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I'm not a follower of him but I wanted to plug this excellent interview: https://youtu.be/jqhlIOt5sUw

Such a pleasant manner of speech and breadth of knowledge.
Its really great to hear how far Bitwarden has come. I love that there are multiple viable competitors in this space.
When turn-by-turn directions specify traveling 1 mile down a very steep grade, do they mean 1 mile along the slope, or 1 mile along a flattened map?

Only the former would match the car's odometer, of course.
You can buy them right now. In fact, two months ago I bought six 3090s and 15 3080s with a two phone calls and maybe twenty clicks.

The part you're missing is the price. It's my secret, but I'll share it here. You can buy a Dell R12 with one of those cards and, upon receiving it, sell the components for more than the purchase price.
Yeah, in exchanges. Which will ignore the wishes of the actual currency owners, just like happens today.
A vast, vast majority of staking users will not have the required 32 ETH for self-staking, and will be delegating this to third parties. PoS gives power to the exchanges, which should not have this power.
Hopeless nostalgia for simpler web development days
I'm embarking on the next phase of my web development journey, and am looking to upgrade my mental stack and toolkit with web components and modules. I've done some unit tests with just the native browser capabilities, and am pretty excited about what is possible using <template> and <slot> tags to do client-side composition. I was dismayed to see that "HTML Imports" never arrived, and all the composition examples that I see have HTML markup embedded into JavaScript code.

I then stumbled upon Lit (https://lit.dev) and see there some much nicer patterns for composition. But this is a pretty heavy framework with thousands of lines of code it seems. I really just want to use native browser capabilities that are present in modern browsers. It seems that about once a year I go look at what's new in web standards and find things like React and Polymer and Blazor and Flutter and now this Lit framework. I am nostalgic for the simplicity of creating a few text files and having a web site - without a build step or tens of thousands of lines of code dependency. Is it just hopeless to expect that simplicity today?
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Yeah gas fees have been all over the place, and smart contract interaction can be really $$$
The important take away from this comment is that nano like other “fee-less” cryptocurrency have little use so they’re clever way to achieve these goals have not been really tested. For example nano was recently DoSd for multiple days because of their clever no fee solution.
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The PoS protocol itself has been running in production since December 1, in parallel with the old network, with over $10 billion staked so far.

What remains is to change the legacy clients to use the PoS network for choosing blocks, instead of miners. That has a working multi-client testnet.
In theory, that's income to a US Corporation, which is subject to US corporate income tax. In practice, Amazon will find a way to offset that "income" with some tax-deductible claim of loss or investment and pay little or nothing on it. I'm happy to be corrected if I've misunderstood.
Dumb question: if all popular cryptocurrencies shifted to proof of stake, would GPU prices come back down to earth?
What are your thoughts on PoET systems?
This has always been my biggest fear. I don't purposely do it, but I worry that a mistake I make could be seen as large enough of a hassle to where all other parties would say you're on your own to fix & figure this out. Which could then cost a large amount of my time plus fees, which then correlates to lost revenue.
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Forget just the environmental issues. The price of commodity hardware for AI research is astronomical right now (try getting into deep learning right now, I dare you!). Crypto is directly trading off with AI research and game development.
https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu is the actual implementation (in Rust, but exposing a C API). wgpu-rs is an idiomatic wrapper around that.
Did a little reading and it seems that chess.com are a little ambiguous as to exactly what they're doing here.

Two plausible theories are

1) They run an evaluation of the position to a certain depth and come up with the Best move. Then, when evaluating your opponent's position if you didn't make the Best move, it turns out that it evaluates this position as even more in your favour than the Best move, it calls your previous move Brilliant.

2) They run an evaluation of the position up to a certain depth and note the Best move as the most advantageous one. They then search a bit deeper and if the move you actually took wasn't the best in the original eval but now is, they call it Brilliant.

There would of course be a few caveats to both ideas. In 1 do they go and rerun the evaluation after the Best move to compare? Are they running the whole analysis backwards anyway (this seems to cause problems with both systems)?

