skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was getting curious recently if there was a suitability for running mini Haber Bosch equipment in small batches that would serve a neighborhood or town, or a homestead. Not sure really but it was interesting to contemplate distributing that load over many folks.
An increase in gas fees doesn't correspond to an increase in energy consumed/CO2 produced. The network was chugging along at its usual hash rate like always, but this sudden demand for transactions creates a bidding war for the existing gas (computation) available. The fact that the gas rates rose so high shows that the network's energy consumption didn't increase.

Of course, in the long term, exorbitant gas fees produce some incentive for more miners to join and burn more CO2.
Then you will be horrified to learn that neither FreeBSD nor OpenBSD is GPLed.
Could this be used to extract private keys from smartcards or secure enclaves? It seems this would be accurate enough to see if a fuse is blown on a chip.
> Why does the US/California make it seem like recycling is a magic trick to save the planet?

Because it's the most profitable step of the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, [some people add other entries] chain, so it's in their interests to pretend the other steps don't exist.

If I buy a bottle of water packed in plastic and don't worry about it because I assume it's recyclable and therefore "of zero net impact" (also not true, but implied by most of the standard recycling glossy brochures), I've helped their profits.

If I bring my own water with me, or use a water fountain or something, I've not contributed to growing the profits of all the companies in the chain of extracting oil from the ground, processing it into various precursors, making it into a cheap, flimsy plastic, pumping water out of the ground to fill that bottle, trucking it across the roads built of oil with fuel built of oil, and selling it to someone, then also the profits of dealing with the waste plastic (trash, recycling, whatever)!

Reduce (don't buy stuff in the first place) and Reuse (finding ways to have things be not-single-use) just don't have nearly the profit chain.

Pay attention to just how much rhetoric about climate/trash/etc boils down to, "We can consume our way out of problems caused by overconsumption." There are no shortage of companies happy to sell you "green" versions of whatever you might have otherwise bought - but very few people are willing to ask the question, "Should you have bought it in the first place?"
Well, a vegan and an honest meat eater would bring up trophic levels and needs vs. wants, though I don't want to get into that.

But I liken that incendiary debate to this one over who is "allowed" to waste energy and for what reason. It doesn't seem as simple of an argument as people in these comments suggest.

If I buy $100 of energy, what exactly am I allowed to do and not do with it? Can I not use all of it to power my vibrating butt plug? I think anyone who wants to go down the route should be ready for a much bigger conversation than the (seemingly) kneejerk, narrow-focused reaction lets on.

I mean, if the point of bringing up energy waste wrt crypto is to just marvel at the waste, then fine.
In this case they understand what they are getting into, here most Eth users will just be saying wtf
You could instead lose $625M to poorly written code [0]. Crypto is just rediscovering the reason we have financial regulations, at a higher speed.

https://crypto.news/axie-infinity-ronin-network-hack-625m-us...
Bitcoin's lightning network achieves this by using the base transactions stored on the blockchain only as a fall-back, so that many transactions can be performed without needing to be globally synchronized. Only in the case that a partner fails to follow the established rules of engagement between nodes, a transaction must be created on chain, to "force" the correct outcome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network
Right, “burned” suggests it was destroyed. Instead this was paid to miners.

The service the miners are providing is auctioning off time-slots in the network. This is load-shedding in action; if you don’t think your transaction is worth the fee, wait until the network is less congested. (Sure, this is probably an indictment of Ethereum-as-currency, but I don’t think that’s a use-case that is seriously contemplated by most market participants right now.)

Edit: this first part may be false, fees are apparently actually burned now. Sorry. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31241054#31241311
There is certainly much variance between the firms, especially the sign-on IME. People I know have turned down HRT core dev for big tech because their offers were unimpressive.

I think an interesting target for comparison with big tech is Jane Street, since their culture and WLB are good, so the main QoL drawbacks of finance don't apply. A new grad will get ~300k at Jane Street, though probably not with this large a sign-on.
Compostable plastics like polylactic acid (PLA) don't decompose at room temperature, but only in industrial composters at 60 C: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polylactic_acid#:~:text=degrad.....
Can you recommend a workflow for obsidian? Or some pointers for resources. I am struggling to "get" how to take notes with it and I am feeling a lot of friction
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What's preventing an actor from deliberately designing the slowest or most resource intensive contracts in order to break the system ?
> And regardless of all of that, Ethereum will be on proof of stake within a year

I’ve been hearing this since 2017. I won’t believe it until I see it.
It is, if it actually results in useful, productive, real-world work to be done more efficiently. I understand why people may want to trade futures, or hedge against instability in FOREX or interest rates, and how this spawns a side-industry of derivatives traders and speculators, etc, etc.

