skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just can't take the power and pollution argument seriously. There's just nothing salient about it. I might have otherwise agreed with the author on their other points but if you can't see the issue with this argument it disqualifies your opinion (which js just my opinion).

"Bitcoin requires lots of electricity". No, nowhere near the scale human activity sans blockchain does and to provide it we burn coal. Like we've done for a looong time before bitcoin. Removing bitcoin doesn't remove the coal we burn. Genuinely daft argument.

And that's before we get into looking at the numbers from areas like the mining sector. Aluminum smelting isn't cheap from a power perspective, yet I don't see this argument leveled against coke.

The answer is renewable energy. Obviously.
When I was a young engineer in 2006, the marketing about Web 2.0 was in every tender for IT projects, so much that my boss created the “Web 4.3 dev community” in my city to point out the ridiculousness of it.

Every versioning of that idea is marketing speech.
Gas is poor as a heat transfer medium, so the reactor vessel is both very large (power density is on the order of one tenth of current LWR designs) and has to withstand high pressure. Hard to make such a thing economical.

OTOH, the high temperature opens up interesting industrial applications outside electricity generation.
> The article doesn’t say “be the Samwise Gamegee” ...

I've always thought there is a strong case to be made that Sam is the hero in LOR. He's really the only one that has a fully-developed character arc and who grows as a person (well, as a hobbit).

Of all the characters, Sam's journey most closely follows what Campbell outlined as the classic Hero's Journey.
Most of the "proof of stake" coins are some form of delegated proof of stake, usually with an opaque and shady set of highly compensated validators with hidden connections to the project. Effectively proof of authority masquerading as proof of stake. This lets them have big TPS bragging rights while maintaining the appearance that they are running a decentralized blockchain rather than a centralized database with extra steps.

Real, decentralized proof of stake is a hard problem that has only just started to become reality.
Advice from Paul N. Edwards has been very helpful for me in this regard: https://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtoread.pdf
We often use popular mediums as a stepping stone to help discuss these more important pieces of media, make no mistake, open access to intellectual materials is our goal, alongside entertainment media, to a different degree.
If Bitcoin is like gold, then there's really not much money going into it, into how to make better bit-coin, how to make better gold. All the money just goes into buying the bit-gold itself, or perhaps buying more mining equipment. But Bitcoin is not a replenishable resource so mining it will have diminishing returns, and like with every mining industry the nature is at risk.
I do a lot of cooking and I prefer electric. I'm sure it's because I've cooked on electric ranges my entire life, the kind where the pan sits directly on the spiral heating element. I only ever cook with gas when I'm visiting a friend or relative.

Gas stoves are great at bringing a pot of water to a boil. But they are not so good at very low heat, like leaving a covered pot to simmer. Most gas ranges don't go as low as I would like, and I need to watch the pot more carefully and stir more frequently than I would at home.

I'm sure most of my issues are familiarity. If I had spent my life cooking with gas, my techniques would have developed to work better with gas. But now that I'm set in my ways I will stick with electric.
> I don't want any unvaccinated person near me because I am more likely to die as a consequence and I expect the Government to keep them away from me at all costs—for it is the constitutional duty of government to protect me as a citizen from threat and danger.

The vaccines are not reasonably effective against transmission, especially for the current dominant strain, but also the previous ones. Vaccinated people are still infecting people that were not able to be vaccinated and other vaccinated people as well - that's actually happening at the Australian Open right now. The absolute risk reduction of the vaccines is below 3%. [0]
The guilt-tripping is not based on facts or science, but on fear, the flawed idea that you could eliminate risk from life, as well as lack of respect for other people's freedoms.

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5...

> It has always been thus for centuries across many counties. How many instances and examples would you like? Do an internet search. Just because these facts are new to you and that you have never previously experienced a pandemic in your lifetime then it doesn't mean that such action by governments is not normal practice. Well, I can assure that it fucking-well is normal practice and that you need to get used to the fact or alternatively withdraw from society altogether.

