skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Because gamers, graphics designers, porn watchers and TVs don't use piles of thousands GPUs kept at 100% load 24/7. The spike in power demand and consumption after cryptocurrencies became popular speaks for itself.

Many blockchains already use or are transitioning to proof of stake cryptocurrencies. Not to mention gamers, porn watchers, and graphic designers in aggregate utilize far more energy than cryptocurrency and also do not use green sources. It seems you just have a personal dislike of crypto and are letting it preclude you from objectivity.
Where do you think they are living now?

Are all Apple employees living in Cupertino?

The solution is efficient public transport. Not increasing housing stock.
I don't know how a strategy that involves "change the majority of people's minds about government" and "change the heavily entrenched 11 trillion dollar health care industry" is a realistic one.
The initial statement was questioning their motives, not to remove the FOIA.

> My guess is it's a group of charlatans looking to sell their own COVID cures
> Mongoid follows versioning guidelines as outlined by the Semantic Versioning Specification, so you can expect only backwards incompatible changes in major versions

I will note that this reverses the direction of implications.

In SemVer, you should expect breaking changes only in major versions. (All version changes with breaking changes should be major, but nonbreaking changes can occur in major or minor versions.)

This is not the same as expecting only breaking changes in major versions. (Which would mean all changes in major versions should be breaking, nonbreaking changes cannot occur in major versions, and breaking changes might still occur in minor versions.)
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It totally came across as a non-combative (and friendly/respectful) disagreement.
In theory you should be able to build a new NFT marketplace and airdrop the shit out of it to replace OpenSea.
And the Email he sent: https://kriegman.substack.com/p/email-for-which-i-was-fired

> Action became more urgent when Thomson Reuters began to inject pro-BLM political propaganda into the workplace through a series of official company events that invited BLM activists to the company, where they proceeded to spread some of the very falsehoods that have so devastated disadvantaged black communities.

Yeah, sending an unsolicited mass Email accusing co-workers of promoting propaganda is not going to go over well. Harsh, abrasive language targeting co-workers and management is a 100% fireable offense.

> Almost immediately, my post started to receive a barrage of bizarre, hateful, abusive, and ultimately extremely racist comments from Thomson Reuters employees.

> For example, one commenter condemned the stats that I presented in my post (which were taken directly from official government sources) as “inaccurate”, “false and/or fraudulent”

That doesn’t sound hatful, abusive or extremely racist. But publicly condemning your colleagues without any reasonable evidence is a pretty sure fire way to get fired.

> Fully 13 Thomson Reuters employees expressed their approval of condemning my post based on this race fantasy by publicly "liking" it and attaching their names to it. If it were only a single disturbed individual it would be easier to ignore his troubling condemnation. However, with 13 people publicly expressing their agreement, it began to feel like there was some kind of group harassment going on.

Yikes, this again shows absolutely no rational thought process. And yeah calling your colleagues “disturbed individuals” means you’re going to get fired.

I didn’t read the rest, it’s just more ranting, name calling and whining. Either this guy is one of the most clueless people I’ve ever met on how to communicate and behave in a workplace environment or this was a largely intentional act to get fired in a blaze of virtue signaling to the right.

It’s fine if you want to die on a hill, but at least come prepared for the consequences. To write that post and unsolicited follow up Email berating his colleagues and bosses and be surprised at the consequences strikes me as one of the most naïve things I’ve ever seen or heard about in the workplace.

I hope his ideology is more important to him than his career because that’s the signal he’s broadcasting loud and clear. And there is some virtue in that, but then at least go work for someone who celebrates your ideology, don’t try to slam your ideology down people’s throats with a massive essay (with shaky conclusions) and then criticize them publicly in a mass Email when they’re offended by you.

Not everyone is going to agree with you and that’s pretty important to understand working at a traditional news agency.

With the “silence is violence” quip, this guy sounds like a pissed off conservative who tried to “own the libs”, but instead just disrespected his employer, bosses and colleagues and got fired for it.

Hopefully he has a career in data science for conservatives because it’s pretty clear he has no respect for those that disagree with him.
I don't think it's relevant either, not at the moment anyway, not after 1/6. But the collusion happened and we need to stop pretending it didn't.

> If you think Hillary Clinton's emails ... I would have a lot of trouble understanding your reasoning.

I would say all of those things you listed would be my personal list of grievances against Hillary Clinton. I think it put her toe-to-toe with someone fundamentally unfit for office. But when I talk to Trump voters, their grievances include almost none of the points you listed. In order they are almost invariably: 1. E-mails, 2. Benghazi, 3. her proximity to Bill Clinton. That's just my experience anyway, maybe it's not generalizable. But it's not surprising, as this is roughly the proportion of time spent on each topic in the media, particularly on Fox News. They didn't focus on the cost of education or the opioid crisis. They did focus on NAFTA a bit, but more so than anything it was e-mails they focused on. Just look at the peak here of search terms that drop off after the election: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2016-01-01%202...

