skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't count the number of times I've stopped reading a Medium article because it contained information that wasn't just objectionable but was actually downright false.

Many Medium articles are even stolen verbatim from other websites. It's a cancer.
"Energy used / total value secured" is a better measurement. "Double-spend prevented" isn't calculable.

Important to remember that the energy used on mining both secures current and *PAST* transactions, that's the entire point of the blockchain. I think "total value secured" captures this point.

I find it frustrating that crypto-currencies are judged by their energy usage, meanwhile traditional fiat currencies are secured by massive banking industries, governments, and militaries. The total energy required to maintain a secure and stable fiat currency is likely orders of magnitude greater than that of Bitcoin today. The problem is one is easier to calculate, so it generates easy headlines from lazy journalists.

Fundamentally energy usage isn't a worthy argument for or against a currency. It's the wrong measurement to use. It seems to be the go-to straw-man argument for those who already made up their minds about cryptocurrency before hand.

Yes, Proof-of-Stake exists, but notably it does not exist at a reasonable scale yet. If it could work as well as Proof-of-Work then it eventually would displace it. All attempts so far have not lived up to their hype.
Do you have a good source on that? This is not the first time I hear this. Btw I’ve studied the consensus protocol and it fulfills promises of decentralization so I’m wondering why they are using some single points of failure pieces (it is decentralized from a safety perspective: you can’t double spend, but it’s possible that some pieces are centralized). My guess is efficiency.
Yes, there's nothing particularly wrong with it, but core types should be standardized or you end up with multiple string libraries (as in C) or multiple dependency injection libraries (as in Java). Validation libraries already exist for Java.

So if this sort of thing takes off there is likely to be a standardization process at some point.

Go works better for this because common interfaces can be implemented by "coincidence." (Structural types.)
Ask HN: Does CPI Hide Inflation
It seems strange to me that there can be such high asset inflation over the last 10 years, yet CPI remains relatively low. It seems like the combination of gains of efficiency in production and supply chains and the worsening of quality in many products is a way inflation is hidden. A couple examples I'm thinking of.

If my fast food burger is the same price, but the meat is worse quality, smaller, and contains filler, hasn't the dollar lost value against the baseline quality burger of past times? Since value is relative, how can you claim a stable dollar, when you're comparing it to an unstable food product.

If I buy my jeans for the same price as I always have but they wear out twice as fast (which I find they do now), haven't they actually gotten twice as expensive. Is product lifetime accounted for in CPI in anyway, and if not isn't it hiding inflation?
> forcing down everyone's throat whether they want it or not

You're being highly offensive towards these developers for no good reason. All kinds of grand claims, just because things are done on a way that you don't agree with.

You've stated that systemd developers are wanting to force people to eat things. And their action is to actually force it into someone's mouth, likely requiring the person to be put into restraints to make this possible.

You're being highly offensive. Systemd has existed for loads of years, yet this accusation continuous to be repeated. Aren't you aware of German libel laws? If I'd accuse you of such behaviour, wouldn't you get upset? Why say such things, things that suggest criminal behaviour, so easily?

These things are repeated so often that it isn't even moderated upon. It's odd that this behaviour is tolerated.
I don’t have a CS degree at all and _really_ felt this way early in my career. After the first few years though, the people who keep learning will pass by the people who don’t and that y-axis offset you start with from a better school doesn’t matter if you have a better slope. There are two things you get from a better school though and the more important one is a better network. Going for a Masters somewhere else might help with that one if you’re struggling right now.
(And is basically a con artist)
The more I hear about things like this, the more pro-union I become.

I hear at work how our union guys are "scumbags" and how they "only do what's in the contract" and how they "won't work overtime."

what I'm starting to interpret that as is something like "those scumbags are using the law to prevent us from taking advantage of them."

we need more unions, I now believe.
False.

The politician you have in mind, Al Gore, claimed credit for driving funding to develop, among other things, the internet. Which, in fact, he did. He also earned a Nobel Prize for his role in alerting a very large number of people to the now rapidly unfolding disaster of global climate disruption. Had more listened, then, things might be better now.
I'm sorry to have to indicate it was not 'Steve Jobs'.

The economics of the situation are clear and massive, and they outweigh any 'usability' concerns.

Apple has tons of usability issues, they're not going to trade something marginal for 10's of billions of dollars in revenue opportunity.

This is a straight up realpolitik war over platform control.
This is either a pretty elaborate disinformation campaign or … some pretty interesting stuff in terms of our understanding of physics.

It's also interesting how these alleged observations seem to exclusively happen within restricted US airspace over oceans - but not over US land.

