skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats to the 1Password team! I've been using the beta for a while now on Pop_OS! and it has been getting better with each update.

I personally don't mind that it uses Electron. The app feels snappy to me and it looks like their engineers are making efforts to optimize the experience.
Correct me if I'm wrong since I've only read the brief overview of how validators work on ethereum.org, but 141k validators doesn't mean anything when every validator is independent / anonymous and someone with 32k eth staked is actually one entity taking on the role of 1000 validators.
> The correct allocation of energy should be based on the price people are willing to pay for the energy.

Why? Why is that 'correct'?
Why would we not want to ensure the population has affordable energy for home use, but others seeking to make a profit from it rather than use it for basic needs pay more?

You phrase your reply as some sort of moral absolute, but it's nothing of the sort.
I found this question poorly worded, because you can only ask "What would the other assistant tell me to do". I assumed both would try to tell me to agree to the terms. Not what would they tell me to do if I asked them how to opt out.
> Mining at a rate necessary to get any reasonable amount of Ether is a huge investment,

I started mining on my own PC a couple weeks ago, with the GPUs I already had (2x 1080ti) and made about 0.5 Ether so far. So it's definitely not impossible to get enough currency that enables you to interact or even deploy a smart contract on a consumer PC with a little bit of time.
I started using 1Password a long time ago (~10 years) when the only option was the standalone license option. It is a lifetime license for about the cost of ~2 years of subscription.

They still sell and "support" this standalone product. But I use the word "support" in quotes because the standalone license doesn't offer all the features of the subscription product. I resisted switching to the subscription product for many years, but eventually there were many features that were only offered on subscription accounts and I caved and made the switch.

So I just wanted to warn other people that before you buy the Standalone option, you should know that it isn't quite the same 1Password experience as the subscription. There are quite a few significant features missing.
Because it's missing the forest for the trees. Look at total energy usage, across all industries. This is more an indictment of cryptocurrency than it is about actually caring about the environment. Compare it to say, eliminating all gas vehicles for electric cars. Where is the HN thread advocating for that, if the end result would be massively fewer carbon emissions versus this proposal? My criticism is this proposal is like banning plastic straws. It's patting ourselves on the back, with no real solution.
I tend to agree with this.

For me the holy grail is USB-C powered earbuds with active noise cancelling.

That way I don't have to worry about battery running out either.

I often work for 10+ hours and 4 hours of battery on AirPods pro frustrates me when I have to regularly charge them during the day.

Then with USB-C could also get superior audio quality than Bluetooth.

I'm considering getting the Bose QC20 as a compromise. But still... they're also somewhat battery dependent.
Or maybe you keep quitting jobs, because you are the precocious one who can always see why things aren't working well long before anyone else. Yet nobody wants your feedback because it's too something. Too fierce, or scary because it's predictive, or they're just annoyed that you have no social skills.

And socially maybe the people at work can keep you in check without firing you, because you can't respond well in a socially-clever environment for example, no matter how amazing your insights.
> But in 2021, you can do not just "better" than Erlang for all of them, you can do much better.

Really appreciate the effort that you've put into this post but it's 99% saying you can do better but without examples of stacks that would be better. For those who don't have your knowledge could you provide some examples?
Nah, you're right. Best not to do anything just in case we incovenience the 'plebes'. Or just in case First They Came For My PoW's And I Said Nothing. Then They Came For My AAA Games. Nevermind the burning planet, nothing should ever be done for the greater good if 100% logical consistency isn't baked into the thought.

Always the same fucking slippery slope!
Carl Sagan immortalized the theory by Hans Bethe on television
It would be cool if the shading document has an example ... just diving into details makes it hard to get the flavor. Anyone have a smallish SL example?
I was looking under security and I don’t see any mention of misuse, but that can also be hard to identify.

Potential misuse should not stop WebGPU from moving forward, but isn’t there a concern that the make JavaScript injection attacks more attractive? Rather than buying and operate a crypto mining setup it now becomes more attractive to attempt to utilize the GPUs of unsuspecting web users. Or am I misunderstanding how much of the GPU this will grant you access to?
> Grapple

I think this completely mischaracterizes the relationship that wealthy participants have with the IRS.

Factor in these two things:

1) The relationship with the IRS for the wealthy is not adversarial like 100% of the interactions with the IRS are with poorer people. Very many interactions with the IRS are pre-emptive as well as collaborative. The poorer experience is completely retroactive enforcement with the tax authority seemingly already having made a conclusion about what you owe at the worst time for you to come up with that money. Very big difference in experiences.

2) Lawyers and accountants know the law better than the IRS.

