both for the parents, toddler and everyone stuck in the metal tube for the duration of the flight.

train journies are also far more practical if you have a toddler or small children considering trains are a very relaxed atmosphere.
What other beautiful structures come to mind for you?
Eth is still spending plenty of energy on PoW, but most L2 systems are PoS and the PoS L1 system is running, but just deferring to the PoW chain right now
Conventiently, he wont. Those living nearby will, however.
This would be less about a user peripheral like the gamepad (which is obviously going to be read out exactly once per frame anyway) and more about getting subtle interactions between the CPU, memory/DMA, and specialized systems for graphics/audio correct. And not just correct after thousands of hours of work to smoke out the exact sources of specific title bugs, but correct essentially for free.

See for example the tale of an absolutely wild mGBA investigation that was posted here a while ago:

"What happens if an interrupt gets raised between prefetch and the data load? Will it start prefetching the interrupt vector before the invalid memory access? I quickly mocked this up in mGBA, turned on interrupts in the test ROM, and sure enough it broke out of the loop. So I tried the same test ROM on hardware and…it did not break out of the loop. So there goes that theory. Eventually I realized something. You saw that asterisk earlier I’m sure, so yes, there is one thing that can happen in between prefetch and the memory access, but only if the memory bus gets queried by something other than the CPU between the prefetch and invalid memory access."

https://mgba.io/2020/01/25/infinite-loop-holy-grail/
Relevant point, although Eve could be tricky and Bob careless, both. But I suppose the bad part is that either Eve being tricky or Bob being careless is enough, in most cases, unless Bob is a security professional (and even then only maybe).
Ethereum still does not use PoS and relies on PoW just like Bitcoin.
Concept of empowerment within a context of mission command and science of control, arguably, is by far the most complex matter in humans.

> Managers have to lead and make decisions. If they don't then you rapidly end up with chaos. That's how ...

I thought I made this point clear in terms of inefficiencies example.

While it is oversimplification I attempt to exemplify this using spatial navigation analogy.

Owners select area and resources.

Managers of Managers who make decisions on approach to area and to a degree by what resources.

Operational Manager make decision on routes way points a given resources.

Workers will make decisions in between way points.

With such example: one can argue this should be top down one way hierarchical approach, the old school inefficient approach. (eg. Direct Control)

In my perspective, modern approach is to utilize indirect control by establishing conditional triggers (eg. only specifying limitations on areas, approaches, routes, and way points) based on horizontal feedback (top/down or down/up hierarchy) and vertical feedback (side way communication).
It also only lasts 5 years so you need surgery every 5 years to replace it
What Toronto has done, with a dedicated express to the airport on the outskirts to the downtown hub rail station, is probably a sensible infrastructure pattern for many places. But it was a happy coincidence an early 20th century line ran most of the way there already. Otherwise, it would have meant laying a line through upper middle class suburbs. That's a showstopper, politically, whatever the merit might be; rail lines almost never get built in areas that are already heavily developed.
It's not running in a sandbox. That's not the goal of nix. It's only a package manager/build system.
It's not true that it needs to be theoretical. e.g. Michael Stonebraker is awarded for making databases practical.

But the creator of React might not get the Turing award anyways because they are not in academia.
West Bank Palestine? Perhaps. Gaza (which was the context)? I doubt it.

Don't conflate the two situations. They aren't the same at all.
Not the person you addressed, but people are not lab rats whose daily caloric amount is controlled by a lab technician.

We humans in rich countries eat ad libitum. Any dietary intervention that helps us feel less hungry will lead to a reduction in the calories we consume.
This link may provide some help regarding immigration to Australia. https://www.visasavenue.com/australia-immigration/australia-...

Covid-19 may have altered the normal flow of immigration.
Currently Australia is trying to ensure its own citizens are able to return back home.
Hum, the very first entry I searched for—Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro—wasn't there! Remember Ricci curvature is crucial mathematics in Einstein's Field Equations so Ricci-Curbastro ought to be there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricci_curvature.

This all looks very pretty and it's likely useful for teaching but it begs the question of how good the input data is. The old adage about garbage in, garbage out is true no matter the source.
Beacon chain is on PoS now. They’re doing a very very controlled migration from the legacy chain over to the new PoS ones for obvious reasons (change management, testing, comms) but the tech is in prod and ready to go
> He says [the energy consumption] also limits the number of transactions the system can process to about five per second.

Doesn't bode well when the expert of the article makes a mistake like this.
Wow, this is a really mean attack on people who can sell themselves... I think I can do so reasonably well, and I wouldn't say it has anything to do with what you're describing here.

I don't have dignity or pride? That doesn't make any sense... I can sell myself because I really believe in the product. I've done lots of good work in my life and I have genuinely useful skills that can help people or companies.

And I don't have honesty and honor? Seriously? You seem to think that all selling is the type that unethical used car salespeople do. That is wrong. Good salespeople are experts who work with you to understand a problem and provide a solution to it. This is what I'm doing when I sell myself - you need a product manager, and I've worked on many similar projects to the type that you need help with, ergo I think I'd be a great fit. Again, to call that dishonest or dishonorable is simply wrong.