Unfortunately, the ratio of speculation to productive real-world work done by the crypto space seems to be ~0, compared to speculation in most of the real-world economy. If all of these ICOs and NFTs were producing valuable goods (food, medicine, shelter, widgets, entertainment[1]) left and right, more efficiently than the traditional economy, I wouldn't accuse the space of being purely speculative.

[1] Well, it does produce some entertainment...
Vega-Lite and Altair

https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/
https://altair-viz.github.io/
This is wrong though. During the sale, the fees were much higher, but the CO2 emissions remained constant.

It's just not the case that you can "talk about gas fees in terms of tons of CO2".

You should talk about the CO2 emissions of the Ethereum network. It's not 1:1 with fees in any sensible way.
I'm sure these authoritarian governments are definitely just going to sit by while some foreign technology disrupts their control of the financial system.

The Security XKCD says it better - it even uses the term "crypto"!

https://xkcd.com/538/
Strava's social aspect is easy to control. Dont follow anyone, and you can even boot others who follow you. You can also mark yourself "follow by request" which seems to facilitate cheating as well (you can see their KOM, but not their rides?).

This speaks to the changes strava needs to make. if the rider is "by invite only" all KOM's should be hidden as well.

Strava does a decent job tracking myself, and once i turned off all the social. media aspects and stopped looking at other riders it became much better.
Honestly, that depends on the firm. There are same that do pay very well like this, eg: HRT, Jane Street (they are not an HFT though), Headlands, Radix. Some others like Jump, Optiver the pay varies depending on whether it's front office or back office.

Where I work at, the new grad offers are slightly better than FAANG, but the growth is very good based on performance, we also pay very well to people coming in from a competitor.
This isn’t completely true. There are 2 types of gas fees - the first is the type you are discussing. The 2nd is the inherent fee of executing the smart contract. $100MM of the fees went to contract execution, over half of which could have been avoided with a more efficiently coded smart contract.
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

If you're arguing that excess greenhouse gas emissions is not a waste product, then it seems like you're either embracing climate change or you know something about greenhouse gasses that nobody else knows.
Since EIP-1155, people submitting transactions knew exactly how much the gas fee is going to be and how much the transaction would cost. The "auction" mechanism for the miners to select the transactions to get into the block is basically irrelevant compared with network congestion itself.
The most recent Chrome update broke Certificate Transparency checks
> We do if we want everyone to eat

This is not true. There is plenty of food, especially if we put all resources we currently feed livestock into feeding humans.
This is a temporary state of things due to proof of work. Proof of stake is coming, and already bored apes et al should be running on a Layer 2 like Polygon. Harping on the environmental consequences is a bit disingenuous.
This will have to wait on chain analysis, but many of those transactions involve the same addresses. We may be watching wash sales.

This was supposed to be an item people would hold. That's not happening. Almost all the items are on the market.
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or the government simply coming and seizing your assets for an arbitrary, amoral reason.

You mean people don’t like it when the large amorphous and powerful body that asks its constituents to trust it pulls the rug, and all of their currency out from under them?
Gas fees are publicly visible on the ledger, but not necessarily their value in USD or other irl currency. But you can get that easily enough from exchange APIs and other sources.
Here are a few
https://etherchain.org/burn
https://ultrasound.money/
https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_supply
You can already do that by using the pl/python or pl/java extensions with the right environment. However, the interface between SQL and model inference is typically narrow enough that IMO it's better to:
read from Postgres --> process in an external Python/Java process --> persist to Postgres.

Maybe enhance this with a FDW to an external inference process to allow triggering of inference from Postgresql itself.
Is ETH actually going to be PoS within a year? It feels like ETH has been “about to be PoS within a year” for like five years now.
> even greater opportunity with an upcoming token or project. Surely this time will be different.

