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It's not a counter-solution, it is a suggestion that the problem isn't really a problem. PoW power usage is high in an absolute sense but lower than many other things which people would consider an obvious waste. So why does PoW power usage have so much contention compared to those other things? I would say because there's too much baggage/hype associated with cryptocurrencies, not because there's a genuine belief that increasing the energy usage of our species is a universally bad thing.

As for the carbon side of the issue, that isn't something which is specific to cryptocurrencies or any other kind of energy usage. I support carbon taxes and import taxes on CO2-producing goods/services, including cryptocurrency services, and I am certain that many cryptocurrency believers feel the same way.
A lot of times the losses result in the loss of the business entirely.
"Does not matter" is overstating the case. There are lots of tools for converting between shader languages (naga, spirv-cross, glslangValidator, dxc), but these conversions aren't 100% lossless and not all shader languages have the same capabilities. To give one example, HLSL (Shader Model 6) has a fairly complete set of subgroup (wave) operations, but is missing nonuniform shuffle. Another gap is that only GLSL (Vulkan flavor) has support for explicit memory semantics. Of course, WGSL currently has none of this, as it's something of a lowest common denominator.

In the game world, it is very common to write shaders in HLSL because of good support on Windows, and then use the tools mentioned above to translate into other shader languages. I explored this for my own work but ultimately settled on GLSL because it allows access to advanced features.

Fans of shader languages should also be aware of rust-gpu, which promises to be considerably higher level; most existing shader languages show their clear lineage to C (through Cg).
There’s no comparison in the risk of methane vs. H2. The only thing H2 has going for it, safety wise, is that it disperses very quickly.

Otherwise methane is insanely safe, safer in all regards except pressurization than gasoline.
Thank you, this is a good description of the issue! This does seem like a complicated problem to solve, but I'm not necessarily convinced that one set of incentives is always worse or better—aren't there some situations where you do want to import the existing set of "stakes" to gain adoption?
We did. Negative. Kind of. I'm pretty sure we simply talked to the wrong people though? You got an intro?
There is a counter solution to advocating for regulation. It's to create an economic system where people are naturally incentivized to do what's best. Vote with your wallet. You don't want energy that produced Co2? Don't buy it and advocate for others not to buy it.

Instead what people are doing is advocating for the government to come and point guns at people who don't do what they want -- even if they happen to be wrong. And when they are wrong, there are disastrous consequences as is currently extremely apparent in California. There are all kinds of perverse incentives which have resulted in the severe homelessness and extreme government waste.

The people advocating for this neither listen to the wisdom of Murphy's law, nor do they understand that when regulation impacts the market that regulation becomes what is bought and sold. Have you never heard of regulatory capture? That has worse human-cost impacts than leaving people to their own devices.

Vote with your wallet. Don't like the environmental cost of beef? Don't buy it. This works -- you can see it playing out.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/BA65/production/...
See my other comment above.
That's true of 'classic' bluetooth, but not of LE. LE is legitimately good. Source: Implemented a couple of LE devices. There's no shared heritage between LE and Classic, just the branding in common.
"This tool allows you to add arbitrary-size caption to your photos without losing image quality."

Does this mean that, when the image is saved, the original JPEG data isn't recompressed? Similar to LLCrop on Android?

I thought that opencv.imread() would decompress the image into a Numpy array, and that a later call to imwrite() would need to (lossily) recompress the uncompressed data.
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Nobody cares exactly how a company gets unrealistically high numbers. What matters is as a consumer your experience won’t match the company’s claims. Best would be for companies just to tell the truth. C.f. the “full self driving” falsehood.
The crowd of HN tends to be more philosophic. Without a moral / ethical / long-term practical view, we're just ships with torn sails floating in the waves, wandering about, making short-term decisions. Decisions often have 2nd, 3rd, 4th-order consequences that can be unpredictable and often counter to the goal we think we're working towards in the short term. It pays to think them through from a high level and apply long-term thinking principles.
How is not supporting "24-bit/192kHz" making a headphone obsolete? I would be surprised if you can even hear a difference on any AirPods compared to "24-bit/48kHz".
Your argument is that by having greater competition, the result would be a monopoly?
Not supporting a new feature does not make it “useless” or “obsolete”.
If by persecution by the locals you mean the Jewish Israelis — sure. But if you are trying to imply that the Muslim Arabs persecuted the Christians get out of here.

By wide margins the European Christian crusaders killed more Arab Christians then any other ethnic group. Palestinian Christians and Muslims have coexisted for a long, long time. To the point that the holiest of Christian churches are often entrusted to Muslim custodianship. How else would you explain that?
Exactly! Just because you don't think something has value doesn't make it so. Value is a matter for the market to decide.

