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Since he doesn't allow non-vetted (not politically aligned) Twitter accounts to respond to his tweet, I'll respond to it here:

The Ransomware sector was enabled by cryptocurrency in the same way entire classes of crime were enabled by the internet.

You need to take the good with the bad with any transformative technology. The good, in the case of cryptocurrency, includes:

* hundreds of millions of people potentially being empowered to earn income by sharing in the revenue their social media content generates, via community currencies, like the /r/CryptoCurrency ERC20 token, Moon [1] [2] [3] [4] [5].

* people living under repressive governments being able to escape their capital controls and survive [6]

As for the bad, this may end up being the lesser of two evils. The other, potentially greater evil is that the security vulnerabilities are never exploited in a dramatic and public fashion that alerts the organizations that they afflict, leading to years of undetected information theft, or potentially even worse, the vulnerabilities being exploited all at once in a cataclysmic cyber attack by a state-level adversary to the US.

The potential for ransomware acts as a bug bounty and canary, uncovering security holes, and incentivizing organizations to fill them. It could lead to a much more hardened network computing infrastructure.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/l9dye7/i_so...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/kqrikd/sold...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/n371id/how_...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ly79uw/as_a...

[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/l9bdtn/guys...

[6] https://twitter.com/Codiox/status/1375876968390909956
But the article mentions that lithium is not economically viable to recycle.
I like studying from home and thus wouldn't want to go back to school unless I had to (simply to avoid the commute). I pretty successfully accomplish tasks with help of https://writinguniverse.com/essay-types/compare-and-contrast... . However, I wouldn't mind going in if I had to. Covid doesn't bother me or my family. In fact the few times I went into the office over the past year didn't scare me at all..
> 4. Crushed and pounded with a rock by a 10 year old child, then burned in a rudimentary smelter to separate metals from plastics.

https://youtu.be/wzJI8gfpu5Y?t=2317, cue children at https://youtu.be/wzJI8gfpu5Y?t=2364
> Battery powered cars are going to be the next disaster

> I'll keep my very efficient Audi diesel car (79g/km CO2) for now thanks.

"Battery powered cars are a small disaster, so I'll keep my big disaster instead".
An organization doesn't get ownership over a volunteer run project by sharing a name.

It might just be that there's no affordable legal recourse.
Isn't the scarcity of Lithium also a major problem? It's already an expensive commodity, how could it possibly scale to replace all the internal combustion engines even in the US for example?
...which will go through a similar disassembly process and also pollute the environment for as long as it lives.
What's even worse is that these tests (I think except Cambridge English? but very few institutions accept that) expire after two years or so, and they cost a lot of money.

I moved to Switzerland to do a master's degree in Germany which was still, essentially, in German. Didn't matter that I'd already read research literature and written term papers in English, I still had to do a TOEFL for no discernible reason. But even worse, should I end up deciding to do another degree somewhere else, I'd just have to do it all over, even though I use English everyday at work.

I understand making sure that people speak and understand English properly in an academic setting, but TOEFL etc. are just money machines.
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"Bás in Éirinn", subtitled "May you die in Ireland" is a good book of excellent stories (with the Irish and English text facing each other on each pair of pages).

Humorous, mostly. In one of them "God rest Mící", the keening of the wife and the old woman (who is the professional keener), are contrasted, "As the old woman said, her keening had too much music in it" (as the widow is seen around town with a new man that year).
Oic I almost suspect that was the case. The wikipedia article did not list dumb phones, but in fact phones that had a lot cooler games than Snake.
It’s like those restaurants. Nobody goes there because it’s always far too busy.
The good thing is that there are going to be so many disasters that the car battery disposal disaster will likely get lost in the shuffle.

Full disclosure: I am long TSLA.
Compilers don't "detect undefined behaviour": they assume no undefined behaviour is present. It is not possible to change the semantics of the program that contains undefined behaviour because undefined behaviour means there are no valid semantics to begin with.

This is exactly the same situation as dividing by zero in mathematics. If your proof relies on division by zero, you can always prove anything true (the classic 1 == 0 proof for example).
Most licensees do not, in fact, add their own instructions.
It was illegal in France to cover your face. They had to change the law.
Hi Jeff

Did you get 750-800 out of the box with a Pi4 and USB ethernet? Asking because mine was around 300 and needed some manual tweaking (see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27231705)
> fibre glass disposal scandal of wind farms

What's the problem with burying blades in a landfill? They don't degrade, OK, but rocks also don't degrade.

- They're too big to drift to the ocean and be ingested by animals, which is the problem with plastic objects.

- They don't leak nasty stuff into the groundwater, because landfills are lined properly to prevent that. Also fibreglass is pretty much inert.
I always found the derogatory use of “unelected bureaucrats” hilarious. Who elected the btc core devs?
It uses waste vegetable oil.
Lead acid batteries are heavily recycled, with around 80% of lead used in the US coming from a recycled source, which is surely more than tires many of which end up in landfills or ground into a secondary use not as useful as a tire.

