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Unfortunately HN is so vehemently anti-crypto that articles like this get upvoted regardless of the accuracy of their content.

I don’t like crypto either for many of the same reasons - most notably crypto’s horrendous environmental impact. But we need to stick to facts when we criticise crypto, and avoid mindless bandwagoning just because it’s currently the in thing to hate on all things crypto.
The “developed world” is who is holding the values up. Crypto is not a savings account for poor people to avoid authoritarian governments. It has no use. It’s nothing more than gambling at this point.
They're waiting on Tesla to deliver on FSD first. But that's going to be within the next two years.
I've been given a metal straw at a restaurant. My immediate thought: how do I know this is clean on the inside? I can't see in there, it could be full of mold. I just drank from the glass instead, because I'm an able-bodied adult.
It's not the duty of anyone except myself to understand the risks of my own actions.
>> Instead of talking about these "gas fees" in terms of their monetary value, we should measure them in terms of tons of CO2, or perhaps its equivalent acres-of-the-Amazon-rainforest-lit-on-fire. I'm 100% serious.

We don’t do it with anything else, so why do it with this? Other than to virtue signal of course.
Sorry, but nobody signed up for their transaction to fail, this is a bullshit excuse.

> Besides high fees, the transaction load resulted in a bottleneck that resulted in failed transactions that people still had to pay fees for—now in the thousands of dollars for nothing in return, not even an NFT.
> Anyone sharing a picture of their graph, or who even pretends to navigate/look at the graph as a graph in any useful way, is definitely a bullshitter.

Yep. Graphs are not "scalable" unless the visual elements are meaningful in themselves; they are mostly for "feeling-good-about-oneself" --- "look at all the notes I took and linked!".
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That’s not a resignation the way California understands it. If she said “I am resigning NOW unless you do X” that WOULD count as a resignation.

Let’s think of a hypothetical. A student says “I’m going to quit eventually in order to attend classes” and the manager says “I accept your resignation, you are fired”. This generally seems more like a firing because somebody was going to resign, more than it seems like a resignation no?

In the Gebru case, Gebru didn’t express WHEN she was going to resign, and that’s google’s issue. Maybe Gebru was, for all Google knew, threatening to quit in a month or a year or in 10 years. Gebru never actually made the time of her proposed resignation clear. As such, the law doesn’t consider to actually have made a legally binding resignation.
I liked the first part of the article, up to the knowledge graph discussion.

The author is lumping all KGs together. The term also applies to KGs that help run Google, Meta, etc. Good tech for using disparate data sources.

Personal KGs? Then I agree more with the author. Perhaps the problem is companies like Roam reusing existing terms?
Most quantitative hedge funds and prop trading firms are now following a very tech like culture since they realize now that technology is just as important as the strategies. To get the best engineers, especially from FAANG, they need to have a similar culture otherwise they'll have a hard time getting new hires.
>Regardless of all of that, Ethereum will be on proof of stake within a year (wouldn't be surprised if it's 3 or 4 months at this point), at which point the CO2 argument will go away altogether).

Quoting for posterity.
Thanks for this explanation. It helps to hear that about ETH.
> We don't need meat.

We do if we want human beings at their optimal physical and mental capacity. It isn't much of a secret that increased consumption of meat led to human beings reaching their optimal physical and mental potential.

Now, excess meat consumption is a problem, but you aren't going to have optimal human beings without some meat.

Japan used to be a vegetarian society for more than a millenia. Their poor diet so terribly stunted the japanese people, physically and intellectually, that the japanese elites ended vegetarianism in favor of meat in the late 1800s.
I'll be honest and say it's something I really dislike about Nim.

Is it why I don't use it more? No, but I think case insensitivity was a poor decision for a variety of reasons and encourages problems down the road. I think making it case sensitive would just take away one more excuse, real or perceived.

I guess I can think of reasons for case sensitivity, but no real convincing (to me) arguments for case insensitivity. The arguments in favor of keeping insensitivity just seem to come down to resistance to change.
I've never been all that favorably inclined to the counsel of despair.

That goes double when we're discussing an issue that goes to the heart of how we as an industry conduct ourselves - to what standard we hold
ourselves and one another.

