skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weather changes. Climate is the accumulated average across years. It’s “yesterday it rained here” vs “we got an average of x litters of water per square meter during this month in the last ten years”. Climate changes, but by its own nature it should change really gradually.

The point is that weather is changing so much that even climate is changing quickly now. Or, in a car metaphor: not only our velocity is increasing, our acceleration is also increasing m.

I think a stronger word like “climate emergency” would have been more appropriate.
Each time you catch the flu you also accumulate damage. Same with every disease.

Just because you feel back to normal after getting over an illness it doesn't mean there isn't a permanent hit taken in terms of future repair & recovery capacity.

I suppose the argument is that Covid-19 causes more long term damage in many people when compared to other similar illnesses? That's interesting, but part of me wonders if this is just a false flag due to how much research there is going into covid.
Unlike many baseXX encodings, base45 has an advantage of actually being undone by the alphanumeric mode. Granted, it is still unfortunate that base45 has its uses (because many QR decoders do not properly handle 8-bit data) but inefficiency is not its deficiency.
In another news, Twitter is looking for fucks to give, none found yet. Search in progress
Weather changes. Climate is the accumulated average across years. It’s “yesterday it rained here” vs “we got an average of x litters of water per square meter during this month in the last ten years”. Climate changes, but by its own nature it should change really gradually.

The point is that weather is changing so much that even climate is changing quickly now. Or, in a car metaphor: not only our velocity is increasing, our acceleration is also increasing.

I think a stronger word like “climate emergency” would have been more appropriate.
>The Ryzen 7000 cores will support AVX512

Anandtech:

"Critically, however, AMD is diverging from Intel in one important aspect: whereas Intel built a true, 512-bit wide SIMD machine for executing AVX-512 instructions, AMD did not. Instead, AMD will be executing these instructions over two cycles. This means AMD’s implementation still benefits from all of the additional instructions, register file space, and other technical improvements that came as part of AVX-512, but they won’t gain the innate doubling in SIMD throughput."
I'm not aware of the specific details, but one of the usual critical things is clock and PLL configuration. It looks like the PLLs that generate all the internal clock frequencies, including the 48MHz for USB, are connected to the VPU. It may be the case that relevant hardware simply isn't connected to the ARM.

(From Broadcom's point of view, the VPU is the "real" computer with all the processing power, and the ARM is tacked on the side)
To the gamers, yes.

As these cryptocurrencies have provided utility to the miners in the past.

My point is, everyone is arguing here thinking only about their own particular self-interest, while pretending to be arguing about some abstract universal good.

And cryptocurrency energy usage is now a low-hanging fruit argument. If we really cared, we would cut much more than just that.
I think babies cry when they get tired to warn parents they are going to fall asleep soon, so that parents know they have to take them somewhere safe to sleep.
Well, I laid out my numbers and calculation.

If there is a more accurate way of calculating it that results in 0.2%, I would love to hear about it.
Electric heaters are the classic exception in energy efficiency calculations. The heat produced is only wasted in that it will eventually dissipate. But heat is exactly what you wanted when you turned the heater on, and so heaters are often described as 100% efficient. I guess with heat pumps this logic makes less sense. It is more efficient to move heat around than to generate it.

Not quite sure how this relates to Proof of Work. People don't generally run mining rigs because they want to generate heat. The heat is almost always waste.

I've always wondered if the economics of using CPUs in heaters to do something useful and generate heat would ever work out.
> In many areas electricity outages are a daily occurrence.

I’ve lived in 4 continents, never had daily, weekly, or even monthly outages.

> Security == privacy. And cash certainly wins availability by a long shot, it can't be blocked by any kind of outage.

If you don’t have enough cash in your wallet then you don’t have any availability. If you have a internet outage your debit/credit cards still work offline.

Also security does not equal privacy. If you are living in a state where this is true, you have bigger issues with the entire system than ATM skimmers.

> Credit cards don't have a PIN, that's a debit card.

Everywhere I have lived bar the US has PINs on all card types. It’s only a matter of time before it becomes ubiquitous in the US too.
Pretty sure they meant "don't know about" in the phrase you're referring to. Perhaps they were posting from a portable "smart" device and got caught out by the ever so reliable "auto-wrong" system, or maybe they just had a "brain-fart" while typing fast…
Mozilla fired basically the entire MDN team with the rationaly that the "community" will pick up the slack with PRs and such

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24132494

This was in 2020, I don't know if they eventually hired _someone_ to work on MDN
And even here the spam/bot tweets are present...

https://twitter.com/indosat/status/1570322826363559936

What's more worrying is that people are sending ETH to the scammers wallet:
https://etherscan.io/address/0x266cfB7f9c908591FD69d79Dd46B4...

Currently at: $57k USD!

