skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just use Apple's XNU with the BSD userland. Mac's a fully accredited Unix.
They appear to have given very vague information about what kind of bacteria they culture.

Assuming that they have told the truth and they feed their bacteria with carbon dioxide, dihydrogen and dioxygen, then those bacteria are not powered by the H2 with CO2 reaction (which is possible only in anaerobic conditions, by acetogenic or methanogenic bacteria/archaea), but by the oxidation of hydrogen.

The use of the word "fermentation" is completely inappropriate. Regardless what kind of bacteria they are using, the bacteria do not carry out any kind of fermentation (which refers to obtaining energy from large molecules, either by converting them into isomers or by breaking them down into smaller molecules).

In any case slowness is not their problem, because they do not use air as the source of CO2, but they use concentrated CO2, which accelerates a lot the CO2 capture.

Also, if the bacteria oxidize dihydrogen, they dispose of much more energy than the anaerobic bacteria which also capture CO2, so a doubling time of a few hours is believable.

What is unlikely is that they can produce their proteins at a cost comparable with, e.g., chicken meat or proteins extracted from legumes, when they use relatively expensive concentrated CO2 and dihydrogen to feed the bacteria and also a presumably expensive process to separate the protein and convert it into a product resembling meat.
I'm a bit perplexed because I can't fathom where someone is going to substitute Rust for PHP or Python. I mean, you 'could' ... but that just doesn't feel right.

High performance, embedded systems, or things that have some kind of criticality with respect to fail cases, and must be fast, sure.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mold+linker
How to Use the 35W Dual USB-C Port Power Adapter
It will be a gradual process though, with mining rewards becoming more and more rare and approaching 0 over the years.
I personally love this pitch/demo of Ultorg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31219324

Straight to the point and shows everything you need to know.
Oh man, my org at FB was the test bench for moving to containerization and fancy service discovery and all that (Tupperware, just a different Borg reimplementation). It eventually got pretty good, but it never stopped being mad overkill for single-thousands of boxes. When you’re in the 10s or 100s of thousands in a fleet, or when you’ve got workloads that don’t neatly slot into your SKUs, Kube/Borg/TW/Mesos are The Way. No doubt about it.

But it’s always seemed zany to me to stack namespaces/cgroups/etc. on top of Xen or whatever EC2 is using. Yo dawg I heard you like an abstract machine so I put…

There are just separate concerns:

- reproducibility (shared libraries argggghh)
- resource limits to bin-pack SKUs
- service discovery
- failover
- operational affordance

And I’ve seen it get so ugly to conflate these very different imperatives. Running 100Ks that need to web serve on demand but web index when idle? Yeah, now you need the whole enchilada.

But it’s false and harmful to promote the idea that the minute you need Grafana or DNS or Salt/Ansible/Nix/whatever that you need BORG.

There are scenarios where I would enthusiastically break out Kube, but most of the marketing around it falls into my “and you will do nothing, because you can do nothing.” bucket.
> A better argument for solar panels is that per kwh of useful energy, a solar panel traps less solar energy (in kwh) than the CO2 produced by coal or gas or w/e.

It's not a better argument because the solar panel doesn't "trap" the energy. At most it borrows it, eventually it will radiate back out if allowed to do so, just as it would if it were absorbed by a rock. Humans do not occupy enough of the surface of this planet to make a dent in that.

The thing that will keep it from radiating back out is greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. And unlike some brief capture of energy, the greenhouse cycle is essentially a chain reaction.
Thanks. TIL I really shouldn't be commenting on things I don't properly understand and not reading listing titles properly... right.

Stays extra far away from heavy machinery for today
Do you mean Vale? Vala (the gnome langage) is in an unrelated category.
Great achievement, does it support all deployment targets, build configurations for Swift and Objective-C?
You are right and i deserve the critisism. What i meant to say is that for a new age of adventure games like in the mid 90ies there needs to be a new generation of vr affine gamers as i feel the current generation has given up on vr and adventure gaming in a classical sense.

