skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, Ethereum didn't "break", it worked exactly as designed.

No fees were "wasted". If people were willing to make a transaction knowing that this was going to be the cost, it is a reflection of people's time preferences.
That’s one of the tricks at google. There are no local copies. Your laptop never actually has the repo checked out into the file system.
For now! It was a fun project I made with some time constraints. If it gets popular I'll figure out how to make it work with FF.

Thanks for taking a look!
Also, it's not like Ethereum is a physical good that can be destroyed. It's just a bookkeeping tool and what happened is people trying to mint NFTs gave up their portion of the total supply in exchange for having their transactions go first. The "wasted" fees were in effect distributed equally to every other ETH in existence.
‘Biodegradable’ drinking straws contain PFAS
>A Twitter thread by Molly White, creator of Web3 Is Going Great, documented how exorbitant fees affected people buying NFTs from different projects, often outstripping the underlying asset: a $3,500 fee for a $500 NFT, a $3,800 fee for a $270 NFT, a $3,950 transaction fee for a $260 NFT, and a $3,300 transaction fee for a $25 NFT were just some of the many ridiculous trades executed during the gas war caused by Otherdeed's NFT launch.

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.

All of this, over gifs, jpgs and fake land in a theoretically infinite digital universe that was probably procedurally generated anyway.
Did ~$200 million dollars worth of electricity & hardware depreciation get burnt as part of this land sale?

If so, I'd say that it's close to 'wasted', given that as I understand, the only thing of value that has been created is only useful for financial speculation.

We're paying people to dig ditches, and then fill them. Just because the ditchdiggers got paid doesn't mean their effort isn't wasted!
Russia to Rent Tech-Savvy Prisoners to Corporate IT?
Thank you, my first thought was a mixture of umbrella corp and the scanner drones from half life 2 :)

I put it up for discussion. We don't want to cling to our current design, but we aren't sure yet about a good way to approach a redesigns. Needs a bit time to decide what aspects of Alice in total should be redesigned
Creating a GUI Interface in Visual Basic to See If I Can Track An IP Address

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
I don't think it is especially stupid in and of itself but is it an efficient use of government effort?
That most of it burns is part of why "go burn it to offset coal" came out so well in some of the lifecycle analysis for end of life program I'm familiar with:

https://www.hefty.com/sites/default/files/2021-01/Hefty-Ener...

Instead of having to pay to sort and process, you just grind it up and mix it in with the coal (or heave the bags in, I'm not sure as to the actual feed mechanism though I keep meaning to see if I can get a tour).

I'm not actually in the program area, but I know where to drop my bags of plastic to get them into the program (one of the recycling companies in the area of the program handles it, and I'm over there often enough that I'll toss a few of the bags in the back of the car if I'm going that way).
From the article:

>University of Florida toxicologist John Bowden was fascinated by the durability of today’s paper straws compared with older ones that would break down quickly in a drink, and he wanted to know whether the new straws’ water resistance might come from PFAS.

>An analysis detected PFAS “forever chemicals” in 36 out of 38 brands of plant-based straws tested.
A significant source of waste in Ethereum/Bitcoin is transaction tips in order to process a transaction within a certain timeframe. This is in turn tied to the notion of wanting a consistent global state for everyone to operate under.

If there was not a global state, but a set of transactions that flow across nodes this would significantly improve the throughput of the overall system. In other words, the state of an account gradually flows across the system of nodes. Are there any projects out there like that?
What exactly doesn't work in FF that works in Chrome??
A bit ironic that Apple gets secrets stolen using their own tools. Imagine the nightmare these tools are for companies that aren't Apple trying to prevent IP theft.
Facebook had a podcast service?
Why pay more than market rate of a replaceable ML person?

Is there any realistic path for a demonstrably smart and hardworking person into that 7+zeros club? Evidence suggests no: leetcode grinders and FAANGers are not in that club, and most of them will never even make it into the 6+zeros club. Net wealth -- sure, but not income.
Ahrefs https://ahrefs.com/ is great seo tool that I use to analyze my website's (https://aemorph.com) link profile, ranking, and SEO health.
I've been at it for a bit over 20 years and I haven't figured out how to get good at it. I do OK, though, because I learned it's often more important to ship than perfect[0], and rewriting isn't so bad because the second time is usually better than the first.

