skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-03/methan...

"Bitcoin is solving the issue of brning gas flares by buying that gas and burning it ... thereby reducing emissions"

> https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/23/lancium-raises-150-million-f...

Lancium raises 150 million dollars to build windfarms 100% of whose output will be wasited on mining Bitcoin and not on, you know, actually producing electricity that people can use.

> https://medium.com/@magusperivallon/a-financial-hail-mary-fo...

"Bticoin will save the climate by replacing the financial stranglehold on our planet with a financial stranglehold that consumes ever increasing amounts of electiricty and gobbling up more and more resources (such as solar panels and windfarms that could be used elsewhere) to keep running". Also, "For a habitable future, we must stop financialization" says the article describing a system where profits are paramount.

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Crypto-talk is so similar to satire as to be indistinguishable.
It's always the elephant in the room with invisible illness.
to be really pedantic, I'd say PoS is an economic breakthrough rather than heavy-duty computer science, strictly speaking. the actual math of the consensus algorithms seems relatively simple, the challenge is aligning all the incentives so that adversaries in a group of anonymous people have nothing to gain by subverting the rules.

I will gladly give a Turing award to whoever formally proves the safety and liveness of Gasper like Lamport did for Paxos.
Won't someone think of the gamers!
True. Though all C-suite execs are US-based and US salaries make up the vast majority of all salary costs, as well as the vast majority of total staff costs if you include contractors.
that looks awesome tho some of the deals are really bad - e.g. morocco has 1gb for 7 days for 10 usd. I am pretty sure I bought something like 30gb for 15 eur. Same for UK and France, the prices there are just too much and you can get cheaper deals in person.

But again I love the app and hope something like that becomes big enough that the big operators will integrate with it.
>ly not sure how such a beast can't be filled with bugs

The one nice thing about crypto is that if there are bugs, the incentive to exploit them is large, they will get found quickly.

How the problem is dealt with after the fact (e.g. ETH Classic hard fork) i.e. the governance model is the real interesting part.
I'm just glad I renamed the word for staking in Tezos from "forging" to "baking". There's now about a million companies with names referring to baking in some way. I don't think there would be a lot of financial companies that have forging in the name. It might well have been a detractor for Ethereum PoS as well.
The doctors recommend keeping an infant in the same room for 6 months to 1 year. Most say 1 year.
don't know what "irregular state change", or a "roll-forward" is, sounds like jargon to me.

only thing I know is that code is law, until it isn't.

&no amount of verbal gymnastics can change the simple facts.
In Europe they've probably gone down the past decade I'd say.
How coöperative of you to help out with spreading the knowledge
These are not used, outside of attacks.
And the serious languages all forbid them already.
And the hacker languages do not care at all about Unicode security so far.
Studies show that to prevent SIDS you should sleep in the same room as the baby, but not in the same bed.
Rejection sampling moves the information leak from bias to time. As always don't use your own cryptography in production.
> If you play Spiral Knights or Half Life on Steam, you get a hat in Team Fortress 2

A centralized MySQL database is not a "public ledger" in the same way that a decentralized blockchain is considered a "public ledger."

In the former, the database can be removed or censored easily by the central entity controlling it. This includes issuing API keys: the central controller decides who has permission to access, use, modify, and even retrieve the data.

In the case of a "decentralized, permissionless, public ledger" blockchain, no single entity controls the data structure.
Aside from obvious egregious examples such as sending Covid infected patients back to rest homes in New York State, what other aspects of official reaction do you consider contributed? Genuine question.
I think they've been iterating fairly quickly tbh. Loads of improvements for bots (slash commands, modals, buttons, message context menu api, etc), threads, these 'forum channels'.

Whatever you can say about Discord's iteration speed, Slack is 100x slower.
And affect multiple orders of magnitude more people, bettering their life quality. Hardly comparable in good faith.
I'm just a midwesterner, but I'd say it all depends.