Get in on the ground floor now! Be the next whale.
I think everybody has a different sense of organization, and the prevalence of organization schemes and apps is in hopes that enough people can relate to a particular app-developer's preferences and patterns. At the end of the day though, I think productivity is such a chaotic and fragmented genre of tools because everybody is different and there are as many productivity methods as there are people. I've certainly never found one that I've been comfortable depending on, and it just so happens that I've had the idea (and the skills) to create The Best Todo for years, details of which are lurking on some note pages in this pile over here (and a few over there).
Amazon will pay US staff travel expenses for abortions and other treatments
You are fortunate to have grown up in a culture where that is mostly true. However, in some cultures, the "shame" of that disclosure about their child is considered worse than death. Horrifically sad, but true.
> I don't see how anyone can read about these crypto projects and see anything other than an extremely elaborate scam.

My theory is that we live in a society that has long glamorized the get-rich-quick scheme (until it is revealed as a scam), and there a lot of people who have seen other people getting rich through technology investments (as opposed to technology work), and they don't want to "miss the boat" this time.
Anything to prevent people from redefining the word remake
I always wondered why a gas fee future or option never was developed to mitigate gas fees indirectly. Since gas fees are heavily dependent on smart contract conplexity, a secondary market based on gas fees, and not on ETH spot price, seems like it would be a useful financial innovation in this space
list price + tx fee = market price. Vitalik summed up up well - https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/152062181320978432...
gnuplot

Being able to just plot sin(x) blew my mind.

More seriously: cholmod
Solvespace (CAD)

https://solvespace.com/index.pl

A single executable of about 6MB with pretty significant capability.

The source code is pretty clean as well.
This is exactly what happens with "surge pricing" on Uber.
A better way to look at the gas price is that is the cost of decentralization.

One single entity being the source of truth will always be cheaper than a blockchain verifying a transaction. The caveat is if that cost is worth it.

For buying tangible goods, the gas price might be worth it since Visa/MC control what you can sell online and payment processors can be circumvented using crypto. That is a pain point.

For intangible goods, the gas price is simply not worth it. What pain point exists for owning digital goods that would require decentralization? In my opinion, none.
> Fruit and veg aside, why am I expected to buy a new spray bottle for every half litre of kitchen cleaner, say? Why can't I just buy one bottle and spray and then some kind of refill?

There's a company (whose name escapes me at the moment) which appears to be aiming for exactly this and is advertising all over the streaming services I watch. Now, clearly their ads aren't doing their job since I can't remember the name, but it's out there.

More prosaically, I've been using the same Dawn dish soap bottle for months now because I bought a giant jug of dish soap at Costco and just refill the little one as needed. I assume it'll be less waste at the end... I just wish the big jug was made out of glass or aluminum instead of plastic.
sammy811 is claiming responsibility for the small attack on the video platform.

Nobody's claimed responsibility for the main attack, but the answer is probably "mostly Tor + a bunch of open proxies". There's probably easily available databases of those available somewhere?
> I don't see how anyone can read about these crypto projects and see anything other than an extremely elaborate scam.

Maybe they read The Billion Dollar Mistake paper and were like “meh, that’s peanuts, we can do much better!”
> Selling user personal data to a third party, which users have no idea how that data will be used, is not better than companies showing users targeted ads.

This isn't what was said. What was being said is that the people who claim that they don't sell your data have such complex ways of still selling your data while being literally truthful that there's no way to confidently evaluate risks no matter what they say.

edit: I mean, do you know for certain that a determined attacker can't bulk unmask Google or Facebook users through skillful monitoring of ad auctions and specific ad placements?
I've had about a dozen different jobs over my career and not once have I even thought about squirreling away an employers code base. I'd say this is a far from common practice.

I think it would be a big deal (worth worrying about) to have physical/digital proprietary information in your possession after you left the company.
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So it essentially means that Ethereum is unable to globally scale or to be usable for anything on-chain at all except for millionaires wasting (and losing) $10k - $100k in fees for silly JPEG images, otherwise why are these same Ethereum proponents complaining that it is a problem?

Regardless, Both Ethereum, and Solana were unusable on that day and as it stands are still unsuitable for anything 'high demand'.
They go into the slip box to be searched by raw text when needed.

Edit: Really, in a zettel flow, you’re supposed to capture notes as fleeting thoughts that are processed and synthesized later into long form writing.

Each note should initially have few links (if any) until you’ve ruminated and expanded on that note in your own words. These are usually called literature notes in zettel workflows.
God dammit humans can't eat grass. How hard is that for you people to get?
Stablecoin adoption in the developing world seems to be of value. Compensating artists and thus incentivizing artwork seems probably good too.

