skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PG hacked the VC system so he didn't have to be a dealmaker. YC has standard terms so there's no haggling on price, pro rata, board seats, or anything else. They've automated a lot of what they do via software and their network. And because of the content they put out and the reputation they've built, founders from all over the world come to them and accept much worse terms than any normal VC would offer.
This comment isn't productive. The original comment suggests states act to ban wasteful energy use. The comment you're replying to asks "who decides?" , and gives an example of energy use they find particularly wasteful.

You're presupposing this is a problem that needs a solution. I think myself and the commenter you are replying to would agree that either: A) it's not or B) it does not need to be solved by a regulatory body.

Instead of getting annoyed by people pointing out edge cases, it would be more productive to explain what criteria should be used, or admit this is a half baked solution.
> If someone burns enough electricity to power 1000 homes, but they pay for the environmental impact ...

Well, firstly, are we even sure that's really possible?

> Giving each household some amount of free or subsidized power makes sense

Which is basically exactly what I was talking about - we can and do decide that some uses are better than others, and use regulation (some of which may be tax or credit) to achieve that.

We already do this. I'm not sure why people are so aghast that we might do it some more for PoW cryptocurrencies.
Very odd comment. Jordan and Kobe did not grow up miserably at all. Jordan grew up in a stable middle-class home and Kobe's dad was an NBA player-turned-coach.
Maybe answer the question instead of scoffing at how ridiculous it is?
> If that's the case, who's the arbiter of what's "too much" power for a use case?

The legislature and the regulatory agencies it has created, obviously.

The exact same way literally every other environmental regulation has ever been passed.

There are entire divisions of agencies dedicated to drawing the line of "too much" in all sorts of areas, for pollution, poisons, contamination, energy usage, etc. In fact, pretty much everyone but extreme libertarians agrees this is one of the main functions of government.

So while you might not agree on the resulting policy or even the mechanisms that arrived at it, it is a solved problem. You don't need to wonder how we'd accomplish it -- that part is easy.
This is not a "new security hole" that has been discovered. This is just the execution of the known 51% attack on a dead coin with 0.00002% of Bitcoin's hashrate...

Title is also missing (2019).
Some critical sites I need to pay through are so fundamentally broken by uBlock Origin and uMatrix that I've been forced to use the embedded browser in the LastPass app.

Since they're utility bills, credit cards, insurance portals, etc, I don't really have a choice not to use their services.
Might not be enough.

Have you seen the gold plated overkill?
Ignore the headlines. This is rehashed blogspam citing the same report as the one I linked that just swaps the lede.
Bitcoin uses far less energy than the gold or banking industry, uses more and more renewable energy every day and has some significant game theory going on regarding renewable usage and research.
This is why "audiophile" is a joke term in the audio engineering community.

It is not biologically possible for us (unless one is an alien) to hear above 22kHz. 44.1kHz is enough to record in perfect fidelity [0]. For strictly listening purposes, 192kHz/24bit is wasteful, just extreme overkill because "bigger numbers = more good".

People can't even reliably detect a difference between 320kbps MP3s and source-quality FLAC/ALAC/WAV/PCM. On very good headphone and speaker setups. Good quality MP3/AAC is all one needs for airpods and the bluetooth protocol can easily handle those bitrates.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampli...

edit: changed record->playback. Here I'm just discussing playback; for audio production purposes 192kHz/24bit is desireable for several reasons. Once one ships that album/song though, it should be downmixed back to 44.1kHz/16bit.
If anything the regulatory solution would be to find the ways in which demand for cryptocurrency exists because of failures in the existing financial system, and fix them so that the existing financial system can satisfy them. Allow bank accounts that work exactly like coin wallets, but rely on the banking system rather than PoW.

An obvious example is the existence of pseudonymous digital payments. Given that cryptocurrency already exists, and will continue to exist for all illicit activities even if you ban it, you might as well let people open numbered accounts at a bank.

Do this for any other advantage cryptocurrency has over the existing banking system and there is no more demand for cryptocurrency. And without demand, the price crashes and people stop burning coal to mine it.
I think the iFi Nano iDSD is the best I’ve ever heard. The DAC/amp combination is incredibly clean. It has MQA, I don’t use that though, but if you wanted to it’s there.

The Rode AI-1 is a great desktop-only option too, also a fantastic DAC/headphone amp. It just bothered me because it allows digital volume control so you’d have to make it an aggregate device in OS X audio settings to disable that.
I think Hamas is a horrible organization. But if we could eliminate the entirety of the hamas leadership today, in a single moment, another similar organization would spring up because israel is creating the conditions that encourage such an organization to exist.

