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This is kind of a straw man, but I don't think he's wrong. The problem is that he's kind of straw manning what "libertarian" means in this context and by doing so he's landing a much weaker blow against crypto than he could.

Libertarian, if words are to mean things, is roughly the view that the initiation of force should be extremely strictly limited. This includes the idea of small government since government has a legal monopoly on the initiation of force, but it also includes an aversion to private initiation of force including everything from riots and gang violence to... scams.

Scams and fraud count because any understanding of what force means that is not paper-thin includes the idea that deception and even perhaps some "dark pattern" style attacks on human cognition constitute force. Force is anything that attempts to contravene the independent will of another human being. That can be done by whacking someone on the head, pointing a gun at them, or gaslighting and lying to them to the point that their judgement is deeply impaired. In standard issue "pure" libertarian theory the only justification for force is in response to its use, but since scams and fraud are force there is justification for someone (usually a minimal rights-protecting government) to intervene.

One of my central problems with crypto is that it's not what it claims to be at all. There are many ways crypto isn't what it claims to be including being a bad currency and a bad inflation hedge, but it's also not what it politically claims to be.

Crypto is neither "libertarian" (rights-respecting) nor truly decentralized.

It's not a rights-respecting libertarian thing because it's absolutely lousy with scams and fraud of virtually every imaginable kind. It's not truly decentralized because proof of work tends toward centralization due to industrial economies of scale and proof of stake tends toward centralization due to its structural biasing of the system toward intense levels of wealth concentration. With either PoW or PoS you eventually end up with closed syndicates more or less owning the currency. Then you have cryptocurrencies with actual companies behind them or de-facto rulers like Ethereum.

With those factors leading to centralization and with scams and fraud and all kinds of opaque intermediaries popping up what you end up with is something far less transparent and honest than a central bank. All the criticisms of central banking apply, but more so.

Gold is decentralized because it's just matter and anyone can hold it without asking anyone's permission. Honestly even paper money, while "fiat," is more decentralized in that exchange is completely permissionless.

So while there are valid criticisms of libertarianism, it's not the problem. It's much, much worse than that. Crypto as presently organized and operated is a full-on scam, period. It's not what it claims to be.

The libertarians and decentralization advocates are among the marks in this scam.
This actually sounds sick :)

You know what is crazy, those microphone guns[0] mics might actually be amazing.

I know that people (youtubers) actually have problems with being able to turn their A/Cs on because of the background noise... Rather than trying to remove that noise with AI/post processing or turning the A/C off maybe people should be looking into microphone guns.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Sony-ECMGZ1M-Zoom-Microphone-Black/dp...
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I came across cell-lang a few years and really liked the ideas in it. It does a lot of the things that was proposed in Out of the Tar Pit, which is probably the paper that has influenced my opinions about programming the most

For applications that don't have high performance requirements I could see this getting adopted - automation and IoT devices are a couple of areas that spring to mind
Could you provide samples? Maybe it works for you in particular, but all the throat mic tests I've seen on youtube have absolutely abysmal sound quality.
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>American companies should use their capital to promote American values.

You can hardly argue that LGBT acceptance is an American value; our Supreme Court just hinted at repealing it.
That's exactly why it's gross. And why nations should codify parental leave and similar policies. Failing that, it's a race to the bottom in any employment relationship where the employee doesn't have higher-than-average power.
.001795 for year 30 = .998205 survival this year

.001858 for year 31 = .998142

...

.002482 for year 39 = .997518

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.998205 x .998142 x ... x .997518 = .978997 survival rate over 10 years

1 - .978997 = .021003 chance of death = 2.1%
Density is going to factor in somewhere, sure, but when you have 100 -> 0 vs 35 -> 0, that's almost 3x more energy (given constant specific heat) you need to sink somewhere. a single-digit percentage is a drop in the ocean here.
Great question! We wrote about this in our blog post: https://www.featureform.com/post/feature-stores-explained-th...

Feast is a literal feature store. it exclusively stores features, it does not manage the transformations used to compute them. The pros and cons of Feast are more obvious when examining the process to change a feature. It happens in three steps:

1. Write and run your new data transformation in your existing transformation pipeline. Note that this happens outside of Feast.

2. A new feature table must be created in Feast, since the old one cannot be directly overwritten. Once the new feature is created the transformation pipeline should be re-run and write all the features to the new table.

3. All the models that use this new feature should be updated to point at the new feature.

Feast also has other problems, for example, it can’t copy your features from the offline to the online store, you have to download the features and upload them to the online store yourself using their CLI tool. You also have to manage retries and failure yourself.

