skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if that’s true, the problem with fiat as reserve is that it basically acts as a curse on the country who shoulders that burden. Besides America, no other country is willing to step up to the plate.

Reserve status results in an artificially high bid on exchange rates, which decimates the export industries of the host country and results in perpetual trade deficits. The US is in a relatively unique position by being a big enough economy to absorb this impact, and by having an advanced enough financial system to sustain perpetual trade deficits by converting low yield liabilities to high yield assets.

But if for some reason or another the dollar loses reserve status, expect the central bank of any other contender to fight tooth and nail to protect their exchange rates. Just witness how the Swiss National Bank defended an arbitrary ceiling when global markets started piling en masse to the franc after the GFC. Or look at how China continuously manipulates a cheap yuan to keep exports competitive and its manufacturing based economy humming.

Without the dollar, the only long term sustainable fiat reserve I can imagine is something like the IMF SDRs. Basically the major currencies creating a basket weighted blend to make sure no single economy is burdened with reserve status.
The worst designed door in human history
OT: Copyright 2020. The amount of websites that don’t dynamically set this to resolve to the current year is absurdly high.
How in the world would something like this realistically work? Start with the assigned flat. If this is truly a universal benefit then everybody gets one whether they use it or not. What if I have a house, what do I do with my flat provided by the government? I can't rent it, it has no value on account of everybody having one. Does it sit empty and unutilized? Who's building these and where? It's nearly impossible to build as it is due to NIMBYs, how are we going to build a studio per person to give away? Where will they be built, are they spread across the country or are they all in Alaska? What if I want to move, can I be reassigned to a new flat at my chosen destination or am I stuck with the flat I'm assigned at birth? What government agency is responsible for building and managing the assignments of all these flats and how much will it cost tax payers? I could go on and on and I haven't even touched on the food box yet (food allergies). This seems completely infeasible.
> What you are describing is really “async-never.” And in fact, the programming model that async/await gives you is in fact, blocking. To the programmer, awaiting is no different from blocking a function.

Not exactly, I rather proposed async calls are explicit, instead of blocking calls being explicit.

Most people have no problem with the APPEARANCE of blocking. They mind if it's actually blocking under the hood. It's normal that when you issue some HTTP request, for ex. you can't proceed processing the response until you get it. One way or another "you await" that moment.

Regarding whether it's free or not, I still don't quite understand the problem TBH. An event loop isn't a hard addition to any language.

The only thing I wonder about is stack fragmentation.
When they're responsible for not even 0.1% of global emissions you're best served targeting the countries who are the most responsible.
>But when do we stop accepting transactions with ECDSA keys? I suppose at some point someone will try move 500,000 BTC from addresses that have been dead since 2010. Hopefully we'll have a consensus by then.

Why would you bother?

The outcome is the same, either the user gets locked out of their coin or hackers gain access to the coin, meaning the user is locked out of the coin. There isn't a solution that doesn't resolve in one of those and if you aren't able to protect the user by doing it, why spend the effort?
Coworkers get together, and in their spare time reimplement entire system, but 10x better. They love their work and are "true" hackers... all very romantic. That is not how it works. Today it is about politics and preventing other people from ruining your work.

In ideal world incompetent managers would get fired, and workers would get their salaries. But that is not how it works. Just the fact they are called "deviants" or "rebels" tells it.

So if you are 10x at something, start your own consulting business. Do not work for morons.
It's not! Except on wastes far more electricity.

We cannot an-cap our way to a classless society anyways, people. PoS is unquestionably the lesser evil of the two.
That would be a direct hit to the Paris Accord.

