skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fairly regular support conversation on the community website I run:

"I can't see the images on the 'Adverts' page."

"Do you have an ad-blocker installed?"

"Yes."

"What do you think an ad-blocker does..."
And how exactly will cryptocurrency benefit those impoverished by the current system? As is it stands, the only way to reap any benefits is to become an early investor, or to have the capital on hand to purchase the computing resources necessary to "mine" them.
NB: "large enough" here is less than what most full-time 1099 software workers will make. $8K I think? For the whole year. I remember hitting it more than once in grad school when I was doing contracting on the side.
> It's a sort of perverse individualism. It's just substituting a different type of broad brush. Rather than starting with a maximally individual analysis (and hence construe treatment in terms of procedural fairness), rather, start by a group analysis and place individuals within those groups (and hence talk about aggregate distributional outcomes).

> Don't paint me with a broad brush" means let me speak for myself alone. This attitude is antithetical to analysis which begins with "minorities",

This is, I think "just be race blind". Wokeness, as you seem to be describing it is an ideology that recognizes that identities impact how a person is perceived. To fairly judge an individual, you have to take into account that, because of their race or gender, their work may have been misvalued or falsely attributed.

For better or worse, society discriminates, and recognition of that is a part of fairly judging people as individuals.
And also put an end to the organisations ability to operate making potentially thousands of people instantly and needlessly unemployed because their bosses didn't think security was important.
Only if everything that can be invented has been invented :)
What is his clear message of urgency?
> The problem is how do you effectively ban it?

If a corporation pays, and ledger history can provide definitive proof, the corporation faces the same penalties as if they violated international sanctions. Corporations will need to onramp fiat to crypto somewhere, and FinCEN [1] will know based on SARs (Suspicious Activity Report)/CTRs (Currency Transaction Reports), or SWIFT if international monies transfers [2].

[1] https://www.fincen.gov/resources/statutes-regulations

[2] https://www.swift.com/our-solutions/compliance-and-shared-se...
Sir, this has been discussed extensively whenever it comes up. Who will slash the slashers??

Just THINK about the complexity you're introducing, you're just obfuscating the system more and more to just avoid some loopholes, while not eliminating it either.
Hydras, like c. elegans, cockroaches, fruit flies, humans, sponges and all the other animals named in TFA are eukaryotes.

What about prokaryotes? Do they sleep?
CWV metrics are gathered and aggregated from field data with the variety of devices and internet speeds you would expect in the wild.
Coincidentally (or not?) That's the bitrate of uncompressed CDDA. I suspect the real-word data rate is lower though.

In any event 300kbps is more than sufficient for transparent compression of audio and, if the source is lossless, then you shouldn't have recompression artifacts. Doing so in real-time does have costs (low latency compression uses both more CPU time and ends up with higher bitrates than when you allow more latency)
I suggest you read this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_kana_orthography

It explains the shifts in pronunciantion in Japanese, making old Japanaese kana ortography differ from actual pronunciations, as in English orthography today. The remains of the old system can still be seen in the particles:

A particular shift is medial and final h/f->w and w->∅(except) for 'wa'. This meant that non initial は was pronounced 'wa'. For example, かわ 'kawa' (river) was written as かは before the reform. The かは reflected and even older pronounciation of 'kapa' for the word

There's a shift p->f->h on the は 'row' explaining why ふ is 'fu', and why ば is 'ba', as 'b' is the voiced equivalento of 'p' and not 'h')

There was the same thing for へ, かえる 'kaeru' (frog) was written かへる historically, reflecting these changes. From wiktionary:

⟨kaperu⟩ → /kaperu/ → /kaferu/ → /kaweru/ → /kajeru/ → /kaeru/

(notice we -> ye -> e shift of ゑ here too, this one recent enough to influence the word 'Yen')

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%9B%99#Japanese

So the particles は and へ, being pronounced 'wa' and 'e' instead of the expected 'ha' and 'he' are just remainers of this old orthography conventions, and give hints that the old form where probably pronounced 'pa' and 'pe' over a thousand years ago!