Israel holds all the cards here, not the palestinians. Not hamas. Israel is the party that must step up and provide a real solution. Israel's solution over the past decade has been to contain the palestinians, lock their borders, and knock over their buildings whenever they get too uppity. This policy will never result in a reduction of terrorists. It will never result in removing the conditions that allow hamas to exist.

Imagine if you are a 20 year old gazan (older than the average gazan) and all you know, your entire life, is israeli control of the strip. The death tolls aren't high enough that everyone has a dead family member, but i wouldn't be surprised if everyone knows someone the IDF killed. This is how america created terrorists in the middle east. This is how Israel is creating terrorists in their own backyard. Foreign politicians enforcing their will, through force, upon a people that don't want it.

Hamas isn't long past, the fact is Hamas is not particularly important. Hamas is a symptom, not the problem. If Israel had the will to fix their structural problems, Hamas would have no reason to exist.

Hamas is throwing unguided missles randomly and Israel is hitting them back by leveling buildings. Hamas is no more than a small child throwing a tantrum with no possibility to actually cause a change. All they can do is scream louder and hope someone else will do something. Again, Hamas is not the problem, they are a symptom of Israel's policy regarding palestinians.
You just called them desktop apps. Or you can call them Windows, macOS, and Linux apps.
Any comments on BEAM as it pertains to security? Is it ripe for being picked apart for vulnerabilities? Could these be exploited remotely via Elixir/Erlang web applications?
Does it need it? All the site does is show you text.
Those regulations are going to create as much cost on humans as leaving it to people like yourself who care.

Fixing the problem is up to you.

~"The reason things things never change is that those who stand to lose by change are the ones who hold all the power" -- Machiavelli
> normally they're very good about having tightly integrated ecosystems where everything just 'works' with everything else

As a long time Apple user (since the 90's), I feel like this hasn't been true in a while. The number one exhibit is the dongle-hell they've been putting their customers through for the last 5 years. I have a watch, phone, headphones, a computer, and a tablet by Apple. All were made in the last two years. I have to carry a handful of different cables and power adapters if I want to charge them all. It's a huge pain in the ass and is FAR from the definition of "just works".
> My advice has been to disable the extensions, or use a different browser without them

You're leaving out the option of "not using the website."

Let's face it, nothing for sale on TeeSpring is essential. Just thank them for putting a roadblock on your silly impulse buy.
How is this not a product advertisement?
He who pays the piper calls the tune - if he's not doing what he's paid for, he'll soon find himself not being paid for.
Looking at Cardano. There are currently 2,497 staking pools which are staking 72% percent of all Ada that is out there. Which is about 23 billion coins staked. So if you owned 12 billion cardano and set up 188 pools to hold all of it, yes you would control the majority of the network.
Rough for Spotify - since Apple is including theirs at no extra cost, it becomes tough for Spotify to justify charging extra for it. So it goes from a feature that makes them money, to a feature that instead costs them money in engineering resources and bandwidth, before they even release it.
Add to that affiliate networks. CJ Affiliate, Rakuten, Shareasale and many smaller ones still exist and still have an army of people waiting to sell your product for a commission.

Depending on how much you need to pay the network, you might want to negotiate or raise prices, but it could be worth it.

I used to do affiliate marketing (a long time ago tbf) and sin care products were always top performers.
The arbiter of what's "too much" power for a use case is the fact that proof of work systems are literally designed to waste resources / power.
> Perhaps some companies have the resources to check if their websites run with different ad blockers,

Checking the top 3 adblockers that command the majority of market share would be a much smaller ask - maybe smaller than a check-mobile-browser sized ask.
Rhinos are heritage of mankind abd are woth countless trilions to future generations. Just like forests and climate.

Current 'free market' is just fancy name for barbaric ransaking
>For me the holy grail is USB-C powered earbuds with active noise cancelling.

Well you're in luck because Huawei, Samsung and Razer make these things.
To add on top of that, they own the full stack, they can (as they already did in the past) use their 100% proprietary way to achieve this. They don't obey to common standards.
PoW was of course a naive system but this this PoS should really be called the "Oligarchy" because it takes us back to the past and very visibly separates the plebs from the aristocracy.

PoW had an implicit requirement for a global supply chain of hardware and energy which (kind of) made political and geopolitical games more difficult. With PoS, doing politics no longer requires work, which could lead to geopolicical wars. For example it might be possible to achieve wide enough consensus among stakers in Western countries to punish China (for some reason), e.g. willingly losing part of their stakes to empty major Chinese wallets. The fact that this doesn't really require physical effort but only persuasion is problematic.

ETH will be a real test about whether PoS works, as the other PoS cryptos are much smaller and less intertwined in other crypto projects. Historically, oligarchies led to wars
It is a reply but it was also well known that they were looking to improve with a proof of scope concept. This will require 100x more storage space in place of compute power.

