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> The issue really comes down to that some people think its a waste of energy and some people do not

No, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm making no judgment at all as to whether validating transactions is a good use of energy.

> And as mentioned above, the hash rate is not an infinite black hole, it levels off as the price levels off regardless of userbase.

Exactly, and your statement here 100% proves my point. Since the total number of Bitcoins is fixed, the only 2 options are (1) "the price levels off" as you put it - but the only way (long term) for the price to level off, when supply is restricted, is for demand to eventually wane. The other option (2) is for Bitcoin to eventually become a sizable portion of the financial system, in which case it's energy demands will grow proportionally.

The point I'm trying to emphasize is that Bitcoin backers' position is not possibly consistent: either Bitcoin becomes widely deployed for actually facilitating transactions, in which case its energy use grows proportionally, or its energy use plateaus, in which case it means usage of Bitcoin will have plateaued as well. There is no middle option.
I’m not saying that is in any way right or pleasant. I’m saying that is not censorship and there are important distinctions.
"Art is never finished only abandoned"
I'm using this for about a month now and the only problem is the default instances that are used are getting rate-limited/blocked; so you will have to find or host your own fresh instance.
I don't necessarily disagree, but this is the cultural problem I'm sort of pointing the finger at.
Chelsea Manning got her sentence commuted to 0, which is almost like a pardon.
> People’s terminal preferences are the root of who they are. There is no goal that exists beyond one’s terminal preferences. You can prefer to obey some moral distinction, but you prefer it because that increases your happiness/life satisfaction. If it didn’t, why would your brain ever bother to spit out a “you should do it” answer?

This is circular reasoning. You have baked in the assumption that people operate by maximizing their individual self-interest.

A simple answer to why one might do it, even if it didn’t maximize their own happiness/satisfaction, is that they are genuinely focused on a less individualistic aim.

Self-sacrifice in service of higher value doesn’t necessarily make one happy, but it can be part of one’s nature to recognize that one’s own sacrifice benefits others in some way.
To summarize: it's not interrupting* to speak up in agreement and support of another speaker, but it's definitely interrupting to stop their train of thought and disagree.

*Depending on the cultural norms, of course. The author notes that in NYC it's OK, but I wouldn't try it a lot of other places.
The omitted factor in this story is the historically low availability of houses, which makes housing prices hypersensitive to even small upticks in purchases.

The oft-cited solution to "just build more" only works to restore affordability, when we build more affordable homes. If the new builds are also out of reach of most buyers, then we're just cementing the unaffordable state of housing.
I tend to agree with you, but there's an edge case-y argument here that idle CPU is a resource that a corporation might be happy to donate to a small developer

in practice though I think it is not
Yes it does, in every other country. This is exactly what happened last year with the toilet paper "shortage" where people emptied the stock by panic buying and then the food "shortage" when Curry's went out of freezers because people were panic buying and stockpiling food. These images could only be seen in the UK, no other European country had this problem. Now it's happening again. Exactly the same. The British are morons, on average, at best, hopefully.
Sorry to hear about the pip. Wish you the best. Thanks for the tip.
> especially since there are parts of the universe being doomed to never interact with any other part as the universe expands and their local neighborhood is pushed beyond reach of particles travelling at c

It's not clear that this disqualifies the claim. Would you mind expanding?

I am heavily biased toward what I call a "computationalist" point of view on metaphysics. This has resulted from the study of machine learning theory, being primarily Bayesian probability theory, statistical mechanics, computing theory, etc. and recognizing the deep isometries between them. This position seemingly inevitably leads one to a panbiotist stance, i.e., that there is no line but an arbitrary one between what can be considered "individual" vs "collective", nor between "living" and "non-living". In short, It is the Spinozan "God" for the Information Age. So I am in vigorous agreement with the conclusions of these cosmologists.
> At some point data will win, right?

Nope. If you test your software and it shows no bugs, I'd be more worried that the test was flawed. Underneath the shiny bits we developers know how buggy software really is. Its just a fact that the smartest humans keep introducing bugs in software. The more complex the software the more complex the bugs and difficult to find.

> Stories like this are, fundamentally, just marketing press hits. The public FSD beta rollout in some sense marks the last chance to kill Tesla's autonomy product before... it wins.

Nobody owes it to Tesla to give them free publicity or be forced to immediately accept their ideas. Personally, I think its makes more sense to invest in tech that reduces dependence on needing cars in the first place.
> "If the argument is that communism is just as bad as religions then sure I'll buy it."