Other UFO HN threads: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

My bet has to be on it being an elaborate disinformation campaign, to throw off our nationstate adversaries and keep the public in fear and/or distracted. It requires one to be super cynical, but our government has done worse to US citizens in terms of disinformation [0] (but not since the 70s that i know of).

That explanation accounts for why these sightings only appear to happen in the US, and is (to me) far more believable than an encounter with otherworldly technology.

At least with respect to the 2004 encounter, I think the least likely explanation is that the object belonged to another superpower - b/c it feels like something totally out of reach in multiple domains for 2004 tech.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#:~:text=COINTELPRO%....
They're both unique because they're both the first of their kind. And they were doubted for years before they were shown to have value and staying power. The copycats have a problem especially when they hype themselves to $40B market caps before they have even grown a sustainable ecosystem or fair distribution.

The file storage chains like Filecoin, Sia, Chia, etc. may tick this box, but they aren't competing with Bitcoin or Ethereum. Any other unique proof of work algos that can't be easily hashed by ASICs or GPUs might qualify but I don't know. I don't see any others with a real grassroots ecosystem of activity.
"the rise in cases only reversed after we shut down schools both times" implies a causal relationship, though, while ignoring the other mitigations that went into effect.

The point is not "is it wise to take precautions"; that's obvious. The point is we don't necessarily have great data on which precautions work better than others because they're largely all being put into effect at the same time.
systems/udev was spearheaded by employees getting paid to write it, not enthusiastic gnuers doing it for love.
I’m in the minority on this one, I’m sure. But the subscription apps don’t bother me at all. I don’t even know how many I have..I don’t need to since the App Store manages it for me. I know that I pay for Concepts, Halide, and Overcast. But I don’t know what else. I don’t even know how much those apps cost..but I like using them and I want them to keep working well. Which means the developers need to be able to earn a living. Besides, what’s the use buying a phone that costs two thousand dollars if I can’t splurge here and there and drop a few bucks on an app that I like?
the chain splits in two.

how do you know which one to continue staking on to avoid getting slashed?
On the other hand Japan has an older median age than most other countries. We know that age is a crucial risk factor for COVID-19 so on that basis they should have had a higher death toll, but didn't.

My guess is that the low obesity rate is the critical factor, but that remains somewhat speculative.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7430889/
More power doesn’t equate to more throughput in PoS schemes, unless everyone is increasing their power and communication isn’t your bottleneck, but even then there’s a quick ceiling you’ll reach.
Beyond your first job, no one cares in the slightest what college or university you went to or how well you did there. The only thing that matters is how you perform professionally. If you want additional education, focus on on-the-job education that improves yourself as a software professional.

As for your social and dating circle, they will not care about your education either (unless for whatever reason you hang out solely with academics) and most likely will understand nothing about your field. Focus on showcasing your professional success / accomplishments and its impact, not your education.
He didn’t just raise salaries... he cut out management too. It makes sense to me the bottom feeder testing companies might not be running very profitably and this strategy could work... pay better people marginally more and have fewer managers.
They’re moving to proof of stake so yes, soon
Did it actually help, or was that just coincidental?
> One index, two indices?

Huh, I do use indices for 2+ index. I guess I’ve been wrong. I’m surprised nobody has ever said anything in my nearly 50 years.
GP is shadowbanned. That comment isn't dead, probably just because it was vouched by someone.

GP was banned by dang for "ideological battle": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26809778

GP obviously has strong political views. I don't think the problem is necessarily that they have those strong views, but they could learn how to express them in ways that sound more constructive and less confrontational. I think it is the confrontational tone, combined with the fact that they don't comment much on non-political topics, which leads to the "ideological battle" label, and consequent ban.
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> If a proof-of-work cryptocurrency holds its price, its energy usage can only go up.

The cost of proof-of-work is paid by the network participants. When you transact on Bitcoin or Ethereum, you pay massive fees to proof of work miners that significantly limits the number of things you can do productively. Dozens of interesting use cases on Ethereum are made completely non-viable by fees that sometimes break $100 per transaction.

Proof of work cryptocurrencies however exist in a competitive environment with other cryptocurrencies. If a new cryptocurrency launches that can provide the same utility and security guarantees at a lower cost (either through less work, or through some other means) you will have a natural migration of users from the more expensive cryptocurrency to the cheaper cryptocurrency.

At equilibrium (which we may not be at, given all the hype currently), a proof of work cryptocurrency is only sustainable if its cost structure is competitive. There is an active incentive applied to the entire space to invent more efficient means to transact in a decentralized way, so that participants don't have to pay such high transaction fees and inflation costs to update a decentralized ledger.