Electricity usage has almost no negative externalities. Electricity production does. Attacking people for using their own resources on something that they find to be useful and worthwhile is foolish. Confront the actual problem, and quit harassing innocent third parties.
Do automatic gearboxes compression brake when going downhill? That's what I was trying to avoid. My point was to conserve your kinetic energy, not optimizing the fuel flow during the times when you don't want the engine to produce power.
Just can't escape this mentality.
If you have one or two solid long term clients, the running a company is minimal once you're setup. You pay yourself a salary, do a few quarterly state tax items & a monthly payment to the IRS.

It's usually the initial setup that is the biggest pain & if you ever make any changes like wanting to move states or addresses. This is where I think a service would be really beneficial. At the same time, the amount of time/revenue lost to this is less than the amount gained by tax benefits. I mean every company made 5 months of salary plus benefits per employee from the PPP loan over the past 2 years. That alone was huge.

From personal experience, it sounds like "the best salary you can get" requires hunting for decent opportunities, studying for tons of ridiculous interview questions, networking with employees at the company to get a leg up & of course taking a ton of interviews. Plenty of time/energy goes into that as well. Of course you can counter argue that getting clients takes plenty of time energy. So it maybe comes down to each person's own unique situation and which opportunity is best for them. I've found that doing great work, gets your name out there & marketing is not required. Learning to say "no" to jobs tends to be required more than marketing.
Your power adapter. I have so many I could build a house from them. A small one at least.
Are you joking? There are plenty of conversations on Hackernews about electric vehicles, it just so happens that replacing every single car in the world with a totally different energy system is a way harder problem than banning useless cryptocurrencies that are burning energy to fuel equity bubbles.
We don't need to ban PoW crypto entirely, just tax the carbon emissions associated with it. If miners can switch their entire operation to geothermal in Iceland, then why should I care?
Question from someone relatively clueless: Does that mean that NFTs also will use negligible amount of electricity once that's completely gone through?
Because banning outright is stupid, and banning a technology is even stupider. Technologies have both benefits and drawbacks. TAX (not ban) the drawbacks.

In this case, tax carbon. Then people will decide what they want to spend their (expensive) energy on.
I don't understand what would bother you.

He's talking about "nerds"; a cultural identity.

You are talking about asperger's, a medical condition.

PG doesn't draw any lines between them.

What is your objection, specifically?
I find that American society as a whole is surprisingly complacent to the fact that a coup was attempted on January 6, 2021, to the fact that a majority of the Republican House voted to invalidate a free & fair election with the intent to steal it.

The charade happening in Arizona is just the latest of many attacks on democracy that Republicans are currently engaged in, and far from the last. The intent is clear.

If this is not stopped, and soon, the future of the country we live in is at risk.

How is this not the most major news reported on every website? Does democracy die in indifference?
Because HN is full of fucking leetcoders or other specially minded folk that sees things as black or white. If any part of a statement is falsifiable that statement is False (or so it goes) so that's why we get this kind of Malcolm Gladwell-level brain candy masquerading as rigor.
Really would like to know more about the GPU and Ram. At 128 gpu cores vs the 8 in the M1 you talking 16 times the potential GPU power which could put it up there near the top of discrete GPU's.
It probably wouldn't scale and give an unfair advantage to "pirates", but I think DCMA takedown requests should be handled by actual humans instead of 24/7 bot services such as the one used here. Increasing the bar of entry would force people to actually go after worst offenders instead of just casting the widest net that they can.
The exact opposite is true. It's always possible for a state to obtain enough mining hardware - PoW is hopelessly insecure. It also has infinite economies of scale inevitably leading to absolute centralization even absent state attack. Once majority of hashrate is achieved, profits nearly double as minority can be censored. That's the inevitable end state of PoW.

PoS is resistant to state attacks because it would require buying up tokens on an impossible scale, and in the case an attack somehow succeeds a fork can be created that deletes the hostile stake. This can be repeated indefinitely. That's impossible in PoW more than once, once a gpu PoW gets attacked it's over.

PoS has no economies of scale, so contrary to PoW it can stay decentralized forever. There's no way to make existing stakers unprofitable by adding more nodes, like it's possible with mining hardware in PoW.

PoW is also vulnerable to takeover of existing miners because mining at scale requires big industrial warehouses with industrial power owned by registered companies. Impossible to hide. PoS can run on anonymous home nodes.

In every single security and decentralization aspect PoW is hopelessly inferior to PoS.
When was that, the Mac II days?
That's true but to be honest they pushed back the self destruct several times in the past and will do so again if needed.