Some startups just don't have the money to throw around where they can list a position over 150k.

For companies that do have that money, they change the title - I do a lot of DevOps but I am a Solution Architect. Some companies have Platform Architect role(s). Edit: and everyone needs experienced Site Reliability Engineers

For many non-tech companies, in-house salaries might be pegged low but then they hire contractors which can command high rates, perhaps billing as much as $200/hr (granted, a cut comes out of that). Also these contractors can conceivably be handling more than 1 client.
I'm currently revising to get through a FAANG interview.

So lot's of Leetcode etc.

Rust is my thing, so imagine struggling with the borrow checker during an interview.

It may not be the best way to choose if a developer is going to be good on the job (is there even a way).

But, I feel I'm a better programmer now than before.
Aha, thanks! That looks a lot more native. I also noted some odd font size issues on Windows. See screenshot: https://jasper.monster/sharex/Notes_nHKYEEiHdW.png

The italics and bold are not the same font size as plain text?
Even at 17°F OAT, a modern heat pump can be over 2.5 CoP and deliver 90% of its rated capacity. [1]

Even on a day with the low in the teens, the high was probably 10-15° higher. Look at the hourly bin data for your location, not just the daily/monthly lows.

The key with a heat pump in a heating dominated climate (on top of insulation which is needed for any energy source) is sizing it right, creating the ducts right, setting the control strategy to not use H2 (emergency heat) too liberally, and not using deep setbacks that will flip you into H2.

Just as you are rightly skeptical of people who can’t comprehend not installing AC, you might be skeptical of drawing too strong and long conclusions from one heat pump install in a rental of unknown quality and where the incentives aren’t aligned to trade-off capital vs operating costs.

[1] https://www.pacificairconditioner.com/files/Hyper_Heat_for_r...
One thing I've always been curious about is why the opportunity created by this sort of thing doesn't seem to be taken advantage of.

To take Iran as an example: when US sanctions prevent Boeing or Airbus from selling to them, I can understand why Embraer doesn't step in and offer to supply planes, because they are afraid of secondary sanctions affecting their business with the rest of the world.

But tech isn't like aircraft production — building a GitHub, Okta or Auth0 clone is a chunk of work but hardly infeasible — hell, most companies routinely built a partial Auth0 clone in-house until not that long ago. Many still do.

So why don't we see alternatives pop up that don't block Iran? It's a niche, but you get the whole niche to yourself, and Iran is not a small market.

From a legal perspective you would set up somewhere like UAE where they have a good climate for business but regularly do business with Iran, so that part shouldn't be an issue.

Network effects are a factor, but when you're blocked from the popular platform, you have a bigger incentive than usual to consider the less-popular one.
A big take here is how similar are the brains of almost all animals in existence.

It's not only parasites, you also have viruses. Rabies, for example, manipulates the brain to induce what to me appears to be a highly specific response to a very specific thing : hydrophobia (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies#Signs_and_symptoms , in particular the video).

And it induces the _same_ symptoms on a huge chunk of mammalian species. For all you think the human brain is different from that of say, a wild fox, the same mechanism used by this virus to introduce hydrophobia _works_ on both species' brains.

It's already amazing to me that you can manipulate different human brains in the same way and introduce such a specific response; the idea that it would even extend to different species... If you believe even for a second that brains work in any way like a neural network, this is just mind-boggling. How can you manipulate a neural network to suddenly fear water? How can you manipulate _different types of neural networks_ to suddenly fear water, in a generic way? You/the parasite/the virus can only influence the hardware/wetware, and not what the NN is trained on.

It's evident that it's not an easy task, not even for the virus itself, as it "fails" to work on around 20% of the infected, as per the wikipedia article, where it causes some strange lethargic behavior instead of the "intended" waterphobia. ("Intented" because it's definitely more likely to cause the virus to propagate than the lethargic behavior).
If you thought I was hustling something-oriented design, you missed the point.

