skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> enough folks will ignore this and keep mining

Irrelevant. Well designed networks are pretty much isolated from whims of miners. Ethereum is one of them, Bitcoin is not. I'm speaking about 2 weeks difficulty re-targeting window vs single block window.

> It replaces it with shell games and chicanery.

Why do you perceive it like that? I would love to hear details.

Ethereum will use hybrid PoS. Where random number generation (deciding who will become next block producer) is separated from deciding who is in the pool of potential producers (anty-sybil defense). First will be decided with commit-reveal scheme unbiased with the use of VDFs, second - with PoS.
That seems a bit weird to me. Many programs are hard to multithread but I'd expect that if any given program can make effective use of 8 threads it can probably keep scaling to 16 and 32. The hard part is getting from 1 to 2 and 2 to 4. So I'd expect that in most cases having more than 8 high performance cores doesn't make that much sense.
I hope Apple are using an audiophile-optimised memcpy() function: https://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pcaudio/messages/11/11997...

> found that a function called memcpy was the culprit, most memory players use memcpy and this is one of the reasons why memory play sounds worse ie digital sounding. Fortunately there is an optimised version of memcpy from http://www.agner.org/optimize/, using this version removes the hard edge produced by memcpy.
Was thinking the same thing... There's no evidence I can see to suggest the parent is not also against other forms of excessive energy consumption.
> Perhaps it's not idle pedantry to observe that many of those who are angry about crypto energy usage couldn't care less about the energy wasted and pollution generated by other endeavors.

I don't think that's correct. I think that it's possible to care about both, but to be dismissive of misdirecting subject changes, i.e. "whataboutism".
Responsible IT operations in the 20s, is optional in the same sense as OSHA compliance was optional in the 70s or SOX compliance was optional in the 00s.

Ignore at your own peril.
> but crypto mining is just competitive, so the value of mining will go up with the cost of energy and keep using as much energy as ever.

That is not true. If the cost of energy increases, mining / hash rates will decrease. Miners are competing, and the limit to the price they will pay for electricity is the value of the cryptocurrency they are earning for the activity.
Do you know how threaded comments work?
> So burning electricity on running a cryptocurrency is not right, but burning electricity on running servers for Facebook or user tracking is all right? If that's the case, who's the arbiter of what's "too much" power for a use case?

Yep, I hate to say it, but even FB is more useful compared to BTC. No one uses BTC for actual payment but to hold a value. People holding BTC could just switch to MtG cards and saved tons of energy without losing any benefits that they are currently using.
> But... no one is talking about spatial audio. This entire thread is about lossless quality.

If you read past the title to at least as far as the first sentence, it's a wider announcement.

> Apple has announced that it's adding 'Lossless' and 'Hi-Resolution Lossless' streaming options to Apple Music in June 2021 for no extra charge, as well as offering Dolby Atmos 'Spatial Audio' 3D music, too.
The idea of Tesla buying and discontinuing GM for the sake of reducing competition is pretty provocative.
A pollution tax is really the only viable solution though. Playing whack a mole against individual entities and activities will never solve the problem, and creates a lot of legislation.

So long as pollution and carbon are free or cheap, people will find wasteful ways to generate it.

Incentives work, and taxing carbon and pollution will incentive green alternatives.
Electricity produced in France by coal + gas + oil is around 8% (vs. 70% nuclear, 10% hydro, the rest is wind + solar + bio-energy).
It took more than "a few years" to build, though.
the performance is pretty impressive on some devices https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26333369
If Facebook has a value add, then so do columbian drug lords
You really don't understand the problem with asking questions like "well who decides?!?" To literally every proposal of legislation ever?

Because that is what always happens. Every time someone make s a general proposal, for any law at all, there are people making the same old, dumb argument, of "well who decides?!?" Every single time.

Sure you do not believe that all laws ever are wrong, right?

