skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At its peak, NANO might consume about as much as energy as a single shopping mall.

That's not a comforting analogy. A shopping mall processes payments that confirm almost instantly too, even on exchange, on top of running lights, security, maybe a movie theater, some music over PA, running escalators, cooking food, etc.

And that's just energy consumption. NANO also has hardware costs that scale linearly with the size of a network.

> XMR is about 60 Gwh...at least until more cryptographers work on XMR to figure out how we can increase efficiency.

Educate me if there's an approach I'm missing here but computing experience so far suggests that there will be little improvement in these figures for a damn long time. As it seems to me, P will have to equal NP before significant strides are made in this domain, at which point of course we've opened a Pandora's box that renders most crypto (not just -currency) insecure.

> There are trivial things that consume far more energy than crypto

Of secondary importance to me but I'm really curious what you think these things are.

> Why do you keep saying the technology hasn’t matured after 11 years?

For the record, you are the first person in our exchange to suggest that this tech is still in its infancy. To quote your previous reply:

> Again, this is a technology in its infancy. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27262914]

Actually, in your very post that I am replying to, you say that,

> These are early stage projects.

My point is, they may be massive improvements, generational strides from BTC, but if after 11 years there are still roadblocks to wider rollout (like, as you concede, efficiency), it's just rational to second-guess the approach.

(Footnote: I feel like the purpose of my ACID DB analogy flew over your head. The whole point of it is not to impress but rather to show why raw throughput without specifying the hardware offers little insight. But that's a moot point here.)
amazing anime.
> "... to depart with passengers and crew ..."

Except for a person, right?
Because you'll often be faced with a 500 euro+ fare for a short flight on the national airlines, with either one of WizzAir/RyanAir offering the same flight for 20-80 euro.

9/10 times the service is near-identical to a flagship. 1/10 times, the sub-par exception handling reveals itself. That's a trade-off I make regularly to save 400 euros.
The real challenge is running F-Zero GX. I’d love to see some benchmarks for this game — the hardest game to emulate.
Additionally, no animal in the wild had been found to carry the virus
Soviet architecture developed in periods, like in other countries, and there definitely was a return to simplicity in 60s-80s. It is strange that author cites main building of Moscow State University as an example of “brutalist” architecture. It may seem massive and intimidating but it is not what brutalist architecture means.

I lived in that building for several years and it is ornate and intricate example of Stalinist architecture, very much in line with subway stations built in the same period.

Subway stations built in different periods used the prevailing architectural style of the time. It is just that not too many tourist see them as they tend to be well outside Moscow centre.
I doubt the pilots knew anything about the reason for the piracy. The only thing they knew was what the ATC told them, no matter how outlandish, and that they had MiGs intercepting them.
One thing I always notice on the CDC 6x00 family is that the vectors on screen are drawn so fast (to fit enough text on the high persistence phosphor before needing to redraw) that analog artifacts appear on the fonts themselves, giving them a whimsical, almost Comic Sans, look.

Funny to see the analog side isn't able to keep up with the digital hardware. That's peak Seymour Cray.
Also not Dolphin, a web browser for Android.
> I'm honestly not familiar with the literature on this issue at all

But you've accepted at face values the claims this woman is making?

https://www.outsports.com/2018/6/14/17458696/trans-athlete-c...

> When you look at the results, it might be easy to understand why some people, like Soule, are upset. On the face of the results, it looks like two trans athletes have suddenly come along and raced into state titles and decades-old records

> Yet when you look a little deeper, there’s more to the story.

> First, Miller and Yearwood aren’t “beating everyone.”

> Yearwood finished seventh in the 200-meter. Five girls, other than Miller, beat her in that race.

> Miller, in addition to her two big wins, also ran the 400-meter and finished fourth.

> Both of these trans girls were beaten by cisgender girls at the state meet.

> The idea that they are unbeatable, or that any advantage they may experience as trans athletes is “unfair,” are undermined when you look beyond the headlines of state titles and records.

The idea people are struggling with is that some advantages are fair, while others are cheating. This is incoherent. Should we ban rich children who get private coaching from sporting competitions? Why not?
I am in the market for a new laptop. The new M1 MacBook Air appeals to me so much but the lack of any ability to repair/upgrade it over time is just no longer acceptable to me.

Instead I'll be going with the Framework laptop:
https://frame.work/

I expect to replace the RAM, Battery, and maybe even the processor over time. I really value this optionality and it will be much better for the environment as well.
Not sure why others are down voting you, and I so far can't down vote anybody.

As a Chinese, I never considered myself as a communist-lover, and I probably saw more shady things happened in the country than probably most foreigners here. But, I assume that's not why people clicked this thread.