Featureform treats the transformation lineage as part of the feature and orchestrates your infrastructure to create and change your features.
Realizing that I'd be a small cog in a large team for most of my career down that path.
?? Perhaps you're thinking of Formula 2, where teams use the same engine, chassis, and tires. Winning is more about driver skill, and about execution on the part of the team. Formula 1 is widely regarded as a team sport where designing the best car is required for victory.

There are a number of former world champion drivers who are currently driving for lower tier F1 teams (Fernando Alonzo, Sebastian Vettel), and they certainly have what it takes to be champion drivers, but they have inferior cars.
I don’t think it’s an incorrect use of the semicolon. Semicolons are out of fashion these days, but using a semicolon to join two related clauses is perfectly fine, as far as semicolon usage goes.
Right, so stop typing that at all. Instead use `git checkout -f` to throw away extant changes. The `-f`/`--force` option is a lot clearer in intent than `--hard`.
I’m sorry, but after reading a few of these “rebuttals”, it’s really clear it’s just nonsense. These are not rebuttals, they are basically going around the argument and saying that it doesn’t matter in the case of bitcoin.

Isn’t it absolutely obvious to any economist that “intrinsic value” is a real thing, and that the value of an apple is something entirely different from the value of, say, gold? And the rebuttal is… intrinsic value is a flawed concept?

To me it looks like someone is trying really hard to not understand the critique, and write some sort of reasoning why it doesn’t matter.
The comparison I am drawing is that "they'll need a million of these" is an empty scare tactic. Humans have built "millions of these" for many values of "this". We are good at it.
How about this theory. the greater delta H heat flow induces structural changes in water molecule matrix that causes rearrangements that more quickly attain to the optimal ice lattice structure more quickly, and this 'enhanced crystallisation through increased delta heat' causes it to cool quicker. That this occurs in water and not other substances is related somehow to its 'paradoxical' expansion on cooling*. That the effect is flakey is related to the outsize effects of impurities and defects in the crystal lattice, and how these flaws can propagate their crystallisation inefficiencies.

Maybe a more thermodynamic way to state this is:

- temperature is an aggregate measure, so because of the nature of the ensemble, you can have some states at -22 C that still have some molecules of water (or groups of molecules of water connected by intermolecular bonds), at a higher temperature.

- when you start higher, you are going to end up with more of these higher temperature pockets in your ensemble, as your aggregate temperature drops through the degrees toward freezing

- these higher energy / "higher temperature micro regions", provide more possible microstates for the water crystals to rearrange, than if these intermolecular clumps of water were lower temp, (or were less numerous, as would be the case starting lower), and the higher temp clumps (or pockets, in the honeycomb of partially crystallized water) will probe the space of configurations of molecular arrangements more effectively (than if they were lower temperature, or less numerous, as would be the case starting lower).

- By being able to search more of the configuration space, they naturally are able to more quickly find optimal water crystal arrangements of molecules, where some H20 from the higher temp clumps, can slot into the existing lattice, or accrete onto the existing surfaces of forming ice crystals. So these ice crystals in a solution of liquid that has these higher temp pockets can be more effective at generating the movement necessary to find configurations where molecules, and clumps of molecules effectively fit together in the lattice, letting it find more effective crystal structures, leading to more efficient (and faster) crystallisation.

These other commenters are talking about the same thing:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31929552

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31928942

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31929779
But what if it had bluetooth though?

There's a kickstarter in here, I know it! I just need someone on HN that is crazy about hardware to see this post.
Plain language like that would be fantastically refreshing yes.
Belief in God remains quite common.
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Sounds like we need a "github copilot" for the shell.
bash on linux can already tell you which command you need to install if necessary.
I really don't want to keep cheatsheets any more.
I just want to write a shell comment and get the suggestions of the commands.
It shouldn't be too hard I think.
I guess the problem is how to pay for it.
I didn't know this style had a name! Thanks!
But most Gold is not used for circuits. Not only that, gold can be mined on demand and has an ever increasing supply (gold does not really disappear).
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Yes, we have multiple scale-up/enterprise customers with 200+ users
Because they are pretty annoying. One possibility is tank helmet, but in this head inside it is really not that preferable to wear... Then again outside in winter it isn't too bad option.
All I really see managers using is the burnup or burndown chart. They seem to choose between up/down based on their current mood. But it doesn't matter which one they choose, it always seem to bring everyone's mood down anyway.

And yet when you ask if we can change from JIRA to something else they say "but my reporting".
Bitcoin's primary value is access to gray or black markets.

Bitcoins secondary value is appreciation, which depends on the primary value, plus a transient state where the public becomes aware of this new value at a pace that outstrips new BC generation.