Someone recently sent $12k USD!
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x30661485e12c1e3991369110b6a511f9c2...
What about it is inconvenient? We've had Chip+PIN in the UK since 2006 and contactless payments since 2007 and it isn't inconvenient at all. Supporting card machines are everywhere and in addition portable card machines are extremely commonplace. Even in restaurants they just bring the card reader to the table and you either tap-to-pay or you put your card in and enter your PIN.
There's no direct correlation, yes. If you took two executives (or really two people in any profession), one making 10x as much as the other, and swapped their positions, you would not see one position dropping to 10% performance and the other rising to 1000% performance. In all likelihood, they would both drop to 50-70% for a while and then stabilize to their original values.

Individual persons are not orders of magnitude more productive on their own, they're just in environments that allow them to be more productive, for example by giving them control over more resources.
With enough media firepower, anything can be made political, regardless of the underlying reality.
Nothing is going on.

You are on the right track.

There's an incredible amount of word salad piled on the fact that people are playing a negative sum game when getting involved with any cryptocurrency that has transaction fees.
This is so true, and so amusing. It almost makes me wonder if the microinstructions of the VPU could be where we run.. and use this ARM chip to do things like AES offload!

Thanks for a very useful observation. Clocking is fundamental to a lot of things, buses like the clock to be done right so I can believe booting requires good clocking and some bus initialisation.
cynical take: Because the people making up the term think it's outrageous employees would just do what they need to do and not more.
Fair point too, and I had missed that, sorry.
Back when Germany was considering making vaccination mandatory it was already clear that they only protect against infection for a brief time and that they’re not that effective against Omicron in the first place.

I don’t have any citations on hand, but should be easy enough to search for, especially now.
Is paying for dinner at a conference of wikipedia editors really that bad a thing?

In person conferences move open source projects forward. They build relationships and synergy between people who usually only see each other online. A cheap dinner is probably a lot of bang for buck when it comes to outcomes.
The only reason contracts are binding is because they are enforced by courts. Legally enforceable contracts and the courts that enforce them was one of the killer features of western societies an a non-trivial reason for their economic success.

I have no idea how smart contract could be globally enforced, or can they be, but if they can, the way I see it, this should create new prosperity for those who have been unable to enjoy access to fair courts and binding contracts.
Also try to disconnect from work when your work hours end. Set boundaries with your teammates and clients, that also mean blocking time on your calendar so they cannot book meetings with you. Make other people use the calendars and make sure you keep it up to date and encourage them to also use theirs and to disconnect from work when possible.

Remove work email/chat programs from your phone if possible. Switch off notifications for all apps except a handful of apps. Mute all group chats if you are on WhatsApp/similar. If you use slack, you can set you active hours so it won't send notifications.

Remember to schedule leave, try to take at least one day off a month to do nothing (I recommend spending time in nature if possible). Travel to a different part of your city/province if you can, a change in scenery is good.

Basically, you need to curate exactly what your time and attention span gets spent on every day. You only have so many "attention points" to spend, so make sure you spend them on stuff that matters to you. Automate the things that you cannot escape (getting a dishwasher is worth it washing dishes agitates you or you spend 2+ hours a week on it). Calculate how much you are worth per hour in money terms, when deciding to buy something or paying for some service (like getting a cleaning crew to clean your place instead of doing it yourself).
Imagine every top company and SWE in general being reduced down to LC
It isn't really over yet. This must have had a fairly radical impact on the incentives of the people who are involved in running the network since random outsiders can't muscle in any more. We don't know what that does the economics of the project from just the first couple of hours. I'm going to be checking back in on Ethereum after 1 and 12 months to see what really happened here.
An economist had a thought experiment it may promote safer driving:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Tullock#Tullock's_spike

They installed a divider on the Golden Gate Bridge back in 2015, and there was an unintended consequence of drivers speeding more because the perception of safety increased.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Golden-Gate-Bridge-ba...
PeerCoin was the first proof-of-stake system, not deletegated proof of stake system, in 2012.

Here is some more history on early cryptocurrencies and blockchains:

https://twitter.com/moo9000/status/1389573901815066627
I mean......isn't that any lottery? People who buy 100k lotto tickets have an undeniably higher chance of winning than people who bought a single ticket. Here it's the same - the higher your stake the higher the chances. But you don't need to stake all 32 eth to participate.
Eurovent Is Europe's Industry Association for Indoor Climate (HVAC)
I'm surprised that Toxoplasma wasn't discussed.

It's associated with risk taking in humans. It'd be interesting to see if VCs ever start screening for it.

From this article:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31980266/

A more recent study shows that toxoplasma infection prevalence was a consistent, positive predictor of entrepreneurial activity.
> Is it wrong to think of marketing akin to parasites that affect behaviour? Often they say "sex sells"...

I've long believed that the evolution of sexual reproduction is a kind of parasitic virus. Just consider the case of humans: the perfectly good string of X chromosomes are slightly modified in the parasitic version (one is stunted, and alters the development). The parasite uses a variety of ways to lure a host.

The parasite then literally injects its DNA into the normal host, causing it to generate either new hosts or parasites, doing all the work without further action by the parasite, spreading the parasite's own DNA into further generations of host and parasite.