Remember Robinson - the journey, a vr adventure made by crytek? It looked so promising i almost considered getting playstation vr although motion sickness is a real problem for me.
GPUs shall be available again, REJOICE!!!
Do you think the world could benefit from money that can't be manipulated by governments? If so, is it worth some expenditure of energy?
> If you're not using VPC endpoints, basically you're routing all your AWS traffic to the open internet.

yes this is what i normally hear. but by “the open internet” you mean “some other spot in the AWS data center”. what’s the risk here? somebody is going to slip some bad routes into AWS over BGP? and then also fake the SSL certs? this seems like some mission impossible stuff.

> Honestly there is just no argument for _not_ using VPC endpoints.

unless something has changed in the last three months they’re not available for all services. would you advocate against using those services?

> If you are still unconvinced, the pricing argument of course still stands.

sure that and the exfiltration argument are reasonable enough.

thanks for response
Sorry, you say you ran the benchmarks, but where in this post do you link to your results?
I love the books of Nevil Shute (not exactly sci fi - engineering fi maybe?). But the female characters in “On the Beach” could not have fewer dimensions than if they were massless points on a plane, and in one of his other books, the main character’s nickname is literally the n-word.
You wrote they get "absolutely destroyed by the process". I do not understand, why you wrote this. It is not true. The stress on the gpu might even be higher while gaming, depending how the gpu is tuned.
Analogies aren't proof for anything.

I'm pretty sure though, we obviously can't prove these chatbots are sentient. Clearly.

However, for the first time, we ALSO cannot prove that these chatbots aren't sentient. The statistics are proof of that.

What you and the parent poster are describing here are simply opinions. We are at a point where the null hypothesis and the hypothesis itself cannot be proven. And that is compelling.

The pretentiousness of a lot of people is astounding. That statistic no matter how you look at it is a compelling statement about AGI, independent of whether or not these chatbots are AGIs.
Certainly not a fan of crypto currencies since I don't see any good use in them but how come you only see comments like these in a crypto currency thread and not in a, lets say, computer games one? Games certainly are more wasteful and as useless as crypto currencies are.
Yes. Where do they get this number from? How is it calculated?
I left earlier this year, and worked in the space for a couple of years. I started with a neutral position on crypto, I didn't even think about it much. More like, its easy and pays well. But if people want to waste their money on tokens, go for it, but its not my cup of tea.

Then I started to recognize that its predatory and actually not benign or harmless. It is taking advantage of people. It started to become gross, and nobody I worked with shared any views or skepticism that I had. They all pretty much treated it like a religion across the board. Glad I left. I turned down money that most would not get a chance at in their lifetime, but where that money came from did not sit right with me, nobody in that company deserved any of it. I guess I was not cutthroat enough ... seems like this space is reserved only for snakes, and fools.
> Go get some of the washable 20x30 filters and cardboard, duct tape, and a fan

Here's a Wikipedia reference to one very effective design:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi%E2%80%93Rosenthal_Box

It's just four 20x20-inch HEPA filters from a hardware store taped together as a cube with a 20x20-inch box fan on top. I remember reading (here on Hacker News) about someone's experimental analysis that this simple design was more effective than most commercial air purifiers.

The only downside is that a typical box fan is quite noisy even at the lowest setting.
Just make drivers liable no matter what if they hit a cyclist or pedestrian.
Cool! I should have clarified. km/min is actually how many min per 1 km, aka pace

https://www.depicus.com/swim-bike-run/pace-conversion-chart
Avian Influenza Also Felling Wild Mammals
And you sound like a robot, giving the same canned response to others' comments.

I suspect, your definition "crypto" is not the same as the definition of OP.

Can you elaborate more, why do you think it's a fad?

Have you tried to write, deploy or at least use any Ethereum contacts?
Do you know how Merkle trees work or at least what are they useful for?
How about elliptic curves?