> The endless pearl-clutching and regurgitation of Russia-gate

If you think the reaction to the events laid out in the Mueller Report and the Senate Intel report amount to "pearl clutching", then you admit it's above-board to work in lock-step with a foreign government to hack your electoral opponents, and that it's fine to then leverage your privileged position to cover it up. If that's your stance, say so. That's fine. What's not fine is to minimize what happened as "pearl clutching". A thing happened and it has serious implications that drive directly at the dysfunction of our government. We have to be lucid about those implications. Just don't be surprised when a Democrat does it in the future, I wouldn't put it past them. That's what normalization of this stuff does.

> If we don't want another trump, the best thing we could do is reform elections to combat minoritarian rule, reform the legislature so it can actually function, and pass some simple, obvious reforms to improve the material conditions of working people.

I know you said you've been out of the country for almost a decade, so maybe you have not followed how dysfunctional things are now. None of what you suggest will be signed into law. Maybe some election reforms will squeak through, but even then they might just patch a 19th century old electoral count act, and even that is going to be a massive ask.

Meanwhile, Republican state legislatures are removing all of the barriers that caused their "Green Bay Sweep" plan to fail on 1/6, giving themselves full partisan control of state election boards, which used to be nonpartisan. Again, you can call that uninteresting pearl clutching, but at the same time I will note that you are living in a functioning democracy, whereas we here in the homeland are currently classified as a backsliding democracy due to the GOP agenda. It's very interesting to those of us who are still here.

I'd be very interested to hear the take of older Germans you know about 1/6, as to whether they also think the consternation is pearl clutching.
Wait I assumed that NFT marketplaces like OpenSea stored a hash of the artwork in the layer 1 blockchain. Please someone tell me this is actually happening?!
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/c-suite.asp

"C-suite, or C-level, is widely-used vernacular describing a cluster of a corporation's most important senior executives. C-suite gets its name from the titles of top senior executives, which tend to start with the letter C, for "chief," as in chief executive officer (CEO), chief financial officer (CFO), chief operating officer (COO), and chief information officer (CIO). "
you mean prove that conflict of interest is real? Isn’t that something that any experience with human behavior would confirm quite easily? Do we need to prove that judges should not receive money from one of the parties in a lawsuit they are presiding over?
> Worse, the blockchain does not, apparently, contain the hash of the data.

It very often does, and it is certainly the case for most high-value NFTs. It is indeed not the case if you create your NFT on OpenSea and do not take the additional step of freezing the metadata.

Also, there are many artworks that change, so a hash to a single file is not necessarily the right solution.
I agree with you about robust, maintanable software and simplicity. I also think that Go solves those problems pretty well. My point is that there is no need to put down other things, since simplicity may vary from person to person, teams to teams and problems to problems.
Did you even read what you linked?

The SEC are saying that some operators of proper Ponzi schemes are taking crypto as investment and using crypto hype to justify their insane profits.

Not that crypto in general is a Pyramid or Ponzi scheme.
as the site says "The UK tax treatment for RSUs is similar to how your salary is taxed."

The example shown on the site you quote has a 56.53% effective rate - don't forget you pay NI as well

As I said very poor I paid zero tax on my two share saves and my current EMI is at the 10% rate.

Update the 56.5% rate is after you put 20k into pension the actual rate is just under 70%
> I think changing our relationship to technology will probably require making software easier to create, but in my lifetime I’ve seen the opposite come to pass.

I don't think I'm disagreeing with Moxie here, but I do like to emphasize that it's less that creating software has gotten harder (which is true in some ways but false in other ways), and more that our standards and expectations for what software should do have gotten higher. If I wanted to make a chat app today, for example, it would obviously need to:

1. run on iOS, Android, and probably also Windows/macOS/Linux or at least desktop browsers

2. have some notion of persistent user identity and message history, including something like passwords and something like an account recovery flow

3. support group communication among these persistent users, hopefully allowing for multiple devices per user

4. be internationalized into many languages

5. with some sort of abuse reporting/detection/response mechanisms and some posture towards law enforcement requests

It doesn't need all those things on day one, but it will need them if and when it gets popular. And of course this is without even beginning to think about discretionary features like

6. searching, sending, and displaying animated GIFs

If my goal is to build an app that me and my friends can use for fun, of course I don't need to do most of this. But if my goal is to compete for market share with apps that do these things, I 100% have to do all this and more.
Poorly worded on my part, I meant
> as long as new investors contribute new funds, and as long as most of the investors do not demand full repayment and still believe in the non-existent assets they are purported to own.