0: I choose not to work anywhere that sells critical infrastructure, medicine, or anything else where imperfections could jeopardize someone's life.
>If you are a startup, you cannot create a popular app in a crowded marketplace by being scrupulous about best practices.

>Match owns almost all of the dating-app market, and they have extremely deep pockets to buy/extinguish competition with.

Match owns almost all of the dating app market because they've acquired who? Startups who created popular apps in a crowded marketplace that they don't already own.

Now, if you want to argue that you cannot create a popular app in a crowded marketplace without accepting a buyout offer from the dominant player, now that's a topic I think is worth quite a bit of discussion.
coffee is an everyday thing for many people.

Bubble tea is a 1-4 times a year thing for me.
I prefer not to carry a bag.

carrying around a straw is less practical than just not having bubble tea.
I feel productivity is one of those areas that people get into and spend a lot of time thinking and writing about, to the detriment of their productivity.
Ask HN: Stripe is allowing an obviously fraudulent retailer to operate. Why?
If you've searched for a PS5 for sale over the past 2 weeks, you will have seen a "refurbished" unit available for an unreasonably low price. I won't link it here but it's "Net Discount Store."

It says there's <60min left for the sale and counts down, but the counter just resets. This site also "sells" the most recent Airpod Pros for half of MRSP, and they were only released within the last few weeks.

Their checkout flow uses Stripe under the business name "E Discount Mall," which tracing it down returns an identical site to the one above but with slightly different inventory.

Why is Stripe allowing this? They've been up for weeks and returning as the first result for "ps5 in stock" on the biggest search engine. Sadly Stripe doesn't seem to allow individuals to report businesses, saying that you must work through your credit card processor to dispute fraud. This kind of sucks because it requires you to put your funds on the line, and who knows what kind of dirty tactics will happen then.
Fat combined with refined carbohydrates produces a strong insulin reaction, which directly results in fat deposition. This is not a myth. [0]

I agree with you in that fat, by itself, does not promote weight gain. It's the combination that does.

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About-ebook/dp/B003W...
how do these ignorant takes get upvoted on a tech board like this
These just-in-time manufacturing techniques are getting ridiculous.
I pray that the inevitable nft/crypto bubble pop does not trickle into the rest of the economy. I’d love to believe the ape nft stuff is also mid 20s kids like me messing around, but I’d imagine there is a whole lot of institutional money fooling around with similar projects.
When's the President going to do something to fix these gas prices?

Anyway, I thought crypto currencies were meant to be inflation-proof.
The final paragraph sums it up nicely:

>We’ve seen this story a million times before: Crypto project is launched. Something goes wrong. Founders, investors, whales, and some of the community make out like bandits. Most people are left out on the cold, only to be offered another, even greater opportunity with an upcoming token or project. Surely this time will be different.

I don't see how anyone can read about these crypto projects and see anything other than an extremely elaborate scam.
This just makes me picture big pipelines following (in reverse) the course of the natural watershed... some desal plants off the coast of S.F. or Marin peninsulas with pipes in through the Golden Gate and up the river delta and fanning out towards Sacramento and south to Fresno etc.
ADD and ADHD have 5 sub-symptoms of varying impairment, with varying degrees of severity.

If you're diagnosed ADD/ADHD you can have a wide variety of direct and secondary side effects for which treatments can improve your success and quality of life, and it's not very kind to dismiss their experiences regardless of what other people are going through.

Gatekeeping a diagnosed disorder is mega cringe.
I think you're mistaken, virtualization and emulation are two different things. Metal is not low-level enough to perform high-speed virtualization, what the parent is suggesting is that you'd need to use Metal to accelerate an emulated GPU, which would result in pretty substantial performance degradation. On top of that, most virtual machines wouldn't recognize the M1 APU, which means you'd probably also need to emulate interfaces to compliment it. When all is said-and-done, you'd have an incredibly fragile and slow stack that has a good chance of breaking with every Metal update and almost certainly breaks with each new GPU.

The struggle is not worth it, certainly not for $1,000. Probably not for $500,000.
A transaction for $25 that costs $3,000 to complete seems pretty plainly broken. Imagine that happening with your credit card.
That money is not exactly wasted, it's gone to miners.

