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I mean, all YouTube does is generate money for the ad-tech industry. I think it should be banned before PoW cryptos.
Eastern companies like yamaha and hyaundai. dirtbikes to pianos, cars to housing
I find it beautiful that HashSet<T> in Rust is a thin wrapper around HashMap<T, ()>. I'm glad it's a wrapper, though. I wouldn't like it if everyone had to write `HashMap<u16, ()>` and so on and know which methods still made sense.
I think wind forces are probably over 300lbs though perhaps different vectors. But who knows maybe you could have been the straw that would have broken the camel’s back.
I much prefer the father of the scientific method Bacon than this one.
Yes they can.

Eth competing against USD.
Bitcoin competing against USD and Gold.

Bitcoin and Eth are also both competing against turkish lira, Tide pods, and zibwawean mortgage bonds.

But only one competes with gold.
The total amount isn't as much a problem as is the activation energy. Hydrogen will explode when you look at it cross eyed. For gasoline you will have to do some work.
I understand that proof of stake requires an incredible amount of storage. This will make it a steep buy in. It will also raise production of SSDs and drives. How will this shift technically drive technology?
I wonder how many people who complain about the balkanization of content across multiple streaming services also weren't a fan of the cable bundle.

Presumably, if you had mandatory licensing, you end up with a monopoly or duopoly of streaming services. (Which is more or less what you have in music--though it's arguably a triopoly if you count Amazon.) That's not necessarily bad; it's been pretty much OK (for consumers if not creators) in music. Though it would presumably reduce the incentive to produce tentpole content that brings people to your specific service.
I know and I considered for a second which one to link to and I went with the Rust bindings.
Much higher activation energy, not to be compared.
One of the classic true crime story.

Edit: that facial reconstruction of William Burke is really interesting.
One reason that comes to mind is trying to be the change they want to see in the world. Cards and Paypal already have heaps of adoption.
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Is there really that much custom software needed to manage YC? As opposed to the Excel spreadsheets that most investment banks operate with?
this didn't claim to have anything to do with "common user"s. energy harvesting/storage for IoT-type nodes is of huge interest, with lots of work being done on it.

> Dave of EEVBlog has a mission

and i don't think he'd appreciate your "contribution" here to that mission.
Unfortunately, NVIDIA already accidentally leaked a driver with without those limitations within days of releasing those cards.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/nvidia-accidenta...
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That analysis ignores the heat used to raise the reactant (water) temperature to 800C.

On its face, the claim doesn't make much sense anyway. If you could convert water to 2 H2 + O2 at zero energy cost, you could make a perpetual motion machine by taking advantage of the exothermic reaction 2 H2 + O2 -> 2 H2O.
It's a difficult problem, but there are coins that have managed it. Stellar has piggybacked on other services to distribute – Facebook, Keybase, and Coinbase. There's an energy-efficient memecoin that distributes based on Folding@Home contributions that has become the #1 monthly F@H team.
Ammonia is a better fit for marine applications, as it doesn't require high pressure or cryo storage. It can also be produced using renewable energy, and is cheaper to transport.

One of the largest producers in the world (CF Industries in Louisiana) has committed to producing it using offshore wind, and renewables in general (and their terminals are located in geographic areas where there is already high penetration of renewables on the local grid).

https://www.cfindustries.com/globalassets/cf-industries/medi...
Make complicated system, get complicated results. Taxes should be minimal, simple, and immediate.
It seems to me like it infringes on the first amendment rights of anyone who wants to make and distribute such imagery, though I imagine a court has found otherwise at some point. Limits on freedom of expression are no small thing from my perspective.
I don’t want to pay more for fancy sports cars or houses because other people are willing to pay higher prices for those things either.
Agreed. You get what you incentive for. You get what you optimize for. Jobs and housing will always be incentivized. because they are needed everywhere. It is always why corporate taxes are setup to be paid after expenses and personal taxes are setup to be paid before expenses (generally).
Fucking thank you. I get just as many downvotes when I suggest this but it's very obviously the right thing to do.

PoW doesn't scale. It eats up power needlessly and we're only stuck on it because the original BTC was a PoW cryptocoin. Simply banning trading of PoW coins would do mounds of good - the crypto community would be better streamlined to move toward PoS coins of the future and environmentalists wouldn't have to waste their resources lobbying to ban BTC anymore.
I started with 1Password 4 (non-subscription) and considered upgrading to 1Password 7 -- yes, you could buy a non-subscription copy when I checked, although it's increasingly well hidden as an option -- and in addition to Dropbox it may have supported iCloud, not sure about that.