Bitcoin's tertiary value is marketplace/exchange operation, which depends on both primary and secondary values.

But all of it rests on forbidden market access. The cost is considerable: a very high rate of consumption of both (dirty) energy and chip manufacturing capacity. There is also the cost of participation risk in totally unregulated markets, costs which have no upper bound.

So, fuck Bitcoin. Use cash.
What you're after is "minimum description length": choose some representation, e.g. gzip, and try to find the shortest encoding of our input in that representation.

The simplest representation is just raw data. There's only one way to represent our input in this format: just write it out verbatim. Hence its minimum description length is identical to the input size.

A more powerful representation is run-length encoding, where runs of identical symbols can be stored as the symbol and the number of repetitions; everything else is stored raw. Note that there are multiple ways to represent an input in this format: e.g. "50 zeros" is the same as "25 zeros 25 zeros", "00000 45 zeros", etc. yet the latter aren't minimum descriptions.

A more powerful representation is to use back-references: this lets us compress runs of multiple repeated symbols (run-length encoding only handles runs with 1 repeated symbol), and re-use commonly-occuring 'phrases'. This is essentially how LZ works. Again, there are multiple ways to represent an input in this format; finding a minimum description is incredibly expensive; most compressors don't bother, and instead have a configurable 'effort' (e.g. 1 to 9).

Adding more power to a representation makes it able to compress more complex patterns, but also makes it harder to find a minimum description. The most powerful representation is a Universal Turing Machine, which can represent any computable pattern; its minimum description length is the Kolmogorov complexity, and finding it is uncomputable in general.

Note that both Shannon information and algorithmic information (i.e. Kolmogorov complexity) can be gamed if we focus on a single message; for example, I can define an encoding like this:

- To encode a snapshot of Wikipedia as of 2022-06-30T14:00:00Z, output a single `1`

- To encode any other data, run it through `zip` and prepend a `0`

- To decode data which begins with a `1`, output a snapshot of Wikipedia as of 2022-06-30T14:00:00Z

- To decode data which begins with a `0`, send everything after that `0` through `unzip`

Hence we need to focus on the distribution of possible messages, and the big-O behaviour after many messages have been sent, rather than individual messages themselves.

Shannon information is essentially a frequentist approach, based on counting and expectations. Algorithmic information is essentially Bayesian, where the choice of Universal Turing Machine defines a prior, the bits of a message (AKA a program) are evidence, and decoding that message (AKA running the program) updates that prior.
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I'm talking about the people buying the carts for $1,000,000+ they're very different from the "real gamers", for want of a better term.
It worked out, but just took like ten full years of pain.
ah yes, the "basic economics" that you just make up as you go ...
It's not something you can just will into existence. Where does most electricity come from? Fossil fuels.

Replacing the generation is easy: solar is the obvious choice.

But balancing out the peaks and valleys in the demand-vs-production curve? Renewables can't easily do that. And it gets worse as you add more renewables. (Edit: This is exactly what is happening in California, and nobody really knows quite how to solve it well. The grid can't keep up with the dramatic ramp-ups and shut-downs as sunset meets the rush of everyone getting home after work. In the meantime PG&E is forced to change their pricing structure or go (even more) bankrupt.)

You can use storage to store excess production and use it as a buffer during peaks. But storage isn't so easy to ramp up. Batteries? A lot of the source materials are mined in areas with either terrible labor & environmental practices, and/or have geopolitical considerations (like replacing with Russian oil with Chinese minerals). Pumped hydro? A bit like building dams... lots of social and environmental consequences.

The only other real options are where you're either naturally lucky (geothermal), small hydro, or new nuclear. None of those are easy to adopt, especially with rampant NIMBYism.

If we had started this rollout three decades ago, there might be more time for adaptation. Now the issue is no longer "is there the public will for it" but "how do we do this even if everyone is 100% on board".

Most futurists imagined a gradual rollout & replacement of dirty techs, not a "well, we'll just wait until the last minute... lol. oh shit, it's time, how do we do this?!". But of course human nature does its thing =/
I am not arguing that they are the same, have a look at what I quoted. This is really annoying me with HN, people looking for an easy dismissal of an argument instead of trying to actually talk about the underlying point.

The point that I am trying to make is that the argument I quoted doesn't work, because we already have situations where someone might look for something and can't find it.

I am not agreeing this is good, I am not saying it's the same, I am just trying to interact with a specific argument. This is a complex topic about cultural differences and ethics, let's try to stay curious and not just give shallow dismissals.
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There is also a rebuttal article by the same fund: https://www.bvp.com/atlas/the-antidote-to-cryptophobia/

That said, I think Adam (the original article) is closer to being right.