And how does Ethereum "break" exactly? It was just bloated with many transactions, creating a bottleneck, which is perfectly expected for a hyped project like this.
I've always liked how TaskPaper was entirely built around plain text files.

https://www.taskpaper.com
People say that every time and (thankfully) so far we have kept getting Deus Ex games. For all their flaws I have enjoyed every single one q uite a bit.

Mankind Divided I thought was highly underrated. Cyberpunk 2077 was sort of close to what I think some people wanted out of the ultimate Deus Ex game (depending on your playstyle) but obviously had problems as well.

Personally I would like to see something massive and not just another boring "open world" focused game - Deus Ex really shines with a strong story driven plot. I have always wanted to see a true co-op functionality in a Deus Ex game and I think that could be hugely popular online especially if they regularly released new missions and content.
I don't think the way it works is that every blockchain transaction of value X requires an equivalent cost X (denominated in USD) of electricity usage and hardware depreciation.
The problem with such a system is the opportunities for arbitrage, right?
So, I actually suspect that this was intentional, and kind of clever.

When games don't have a penalty for dying, players will sometimes fall back on a trial-and-error approach, where each individual attempt stops being meaningful. Some experiences, like Celeste, are designed around this type of gameplay loop, but it usually doesn't work well in a cinematic experience.

The most common penalty for dying is lost progress, but this also doesn't work well for cinematic games, because the experience looses its magic once you know what is going to happen.

So Tomb Raider takes a different approach. Checkpoints are frequent, but the death animations make you really, really not want to die!

I'm very squeamish, so I always had to close my eyes when I died. But even the chance that I might see something was a good incentive!
PayPal Blocks Multiple Alt. Media Figures Critical of US Empire Narratives
Indeed, you have doomed us all.

Less /s, I'd be more worried if I thought the salescritters were listening, but they're mostly not.
Nothing broke, the dynamic fee market worked exactly as intended. Contrast with Solana which actually went offline for 7 hours that same day.
The use case of interest here is having many concurrent operations (hundreds of thousands or millions). If you don't have a heap, where do you store the (unbounded number of) async/await frames? There are other use-cases where stackless coroutines are useful without being plentiful — e.g. generators — but that's not the use-case we're targeting here (and is probably a use-case of lower importance in general).

Many languages/runtimes want just a single coroutine/continuation construct to cover both concurrency and generators — which is a good idea in principle — but then they, especially low-level languages, optimise for the less useful of the two. I've seen some very cool demos of C++ coroutines that are useful for very narrow domains, and yet they offer a single construct that sacrifices the more common, more useful, usage for the less common one.

There was one particular presentation about context-switching coroutines in the shadow of cache misses. It was extremely impressive, yet amounted to little more than a party trick. For one, it was extremely sensitive to precise sizing of the coroutine frames, which goes against the point of having a simple, transparent language construct, and for another, it simplifies small code that has to be very carefully written and optimised to the instruction level even after the simplification.
Prepare for all of justifications and cognitive dissonance, all these centralized projects (I won't use the s-word)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_clearing_house

A specific project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACH_Network
The controls are terrible. The combat is super repetitive. You transition between areas very slowly. You can lock yourself out of endings without even intending to. You can accidentally throw yourself into forced events super underleveled. You have to grind like hell for some of the materials. I can go on and on.

"Dogshit" might be a bit hyperbolic, but not by a lot.

Nier: Automata is a good (not great) game from Platinum wrapped in a juicy Nier narrative layer that elevates it to a very good game.
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Just wondering... Weren't they going to move to proof of stake?
This invites double spends.
Procrastinating so much that their relief became their passion.
It's kind of like trying to outwit other traders in the stock market, isn't it? Just a bunch of people building elaborate systems to gamble.
This one is incredible!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoauBe465qQ
So you always have your messenger bag on you? Or you always know ahead of time that you're going to bubble tea and bring your messenger bag?

What do you do after you use it? Do you wash it after use or put it in your bag dirty to wash later? Not trying to argue but surprised people actually go through the trouble.

> A fair number of people carry around reusable coffee travel mugs

Yeah but that's usually in order to carry coffee they made at home. Not in case they decide to visit a coffee shop during the day.