It is interesting how much France is invested in nuclear power. I wonder how prepared they are to ramp up nuclear tech globally.
Why do you assume that „pro-vax people“ would not want to see an effective treatment?
They are „pro-vax“ because it prevents harm to them and others. Effective treatment helps with that.
> The worldwide Bitcoin network uses about 12 GW, mostly renewable, because Bitcoin mining is unprofitable if it's using anything but the absolute cheapest electricity

Really now?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/private-equity-f...:

> Private-equity firm revives zombie fossil-fuel power plant to mine bitcoin

> Few bitcoin projects illustrate the cryptocurrency’s enormous climate impact better than the Greenidge power plant in upstate New York. The once-abandoned power plant was bought by private equity firm Atlas Holdings and retasked. A significant portion of Greenidge's electricity no longer powers nearby homes or businesses; rather, the plant's smokestacks are increasingly pouring pollutants into the atmosphere in the service of mining bitcoin.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-26/china-s-c...:

> China’s Crypto Mining Crackdown Followed Deadly Coal Accidents

> China’s escalating push to rein in cryptocurrency mining was triggered in part by concern that the practice has stoked a surge in illicit coal extraction, endangering lives and undermining Xi Jinping’s ambitious environmental goals.

> Authorities decided to act after concluding the spike in electricity consumption from server farms underpinning Bitcoin and other tokens was a key factor behind rising demand for coal in certain parts of China, according to a person who participated in high-level government meetings on the issue and asked not to be identified discussing private information.
by "practical use case", GP meant a case that crypto is better for, not just something it can be used for. You can buy coffee with bitcoin, sure, just like you can roller skate on a frozen lake, but most people don't, cuz that's not what it's for.
Man, I know people keep saying this but like, in 1997 e-commerce was just starting to take hold. The number of people who hold crypto in the world is roughly equivalent to people with internet access in 97. Give it 25 years and watch what happens.

Tons of people said the internet was a fad too and where are we now? It’s ok if you don’t get it, you will, or your kids will. The main point of crypto is that traditional finance is insanely bad ux. It’s just not internet native and never will be because of the entrenched forces.

Crypto is internet native money and we’re not going back.
I frequently needed to look up x records by id/name/etc. I knew the values, but needed to format them to work in SQL! I took my list and copied it in a text editor and had to run multiple regex commands to format the list so it could be used in SQL, ie. ('value1', 'value2', 'etc').

I got tired of this and built a VSCode extension:
https://github.com/reZach/listtosql
Artemisinin being peroxide also acts through ferroptosis. Would be interesting to see it in that combo.
Actually, no, this is for static sites deployment, it says so in the README. Only Next.js sites use Lambda@Edge, everything else is an S3 website.
True, but you don't actually print out your private key on a paper wallet -- you print out a seed phrase, from which the key material is derived. So you might even be able to keep using the same seed phrase! (Don't quote me on that, though.)
I think this part of the answer to the Theory of the firm (this weird thing where companies seem to do better than work from home gig economies).

On the one hands, if people just do what they want, it's total chaos. Everyone thinks they know best. Everyone wants to be a creative genius (ok, maybe not everybody, but a lot of people). Management needs to make things actually productive (exploit rather than explore).

On the other hand, sometimes someone really is onto a good thing. Ideally, they'd instantly be recognised for this, and given a team and support staff, but managers aren't gods, they're just human beings.

Here's an adaptive solution internal "risk taking" innovation is discouraged, but not usually a firing offense (depending on the time / resources spent, and whether you're keeping up with the rest of your work), because occasionally there is a big win that comes out of this.
This is new to me, so let's confirm just to be sure: US regulators have stopped non-US companies from acquiring other non-US companies? How would that even be regulated, purely logistically? A non-US company doesn't have to report to the US regulators any part of its non-US business.
It ruined baseball for me.
Fish don't synthesize Omega PUFAs, they eat algae (which unfortunately and inopportunely stains teeth)

From "Warning: Combination of Omega-3s in Popular Supplements May Blunt Heart Benefits" https://scitechdaily.com/warning-combination-of-omega-3s-in-... :

> Now, new research from the Intermountain Healthcare Heart Institute in Salt Lake City finds that higher EPA blood levels alone lowered the risk of major cardiac events and death in patients, while DHA blunted the cardiovascular benefits of EPA. Higher DHA levels at any level of EPA, worsened health outcomes.