My suspicion would be number 2 given the way it's phrased in your link, but I've seen other descriptions that make it sound more like 1. My overall takeaway is that it's simply a bad idea to have the category to begin with as it just confuses matters for little gain, at at least they should provide a more technical description. I'd wager that close to 0% of Brilliant moves were intentionally calculated so there was no brilliancy as the term is usually used in chess.
Why do business journals work that way?
Costing money to produce doesn't make something inherently valuable. It would be expensive to sell iPhones crushed by previously-undriven Lamborghinis, but the product would still be worthless. Neither NANO nor Bitcoin have any inherent value. It's entirely derived from other people willing to pay for it. If people want to use a cryptocurrency, using something that doesn't require 15 GW to power could quite rationally be more valued more highly.
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"Native" doesn't mean anything. Everything is native; I mean, at some point, its making syscalls and running bytecode on the processor, its not running in a Virtual Machine, that seems pretty "native". Or, nothing is native; it runs through an interpreter, or fifty thousand layers of UI library abstraction, or whatever. Websites definitely aren't native, right, electron... isn't... Windows WPF apps, classic native, jeeze they're horrible to use though, but UWP, also native, but, I can write them in HTML and JS? Weird.

There's no logically correct definition of "native" which is also useful. Its just a buzzword that a few otherwise smart people use to mean "its fast". Every single stack out there can be engineered to be slow; some stacks cannot ever be engineered to be fast; Electron is not one of them.
>still be within the current Xeon 200W TDP envolope

Apple needs very high performance core designs that also work in the thermal envelope of a handheld phone or a fanless laptop.

As noted when the A14 launched, taking the power/heat cut at the 7nm node change resulted in better sustained performance for those chips

>The one explanation and theory I have is that Apple might have finally pulled back on their excessive peak power draw at the maximum performance states of the CPUs and GPUs, and thus peak performance wouldn’t have seen such a large jump this generation, but favour more sustainable thermal figures.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16088/apple-announces-5nm-a14...
Isn't power itself the ability to make important deals and decisions?
There's always tk if you prefer using a scripting language. Most scripting languages have bindings for it and at least with python it's the official toolkit for the language.
Low quality JavaScript shouldn't break your checkout. This is the type of issue that could have been caught by aggressive type checking.
Wow. Where to start on this one!

Where do you see the problem in using less energy for a crypto currency? Why not make a cryptocurrency that uses even more energy?
I’ve reported this to Teespring and all they reply with is to try another browser and clear my cookies. They won’t listen. They’re basically making Teespring unusable for the technical crowd.
There is this company [https://uwinloc.com] , I've been working for. However ,they are using 968MHz band to harvest energy, thus (lower freq = less loss due to distance). It works up to ~20m if the antenna are correctly "aligned".
To game author(s):

> That's faster than 10% of players

This metric is useless without quantifying it. Is he faster than 10% of players who also kept their data unaccessible (only this metric is useful), or is that compared to all players (this isn't useful)? Also, hope "players" is really players and not games played.
> Where did you assert that in our thread?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27189764

"[...] in case you're implying that the other processors will "catch up" if they have longer to get up to speed... why would they? That makes no sense either. Longer compilations are faster on M1 too, relative to my Intel hexacore MBP, from what I've seen in the past. I mean, obviously, right? Why wouldn't they be? Intel's processors change frequencies in milliseconds... it doesn't take them minutes to warm up."

This is where I asserted that.

The only way there could be a "10 second penalty" is if the Intel processor just takes 10 seconds to warm up, and then it's on even footing after that point.

Intel processors takes milliseconds to change frequencies, so... clearly this is not a logical discussion point.

> It does, you immediately assume [...]

You actually misinterpreted my comment, possibly because you didn't read the rest of the paragraph that I copied above in this comment.

I didn't assume in that comment that anyone was "attacking M1" in the way you keep implying, based on the sentence fragment that you had cherry picked in your previous response. When I said that the M1 performance wouldn't tank, I clarified in that same paragraph that I meant this to be a relative measure compared to the Intel processor, since the Intel processor had its time to warm up and suddenly be super fast. If you read the whole paragraph, you should be able to see what I actually said.

If anything, I was defending Intel's Turbo Boost technology... which is the opposite of the conclusion you apparently jumped to.
Ahah that’s true, because some pacemakers send datas to the receiver/hospital through 2.4ghz band, so it can have interferences. But mine was only an example because my father has one of those device into his body and sooner or later it will need a “battery swap”. Maybe not a pacemaker but to power a small temperature sensor, or something similar, it will be useful, send datas and get energy, quite nice and futuristic!
How do you solve question 8 aka "Untick all checkboxes to reject Terms and Conditions. When you tap on a checkbox, all the checkboxes change status apart from the one you tapped"?
Honestly this change might actually be the one that makes me finally buy some crypto. The energy burden and overall wastefullness of these coins has vastly outweighed any potential benefit they may provide. A big coin making such a good (at least in my books) change should be rewarded. Since crypto for better or worse seems here to stay, I hope that energy concious decisions continue to be made, and that the market responds positively.
No, but in all seriousness, I emphatically DO NOT UNDERSTAND the extent to which people place trust in external services to manage passwords. While I appreciate that they do have good skin in the game by being paid, etc -- your password storage on SOMEONE ELSE'S MACHINE fundamentally creates another huge attack vector/opportunity to screw it up, when they also must be accessed locally somehow.