The market is wondering what will happen next. So ether published their progress. I just want to know how realistic are they with their schedule.
Surely millenials also like to customize their houses, was that controlled for? Wouldn't they be rebuilding their all-ok houses anyways? A lot of people around me are reconstructing every decade simply because they are tired of the looks.

I myself am looking for places that need to be redone as I dislike the current trends - e.g. the epidemic of showers replacing bathtubs, not building additional bathrooms next to master bedrooms, merging kitchens and dining rooms with living rooms etc...
The problem is that tax codes need to adjust to reality and reality is complicated.

A simple system will be inherently unfair.

To get a simple tax system you would need to make everything else simple as well.
The Solid Steel Yarn Winder
Given that the main use of cryptocurrency is to increase fiat, and the main reason it increases fiat is based on the fundamentally poor design of guessing at random numbers with increasing difficulty, I predict that if Etherium becomes more efficient, the price will drop and interest in the coin will implode. I'm genuinely curious if I'm wrong, why I'll be wrong. No one cares about BCH, for example, even though it's more efficient than BTC.
Should clearly note that the Max does support over a cable connection.
Are you sure hacker news is the place to get feedback about climbing product? Like, yes, some people here do climb too. It is fairly common hobby in tech. However, this is not climbing community. Even people who climb are likely to be causal in it.
Now "the antifa Biden voters are stealing our hamburgers" again.
With hydrogen this is especially problematic due to hydrogen embrittlement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement
It's the difference between feeling and acting. A person can feel a lack of confidence and feel doubt and still act confident or overconfident.

Lots of people, like artists, visionaries, and weirdos who make strides to live a unique life have to act confidently to get to that life yet many also have a lot of self doubt. They just do the brave thing to move ahead with their vision even though it could likely end in failure. For many it does, whether they are remembered posthumously or not.
There are still many barriers to that "first class" status, taxes are mentioned most often.

Taxes are paid in fiat. Holding non-stablecoins would add even more of a tax headache because you'd have to track capital gain/loss as you enter/exit fiat for taxes / fees / vendors that don't accept crypto

Also the fact that general adoption has been slow so far may be a sign that there is not enough obvious value added for the average person to consider using crypto over fiat.
Is the reason for the law to reduce the number of cars on the road or is it more to reduce emissions?

I'm curious if someone driving an electric would get ticketed as well.
It might be worth noting that not all Proof-of-Work is just finding hashes, newer cryptocurrencies make more economic and intelligent use of the work used for proof.
There are two sides to the story.

(1) Fair Election
There was a fair election conducted and Joe Biden won fair & square. Any irregularities were typical, and any disregard for election law, or the consitution, was merely incidental due to trying circumstances (covid 19)

(2) Unfair Election
There was an unfair election and Joe Biden won via cheating. The irregularities were atypical, and the disregard for election law, or the constituion were evidence of malfeasance

Many states are not contentious, being solidly blue or red. It is battleground places like NH, GA, AZ, VA, NC, and a few others where one party contends there is smoke, evidence of a fire. The other party contends there is no smoke, and this is just problems of conducting an election during a pandemic.

From a cybersecurity perspective, we have known for a long time there are huge security issues with voting machines. It is unfortunate that this election took a presidential election and several contended down-ballot elections to become a national issue.
They simply buy media for propaganda.
> The "Axis of Evil" is a name given to an anomaly in astronomical observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The anomaly appears to give the plane of the Solar System and hence the location of Earth a greater significance than might be expected by chance – a result which has been claimed to be evidence of a departure from the Copernican principle.
Gold plated is far from overkill. Maybe not even cable risers (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3c/fb/05/3cfb059ec7fde97d4090...) are overkill in the audiophile community. Maybe not even your personal electricity pylon (https://thevinylfactory.com/news/japanese-audiophiles-person...) is overkill.
Are you referencing spatial audio? I don’t see how lossless audio benefits from having the listener move their head.
Seems a bit disingenuous to compare that to just the kWh consumed by the ASICs that mine Bitcoin.
This is very dangerous advice. In particular at the price point the OP is selling they need marketing not sales and need to know the difference before hiring. They need to do at least enough of this themselves to be able to hire well when and if they decide that's the right course of action.
I think you're confusing the spatial audio feature with the lossless one. They're two separate things.
Last time I checked, Facebook isn’t designed to adjust its computational difficulty in order to suck up any amount of energy thrown at it to do the same (pitiful) amount of work.
Absolutely correct. For those edge cases there is a copy/paste available from the web portal or browser extension.
This is a cool project!

Looks like they use my bit-sync lib for the actual rsync part [1] which is neat.