Witch-hunts used to be common too, but that does not mean that we should bring them back.
In Switzerland, which escaped those European conflagrations, coins from 1879 remain legal tender.

https://www.schweizer-geld.ch/federal-coins-10-centimes/en/9...
And it was basically useless. Much lower power output than claimed, awkward to use, and fragile.
Well I meant the real you/me. Not a hypothetical spaceman.

Anyone on Earth can just say their computer clocks are set to "Earth", ignore relativity, and use their normal clock skew correction algorithms.

It's not "You can't escape answering the question". It's "Interplanetary spacemen can't escape answering the question." And those spacemen might not even use seconds.
Personally the reason it blows my mind is because it’s now permissionless to craft a unique structured product or derivatives protocol, deploy it globally, and anyone on the planet can participate in that market.

It’s fully customizable and accessible to anyone with an internet connection.
Only due to the internet existing in the first place, which by the author's own logic, 'that wasn't new either'.

The World Wide Web was the 'killer app' for the internet (which that has been there for years before) in the early 1990s; perhaps even fuelling the dot-com boom. A decade after that, the whole market crashed.

The critics were celebrating, did the utility of the web stop? Nope. Only the scams and useless, overvalued websites died.

The same thing applies to just blockchain technology even beyond 'Bitcoin or Ethereum' where when the concept of that is not new. The regulations will come and eliminate the coins that do not comply and the useless cryptocurrencies or meme coins will be extinguished - probably will cause another crash again and eliminating more useless unregulated cryptocurrencies.

That is even before the regulatory framework has been even properly implemented. A few of these cryptocurrencies will survive all of that.
Uncertainty Saves Lives (2018)
The IPO of a company makes a nice reference point for several reasons:

- It is a specific point in time which is easy to look up

- To go public, a company needs a big amount of traction already

- A lot of data is published for the IPO

"Useful" is in the eye of the beholder. But how much the company is "used" can be approximated by its revenue.

Yahoo had $1.4 million in yearly revenue the year before it IPOed. Coinbase had $1.14 billion. So about a thousand times more. Even when adjusted for inflation, this should be one or two orders of magnitude more.
> The solution is selling standardized contracts to small hold farmers that pay out automatically

And how easy do you think that is in Kenya?

You and I being able to take stable banking and government for granted says more about our own position in the world than it does about the efficacy of the technology itself.
I suspect op meant it in the sense of venerable, not in the sense of antiquated or outdated. Agreed that the word choice may make meaning ambiguous, but the rest of the post was clearly one of respect (even using the word 'revered').
> reduced to scream crying

Wow, I have never seen this.
Roman empire was very extensive (comparable to modern EU in size), fairly monetized, spanned centuries, and modern civilization digs a lot in the same places (if only for construction purposes), so the total amount of Roman coins unearthed is huge.
Yay, fixing that!
Pro bitcoin. Don't confuse crypto with bitcoin.

Our inflationary currencies that are in vogue in the modern era are explicitly designed to psychologically encourage people to go out and consume more than they actually need to, because their money is terrible at preserving it's value long term.

Inflationary currencies might be great at keeping the economy red hot, but I'm of the opinion that they're terrible for the long term sustainability of our planet.
> Please feel free to go and attack all of those ideas and projects, but don't think for a second you can really gaslight people into believing they aren't worth of pursuit.

This hostility is completely unnecessary.

But if you want I can add one more to the list: funding the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/north-korean-hackers-stole-a-r...
The university can shut down, suffer data loss or get hacked. Decentralized storage is an improvement.

No sense in diplomas being transferable though.
Can I make graphics-intensive IpadOS apps without a mac?
My main computing device is a Lenovo x220 with xubuntu. It does 99% of what I need; I love it.