In the end I went with the subscription because I it's bought once for all my devices, and is great for family use, with UX that's easy from children to grandparents. As a bonus, the Dropbox sync issues just stopped - their own sync works much better for me.

I do understand the frustration about subscriptions for everything but I'd like my password manager vendor to remain in good financial health, so I'll happily make an exception and pay regularly for my password manager.

> just host the vaults on S3

That's a fairly niche audience, and it's very easy to misconfigure S3. Product development is about making hard choices, and I'm ok with 1Password choosing not to do this, just as I'm okay with them not supporting WebDAV -- YMMV.

What I do wish is that 1Password would support a few cloud storage options (e.g. Google Drive, OneDrive etc) on mobile so that people who're not inclined to subscribe have an alternative, if only to squelch the inevitable complaints about subscriptions. When 1Password was a smaller company, I can see why one wouldn't want to do that as it'd take away precious dev time, but my understanding is that they have more funding now.
> Banning their trade won't categorically stop PoW cryptocurrencies. What it should do is completely tank their value and get the world to move on to less destructive coins.

This ban needed to be internationally, though. Pretty difficult to enforce on a global scale. And then it would only have a short term influence on the price of, say, Bitcoin, until enough “black” mining power emerges.

I would just relax. Bitcoin is not going to destroy the planet. In the long run it’s going to be a niche financial tool compared to the scale of Ethereum or other competitors (Cardano, Solana or Algorand). It’ll be the PoS enabled DeFi networks that are going to disrupt the banking business.
> In the United States, moral rights are not transferable, and end only with the life of the author. Authors may, however, waive their moral rights if this is done in writing.

So does this confirm that what you're claiming is not applicable in the US?

Non-competes are a different animal from transferring ownership over IP. Even so, CA does not stop an employer from raking an employee over the coals if they provably stole IP that did not belong to them.
To me, the problem with copyright law is that there are entities that have businesses that are built on copyright protection that are so powerful they can nearly dictate what the copyright laws are (cough Disney cough).

So, from my perspective, any system that allows those powerful entities to continue to accumulate more power and wealth is always going to harm efforts to change copyright law.

We need to weaken the power that companies wield over copyright law, and that's harder the more powerful those companies are.
As others have said, a carbon tax can be designed to refund either the entire amount, or a portion of the amount back to consumers, which might also transform it into a non-regressive tax.

But perhaps more importantly, you wouldn't be taxed because others are using electricity for virtual money. You would be taxed because your carbon emissions are causing climate change, and to encourage you to reduce energy usage where possible.
Government is made out of people. If the people don't want the economy oriented around energy being put into finding hashes, they have the right to vote.
> This may be a radical take, but I think nations should introduce some unprecedented legislation: ban trade of proof of work cryptocurrencies.

That's not only radical, but a grotesque knee jerk reaction.

If you think about renewable energy, there's a problem of mismatched production with consumption and transmission. This causes wasted energy (or energy that is very low value), which makes renewable energy projects less viable.

Sure, one obvious way to address that is to add batteries to store such energy. Now, go mine (and refine) enough lithium to build utility-scale batteries. That's a huge environmental issue that no one wants to talk about, specially Tesla/Elon.

What's a competitor to energy batteries? Proof-of-work mining of bitcoin: it make renewable energy projects economically viable, because the energy of low-usage times can be used to mine bitcoin, which can pay for energy of high-usage times.

If there's an environmental/carbon cost to BTC mining, then attach a carbon tax to it (or something like that).
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those currencies already exist. people can choose to use them, while understanding the trade-offs.
> It feels good to tax a corporation, but it's much more practical, efficient, and transparent to keep taxes at the personal and consumer level.

Yes, lets continue to turn all responsibility into externalities for our corporate overlords.
It only gives exchanges power if users choose to give them power, which is exactly how a decentralized democratized currency is supposed to work.
A well timed article. Glad I invested early
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> That is a very, very bold claim. Please provide bold evidence or reasoning.

No it's not. This is common knowledge in the economics world. Corporations can dodge taxes in ways individuals mostly can't.
I'm not an economist, but not taxing corporations leads to increasing income inequality, and gives companies the wrong economic signals.

It costs money to run the government -- the court system, the armed forces, the legislatures, the police and fire departments, etc. Companies consume these resources and that cost should be factored into the cost of their products. In fact, it seems pretty obvious to me that especially large corporations use these resources far more than individuals. When was the last time you were able to lobby congress to write laws to your liking, or create trade agreements, or author a bill to advantage your financial interests?