To play the devil's advocate, I'll point out that religion has also inspired acts of charity, large and small, for millennia, a not insignificant number of the greatest works of art and philosophy in history, and provided a sense of community and fellowship for humanity. For all of the atrocities committed in its name, suggesting that nothing good came of religion is inarguably false. We'll see where communism/socialism and atheism stands in a few centuries but, to date, it's hard to say their track record is as good as religion if we're being intellectually honest.
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Oops. Reading comprehension has never been my strong suit.
Gödel's incompleteness theorem is very similar to the halting problem, in that they are both really profound results, but they have almost no bearing on the practical benefits of logic / computation.

In the halting problem example, how often do you create infinite loops as a programmer? Even in the software verification space, proving termination of an algorithm is fairly simple. So, the halting problem doesn't really affect us in daily programming.

The same with the incompleteness theorem. The fact that we can't say _every single thing possible_ (completeness) has no bearing on our ability to say _an innumerable amount of very practical things._

The amount of things that formal logic can express is so vast and useful that, to call it "flawed" is a pretty big misunderstanding on the incompleteness theorem.
Tell you dad he's clever. And also some random fool from the internet is now copying him.
Agreed, and to add on, incarceration then, is about protecting society from harmful people, not retribution. It makes no sense to say, were going to keep this person in jail for another 10 years because s/he really deserves it. Rather, we can't let them out because it seems likely they will harm other people.

Obviously if you are person who was harmed in some way by this person, it's hard to hear and follow this plan. But as a society, we have to think in a more calm and deliberate manner, and try to make dispassionate decisions.

Further, if in the future, we find a drug for psychopathy, such that we can just give it dangerous people in prisons, and they become rational, healthy people, at that point it makes no sense to keep incarcerating them. Holding the treatment as a further punishment also makes no sense.

There is a point to be made that incarceration does potentially effect other people's drive to do bad things. Certainly their brain can be dissuaded by them seeing huge prison penalties paid for similar crimes they might do. But i'm not sure the correlation is all that high, and i'm not sure it's ethical to use one person to dissuade another. But that is a point that a society would have to decide on.
It just seems like this whole endeavor is solving the wrong problem. Building a self driving car is like making a faster horse. Individual cars on roads is incredibly inefficient and even EVs have a huge negative impact on health and air quality from tire and brake dust.
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I fully agree with that. Stripping licenses is a Bad Thing™.

When I've imported foreign files from other projects that don't have license headers, I give them license headers and also append their LICENSE or COPYRIGHT file into mine; I like belts and suspenders.

Removing history, itself, is not especially problematic. History is for maintenance, merges, and downstream compatibility issues.
I evaluate the liveness of a github project based on the responses to questions (latest post, time to reply). Not by when the last change was made.
I agree with static typing, but disagree with TypeScript itself. It's a great tool to type existing JS code, but for greenfield projets I find it lacking. Structural typing means that you can't make the difference between an address and a name without resorting to branding, which sucks. Strict null checks are opt in. ADTs are a pain to use.
The internet is pretty cool.
It'd be useful to have a way to tell visitors this project still works without having to push commits to refresh the last updates timestamp.
Honestly, the fact that we are celebrating (not that we shouldn't) the election of the first female majority parliament shows why gender equality is still not achieved
Egyptian here.

Many taken during the British occupation. But throughout history, just stolen/smuggled out. Egypt was also occupied by the Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Ottomans, and French. And aside from the occupations, there's a pretty vibrant smuggling trade.

Egypt keeps trying to repatriate these artifacts but with very limited success (https://english.alaraby.co.uk/analysis/egypt-wants-its-stole...). As an Egyptian it's both interesting/frustrating to find museums outside Egypt with more stuff than many museums in Egypt. For instance, it was a little intriguing when visiting the Vatican museum, to find they had a pretty large Ancient Egyptian collection for some reason.
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I drove a friend's (new) Mini recently and it was somehow larger than my Polo but also had less room on the inside.
Dunno who you’ve worked with but in 2021 that’s patently false. Optimizing Facebook ad performance for ROAS is a precise science. Marketing budgets are heavily scrutinized and hard to defend precisely because of dismissive attitudes like this, so you better believe most marketers are working their tails off to measure and deliver ROI.
Sometimes "ego" is used to refer to the self, but I think the distinction we're going for here is between "self" (soul) and "sense of self importance" (ego.)
So you can feed your ego with praise and self-centered narratives, but it takes wholesome thoughts, good deeds, and self-giving love (both received and given) to nourish a soul.