I appreciate it if you're like "look, the convenience outweighs the safety," but it really feels like most of these discussions hand-waves away this fundamental flaw.

I say this especially as someone who doesn't do a lot of passworded services on my phone, because, you know, that stuff is really insecure no matter how good your password is.
I've been able to drop in pow with ease and have everything I would have gotten from devise.

That said, the community is moving towards phx_gen_auth which jose himself wrote and will come out of the box with 1.6
PoS is not just a more environmentally version of PoW. It is a lot more vulnerable to state level actors. If the state takes over / subverts / influences the limited number of stakeholders, then it is game over.

With PoW the state can influence the existing miners, but cannot prevent new independent miners to pop up and counter act.
Read the pros and cons of proof of stake compared to proof of work here (written by Vitalik): https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/11/06/pos2020.html
Nvidia marking some new GPUs as “lite hash rate”
I assume/hope that next-gen Airpods will have upgraded DACs/codacs that'll handle their new hi-res format.
Clarification on my last sentence: it’s not that managers code in languages like Java. It’s that managers have different priorities, such as hiring. In my experience those priorities lead to different technology decisions.
> I would rather have had something closer to Koa

I'd just use Plug then. Not every tool suits every job
No. I feel for the plight of the Palestinian people. I don't give a rat's ass for Hamas.

Don't forget Hamas is the legitimate elected government in Gaza, you cannot just say they're a fringe group not supported by the people of Gaza.

Now Palestinians also encompass the West Bank where Hamas is not the government. But part of the reason for these rocket attacks is Hamas trying to demonstrate that they're the representatives of all Palestinians in a bid to rule both Gaza and the West Bank. Regardless of their actual chances of pulling that off, it does seem to be part of the calculus here.
An earn interest, right? So I could lend Coinbase some of my ether for staking and they pay me interest in return. So PoS could give us an interesting investment possibility.
> their "usable energy" is on the pico-watt to micro-watt scale

devices which have long-term average power consumptions of micro-watts are perfectly reasonable. it's how some BLE sensors can run for years off a single coin cell battery.

you'd need some energy harvesting circuitry and something low-leakage to build it up in, but that's doable. more expensive than just stuffing a coin cell into the circuit, though.

> It looks more and more like one of those "free energy" type devices.

it's perfectly well understood that there's energy in RF. just very very little of it, as you note.

that's qualitatively different from the claims of most free energy devices.
Hydrogen is the future of electric transportation!

Imagine you are driving and you have several cartridges of magnesium hydride and when you pass by a refueling station a drone catches up with you and swaps nearly-depleted cartridges one by one all while you continue going! How cool is that! B-)

And then you can refuel by stuff that you produce yourself using photo catalyst solar panels in your back yard.
This sounds exactly like one of my friends in high school. He was not considered a nerd though. However, he had decent social skills, had a girlfriend, etc. Incidentally, he went on to found several companies!
A carbon tax would filter down to the electricity consumer cost. I dont know about you, but I dont want to pay more for electricity so other people can burn electricity for virtual money.

Unless you are suggesting taxing crypto itself, in which case… sure!
> I think it's misleading to call those 'subsidies'.

In ordinary language we all understand that giving someone money and asking for less of their money are not equivalent, but referring to both as subsidies in terms of tax policy is pretty standard. See, for example, the debate about the mortgage interest deduction: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-benefits-tax-subs...
Here are a few of the reasons that come to mind as to why this transition has been taking us so long:

* The design of the Beacon Chain is far more optimised than our initial designs for a PoS system

* There are far more crypto-economic edge cases in a PoS system when compared to PoW

* Software development is hard and time estimates are even harder

* The use of a hybrid fork choice to balance safety and liveness trade-offs

* There is a crazy amount of value being handles on Ethereum so it is necessary to be conservative with our changes (move fast and break things is not an option)

* There are 4 concurrent implementations being developed all of which need to be inter-compatible, and production ready

* As Ethereum governance is decentralised we need a shelling point for exactly what Ethereum PoS looks like, this takes time

* We have worked hard to create, encourage, and embrace standards with other chains so that the cryptocurrency community of tomorrow is more inter-compatible (eg. IETF BLS standard or libp2p networking)

* We have spent time designing around quantum-computing resistant backups for the majority of the cryptography (eg. validators all have a Lamport backup key though most don't realise it)

* New cryptography has been developed and previously abandoned schemes revitalised (eg. Verifiable Delay Functions or the Legendre PRF)
I'm very bullish on Elixir as a language, but I temper that with the reality that I don't think it will become a mainstream language (in the next few years, at least).