Yuan Longping is an icon. A scientist who dedicated almost his entire life to improve the life of the others through his research and groundworks, which saved billions of people from starvation across the world. This alone deserve some praise, regardless which political party you're in.

Now, if you're still unconvinced, think about this: He increased the yields of rice, and rice is a kind of food people eat. The only way rice could hurt people is through probably obesity, you can't even make or launch nuclear bombs with it. So why feel triggered?
Research reveals formation of ultra high-grade gold
Germany has general election this September and since Merkel is gone for good there is a huge possibility that the CDU (the majority party for several years now and was in favor of NordStream) will lose to green party. Green party is completely against NordStream2.

So things might actually change. But then again, it is easy to criticize when you are not in power.
Russians infected w crossover flu virus suggests possibility of another pandemic
You seem to have started writing your reply before (or instead of) reading my commment in full.

My point was that if Snowden actually was there, they wouldn't land in Austria to begin with. Unlike the RyanAir flight, the plane wasn't forcefully grounded (under a false pretense). It just wasn't let through any further, but returning was still an option.
It still requires memorising the positions of 52^2 cards though.
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In contrast, I always found myself feeling like a fake not being familiar with soldering irons, hardware, kernel programming, nerdy and rocket sciency stuff.

Those things are exciting to me. But I notice my work colleagues, especially the ones from newer generations and those working more on high level stuffs, are rarely interested in these computational/communication device hobby thingies at the fundamental levels. They are more interested in what to make out of them rather than what are they made of.
Noted and fixed, as the other commenter noted it was the wrong language (and yes the romance languages call it something like Bielorussia, not much that can be done about that, sorry)
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It's literally what the constitution itself says: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." The vast majority of Americans are not Silicon Valley technocrats who reject any kind of deontological ethics.
I know. Similarly like the other historic cases i mentioned, nobody used that "father" meaning for Lukashenko (except for his son :) .
To quote the old, one-legged pirate from the Asterix and Obelix series: o tempora, o mores.
> some distributed medium that can't be edited, like Twitter.

It this supposed to be a joke? Twitter is the exact opposite of that.

> Then the threat model moves to "do we trust the person with the keys to this twitter account?"

> However, this is also "zero trust,"

Ok, it's a joke.
In this case, it would be reasonable that the person who uses the app would be responsible. The app takes the image and labels every pearl with a number. So the person just needs to check there were no missing or mislabeled pearls, which is much easier than counting.
Because its accessible from anyone from anywhere without requiring a sign up or kyc or any of the other hurdles that stop the flow of money and information between legal jurisdictions.

A banking and trading account where I can access multiple currencies without ever filling out a form or talking to a sales rep or being from the same country as the banking institution or passing some arbitrary credit check has to be worth something

I can’t buy AAPL here in India without going through a broker and clearing kyc and having certain amount of capital. I can buy tokenized AAPL that will sit in a wallet I control at all times, can buy with literally fractions of a dollar, and buy without ever going through a gatekeeper.

But again, you’re likely in the first world so it doesn’t matter to you. But here in the third world, people are willing to literally break local laws to access these markets.
"Shaude Clannon: Prinkerer, Tankster, and Thather of Information Feory (2016)"

Upvoted right there.

http://www.nackerhews.com/item?id=27261348
Ok, so I will google firmware patches, thx!
Why artificially damage a promising athlete? This doesn’t make any sense to me.
1) chromosome tests are useless. They set the original blueprint of what your body is, but if that original blueprint is ignored then they mean nothing.

2) As the original comment mentioned this completely fails for trans men. They are often physically stronger due to the higher presences of testosterone in the body.

3) For trans women this often fails because once sufficient time is spent on oestrogen testosterone levels drop to often below cis female levels. This causes a drop in muscle mass and can lead to the "bigger body, smaller engine" problem. Additionally with trans youth who have earlier access to puberty blockers and then earlier access to hormones they may never have gone through a traditional "male" puberty.

> Telling appart men and wen isn’t even controversial in most of the world.

This is a very bad statement in many ways. At best this is a confirmation bias. You notice the trans people who you notice, therefore you don't have a good barometer of who is trans and who isn't unless they tell you. I know plenty of trans people who you would never be able to recognize.

Even for non-trans people this can be very deceptive and is very cultural dependent.
Rural areas are understaffed in every skilled field, whether it be nursing, EMTs, firefighters, cops, engineers, etc. It is because the people there don't want to pay any taxes so they would rather do without.
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Twitter isn't really for something I'd call statement. More like update.
There were tardigrades on the Indian moon lander Chandrayaan-2, which crashed-landed in 2019. From reading this, it seems plausible that they could have survived.
In 5 years there will be 1nm transistors. If you skip this generation, you might as well wait another year to get high end stuff and you won't have to deal with Apple's less than friendly practices.
How many trans people realize early enough in life (and have the parental support) to actually use puberty blockers?
It is indeed very confusing :)
The U.S. Isn't a Creator-Friendly Country
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Sure but the 100.000 writes per bit!?

