skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is especially true in endurance sports. The level of competition is so high now that now one can succeed just based on talent and grit. In order to win you need to understand physiology, psychology, nutrition, aerodynamics, equipment maintenance, etc. Elites even run their own informal private scientific experiments with detailed data analytics to determine empirically which techniques deliver the best results.
Not to mention the cavalier attitude towards their tokenomics (quite literally monetary policy now), how often they can change it. It simply doesn't inspire confidence. A monetary layer should be immutable once a good set of rules have been found to be working well.

Just think about it, if a protocol layer on the internet changes its protocol parameters based on some trends, is it a good idea? Bitcoin is like another protocol layer on the internet protocol stack, you build other layers on top of the base monetary layer. You reduce the possibility of bugs in a layer disrupting the whole ecosystem and make the layer more maintainable.
Something tells me you just like to go on tangents nobody was talking about here. Never once, have I ever said that "Bitcoin is two orders of magnitude less efficient than banks."

That's where it stops, because what you've said is nonsense.
I've been programming in elixir for 5 years now.

Currently on my 3rd year as CTO of a startup.
I chose elixir for the greenfield project because we wanted realtime sync for all devices and
the smaller projects I worked on before in elixir went off without a hitch.
I also found its concurrenly handling and performance far superior to node and I was producting far less bugs due to its functional nature.

3 years in and I'm very satisfied. There are a few epics we took on that would have been much more expensive to do in go or node.
For example, we made a partnership with a credit card device terminal. Their interface required one persistent webocket connection per restaurant.
IN another language, I would have had to coordinate with my devops guy to have a dynamic system to allocate a process for each of our accounts and route that to our devices.
The intended use case were on premise POSes so our cloud based solution wasn't somethign they had planned on supporting.

Anyways, I was able to configure horde and a dynamic registry to boot up a process for each active account and automatically resserect on crash. Since pubsub is built in,
It was easy to pass along data from it to all the devices over the channels interface. Best part is it was all doable within the code base running without any changes to out deployment.

Overall, I've been happy with elixir. the only bg downside is its gotten a bit boring. Things just work which leaves me spending time on rust in my free time when I want a challenge.
Reducing UseStates in React
Fair enough. I love this orange website, but I also despise it. Flying off the handle is rarely a sensible solution.

To your point, though, I'm willing to wager that most of the people whose biggest problem with crypto is energy consumption would happily also support other harsh measures against all manner of pollution generating entities. I know I would.
Wikipedia quotes Watson implicating himself in his own book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson#Interactions_with...
> A carbon tax with a dividend

Is not what was being proposed in the free-market fundamentalist post I was replying to.

> Meanwhile there is no reason to charge profit-seeking enterprises more than the true cost of their usage

But there might be if it's merely "burning energy for a new financial product", society might decide that it's not worth the carbon to have that around, regardless of tax, but that aluminium is a useful physical product.

We have differential taxes on all sorts of things, I don't see why they would be so wrong here.

But even given all that, my comment you're replying to was specifically adressing the "price should be the only indicator" assertions in the libertarian spiel above.
A better list ranked by relevancy: https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/worldwide/all...
I agree. Having used Reddit for too long, and Facebook too before I deleted it completely, my experience has been that HN is much better at talking about things, and more careful about wording. Despite the predictable slippery slope comments, there is always some good commentary in most threads. I can't think of anywhere else to go to get discussion on a multitude of complex topics like this.

That doesn't mean that threads on HN can't take a nosedive and become flame wars. But that's what good moderation is here for, and I believe HN has that.
The issue is owning copyright and distribution.

This isn't some kind of new idea, in the 1930s the US government forced movie studios to be separate companies from movie theaters on antitrust grounds.
> you need at least 7 good speakers to make it work well in a movie

You don't - they use head-related transfer function filters (the Fourier transform of head-related impulse response) to make it work from a single pair of speakers.
Reads like a love letter to Linux, it's great.
Lithium batteries still seem to have a way to go in energy density currently at around 250-300 wh/kg and going up year over year with a theoretical maximum (Sulfur cathode) of above 2500 wh/kg.

At around 2000 wh/kg you are equivalent to diesel drivetrain energy density both size and weight based on my rough math.

Expensive large hydrogen tanks in a trailer with high pressure lines to tractor seems like it would cause safety and cost issues offsetting much of the benefit.
Perhaps cynical, perhaps a baseless conspiracy. I'll own up to that. But I don't think it's such a massive stretch, nor would I put it past Apple to do such a thing.
Yep, the benefits most esoteric languages offer are superficial compared to the benefits a mainstream language ecosystem offers.
I'd much rather put kwh limits on proof of work. That would stop large farms that aren't green.

