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> While you need to be rich to be able to mine Bitcoin, you also have to dump those mined coins on the exchanges to cover your running costs (electricity, hardware, server operators, etc)

You don’t have to be rich to mine physical bitcoins, you just won’t mine very many of them. Same as it works in PoS — join a mining pool.

Or buy mining equities, e.g. Blockstream’s BMN token (not an investor).

It’s funny how much flak PoW networks take from PoS investors, and it’s pretty blatantly due to investors investing in things which aren’t PoW. None of the PoW criticisms in play today save for the environmental ones — and even those are subject to considerable astroturfing [1] — are supported by fact. In spite of what PoS investors commonly tout, PoS as a technology is neither theoretically sound, nor practically proven in any sense [2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26649379

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27144921
I'm curious about the decision to host the source code on replit vs github?
Early on in the initial outbreak, I also noticed what sometimes felt like lawless driving in comparison to before.

For example, people treating a red light as a four way stop, or just slowing down and running through it.

It didn't last very long as far as I observed, but it definitely was a thing in Portland.

At the time I thought it was because there were so few cars on the road. Your point, 2. seems like a solid explanation to me.

In some cases it wasn't just that drivers were "not as conscientious," but more actively taking advantage of a lower amount of vehicles and LE patrol.

There is some evidence of this from the multiple record-breaking Cannonball Run challenges performed in May and June 2020 with no new records recorded since. [1]

Another explanation is that well-meaning drivers were treating urban driving the way folks do out in rural areas, where stop signs are sort of followed "as appropriate" by locals.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Run_challenge#Durin...
I find 65% an extremely low threshold for a "vast majority" personally.
An important bit of information is Victoria indebted itself heavily to contain its outbreaks. The state is in $150B worth of debt and already increasing its taxes and fines to compensate.

It also had the largest exodus of people ever seen. About 11,000 leaving per quarter.

The fallout from businesses isn't know yet either, that'll become apparent after EOFY.
> However, I would like to know if something _wont_ work. Shell scripts do not have this feature.

... Does systemd?

I still have endless problems with unreliable service startup and I've read all the documentation, have done all the debugging and asked all the people I could find.

> I also spent many years in the land mines of implicit overrides in shell script hells and thank you but no.

I'm not sure what you mean by this.

> Same thing in init scripts. Did you implement reload or restart? Is stop actually doing something or a noop.

So this is linux sysvinit style init scripts, OpenRC doesn't have this issue (as far as I can tell) and definitely I've never had to ask myself any of these questions when using daemontools or runit. Maybe you should familiarize yourself with how some modern non-linux-sysvinit inits work because they're certainly extremely functional, reliable and clear.

> If there is only one thing that I could keep from systemd, it would be the use of unit files instead of shell scripts.

I've actually considered this and I think it would be incredibly trivial to make a unit file parser which you can call from a shebang which would do this kind of thing. You could even have it fork off the parser to run it unprivileged. I think I'll try writing it sometime soon. You could even integrate all the namespacing, cgroups and lots of the other features systemd provides into it.
Starting entry level and climbing to the top is certainly common. But "the bottom" is usually quite a few steps above janitor. It's usually starting out as a page or intern or a secretary. I have heard very few "janitor to executive stories".
Is there a way to easily use SQLite FTS on Django?
> Of course I understand, as do the rest of the people not employed by red hat upvoting me.

That's a really poor argument you're making. You've only repeated things you've assumed earlier without actually responding or seemingly trying to understand what the other person said.

Libsystemd does not contain init system type logic. You're assuming way too much. There's too much blind hate. The suggestion that people are likely employed by Red Hat as a reason that they don't understand says enough.

Too much emotional responses to the systemd name, too often people use poor arguments and reasoning, while saying it is the other person that is lacking in their reasoning.
Actually didn’t a judge just rule Citibank wasn’t entitled to get its money back after a mistake like that?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/02/16/cit...
A samoyed though? Beside being a spitz breed and not super social outside of the family, they don't seem like a bad choice. I have to admit that I haven't known too many though. The impression that I've gotten is that they're hairy shedding beasts, but are relatively low-maintenance as far as exercise once they're two or three years old. Please correct me if I'm wrong on that.

It's a better choice than a siberian or many of the sporting dogs. I don't think I'd spend much time talking someone out of a samoyed unless they had a lot of visitors to their home.

But I guess anyone who is buying an animal in a reaction to a big life event is going to be at high risk of having to rehome them. It's so foreign to me to consider buying a living thing without the intent to keep that animal happy and healthy for their natural life span. I just cannot get into that headspace.

A big part of why I was hesitant to buy a horse was the idea that I either needed to be stable enough to care for an expensive animal for 25-30 years or be able to rehome it. I couldn't bring myself to even think about selling my mare, so she's traveled around the country with us. We're at about 12 years of her being part of our lives and nowadays my husband(not a horse guy) won't even consider the idea of selling her even though I don't have the time to ride.