Facinating stuff indeed :)
The US treasury sanctioned a Monero transaction identifier once.

https://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/sdnlist.txt

https://localmonero.co/blocks/search/5be5543ff73456ab9f2d207...

> Digital Currency Address - XMR 5be5543ff73456ab9f2d207887e2af87322c651ea1a873c5b25b7ffae456c320;

Kind of embarrassing...
Listen to binaural recordings (3D sound) with any headphones
> build with native use in mind

Do you mean they're thinking "this can easily be translated to other graphic interfaces" or "we're going to convince vendors to ship products with WebGPU driver built-in like OpenGL"? I'll be so happy to see WebGPU on driver level, but can't find evidence on if anyone is interested in providing.
Yes it's not constant. We have a handful of bursts (tens of thousands of SMS conversations happening at 9am every day that complete in about an hour, for each SMS we send out, we get back 3 status callback webhooks from Twilio). And we've had a couple "mass" message sends where it did take a few hours to send 1.6 million messages. But again, that was due to our twilio limits and not elixir. We had to throttle our jobs when Twilio started saying their queue for our number was full.

I just checked (because we now process most jobs in the background), we have gone as high as about 500 jobs per second in exq on that same machine (and each job typically runs anywhere from 5 to 15 SQL queries). The bottleneck is actually the size of our RDS instance. Not complaining about postgres, just saying elixir hasn't been the bottleneck for that amount. Every hour we process CSV files with 30,000 records, etc.

We only started caching things about a month ago. I have been very lazy about that since it just didn't make any difference until recently.

Again, the point I'm trying to make is that using elixir has been positively and utterly boring in the best way possible. No drama whatsoever. We've spent the overwhelming majority of any of the time related to this looking at postgres. Not even complaining about Postgres either, it's more a conversation of what's the right RDS size and IO for our traffic.

This stack has caused us very little drama.
> 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.

I think you are wrong. Staker pays in "time-cost of money", which is proportional to the stake size and in energy cost, which is pretty much constant (few watts). Your argument implies that there will be greater amount of stakers. That would be plausible if not for 32ETH minimal stake.
To answer your question, yes. My background is also primarily in Python (after brief flirtations with other languages during and shortly after college). When trying to learn Elixir (or Scheme, for that matter), my primary hurdle has been thinking in terms of idiomatic Elixir. The struggles aren’t with understanding the syntax (even for Scheme) but rather with understanding the typical patterns used such that I can start a project from scratch without heavy reliance on tutorial materials.

In other phrasing, I’ve quickly mastered the “draw three thin ovals” portion but am now stuck at “draw the rest of the phoenix”. Speaking of Phoenix, I also agree about “mix phx.gen” to be more magical than what I’m used to.
Ie the colonizing powers of this planet
The safer and faster ECMA5.1 interpreter written by JavaScript, it can be used:

1.Sandbox(like Figma Plugin Sandbox, but better and easy to use);

2.Mini Program/Game JavaScript dynamic execution;

3.Protect JavaScript source code via AOT compiling to opcode;

sablejs covered ~95% test262 es5-tests cases, it can be safely used in production.
Once I learned the Nyquist frequency rule existed in my EE classes I became incredibly suspicious of anybody who threw the words "lossless" around. Glad to know that this suspicion was well-founded.

Aside, "Nyquist criterion" would be a sick band name.
The Weill/Brecht opera featuring the Mac the Knife song was a heavily modified adaptation of an 18th century opera itself [0]!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beggar%27s_Opera
I wish there was a better name for an "order of magnitude fallacy" (but given Roman numerals I can understand why they probably didn't have a fun Latin name for an order of magnitude problem), because we seem to be seeing them all the time right now.