> Results of the Intermountain study, which examined nearly 1,000 patients over a 10-year-period,

> “Based on these and other findings, we can still tell our patients to eat Omega-3 rich foods, but we should not be recommending them in pill form as supplements or even as combined (EPA + DHA) prescription products,” he said. “Our data adds further strength to the findings of the recent REDUCE-IT (2018) study that EPA-only prescription products reduce heart disease events.”

Now they're sayin'; so I go look for an EPA-only supplement, and TIL about
re-esterified triglyceride and it says it's molecularly distilled anchovies in blister packages. Which early land mammals probably ate, so.
US and Japan leave G7 stuck on coal
My mistakes. Just realizing this.
quantum supremacy doesn't matter if what your interested in testing in QC is related to the behavior of the processor or other curiosities.

I would encourage you to seek to be more open minded.
Of course, these days lots of houses have eyes, and they're recording, too!
I agree, but it goes back to my initial argument. Even if everyone documented every failure and had perfect documentation, the result wouldn't be a whole lot different. People just don't care or pay much attention until it affects them personally.

That's not to say it's a waste. Once a person gets bitten, they look for resources and learn from that. But until then, we're basically all stupid apes making the same mistakes in perpetuity.
Not a lawyer.

I seem to recall that setting this to a year other than the correct one can affect copyright.

Set it to the last modified date, not the current year.
Constrained resources often lead to exceptionally brilliant software. It’s as if resource constraints inspire a form of discipline and frugality that’s demanded from us. We become acutely aware of it, and reprimand our brains from complacency. From Apollo program to today’s Internet-of-Shit, somewhere we lost our ability to focus and bloated ourselves with sugar-high of processing power and memory. Just because it exists, and is cheap, doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
If some sets of the rodents is not as the same frequency as the another set then it's likely that only one of the frequencies of stimulation of the reward pathway were optimal for recruiting the relevant population of neurons for reward expression. They'd feel all nice and not afraid of each other, with an increased incentive salience (including social stimuli). Whereas the group not being stimulated at the optimal frequency for recruitment wouldn't feel nice and be motivated to persue stimuli.
Samsung is already planning its premieres in August. What will it present?
Smart contracts are amazing, as long as its a contract between two crypto people doing crypto stuff. But (and please, someone correct me if I'm wrong) the oracle problem still stops them from using anything in the real world as an input; I think this is what GP meant by naval gazing.
It’s definitions/conventions all the way down.

Which particular construction/definition of “the” reals/hyper reals are you referring to?

The expansion of the “0.n…” notation is a separate matter.

It also depends on which particular definition of “=“ and “!=“ you are using. x != y could be the classical “not(x = y)”; or the constructive “x < y OR y < x”.

So if 0.999… < 1 is an error, is it a syntax or semantic error?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_of_the_real_numbe...
He means with the switch to Schnorr signatures
So?

They hardly need to do that to track ips, its probably just easier.
Googler here. You are absolutely right. I would never ever do something the Google way outside of Google.

Google has a dedicated organisation for maintaining all the infrastructure required for and around microservices. We are talking about 500-1000 engineers just improving and maintaining the infrastructure.

I don't have to worry about things like distributed tracing, monitoring, authentication, logs, logs search, logs parsing for exceptions, anamoly detection on logs, deployment, release management etc. They are already there and is glued pretty well that 90 percent of engineers don't even have to spend more than a day to understand all that.
They might test it on prisoners first, but brain modification would likely be utilized by the wealthy.
The takeaway for humans here is that there seems to be an effect in mice so perhaps someone should fund a study with human subjects to check whether this effect also exists in humans.
What is the end game for these investments? Do they want to own the economy? Is this where we’re headed?
some theory of social identity builds a construct like .. the more socially important (for whatever reasons) the person is, the more detail and currency are in the ID or profile, by many measures. It would apply here like - a lot of detail in identifying a television personality going through your security gates, and as a side-effect a lot of pressure on a person that happens to look a lot like that personality; but ordinary people of ordinary means would have both less detail overall to ID them, and more errors in that, overlapping with others.