I picked up Elixir probably 4-5 years ago when a co-worker kept recommending it and wanted to explore it more. We finally got the approval to do a microservice in it that was well-suited for it. Over time it became one of the two "blessed languages" alongside Ruby, and was probably adopted by 40% of teams. Our monolith was still Ruby, so a lot of teams had to use Ruby.

I found that people could pick up the language fairly quickly, but it would take a few stumbles on OTP before things started to click there. People generally seemed to like learning it, though. Maybe they were just being polite.

For me, Elixir has been the most fun I've had programming since I started. It allows me to more consciously design my systems because I don't really feel limited by it—this is why I'm bullish on the language. I enjoyed programming in Ruby, but felt limited to doing things a certain way.

There's also still a ton of opportunity in the community (which is excellent as it is, imo). For example, I wrote a book with Pragmatic that I don't think I would've been able to write in the Ruby world. If you're the type of person who likes exploring, figuring things out, and documenting afterwards, then you could make a nice name for yourself in the community.

Hiring is still a bit rough. If you're trying to scale to 50+ engineers then you're going to need someone skilled in training to bring the team up. Throwing them into the deep end won't work. I think smaller teams should generally not have as big of a problem? I'm curious to see how my former employer will maintain Elixir—grow or shrink adoption—over the next 2 years.
It's cost per transaction. Transactions can have multiple endpoints, so the tx fee is split up between many different users.

If you check the incoming transaction ID I'm sure you'll see it contained many many endpoint wallets.

That's how mining pools offer free withdrawals periodically. If you split it up amongst 100s of users, per user tx cost is very low.
What about ASIC resistant PoW? Should it be banned too?
Where did you see that years of education "should" or in general "do" lead to higher salaries lol ?
I really hope they don't rush all this merging and forking.

And also "audit the auditors". So they don't end up on a future rekt.news leaderboard.
Youtube alone uses 2x’s the amount of energy of the Bitcoin network. Ban Youtube?
Why would you want to prevent social forks? Social forks are not only good, they are the killer feature of crypto. They are what makes crypto truly consensual and voluntaryistic (if that's a word). As for the problem of national laws, I hope that can be alleviated with better privacy, so people can safely run a node even in violation of laws.
> Maybe it's better now, but that turned me off a lot to using it.

Sorry to hear KZeillmann! For those wondering, releases - which is one of the ways you package your Elixir project for production - are part of Elixir itself since v1.9 (~2 years ago) and reading secrets from env vars is supported out of the box. Just put the relevant code in the config/runtime.exs file.
Really? I was using the computer at 6, although basic stuff in DOS (I remember being proud I knew how to start games etc). At 6 you're in primary school in the UK and using a computer and internet safety is definitely a big thing. Not sure why you'd be saddened by this? Its not like its a black and white you either play outside or you use the computer thing. People can do both and learning about technology early is a good thing.
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Sounds like an excellent analogy: "We've been doing all these mine-detecting drills, but nobody ever gets blown up. We should stop doing mine-detecting drills." It's wise to take advantage of changes, but it's also wise to ensure that you're not taking down Chesterton's Fence[1] without knowing why the fence was put up.

Some processes, norms, and ideologies exist for reasons that aren't obvious. It's often not difficult to find somebody to explain them to you, but you have to be prepared to genuinely listen to the answer. It's easy to be impatient when you see them as getting in your way, and the first explanation you get may not actually be a very good one. (If you don't know why the fence was put up there's a good chance others won't either -- but that doesn't mean that an unsatisfactory explanation implies that there isn't a satisfactory one.)

That does slow you down, and that's hard when you're not the one who gets harmed by violating those norms, processes, and ideologies. But that doesn't mean nobody gets hurt, and such harms have a way of making society around you worse though mechanisms you don't see -- even though they do end up affecting you, too, eventually.

[1] https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_pass_effect

Not sure how this applies to drinking concentrated vs dilute alcohol though
Excellent range. And to the point of the comment, said linked vehicle is a production vehicle where the tank was not added for the sole purpose of breaking a record, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You’re right. There are two types of 0: the internal syntax denoting digit shift, like in 507, and the number representing nothing, as in 0. So in our number system, o isn’t just syntax, it’s also a number.