Lead acid battery recycling is not always done as a relatively clean, industrial process in other parts of the world.
It implies it, but they are not equivalent. Basically the common interpretation of UB is sufficient, but not necessary, given the standard.
It seems rather inefficient for the batteries to be shipped overseas and for their materials to be extracted by 10 year olds, rather than to just have the batteries be recycled in the country where they are used.
Are they the small disaster ? What do you think is going to happen with all the lithium after being bounded by a 10 year old with a rock?

Probably just going to land in the river, and then the sea.
The computation given by parent allows you to compute upper bounds and order of magnitude estimates. He is correct that you need these values to guide your optimizations.
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This environmental impact of crypto is like a virus that spreads and spreads. A meme if you will.

The industrial revolution was also bad for the environment. And it's the single most important reason why we are arguing across countries now in home using cheap devices made in China.

So, just drop the environmental impact. Geez, makes me want to buy BitCoin just to spite you.
I have 32GB of RAM and usually browsers use about 10GB of it. But I do open a stupid amount of tabs.
Modern cars are optimized for good scores on NCAP, and higher NCAP score does not necessarily mean safer car.
While I agree this scenario is representative to what is likely to happen if nobody reacts, I don't agree that it must necessarily happen or that is a reason to stay on petrol cars.

The difference between batteries and petrol is that batteries can be reprocessed. The problem is unless we do something (set up regulation) it is likely the unregulated way in which it is going to happen will cost a huge pollution and suffering.

Think in terms of lead and lead-acid batteries specifically. There is a mandated system (at least here in EU) that tries to prevent the components of lead acid batteries to get back into environment. For example, when I want to buy a replacement battery I can't throw the old one in the trash and I am expected to exchange the old one for the new one and pay extra if I want to only buy new one without giving away the old.

Is it too hard to think we can do something like that for the huge card batteries which are much less disposable than the lead acid ones?
>>My point is that miners will decide which chain gets the bigger hashrate and that chain is likely to be adopted as the "real" chain by users, if it's the vast majority of the miners.

If that were true, then an upgrade that switches to PoS, i.e. a hashrate of zero, couldn't succeed, and it's safe to Ethereum's upgrade will succeed.
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No and that's not the point. The point is knowing the application of that algorithm or the other.

But I also never had the need for its application, maybe I had and missed it :)
The method is interesting, but what exactly is the intended use? I don't get what the OP is trying to do.

- Normal people are going to forget any kind of proof you show them exactly eight seconds after you're done. The pedant in me wants to note that plugging the standard formula in and veryfing it works is also in fact a proof, but technically correct is, as always, the most useless kind of correct.

- Everyone solves quadratics by (a) eyeballing either zero, or (b) \frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac}}{2a}. It just doesn't make any sense to use any other method when the standard formula is simple arithmetic you can do in your head.

- Students who are into kinky stuff like competitions already know several formulas for speed.

- If this is just pedagogical, it's basically a way to adamantly refuse to complete the square by using a slightly different way to complete the square

am I missing something? I'm open to change my mind.
Good thing that German diesels had no scandals of their own! ;)
Thanks, super interesting.
Exactly what I was going to say.
It's available, is it very common, I can't claim.

Googling stuff like "Amazon AWS hardware TCP TOE" doesn't reveal anything. So we can't assume that either.
LANtastic under DOS was a mindblower back then.
Batteries are, thankfully, a longer time horizon problem. In my opinion the real question is about power generation. Unless we get serious about fast-tracking next-generation nuclear, I don't think we can support a massive deployment of electric vehicles. Or, put a different way, the electricity will have to be generated by burning even more coal than the baseline. Wind and hydro are not an option, as there's a strong limit function on expanding capacity. While solar sounds great it has its own set of issues, including a narrow generation region (both geographical and time-of-day) that would require a massive deployment of batteries to even out. This, in turn, would also require a hard look at the environmental effects caused by the manufacturing of these technologies at scale.

And then there's the question of energy conversion efficiency. Let's start from the principle that all conversion of energy happens at < 100% efficiency. A switching power supply of automotive class is likely in the 85% efficient, maybe less. Power generation itself is less than 100% efficient. And, finally, charging isn't 100% efficient.

Efficiency math for a chain of devices is simple, just multiply the efficiencies of each device in the chain to obtain the system efficiency.

If power generation efficiency is 80%; charger station another 80% and battery charging (the battery stores less than 100% of the energy that goes into it) 80%, the total system efficiency is 0.8 x 0.8 x 0.8 = 0.5 or 50%. Yikes!

In other words, HALF the energy used to charge an electric vehicle is wasted, likely as heat. That's assuming it is a three step process.