Industrial production of greenhouse gases is nearly an order of magnitude larger than consumer production, but often inordinately the "guilt" burden is pushed to the consumers: Do you have an EV? Have you changed all your light bulbs to more efficient LEDs? Are you Vegan enough?

Here too: Bitcoin alone has risen to an order (or three) of magnitude more energy consumption than Facebook could ever use/do ever use to track people. (Cumulative, the rest of cryptocurrencies only further dwarf Facebook's comparative energy costs.) We can be angry about two things, we can be angry at both, but why can't we discuss the bigger problem first without getting into the weeds of all the smaller problems?

(And of course, the two order of magnitude problems above are inextricably linked: Bitcoin is on track to make many industrial users of electricity look like chumps and dwarf them by an order of magnitude. Nearly all of the consumer-side gains from veganism, LED lightbulbs, EVs has been offset again, if not entirely dwarfed, by cryptocurrency mining.)

People are bad at reasoning things at large enough scales, have a hard time gut understanding order of magnitude problems, so the fallacies keep creeping up, and keep getting weaponized by bad agents (the consumer "green guilt", the consumer "recycling guilt", so many other "demand-side fallacies" that if consumers just bought "smarter", problems would just go away, when really it's the suppliers that are in control).
The military can't stop it, the police can't stop it, companies can't stop it, and the marketplace can't stop it.... so what are you proposing? Surrender? Escalating to a hot war?
That, and if genome similarities were to be explained away by an intelligent designer using the same "toolbox" (so to speak) then why would he create crabs multiple times without using those same widgets?

Leaps of faith seem to introduce more questions than they're able to answer.
There are „just data“ profiles. The issue is nobody has actually thought up a protocol for it.

A funny thing I‘d do if I had more time and energy to dedicate to the topic of Bluetooth telephony (HSP and HFP are garbage for arbitrary reasons) would be opening a network and doing reasonable quality telephony over it to demonstrate it‘s possible.
I might be jumping the shark here, but I think the Ethereum "elite community" are probably going to get into a situation of "be careful what you wish for".

There is a reason why most of mining is happening in China, Iran, Libya and other "poor" countries. These countries have big players in mining but not in trading/legislation (except for China).

By creating a PoW crypto, you are able to do something really cool: You can move value (energy) out of a country, without having a connection with any institution either inside or outside. This happens in a permission-less, indirect manner.
Government can already effectively (and is already inadvertently doing so) prevent mining by manipulating energy prices within it's jurisdiction. It does NOT mean that government can easily ban the use of PoW blockchains.

Miners will move to where is is profitable and will be ultimately incentivized to find cheaper (ultimately cleaner) means to mine.
My condo is assessed as 50% land / 50% improvements. That would rather defeat the purpose of Georgism.
What is a fast Electron app? Visual Studio Code is praised the most by far. And even it's slow compared to alternatives like Sublime Text.

Native is short for native code or native UI depending on context. Native code means AOT compiled. Native UI means it uses one of the platform's conventional UI frameworks. You can have native UI without native code.

Classic Windows apps are great compared to most alternatives.
Important to note there has been pushback on Matthew Walker's writing. Feel free to read more from Alexey Guzey [1] or Andrew Gelman [2].

[1]https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
[2]https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/03/24/why-we-sle...
"Vote with your wallet" depends on several micro-economic assumption holding true, that don't hold true here.

One of those is the assumption of perfect competition. Electricity is far, far from being a market with perfect competition. How many electricity providers are you able to choose from at your house? I'm going to guess 1.

Another assumption that doesn't hold here is the absence of externalities. The full cost of damage to the environment is not included in the price you pay for electricity, so people are going to over-consume it.

You rail against laws and regulations but even in the second sentence of your post you assume their necessity with the phrase "create an economic system..." Laws and regulations are how you create such systems.

Regulatory capture is a real thing, but it's not a good argument against all regulation. Maybe it's an argument for relatively less regulation than we'd have otherwise. It's also an argument for doing regulation better.
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"And yet the military developing this gigantic clandestine force challenges U.S. laws, the Geneva Conventions, the code of military conduct and basic accountability."