There's nothing wrong with disliking selling yourself, nor do I think it's a character flaw - different people have different communication styles, some of which are not very self-promotional. Nothing wrong with that. But to make such vicious attacks on the ethics of anyone who can sell themselves is just baseless and cruel.
Countries could make it illegal to own due to its energy consumption
It's actually up and running for a while, with large sums already staked, and the flipping of the switch on mainnet will very likely happen before end of summer. https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/staking/
I also think you underestimate how close schiphol is to most major cities. it is actually becoming a problem because the airport has little to no room for expansion.
also, not all trains going the breda - Rotterdam - the Hague -Amsterdam route stop at schiphol airport.

also, the line is sort of infamous for constant delays on the schiphol part of the track.
Yes, this is a serious issue. However, I wouldn't claim that Mozilla has any negotiating power with Google even today - Google is likely to continue to fund Mozilla in order to stave off potential antitrust action.
We have been hearing that every other week for the last few years... and Bitcoin is at an almost all-time high today. aka $60k
Depends on what jurisdiction, and if you are familiar with privacy law in different regions, the exceptions to that are often sweeping, with the additional issue in some systems that regulations can be made by lower level authorities without the same level of public scrutiny or debate.

It's the wild west for data, and privacy people have done what they could over the last 20 years, but the tech has accelerated so much in the last 10 that those prior assurances aren't what we think they are.
Yes that's exactly right. Taking the length of a string could be considered a hash function, it's just a very poor one.
Close; the half-life of tritium is 12.3 years, at which point it turns into stable helium-3.
That is planning to use.. The transition has not taken place yet and is not expected before November 2021.
I built an alternative to Requests and Axios
Assuming those numbers are correct. It's pretty amazing that it only took 10 years for the money subsidy to be a threat to the world.

I don't see how it'll pop the bubble, but imo the day where there's a moral imperative to switch to a PoS chain is coming. I wonder if the btc community could switch to PoS if they seriously were looking at losing Bitcoin dominance
AFAIK, PoS networks have not been proven as secure as PoW. Would love to see someone smarter than me commenting on this.
“brew analytics off” from your terminal.
> lot of "no bid" on many OTM strikes. So it looks like the market makers were simply stepping away

Bingo. Self help [1] and circuit breakers [2] negate the unsolvable edge case: large, instantaneous price movements.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-options-cboe-idUSL2N1H40...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2020/03/09/813682567/how-stock-market-ci...
There is no other comparable way to convert power so directly into money like Bitcoin and proof-of-work networks provide.

This means that Bitcoin mining and energy prices form an arbitrate opportunity, which will force energy prices higher and higher as usage increases.

A friend of mine proposed that proof-of-work could be the Great Filter.
Past related threads, including one from a few days ago:

Suga says time ripe to decide fate of Fukushima No.1 water - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26739686 - April 2021 (54 comments)

Fukushima: Japan will have to dump radioactive water into Pacific, minister says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20925770 - Sept 2019 (30 comments)

Radioactive water at Fukushima Daiichi: What should be done? (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20304208 - June 2019 (61 comments)

No One Knows What to Do with Fukushima’s Endless Tanks of Radioactive Water - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9689554 - June 2015 (135 comments)

Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an 'emergency' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6160977 - Aug 2013 (125 comments)
I think the TSA will not be amused the first time someone takes one of these through a security checkpoint.
Sanctions and trade deals are not all-or-nothing mechanisms. They can be increased/decreased to incentivize nations to alter behavior. They are especially effective when you can selectively punish industries within a nation that support the leader, to help provide more economic resources to opposition leaders.
Thanks for clarifying and providing more details. We're working with closed loop auditory stimulation for sleep (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02170-3) as well as other similar techniques.

We've been speaking with neurologists here in Australia who are giving us guidance, but if you have any thoughts, I'd be very keen to hear them. Either here, or via email. My address is in my profile.

Thanks
> then so be it

yeah, and fuck living in an inhabitable planet
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I wonder if gtk will ever go declarative
Well, there's one very real way that complex financial instruments disappear in a huff. Bitcoin has only existed for less than 15 years. There's no indication that it's invincible to, say, a bubble burst and rapid permanent devaluation besides it having not happened yet. If in 86 years this is still the case, you could maybe convince me I won't see it in my lifetime, but just barely.
Thank you. I love seeing what different languages choose as the meaning of their primary tokens. For example, Smalltalk uses whitespace to send messages, whereas Haskell uses whitespace to apply functions to arguments.
This doesn't give a concrete thesis as to how this will pop the bubble.
the joke is the basis for the SNL skit of 'celebrity jeopardy' portraying Sean Connery.
I've been reading about proof of stake cryptocurrencies for years, and how they will solve the problem of bitcoin's energy usage. Yet the problem persists.

What will it take to end bitcoin's predominance?
The total value of Bitcoin produced and changed as fees is presently in the order of US$50M per day.

Miners are competing very profitably, on aggregate, for this amount of money daily.

Therefore the full-factor cost of the global Bitcoin network is under $50M per day.

So whatever these people say about global energy use, it's under $50M per day.
https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
“the implant does not violate the basic privacy principles and does not track your location because it does not have GPS and no systems that allow you to spy on or track your location.”

I get that this is NFC but how is privacy in all other areas handled? What are these privacy principles? Can the data be updated without removal?

From the Wikipedia page on the NFC standard mentioned it states “In "card emulation mode" an NFC device should transmit, at a minimum, a unique ID number to a reader.”
Is this ID stable? What protocol are you using on top of the NFC frame data for payment?
Epic Is Losing Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Its War on Apple
Are the tax benefits of Texas offset by Austin's rising home prices, and the proportional increase owed in property taxes?