I also own a 2021 Ipad Pro. I bought it as a Nomad Sculpt and Procreate machine. However, I've really been getting into graphics programming lately and would love to start building my own custom tools and augmented reality graphics sketches. I'm specifically interested in getting some experience in with the Metal API.

Unfortunately, I don't have $2k or even $500 to drop on an apple compute device. I have an old, very beat up 2010 MBP, but I don't know how much use it would be. I certainly wouldn't want to develop on it.

Are there any reasonably priced services that I could use to compile apps for IpadOS? It seems like in this day and age I ought to be able to write the whole thing on my preferred xubuntu machine, then send that over to something else for "apple-compliant-compilation" and so on and so forth.
Online shopping hadn't hit product market fit in the late 80s even though the Internet had already been around for a few years.
SDI?
What's their stance on web3? Cuz I'm against it.
Thoughts on Hedera's Hashgraph DLT?
Why doesn't Hedera's hashgraph DLT get more attention?

Though not a blockchain, its claims seem like the answer to the scalability trilemma.

Curious what you brilliant folks think of it.
Can anyone recommend a good air quality monitor for home use?
A cool example of NFT innovation is programmable royalty fees. Those fees can be directed back to the creator, the community, a DAO treasury.

Configurations are infinite.
Here's a recent article from the NYTimes on buying things with Bitcoin. None of the examples seem impressive, a doctor accepting payments for covid tests, sex worker getting paid: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/style/what-can-you-actual...
close to? sounds exactly like money laundering, since people who can move money legitimately wouldn’t do so through a relatively risky instrument like bitcoin. tax evasion is a likely entry-level reason, but often coupled with other sketchy illegalities.
> Nobody wants to see bots. Then their broken algorithm calls someone a bot who is not. Well, they're blocked from everyone, because nobody wants to see bots. That's the same as the status quo.

I want to see some bots but not others, but still, I want the choice to be mine. That's the most important thing to me, choice, because it leads to control.

Aside from that, I don't mind their broken algorithm because:

a) The perfect is the enemy of the good

b) We agreed that I get to choose (whether I see bots and which bots/kind-of-bots I see)

For instance, why can I not given some kind of confidence level? Surely their algorithm gives a score, so then I could say "If you think someone is >= 75% likely to be a bot, don't show me them, otherwise, do".
> Only about 500 years of common law.

I don't think that's true - common law would consider the contract void when broken or not properly met, and award damages, not enforce it.

If a builder doesn't finish building a wall they award damages - they don't march them back to your house and make them finish building. That's a pretty fundamental part of common law.
That is what financialization does. Finance is a parasite that will destroy all potential if given room. To force finance to be symbiotic you must never allow them to control anything.

These ideas are best left in the academy, and then later financialized. The exception to this is internal R&D (like Bell Labs and countless other extremely productive corporate divisions.)
> chargeback free donations

Are chargebacks on donations are major issue for any legitimate non-profit organization?
You wouldn't need an entire wheel, just two equally weighted compartments spinning about a centre point. In theory that's far cheaper. Perhaps you would purposely pump fluid back and fourth to maintain the correct centre of mass.

You could imagine a system where you 'space elevator' objects and people via the connecting cabling, whilst pumping fluid to offset the mass. You would likely want each side to be manned by two people.

You could later add more modules if designed correctly too. They would likely approach and attach to the centre (in a pair, one either sude), match the spin and then slot into their respective 'slots' and rotate on an arm.
I can't recommend any particular resources, but yes it's called harmonization and I'm sure you can get started by searching "how to harmonize a melody." YouTube has a billion videos on this sort of thing. You may also find it fun to play around with reharmonization, which is where you take an existing tune and find a new harmonization to match its melody.
I would like to create an online application which people could use by paying for its usage in bitcoin.

I assume it would make the application much simpler because there would not need to be any or very little user-account management, no sending bills or charging credit-cards. Just gimme them bitcoins. The user-state could be stored on the client-machine, unless they especially want to pay for us backing it up on the cloud. Still it could be backed up anonymously, identified by the wallet.