It's interesting how the word "challenge" is used in place of "violation", so as not to trigger an immediate knee jerk reaction perhaps?
The attack vectors on PoS are less logical than those of PoW.

With PoW, it's all just physics, energy, and math. With PoS it's rich peoples opinions and validation. An attack on PoS will likely be political... and politics tend to slip into war if there's not enough adults in the room.
This isn't exactly what you're talking about, but I keep waiting for Google's Chrome team to add an energy rating icon to the browser that gives you a rough feel for how energy intensive a given page is.

At some point the shaming would begin, web devs would respond, and then I'd generally get what I'm really after -- much faster page load times!
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It means that being aware of surroundings with continual sensory input and influence is the aberration.

This matches some other theories as well, where humans and a few other always awake organisms are the extreme, due to selective pressures. For example, humans "feel bored" because having nothing pressing to do for survival is usually the wrong option. Whereas that isn't true for many other organisms and they likely wouldn't have an opinion about staying still in the same place for prolonged periods of time.
datacenters for all 4 are a huge capital investment. Perhaps less so for Apple, but Amazon, Google and Facebook all run their own datacenters and all of them will have to continue expanding their datacenter footprint if they continue to grow.

That being said, it does seem like equity markets are in a bubble. Tesla at least is absurdly overvalued. If i had signifcant stake in TSLA I would be getting out asap and let someone else hold on to shares that are probably 300% overvalued.
The way you phrased is reminded me how blindly we walk through life, doing things that our body forces us to do, because despite all our bravado about how smart we are... we really have no clue what we do and why we do it most of the time.
The difference is that Facebook is actually using electricity to provide services that somebody wants. It's just that you happen to disagree with the value of this service. Meanwhile, Bitcoin uses a country's worth of electricity just to provide a tiny amount of accounting.
> the normal state of living beings is sleeping

This is reminiscent of the claim that zebras are black with white stripes (or is it the other way around?)
I haven't written off anything. PoW is inherently flawed. It does not scale and Bitcoin has proven that. Bitcoin averages ~300K transactions a day while using more energy than some countries. That is unacceptable.
> but from the narrative in this essay it's clear he does not even understand how that happened

I find this accusation very ironic, considering that it started with writing essays a lot like this one.
It seems like the article is talking about Elm.
> As the world progresses, the number of things you can win at by getting the right answer increases.

What does this mean?
I overheard a group of guys going on and on about "DODGE"-coin at a house party I went to this weekend.

It's not going to stop until they all lose their hats.

And it's going to hurt like hell for all these random middle class dudes, and senators suddenly have hot takes about how we need to regulate cryptocurrencies.
And the current crypto system seems to be meme based, while the fiat system is market based.
Propagation Delay
Plenty of ways to get that data without invasive tracking like GA.
agreed, divergent evolution is very common
Chrome's policy is pretty much the same; while it can generate a process-per-tab under most conditions, the guarantee it actually makes (in modern versions of Chrome) is that sites (including different-origin iframes) are isolated into different processes. They use the PSL to determine which sites constitute a different origin, just like Firefox does.
Ahh. Well the comment you replied to said:

> No business "deserves" to be in business.

The grandparent comment said:

> Not every business deserves to be in business, either.

The conversation moved on the word "business deserves to be in business"
Whole chain is changing the rules. For block N-1 and earlier blocks - fork choice rule inspects amount of work. For block N and later, fork choice rule is one of https://beaconcha.in/
Adblockers block Google Analytics, which is a different script from the ones that are served as part of displaying banner ads.

GA has an enormous set of capabilities for measuring user activity and e-commerce, especially because Tag Manager lets you assign trackable events anywhere you need to on the site.