Back in the 50s in the US, companies paid about 30-35% of total tax revenue and the gears of industry still turned fine. Now it is about 7%, and people complain that it is too much and is harming the economy and stifling progress.

If companies were taxed at a higher rate, yes, it would change things. There would be winners and losers, but a new equilibrium would be established soon enough. Dividends would be lower -- yes, so what? The economy is already too geared towards rewarding unproductive stock market games and the lopsided part of that goes to the people who are already well off. Dropping taxes to zero for companies would make things worse. Rich people wouldn't consume more and would just reinvest their increased dividends, while working people would have to make up the loss of tax revenues either through increased personal tax or loss of services.
Youtube uses 243.6 TWh - https://thefactsource.com/how-much-electricity-does-youtube-...

Bitcoin uses ~118 TWh - https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

Youtube souce is from 2019, Bitcoin one is current.
>One of the reasons I make a bit of an accusation that the people bedazzled by Erlang/Elixir may be not very experienced is that a common take away from the community I have repeatedly noticed is the belief that if another language doesn't have exactly what Erlang has, warts and all, it doesn't have what Erlang has.

On one level yes, they have constructs that you can use to accomplish some of the same goals as the tools Erlang provides, but some people (me) like the specific programming model that Erlang provides for dealing with these problems. The concurrency characteristics of the systems I hack on every day would be much harder to model without GenServers. It's not particularly surprising that Erlang is not the only way to solve a problem in software engineering, there is no silver bullet.

I've written much more C# than I have Elixir in my time as a developer and the fact remains that I prefer functional programming and I like using OTP. I don't see what the "wide variety of other things that are superior" are in languages that aren't Erlang. The ecosystem is stronger and the tooling is better, but those are not intrinsic to the design of the language. Tooling kind of is, with static languages, I suppose. Lack of static types are the one thing that bother me a lot about Elixir.
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> Ethereum will use at least 99% less energy post merge

I realize that is the text from the article, but what they really meant is "will use at most 99% less energy". The reduction will be at least 99%. The future value will be at most 1% of the current value.
Having an abstract plan to distract energy FUD warriors is not the same as having a technical plan to replace engines on moving vehicles. The drama is real, but it requires putting down the hopium pipe.
Agree. Those copyright laws were put into place a long time ago and made sense in the context of the past. Nowadays, they should just create a new one that fits the new distribution ways.
It's both but the humans have an excuse- they're human. We should know by now that given enough time humans fuck everything up. We should build things with this in mind.

If we keep assuming humans are suddenly going to stop making mistakes then these things will never go away.

I almost never blame the user or human, I blame the software.
In my experience, Stripe is full of very smart, interesting people, but most of what's described here is an aspirational view of how the current executives think product should work at Stripe. That's OK, in some sense any view of the "self" is going to be aspirational, but it seems naive/koolaidy to believe that all of the following things can be true at the same time (these are all quotes from the article):

- "it’s an incredibly deep-thinking culture. It’s a written culture really focused on getting to the right answer"

- "The company is especially dedicated to moving very, very fast."

- "deep thinking and speed are combined with a substantial amount of user focus and user empathy."

- "We talk a lot about building multi-decade abstractions."

- "Quick-thinking, quick-acting people do really well here."

- "It’s craftsmanship and a huge amount of dedication to getting all of the details right."

- "There is just the feeling that it should all be exceptional. We should push for an extreme quality bar on all of the fronts."

This seems like a pretty standard fluff piece that's aimed at recruiting PMs who want to identify as near-super-human talent. Stripe is a fantastic place to work but this kind of communication does them and their employees a disservice -- that said I'm not a recruiter and can't say what kind of tactics work best for finding PMs.
The shader language you write in does not matter, as it can be converted into whatever format the API expects.

wgpu historically accepts SPIR-V, but the latest version released ~a month ago has moved to WGSL as much as it can in the examples. Have you upgraded yet?
I mean, if you had a Motorola Mac (68XXX) at the time of the x86 transition, you must have gotten a good decade of use out of it...

I kid, obviously. I've never seen anybody refer to the PowerPC as Motorola machines even though Motorola was part of the PowerPC alliance.
Yes, it does depend. My recommendation would still be to follow up with what I said and master the common ones used for basic conversation first. Then work on the rarer ones that pop up in the news or when you're renting apartments or whatever.
There are 141,139 validators active in Ethereum as we speak (source: https://beaconcha.in/), corrupting that many people is very difficult. There are smaller PoS systems with eg. tens of validators which are more susceptible to state capture.