I should modernize this lib so that it's easier for them to add as a dependency.

https://github.com/WebDeltaSync/WebRsync/blob/master/public/...
Not a big fan of this essay. I believe quite strongly that ~what you are~ is a product of ~what you do~ and not the other way around. In this framing, "Fierce Nerd" is nothing more than an arbitrary categorization of a set of exhibited behaviors.

Graham has observed that intelligent, competitive, inquisitive, and confident individuals can do well in today's economy. He has also identified pitfalls associated with being too aggressive, too confident, or lacking other skills.

I am unable to find the positive value of sticking a label on this coincidence of qualities and strongly implying the quantities and characteristics of these qualities are at least mostly inherent (with the exception of "fierceness", which apparently can be "turned off"). Of course nature does play a role, but why ignore nurture? It must be quite depressing to believe you are condemned to a life of little personal development.
If a purchase occurred on the internet and Google didn't know, did it really happen?
If it had broken, the code in the post would have worked. How exactly is code supposed to handle a dependency existing, but not being the API shape that it should be because a browser extension added an incomplete stub? Should every line of code get wrapped in try/catch?

There's a big difference between "resilient against a missing dependency" and "being resilient in the face of getting literally any object instead of the dependency you expected to get."
Thank you (genuinely) for writing all of this down, but nothing you have written is specific to PMod. I get that complex physical effects cause simple models of the world to break down -- that much is obvious. And of course it's up to you what explanations you are willing to write up for free. But I don't see how any of this supports your claim that PMod is insufficient to high-frequency work when it does not reference any design decisions made by the PMod spec that adversely affect its high-frequency performance.

One of the following must be true:

1. The PMod interconnect is specified in a way that inherently limits high frequency applications, whereas it could have been specified in a different way that would allow for them.

2. Something about the design space PMod is trying to solve (off-board peripheral modules connected to a main board through a standard connector) is inherently hostile to high-frequency applications, and no specification is capable of getting around this limitation.

3. PMod is actually capable of high-frequency applications, although most PMod ports are not particularly designed for this.

Your original message seemed to be claiming (1), but none of your subsequent arguments have offered any support for (1) that I can see. You have absolutely convinced me that complex physical effects must be taken into account, but that information does not help resolve which of 1-3 is true.

To convince me of (1) I would need to see a specific design decision in the PMod spec that makes high-frequency applications impossible, as well as the alternative design choice that would have allowed for them. For example: "PMod does not allow shielded wires, but high-frequency requires shielding" would be a convincing argument if true.
It's been long reported that Apple has been undergoing a strategic shift to put more focus on their services business, and this seems like some more evidence of that. It's certainly a very "non-Apple" thing to do based on how they've operated for the past 2 decades. The release of lossless audio and the upcoming release of Apple Music on Android are two major features that add zero value or lock-in pressure for Apple hardware but add real value for subscribers of Apple Music.

Maybe their services teams are finally starting to be given leeway to operate as real businesses and do things to grow their revenue rather than just operate as growth channels for Apple hardware as they always have in the past.
And there we have it, a feature that you can pay for, but is unable to use in its full capability.

So please tell me again how the wired headphone plugs were "deprecated" and "outdated" and that wireless audio was the future.
I've read a lot about it, and much of it has the same problem as your earlier comment--it's too vague to confer any kind of understanding. To be quite clear, I don't actually doubt that there is a prejudice against people of color in the criminal justice system; however, most of the "anti-racist" literature with which I'm familiar doesn't posit a testable model for how the system works to perpetuate injustice, and without said testable model there's no hope for solutions.

> Preferably written by a POC.

I'm not a big fan of using race as a proxy for academic authority.
This comment by me was wrong, sorry everyone. They’re NOT doing stupid crazy things.
Corrupting many people is easy if you are a superpower and can make laws that affect many people.

With PoW you can corrupt many miners, but the other superpowers can spawn new miners to counter act.
While I cannot provide a citation, The posts linked by the user seem to show most of them were by a single person whose profile became active just for posting on that sub.

Anecdotally, I used to mod a sub which suddenly became active due to a meme. I got messages from mods of different subs offering to help or asking me to make them mods. When I refused. the sub started getting reported for comments made by new users(Auto mod was not much helpful back then), The sub died out along with the interest on meme. If someone were to say there is a mod cartel on reddit, I wouldn’t doubt it one bit.
Related article:
Could a Ban on Ransom Payments Have Stopped the Colonial Pipeline Attack?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27196299

While banning such payments might remove the incentives, that also put a huge burden on the victim and the transition to better cybersecurity should be less disruptive than an outright ban.

Another solution that has no harms and only benefit is to require the reporting of every ransom payment. That would give the government the crypto transaction information to conduct taint and attribution analysis. It is currently illegal to knowingly use funds received from kidnapping or ransoms, and this reporting requirement would help the government enforce that.