And, if you think that a type system can be no help with some family of data structures, it can only because you are unfamiliar with powerful type systems.

Rust coders rely on the compiler to protect them from themselves. C++ coders rely on the type system and libraries in the same way. The language is powerful enough to enable building libraries that can only be used correctly; or that it is much more work to use incorrectly, so no one is tempted.
Pasta I think absorbs around 0.9 of its weight for al dente. You can use for smaller shapes but for spaghetti is too little the volume. And you have evaporation loss.

Still this is one of those feel good adjustments not the effective ones.
Don’t offload authentication to third parties…

People didn’t learn their lesson from Facebook etc etc.
There’s nothing “outdated” here. The OFAC Controls being applicable to business done over the internet is not an unintended effect.
> However, there are a great many smaller businesses in the United States that still rely on being able to swipe the customer’s card.

That's why you usually need an external push to advance security. Manufacturers/businesses didn't drop CFC, lead, asbestos,... voluntarily, usually there's fierce resistance. Wireless tap payment terminals run for less than 50 bucks in retail stores, it's a negligible expense for any business (that's why you even see them among street vendors, restaurants where each waiter has their own terminal...).
What does LC mean in this context?
This does not seem to get much attention from the media here in Denmark.. Probably because it's just not very newsworthy, just common sense policy.. Why is it on the frontpage of HN?
There are alternatives.

Problem is, that people think they are a grift.
Oh ok, yes from that point of view they're solving entirely different problems, for sure.
Multi-nationals have to exist in the Venn diagram of laws.

Which is problematic in a bunch of scenarios:

- US foreign policy (note: I don't really want to stick up for a bunch of the countries/regions on that list).

- Chinese (and other countries) with censored internet.

- GDPR reaching far further than the EU borders.

- Badly written cryptography laws[0]

I don't really see a solution to this problem though. It's more of a problem when there is no transparency or ability to provide feedback and move democratic mechanisms toward "correct" solutions.

In the case of Okta/Auth0, however they've segmented their business (I use their EU region) they're still at the end of the day a US company with US board and directors. They can make a "service region" that respects EU laws because they don't contradict US laws (mostly), but there is nothing in EU laws mandating offering services to these regions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[0]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/australian-government-...
We bought a breath monitor which is a desk/plate (about 20x50cm) with a small device attached via a long cable. You put the desk under the mattress and hang the device somewhere on the crib. When it's on and the kid would stop breathing, the device starts beeping really loud.

It already triggered a few times for us, luckily in all cases it was because we carried the baby from the crib a forgot the turn off the breath detector :-D
For a lot of parents, cosleeping is effective in the short term but counterproductive in the longer term.

Also, it's a SIDS risk.
> Now whole governments are admitting that people under 50 don't really need those vaccines after all. We now have studies claiming that serious vaccination side effects are more likely than serious covid sickness in young men.

Wtf are you talking about. TWiV absolutely thinks everyone needs two cycles of vaccination period… and it’s likely beneficial to get three.
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You really need to define "significant".

Also, for nearly all people affected, pericarditis and myocarditis adverse effects from vaccines were a) temporary and b) easily treatable.

During the pandemic, ICUs were hammered as they desperately tried to save the lives of people with Covid. Do you genuinely believe that the vaccinations caused the same influx into intensive care?

If you really think more young people were killed by vaccines than Covid, well, your pamphlet better have some really fucking compelling research backing it.
It won't ever.
And it should be time limited when enabled.
Now that is a generous fine fit for a big tech tyrant like Google. The EU should learn from this to raise their fines to this standard for such trillion dollar tech companies as big as Google.

It is a shame that it is less than $100BN.
Agreed, “unsexy” was just meant to hint at the lack of any superfluous eye candy.