He doesn't even get into the thing that originally made me incredibly excited about the potential of blockchain tech—the way it lets one create a new sort of custom and irrevocable 'physics' for information and incentives. But the same irrevocability is now what makes me deeply concerned. If we get something wrong, it may be impossible to change, unlike normal human systems. It's like building Facebook, except the original design might be at least partially locked in functionally forever—and so issues created by naive founders can never be resolved and may warp our political and economic systems.

I have also generally found that crypto/blockchain/web3 doesn't address the problems its adherents say it can solve ( https://aviv.medium.com/the-magical-decentralization-fallacy... ), particularly changing power structures to get to a better world. Trying to find alternative solutions to address the power issues around centralized platforms is what eventually led me down a very different path ( to http://platformdemocracy.com/ ).
My impression was that it wasn’t getting much traction and thus was abandoned at some point. It was a nice “better Java”, but it didn’t have any compelling killer features and also not a lot of marketing behind it.
Sweden? That's the country where income taxes of every individual are publically available. The inventors of tracking flights, including private ones.

Are they concerned because medical, or because facebook?
I didn't downvote you. There are only so many phonologically near-optimal patterns to recycle into things that sound kinda-sorta like words, so you're bound to run into these things. You just pick your poison and hope that you don't end up being shipwrecked by a gale-force meme like "fedora" as a pejorative with time.

fwiw, the concern you're thinking of tends to be sidestepped either by a pseudo-initialism or a vowel shift in actual practice. In this case, the first options / paths of least resistance in an arabic-speaking community would seemingly be:

- to raise the first vowel to more of an [ɪə]¹ or

- to pronounce the /kəf/ - /kɑf/ then "IR" as single letters.

¹ which afaik would turn it into a long vowel that might act like a geminate? dunno
this news is from 2018
perfect bait, well done.
I’d be more interested in seeing what number of crypto buyers are underwater. Despite popular belief the amount of people who own Bitcoin exponentially decreases the further back you go.

I’d be impressed if more than a thousand people who owned Bitcoin a decade ago still own the same bitcoins.

My thesis looking at the volume and prices during the pandemic is that most people who own Bitcoin still despite the price increases are underwater.
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The greatest evil of cryptocurrency is that it destroyed any hope for real micropayments.
>>>> According to decades of research, wellness is a lifestyle or state of being that goes beyond merely the absence of disease and into the realm of maximizing human potential. Once someone’s basic needs are met (e.g., food and shelter), scientists say that wellness emerges from nourishing six dimensions of your health: physical, emotional, cognitive, social, spiritual, and environmental. According to research published in 1997 in The American Journal of Health Promotion, these dimensions are closely intertwined. Evidence suggests that they work together to create a sum that is greater than its parts.

This is pure woo. What scientists?
If you’re talking about the Windows OS itself, the OS kernel is very good and has pretty solid foundation. Windows NT was based on VMS which was an excellent cutting-edge OS of the time.
Solely taxing the rich and corporations isn't enough to stop deficit spending, spending cuts would be needed as well. In the US, if you taxed the top 1% at 100% (and it somehow didn't have massive second order effects) you would only generate about $800 billion in tax revenue. Current federal tax revenue is about $3.7 trillion, and a decent chunk of that is already coming from the wealthy and corporations. The current federal budget is around $6 trillion. And individual states, counties, cities, and other entities like school districts and water boards also still need tax revenue too, mind you.

Regardless of one's feelings on raising taxes, solely raising taxes is simply not enough to get rid of deficit spending. Pretty much all governments (and all western governments especially) spend far more than they can bring in as revenue. This ends up getting paid for long term by the general public in a lot of different ways, such as inflation, bankrupt retirement and healthcare programs, and more.
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It contains 21+10+1+13+4+6+1+14+23+3 = 96 resources
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Found this video which demonstrates the usage of a throat mic in an operating room. It's not perfect but it works quite well. I had never heard of this thing before but it's rather cool!
> The answer is BOTH.

Both means yes. It's pretty clear that in some circumstances cold water freezes faster. The interesting thing is whether hot water EVER freezes faster.
Totally depends, but if I’m acquiring or recommending software for my large corp employer, then likely yes solo dev could be a red flag. The primary issue is probably support bandwidth.

If I’m trying things out at home, likely not. I already have lots of games and utilities that are solo dev work. A lot of us use OSS from GitHub done by solo devs.

Also depends on the software. Anything financial or security or cloud based isn’t a good idea to rely on one person. It matters how much I would rely on the software, how much risk there is, how much it would hurt to lose, and how much it cost. Games or paint programs or handy utilities, things like that I might be sad but not damaged if the solo dev software were to go away.
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