Because the answer to this dumb question is the same as for every law ever. That makes it valid, unless you believe that all laws ever are bad.
PoW also implies large inflation, which pays for the security of the network. With PoS you can reduce issuance greatly, while staying safe.
It is supposedly integrated with Yahoo store although defunct and has a search text box as well.
I’d suggest that "same" can be signaled with an upvote. You can ask hn@ycombinator.com about any account questions.
There is; you'd be surprised.
I run ad block (unlock origin) on Firefox. I noticed I couldn’t order on restaurants that used “Toast” for they’re ordering. Try chrome, works. But the reason wasn’t the browser but just I wasn’t ad blocking on chrome..
> All that wasted energy is paid for by the holders

Could you explain me what energy is "wasted" in Proof-of-Work and also how the people currently holding the cryptocurrency is paying for that "waste"?

AFAIK, the same number of blocks are made no matter how many transactions are being made or how many holders there are (or how much each holder "holds"), so the energy consumption of Bitcoin remains more or less the same during an hour, only slowly rising as more miners get on-boarded. But the energy consumption of those brought online remains the same over the lifetime of the miner instance itself.
I picked Elixir to develop Statuspal 4 years ago as a solo founder, I’m pretty happy with the decision so far, we’ve been in production for close that time and I feel very productive and enjoy it a lot.

That’s not to say we never encounter hiccups, we’ve been bitten by a few libraries getting unmaintained, a few drastic changes in Phoenix in the first years, and a hard time getting a proper deployment setup, but nowadays is much more mature.

Thanks to Elixir we got away with things like not needing to cache (for quite some time) with great performance and with little resources, not worrying about the app becoming slow if 6 people visit at the same time.

Hiring Elixir developers is not as easy as RoR devs but is doable, I had good experience in Elixir specific places like https://elixirjobs.net/ and Upwork to a lesser degree.
> don't think you can feasibly ship all your electric batteries to be charged up in Iceland.

No need if the Icelink DC link gets built. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelink
I wrote it fast, I rewrote it. My point is that the title is misleading and suggest you can use WIFI radiation as power source to do something useful in the near future in consumer electronics. You simply will not.
What if you simply don't know enough to not know that you're both wrong and being lied to by the ETH marketing team? Would you be embarrassed that you believed rhetoric? Probably means you would be easily susceptible to most conspiracy theories.
This is how bribes are paid. You hire a local consultant who will pay the bribes.
A nitpick but arguably an important one for your point - this article argues that the efficiency cores aren’t for “browsing the web / watching YouTube / checking emails” but for non-interactive tasks like Spotlight indexing (based on GCD scheduling priority).

https://eclecticlight.co/2021/05/17/how-m1-macs-feel-faster-...
I don't know if that was their intent, but I would actually like a good answer to your parent's question to have a strong argument for backing OP's proposition, which I'd like to happen.
Correct. It needs to be completely sealed. You can't take the back off the laptop and have the cooling system function, the case is part of the cooling ducts.

Provides for heat dissipation over broader surfaces. This is normal.
I was peaved until I got to the last phrase. Well written.

When the deals go away because the contract is standardized and non-negotiable, it's because the dealmaker got more powerful!
I thought the 3.5mm connector was the "jack of all trades"...
div id="ad" but not containing an actual ad, seems like a pretty obvious unintentional overlap, and one that's not going to go away.

How difficult would it be for you to change the div name to not coincide with the characters most closely involved with one of the most contentious technologies around? And never have to deal with that potential conflict again?

> What kind of a mental process should a brain perform to conclude, that it is a bug in a website, and not in their extension, which is supposed to remove ads.

Well, if the extension looks for obvious ad-related layout, and your site just happened to use that name, then yes, you have a bug related to common usage patterns.

Even if you used the name before anything ad related, when the world changes around you, you can choose to adapt, or you can get offended and obstinate and fall further and further into a niche of your own creation.
Sleep is a whole-body process of repair and optimization. Many cultures chastise sleepers as lazy, but every time you sleep, it's like a big reconstruction process in your body.