The truth is there are additional links in the chain. For example, the transmission of electricity though power lines and transformers isn't 100% efficient. In California we are at about 90% [0]. This would bring my prior estimate down to about 45%.

I would not be surprised if a full accounting of losses, from generation to energy stored in a battery, is in the 30% range. From that to energy-in-battery to energy delivered to the wheels is a different matter. Maybe 90%?

I haven't seen a study analyzing the realities of mass electric vehicle deployment from an energy efficiency perspective. Does such a study exist?

EDIT:
The real question needs to look at deployment at scale. We have about 300 million vehicles in the US. Assuming all of them are replaced with electrics and accounting for generation-to-wheel losses, how much new energy generation would we require? Other than burning coal and natural gas, how do we get there? I suspect electrics are not even close to being as "green" as people think they are. They sure feel good because, locally, in front of your own eyes, they feel clean. However, the real evaluation has to take into account the entire system.

[0] http://insideenergy.org/2015/11/06/lost-in-transmission-how-...
They could still do that if significant regulation is put in place to enforce things like KYC/AML, and strictly regulate places where cryptocurrency touches the 'real' economy.

This twitter thread doesn't necessarily call for an outright ban, it criticises what he terms as "regulatory impotence" in this area.
And there are fun leasehold arrangements like "The ground rent doubles every 5 years"

Starting from a peppercorn value, this quickly amps up to hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of £ a year.

It's the wheat and chessboard problem[1] made concrete

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem
Whereas extra CO2 in the atmosphere is fine? Or do you mean that it's easier to sequester the CO2 than to get children to stop pounding things containing lithium?
The relevant discussion about UB is restricted to constructa that the standard describes. For example, writing past the end of object is UB - the construct is described in the standard, but is given no semantics by the standard.

The standard does not describe pattern matching, so using pattern matching is also undefined behavior, but there is nothing to be talked about here.
If Mine safety was effectively regulated Lithium battery recycling would probably be economical.
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exactly that. politicians and visionaries with big ideas about green future are one side of the story the other is the implementation and how it works in practice.

thrash tends to conveniently vanish into the 3rd world or east europe, where it gets burned or poisons the environment.
"Other things have caused pollution, therefore you can't criticise my thing"

We are in a world where excessive use of fossil energy is a massive problem.

At such a time, bringing a new financial instrument into the world that uses more power than mid-sized countries is irresponsible if not downright malicious.

Sorry if that annoys you.
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Surprisingly for me, it's the other way around! Equations build intuition in my case, although I'm not sure why.
Re environmental impact: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27194586
Average price of 2 bed apartment in jersey is £460k
This seems very unresponsive and myopic. The issue does not appear to have been diversity but work life balance. What does the gender of the Ai voice have to do with reducing the stress at work ?
Hi there,

Thanks for this release! I use ST every day and I love it: the speed, the efficiency, everything.

The one thing I miss, though, is manipulating files from the left panel (moving files especially). I know there is a plug-in doing that (Side Bar) but it lacks drag-and-drop support.

Any plan to have it natively in the future?
> The module is also probably fairly easy to physically rip out, too, without disabling the whole vehicle, if creative methods with more finesse don't pan out.

It's a legal requirement to have it. Sure, I can rip out the head-lights too, but then I am not allowed to use the car any longer on public roads. If emergency call is part of the cars registration I am probably not allowed to disable it without voiding the registration.

As well, no one does this. If you do it, you stand out like a sore thumb.
Has the title changed lately for SEO reasons? I remember reading this story with something about changing 1 bit to avoid closing potholes..
All of them for Erlang, but still…

https://github.com/inaka/worker_pool - A pool of workers

https://github.com/inaka/elvis_core - A linter for Erlang

https://github.com/adroll/rebar3_format - A formatter for Erlang

https://github.com/adroll/rebar3_hank - An oxbow code detector for Erlang
Because they extended the warranty replacement to four years for the keyboard? Once that's done and now they are going to push people towards buying entirely new models since an out of warranty keyboard repair on these things is something absurd like $600-700 IIRC.

Trust was eroded because every year they came out with some improvement on it that was supposed to fix the problem, then at the end of the year models with those keyboards were added to the expanded warranty program.

I think it would have been better if they had a real fix for this issue, it probably would have been expensive for them with a redesigned top and bottom case to fit a decent keyboard but right now the butterfly keyboards seem like ticking time bombs. Eventually they will die and Apple will either ask several hundred to repair it or say parts no longer exist and buy a new one.
Is this safe for work? Because I'm interested, but currently on a work computer.
I'm willing to bet multiple such bots have been implemented and are running live. It's just an obvious strategy.
We should have something like the Wikipedia list of lists of lists, sorted by HN submissions on several topics.
Great, let us know when that actually happens and when Bitcoin gets taken offline.