As mentioned this happens a lot with shitcoins and yield farmers, its rather easy to setup, but is not indicative of the industry, and the main source to blame for this misconception is the media, because you certainly cannot justify it if you understood the technology.
So everyone has the exciting opportunity to pay more for something that still doesn't deliver actual "full self driving". It'd be more sensible financially to wait for Tesla to deliver first and then you pay for it.
More on this here:

https://www.fastcompany.com/40485634/equifax-salary-data-and...
I mean, yeah, nobody that buys cryptocurrencies expects to buy goods with it, only to sell it to someone else for more money down the road.

A decade ago there was at least Silk Road and similar, offering something tangible in exchange for cryptocurrencies, now the best you can get is a half-assed El Salvador experiment with too many issues to list (but to give two examples, imagine not being able to pay for stuff because AWS's US-East-1 went down, or waking up as a "millionaire" because the app had an integer overflow).
Those measures might slow down transmission slightly. But they wouldn't be anywhere near sufficient to achieve "zero covid". In the end we'll all eventually get exposed. Fortunately the vaccines and other therapies are fairly effective at preventing deaths.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646

https://youtu.be/GklHGYY8vN8

The only major country still even attempting a "zero covid" strategy is China, and they're failing. In open societies the measures that China is taking aren't even practically or legally feasible.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/03/china/xian-covid-outbreak-loc...
I view the final two conclusions points, that people do not want to run their own servers and that we need to make software easier to build/run, to be one and the same. Is the reason people don't want to run a server because it's just so difficult and expensive to keep a computer online in your living room (remembering that a smaller deployment doesn't need 20 nines of uptime), or is it because the UX of running server software has always been terrible? Could an OS be made which makes running a server actually a friendly process? We managed to design OSs which made running apps on a _mobile device_ a friendly process, surely the same could be done here.
> Blockchain-as-a-Service tools

You mean something like AWS, but that allows me to quickly setup an server containing a node?
Kids who get a hold of their parents credit cards or the new generation of people who will live off stocks their parents gave them.

We’ll see how much they’ll be spending on skins when they grow up/can’t game all the time.

However I think this new class of all day gamers isn’t going anywhere. It’s the perfect time sink for the new leisure class.

Orgy porgy
I've never heard from Guido on this, but I've always felt that he created the print keyword in the very early days, just because it was easy and he always thought the language would be a niche small language. But, as the popularity of the language increased, the print keyword just stand out as a sore thumb and he just had to fix that.
You might be thinking of Looking Glass.
>The upcoming generation..even the 'non-tech' people are tech-savvy, meaning most could probably get arch linux up and running at least via a distro or follow the docs, etc...where there parents would fail.

I don't know what members of the upcoming generation you're dealing with, but the ones I know are more computer illiterate than their parents.

Their parents played games on dos and had to configure shit, the kids use their phone for everything and don't know how to use computers beyond a basic level.
MatroX GraphX circa 1999-2001

Matrox had a famous 2D to 3D demo
> So you're saying Russia didn't act because the people that want to (and actually did) kill Russians were who they actually wanted in influence?

Erm, no, what specific Russia's action do you have in mind? I am not really sure what you are saying, but it seems completely out of touch with what I meant and the topic generally.

You are missing the point here, Azov is just an undeniable universal evidence of Ukraine's government being in bed with neo-nazis and it's a sentiment enough for people to disaprove and rally against, nothing more is implied here. I could just as well use the examle of language policy, or openly prasing nazi collaborators, or like how the Ukraine voted against heroisation of facism in the UN. But none of this is as simple to google and go "holy shit, how is this a thing?" as Azov, that's all.
It'd be naive if there were any indications of "these techniques" existing beyond extremely vague hand-wavy conspiracy implications. Just throwing out the name of Chomsky's book is not an actual evidence of anything. Tell me which specifically Gitmo-CIA-black-site-derived techniques you mean. You don't have to spell out the whole Chomsky, just name a couple, 2-3 sentences would be enough.
> Can you please elaborate on that? If that's the case then I've to read a bit more on the subject as I thought every cryptocurrency required powerful hardware (GPUs or ASICs) under intensive load, which of course translates in huge power demands.

Definitely not the case. That's the case for Proof of Work cryptocurrencies, but the vast majority of cryptocurrencies now are not Proof of Work but Proof of Stake. The only real stragglers are Bitcoin and Ethereum.

With Proof of Work, the chain's energy usage has nothing to do with load. It's literally because they couldn't figure out how to get the chain to work properly without making people burn large amounts of energy as a byproduct. Even when the chain is empty and nobody is sending transactions, that energy still needs to be constantly burned to maintain a Proof of Work cryptocurrency. Proof of Stake research (an alternative consensus mechanism that doesn't require this energy burn) wouldn't be complete and ready for production systems until many years later.