Yes, “fighting back” can be an accurate term, but its more accurate to say “respond” at all. On the wealthier side, it is rare that an interpretation devolves into an adversarial relationship. The IRS is motivated by having a clear lineage of funds and rationale, as opposed to actually optimizing revenues via taxes.
It's completely antithetical to the environmentally conscious mission to build a product that is going to produce significantly more waste than chalk balls. Chalk residue is a short-term eyesore, but plastic waste lives for hundreds of years in landfills.

If you're going to target environmentally conscious customers then your packaging has to be eco-friendly too.
That was my first thought, specifically the South Korean Chaebols like Samsung
At the time of the British mandate the Jewish minority — 2% of the population — owned a total of 8% of the land. So, my point was, why do you blame the Arabs for not accepting the partition plan which came to impose a forceful transfer of land from the majority to the minority.
When you consider the facts you can clearly see why the Palestinians opposed the initial partition plan of Palestine.
Put in your favorite road trip, vehicle and any advanced settings you'd like to adjust: https://abetterrouteplanner.com

(No affiliation, just a happy user)

Taking a Tesla Model 3 for example, I typically get a 15-20 minute stop every 2-3 hours (standard or long range trim).
If it's approved as a web standard, I would expect them to support it basically forever, since otherwise websites would stop working. I don't think there's any plan to deprecate the previous standard (WebGL) that came out around 10 years ago.
How sweet would have it been if it was retroactively supported!
I think the tradeoff is often quality:latency. The higher the quality, the bigger the buffer, and the longer the latency?

In anecdotal data, I noticed that my Bluetooth headphones had latency so bad they were not usable for gaming (CS:GO, Valorant). Switching the codec to aptX reduced latency noticable but also dramatically reduced quality to somewhere similar to a phone call (flat, noisy).

So that's my assumption.
I think the correct comparison is against the Bloomberg Terminal, through which the vast majority of capital flows responsible for environmental damage, occur. Not only does the terminal itself use a vast amount of power with its humongous do-it-all servers and 8-screen users, but the facilitated capital flows, commodity trading, speculation, are probably responsible for 2-3 orders of magnitude more environmental damage than proof of work.
That makes sense, but the point is that it's still a compromise. Even if we're saying that people can work overtime to get things done, there's typically diminishing returns on each additional hour worked, and still no guarantee that quality hasn't been impacted.

If you ask people to work 12 hour days instead of 8 days, does each day provide 8 hours worth of work, 12 hours worth of work, or another value? Can we reliably say that any problems arising from working over 12 hour days are caught and handled at the same level as they would be if people were working 8 hour days?
How to block usernames that provide false sense of authority? e.g. “YC_Admin”
Does anyone know of a good methodology or library that is set up to detect names that provide a false sense of authority?

There are a lot of impersonation attacks coming from within social networks themselves where attackers have names like
"Support System"
"[Company] Support"
"Technical Help"
"Admin Team"

These are hard to detect and if you go too broad you might ban legitimate names.

I was wondering if anyone has experience with either a library or implementation method.

A few examples:
1. Steam usernames / group names can't have "Support", "Steam" or "Valve" in them.
2. I'm sure Amazon bans the word "Amazon" in their forum usernames.
I think prohibition is a good illustration of why that interpretation is inaccurate. When one group’s beliefs become dominant in society it doesn’t result in everyone’s opinions changing. People will pay lip service to the commonly held belief but will act otherwise behind closed doors. The people that carry the internalized belief are often entirely oblivious to how much of a lie it actually is since they never get invited to the speak easy.
Yes, what about that other thing? Look over there! Is there literally any response that isn't this mere Whataboutism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
A court is a deliberately high bar to set. It's unlikely that you could get "beyond a reasonable doubt" level of evidence for people living in foreign countries.

That's part of the balance that we've struck for the judicial system. They have a lot of power to punish, so they set a high bar of evidence. To cross that bar, they give prosecutors a fair bit of power, but supervised by judges.

So it's possible that if one could subpoena witnesses and obtain warrants, they could perhaps raise it to a level that would stand up in law. But you certainly can't get that for a hostile country, and international law enforcement is always going to have to deal with a much lower standard of evidence. And also a lower punishment, because they can't get access to them.

That's going to be indistinguishable from geopolitics, especially since they're not going to show you the evidence that they can gather against the target country's own laws. At an international level it's an anarchic Wild West, with far less certainty than you would tolerate within your own country with its checks and balances.
Or, more realistically, we will all agree that billionaires are easily able to shelter their income from taxes, and then for some reason vote in huge tax increases that only affect the middle and upper-middle class.
This story has now been posted on HN for three days in a row. Somebody is pumping it.
Gyms are open in some places now and will be open in many more places six and sixteen weeks from now.