I worked on this off-chain technology a few years ago:
https://github.com/enumatech/sprites/tree/master/examples/pa...
We did hit some magical limit on storage and transfer. And we where a paying customer. $250 or something. No warning, no emails, they turned off our our accounts. Hence no deployments. Support was silent.

Now we use quay.io and a self hosted harbor docker registry.
Not sure this is the best advice, although it’s clearly well intentioned.

If op doesn’t believe in what they’re doing, and knows it’s not for them, throwing more of your energy and time into it could just be a waste.

(This is true of any career. More time invested means better prospects means harder to start over because you’d be starting over without experience for likely less pay. Breaking that cycle will get harder the longer you wait.)

To quote a great man:

“No amount of money ever bought a second of time.” - Howard Stark, (creator of Web 4.0 and inventor of Recentralised Finance).
dec 2017 $19100 -> feb 2018 $6800 -> dec 2018 $3300 -> thats 35% of it's peak value after 2 months and 18% after 1 year.
nov 2013 $1130 -> apr 2014 $400 -> jan 2015 $200 -> thats 35% of it's peak value after 5 months and 18% after 1 year.
So yes, this happend before ... .
There is a difference between being out of the country and making a choice to not be part of it, obviously it requires some degree of flexibility but you shouldn't be able to abandon the country and then expect benefits or any say in how it's run, same applies to any country.

The easy other point is people who haven't even stepped foot in the country in decades are dictating to people who still live there and drawing money away despite contributing very little when they did live there and absolutely nothing for the past 20 years in their hovel in Spain or whatever the current sufferer of British expats is.
Is it me or is the dual usb-c ports a silly idea? Why not charge your phone via your laptop? Is it for people with two phones and no laptop?
> Curious question: why don’t companies consider an abstraction like EC2?

That suggestion doesn't make any sense.

It's like you want the price gouging of AWS but the problems of managing your own custom low-level infrastructure.

If you really want to throw money at AWS and you want Kubernetes, it's hard to argue in favour of any option other than AWS's managed Kubernetes service: EKS.

Your goal is to get an app running, not to manage a cluster that has an app running.
I bet even if a researcher truly created an AGI, there'd be tons of threads like this claiming that it's just a language generator.
The Fed did a lot worse than a Gold Standard would have. You can’t blame the gold standard for a decision to contract the money supply.
I agree with you, he's totally wrong.

In fact, smart miners overclock/undervolt their gpus... so they are running faster, but with less power. Power is what creates heat and heat is what hurts things. Except it really doesn't.

Fans certainly die out though... we go through a lot of those on our cases. PSUs are also generally failure prone since they tend to be hand soldered on the insides.
> I am also worried about future employability. If crypto fails, which is a real possibility in my mind, will I be unemployable because I spend several years in the scammy crypto industry?

It will make things harder, but the places you really want to work will recognize the truly difficult technical problems you are solving and look past the industry.

I worked with a couple of guys who used to work in porn -- some of the best engineers I ever worked with. It took a while for them to find a place that would move them past the recruiting screens, but once they did they ended up with great jobs that recognized their talent.
I dislike people and planes are noisy.

I take your point, I’m doing it anyway.
Have you ever had crashes caused by unexpected use of nil/null/undefined? Using the return value from a function without checking for errors?
He has mentioned that to gain better CPU usage he runs multiple redis on the same machine. Probably the only issue is unused CPU
It could mean there are more than one.
> This means that in less than a year BTC tanked to 27% of its peak year value, and it's tanking even further.

Yes, multiple times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg
What makes you think the change in penmanship specimens over that time period are more connected to the proliferation of the ballpoint pen instead of the changes in penmanship instruction?
I don’t know anything about particular political distortions in the US, though I wouldn’t be surprised if they exist, at least on a small scale. What I can tell you is that electric energy is traded on complicated spot markets that are designed to ensure that production and consumption are balanced at every point in time. Overproduction is as bad as underproduction, as the power grid can’t store excess energy. Fuses are tripped to prevent short-circuits, causing blackouts. This makes time-based arbitrage difficult.