"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
— Phillipians 4:8
> it's somewhat interesting that we don't consider the source code history in our OSS licenses

Developing is in the burden of the single developer/project and which kind of version control system is used to produce releases can hardly be mandated by copyright law.

It is only one reason to use a F/L/OS/S license for contributing back, that is taking part in the development project. So on the other hand, it sort of does consider that, but it's merely then in the social interaction.

What so hurtfully happened here is that a collaborator tried to break the ties (forcefully) and was powerful enough to do so.

Sure, this renders the OSS license less effective, and I guess this can be seen or felt by many developers.
You may be right. They must have been told by the higher management. (This is not a private equity owned company though). Thanks a lot for the advice
No, this is not correct. Tesla persists in comparing autopilot miles (primarily highway driving, only good weather, recent model cars) to all miles driven by all road users under all weather conditions.

Tesla cannot claim autopilot is safer than a human driver based on this type of comparison.

Still, they fooled you and many others in this thread, so I guess their marketing works.
Yes, I think your comment adds a lot to mine.

Licensing of version control history might need to have a legal debate, actually.
Clearly the CCP is looking out for Winnie the Pooh and Uyghurs' privacy, not dissent or genocide.
I am with you here. That being said, I believe the author refers to « weaker » libraries (higher-level, more recent etc. )
perl is unusually good in this regard, as I'm sure you already knew.
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This is a pet peeve of mine too. It helps to have a small public api and encapsulate the parts we don’t need and to just wait until the api is stable before going to v1.
Well firstly those strange coins are pretty much money at this point. They might not be as universal as fiat, but you can 100% live a comfortable life using only crypto, albeit it might be a bit more work. Secondly I think clicking "yes" to a message saying "you want to support the developer when your computer isn't doing work for you?" Is easier than sending fiat in most cases.
I do concede though that it only really makes sense if you live somewhere with cheap eletricity.
Fair enough, with the investment advice.

As I wrote somewhere else, Science is an algorithm, not data. That algorithm was honed over hundreds of years. That algorithm is the reason that the ideas of some patent clerk in Switzerland were able to dethrone the ideas of one Isaac Newton, who some consider the greatest genius who ever lived. It's not about trusting scientists at all (ideally).

My whole spiel here is that you should ask experts in their field of expertise. Would I take medical advice from a career politician like Hillary Clinton or advice on climate change from Ted Cruz? Absolutely not. Would I take Obama's advice on how to raise money or negotiate a deal with Netflix? Maybe, he seems to be good at that.

Edit: Haha, what's with the downvote? Hillary being worried that I negatively impact her side-career as a chiropractor?
I don't really think the idea is copied at all. The idea of formatting code is fairly common. I just think they should stop using deceptive advertising.
The incompleteness theorems don't imply a flaw. It's just a property of sufficiently rich systems.
Wouldn't that information end up in some other hands anyway? It has to be exfiltrated already before he gets it and shares it...
In general, a totally agree with you. I was thinking specifically of Neil Ferguson in the UK, who has a history of loudly promoting the worst possible outcomes based on opaque models others in the field have described as an unreliable buggy mess. Yet his data and models were at the forefront of the argument against any relaxation of lockdown or mask wearing rules (all while he was flagrently flouting lockdown to conduct an affair). People like that do not give the general public confidence in the reliability of experts.
Milewski is almost my sole resource for category theory so far. I watched his lectures on youtube, and ordered that book as printed from here: https://www.blurb.com/b/9621951-category-theory-for-programm...
Given the drastically falling costs of renewable energy, how does the nuclear power hype train continue? Their main justification for it now is that it's clean, compared to fossil fuels. That doesn't account for the greenhouse gas contribution from the mining and processing of uranium, which isn't renewable. More importantly, is there any way it will ever compete on cost? Why choose a clean, non-renewable source that costs more than a clean renewable? What about factoring in the costs of the waste and decommissioning of nuclear power plants?
It’s bogus. Social scientists are locked in their own need to be social by seeming to be scientific.

A problem of sociology that now extends to our public-policy-facing sciences, as well.
There are even worse implementations. In the US and Canada where red color rear turn signals are permitted as a cost saving measure, you will see implementations where you have to discern a blinking red light surrounded by an illuminated solid red light (when the brakes are applied).
it is meant to refer to the fact that they are no longer rivals; iraq is effectively an iranian vassal
Cognitive Dissonance.
End of US’s extra unemployment benefits gives little boost to labour market
Am I right that this is the important part of the library?

https://github.com/jorgebucaran/colorette/blob/d1ff3a7/index...