To me data integrity and longevity are paramount!

These have same idle power btw, but ofcourse 2W on read/write is bad but I rather use these $1000 in 2011 50nm SLC industrial drives and compress my database than buy some MLC/TLC/QLC drive made today with 14nm!
Yup, sad -- that's EXACTLY what I thought it was as well.
Python syntax is more similar to Pascal than to e.g. Java or JS.

"Modula-3 is the origin of the syntax and semantics used for exceptions, and some other Python features."
(from https://docs.python.org/3/faq/general.html#why-was-python-cr...). Also the predecessor languages ABC and SETL were in the Algol tradition.

> Python is 100000x more popular than Pascal

It's about factor 8 on https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ or factor 3 (in score) on https://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interactive-the-top-program..., whatever you prefer as a reference. Delphi (which is Object Pascal) is still a widely used language.
Not just mobile computing, but computing in general.
There's no "cultural generation," nobody I knew in college ever attempted to use Jabber because we were all just fine with using AIM. Shrug

Even if there was it would be a minority opinion among a company's developers, and developers have very little to no say in business decisions anyway.
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I am not convinced. Pressing the gas makes the car to go faster independently of whether it is on the hill or not. That's the causation and a correlation.
If you compare some observable at one point with the parameter value in another it is not the new Kahneman book who does stupid mistakes.
> All decentral systems trust that the majority of something does "the right thing".

There's a difference between assuming a majority of relevant nodes are honest and relying on your ability to identify that majority.
Just wait until you encounter the 37-45 year olds.
Ah yes, these fans may get loud, but they are nothing like an office back in the day full of hackers on ASR-33 Teletypes!

Each one had a noisy keyboard and a noisy printer. The keyboard didn't have a nice click like a modern keyboard, more of a loud scrunchy sound. The printer was even louder and rang a bell if you had a line too long.

You could always tell when the mainframe crashed. Everyone's Teletype printer stopped all at once, and everyone started mashing down every key on their keyboard out of frustration.
No, I think I expressed myself the wrong way.

What I mean is that if you have to annotate all your code with types (like in AngelScript), this will slow you down for two reasons. First, you need to think about types, and second, refactoring is more rigid.

If it is optional, it is ok, you can take advantage of it at will (ChaiScript supports types in parameters, but optionally).
>>> Wuhan’s flu season would have been November 2019. Different severity, the flu season in the northern hemisphere 2019 was not especially severe.

I'm not ignoring their first sentence. I'm explaining that their first sentence is wrong, and that isn't changed by looking at US figures for the year before.

China doesn't follow normal flu seasonal patterns. Instead of a single winter peak China sees flu all year with dual peaks in summer and winter - and the summer peak is higher. Flu starts in the south of China, and moves north over the year.

This particular type of flu was early, not just in Australia but world wide.

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/inf...

> The season has started slightly earlier than usual. It is too soon to predict how the season will develop in terms of peak week, severity and duration.

About severity: we can look at death. This flu season showed increased mortality. And we can look at hospitalisation. It had increased rates of hospitalisation. We can look at ages affected: some strains affected younger people.

> A(H3N2) is typically associated with serious health impact in older age groups.Some countries, such as the United Kingdom, are already seeing increased rates of influenza hospitalisation. There is no evidence of significant excess mortality at this early stage, however experience during past seasons suggests a significant mortality impact on the elderly during A(H3N2) dominated seasons.

> B virus circulation might be associated with a higher burden on younger age groups, as already observed in Portugal.

I know flu strains differ year to year - that's the point. The world pays attention to the flu in Australia because that tends to predict the strains in flu seasons elsewhere. This is part of the flu surveillance work to develop seasonal flu vaccines. This flu surveillance recommended that the vaccination included Australia strains:

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/who-recommendation...

> On 18–20 February 2019 in Beijing, China, the World Health Organization (WHO) agreed on the recommended composition of the quadrivalent influenza vaccine for the northern hemisphere 2019–2020 influenza season: an A/Brisbane/02/2018 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus, a B/Colorado/06/2017-like virus (B/Victoria/2/87 lineage), a B/Phuket/3073/2013-like virus (B/Yamagata/16/88 lineage) and an A(H3N2) virus component to be announced on 21 March 2019. The recommendation for the A(H3N2) component was postponed in light of recent changes in the proportions of genetically and antigenically diverse A(H3N2) viruses to allow more time for the selection of the appropriate virus strain. It is recommended that the influenza B virus component of trivalent vaccines for use in the 2019–2020 northern hemisphere influenza season be a B/Colorado/06/2017-like virus of B/Victoria/2/87-lineage.