I live in NYC and I'm not sure most people who are getting bubble tea knew they were going to get bubble tea when leaving their home.
No, it didn't. The amount of electricity used doesn't increase because of network congestion, and with Ethereum's mining reward system, there is no incentive for miners to increase their hash rate just for high-congestion moments.

Lastly, these reports really need to stop denominating things in USD. 64k ETH were burned, the dollar amount is not related to it.
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This gives me some hope in the face of the seemingly endless proposed bills to censor the Web. Information seeks the light. A free Internet will prove more useful to society than marginal gains to business and security guaranteed by mandatory moderation.
Definitely not everyone. Referring back to stolen code would be high risk and minimal return. Instant dismissal with chance of lawsuit style risk.

I periodically have to reimplement things from scratch and that is indeed irritating. Fortunately version N is usually better than N-1.

The solution to that annoyance is open source.
I think it's good to see some novel ideas in this space. I'm having trouble imagining it actually working out with things like healthcare, though, because of difficulty in defining the futures, or because some things are more likely to progress or get worse on their own, or independent of the provider.

I think it's a real and interesting problem, and find this idea intriguing but my intuition is that it wouldn't work in practice.

Also, wouldn't this lead to weird incentives for the market participants? Like in an extreme case, murder?
Meh, we "waste" all sorts of energy, and what constitutes as waste is something to be debated and something that probably hits philosophical/ethical bedrock much like talking about, say, meat consumption.
I'm admittedly not very knowledgeable about the Web3/Crypto space beyond the basics - are all of these fees also publicly visible on a ledger?

It seems like someone could build a pretty sobering dashboard that shows exactly what you describe if this data is readily available.

I've wanted to dabble in the space purely so I could understand it more deeply, but am not really interested in the hype. However, building visualizations to help people understand the insanity...sounds like an interesting project.
So Yuga sold 55,000 deeds to parcels in "Otherside", a virtual world that doesn't exist yet. 45,000 deeds were distributed to insiders.

So what happened? 96,000 of those "Otherdeeds" are now for sale on OpenSea.[1] Some of the rest are for sale on Rareable. Few buyers.

[1] https://opensea.io/collection/otherdeed
If it's that casual, you could post a message on your feed and tag people you want to be notified.
Fair enough. I wish you success.
> Does Time Exist?

Only relative to a given frame of reference.
Stock market trading is actually super efficient energy wise, comparatively, due to its centralized nature in a trusted environment. No need for proof of work or proof of stake, so no need to spin cycles for crypto trust theater (because you can still be prosecuted and sued if you steal crypto and it’s worth someone’s time to obtain justice; code as law until the cuffs are on or wallets are blacklisted at exchanges).

In this example, Ethereum is this enormous, slow distributed runtime moving image receipts and tokens around.
Stardew Valley! I always marveled at how it was a one man team, and everything from the graphics to the game systems seemed to work well. I haven't seen the code base or anything, so I am not sure if this is 'elegant', but my assumption is that for one person to put out that kind of work, some things have to be going right in the design.
> The real question is "what do you mean by 'it works fine'?"

Portland has been around for almost 180 years, and people still seem to think it is an attractive place to live. The last couple years have been pretty terrible, but that doesn't seem to be unique to this area, and if anything is more of an urban problem than a suburban one.

I won't tell you what you should like, or what your definition of good is. But for me, I enjoy suburban living more. For example, I drove into downtown Portland a few days ago and watched Hamilton, it's only 20 minutes away. We go to museums, art shows, etc. But, I can turn away from Portland and in less than 20 minutes be in an entirely rural area enjoying nature. 20 minutes farther and I'm approaching Mt. Hood. When I get home, I have my own little square of paradise: no shared walls with strangers, a place for the kids to play, a nice community where everyone sorta knows everyone else. City living is the right answer for some people, but definitely not all of us.
... Right. Duh.

If this was simply a surprise pay-day for miners (as opposed to the real cost of running the network), you are right, in that extent. In that case, yes, from a productivity & resource usage point of view, this wasn't a waste of $200 million.
Except that if you knew your CC transaction would cost that much, you'd probably use a different card or use cash.