Oh, and the kingsnake, which I decided to take on out of a bad situation, has a lifespan of 25-30 years. My husband and I weren't married or even living together at that point and it needed a home, so I took it without consulting my husband. He was pretty upset because he doesn't care for reptiles. He was even more upset when he found out they live up to 30 years. But even the guy who doesn't like snakes was appalled when I explained what kind of living situation I got the animal out of. And now we've owned a snake for the last 6 years and it's kind of part of the family and part of the furniture. They sell for $30 as babies and people get them as easy starter pets. They are easy. Extremely easy. But I don't think most people realize that they're getting into a multi-decade commitment when they buy a snake at 18 years old.
The "point" of smart contracts is that the code is the contract. The "victim" voluntarily gave that money away.
I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist here, but Florida has seemed like a pretty untrustworthy source of info on their covid numbers. There is even an ongoing battle with a data scientist who was fired, according to her, for refusing to fake the covid numbers. Just at a glance, Florida's reported covid numbers seem to be so anomalous compared to the rest of the country, even though when you think of Florida you think of groups at high risk from covid. I can't say they're actually lying about their numbers, but it's enough of an outlier to reasonably remove it from the data set.
I am here in Vietnam (and was in California a few months ago) and the difference is day and night. Lockdown is super strict here. Everyone wears mask (even when it is only a few cases out of millions). It is a 21 day mandatory quarantine (if you get approved to get in). The results speak for itself.
I still am not convinced and we most likely won't come together on this, but I find your arguments well put and appreciate the discussion.
As someone who just took a job writing rust recently, I have to disagree with your take on the career prospects. I specifically looked to switch to Rust in my last job search, and I had plenty of companies to apply to. The market also is only getting bigger, with all of the FAANG(M) companies now employing a significant number of rust engineers.
Mince pies are definitely a thing in New Zealand (and Australia to some extent).

They come in all sorts of varieties - plain mince, mince and cheese (yum), steak and cheese, mince and potato, and then some exotic varieties like butter chicken pie.

They're typically cheap and made from bad quality ingredients, but you can get very good quality mince pies if you know where to go.

If you're a hungry teenager and you need a snack - nothing beats a mince pie.
No words on whether SolarWind was install on electronic ballot machines.
Unfortunately, the truth probably won't spread quickly enough to put out the falsehood. The flamin' hot cheetos janitor story will probably live on, even if it's not true. It's part of cultural legend now.
I'm not sure you what you mean. If you're working somewhere like Netflix I'm assuming the median employee is quite good, so "scaling down" your output to match that doesn't really make sense to me.
I mean Apple could. You can allow other payment options and still forbid apps that entirely don't function without them.
What is turnover like in Japan? Do people turnover? It seems like a place where people stay at one company for a career.
Fiscal-Driven Inflation
It was a fluff piece, but I’m curious if the author could give a LoC with Go’s ubiquitous, hard-coded control structure line count removed?

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Here in Japan they've never really had lockdown. Restaurants have remained open the entire time, just asked to close at 8pm. I could/can walk by them at 7pm and see them full of people talking and eating without masks. I was invited by Japanese friends the entire time (didn't go) and would see them posting pictures of their restaurant dinner gatherings on Facebook.

Further, as a comparison, Tokyo Metro has 38 million people, California has 38 million people. Tokyo Metro has ~6500 people per square mile, California has 240 per square mile. Tokyo Metro had and still has people commuting in very crowded trains every weekday. California mostly people drive cars. California closed restaurants. Tokyo Metro never closed restaurants.

Yes, Tokyo is going through a "spike" right now but compared to California it's still tiny. Compare Tokyo Metro's current "spike" (~2k people per day) with any of California's spikes at 40k per day, 20x more.

Some people will claim testing but that doesn't fit the facts either. Deaths from COVID in Tokyo Metro. California 62k death, Tokyo Metro, 2k dead. And, if you believe the attribution of death by COVID is bad then all you have to do is look at the death rate from all causes and see that Japan is doing much better than the USA

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-deat...

I have no idea what Japan did right or got lucky with. Various speculations abound. Japanese don't shake hands, hug and kiss friends. Japanese may be commonly taking some medicine for unrelated things that happens to provide protection. Japanese might have more people with genetic immunity. Japanese mask compliance might be higher. Japanese aren't obese (I'm sure there's some other non-obese country they can be compared to). Japanese have a different diet (not sure what other countries have similar diets)

I recognize that even with restaurants open it's possible just the various other factors are/were enough to keep R low enough.... I really have no clue. Personally I mostly stayed locked up. I live alone. Saw less than 1 person a month in person, usually an outdoor walk with masks on.
Citi accidentally paid back lenders, rather than accidentally sending money to some unrelated party. This doesn't seem relevant.
I don't think raising engineers' salaries is particularly controversial. Google, Microsoft, etc have been paying more for top talent for ages.