Outside of ethereum, proof of stake is no different than a database. The ownership is so centralized that you only have 3-5 people/organizations approving everything.

The whole point of crypto was to be decentralized, proof of stake is not that. Cardano, solana, they all are pointless as a token because the whole supply is largely owned by a few people.
Take in mind that pawpaw means different things in different areas. The real paw paw is Asimina. Lechosa is the papaya (Carica), also called (incorrectly) pawpaw because... it sounds similar. Papaya is a Mayan word and should be used instead.

Very different creatures. Carica is tropical. Asimina is temperate and can live in areas with snow. Carica is superfast. Asimina starts as a very slow grower. Fruits taste totally different.
>What do you think a PoW change does when the PoW is being done by ASICs

It's only possible once, and this move is so obviously predictable any determined attacker is going to have gpus ready.
Assuming you are talking about PoS systems, I think they are very promising but it's still not obvious that they can achieve the same risk profile as PoW systems. I think they are worthy of further research and I am excited to see how Eth 2.0 works in practice, but I don't think we understand the economic nature of cryptocurrencies well enough to definitively say that it can completely replace Bitcoin.
FB is a top video streaming platform. Also they run WhatsApp, which I think is the largest global telephony system.
> There is no 'native' GUI in Linux.

No where in my sentence is talking about the GUI alone, and that is another Linux problem for another discussion.

It is enough to say here that if the whole app is running in a browser, it is NOT a native app. That is that.
Who decides what is a good use of energy and what isn't?
depends. programmers are not paid very well here in average, but if you receive something above 60k per year you should be fine ;)
and if your skin and hair is dark you should be to able to
tolerate daily racism.
but you can live a good life here nonetheless.
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AOL Time Warner was the worst merger of all time. I don't know if it shouldn't have existed, but Time Warner shareholders basically got completely screwed.
It's not pedantry, it's calling out issues in armchair proposals. "Why not regulate" and "Why not let the market sort itself out" are kinda intellectually lazy propositions: there are good regulations and bad regulations, and good and bad implementations.

And banning isn't really a proper solution in the first place. It's a literal avenue for tax revenue for countries at this point. The fact that PoS coins like Cardano and L2 solutions like Polygon are bullish despite the crash in Bitcoin shows something about investor sentiment surrounding the whole energy consumption ordeal. Voting with your wallet is a real possible solution and IMHO, people are starting to take the hint.
It's an eventually sort-of-consistent system with a lot of buffering and delay.

if enough people agree that a law should be passed, and it's a high enough priority, and the opinion stays that way for a long time, then eventually enough politicians get on board by virtue of pressure from their voting base, and a law gets passed.

It's not great.

But on the other hand, near-immediate direct democracy is also not great, because it leads to knee-jerk reactions causing laws put in place. I'm thinking of stuff like the USAPATRIOT Act, except worse.
Yuuup. Nothing like being homeless, hungry, and broke to focus the mind into "hunger," unlike Ivy Leaguers' dabbling into staplers as a service or Juicero.
I don’t understand why you don’t find these “where do you draw the line?” inquiries extremely relevant to this conversation. It seems like everyone here has just assumed that Bitcoin is useless and therefore the externalities from its energy usage should be unacceptable. Personally I’m not a big fan of bitcoin’s energy usage either, but it strikes me as bizarre to recommend banning arbitrary things that use energy rather than, for example, addressing the externality problem directly.
I mean, yeah. I’ve seen Bitcoin-accepting shops once or twice in my life. But the parent claimed “there’s a ton”, so I was wondering where I can find those.
> I don't believe you would hear the difference.

You absolutely can - the iPhone actually has a demo on it you can try moving your head around and the difference is extremely clear - it's not some audiophile thing.
Similar story with Dominoes UK, where signin doesn't (or didn't a couple of weeks back) work with uBlock.
Can't speak for all of them, but many will engine brake if you use cruise control downhill.
It may make sense in cases where batteries aren't practical like ocean going container ships.

There was a time a couple of decades ago when it might have made sense for cars when battery power wasn't good enough but that time has passed.
I find comments like yours hilarious. The idea that the ethereum foundation has spent years and years designing a PoS system, writing papers, doing tests, building proofs of correctness aaaaaand derp they just didn't think of people sitting on their asses.
Damn, he's not even trying to hide it anymore.
It is a scam -- all current crypto is a scam for the same reason. One of the other things that people don't understand is that currency and government are inseparable. When you buy Eth (or any other crypto) you're buying into a new system of government.

Do you want to be a citizen of that new government? What will they do for their citizens? Do they plan to build roads or anything else?

Seigniorage should go to the people not the capital holders.