But I'm not very familiar with the space as I've said.
I think we should use less fertilizer because most of it is made from petroleum we should be leaving in the ground. I think GMOs that let us use less fertilizer is awesome.
Most of "green" movement is a fraud. The majority of "green" energy comes biomass - aka cutting trees down and burning it.

Would love to see the funding behind many of these green groups. I'll bet most of it comes from oil companies, governments, etc. The past 15 years, much of the anti-coal "green" movement was funded by oil companies who wanted to take out their coal competitors and replace it with "clean" natural gas. It was all about taking market share. Nothing to do with the environment.
What do we eat? Food grown at tremendous ecological expense and shipped halfway round the world?

Vegans are boiling the oceans. Eat what's on your doorstep.
If this is the system working as intended, and you think that is a good thing, then I don't think there is any way to convince you otherwise.

To, on one hand, talk about helping the unbanked in Africa while at the same time justifying thousand dollar fees as "working as intended" is farcical.
I've definitely pushed the limits of performance with way too upgraded huge range artillery turrets hitting all the biter bases, but yes, very performant with large factories otherwise :)
You're not alone -- I recently had a heck of a time trying to get a T14s AMD 2nd gen to work well in Linux (mostly same CPU/chipset/hardware as your X13).

I never got wakeup from S3 suspend to work, it just froze; wakeup from S0ix actually worked ok for a while with a recent kernel (5.16 iirc), with a random kernel commandline addition (iommu=pt) to avoid a random 14-second pause on lid open (always exactly 14 seconds!). But wireless was still flaky on wakeup.

I played a bunch with powertop and different settings to try to get reasonable efficiency. Tried getting hardware video decode to work with YouTube/Firefox (vdpau / va-api); it sort of did, except when it crashed.

Then one day a week into the adventure, it just stopped waking up from suspend, after I-don't-know-what changed. Needed a hardware reset each time I opened the lid. I returned the laptop and bought an M1 Air instead; I love my Thinkpads and open systems but I also love good engineering.

System integration / QA / getting quality polished firmware is an underappreciated art it seems!
Transaction fees can change while you're in the middle of a transaction that you initiated when the fees were lower, so no.
You might be able to check your browser history for clues if you maybe replied, and forgot. Though I don't know enough about how twitter works to know if that would reveal anything. I suspect some stuff is SPA-like and other stuff is traditional web. Do you have a proxy, or anything else that could be logging?
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Platforms don't show this to people because they want people to trade. People that trade don't look for this information/live in blissful ignorance because they would feel bad otherwise.

If anything, by now we should accept that showing people numbers isn't the right way to make them aware of climate change.
An invariant is a predicate expression about the state of computation, typically about values in variables affected by code, but may involve control flow.

An invariant is maintained at entry into and exit from a function. What happens inside the function is usually nobody else's business. You can violate it for a reason, there, if you make sure to restore it before returning.

The role of invariants is much like that of conserved quantities in physics. Things can get very complicated, but energy and momentum conservation mean the amount of chaos is strictly limited.

If they are kept as simple as possible, the code can be more easily understood, and has less scope for bugs.
It is wasted. I can send you a JPG without using more energy than a EU resident will go through in several years. This isn't a philosophical or moral question. We have ownership models and financial systems that are flawed but at least on paper accountable to democracies and not mining consortiums.

Meat consumption is wasteful, sure, but at least the end product feeds humans. I don't get why we have to burn more energy than entire countries to power a speculative asset. Or buy contraband online.
Blockchains use the same energy whether there are transactions or not.

This bolsters the anti Proof of Work/blockchain argument if you understood it. Which ironically means understanding blockchains instead of just finding the nearest convenient reason to not bother understanding them.
Same as last year?
This is interesting, didn't know this about HRT Core Dev where offers were below FAANG. My understanding is that core devs are basically the folks who work on all the low latency stuff, so they'd be pretty well.

Jane Street, from what I recall, is 300K (base + bonus) and 125K sign-on, and also it is non-negotiable. No idea what their numbers are like for experienced hires from competitors.
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If ethereum ever achieved adoption even close to a fraction of what stock trading has, then you'd have the same problems and overhead.

As it stands, the apples to apples comparison has any centralized, trusted network being more efficient than [attempted] trustless, proof of work like ethereum.
We are boiling the oceans with this pointless shit, too.
What makes you think the POS change will happen within a year at this point? Its been continually delayed, and the last word is that it will be "a few months after June"