My point is that there was a severe flu strain in Australia in 2019; this strain started making its way around the world; it would be unsurprising to see it in China at the time the article talks about; and that talking about the US stats for 2018 mean nothing because that was a different flu season with different flu strains.
Right. Confusion and chaos are friends to criminals. It's likely that by design of the criminals, the pilots were unaware or unsure of what was actually going on, until it was too late. The IED story turned out to be false, and we still don't know about the MiGs.
> At the banquet, the meeting’s organizers somehow persuaded Shannon to address the audience. He spoke for a few minutes and then—fearing that he was boring his audience, he recalled later—pulled three balls out of his pockets and began juggling.

Shannon was famous for his entropy.
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Its not an interpretation at all. Its is litterally written by Jefferson in the preamble to the constitution

> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

From your comment I wonder how many americans actually understand the history behind the constitution.
Tesla is found guilty of throttling charging speed
That is not true. HN is lagging behind mainstream when it comes to disputed issues. You will be downvoted to hell if you post anything that is only beginning to take a hold in the mainstream
its why the demoscene is not what it used to be :)
What has always fascinated me about old hardware/software is the "what if" aspect.

Up until mid-90s, there was a real diversity of ideas and architectures in computing. 68K, PPC, x86, RISC, ARM, MIPS, i860, and I'm forgetting a lot of others. There were a lot of interesting ideas, some of which did become standard, while others died either for technical reasons (lack of adequate 3D capability on the Amiga) or because of business deals that didn't pan out (such as BeOS on Macintosh being dumped in favor of buying out NeXT).

Of course x86 seems standard and humdrum today, but it wasn't necessarily meant to be that way.

We could have been running BeOS on i860-based hardware, with MiniDiscs for removable storage, if things had panned out differently. And I find that fascinating to consider, when examining old computers.
It's literally statistics applied to data.

If your data is good and you can fit it to a model it will work.

The problem is that data is often poor and the idealized models don't fit real world conditions so you can have problems like overfitting.
> [...] There are many class libraries available for lua. Just pick one. [...]

Alternatively, embrace the prototype-based programming and just... don't add classes.
I agree that they are one of the worst, in almost every sense. But their service level have, in my opinion, actually improved.

I use them a lot since they are the only ones which fly where I am going.
I am not in the west. I visited the west only few times. I am on the westernmost border of the former Iron Curtain.
I got these drives at $0.6/GB...

These drives seem to be built like tanks and they fill the 2.5" enclosure to the brim.

They are also the first drive with RAM buffer on the read lane which is interesting in it's own right; meaning the motherboard never have to wait for writes but the disk have to wait for the motherboard on reads!!!
Here's a fun little game. Try and get GPT3 to reconstruct the story, based on the headline (and maybe just a wee nudge). Here's one attempt:

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Story of the day: Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer’s downfall
“In an awe-inspiring display of the power of the internet, police in Liverpool have arrested a drug dealer in connection with an online cheese sale. A 28-year-old man has been charged with controlled drug supply after a photo of him holding a block of cheese was posted on Reddit yesterday. The photo was posted by the user ‘Whatyouknowaboutdis?’ underneath a thread about the best place to buy cheese. The photo, captioned: “Cheese is good”, clearly shows the man holding a large block of cheese, however, one observant user noticed something very sinister. The cheese, which was only on top of a carrier bag, didn’t have a price label and appeared to be slightly curved towards the bottom. After seeking advice from other users, ‘Whatyouknowaboutdis?’ commented: “This is actually really interesting, the cheese is curved towards the bottom (in the pic) but if you look at the bag it’s flat. It’s on a bag, so the cheese is obviously curved due to the weight of the block. This is a new one to me, I can’t wait to hear the excuse.” As expected, the photo shot to the front page of Reddit, with more than 800 comments and counting, including several from users who claimed they were police officers and would be investigating. One user, who claimed to be a police officer with the Kings Cross Police Force in Australia, commented: “I’m a cop and I’m here to tell you … this is a very clear case of controlled drug supply. The cheese has clearly been purchased by this man.” The Reddit users were not to be disappointed, however, as the Liverpool police tweeted this morning: “We’ve arrested a man today. He was charged with drug offences after an image of him holding a piece of cheese was posted on @reddit.”
==== * (search engines: this is a fictitious story with fictitious names made up by GPT3)

Here are a few more attempts: https://saigaddam.medium.com/cheese-photo-leads-to-liverpool...