Granted, right now no such standard exists. I don't think that will always be true; if we don't regulate our own behavior then someone will certainly do so for us. I think it'd be a good idea if we had a say in how it happens, and when we have people apparently arguing that no one should expect anyone to hold us to any standard, it's very hard for me even to imagine an argument in support of the idea that we deserve one.

I'd also like to think that, by being in this industry, we're not all in the position of an RJR or Philip Morris employee trying to believe we aren't really peddling addiction and cancer. Whether that sort of thing bothers anyone else, it's not up to me to decide, though I think it should. It does bother me.
Yup.

> The ultimate goal of the Ethereum Foundation for 2017 is to follow the vision of Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and make a move from a proof of work to a proof of stake protocol

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereums-2017-roadmap-flexib...
I wonder at what point you might call these NFTs a successful DDoS on the eth blockchain.
wow, look great. I wish one day i could have a chance to experience it.
You make a good point, but this is still a step in the right direction.

This offers users the chance to flee their country and retain their assets. Good luck getting your assets out of a legacy banking system in such a country.
I don't know why I have to explain this.

It's not in any way/shape/form more practical to carry more things with me when the alternative is that someone hands me a disposable version of the thing at time of purchase.

Not everyone carries a bag with them -- and even if every single person on earth had a bag it'd STILL be more inconvenient for those people to waste cargo space in the bag with a straw when the alternative of being given a disposable one at time of purchase is available.

I feel like there is a misunderstanding of the word 'impractical' here.

Carrying your own straws is a lot of things -- wise, prepared, ethically-conscious, whatever -- it won't ever be practical ( practical : of or concerned with the actual doing or use of something rather than with theory and ideas. ) until the much more convenient option of being given a disposable straw at purchase time and trashing it at the end of use is no longer available to choose.
I recently went to a restaurant where the straws were literally straw (or some similar plant stem). They looked nice, held up fine, and had the pleasant taste I associate with wheat straw.
If this is the type of discussion you'd like to have, one could argue that they could've launched their NFTs on layer-2 systems like Loopring/Immutable and avoided all of these fees.
It's all about making $$ for the firm. If the strategies developed are very profitable then 7-figures is definitely reachable for the researchers at a prop trading firm.
You could do it by specializing in a specific area and building automation tools as you go. No reason this can't keep increasing the multiplier. Finding others who want to join you can accelerate the process. Certainly a pair of you could do 100x better than 2 regular engineers doing these as one-off tasks.
And that is why I mentioned there are valid criticisms of the industry.

I personally don't eat meat often, but that's not the point. The broader point is that meat, while wasteful, still provides clear value. That doesn't mean emissions aren't also a problem.
Thank you so much for your detailed and response. Your patients are so lucky to have you! You should really speak at conferences, your voice needs to be heard on this topic!
I think the FSD requires PoS first.
> Because they know more than surface-level details

Implying those who criticize a project or idea simply lack knowledge is facile; you mightaswell just write "because they're haters"

> you've never had to deal with not being allowed a bank account or extortionist fees or the government simply coming and seizing your assets for an arbitrary, amoral reason

So, you argue some value exists in Bitcoin as a political tool to subvert dictatorial influence; what exactly does that do to justify massive compute requiring fees 10-100x greater than the transaction value and associated use of real-world energy? Why would another system not serve this same idea in a better way? What guarantees do people using this as a financial system that it will deliver this value?

Ultimately, what you're saying is "this absurdly compute- and energy-heavy system serves an unintended purpose slightly better than the status quo it competes against in some circumstances, and that justifies all its downsides". I don't really agree with that, and I don't understand why you can't have an honest conversation with nuance about it
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> The 4x self-inflicted death rate compared to women should be evidence enough.

This seems like a manipulative use of mental health statistics. Need I remind you that women attempt suicide at a much greater rate than men? Regardless everyone is responsible for their own emotional well-being at the end of the day. It's not right to blame women for male loneliness. After all, I can just as easily flip the script. If your claim is that heterosexual men are miserable due to a lack of dating prospects, then there are an equal number of frustrating heterosexual women unable to find a good relationship. Don't they also feel loneliness? The truth is that dating is hard, and it can be painful for everyone, men and women. Women also encounter a unique set of problems when it comes to dating, e.g., violence, that is experienced less by men.
> The LME announced that all trades will be voided from midnight until 8:15 a.m. on Tuesday when trading stopped and added that it was considering a closure of several days.