Also, if people don't think there will be validators for each wallet with 32 coins -- which are producing Co2 -- then they are wrong. It just changes the game, not the incentives.
You can use hydrogen in a modified combustion engine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_internal_combustion_e...

Doesn't look like a great path forward - deep internal engine parts need to be modified (no "hydrogen kit" for existing cars), they emit NOx emissions (so not zero-emission), and you have all the disadvantages of a combustion engine.

However, combustion engines have 100 years of development behind them and a proven track record of reliability (probably billions of running hours by now). Fuel cells are still newish - "the devil you know". This would also keep mechanics employed and keep dealership service bays busy... kind of a perverse incentive, but it's there for sure.

It may be a stop-gap, or useful for certain situations (long haul trucking is mentioned). It could be part of the tapestry of technologies needed to move to a more renewable-based future.
I don't think it's anything to do with toolkits, and everything to do with packaging and ABI issues.

You can't distribute a commercial, binary app for 'Linux' easily unless you statically link everything (which you cannot do with Qt without breaking the license) and compile on something ancient.

Even using something like Qt, writing a C++ GUI app for the 3 major platforms (macOS, Windows and Linux) is about 10x more work than getting something like Electron working and distributed.
Thanks for the mindset insight. I'm definitely the kind of "all marketing is evil & just wants you to convince to buy shit you don't need" nerd. It's very hard for me not to smirk when thinking through justification like "helping people discover products that will improve their life". I guess I need an attitude adjustment?
Back then when, lacking formal education in this field, I was unable to get anything better than unpaid traineeships. Since I needed income those were no viable option, plus I was demonstratively far beyond that skill level and felt I was being taken advantage of to an unfair degree.

If I wanted to stay in this field, my only option was to start my own business which I ended up doing. Things worked out quite well.

> Anyone capable of starting a tech company has the skills and motivation required to get a reasonably well paying tech job.

I find that way too simplistic and too blankety even for a blanket statement.
We did have USA up last year but nobody from the US used our site. The time upkeeping that code and managing it wasn't worth it unfortunately
I use Tor by default, and while many sites don't work (TFA is behind a Cloudflare captcha, ironically enough), I wouldn't say it's a majority.
IF it merges. That's a big "if"
The ethereum Miners will rebel, "The Merge" will introduce catastrophic bugs, 0-days will appear.

However, if it does successfully transfer to proof of stake, we're in for a long and exciting ride.

Trust is a valuable commodity these days.
> for example, argues that relying on taxing shareholders instead of the corporation ignores foreign shareholders whose income isn't subject to US taxation.

And that is a good point to discuss/argue, regardless of the messenger. You could do the same with the previous resource as well; pull out points that you like/dislike and we discuss around that as opposed to shooting down any discussion because you don't like the messenger.
Not everything is "Whataboutism". The parent poster wants to know how we should treat various uses of energy in the context of calls for the outright banning of specific uses. How can you expect them to talk about that topic without talking about the various uses of energy that currently exist?
My current Late 2019 MacBook Pro heats up like crazy and goes into thermal throttling whenever I'm doing wfh meeting with lots of video participants for a couple of hours. I really hope they dedicate some hardware for this type of use-case with plenty of sustained thermal headroom.
Hardware acceleration broken for all of Intel Gen 11 iGPUs
Microsoft to Add Tab Preview Feature in the Classic Edge Browser Soon
> PoS is resistant to state attacks because it would require buying up tokens on an impossible scale

You don't need to buy the tokens. You make laws which the stakers have to follow, otherwise you seize their tokens for breaking the law. You can also use electronic warfare to steal the tokens of stakers outside your juridiction. If you are doing this as a big country such as USA/China, then other stakers might be tempted not to fork because a compromised system that works with those countries might still be more valuable than an uncompromised system that has not access to a large part of the world economy.
Create your own nature reserve for rhinos if you think it's so important. There are huge swaths of the US dedicated to nature reserves.
I hope biden's new anti trust person does something about this.
Don't put GA there, then.
Is this meant as an analogy for ETH and BTC?

If so, it seems like it’s just a circular reference to your personal belief in the strength of BTC over ETH, rather than a relevant argument.
But is it even a productive first step? There are arguments to be made that proof-of-work mining incentivizes renewable R&D.

By banning that because it uses "too much" energy now - what are we potentially losing? What developments in renewables, energy storage, or grid development simply won't be there, which we won't know we don't have, because we banned the largest for-profit, skin-in-the-game competitive contest for low-cost energy that the world had ever seen 25 years prior?