The main controversy in the political discussion is around paying low wage workers more.
"board members were concerned Mr. Gates's relationship with the woman had been inappropriate"
> aren't actively forcing anything

You mean like a worm destroying Iranian PLCs?
That's really exciting to hear. I'm struggling with a cs degree (especially the mathier bits) at a mediocre school, and I think the sort of jobs looking for Rust are looking for a more traditional background. Still, I hope I'll get a job in Rust someday.
Are you being sarcastic? The DHCP bits are entirely optional. You can either use it, or not use it. The code is useful in some cases, not useful in others.

Saying that some optional code has issues as a reason to not just use something else, but as a reason to not use the project: not logical.
> I'm genuinely sorry, but I'm not paying a subscription for an app that doesn't do a lot of back-end work (that's valuable to me)

What does count as "a lot of back-end work" that's valuable to you?

> I know that developers need to earn a living but I'm not willing to sustain it on the back of 10 or 20 or 30 "low annual price of just $9 or $15 or $25 or $49 per year!" subscriptions

Why are subscriptions bad and what would your solution to this be?
I believe Trump is famous for discovering this and they were going to try how drinking or injecting bleach could be used?
> Bitcoin is operating at capacity and has shown unwillingness to adjust capacity, so the "kWh/tx" is valid for Bitcoin.

Bitcoin's layer 1 is operating at capacity - different networks make different tradeoffs. Bitcoin has gone the "less change" and "more decentralization" route by keeping layer 1 small, with the goal of moving transaction volume to layer 2.
I didn't claim to be writing large scale services? I'm on the team with people who are though.

The code I write is adjacent: refactoring the tests so they run faster with less flakiness (guess what Go makes extremely annoying: mocking concrete types from dependencies! You must either wrap it in your own code (and continuously, manually, maintain that abstraction), give up, or alter the upstream) and writing internal services and tools. Tools are primarily in Go so we can share libraries.
>In the end, this all boils down to ideological differences. One camp says "it is their store, take it or leave it, they already have competitors

American law abandoned this outlook at the early 20th century. Also, what Apple is doing is making it harder for customers to switch from Apple if they want to. It's ridiculous to invoke competition as a defence when Apple is trying to prevent competition.
That’s how I learned it too, but apparently that is “traditional” grammar. In “modern” grammar any verb with the -ing ending is a gerund now according to Wikipedia.
Generally, from what I can tell, statutes regarding “tampering with evidence” require both intent (which would likely exist here) and knowledge that the action is interfering with evidence of a crime (which seems pretty implausible).

If Signal set up their phones so the user could click “I’m gonna do crimes, opt me in” and it would add the nefarious files, the risk of prosecution would seem much more likely.
> I hate the work,

I guess this is a personal / personality / enjoyment match. Become a teacher, work for a nonprofit, or help government improve.

https://www.codeforamerica.org

> hate the people

TBH, I hate arrogant, know-it-all--know-nothing, filter-bubble screen addicts, narcissistic, spineless, socially-transactional "networking" and "hooking-up," smarmy or boring, psychopathic, self-promoting, other-sabotaging, horrid yuppies who tend to grow out of corporations like weeds. Cool people or GTFO.

> the culture

I'm curious. What is it that you hate? Is it a belief system, attitude, or way of doing things?

> etc.

What does this comprise?

> But I can’t afford it: not the monetary cost, not the time cost. If I could magically pull tens of thousands of dollars out of my ass tomorrow maybe,

I would cut back on discretionary expenses and prioritize education/career development.

> or if I wouldn’t be well into my 30s by the time I finished, it would be a different situation.

Might be some covert age shame / ageism going on. You know your life isn't over until you actually die, right? There are people in their 60's, 70's, and 80's who finish college degrees.

> Even then it’s unheard to go from software to anything I’d be interested in.

Why? You can do whatever you want. DLR became an EMT for a while (might've been a stunt, but who knows or cares?).
Mince & cheese with a can of V. Lunch of tradies all over this part of the world.
Except it's not the same kind of thing, because an actual judge has legal power. Your abstract machine is going to be sidelined pretty quickly if a judge decides it's doing something illegal or unconscionable and issues injunctions to that effect.
Your stance doesn’t really change over the course of a season, though. You might open or close it (adjust the angle of your body relative to the axis between the mound and the plate) but you wouldn’t normally make large enough changes that your strike zone would suddenly be e.g. two inches taller.

That’s as much for your brain as it is for your mechanics; over time you get to know where your zone is in 3D space, and having to re-learn that is painful.
Both Thailand and Vietnam have been devastated economically, and even with various levels of lockdown both country is currently experiencing the highest number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic.