> Cryptocurrencies are decentralized by design, so while the US for example can stop the use or import of inefficient stadium lighting technologies, there is no way to apply a carbon tax or stop the "import" of cryptocurrency mined through "dirty" means.

This approximately applies to all manufacturing though. What percentage of US goods are manufactured in regions that have limited regulation regarding the environment? Most of them, because if you don't use those regions, you are going to have trouble competing in the marketplace. It IS a problem for Bitcoin, but it's also a problem for all global production in general.
Things like diabetes and kidney disease which can cause acute failures if not managed properly are certainly causing short term upticks in deaths.
What sort of legal liability though? What law, regulation or contract would they be violating?
I still dont understand this argument.

If Apple had 99% market share ( it is currently edging close to 70% in US, 75% of U.S. App Store revenues, and over 80% of time spent on the mobile internet ), and you have a choice of of using Android, would that 1% even count as a choice? In that case monopoly would not exist in any market.

It is about Market power ( and imbalance )

"That wouldn’t eliminate the market power Apple has here, but it would certainly diminish it ... it would not be much of a solution at all."

I thought this sentence sums it up pretty well. Apple has far too much power and we have plenty of evidence of email shown in court they are abusing it.
> Personally i think getting the tones right is the most important part of being understood in Chinese

yea.

it really doesn't matter where you are from, the UK, the US, Japan, Korea or Hongkong. if you can't get the tones right, you will be misunderstood. If you are of Chinese heritage (like the HKers), you will be viciously mocked.
Not that it probably makes a difference in this case. But even a flavor developed in-house would probably go to someone like McCormick to develop the actual seasoning that can be mass produced and has all the necessary properties like shelf life, cost, etc.
Less users and smaller price => fewer miners
Redundancy doesn't solve CAP. Even with a dozen connections you can end up with issues (A sent a packet, B received it, the connection you pick dropped the ack; what happens?)
I was really hoping to see someone put on the mask but the one featured in the video was made with one person’s facial topography in mind and so I assume they can’t just throw it on anyone.
Not to mention exchanges that didn't participate in the fork
Beta is a cool guy and I hope this mashup leads to exciting things
Someone must have been watching her
Not sure why you got downvoted. I came here to say the same.

While it is in theory true that you cannot have a CA system, in practice if you control your H/W and data centers as well, you can build enough redundancy that a P is not more likely than (say) being hit by a meteor. So still not a CA system, but practically CA 99.9..% (add as many 9's as you have money).

Edit: Spelling.
I went to my daughter's graduation from Kent State yesterday- there was a woman who just got her Bachelor's degree, and she was at least 60. She was lit up.

"Well into your 30s" isn't particularly old, and definitely not compared to how long you're probably going to live. If going back to school will help you to be happy, then do it.
Bitcoin Tumbles After Musk Implies Tesla May Sell Cryptocurrency
You just contradicted the website you linked, I'm confused.

> Hospitalization rates in children are significantly lower than hospitalization rates in adults with COVID-19, suggesting that children may have less severe illness from COVID-19 compared to adults.

Less severe response to it, not "less chance of getting it." And then just two lines later:

> Recent evidence suggests that compared to adults, children likely have similar viral loads in their nasopharynx,7 similar secondary infections rates, and can spread the virus to others

I don't know how you arrived at your opinion here.
PoW in conjunction with blockchain is anti-efficiency by design. It’s a principle of the ledger’s security and an inevitability that mature networks waste energy in exchange for that.

Anyone serious about this topic needs to think beyond blockchain into fundamentally different technologies, like Nano, or things which forego decentralization entirely.
This. Perfect description of how to avoid the real challenge.

- Spend time on inventing library instead of thinking hard about the customer need for an App
- Spend time on learning productivity tips instead of doing actual work
- And in this case, spend time worrying about the blog platform instead of writing articles

I learn this lesson hard and constantly remind myself to avoid this pitfall.
I don't mean to be disrespectful, but I don't quite see the resemblance. Could you elaborate?

As far as I can tell the only "windows-y" thing is binary logs and even then you got all the tools to get a plaintext stream to process.
Corruption of the logs can be a problem but it's nothing compared to...dunno, I assume people are drawing parallels to that and Windows' binary Registry, but then again I don't think I have had a Registry-related failure in decades. Besides, if anything, dconf is much more Windows than anything systemd could do, but I don't see anywhere as much vitriol for it.

I'm thoroughly confused about this small war with systemd. I missed all the early drama so I barely know what it's about, but in practice systemd has never failed me.
The Iranian government is not a significant source of ransomware, to my knowledge, so I don't see how that's relevant at all.
Energy used per real world non-speculative use?