It's fine (and smart) to be thoughtful about focusing on a niche, but don't do it because gyms are closed.
> People want airpods whether or not their phones have headphone jacks

Are you suggesting that Apple removed the jack in order to sell AirPods? Seems a bit cynical and doesn't even make sense. I think they removed it for engineering and design reasons. If you need it back there's an official adapter that costs just a few dollars.
“Hydrogen bomb” is a little exaggerated. But to your detractors:

“More than a gasoline bomb, hopefully. Gasoline is more dangerous.”

Citation needed. How is gasoline more dangerous? While gasoline is very dangerous, gasoline is a liquid and will not burn until vaporized; Gasoline is dangerous because it vaporizes quickly. H2 is already a gas and has a ridiculously low spark energy. Furthermore H2 is under pressure.

Gas does have a lower auto-ignition T than H2, that’s no fun, but overall H2 scores worse than gasoline.

“Do you ride on a CNG city bus?”

CNG stands for Compressed Natural Gas; i.e. methane. Methane is a lot easier and safer to use than H2 because it:

- Packs a lot more energy vs. P so the tanks don’t have to be as strong
- Doesn’t embrittle the container
- Much higher spark energy (in fact, CH4 is kinda hard to light)
- Smaller flammability range (i.e. mixture with air that will ignite)
- lower auto-ignition T

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammability_limit
> Every fucking time "Regulations" of any kind come up.

unless of course those regulations are about regulating "big tech" for "censorship".
Which Apple devices are most notable as part of the story of next-year deprecation? And won't compressed streaming still be the norm for almost everyone in the world for a very long time?
You people terrify me.
Nice, that just scratches the surface. Naturally, you probably won't agree with everything he says, but I've learnt a lot from the way he approaches questions.
You better be really, really sure the person who comes out to mark the utilities before you dig has the correct coordinates...
See also: Why nerds are unpopular. Feb 2003. http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7759892

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13475146

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24710474
Does it need to remain? At some point coins were composed entirely of valuable metals because that's how their value was determined, but we've moved on from that. Can't we move on from proof of work as well?
It'd be impossible to "enjoy" lossless audio on a bus ride in the audiophile sense.
Producer Brad Wright teased at a new series back in March.

https://www.gateworld.net/news/2021/03/next-stargate-project...
Crypto is currently the only viable reason to overbuild renewables so we can expand their capacity faster than the battery technology allows us.

Just tax the carbon sources and ban building new coal power plants or reactivating defunct ones.

Instead of downvoting please give me one other example why would rational market entity build more renewables than to satisfy demand when production peeks. Because to go full renewables without batteries (and we barely have any when compared to our renewables) we need to always meet the demand even when renewable energy production is the lowest. And what should rational market entity do with the power at all other times where production is far higher than demand?

Because "mine cryptocurrencies with it" seems like the only reasonalble answer in the world where cryptocurrencies exist and people with too much money buy them enthusiastically.
I knew many people who fit that description, but with even a little social intelligence it seemed to me their experiences in highschool were pretty great; they weren’t nerds, they were just smart and studious and many were very well liked. Our homecoming king was on the academic decathalon team. Im not saying that smart, introverted folks with underdeveloped social skills don’t exist, just that they don’t exist opposite to bros and jocks and cool kids (and weren’t mercilessly bullied for being themselves).

On the other end, nerd-culture had permeated all levels of the social strata, and my very popular friends who partied every weekend were also semi-pro halo players and avid anime fans and didn’t hide either of those facts.

It’s only six years, but it could have been wide exposure to the internet? Also very possible I’m seeing the past through rose colored glasses.
Just because they didn't write an essay to cite evidence doesn't make it baseless. LUL
So this applies to only 8 individuals and 4 entities that have been caught in the act. I wonder what's the number of attacks that are successful and never detected, or never publicly acknowledged.

There need to be more widespread measures taken against the source networks implicated in the attacks. Anyone who's ever monitored the logs of any public facing web service knows that it's immediately and constantly probed for popular vulnerabilities (Drupal, Wordpress, etc.) coming from mostly Chinese IPs. These are low effort bots no doubt and not coordinated attacks, but something should be done at the ISP or country level to block this traffic. It's unreasonable that every single service needs to implement its own mitigation techniques (fail2ban, etc.).
It seems like a state actor could do it without much trouble. One important factor is a state actor doesn't necessarily have the profit motive. They could just desire to destroy the ecosystem.
Millennials are buying fixer-uppers because it's the only way to afford a home
They're based on web assembly ports of mGBA and SNES9x. The rest is built on firebase. Front end is Vue.

That is really cool!
"Courage".
> It's patting ourselves on the back, with no real solution.

modern politics in a nutshell
Sure, ban away all PoW crypto, but don't you dare touch my YouTube cat videos and Netflix series ! (that likely use a TON of bandwidth)

Jokes aside it's really hard to decide what's reasonable energy usage from waste. Ultimately the real question is who gets to make that decision.