> "People will be asking if this really a functioning market... This is meant to be a market of last resort and people can't get inventories to deliver against positions," said Colin Hamilton, managing director of commodities research at BMO Capital Markets.

There’s gonna be a pretty high threshold for this sort of thing. Higher than “one company fucked up and wants a do-over”.
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The heartbeat PoS network is running today and has been running for over a year now. The next step is to merge the PoW consensus model onto the PoS network.

The last date was supposed to be around June, but seems like that will get pushed to August (or later) now. Yes, it is comical that the dates keep slipping.

That said, changing the consensus model for a network with multi billion $'s worth of value stored in it, isn't something you just do with a lot of thoughts and prayers. I don't blame them for taking their time with this transition.
> It seems like someone could build a pretty sobering dashboard that shows exactly what you describe if this data is readily available.

Crypto relies on people who don't know to look at dashboards.
Google knows that search solves pretty much all of these knowledge management issues. But there are deep conflicts of interest, and curious corporate blind spots to solving this individually.

So why don't all my web browser keep a complete copy of everything I have viewed (ok maybe not those sites) - so I an do a text search for "that thing about female doctor who was first ever".

Partly because if I had that on my local disk I would not need to go to the google home page. More fairly that particular search has been followed by X thousand previous people and Voogle knows how many ended up finding something useful.

But this does not solve for Outlook. The second biggest search opportunity surely is corporate emails. Gmail must have shown the outlook product managers how to do search ... 15 years ago. Yet it is still clunky unintuitive slow and frequently wrong.
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This is an outlier rather than a norm.
At this point I can't help but feel like the main deliverable of "ETH going PoS" is being able to dismiss claims about the obvious wastefulness of the system, not the actual transition.
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search engine or content creator?
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> There is research demonstrating that the lowest-impact meat produces significantly more greenhouse gas than the worst, highest-impact vegetable. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaq0216

Yes, that is my point.

> either embracing climate change

I'm making the very basic claim that all of these are based on normative facts, not metaphysics.
> Instead of talking about these "gas fees" in terms of their monetary value, we should measure them in terms of tons of CO2, or perhaps its equivalent acres-of-the-Amazon-rainforest-lit-on-fire. I'm 100% serious.

I am so annoyed by this argument. The question we should be asking ourselves is how electricity is being generated in the first place. Fighting crypto is the wrong fight for environmentalists: the right fight is transitioning to healthier and cleaner source of energy in a world that will inevitably consume more and more electricity as part of our organic progress, with or without crypto.

If anything, use crypto and electric cars as a driver to enact these changes, not as blockers, since they drive more electric consumption and therefore they help making a stronger case for cleaner source of energy.
> we should measure them in terms of tons of CO2, or perhaps its equivalent acres-of-the-Amazon-rainforest-lit-on-fire.

The marginal cost of a transaction is zero.

For example, if half the block was used, and half was completely empty, it would cost nothing extra to the environment to fill the empty half with random noise, NFTs, or Cryptokitty spam. Maybe long-term the storage, but nothing extra to mine that block like you're saying.
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Because of the constant consistent progress, the second "shadow merge" completing successfully (testing the change to POS), the little to no bugs found in the various POS clients during these tests, etc.

The slowness is a feature, an upgrade like this has to go perfectly, too much money is at stake.
I see trucks on the freeway where I can't really tell what company it is driving for except sometimes there's a large panel sticker that says LIKE US ON FACEBOOK and as far as I can tell it's a Facebook truck. I think some people are losing the concept that everyone's advertising for Facebook instead of themselves.
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I think they're talking about the same year when Linux will become mainstream for desktops.
It's not..
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Damn folks. Downvoting is not meant for showing your disagreement

Targeting a specific IR is an implementation detail.

Having explicit pointers and thread are not mutually exclusive concepts. It’s the implementation details that make them difficult.

HN can be so annoying sometimes
In practice? A major reason for the explosion in use of the herbicide glyphosate (RoundUp) is the use of genetically modified crops that are glyphosate resistant. Because of this users of these crops can dump huge volumes of glyphosate on their farms. This is a well known example of GMO’s leading to an increase in use of biocides.
That’s an important point that I didn’t bring up in my post.