Thereby, you would get many effects, like people who fit certain demographic and cultural slots at whatever place and time, get a lot of false positives due to no fault of most of them. other examples possible..
This is what happens when philosophy, sophistry, and ethics decide to go on vacation to the Bahamas together while their husbands work at major investment banks.
Even this analogy is generous.
> Sometimes I wonder if they want secrecy so that criminals don't know they're being investigated, and commit a crime that's easier to prosecute.

This is idiotic. When I worked murder investigations that used wiretaps, we didn't want the suspect to commit another murder. We wanted to gain enough evidence to see the suspect convicted. It defeats the purpose of the wiretap if they know we're listening to them.
I hope there's no accident of course. That said, Tchernobyl and the cost of managing that disaster is seen by many historians as the event that bankrupted the USSR and ended its communist regime for good. If a disaster does happen one can only hope for a similar silver lining ...
I don't think they really care, especially once they are invested. They may care enough to do minimum research before investing in a token, but once they are invested it is like watching football. Algorand claims to be decentralized, but relies on gatekept relays and a centralized domain. If you bring this up, it is like a cult where how dare you question anything about the coin we've invested in.
Is there a PCB shortage as well? I feel like that couid put a dampener on the proceedings. Asking for a friend.
Awesome that a light has 100mb of ram, if I remember from the video correctly.
Yeah, I'm unclear on this also - there would have to be a flag day before which you can prove ownership and then move your coins to a new system. It doesn't work if QC that can easily break the keys arrives first, without warning.
Kids just love entering the mouth of a giant angry face I bet.

Some ideas are intended to die.
A developer I know constantly has to release “Emergency Patches” to an Enterprise company. It takes 6 to 12 months for those “Emergency Patches” to be put into production by the Enterprise company.
I’m super sorry to hear this. I am going to personally ensure we make a performance pass on the website. Thank you for reporting this.
HAL Combat Air Teaming System
That reminded me of my own thought/opinion why China would be forever copycats compared to the US. At least the difference can be seen in China vs Taiwan. One is a suppressive government, and another one is a democratic country.
What’s the CMM process?
Used drives. I would be worried about how clean the heads are and whether they are worn down and need to be replaced.
HAL Cats Warrior
Don't get too excited. Labor laws were passed forcing workers to take their pre-plague and limiting their mobility.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Labourers_1351
KratOS XQ-58 Valkyrie
I should've said "to the extent that it isn't security theatre"
Hemp oil doesn't contain EPA or DHA, but is does have 20% ALA. ALA converts into EPA and DHA in your liver, but in rather limited quantites (less than 15%). It'd be a poor choice for triggering this effect.

http://www.hempoil.ca/efa-faq/

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Omega3FattyAcids-HealthPro...
The grass is still greener where I work now. And it has been for 10+ years.
> then that energy usage will be justified since it's replacing something that takes even more energy (current fiat system).

I really doubt that, at least with proof-of-work cryptocurrencies, since a competitive waste of resources is at the very core of their design (e.g. he who can waste the most, wins). The equivalent part of the fiat network is far more efficient (e.g. a basic money transfer probably takes as much power as a couple of HTTPS web requests to a dynamic website).
Fiction is an odd place to put the trust of your future wealth. Personally, I feel very confident that those who currently hold real power will end up on top. I.e. those with a powerful military and police force who are capable of enforcing actual change. Same as it ever was.
> People use cryptocurrency today to trade and to transfer value.