Still it's very likely that this time the switch to PoS might finally happen unless something unforseen happens.

The development was speed up by a (most likely) failed attempt / pr-stunt of miners to block an unrelated change which will reduce their profitability considerably in July.
Almost feels like the music services exec hasn't been talking to the music hardware exec.

Seems absurd to launch a service where your $550 headphones launched just a few weeks ago don't even support the difference.
These days you are unable to climb the class ladder as an employee. Any income that you could have saved is being eaten by progressive tax (that is being used to subsidise low wages among other things - big corporations avoid paying tax and pay low wages that other workers have to bump out of their pay).
Only way to escape working class and poverty is starting a business.
This also is becoming more difficult as big corporation lobby for more regulation and for increase of barriers to entry for new players.
Big corporations need smart people as wage slaves, not as competitors.
This is something that is not being looked enough into, mainly because politicians have no incentive to do it.
It is easier for them to accept donations from rich friends and source votes by promising more social programs and more subsidies for target voter salaries.
I think he means that Amazon isn't really an acquirer. Other than Whole Foods, I think their next biggest acquisition is Twitch? That's only two total acquisitions over ~1 billion over Amazon's entire history. For what is currently the largest market cap on earth, that's pretty shocking.
But if there aren't more transaction (as number of transactions), what happens when the hash rate increases? They hash incomplete blocks of transactions? Or does the same block gets confirmed by a greater number of miners?
Not only that, but it offers no support at all for its claims of broad support for the idea. It is an ideological propaganda outfit offering unsupported claims that an element of its ideology is broadly popular outside of that ideology.
>because bitcoin users actually validate blocks

so do Ethereum users.

>In a PoS system there is an incentive for large stakeholders to increase block sizes.

this doesn't work because of Ethereum's social contract, just like it wouldn't work with Bitcoin.

Just because you stake a lot of ETH doesn't mean you suddenly have unilateral power to increase block sizes. There is a thing called consensus, and the entire community needs to achieve it to implement changes. Good luck trying to convince the community that bigger blocks that make it harder for small users to validate the chain is a good idea.
https://github.com/austinEng/webgpu-samples is your friend. Look under sample/*/*.wgsl in particular for shader examples.
I can see that this idea comes from a place of good intentions, but I think this is a slippery slope. With this idea, PoW Ethereum is banned, but PoS Ethereum is ok; how does one even regulate that? And what of things like Chia (proof of space, i.e. "let's hog hard drives")? And what about L2 solutions? And how much is too much? Should Ethereum 2 be banned if Nano is shown to be more scalable? Where does one draw the line?

I think that at some point, PoW will become so economically unfeasible that it'll simply make more sense for miners to ditch those coins and whale up on PoS ones.
Because this is a website full of engineers who write computer software for a living? And finding and solving for those edge cases is literally a core function of what most of us spend the majority of both our work and leisure time doing?
Yeah, I didn't think it made sense.
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The article isn't about the companies whose data is held hostage, it's about consultants that sit in the middle and help those companies with paying ransoms. It's more a matter of those consultants being required to register as money transmitters.
I'm sure jet setters consider their private jet as a basic need, too.

What's interesting, is that you can gather ~300 random citizens - including jet setters and cryptofans - and let them think about it for two years in order to decide what they considered as basic needs, on a consensus basis. And then, we can organize a vote (e.g a referendum) to make sure society finds a common ground on this (just like we do for most things, such as banning crime).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Convention_for_Climat... for a good example.

I bet PoW would be far down the list of basic needs but it might, still. I like democracy (where people vote, not their fortune).
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Only if you just consider how hard it is to ban, not how hard it is to replace while achieving the same utility.
the chmod isn't recursive, so I'm assuming the subdir for uBO is writable.
Why shouldn't they control the copyright on entertainment media they own? Can I help myself to your property any way I see fit?
classic google app store: they never give a fxxk about their users
Where are you (or GP) from?
Im also ‘92. I grew up in California, but in a rural part of the state. Nerdy interests absolutely had a stigma. My high school didn’t even have a CS class, no academic decathlon team, and certainly no robotics club. It was the “best” school in my district, too.

In challenging or AP classes you had essentially two groups, the jocks, who were trying to follow a college track, for which sports were essentially requisite in our district, and the nerds who just liked learning stuff. The jocks(male and female) did their homework as a group, complained loudly about difficult tests/assignments and consistently used their relative influence to affect their grades. The nerds brought in their own lessons, asked questions that lead the class off topic, consistently read the textbook and stayed late to ask questions rather than negotiate.