It may be interesting to see if that site works if 'analytics.js' and 'gtm.js' are greenlit. Those are the main GA scripts. Everything else would likely be ad-related.
That article assumes that if YouTube is 11% of total internet bandwidth then YouTube is 11% of total internet electricity usage. That's a very dubious assumption.
A lot of people could, in fact. And most of them are lawyers.

As long as you don't resell it, you will fly under the radar most probably
Algorand has been Proof of Stake for years (2019 MainNet launch) and it's actually carbon-negative [1]. It's a shame more people don't know about it. Its founder is a Turing-award-winning MIT professor (Silvio Micali) who solved the blockchain trilemma [2] with the Pure Proof of Stake consensus algorithm. The tech is leaps and bounds ahead of other cryptos.

[1]: https://www.algorand.com/resources/news/carbon_negative_anno...

[2]: https://www.algorand.com/resources/blog/silvio-micali-lex-fr...
I've been developing small scale react applications since 2015. Application state has seldom been a problem for me.

Initially classes were a problem as they made unit testing harder. I'm happy react moved towards functional logic.

Integration tests were hard because there was no good one-stop-shop framework. I now use cypress and it's OK.

Tooling was hard as there was a bazillion options and nothing stood out. I now use esbuild. It's pretty good.

I once made the mistake to use redux to fix a problem I didn't have, namely handling application state. Then I tried MobX.

These days, I mostly use component state and a REST api. For reusable components, I create an npm lib. Whatever.
Does anyone remember Firesomething? The extension that randomized the name of Firefox to OceanMonkey, WaterHorse, FlameTiger, etc? Powerful extensions and much better UI are the main reasons so many of us switched to Firefox back in the early 2000s.
Will start with point 1:
Take Europe instead of just the US - protests in Europe against Israel with no equivalent against Iran or Russia, both of whom funded and sent troops to Syria where Assad has committed actual genocide leading to displacement of millions. Europe trades with Russia and Iran and could apply economic pressure. Where were the mass protests in the face of a humanitarian catastrophe or nerve gas attacks against civilians? No calls for the end of Russia or Iran as countries. Why do you think this is?
'Given how many scams remain on every app store etc...'

That's not what we're talking about.

You will not be able to get an app onto the App Store using microsofts brand image, logos, pretending to be microsoft to phish data from people.

It will not get through. You've obviously got a very strong informed opinion on the topic, but this is just fact.
> I tend to test pretty well on all the official charts but really can't hear a difference in a lot of "audiophile" stuff people claim night/day differences.

Part of that is also your brain. Master sommeliers can tell you which vineyard the grapes in a wine came from, sometimes even which side of the vineyard. Yet give those sommeliers a white wine with red coloring mixed in, and they won't immediately notice.

I've actually met one other person that said what you say, if they really try they can hear a minute difference with cymbals and hi-hats in regards to lossless vs high bitrate lossy, but they also said they had to strainingly focus on the listening and they would never listen nor enjoy music that way.

> In both our cases I wonder how much of this is just our brains have learned to pick things out of the signals are ears give vs our ears actually being more/less capable than other people

A little bit of both, I think. Your ears are naturally more sensitive, so you put the volume on your speakers a lot lower, which teaches your brain to pick up low volume stuff better. I'm always worried the downstairs appartement can hear my 'loud' TV at night, but they've told me they can't hear a thing.
Facebook used 5 TWhr in 2019 (citation: totally unverified top summary from google). Bitcoin alone is estimated to have used 110 TWhr in a year. To put that in perspective, that is sixfold the power output of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Produces power on the order of magnitude of detonating two small atomic bombs per day.
Electricity has higher economic value due to miners seeking to maximize profits.

This makes investments in renewable energy infrastructure more profitable and paid off sooner. A solar farm has more demand and higher margin for its products.

On the other hand, it means cheap coal energy is also financially productive.

What is anti-economical is the unfair price competition due to externalities not captured by coal energy's pricing.
I have no idea, but am curious to know as well...

Nice catch!