Since power demand isn’t entirely predictable, flexibility is rewarded in these markets. For example, if there’s a downward spike in demand that causes an imbalance, you can earn extra money by either having a power plant that can ramp down very quickly, or by being a consumer that can ramp up very quickly.

I wouldn’t be surprised if mining rigs participated in these spot markets. In theory, they should be able to adjust their power consumption within seconds.

BTW, it’s been theorized that overnight charging of electric cars could do the same thing and dynamically adjust the charging speed based on spot prices.
Using proportions is misleading.
The reasons for drop from 1000 to 500 are different from those for a drop from 60,000 to 30,000.
Well, given that quite a few people lot quite a lot of value with crypto in the past 6 months, I’d say that’s a turning tide.
With static types, every function signature implicitly comes with built-in tests for free.
You don't need to implement POSIX in order to not bundle your header files in a 9 GB "SDK" download, which isn't available as a direct URL download and can't be installed without user interaction via the GUI.

This is a Microsoft issue, not a Windows issue.
Given a long enough time horizon, bitcoin is a great store of value. The returns are unbeaten in 5 year, 10 year and 13 year (that's how young bitcoin is) time horizons.

As for what it is good for - what else is a permission-less medium of exchange? Regardless of price, the fundamentals of bitcoin stands true.
If you acknowledge them then they might ask for a raise. That's why the world is so toxic now: everybody tries to scam the few people that actually work.
You absolutely don't need the way Git does branching to do three-way merges. If you have local commits as first-class citizens, the need for local branch names disappears completely.

Local commits imply traversing history, but even that is terrible with Git. You can't just do obvious things like "git previous" or "git next" or "git checkout <commit hash>".
Cryptocurrencies are also full of ‘passionate’ people. Doesn’t change that it’s all a bigger-fool scam.
ETH adjusts every block. Your attack scenario is inaccurate. There is no single point of disruption to be had.
The irony of needing a tool to make the first tool work well
Russian botnet ‘RSOCKS’ dismantled after hacking millions of devices
> I suppose the biggest problem is that the concept of SCM/VCS is just not simple enough to make both easy and useful/advanced at the same time.

Git has and always had a singularity bad UI amongst dvcs.
Poke me when some software at Google asks to be called Samaritan.
Tel number was issued by Verizon, as a prepaid number and I supplied my own phone so I imagine the their number and their sim card so the the number should be on the Sim, no? This all happened about 6 or 7 years ago, they didn't ask for ID of any kind at the time.
I bought this game in England in the late nineties in a bargain bin for probably £5. It had terrible box art, but I bought it solely because it had Christopher Lloyd, and the voice of Dan Castellaneta. It turned out to be possibly my favourite point and click game ever. Christopher Lloyd is amazing, as is Castellaneta. Such a shame it didn't do well.

A guy on the internet supposedly bought the rights to it. He keeps promising a remaster, or a sequel, but instead of, you know, doing kickstarter for it, is just asking everyone to like his page, and sign petitions, and nothing ever happens. What a waste of everyone's time. Oh well.

A few years ago I discovered I could play it on SCUMMVM on my Android tablet, so I played through the whole thing over a few weeks during my bus commute. It was glorious.
It has, in fact it's being done right this minute on GPUs.

But not on GPUs in bulk for a decade, that is likely a true statement.
I like how all these descriptions of how the Australian outback is not that bad have all these might survives, and might be still quite ok in them.
Both soft links and hard links, as well as directory junctions, have been possible in Windows since Windows XP (though soft links have only been available since the release of Windows Vista 18 years ago). In fact, hard links are essential parts of Microsoft's solution to the DLL hell problem without wasting gigabytes of space.