Anyway, thought I’d throw this anecdote out there for variety.
FWIW, GitHub Actions macs are MacStadium macs.
I love the magic of Hacker News: posting a reply agreeing with someone describing a problem? WELL, THAT'S A DOWNVOTE FOR YOU!

This place sucks. I wish there was a way to delete my account.
If you discount the automatic stock buybacks they do to compensate for employee stock bonuses this is true. But that is still a pretty large amount of money over the past decade.
I like the pipe syntax a lot. I dislike the fake type system, it some how the worst of both worlds. I regret having an elixir project.
UX is rarely a very rewarding process. It's not nearly as much fun as writing new software. OSS often has the same problem with bug fixes, which are also less fun than adding new features.

It's even worse than bugs, since bugs are usually localized, while UX issues often require substantial redesign even for something that feels like a very specific issue. That puts you in front of a whole lot of stakeholders, and even more work, for something that isn't going to feel nearly as big an accomplishment as adding a new feature.

So unless you get a UX programmer who also happens to be interested in your particular open source project, things will stay for years. That's a lot easier for programmer's tools than for anything that requires domain experience.
Thats like saying a second-hand Nespresso machine is cheaper than abrand new DeLonghi.

Much smarter to compare total cost of ownership, and then the ociture is very different
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It’s lighter than air though so it won’t pool in low areas and if a pressure vessel won’t contain it it probably diffuses through car interiors / dry wall and vapor barrier pretty quickly. What’s the rate at which it escapes? Probably pretty slow.
Yes. Any action performed in the network will consume 99.95% less energy after this change has gone through.
Well, yeah. There are two parts to this, the lossless compression and the "HiFi" sample rate (it goes up to 24-bit 192kHz). I was just pointing out that you don't get the high sample rate even over analog.

I haven't seen anywhere whether AirPods can do 192kHz AAC over Bluetooth, which in my opinion would be more interesting. I assume not if all of the DSP stuff is done at 48kHz.
This is like saying that you could replicate Instagram in a single evening, allowing people to upload pictures and post them to a feed.

Sure, you could... but there is a monstrous gap between that and the real service that you are comparing it to.
only a 15% with the next group and another 15 with the next... not relevant
Exactly, also, many times I aliased the sign up email or otherwise made the username unique. And I already have unique password, so there just isn't anything to care about for 99% of services.
For anyone else that isn't american, or hasn't been following the news much here is an article describing what this letter is about:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/14/arizona-elec...
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This article makes a good point about the fragility of DeFi, but it fails to demonstrate that the broader Ethereum community cares enough about DeFi to let it influence their decisions. It makes a general, hand-wavey gesture to other parts of ETH ("All websites, interfaces, block explorers, and wallets ultimately point to the majority chain. Game operators like CryptoKitties lock their D-ETH contracts so as not to confuse their users."), but it fails to justify this point—it already says "a civil war is brewing" and that individual developers (presumably including CryptoKitties) would have reason to support one or the other.

So while this article is a (good?) argument for why all DeFi operators must follow USDC, it fails to make the case for why anyone else should care about the fate of centralized stablecoins. Maybe these reasons are obvious! But I don't know them.
Can’t wait for the Amazon themed casino on the Las Vegas strip.
If a state can still do all the functions their people expect of them with fewer taxes, I think most people would call that a win.
This is a terrible analogy. Drugs are inherently desirable. There is nothing inherently desirable about crypto coins
This isn't about the companies being hacked; it's about the consultants who serve as intermediaries to help pay the ransoms.
> This has a decent chance to be pro-consumer.

What does it mean to be "pro-consumer"? You can't reasonably use that metric to decide antitrust cases if you aren't directly querying consumers on whether they want the company to be broken up or not. When the FTC decides what is or isn't pro-consumer, that's the same as me claiming that I know how you're going to vote on issue X, and then claiming that you're "voting against your interests" when you vote the opposite way.

Anyway, there's another lens besides consumer welfare and monopoly here: diversity provides protection against the unforeseen, as well as an increased rate of innovation. We see this in natural selection where species routinely go extinct and, on the occasion, whole classes of animals are wiped off the planet but life as a whole continues because of the diversity before any event.

When we accept high concentration in our economy, we lose the safeguards that come with diversity. With enough concentration the unforeseen events become actual existential threats. I'm not going to claim we're there yet -- if Amazon failed we still have Walmart, and Azure, etc -- but I didn't see anything in your viewpoint that protects against a future where some things become "too big to fail".

tl;dr diversity is a desirable property of most systems, and an antitrust framework should consider it.
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