The only potential improvement is that the side panels might make access to the keyboard a bit cumbersome as-is, but changing that would make building it more complicated.
Meanwhile I can’t register my BMW on the BMW app because it was first registered in Japan and then exported to New Zealand.
Thank you for the info, I didn't know about Chivo. This may well be the government's attempt to address the issue of legal recourse. Interesting though that it still was barely used, at least partly because of security issues:

> Though around half of the Salvadorans surveyed have downloaded Chivo to date, with 40% of those downloads happening in September 2021, around 61% of those have abandoned it after withdrawing the $30 dollar sign-up incentive, the National Bureau of Economic Research found. Only 1.6% of all remittances were received in bitcoins via digital wallets in February 2022, according to El Salvador’s Central Bank.

> Chivo download numbers have been negligible in 2022, suggesting that the push has run out of steam. Some of those who have stuck with the application are using it for transactions unrelated to Bitcoin. The median active user does not send or receive a single Bitcoin payment a month nor make any Chivo ATM withdrawals, the survey found.

https://restofworld.org/2022/el-salvador-chivo-bitcoin-walle...
What's good for you doesn't mean it's good for the planet. Cotton requires insane amount of water, land. On the other hand, there must be other reasons why cotton is not the best choice for outdoor wear.
The US is just so backwards on this.

a) You can still run transactions as magstripe-only transactions (without any PIN or even signature required) or

b) copy the security code (which on most American cards are also encoded on the magstripe) and use it online (CNP transactions). If you're familiar with 3D secure, most American banks and merchants don't require 3D secure to buy.
Congrats! I’ll have my third in the next 2 weeks.

We noticed the same thing with my first 2 kids. They’d wake up from a dead sleep after putting them down. Once my second child was 3-4 months old we would let him cry for about 1 minute and found he usually went to back to sleep. Worked well. With my first we would run in immediately and I still think she has going to sleep issues.
Looks to me like you deliberately editorialized the headline. Troll-worthy behaviour that.
Racket DSLs aren't the same as 'spinning up a new lexer' at all.
Making DSLs is hard, and being a PLT expert does not make one an expert at language implementation. Those are completely different skills (see Brady's reimplementation of Idris on Chez Scheme and the reason for it).

Racket allows people with new ideas to prototype them efficiently by easily implementing a compiler that would've been an interpreter otherwise.
I wouldn't rely on experts being able to navigate through complexity as it happens quite a bit that a major bug in a protocol obliterating it completely is found 15 years after its inception...
Huge ships are multiple times more efficient than the equivalent transport would be on roads — so, don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.

We should obviously try to cut back on transports of such huge distances, but when necessary, ships are currently the best way even with all the pollution they do. Nonetheless, their current use is still incomparably more effectful on our lives and live quality than cryptos that it can’t be taken at face value.
Trillion dollar as in their shares are worth that much? How's that relevant?
The difference is that between centralised banking and cryptocurrency, only one of them is claiming to be decentralised and it isn’t the bank.
The temerity of linking a pdf without such marking as would give light to its nature... Quite undignified as the good sir imgabe has duely noted.

Respectfully yours,
derac
Railroad strike averted after marathon talks reach tentative deal
It consuming 0.5% is already such an absolutely huge red flag that I really can’t fathom any reason to continue with it.
Yeah, viruSaas uses ClamAV under the hood, which (also on VirusTotal) reports it as harmless.
Microchips are cheap, once initial investment is made. I guess, it only costs ~10¢ for new SoundBlasters at 90nm-130nm.

The price of 10 sound cards will be enough to pay for a whole wafer.
ascii tolower is like 5 instructions I think. You're computing this expression: v + ((v >= 'A') & (v <= 'Z') & 32). Unlike many string operations, portable SIMD libraries should be able to do exactly the right thing here, and writing one routine for AVX2 and another for NEON would be pretty easy if you don't want to adopt a portable SIMD library.

Edit: Oh, you can do it in 4 if you use an addition or subtraction by a constant to move the range you're testing for to the edge of the range of the type (in this case, [-128, 127] for i8 since there is no unsigned compare operator). The expression for this approach is v + ((v + 63 < -102) & 32).
Withdrawals haven’t been enabled _yet_. Per your own link it will be enabled in an upcoming upgrade.