The story mentions specific items of secrecy. But most NDA forms provided by lawyers speak only in broad generalizations about what information must be kept confidential. The best terms would be tailored to the specific situation. But the cost of legal help is high and people’s empowerment to write for themselves is low.
Your position seems to be that CO2 isn't linked to computing specific transactions, it's just the amount of mining on the network at any given time. But that could still very easily be expressed in terms of CO2. I.e. "during the time these transactions were monopolizing the network, the carbon equivalent of n acres of rainforest were burnt".

Proof of stake doesn't actually eliminate the carbon impact of these systems, it just improves the efficiency. There are still many computers running for the express purpose of buying autographed drawings of monkeys.
There's a site made to track the details of what needs to happen before the merge. https://wenmerge.com/ it still lacks specific date commitments. The focus is on "when it's ready" given that ~0.5 trillion dollars are in the system.
The article is about what chips the companies choose to market and why, not about how the flavors of those chips are created.
Totally agree. But that was not the point of GP
We do with tons of stuff? Articles have been written about CO2 costs for literally every aspect of life at this point.

That being said Proof of Work is a slightly different beast because the consumption of resources is the goal in and of itself. Efficiency gains are antithesis to it as the cost is what keeps the network safe.
I saw an actual Tweet by Gebru that said some loss functions are more racist than others. (I am not making this up.)

Yes, she literally said that.

I read some of her other work, and found little to no substance. She is mediocre at best.

I would personally say that she is not a real AI researcher. (Her prominence, as lent by her CV, is a result of a gamed system).
> And a gas war did begin, as soon as the 9 PM ET sale kicked off. 64,219 ETH was burned over the weekend on transaction fees according to Etherscan—that's over $180 million at today's prices, most of which is now gone forever due to Ethereum’s burn.

Probably impossible to know, but I wonder how much actual gas (or other fossil fuel) got burned to power this episode.
> and any conclusions therein, evaporate.

I'm in a similar but different boat: my brain remembers the conclusion but discards all of the "useless" details used to arrive there. This works fine on a personal level, but when someone challenges your position, you find yourself unable to defend it because all of the supporting details have long since evaporated.

So PKM might be useful to archive away the details after you reach a conclusion.

I highly, highly recommend having your own private wiki. It is the 80/20 sweet spot of PKM.
> And you can't just let your child not eat.

You can, most of us just don't because people think you're neglecting the kid if the kid chooses not to eat a meal you provide them. Same reason we send way more food for lunches than my kids ever eat—because the amount they will eat looks "too small" and my wife's worried what people will think.

I hate this stuff, but get the reasoning. IMO they'll eat if they're hungry. Meanwhile, we have an obesity crisis.
There's a difference between understanding why people behave dishonestly, and making excuses for dishonest behavior. You're doing the second one under the color of the first.

No one has to make a dating app. I don't see how "no one else could do it without betraying their users either!" as you argue - and, again, even granting this is true, which you've done nothing thus far to show - excuses the actual betrayal that actually has occurred. If you'd like to make an argument that it does, I'd be interested to hear that.
Populism doesn't work. People like to hear easy answers that making some first order change couldn't possibly affect anything else, and end up supporting leaders that promise these poorly thought out changes. It's true for all political stripes. This article is as good an example as any, if a minor one. People need to be more critical of simple "mandates" that they think will fix anything.
CO2 generated by Facebook and Amazon would be interesting to see. Worldwide computing usage too.

Fair point though: companies should be embargoed for wrecking the environment at this point. Even a handful of big western countries doing it would likely make waves, even without the US.
I use Windows Explorer. Simple folder names like work, with subfolders for employers. Another folder for car, identity, one for medical, another for my son with subfolders for reports, pictures he drew, etc.

I can find anything very quickly. When search fails me because I forgot a vendor name or something, I just navigate the folders.

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I don't think analogies are helpful, but if murder were rampant while we narrowly focused on the murders of a single subset group, mainly due to visibility reasons because they've only started murdering recently, then I would have the same problem with that inconsistency.

To reverse out of the analogy, we've decided that the solution is to simply illegalize murder, and it generalizes over any group doing any kind of murdering.

But what is the equivalent for energy waste? Illegalizing energy waste, for example, isn't quite as open-and-shut as murder.

Imagine how hard it would be to actually etch out the details (operationally, ethically) of an energy policy that generalizes over waste in the crypto space but also any other place we waste energy for things we don't actually need.