Also, the vaccinated population in either country is at low single digit percentage, so no end in sight for the harsh measures. Compare that to the US or Europe where 50% of population is (partially) vaccinated and, as the result, gradually reopen.
I'm kind of shocked, I know Gates was a ruthless businessman but I always had him pegged as squeaky clean in his private life.
This is true for particular types of python, but not true for most of the python code I work with, for example. I'll grant you "encouraging non-complicated architecture" is a good thing, but Go swings a bit too far in the other direction, for example `set(foo) - set(bar)` in python is an extremely expressive (and efficient) way to give me the things in foo that aren't in bar.

In go, you can either do this as a nested for loop, which is harder to read and n^2 instead of n, or explicitly loop over each iterator and convert to a map (which, to be fair, is exactly what python does too), and then write the map-diffing yourself, which is easy to screw up and should probably be thoroughly tested to ensure you didn't make any mistakes in your implementation.

In python its one line of clear, expressive, known-to-be-correct, code. Granted the generics proposal should do a lot to improve things here, but I disagree that go is "strictly easier", because there's often far more to trace through, as there is far less abstraction provided for you by the language, so instead of having to perhaps unwind a single complex expression that uses some advanced language features, you have to unwind the pseduo-reimplementation of those abstractions in the local project.
What about non-US companies like yandex, baidu etc? Why don't they provide higher resolution? Is there any company already providing them in higher res for free?
I've generally always had good luck with archive.is https://archive.is/T28ui
Probably because the title/page explicitly says it is comparing PoW currencies.
> Please don’t look at 7m-13m number and compare it to 7 billion population and say oh it’s only 0.1-0.2%.

Using the entire human population also skews things because the deaths were concentrated in North America, South America and Europe. To over generalize, Asian countries did a much better job at managing the pandemic and have a population of 4.5 billion people. Most of the deaths were concentrated in the remaining 2.5 billion.
When his wife found out seems more relevant.
>>Today, she’s largely been forgotten.

I guess not on HN!
so true. Aside from SK's geopolitical alliance with the US, South Korea has so much to gain from the West's banishment of China than anyone else. The current situation between the West vs China is the best thing happened to South Korea since the Japan-US trade war that helped SK's semiconductor manufacturing industry get their foot in the door and eventually surpass all their Japanese rivals in the 80's and 90's.
You don't have to apologize for that.

Everyone has to figure out a marketable skill until their rate of labor is exceeded by their rate of capital. If they fail they fail, whoops.

I make no claims about how anything should be. This is what it is.
Except it can't be, because the legal system can and regularly does adjust or override the terms of contracts for a variety of reasons.
Show HN: (Yet another) htaccess guide/cheatsheet/tutorial
Perhaps an improved auto-recognition "self" system that uses something like public key crypto and a challenge-response.
> Writing a half million lines in any language gives you some authority.

Totally.

In this blog post, Khan Academy says "It is performant enough for us and our team likes it". In this comment section, there are people insisting it's a bad language while having never used it. Not just "Haven't used it at that scale". Legitimately have never written a line of Go. This is part of why I made my post, to try to highlight the silliness of a lot of the "feedback" being slung around.
> It wasn’t until we closed schools that the trend reversed.

The other way to think about it is that it wasn’t until things got bad that people got cautious.

Kind of how people take homeopathic drugs when they are sickest.
It's awesome to see all this Java expertise on this thread but at its essence -- a jar file doesn't define the program that's going to run. It's the union of a jar and the JVM it runs on. With Go, the binary is the whole story.

So even if I can predict how a particular JVM will treat a given jar, I'm still stuck if my code might be deployed across a range of JVMs.

I say all this having written orders of magnitude more Go, with apologies to the Java programmers.
Anything in America called a "mincemeat pie" is a million miles removed from this; it's going to be something syrupy and a little bit lumpy with cloves and dried fruits. Mince to us is "ground beef"; if you asked for a pound of mince at the supermarket, you'd be directed to the aisle with the Mentos.
The implication is a 10x employee could work half a day a week at a "normal" (not netflix) job and from the outside it's the same amount of output as a 1x.
>Apple's in very deep shit in this lawsuit and losing this will open a can of worms.

For example, is it okay to bundle a default web browser with an OS and forbid any other browsers from being installed? All iOS browsers are required to use Safari's WebKit under the hood, despite the appearance of choice in the app store. This cripples the features and performance of 3rd-party browsers like Firefox.

And unlike this spat with Epic, there might be some strong precedence on that question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
Surely the raging bull market of the past decade played no part in these gains.
I was hoping the silver lining to the pandemic would be our planets overpopulation brought down but it really hasn't even made a chip in it.

With new births added in were still growing the global population
Can the deployment and the initialization happen in the same transaction? Or would it be in principle possible for a 3rd party to swoop in and initialize it ?