I imagine Bitcoin would fair terribly and Monero would be the best.
This is quite interesting! How can be a disk based cache be faster than redis? (They claim this on their Github page)
Full circle: How is that not stealing ?
Americans have an odd view of the UK that merges both historical periods and regions. We are just likely to consider something we read in a Jane Austin novel British (which it might indeed have been ... 1-200 years ago!) as more recent media like the film Notting Hill.

My understanding is that sweetmeat is just an older word for candy, sweets or confections, archaic to both the UK and US english.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25051738
decentralization a la libgen
Remember when microservices were called components?
I came across this article written in 2001 about scaling e-commerce: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2591575/scaling-up-for-e-commerce.html. The concept of microservices is being talked about but referred to as components! Quite nostalgic...

"A component is simply a chunk of software that performs work or provides information within a wider application. A component could be the user interface on an order entry system, the rules for how and when to increase a customer's credit limit, or a data warehouse detailing every customer transaction conducted during the past five years.

"According to several IT managers and analysts, to build a scalable Web architecture, managers should think of components not in terms of the software on which they're based but in terms of the services they provide."
Culture varies a lot. Region matters.

San Francisco types are different then mid size city companies. New York companies are their own thing.

On top of common things like a company that loves to blame vs one that doesn’t.

It’s important to either find a match or at least not offended by others.
> Most PoS networks aim to reach a "zero issuance" state where the network can sustain itself on TX fees alone.

Whether ICO investors are stakemining coins issued through inflation or transaction fees doesn’t matter — they’re still mining orders of magnitude more coins, at the end of the day. Their artificially low cost basis translates into them reaping outsized profits which dwarf that of later investors.

(And frankly, it’s absurd the PoS astroturfing has gotten so out of hand that this needs to be pointed out at all.)
The cost of a 51% attack: https://www.crypto51.app/
I started doing personal time tracking a few years ago and noticed the one thing that most correlated with my own energy was _who_ I was working with. Not what or how or how long. Just what team it was like. Find other people who learn languages and code side projects and spend more time with them!
The people buying Bitcoin don't need to be aware that it costs 6 GW of power, any more than they need to be aware of the electricity costs associated with the manufacture of plastic, electronics, or other goods and services.

If we as a society feel like there is too much energy being consumed, we should regulate the production, and let the market come to equilibrium on a fair price for the cost of electricity. If you don't like the fact that coal plants are spewing millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, regulate the coal plants, not Bitcoin. Regulation of electricity will increase the cost of electricity, which will naturally reduce the total amount of electrify that Bitcoin uses - Bitcoin's energy use is proportional to the price of energy, not to the actual quantity of energy.
You assert that the town and the marketplace are two separate monopolies. I disagree and assert that they're a single entity, because they are not separable. Neither could have been created without the other. And their cumulative success is (in many respects) dependent on them being intertwined.

But even if you do insist on separating them, you don't get to arbitrarily bisect them wherever you want to suit your argument. The "retail" App Store is only the surface layer of the iOS app ecosystem which Apple has developed, it's certainly not the totality of it. There's the toolchain, APIs, documentation, training resources and many other things besides, which are all necessary parts to that marketplace's existence.

You might argue that Apple chose to give away their developer tools rather than license their use with a revenue share arrangement (like Epic does with Unreal Engine). You might argue that Apple charges for their tools with the $99 annual developer fee. I disagree that these are relevant. How Apple chooses to monetise their own work is up to them. For example, Apple could have instead defined their 30% revenue share requirement as a license condition for the use of their tools and libraries. The outcome for consumers and developers would be largely identical, but the "store monopoly" argument would make a lot less sense.

Even Epic themselves understand that developer ecosystems are valuable and it's fair for a percentage of top-line profit to go to them regardless how the app is sold or how payments work.

More broadly I must admit some occasional frustration by people who insist Apple must change, as this insistence is all too often paired with a somewhat arrogant paternalism, that they know better than I do what I should want. "Free market" is certainly the simplest argument to side with and the easiest one to wax lyrical about, but that doesn't automatically make it the best one.

I'm not going to spend too much time explaining why I think the iOS ecosystem would be worse if "free markets" were forced upon it, because unfortunately Hacker News debates on this topic generally see more people throwing down-votes rather than engaging with the debate. But fundamentally I see the difference of opinion stemming from whether you see the smartphone as a computing platform or an appliance bundled with systems administration services from the vendor. I think of my smartphone as an appliance, despite being a software developer by trade. But I'm glad that the market includes many brands of Android phone so that everyone who cares can have a choice.
Also, most variants develop in other mammals. Even at 100% human vaccination, we’re likely to see new variants.

(Everyone that can should get vaccinated anyway.)