I think that sleep and allowing adequate time for it is the lowest hanging fruit for most people's health. Us site readers usually get enough to eat, and sometimes more, yet when was the last time you allowed yourself to sleep as much as you want to, without limit?
This is also true of REST requests. They're not scoped to the user by default. In fact, Rails doesn't even have the concept of a user by default.

The argument against using actioncable because it doesn't scope to users by default is roughly akin to arguing against rails in production because rails doesn't even know what a user is by default.
The interesting part is in how actually valuable improvements are rare, while useless "improvements" are common.

I've got all music in 44.1kHz or 48kHz FLAC (only on the server, so I can transcode it to ogg opus for mobile playback reducing the space usage without lossy to lossy artifacts). Similar effects apply to many other such cases.

Audiophiles buy 10'000$ golden HDMI cables... which don't even support HDMI 2.0a. They buy gold-plated toslink cables (!)
Best practice starts from home it not only for folks who need money but for folks who give money as well.l.llll
To be honest, I don't think that this is a big limitation in practice. The AirPods max do sound excellent and I do think that "lossless" audio is a bit overrated, a high quality AAC file can sound quite amazing. So personally, I am more interested in the spatial audio which is fully supported. But considering that some people think that lossless audio is important it is not understandable that the Apple flagship headphones which just have been released do not support it.
Making renewables isn't actually useful if they're used for something we don't even need to do. We could switch to a low-energy crypto currency and do all the things we were going to do with Bitcoin.
> ICE vehicles could easily have 40 gallon tanks

My first vehicle had a 33 gallon tank. Not much room for anything bigger; of course mileage was awful. My most efficient car can do about 600 miles on a 14 gallon tank; if it had room for a 33 gallon tank, it could go halfway across the country on one tank.
In your rush to inject religion, you've mixed up rest and sleep.
> Breaking this based on an ad blocker just loses you money.

That's false. Similar thinking to how the MPAA said that downloading a MP3 is a lost sale. There was never a sale to begin with, the user is not interested in a purchase regardless of whether the pirated content is available.

Here, the user will just go through the checkout again in a browser without ab-block or disable it. Why would they suddenly not need a power washer because they're running ad-block?

In fact, if anything, it'll train the user to disable ad-block when they're ready to checkout--from _ANY_ site since most of them are broken under ad-block.
Brilliant. And actually fun.
Might it be that police tend to do what the most-influential in their jurisdiction ask them to do?

Somewhat related: The Irish in America earned their whiteness through cruelty to those with whom, in the Five Points for example, they’d relatively-peacefully coexisted. They saw an opportunity to get an advantage over, rather than continue to be in solidarity with, people with darker skin. Then they solidified this advantage by working in policing and politics.[0]

[0] https://www.worldcat.org/title/how-the-irish-became-white/
> If the population growth is trending downward that means the growth of intelligent people should also by logic be trending downwards.

Since when is the simplest possible example of the fallacy of division the same thing as “logic”?

For illustration, for a long time California’s net domestic outmigration has been composed of relatively high income domestic inmigration and slightly larger, lower-income domestic outmigration.

So (before considering the effects of natural population change and international migration), the population waa going down, but the population at the upper end of the income spectrum was actually increasing.

This would be consistent with (given the known correlation of income with IQ) high-IQ gain with net population decrease. The correlation is loose enough, and there’s enough other moving pieces of population dynamics, that it is consistent with other possibilities as well, but the point is you can’t generally conclude anything about change in a subgroup population from change in the larger group population.
Like OP, I’ve used 1P since the early 2010s. Its approachability (and the fact that I pay for it) finally convinced my family (SO/siblings/parents) to use a password manager. I love the native experience on iOS, and the full desktop version + browser extensions

I remember being frustrated by the Dropbox loss, and I’m
still frustrated that they seem to push 1PasswordX over the native apps. Other than that I’ve only had 3 major gripes:

1) Lack of Linux support
2) Lack of good ssh key management
3) Lack of ability to self host

I’ve been eying BitWarden for awhile-
How was your transition/migration to Bitwarden from 1P?
How does the iOS integration compare to 1P?
Do you self-host?
Most of the junk at the bottom of the list combines hostile web development practices with criminal negligence of good journalism. If nobody ever visits sfgate.com again, that will be a benefit to humanity.
Why would you use "they" when talking about someone you know for sure is a man? Aren't you supposed to "respect peoples' pronouns"?
you misunderstood, he means devices switching from A2DP profile to HFS/HFP the second you want to use microphone
I'm curious which is the new Chrome these days? Personally for me, qutebrowser has taken that spot, but it's a tool geared towards professionals, not exactly for casual users.
Lighting all the oil and gas in the world on fire will also incentivize renewables. But that's not a good practice for a lot of reasons including increasing the pollution and CO2 levels.
You are on point. The solution is (and people do it today) don't run backup nodes, or you will risk getting slashed. Your penalty for missing your vote is very mild - basically not earning the reward for the round.
Sorry, I don't get what you mean. Which arguments are you referring to and what is ironic?
What's the latency like at high bitrates though?
I think I'll keep using my phone where I don't need a dongle to listen to headphones.
There is a great concern about the safety of Lithium batteries because of the fire hazard, yet we are pursuing a much more dangerous technology with Hydrogen with very little gain in performance. Also, it still takes a significant amount of energy to produce the hydrogen.
That’s exactly what spatial audio is doing.
Can someone answer a basic question for me?

I have an old iPhone SE (2016). It has a headphone jack. Does this mean my old iPhone can play lossless music but the latest iPhones can't?
Not at the moment, but I remember someone posting an example LV page on Twitter a few months ago for pagination and I distinctly remember how delayed the page felt and I pinged 80ms to the server. Basically I've seen scattered examples when they were posted over the years on various social sites.

I'm having a hard time finding a current example demo LV app that demonstrates page transitions using LV or to be honest any sites heavily using LV in general.

But it should be reproduceable in a demo app that uses live_redirect to transition between pages. The issue has repeatable steps and it's been confirmed as a bug by the maintainers of LV, except it looks like it's going to be tricky to solve it.
One neat trick reduces cryptocurrency energy usage by 100%
Even if banning PoW were agreeable on logical grounds (ie, overcoming the arguments of the sibling comments to this one), is there any reason to believe that such a law will:

* Reduce trade
* Reduce value
* Reduce carbon use?

Is there a case ever where an illicit market found a price equilibrium which was lower than the licit one? And, if such a ban does cause the price go up, won't the same incentives cause continued mining competition?
> when was the last time you allowed yourself to sleep as much as you want to, without limit?

I was told premature optimization was the root of all evil.
For environmentally friendly packaging (recycled alu tubes) to be viable at our small scale we need to produce a LOT more. In the meantime we try to improve our packaging and offset some of the damage we do by planting one tree per product sold, which is roughly a 20-30% hit on our margins. Personally I think it’s impossible to be sustainable. Working towards reaching sustainability IS possible. So that’s what we do.
It violates principle of equality to target only one
Might, but if the Tesla Semi becomes a reality, the potential market for hydrogen in trucks becomes much smaller too.
The share of federal tax revenue paid by the top 1% is 38.5%. It doesn't seem like they're able to successfully evade paying taxes.
Yes I always like to do my own math it has sniffed out the BS many a time from the likes of Tesla, Nikola and so on. Not always right, but amazing how many times theirs is wrong especially if marketing something.

You should alway try to understand the math / science and make your own judgements rather to falling for arguments from authority. This isn't always feasible but I think most people can do enough to weed out the snake oil to a much better degree than we seem to be doing as a society now.

Note this will also make you a better engineer / programmer in my experience.
Okay? I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.
Im a little puzzled by this.