Because AFAICT, the number 2 cryptocurrency going PoS is positive, but doesn't necessarily solve the whole problem, and the actual switch-over might still be years away anyway.
THIS. In many legal systems companies are required to pay to recycle their waste. And recycling is expensive.

This created huge incentives for criminal organizations. Sketchy recycling companies that dodge regulations, bury toxic waste into building foundations, and make huge profits.

Also, most companies in developed countries simply offshore polluting industrial processes to less rich countries.
Yes and no :)

Avoiding category-creation risk is true of most investors most of the times

For VCs, it's understandable given investors see so many co's pitch and it's one less risk to worry about. The later the stage and bigger the check, even more pressure.

Earlier stage is always more welcoming than later stage. Risk is lower for angels b/c betting on team means the startup can pivot (harder later) and can always exit for lower amounts ($20-30M exit for a $50K check is more of a 5X return than the goal of 10-100X return-the-fund, but a few of these still works and is more doable)
> Every dependency is either vendored or pinned, including some critical things that have no ABI guarantees like Eigen, which is literally pinned to some random commit,

starts sweating from GDAL PTSD

I hadn't heard about dh-virtualenv. That looks super convenient, I'll definitely give that a shot.

Honestly I've been kinda leaning into Conda-in-Docker images (so you can isolate while you isolate, dawg), which actually isn't so bad with a custom SHELL directive so you can RUN in a conda env. So many of my customers use it and provide algos developed in conda that it's often just easier to grab their environment.yml and stick it all in a container for deployment.

The pre-cooked TF image are a godsend but also the instant you need two different versions of TF in the same pipeline, you're hosed. I've been playing with Argo Workflows to get around this.

ML software packaging is the worst.
Related to WebContainers, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27223012; however, since they are not yet available, figured out some might want to start prototyping solutions with at least Node.js remote execution in the browser.

Planning to add support for arbitrary libraries over the weekend.

Currently running in a shared docker container, so please don't use this for sensitive data.
I only remember using Compsurf command a lot because HDD was so flaky and experimenting with NLM's when Netware 286 and 386 came out and realized it made for a sucky application server.

Read about Vines in Byte Magazine - afaik it had something like an enterprise directory which Novell and 3Com Lan Manager did not have.
Interesting that most of the gains are from better utilization/configuration of Linux, not from code optimizations. The userland code was, and remained a tiny fraction of time spent.
Casinos in Las Vegas consume quite a lot of energy
Sublime Text is my favorite tool by a long shot, even if I have to admit that I am impressed by the quality of VSCode,

I came back to ST a few months ago when I experienced weird slowdowns on VSCode.

I would love to see an integrated terminal.
CSIRO was allocated an additional $459m over the next 4 years last October.
Google’s big plan to beat the Apple Watch: Team up with Samsung
I don’t get your point. Of course refcounting is a possible and working solution, but it’s not an accident that Java, JS, and C#, languages with the best GCs, doesn’t use it.
As a guess, I would bet that the legal requirement is that it be manufactured in such a way, not that the car's operator keep it connected to the telephone network after purchase. I shall research and find out!

It's internal to the vehicle, so I doubt it would stand out visually. The ALPR stuff and mobile towers aren't (yet) integrated.
> Battery powered cars are going to be the next disaster, after the fibre glass disposal scandal of wind farms.

Serious question: What is the fibre glass disposal scandal of wind farms? I googled for it and I didn't find it.

There's currently no way to recycle these, ok. They usually end up in landfills or incinerators. It's not ideal and we can hope that better technologies will come up in the future. But that's not really what I'd call a scandal.
Yes it's just the tops of honey bottles
> Any live young who pass through the reproductive tract could also be imperiled by the proximity to poop-borne pathogens. Perhaps that’s why human anuses ventured off on their own.

Clearly not, since it's not really feasible to give birth without simultaneously defecating all over the place. One of more unpalatable secrets kept from men back in the era where you were supposed to just sit in a different room and smoke your cigar.
Sure, its more complex than that, and an accurate model would be more complex as well.

But hey, doing science[0] is hard, better not be scientific instead /s

[1] science as in the scientific method: model->hypothesis->test , improve model->iterate. In contrast to the "shoot gun", or like the blog author called it, "whack-a-mole" method: try many things, be grateful if one sticks, no ragrets. /s
Tell that to https://li-cycle.com/ and https://northvolt.com/revolt/
All nice i use it a lot but why does it take way too many seconds to open large files? And its not the cpu i have top cpu ram and ssds.
Live photos by default is a privacy disaster. No one understood it for years and you could see all kinds of stuff people weren't necessarily willing to share.

This is what a platform that doesn't respect the user looks like. This is where your App Store and heavy handed sandbox gets you.
I know; the magic fairys who normally 'sort out' our rubbish will magically make the batteries disappear! It really is that simple, and we can all continue living a life of peace and tranquility.