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Your proposed threat to Bitcoin only makes it stronger. If more resources are invested into mining, the network gets stronger. Meanwhile, other countries will increase their investment as well. It’s an arms race that doesn’t lead to people dying.
One project in this space that looked quite promising to me is sysbox[0]. I've used them once for a gitlab runner set-up similar to what is described in their blog[1].

It's currently working great and I have not had any major crashes/incidents for at least the past 8 months.

[0]: https://github.com/nestybox/sysbox

[1]: https://blog.nestybox.com/2020/10/21/gitlab-dind.html
Glad to see this old horse is still being pulled out and beaten every now and then.

I think this is the worst part of learning to program in CL: the self-flagellating, cynical CL users and the haters that parrot this old, barnacle-ridden trope: it's too powerful! Macros! Nobody can understand it but gods and strange people on the Internet! You will have to listen to these people constantly invade every forum, discussion group, and chat room on the Internet to tell you how you shouldn't be learning CL.

I like powerful languages. They have neat ideas. If they help you get more done in less time with less code, great. Not every software project needs to be a tedious, boring slog that takes 30 developers 8 months to do what you can with CL in a week.

Keep learning CL if that floats your boat. I had a blast learning it and it's a great tool to have and a constant source of inspiration for ideas.
Not very interesting. Paip, lisp 1 game a time, even lisp in vim is more interesting. Or the paper about the beginning of lisp.
Lupus is really hard to diagnose. There's a reason that ends up being the diagnosis on pretty much every episode of House M.D.

Doctors generally see 6 patients an hour, and have 5-7 minutes of paperwork per patient. The remaining 3 minutes gives enough time to diagnose the obvious, but not much else.
I think it's hilarious that the cable box (or satellite box) is worse than the others, in fact most of the others put together.

The cable box uses more power when idle than a smartphone uses peak, and that doesn't include the display!

As important as they frame the DVR I don't think I've known anybody who has cable who really uses the DVR.
If someone was trying to build a business around buying iPhone parts through their repair website, I'd question their sanity. Even if that return credit didn't exist, how many replacement cameras or whatever could you really order before Apple would shut you down? 10? 50? 100? What kind of product could you possibly build with that?
We're arguably in a recession right now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_recession

Companies offering free services or cheap ownership of things should do well I think, but any company that relies on subscriptions or upgrades would be hit hard.
With "open-sourcing the algorithms", does he mean actually publishing models? If so, it will be very interesting to see what happens - could this mean making it easier to find 'vulneravilities' in the models and exploit them? Kind of like this early-age internet "SEO" where you could put white text in your page's HTML with some buzzwords to make it more popular?
For a currency you're better off with more certainty, e.g. a 2% constant yearly inflation is ideal and allows people to use it as a currency.

BTC is also currently down from its peak, no one knows if it's currently "trending up".
The title implies that Google is the culprit. The article paints a more nuanced picture. It blames Google for providing marketing results for a query about the validity of some dental procedure. It also shares some blame with the dentist for advising the procedure in the first place. However, consider the ending of the story. The author saw the marketing for what it was and turned to academic search engines for more reputable sources. Isn't that what we want?

I dislike Google for many reasons and generally avoid their products and services, but are they really to blame here? Google is a general purpose search engine whose business model fundamentally relies on including marketing in its results. It isn't a flaw in the algorithm; it's a feature. It's how they make money - and a lot of it at that[0]. If you want academic results, go to an academic search engine. That's exactly what the author did and it worked out fine. I'm down for an argument that we need academic works to be more accessible and digestible, but that's not really a problem with Google.

The other accused subject was the dentist, but I'm not so sure about that one either. There is a lack of consensus among medical professionals on many treatments and procedures, and this story could simply be another example of that. Medical professionals are humans, each with their own experiences and biases. Besides, it's not like the academic results cited by this article determined that the treatment was snake oil. Maybe the author's dentist had her own experience with the procedure and honestly concluded for herself that it was worth the $400. Maybe she was biased by anecdotal evidence or her own theories. Maybe she doesn't value $400 as highly as the author. Maybe she simply values dental hygiene more than the author. This is a great example of why it's important for medical professionals to act as consultants and for patients to make the final decision.

IMO, the big problem here isn't Google or the dentist. The problem is how much trust people have in those two as sources of accurate, unbiased medical information. If you're making a significant medical decision, you shouldn't accept a single source of information - even if it is academic - and you certainly shouldn't trust marketing material. Get second opinions. Do a little academic research. It's easier than ever before.