This is essentially like saying "Dont use Rails, the controllers arent scoped to the user by default"

There are plenty of valid reasons to use websockets not scoped to a user. Also how is SR supposed to know your user scheme?

What if you have a multi-tenant app and websockets should be scoped to an account and not a user? Im honestly confused by this statement.
That's great, but all of that tracking is pointless if I can't actually complete the sale
This article obscures the truth, which will be obvious soon, that Ethereum will remain multiple orders of magnitude less efficient than traditional banks.
It's close to impossible to get a bank account in less reputable offshore jurisdictions which limits their use to holding physical assets or IP etc...

The not so funny part, is that the US isn't a member of CRS to they don't automatically send bank account of foreign citizens to their countries of residence. Major offshore centers aren't always where you expect them to be.
Dark matter has never been observed or detected.
So at redlights you need to turn off your car, then turn it back on when it changes to green

EDIT: Specify the part of the post that bewildered me.
If carbon taxes go up, miners will be incentivized to pursue low/no-carbon alternative energy sources, thereby accelerating the shift to cleaner energy. Mining can either be viewed as creating a profit incentive where none existed before, or at least enhancing the profit incentive even further. Clean energy needs more profit incentives to really scale adoption.

I am all for carbon taxes, to shape the market towards cleaner energy. And I do think it will successfully push miners even faster towards adoption of other energy sources.
What happened to accessibility on 1P for Mac? It's completely invisible to VoiceOver now.
Are there any proven PoS coins out there yet that have demonstrated resiliency under an attack? Honest question.
What is something more wasteful than Bitcoin?

It's a nondescript pollution factory from the Captain Planet cartoons.

Every other wasteful activity has just been overconsumptive, decadent, or externalized, not an actual burning of resources for no reason.
>Erlang was at one point the only way to get this sort of structure, though.

It still is though! Isolated processes with asynchronous, dynamic message passing requires really heavy libraries in most other languages. Rust is completely different, I can't fathom why you'd compare them in this way.
Carbon tax will increase the prices of essentials for the poor and middle class.
Amdahl's law can be formulated in the following way:

<math>S_\text{latency}(s) = \frac 1 {(1 - p) + \frac p s}</math>
You only have two ears. If you can isolate them, as in headphones, you don't need more than two speakers.

The reason Dolby Atmos requires so many speakers is that each speaker is heard by both ears, like in real life, as a result you need a setup closer to real life. In addition, in theaters, people seat all over the place, so you need even more speakers to widen the "sweet spot".
The core insight of Erlang is that having lots of little processes communicating over a message bus is a great way to design code. It also proves by demonstration a statement that many programmers, especially in the past decades, would have found hard to believe, that you can structure code as a whole bunch of relatively small self-contained services. Many programmers, perhaps even today, would not believe how far you can get with such a model, thinking that fairly massive monoliths are still really the only way to scale up.

Rather than specific examples, let me provide terms to google, as these are now such rich spaces that even a list of examples would be impoverish. Google "message bus"; there's half-a-dozen solid production options you can deploy yourself, and all the major clouds have at least one option, often more. Pervasively use a message bus in your architecture and you can't hardly help but end up programming in a very Erlang-esque fashion.

"Database"; no longer is an SQL database over a socket your only option. Some databases even combine a bit of message bus functionality, like Redis, or Postgres.

Restarting and reliability: Process-level restarting of much smaller processes has become popular with things like Kubernetes, Docker, and even just plain ol' Systemd. (This is one place that I will assert that systemd is better than the init.d-based system, which had a solid story on how to start processes but a very ad-hoc one on restarting failed processes.) Internally, consult your favorite language for monitors or restarts within a process; I've got one for Go called suture. Getting an idiomatic restart into a language depends on tons of details and I don't have a good sense of the options across dozens of languages. Note this only really matters if your language and program is handling a lot of things at once in a single process, which is not always the case.

That's most of what would matter, I think. Most of the rest of Erlang like "pattern matching", well, do whatever they do in your language. Which may be pattern matching.