The problem people are running into is that the OS hasn't been designed with wild symlinks in mind and therefore can't guarantee its security principles if any user is able to symlink however they please; if I read the context [1] correctly, it seems like an elevation of privilege is suspected to be very easy to gain if a standard-level user is allowed to place arbitrary soft links on a file system.

I see little reason for Microsoft to enable the "all users can soft link" setting by default. They'd need to audit their OS and userland code to determine where soft links may introduce vulnerabilities in order to change the default and a few developers that absolutely insist on using soft links inside git repos for some obscure reason isn't going to get them to make such an effort.

Microsoft has made enabling the feature a bit easy [2] but I can find very little about the security analysis done for this change, so enabling dev mode might open your computer up to a whole class of vulnerabilities.

I personally don't see a reason to use symlinks in a dev environment, but I suppose *nix developers think otherwise, probably to duplicate files across a source repository for some reason? If your intent is to work together cross platform then there are loads of restrictions you need to deal with. Linux applications tend to trip up over CRLF, every file system has their own stupid restrictions, build tools and shell scripts need to somehow become platform agnostic, you name it.

You can blame Windows for being different but the truth is that Windows is still the most commonly used desktop operating system in the world by a huge margin. macOS and Linux are the odd ones out and there is no good reason why the POSIX/X11 system design is better or worse than Cacoa or Win32; it's a mere difference of convention.

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...

[2]: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2016/12/02/symlin...
Let me interject with a related issue I've seen in HN and its "Who's hiring" posts. I'm tired of having to waddle through the crypto/blockchain/web3 offers that are seemingly and permanently 6 months away from solving most of humanities issues. Most of them are grifters and they should not be rewarded with visibility in this forum.
This would be a neat place to live if the border enforcement between the US and Canada wasn't so strict since 9/11.
Games have an positive impact on the gamer relaxation. I wouldn't call that useless.
>Redis, which I'd like to call the "original" key/value store

My old friend Memcached just came by and want to say Hello. He is still alive and kicking. Netflix has been treating him well.
Virtual Correspondence
I am not claiming that a majority of people in the past enjoyed leisure time. The improvements in tech that lead to more leisure time does not automatically mean people enjoy that time. While there is pressure to get a task done at work, or do chores at home, there is no one pushing you to enjoy yourself. People who don't know how to use this free time, or don't care to use this free time, can instead do more work now.

If enough people fill up leisure time with work or work-like activities (doing the dishes), that increases the overall pace of life. You do live in a society after all. Other people's actions will affect you.
you don't need to go IPv6 only, just adding dual-stack IPv6 with egress only gateway can reduce bandwidth costs.
In that case, the fee will keep rising until _some_ miner puts it into a block. Mining is decentralized so empty block attacks won't work unless they all collaborate (good luck with that).
What we are seeing is the cryptocurrency market reinventing all the mechanisms the "traditional" banking industry has been using for decades. There is no disruption when the whole thing is doing exactly the same just unregulated combined with extremely high risk.

Cryptocurrencies will always have the problem of interacting with the real world, where people are not bound by smart contracts and do not behave "rationally". Not everything is codifyable, especially not people.

> The 2018-2020 bear market was a true test of die hard crypto employees. Bitcoin went to $3k as the tech industry boomed. So many talented people capitulated and went to FAANG pa$ture$ but those of us who stuck it out also got paid.

Only if they sold and this money came from other people who put it into this negative sum game. Remember that the true winners of it all are the electricity providers that are delivering the power to drive mining all those proof of work coins. The losers are the people who put in their money last and are left holding the bags.
Based on a quick search, the typical costs for installing a vertical system to a single-family home are 15k to 25k euros in Finland. The contractors I found seem to discourage horizontal installations unless the bedrock is unusually deep. Drilling bedrock is cheap, while horizontal pipes have to be much longer, because the ground gets cold in the winter.
I think price per unit should be bigger than the price.
What number?