Of course you can argue this upcoming upgrade will never happen. But you could argue the same about the merge upgrade, and this one did happen in the end.
> ... travel restrictions, quarantine on arrival, social distancing, school and workplace
closures, mask wearing, surface disinfection, and enhanced hand hygiene

So to eliminate influenza we just need to destroy the economy, restrict travel, force people to pay $1000s in quarantine, cover our faces and close schools and office. And ignore all the negative consequences of that. Got it.

Your comment "almost vanished because we started using hand sanitizer and facemasks." is false. It was much more than that.

EDIT: and your links prove a reduction in influenza, yes, not "taught us that we don't need to accept so many deaths by influenza". That's a much wider debate and involves much more than scientific studies
Just because the Russians are saying it doesn't mean anyone has to be propagandized to also say it. Assuming your counterparts in a discussion have been led to their views through deception is rather infantilizing. The Bill gates microchips stuff is totally irrelavent.
Most of the time these sanctions are global in nature and various treaties that US has with different countries prevent companies in those countries also doing business with sanctioned nations.
> A centralized MySQL database is not a "public ledger" in the same way that a decentralized blockchain is considered a "public ledger."

A public ledger is just that, a public ledger. It need not be distributed nor trustless to be public. The novelty of blockchain is the distributed and trustless, but most applications (as I outlined in the example above) only need to be public.

Trust me, I understand that a database dump is very different from a blockchain ala bitcoin, in exactly the ways you described, but that doesn't mean we need to shove blockchain everywhere.
"Boots on the Moon!"
That seems like a huge obstacle to your vision reaching critical mass. The last thing your everyday person wants is more responsibility.
As much as I'd like this to be the case, that's not a valid argument. If you're a random person who wants to fund a certain organization, you're going to have to buy the cryptocurrency somehow. For anything except tiny amounts this is going to require you to do KYC at some point. Every transaction on a blockchain is recorded forever and traceable back to you and the legal ID that you used during KYC. No one's going to mine Monero for five months just to fund a grassroots organization.

The way covert funding of illegal or unpopular operations or bribes _actually_ works in the real world is different. It often involves stuff like gambling, getting a thousand pre-paid cards, having a bank that issues credit cards (eg Russian-owned MyWireCard which now dissolved issued huge, prepaid, free cards to EU politicians), or "ant work" such as hacking or grinding up game accounts and selling them for profit. That's the covert and difficult part - not having a blockchain. Before you could get paid for your OF leaks with Ethereum, you'd get paid with Amazon prepaid card codes. The tender being on a blockchain doesn't improve anything at all for those performing the payment or those receiving it.
Ford Lightning Is Just a Standard F-150 with an Electric Powertrain
OCaml-esp32: Native OCaml compiler back end for esp32
Decentralised self governing communities probably can't function as imagined or advertised.

First problem is that the owner(s) of majority of voting tokens can unilaterally decide anything in the community. Because they work on "winner takes it all" principle. This means they are not self governing (because minority stakers are effectively excluded from any governing), and they are not decentralised.

Second problem is that there are no "people"/"humans" in the token infrastructure, there are only wallets. And there is no public mapping between wallets and humans (unless they expose themselves). This leads to the ability of "oligarchs" who own the majority of tokens (see problem #1) to obfuscate their existence. Creators of the community will false advertise that "oh no, we have no majority stakers, here people can truly decide anything by voting", but in reality there can be majority staker who owns majority of voting tokens, just spread out across the several wallets.

Basically these DAOs are recreating feudal fiefdoms in the digital realm but obfuscated by lies or omissions of information.
This is about 4th dosis. Most people have gotten first three doses already.
Come on, do you seriously compare something that you and nigh everyone use multiple hours each day and effects you on a physical basis to something as useless as cryptos?