That said, if a $400 laser treatment for your gums isn't a "significant medial decision" to you, then feel free to just follow your dentist's advice. That's up to you.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31172475
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Hello! I created this tool to help me in a study of how items were equipped on the character in 2.5D games from the 90's and 2000's.

My sentence was strange, but the intention is just to use the sprites as a study.
Alternatively, use it to warm up the cold water coming into the shower (I'd guess the largest usage of hot water in a home). Warmer "cold" water mixing with the hot water means less hot water used out of the hot water heater. My understanding, placing this only on the cold supply to the shower is it'll only impact your showers. https://ecodrain.com/en/
Yes, social democracy and the welfare state.
Why would you need to rebuild everywhere? Couldn’t you rebuild once in a trusted place and distribute signed binaries?
There simply is no evidence whatsoever that Ruby is past its prime. People are committing myriad logical fallacies: comparing go language to rails framework, anecdotes about Ruby monoliths, incorrect statements of fact about Ruby capability and more.

I like Go, but this is a terrible comparison and I’ve not seen a single comment make a valid point about Ruby’s alleged demise.
Is the impact of DKIM and SPF on email delivery measurable? Have any studies on this subject been published? Such an important part of our lives should be better understood. Reading this thread feels like witnessing clergy swinging thuribles towards the congregation while mumbling the gospel to build a connection with God.
They have such a large volume of sales that they would be able to very accurately estimate the number of parts they need in order to fulfill their warranty obligations and paid repairs. Their inventory of old parts would presumably be earmarked for that purpose, without significant leftovers.
It depends on skill level. I have a lot of experience spinning up services and own a home server, so probably it would take me a few minutes. That being said I've not tried it yet but will be doing this weekend
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What if your vendor was responsible for the fix?
> relaying all outbound mail through SMTP2Go

So it's not an entirely self-hosted solution, is it?
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This seems interesting. I wonder know the vaccine works to "cement" the tick's saliva.
It's only a matter of time before Alexa will only read you the "right" kind of news as to remain advertiser-friendly. It already happens on mainstream social media, where beyond actual illegal content, plenty of legal content but that happens to be critical of the proverbial "establishment" gets demonetized, banned or even silently shadowbanned.
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Yes...ish.

However, consider the greater performance scales with generators combined with the amount of useful heat that one gets out of a heat pump can be better than converting the natural gas to heat locally - even with losses on the grid.

The key is that a heat pump doesn't convert electricity to heat (as a resistive heater) but rather moves heat from one spot (outside) to inside with great efficiency.
I use air purifiers in home and I am trying to do the same. Issue is a lot of the electronics like these honeywell purifiers require user input when turned on or off. Do you know of any tricks around this?
It appears to me that Australia is using its "defense" budget to fund offensive actions against weaker neighbors like Timor in order to steal billions of dollars worth of petro-resources. That's not a "minor" thing. Bugging a Prime Ministers Office in another country can't have been cheap. That's probably a couple of million dollars just on that operation.
I'd say it's a feature. Particularly if you think the government of CAR to be corrupt.

I personally think governments are all based on the fallacy that a group of people can have rights that individuals can't. So, for me it's 100% feature.
I've found the convenience to be quite easily surpassed by not ever locking my machines, at virtually no cost to security compared to biometric authentication :)
3x might say a lot about why Disney streets are cleaner than average American streets
I'd also appreciate the support for older iPhone models. I'd try replacing the battery of my iPhone 5.
they could secede from the state of Florida. the First Mouse War.

I bet a lot of people would want to immigrate to the Great State of Disney. Orderly management and mandatory morning sing alongs would probably be a great comfort.
Yes but I heard they were invented by a genius so that's something!
Thanks. I've taken CFLs there in the distant past, but didn't know they took lithium batteries.
Everyone's using that word in this thread: research. Watching a bunch of YouTube videos is not research. Browsing medical web sites and choosing "treatments" that are cleverly and subtly marketed to you is not research. Matching your symptoms with a TV ad is not research. We saw what two years of "dO yOuR oWn ReSeArCh!" left us with during a deadly pandemic.

We're all dunking on doctors in this thread, but look at it from their perspective: They're probably sick and tired of patients coming in to their office saying "The TV told me: Ask your doctor about Provalanix!" And patients who googled "How to get your doctor to proscribe SSRI medication". And patients who insist they should go with their aunt's Healing Crystal Therapy. And patients who asked HN for medical advice[1] !! If you want to really do research, go get a medical degree and then do actual research in an actual academic institution.