And overall, the idea of government getting to decide what are acceptable uses of energy and what isn't is actually terrifying
Respectfully disagree. We have a small but growing fanbase of extremely happy users BECAUSE of our "green" products. Particularly being part of 1%FTP & planting one tree per product sold creates massive loyalty.
Angering the wrong people in the past got you killed, today it just gets you banned from the internet.

Edit: I also got banned from instagram recently for no reason, this pratice of self doxxing where they say "Whoops something went wrong and only robots can help you so you must send your id, birth certificate, and firstborn" is becoming the new trend
I used the standalone option for 1Password for many years. They too allow the same thing. I would store my 1Password vault on Dropbox, which effectively handled the sync for me.
Agree to disagree. There's a large host of applications that can benefit from parallel processing power (think, anything that can take advantage of a GPGPU).

I don't dispute that some applications are hard to parallelize. However, in my day to day work, I've found that parallel operations are often not that complicated to introduce.

The bigger issue is that CPUs are now so fast I find myself blocked by IO far more often than I'm blocked by actual processing.
It's predicated on the narrative that the systems of power in the US are all inherently biased towards X category of humans.

My opinion is similar to yours:

This narrative is injected into as many stories as it can be, whether or not the facts or data in said story support it. It's an inevitable result of elite media organizations being filled with quantitatively illiterate liberal arts graduates from elite universities. Try talking to your average Oberlin graduate sometime and see if they seem remotely humble about their knowledge of the world in proportion to their age. Put that person in a newsroom with editorial decisions delegated to click maximization algorithms. The result is this.
What OKR does a purchase move if there is no analytics tracker there to see it?
That's like saying people shouldn't try to ban meth because meth cooks are working hard.

It's just not a realistic outlook on how typical people want society to function. Most people do not believe PoW cryptocurrency is important to society.
Indeed, or make it punishingly expensive for some uses, which is tantamount to a ban.

That's the point - it's perfectly fine for a society to decide what energy can and can't be used for, because we don't live in a time when we have infinite, environmentally neutral power available to us.
This is not an edge case at all. Who is to decide on what to spend energy or not? This is curing the symptoms only.

The (counter) solution is not to discuss for what to burn coal, but to finally stop burning coal, oil and gas. USA and EU could do that within a few years. And then stop or tax imports from countries that still do burn coal.

But that is inconvenient for many, so they prefer discussing nerdy Bitcoin PoW instead.
Isn't it still quite insane that around 0.5% of our global energy usage is spent on bitcoin, though?
Unfortunately, reboots are what usually happens with developed shows. Stargate universe (not to be confused with Stargate Universe) has grown very large over the run of the TV shows, and more importantly, it evolved. By SG:Universe, Stargateverse looked much different than what it was when SG-1 started.

This creates a problem for future development - existing canon severely constraints the writers. Between writers complaining and executives looking to maximize the size of potential target audience, what usually happens is thus a reboot: the preexisting cannon gets dropped, but is often referenced to score cheap points with fans of the old show.

For reference, just look at what happened with Star Trek past its gold era (TNG-ENT).
It seems like you’re insinuating that there are negative consequences to the PoS system, but leave it up to the reader to think really deep and understand what those consequences are.

I’m not well versed into PoS systems, but just took a look at ethereum’s explanation and it sounded reasonable, but I’m not familiar with the details and trade-offs that are being made.

Care to enlighten me what you’re referring to?
It’s just a trade off in product design man. This isn’t some Phoebus cartel shit from Apple. They just made a trade off.
> ban trade of proof of work cryptocurrencies.

I'm a crypto-skeptic, but why would I ever hold a crpytocurrency in that scenario? If governments would ban it for environmental goals, they'll ban it for political goals, too.

The only interesting bit is cryptocurrencies would have to legitimately bring something new to the table that's actually better than the existing financial system in order to be viable.
Is it worth moving to Germany for a developer job?
How do existing Pow coins get transferred to this?
Reminds me of pizzatool. Today, probably nobody under 40 would have ever used it.
https://instructabest.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-story-of-sun-...
If I were playing the game at that level, I’d do it too. The best I can do to evade my taxes is to get customers to pay me via cryptocurrency which I then sell to people locally in person in cash for a 10% discount.
It's really not that big of a deal. You can still control the DNS and decide what you set up. And if Google screws you over, they'd be shooting themselves in the face.

All you'd need to actually work would be email, so some MX records on a subdomain. Is it ideal? No. Is it better than all of your users having no way to verify that a Chrome extension is actually you? Infinitely better.
It's using more energy than most countries:

> Current estimates put bitcoin’s energy requirements at around 130 terawatt-hours (TWh) annually, which would rank it in the top 30 electricity consumers worldwide if it were a country.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/bi...