> The graph showing an almost 3x factor increase in power consumption in just one year looks worrying to me, however if you say there are other environment friendly means, that makes the matter interesting.

That's a graph of Bitcoin, the only top crypto that uses Proof of Work with no plans to transition away from it. So I think environmentalists should be focused on Bitcoin, not cryptocurrency in general.
Precog DNS is the future of subzero latency.
But see, this is where I get lost in this concept.

Should Jagex fold and the game become unplayable, what do you own? An entry in a database that says that you once had this item but you can't do anything with it? Why is that valuable?

I can sort of see the argument if other game developers allow for these items to be reused in other environments, and that's something pushed by NFT enthusiasts, but I don't see how that makes economical sense.

For one thing that puts a lot of work on the table of other game developers. If every NFT of every game needs to be usable in other games, can you imagine the headache? It's a combinatorial nightmare.

Besides devs want to make money selling their own NFTs, not adding items made by others for free, so what incentive is there for adding support for your rare Runescape item in some other game? Seems like devs would rather sell you a special "Runescape retro item set pack, only $9.99!"

And then we haven't even touched on IP issues. If you have an NFT of Lara Croft, can the devs of another game just clone the model in order to let you import her?

I feel like all of these issues by far dwarf whatever convenience NFTs bring to the table. The problems I outline above are the ones that need solving, and if you find a way around those you could very easily achieve what you want without "web3" tech (see Steam trading cards and Nintendo's Amiibos for instance).
I think you want textwrap.dedent

https://docs.python.org/3/library/textwrap.html#textwrap.ded...

or inspect.cleandoc.

https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/inspect.html#inspect.cle...
Lada cars were actually pretty good, if rugged and lacking comfort. The propaganda against them was mostly that, propaganda. They were good for budget cars [1].

Now, you can argue they were a joint-venture with Fiat and not an entirely original idea (though the Soviets made improvements in ruggedness and ease of self-service), but whatever: cars made by the Soviets didn't suck.

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[1] from Wikipedia:

> The rugged Lada was popular in Europe, Canada and South America for customers looking for more affordable alternatives to local brands, and sales of the new cars were extremely successful, reaching as far as New Zealand. In the West, their construction was frequently described as cheap and that inspired jokes at the car's expense; nonetheless, Lada "gained a reputation as a maker of solid, unpretentious and reliable cars for motorists who wanted to drive on a budget."

Wikipedia uses as reference Andy Thompson. Cars of the Soviet Union, Haynes Publishing, 2008.
Citations? (I recall reading an article claiming this is what happened to the middle class about a decade ago, but I don't remember where or how trustworthy. It's hard to reconcile with the real lack of increase in real wages.)
A 5-year plan for a (hopefully happy) new normal:

- Reduce unnecessary social contact to a minimum: all-remote workplaces, ubiquitous and fast grocery delivery, a culutre of avoiding "window-shopping" and mall-going.

- Significantly reduce residential density: reduce the need for work commutes, dismantle crowded public transit, minimize public spaces and the need for them, preferentially live at a distance from the urban core, incorporate more single-family homes into natural wilderness and parklands.

- Reverse the "unbundling" of family and home activities: prefer to home-school children instead of packing them off to overcrowded schools, or at least share private instructors with a few other parents in your "pod," eat out less and cook at home more (or hire an in-home cook, as many of my peers did).

Disease needs density and crowding. Get more fresh air and put more space between people, and we'll all get healthier and happier.
> Including allowing a "server" to be offline for months at a time, come online for a minute or two, then disappear again.

Neo-NNTP!
Having done something very similar how's the CPU usage with Python doing these specific demos?
There is no centralized competitor to the web that has outcompeted it.
In practice none of this is happening. All the major wallets query OpenSea to determine what NFTs an account has (according to the article). anyone can access the data but that doesn't change what the wallets query. I can start my own wallet that directly calculates who owns what using the blockchain, but that sounds computationally expensive and there's no guarantee that anyone would use it.

"In theory" the data is open. but I believe that the point of the article is that unless I'm running my own node, data visibility is limited to what someone else tells me. and here, in reality, OpenSea has decided to delist the author's NFT and they have no recourse.
> If managing a server were easy and secure, lots of people would do it - for blogs, a minecraft server for the kids, to back up their pictures

Easy 1-click deploy exists right now. Lots of VPS providers offer service specific deploy for things like minecraft, seedboxes, plex, nextcloud, etc. Check out Scaleway's InstantApps section to get an idea. https://www.scaleway.com/en/imagehub/
In practice I end up caching the output often. I have used process substitution but the iteration process feels more useful to me if I've slowly built up data and I can inspect the internal pieces each time and reuse them in different ways.

But I can see if it's relatively fast. I like it. I just don't end up using it often.