Bitcoin (the network with the most mining effort) lost 25% of their hashing power due to blackouts in Xinjiang. (Soure: https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1384938089748041730?s...) State capture of a majority of Bitcoin miners is comparatively easy.

In addition, independent miners have less hardware and that hardware is generally less efficient when compared to the large ASIC farms. In reality a recovery would probably require social consensus and a hard fork
It's definitely way more stressful but it's a balance. I think having too little stress can be just as unhealthy as too much stress. Some amount of stress is necessary to feel engaged and important in the activities you work on. You can work at a big company and feel completely unnecessary to the world. As a founder, finding the balance is extremely difficult but a very rewarding journey if you can sustain it. There's a certain zen about finding peace and focus in a chaotic situation.
People seem to forget that this energy use is a consequence of miners wanting coins because of the subjective value of the reward. Even stakers can expend more money for a better chance at receiving the eth2 staking rewards. This will result in just as much energy use for a given reward value as Bitcoin. The question is if you can account for it. Eth2 propagandists are being very -- unintentionally -- dishonest about this.

Energy use will always meet demand for coins. This is true even in USD. Bitcoin is actually more efficient than existing financial systems. Bitcoin removes all the labor and expense that goes into running ATMs, Bank buildings, tellers, and so forth. Eth also does this.

The real way to address energy use is to introduce seignorage into the system. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage) in order to do this, you must give some of the new issuance to people who are not part of the system of validation.

Eth2 might work for awhile, and it might make people rich as people put up more and more stake in order to obtain rewards. (The block reward is effectively a risk-free rate of return). However, long term, you end up with a larger and larger percentage of the economy controlled by very few people.

Systems like this dis-incentivize the creation of real value through investment in real-world goods and services. Long term, people will opt out of this nonsense as it produce coins which are not useful in real business transactions due to the deflationary nature of the tokens.
It's a race to the bottom, though. The entire premise of subsidizing e.g. an Amazon datacenter is that Amazon needs a datacenter, and it's going to be built somewhere, so you need to offer them a lot of money if you want the jobs in your state/city. It's not a question of if the "desirable behavior" of opening a datacenter and "creating a lot of jobs" is going to happen or not, just a question of where. So there's this whole competition between locations to offer the greatest possible tax break, but it doesn't actually have any bearing on Amazon's overall desirable behavior. We're just giving them tax breaks for doing their normal business.
> But Google are claiming that the erratic behaviour was caused by the remote assistance in this case. So they must be able to control the car.

Nope. This was already explained once in this thread, and you ignored it. Here's what Google's statement actually says

> ... the Waymo Driver detected an unusual situation and requested the attention of a remote Fleet Response specialist to provide additional information. During that interaction, the Fleet Response team provided incorrect guidance, which made it challenging for the Waymo Driver to resume its intended route, and required Waymo's Roadside Assistance team to complete the trip.

They can remotely tell a Waymo, stuff like "this lane is closed" or "No, that's not a school bus, it's just a truck" - and it will add that to the information it has, this might enable it to complete the journey. If you phone your dad, asking what a street sign you saw means, and he tells you - is he now driving your car? No, clearly you are still driving the car, he just answered a question. If he says the symbol means "Free on-street parking" but it actually meant "No entry" you're going to get some problems if you try to act on this bad information.
This is still in transition, and the full story is complicated.

The official shader language for WebGPU is WGSL, and that will almost certainly be the only language supported for web deployment. Originally this was going to be a textual representation that had exactly the same semantics ("bijective") as SPIR-V, but that's been diverging a bit[1]. Only very recently have atomics been added to the spec, and implementations are still catching up.

Because WGSL is still under construction, for native deployment, wgpu supports SPIR-V shaders as well. On Vulkan, those are passed pretty much straight through to the GPU driver (with some validation). On DX12 and Metal, those are translated into HLSL and MSL, respectively. Until recently, in wgpu, all those translations were handled by spirv-cross. More recently, the new naga crate is doing those translations. Again, this is under construction and not everything works yet.

[1]: https://kvark.github.io/spirv/2021/05/01/spirv-horrors.html
or you can fork and remove the bad actors, burning all their coins. good luck with their next attack. in contrast, you can't burn an attackers fleet of miners
As has been mentioned elsewhere, devoting some cores to background tasks and reserving the others for higher-priority stuff also makes the system feel more responsive.

See, for example, this article from yesterday: https://eclecticlight.co/2021/05/17/how-m1-macs-feel-faster-...

Long story short, segregating background work from foreground work means that Spotlight indexing won't cause the UI to become sluggish. I'm guessing it also tends to be more cache-friendly.
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For sure:

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