Yes, have a discussion with your doctor. Yes, ask him or her if you have concerns. Maybe even get a second opinion (from another real doctor). But don't think your keyboard is going to bring you to The Truth That Doctors Dont Want You To Know.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31098263

EDIT: Right, the comment is not directed in particular towards its immediate parent, more in general at the entire thread.
I’ll name the ones I do myself

- Reduce heating as you suggested (we have a crisis going on in Europe and I reduced it even more recently)

- Drive a little slower

- Make sure I check for discounts at the supermarket and plan accordingly

- Try to fill the dishwasher optimally

- Cook more vegetarian meals

- Check used goods online markets before buying new

And that’s just a quick list
Could you get a balanced sound if you cap the volume? Like maybe the domes can't do 60dB of bass, but what about 20?
Self hoster of 3 years here. You can do it. Don't let the big players scare you off when they send your mail to spam (GMail) or outright 550 refuse to accept it (Microsoft).

So far I've managed to avoid needing to relay my mail out using something like SMTP2Go but eventually I may have to. For now GMail seems to be learning when I email my regulars and Microsoft unbanned me after I joined their Outlook.com Smart Network Data Services (SNDS)

In better news, incoming mail works flawlessly. It's even spam free if you use a catch all address (dodgywebsite.example@yourdomain.example) and drop mail from any company that leaks your address out.
> much easier to manage

I would say it's not necessarily easier to manage, but it's much easier to understand, because containers create natural borders between the different software running on the machine.
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> but the article does not justify that in any way.

In a way, they did. They said that the 1kHz tone was "high quality", which most likely means it reproduced the waveform they sent fairly accurately. Of course, it's not a complete answer, and I too would appreciate the actual paper.

"When 25 volts of electricity were passed through the device at 1 kilohertz (a rate of 1,000 cycles per second), the speaker produced high-quality sound at conversational levels of 66 decibels."

Not sure if it matters, but the fact that it's producing ~10x (2^3.333) the sound pressure (which is around 4x louder by human perception) at 10kHz vs 1kHz is vaguely concerning. It would require a fair bit of additional resistance to try and get a "flat" loudness across the spectrum, especially since human hearing is more sensitive at higher frequencies.

Absolutely doable, but it means the speaker film can't just be used out of the box.
I'm not really sure what you mean. This seems to be another instance of the weirdly persistent belief that "only humans can understand, and computers are just moving gears around to mechanically simulate knowledge-informed action". I may not believe in the current NN-focussed AI hype cycle, but that's definitely not a cogent argument against the possibility of AI. You're confusing comprehension with the subjective (human) experience of comprehending something.
Let me give you my own example:

I suffer from pretty debilitating fatigue. It started when I was 13 or so, which was also a few months after I suffered a bad concussion. I have low testosterone, and treating that helps some. Autoimmune diseases run in my family; my father has lupus, his siblings all have something, and I have a small patch of psoriasis on my head (to which my doctor said "huh.."). My white blood cell count is always moderately low, even after an infection. I get sick extremely easily and stay sick longer than other people. I frequently get chills in my limbs like a person does when they're sick, though the testosterone helps. The chills are a sure thing when I don't get enough sleep. I get cluster headaches, and recently I started getting really frequent eye twitches leading up to when the cluster of headaches start.

Who should I see to try and figure out the root cause of the fatigue? An endocrinologist? Urologist? Sleep doctor? Neurologist? Immunologist?
Rheumatologist?

It's hard to know what's relevant to the fatigue. When I was first treated they simply put me on antidepressants. After giving up on those, years later I did some research and had to practically beg just to have my testosterone levels checked along with some other things that were fine.
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The idea of investing into an index fund is pretty solid in any case. The money from savings accounts ends up on the stock market just the same, only with the bank pocketing the profits between the savings account interest and the rise of the usual indices.
No, it’s simply an indicator that companies have spent money on ads.
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I'm sure online teaching is worse than in person teaching, at least the way most online teaching is done now. But who is the target audience here? I was homeschooled for many years and the parent doing my teaching was not very effective. I'm positive that this online teaching would be better than that was.

In fact, my homeschool friends who did remote video courses (as close as you could get to online at the time) were much better at many subjects than I was.

I don't think its online vs in person. It's online vs nothing or online vs shitty teaching.
So the education system is contingent on making students teach other students, or else? Lol
It's mentioned somewhere in here (https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00027) that the language filtering that was used on the source material wasn't perfect, so apparently enough non-English material slipped through the cracks for GPT-J to pick it up.