I agree that the author clearly spent a lot of time polishing it, hence the pride and feeling of betrayal.
Bitcoin seems to be a virus slowly consuming the resources of the planet and excreting nothing in return.
Eh how is it purely political kangaroo court with jury convinctions? And for sure they only bring cases they think they can win they admit to this.. for sure having money helps get you better defense. But a purely political kangaroo is a pretty big stretch. Unless you are talking about the secret FISA courts sure. What is way more scary is the whole killing USA citizen via drone strikes in foreign countries no court cases at all.
Thanks for the advice. Yes. Sometimes I think that way. ( ie wait till they fire me). But it will also hurt. So thinking of quitting gracefully. Lets see how it goes
On a related note, I found how to get rid of my Reddit addiction!

After getting banned on 3 accounts for talking about suicide, they IP banned me.

I logged on 2 more accounts (yeah, it's a serious addiction, though I planned to use them for marketing), they got banned.

Opened a new account (no unwanted content, only puppies and rainbows), got banned within 3 days. Can still visit, but can't talk, which is a major part of why it's so addictive to me.

This should reduce my time spent there at least by half. No comments = no replies = no point.

Can't believe I never thought of it before. Actually, I didn't know it was possible.

Next up, HN? The last digital heroin right now... What would it take to get permabanned? Asking for a friend.
This one is more about engineering and trust toward regulatory bodies. Science alone won't make nuclear plan not to break or leak. It is about trust toward companies that build the stuff.

Also, "scientists" is kind of nebulous group. I am unsure who exactly you mean and what exactly they support.
Do they?

Do they really?
>But since you mentioned it, global variables that have side effects are definitely magic, in my view. If I did this in Ruby by monkey-patching synchronous IO methods in response to a global flag, people would definitely call it magic.

It definitely is "magic", but it's one of the few areas where I welcome it, personally.

What other options are available? The three I know of are function-colored (JavaScript, Python), async/automatic context-switching by default (Go, Erlang), or monkeypatching to go from colored to async/automatic context-switching by default (Zig, Python gevent).

I also hate globals, side effects, and monkeypatches, but I find the monkeypatch method to be the best compromise. I still use gevent in pretty much every Python project, and have for the past 10 years.
I was replying to GP's suggestion that the argument is over relatively trivial code, not to anything about the core dispute.
The interesting bit I didn't know was the article says that Wikileaks did not publish the complete contents of the Vault 7 materials they had. Not sure whether they just published shasums of the bits they didn't, or if they proved some other way they had parts they were holding back as leverage.

It's odd to read what was really at stake. Pompeo's team was ready to assasinate Assange in London, and the only thing stopping them was the justice dept and only nominally the office of the President. What WL (and Snowden) did was show to the public the intelligence community, who was ostensibly accountable to them, for what they truthfully were. The news media took a bigger credibility hit for their history of spiking these stories and delivering hit pieces than the spies ever did.

Most people saw how the sausage was made and decided they still liked sausage. Not only do we tolerate what these services do, but now that we know about it and have done nothing to change it, we have acknowledged it and rewarded them for it all. Snowden's story practically created the ability for retired generals to accept pulpits from tv news where they can armchair QB the issues of the day, and they should thank him for the minor television celebrity and speaker circuit fêting they now enjoy. Whether that undermines the credibility of their institutions is still to be seen, but all that plotting to kill Assange just to sustain some lame narrative about a bureaucracy seems like it was just a fatal distraction from the real unseating of western power that we are clearly into the endgame of today.
> sustainable power industry

I've not heard that nuclear fission is particularly sustainable. Clean, relative to fossil fuels, yes. But sustainable? Does that word even make sense to use in referring to nuclear power, outside the technical sense of "self-sustaining fission reaction"?
I do this in the README. Include a "state of the project" section.

Seeing no updates in 3 months is one thing. Seeing no updates on a project that describes itself as a work in progress is another thing.
I actually believe that he is absent minded man of advanced age... Which makes whole USA political system even funnier from outside. Only if they didn't have nukes... Not that he doesn't deserve full punishment for all the crimes he has commited.
An idle CPU consumes (relatively) little power. I get that you're "wasting" potential computation power, but we've spent years making auto-scaling CPUs to conserve electricity. On clouds, that CPU is probably even oversubscribed, so the idle time is already incorporated into the price. I don't even think it makes any sense in theory.

In practice it's even worse. There's not a sane company in the world that would let some random bitcoin miner run on the same host as their mission critical system anyway.