Do they though? I recently did the math and people mostly seem to use crypto markets for what you described. Only about 10% of Bitcoin transactions actually have any blockchain involvement, the rest is all handled internally by markets. And that 10% was on a good day, there are many days when that number is much lower.
I speculate the problems were cooling related. I had a handful of 75GXP back in the day, but only had one that had problems. I went to replace it, shut down the machine, and when I pulled it out I noticed it was hot to the touch. Maybe 130F or 140F, not super hot.

I checked the drive operating specs, and they were well above that. There were a couple of open 5" bays that didn't have covers, so I taped some cardboard over them and turned the machine back on. Never hard a problem with that drive after that.
I have just started reading Seveneves, really enjoying it so far.

This is my first (proper) science fiction book. I have been told that Foundation series is a must read. Any recommendations will be appreciated!!
Wait, what?

Bitcoin retains purchasing power? Better than money?

Can you explain? In what real-world scenario does Bitcoin have stable purchasing power?
This is especially true on more recent versions which have nerfed south america, that used to be a fairly easy and defendable play with high chance of winning.
TechCrunch: The rapid hard-tech emergence
Constraints is the mother of all creativity. Like Andy Dufresne and the the rock hammer, how about I give you nothing, could you possibly dig your way out?
I did a bit of research and it seems that the phone has a removable battery.

This got me thinking, how easy is it to find a replacement?
The system-on-chip is the MGM210L which needed to be powerful enough to run multiple wireless protocols (Zigbee, Thread, Bluetooth), so the lamp can be controlled by any of these. These are very complex protocols. The Thread spec for example is hundreds of pages. I did a formal security review of it on behalf of Google back in 2015. Bluetooth is even more complex. RF signal processing, packet structure, state machine, crypto, logical services, etc.

The software complexity of these protocols is greater than the complexity of a rudimentary 3D game like Doom, so it's expected that whatever chip can run these protocols can also run Doom.

Datasheet of MGM210L for the curious: https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/data-sheets/mgm210l-...
Are you telling me with a straight face that the UX on crypto is better than traditional banking?

FWIW, I was into crypto during the previous peak, and transferring it around involved copy-pasting strings of gibberish and sacrificing chickens to the gods so I wouldn't mess up and nuke it all. As far as I can tell things have gotten worse, not better, since.
Uh, OK. Guess you get in a lot of fights on the Internet.
> there is absolutely NO benefit to having them.

Oh come on this is absolutely hyperbolic.

> They do way more harm than good.

Well that was quick. Can we start with the more nuanced position next time? Now we can analyse costs and benefits and perhaps learn something.
This isn't just the government though. There's enough backing to the idea that Twitter especially applies very flawed moderation, suspension standards to voices on its platform. In the early days Twitter was a place for debate and discussion and hearing alternative viewpoints. That's eroded away and hence the outburst. Also I think Indians still hold the view that a corporate with its black box policies can't and shouldn't suppress the voices of democratically elected representatives. I think that's a recipe for disaster.
South America was nerfed was it not? Haven't played in awhile but I remember they nerfed army reward and added another point of ingress right?
Welcome to agile development. We fix it in the next sprint. Except we don't - since we need the new button.
>This isn't a valid argument for exactly equal resource allocation across demographics.

It is if your goal is to intercept contraband. Previous contraband seizure statistics will be skewed by survivor bias. Currently, in airports, everybody and every bag passes through an x-ray or metal detector. Airport or venue search policy is unable to affect demographics.

This kind of reasoning results in a spiral of paranoia and ineffective solutions (security theater) which is much worse than a waste of time and resources. This collective suspicion breeds the kind of resentment and distrust which I would argue contribute to the very problems they are purported to solve.
Oh wow. Some of these were rather gruesome! I really liked having a fake head that snipers would shoot - there by allowing you to calculate where the sniper was.

This sounds like something that could still be employed. Any snipers out there to know how to counter this?
If you liked Seveneves you'll probably also enjoy the Three Body Problem trilogy!