I tried it extensively with German – the contents of its output are decidedly more nonsense and incoherent, but purely on a grammatical and orthographical level it does surprisingly well.
If the output drops 20db from 10kHz to 1kHz, the bass response is not going to be very good at all.
I'm personally convinced (by no evidence other than game theory, which is what trust in block validators to be honest as a group is based on as well) in cases like these, that there must be people with a huge stake in btc who are essentially bribing legislators to adopt crypto. Why else would they accept as legal tender a currency their government and people don't hold except if the people who do hold it convinced them in some way? Looking forward to the documovies in 15 years of these crypto "investors" flying to CAF and El Salvador and bribing their government officials.
Four European Gas Buyers Made Ruble Payments to Russia
Whole lot of people here who don't seem to realize that CAR is one of the poorest countries in the world locked in a perpetual civil war that is currently being used as a weapons showroom for Russia. I have absolutely no idea what this change will possibly do, but I guess it'll make it a bit easier for Wagner mercenaries to move the money they receive from their kidnapping and extortion schemes.
I did my RHCE bootcamp back when RHEL 5 was just released and the bootcamp course materials were not yet updated for it. The instructor worked around this pretty well. One of the earlier topics was SELinux, where he stated we would cover it for the course, but it's not on the certification exam and it's not needed past that part of the course, so we would disable it once we were done with the lesson. It's been well over a decade so I don't remember if this was day 1 or 2 of a 5 day boot camp.

Disabling SELinux and implementing more manageable controls has been a default for me for quite a long time, even before my certification. My preference is for apparmor, to be honest.
> Spending a little bit more here and a little bit more there is seen as no big deal when your bank account is flush.

Wouldn't this just be spending the stimulus money? What I'm saying is that most of it hasn't been spent, so it can't count as that much "extra money in the mix" as most people think.
You'd have a point if these were cumulative, but e.g. there are several examples of companies which started using cryptocurrencies but gave up on them eventually.
>ball of goop

can you please talk to us like programmers? your audience is programmers.
I wasn't aware Musk admitted he has autism, I don't really follow him but read one article where childhood bullying was mentioned. (It probably caused insecurity which is part of the reason for his success and part of why I would expect him to attempt to use Twitter ownership to influence public opinion.) Autism was just a guess from sparse observations that I have.

Having autism would not be an excuse, by the way. It's just orthogonal and isn't something people are assumed to have say in, like their skin color. Attacking that (calling emotionless Borg and so on) actually hurts any point about specific problems with his actions.
Disappointing to see the OP using Google Forms to collect data for their beta testing product waitlist. OP clearly knows Google is bad but supports their business by using their tools anyway :(
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I can't find the original source but Scott @ TRF says the calibers in 50 year old rolexes have a 5-year service interval: https://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=679777
I hope this type of thing eventually reaches less desperate countries.

And maybe also includes more practical cryptocurrencies like Algorand.
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Yes, but the comment I'm replying to is about resistive heating from inefficient appliances.
Yes, there's a difference between what people say that they do and that they will actually do. Similarly, when people are given instructions to test a product, they behave very differently from what real users do. After listening to or reading instructions, users will usually carefully read everything that’s in an app. In real life they just click. That’s why it’s so important to use interaction data :)
I don't know that it's universally positive. In San Francisco it backfired and resulted in electing an extremist District attorney who refuses to prosecute criminals.
No, but it's quite difficult to have email reliably and consistently delivered to Gmail and other major email providers without sending it via a relay. The relay provider is in the business of maintaining IP addresses with good reputations that aren't blocked by spam lists etc. If you can find and keep a reputable IP address, then you're fine, but it's usually easier to pay someone who does that for a living—you have no guarantee that the IP address assigned to you by Digital Ocean or whoever wasn't used for spamming at some point.
To everyone who keeps repeating the same energy-related arguments against BTC, I want you to read this:

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0531/6311070a.html
Well, they might, as like a PR stunt or something, but yes. It is crucial to understand that legal tender exists in law only to handle the case where a creditor demands payment but is unwilling to accept what the debtor sees as a suitable payment, and it's just not very good even for that purpose.

Lots of places do not have a legal tender law, so, in those places if you try to pay a debt and the creditor won't accept your payment, that's a dispute in law, just like it would have been if somebody unexpectedly claims you owe them money and you say you don't. So, why have a special "legal tender" law anyway?

"No weird money" is a good rule to live by. Scottish bank notes for example. It doesn't matter that they aren't legal tender anywhere (including Scotland), nor does it matter that they are in some sense worth "the same" as Bank of England notes (since the issuing banks are required to hold on deposit the same quantity). To buy tourist stuff in Edinburgh Airport they'll work just fine. To buy a fish supper in the Highlands, they'll work just fine. If you show one to the guy running the Chinese in my port city on the South Coast of England, he won't know what it is, and so understandably he doesn't want to exchange your weird money for his delicious food. No Weird Money.