Banning it outright is short-sighted. Thinking about it from a higher level is a way of addressing the real issue of carbon emissions while allowing a phenomenon that has the potential to massively help, not hurt, to thrive.
I think the point is that Google Analytics shouldn't be an essential part of your site, so it totally breaking for any reason should be unnoticeable to the end user.
Note that we created our official Redux Toolkit package [0] specifically to solve the "boilerplate" concerns. It includes utilities to simplify several common Redux use cases, including store setup, defining reducers, immutable update logic, and even creating entire "slices" of state at once. The "Modern Redux with Redux Toolkit" docs page [1] shows how to migrate from hand-written Redux logic to use RTK's APIs.

We've had a ton of very positive feedback from folks who love using RTK, and even from folks who didn't like Redux before.

Also, we're currently finalizing a new "RTK Query" API for Redux Toolkit [2] that provides a purpose-built data fetching and caching abstraction layer, which basically eliminates having to write any of your own code to fetch data. That's available now in the RTK 1.6 alphas [3], and we hope to publish that live shortly.

[0] https://redux-toolkit.js.org

[1] https://redux.js.org/tutorials/fundamentals/part-8-modern-re...

[2] https://deploy-preview-1016--redux-starter-kit-docs.netlify....

[3] https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-toolkit/releases/tag/v1.6.0...
"politically nonviable"

Which makes it a self-inflicted injury. Like corruotion in Russia - it can't be adressed by anyone else.
I disagree.

Based on this line of reasoning, literally any acquisition that increases the power of copyright holders has downsides.

I'm not saying acquisitions can't also have have upsides. I'm not saying that the net benefit can't be positive for the end-consumer.

I agree with huitzitziltzin that it's possible that this acquisition is net welfare-improving. I think we probably mostly disagree in:

- the extent of the downsides to increasing the power of copyright holders, AND

- the probability that this particular acquisition is net welfare-increasing
Overkill is the perfect amount of kill for audiophiles.
Would you pay for Twitter Subscription Plan?
> But I don't think it's such a massive stretch

I think the fact that they sell a simple and compact adapter which restores the functionality for less than ten dollars makes me think it cannot be to sell Bluetooth headsets.
Point me at its purpose?

As far as I can tell, it was a trick to remove coin from circulation, locking it away where it could not be used again. The fact that people have tokenized these beacon coins on other chains to trade show that people want their money back!
Thank you, upvoted. I appreciate your politeness.
I think that's a fair point of view. I use ad blockers, and if you site breaks with them, I won't use your site. If you're OK with that, I am as well.
In this house we obey the Shannon-Nyquist theorem!
You could try hiring a consultant or specialist, or bringing another person onboard with these skills. What are your growth plans for the company and how many employees do you have now/want?

You’ll want to be on the shelfs or on sites where climbers shop. I tried searching on Amazon and your product is not there. If you are not great in marketing Amazon is a much easier way to get in front of eyes. The alternative will be a lot of spending on online ads targeting climbers.
And once it gets the thing all brittle and it starts leaking, you won't see it burn as it produces a lot of IR but almost no visible light.
> I'm guessing Chrome requires users to use a gmail account in order to submit an extension to their store.

Google apps/Gsuite/Google for work (or whatever it’s called now) accounts all work fine.

There’s no requirement to use a gmail.com account.

Source: have published extensions on my own and for my company.
Seems possible if a crystal radio is possible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio
This is classic whataboutism. We can't do anything to improve the world because there are other bad things happening in the world too.
Did the classic extension work on Linux? When I switched from MacOS having to use the (terrible) 1PasswordX was one of the things that really annoyed me.
While the process of science might be done well enough, is it a case of looking under the lamppost for our keys that we lost somewhere over there in the darkness?

It feels akin to conservation groups in Wales fighting to maintain the barren hills, nevermind they used to be covered in trees before we cleared the land for sheep.[0]

[0] Feral, by George Monbiot https://www.worldcat.org/title/feral-rewilding-the-land-the-...
Proof of Work used for decentralized consensus is maximally wasteful by design. It has to be a race to burn more resources than anyone else can. It's unfixable.

Governments already have regulations for energy efficiency, waste and pollution, and for most things it's possible to negotiate reasonable limits.

For PoW it's not possible. If you put an upper limit on its wastefulness, it'll be a limit on its security. Even if we had a Dyson Sphere, PoW would eventually eat more than half of it just to be secure.
No business "deserves" to be in business. There is no entitlement to being a successful business. Supply and demand should govern this.

We should fight the rent seekers who believe they are entitled to their markets and use regulatory capture to maintain their position
But again, read what the person you are responding to wrote. YouTube provides something of value to millions. PoW is not required for cryptocurrency to function. PoW provides no value. It wastes time and energy for the sake of wasting processor cycles.
Oh great, augmented reality real time deep fakes.

Finally you can really envision that crowd you're speaking to as naked to ease your fear.