No more hacking, if there were no user-accounts or passwords there would be nothing to hack.
> The usual dietary sources of vitamin B(12) are animal foods, meat, milk, egg, fish, and shellfish. As the intrinsic factor-mediated intestinal absorption system is estimated to be saturated at about 1.5-2.0 microg per meal under physiologic conditions, vitamin B(12) bioavailability significantly decreases with increasing intake of vitamin B(12) per meal. The bioavailability of vitamin B(12) in healthy humans from fish meat, sheep meat, and chicken meat averaged 42%, 56%-89%, and 61%-66%, respectively. Vitamin B(12) in eggs seems to be poorly absorbed (< 9%) relative to other animal food products. In the Dietary Reference Intakes in the United States and Japan, it is assumed that 50% of dietary vitamin B(12) is absorbed by healthy adults with normal gastro-intestinal function. Some plant foods, dried green and purple lavers (nori) contain substantial amounts of vitamin B(12), although other edible algae contained none or only traces of vitamin B(12). Most of the edible blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) used for human supplements predominantly contain pseudovitamin B(12), which is inactive in humans. The edible cyanobacteria are not suitable for use as vitamin B(12) sources, especially in vegans. Fortified breakfast cereals are a particularly valuable source of vitamin B(12) for vegans and elderly people. Production of some vitamin B(12)-enriched vegetables is also being devised.[1]

So it seems like that despite them containing substantial amounts of vitamin B12, they are not suitable for use as vitamin B12 sources because they predominantly contain pseudovitamin B12 which is inactive in humans. They recommend fortified breakfast cereals for vegans.

What you said about cats inability to digest plants is of no significance here. Vitamin deficiency - especially this particular one - is life-threatening. We need it. We can definitely have plants, and we may need plants as well, but we do need to eat something that contains substantial amounts of non-pseudovitamin B12, which is meat. Of course you can just be a vegan and supplement vitamin B12, but...

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17959839/
SvelteKit's Future Seems Promising
> in QM, why exactly does potential have observable effects?

The simple answer is that it's right there in the Hamiltonian, and the Hamiltonian is the central operator in QM, the one that determines time evolution. The fact that the EM potential appears there has been known almost as long as QM itself. Much of the recent QM experimentation in gravitational fields has been making use of recent technological advances to verify, what theorists have expected all along, that the gravitational potential acts just like the EM potential in the Hamiltonian.
the problem with Blockchain is that it is strictly less efficient than centralized databases. therefore the only reason to use it is if you can't trust a centralized database. it's like torrents in the alternate universe where torrents were slower than a download from a server.
Sometimes folks do things like "The <span> in the <p>aragraph of the <article> will be font-weight: 300" and that stuff is more difficult to keep track of than classes. Beyond the existing HTML tags if everything is a <div> that may end up being more semantic and easier to parse. Web components is an ugly and terse way of achieving it, but too JS dependent and annoying.
I'm trying to understand.

You're saying that you wouldn't be able to perform online votes or surveys and remotely send money without a blockchain?

Could you expand more on what functionality that the blockchain provides that the other solutions in this space (online surveys and remotely send money) don't?
In what way "permissionless"? In the way "the government has agreed that they can be unregulated financial products" or in the way "hopefully it can evade government financial regulation"? or in some other way?
It is worth noting that the first release of Gnome 3 which had the leak from the outset was in 2011 and in 2018 they mostly "fixed" the problem by just constantly running the garbage collector and marveling at how not so horrible that is.

Unfortunately the problem actually continued for some at least into 2020.

In summary a broken design nearly completely ignored for 7 years and fixed with a band-aid that doesn't actually solve the underlying issue over the next 2 years. 11 years in and the design fail is still with us. I appreciate the fact that many of the contributors aren't paid for their efforts and I applaud their efforts to give to the community but large parts of gnome ought to regarded as learning experiences not something to build the rest of our software on top of.

I hope System76's work will be a better basis especially since their financial success could fund future efforts.
Proof-of-Stake is just Plutocracy-on-Steroids.

PoW is the fundamental breakthrough. Yet, everyone is oblivious to that fact, a decade later.

It's amazing that people on a technology forum talk about proof of stake as something new. That's what basically DNS runs on, and it's been around since 1983.

Maybe it is still early indeed.
My last job was I think maybe a somewhat less common story than I see here. I definitely did want more money and could see the raises begin to slow down as I reached the upper half of my pay band. What really had me looking though was that I was using dead-end proprietary tooling, with no team to work with, becoming the single point of failure on one of my department's main "products" I guess if you could call it that. It also still involved a lot of mind numbing work and dealing with red tape since it was a defense job.

It was about year 3 and I needed to leave or I'd get pigeonholed there forever, so I just took the first appealing job offer that I scored and bounced. Decent raise but the new environment has made my resume massively more appealing (using very in-demand tech, managed to get a fast title bump, I lead a small team now, etc).
They have RBMKs which will produce 10 times that, and more cheaply.
> if the effect can also be detected in a gravitational field context then we've likely found a profound and deeply relevant connection between EM fields/relatively and gravity.

I'm not sure I'd say it's a breakthrough since theorists have expected it all along. And current treatments of this all have a key limitation, that they are using non-relativistic QM. Which in practice works fine since all the experiments we can currently do in this area are well within the non-relativistic domain.

A real breakthrough would be a relativistic quantum theory that included gravity as well as the other interactions. But that's probably still some way off.
Unfortunately, trust in voting can only be achieved with paper voting, there is no technological solution to improve it that doesn't completely remove trust as well.
Since they needed to be, for clickbait.
Building an AI Dog Poop Detector for My Backyard
> This is one of the few websites that don’t force you to use https even though it does have it!

That’s bad, not good. Cleartext HTTP is a nice idea for an ideal world, but that’s not the world we are in: it’s demonstrably a vector for abuse, both passive and active. Save for a very few specific use cases (captive portal detector being the main one), it is irresponsible to support cleartext HTTP for any purpose but redirecting to HTTPS, preferably with a Strict-Transport-Security header so that that particular user agent skips straight to HTTPS forever after.
Yeah, admittedly, our site is in a bit of disrepair right now, but we are trying to get up to snuff over time
I really like an idea of gravity-based light, reminds me of a weight-driven wall clock we had as a kid. So it was somewhat sad to read that GravityLight has been discontinued.

This page has a nice, technical explanation: https://www.engineeringforchange.org/news/gravitylight-nowli... In short, the cellphones got popular, but the gravity mechanism was only producing ~0.1 watt of electricity, which is not nearly enough to charge them.
I don’t know if it works that way. I vouched for your comment because I think it’s a bummer it was dead, but I can’t say I’ve ever used breaks or falling out of practice as leverage and I don’t think it would be healthy for me to think of it like that.

Enjoy taking a break. It’s good for you, or at least necessary when you need to. Be present and grateful when you come back from a break and see improvements. And build on that if you feel like you have the momentum then.
Harmonization is the proper term. For a simple set of harmonization rules, check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-part_harmony
Old hymnals are a wealth of examples. Take a listen to this guy's YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC6BRCej5GRFLlovfZrNswqw
Go into System Preferences, Mission Control, and uncheck “Displays have separate spaces”.
Correct, so now imagine Python 3 as the adoption of Core Guidelines, which is basically what modern safe C++ is all about.

Lasted surveys, which are anyway only answered by people that are active enough to care about stuff outside job, places use of tooling to validate modern practices at about 20%.

Now do some statistical extrapolation and it is relatively easy to find out how much "modern C++" is actually used in practice.

Bjarne hasn't dedicated two CppCon to the subject to improve adoption of better C++ practices just by accident.