Kind of hideous to think of it, but it does seem likely that at some point science will find a way to retain the benefit of gene mixing without requiring the parasitic form, and the scourge will be eliminated from humanity.
You should make a Shown HN for yourself!
Current machine learning state of the art would like to disagree.
“Whoever frames the issue first, wins.” —-George Lakoff

“Quiet quitting” is a frame implicitly shaming workers for not providing more than the contracted work.

Similarly, “Quiet firing” could be a frame for employers paying employees the contractual amount without additional compensation for any effort above the contracted amount.

In these terms, employers have been “quiet firing” forever.

Note which frame is being repeated and by whom - as an indication of which frame and interests these outlets represent.

(I did not invent the “quiet firing” counter-frame, I just find it to be a great example of framing the issue)

“If you get your opponent to use your frame, no matter what they say, you still win” — also George Lakoff
I am currently being forced to use it for my compsci class and it really is horrible from a UI/UX standpoint (doesn't even have dark mode lol). It does not enforce any syntax style or proper formatting which makes beginners learn that "it doesn't matter" which is wrong imo and leads to horrible looking code.
In fact I have subscribed to some people also and that's because I've found them genuinely amazing. Nevertheless I only re-visit the channels once in some years - when happen to feel really bored. Even if I sign in I don't care about the feed, I only get to the videos to actually watch through ad-hoc searching and recommendations relevant to the specific video I watch.
Thine brevity is bereft of wit. And thy poem rhymes like that of a twit.

Loquacious scribings hath wit overflowing like the bacchanalian cup overfloweth with wine. And so brother take my Shakespearian cup of rhyme, and come let us dine.

(Sorry couldn't think of anything that rhymed with wit. Except tit which isn't better, or dimwit.)
Norwegian central bank uses Ethereum to build national CBDC
But why/how? Online services today already saw that nobody wants to pay. That explains the fast death of journalism, news sites, etc. That also explains why scummy ads currently act as the financier to most sites.

Given that people won't pay when it's easy, why would they suddenly start paying when the barrier of converting cash to crypto is added on top?

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding and you're instead referring to actual ownership of said services. How does that differ from written agreements or stocks today?

What you may be describing seems similar to how Brave sees the world. I respect that and love the product, but don't see it as a reality.
at qryn we're past the logs-only phase and currently we're concentrating on the polyglot aspects - we already support ingestion and querying of logs, metrics and telemetry using various inputs (loki, influx, elastic, etc) and supporting logql, promql and tempo for searching. Less moving parts, more power.
I thought it was clear as day this was where it was heading. The fact the virus mutates so often made it clear that herd immunity to wipe it out wasn't possible. And that it mutates so much made it clear that we would need constant booster shots, and it isn't really viable to keep giving everyone one while paying drug companies tons of money for it.

For me, the only thing I care about is if I need to wear a mask and if I need to have a vaccination to do things. If I need to have a vaccination pass to do things then I don't think we should be getting charged for getting it. And I just hate wearing masks.
Armageddon: The Odds of Nuclear War
excuse me, could you clarify if your statement about marks and blocks here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12118609) was about WordStar or Emacs?

thank you

PS I'm sorry for digressing; there was no reply button on that post.
They are all hosted on the same group of servers using the same software. Its non-sensical to talk about money going to keep other wikimedia projects online instead of wikipedia. That's not how things work.
I don't see how it is beneficial to anyone (other than ASIC developers and energy companies) to build a tax paid to ASIC developers and energy companies into the protocol.
Why do you only mention the fatality rate of Corona and not the risk of side effects like Long COVID?
And the IFR pre Omicron was higher.
Several large heroin deals went down in London in the early 70s. Tremendously profitable shipments were flowing from Afghanistan. So much so that one of the main problems was laundering those profits. Dozens of restaurants were sustained in Brick Lane by this “custom”, far more restaurants than there were legitimate diners for. After the money-flow dried up, many of them struggled and there were closures. They weren’t sustainable. Only the better ones survived.
It's not "lottery as a banking system", because there are rules for validators for failing over and others replacing them. This is what complex consensus mechanisms are about - how to have 100% uptime instead of few nines. The system has built in incentives for the operators to keep it running smoothly, but still not being unable to change or reject the transaction payloads, like PayPal or banking system could.
The comment you accused of “just saying things” was referring to crypto culture, rather than research specifically. I picked Helium because it was something that the web3 community glommed onto as a “successful” use case.
> So 40% efficacy IF WELL MATCHED to virus

That's a disingenuous reading of the thing you just quoted.

It's 40% to 60% if well matched - assuming that that the range is evenly distributed then the middle point is 50% not 40% and reducing overall risk of flu by 50% is a good thing since flu is much more a killer of the old and young (usually - there have been exceptions, 1918 Flu (aka Spanish Flu) killed younger people at a much higher rate).
Now all we need to do is shutdown the gaming industry.

It’s so wasteful to be using electricity when we could all be playing chess or Yazee instead.
Hilarious that chips are the new tech in the USA when other countries are going essentially all-NFC. Try using a chip card in Australia.
Yes, two doses of the Oxford Covishield vaccine
DragonflyDB is not open source, unfortunately.
Also, "The article is urging the reader to update their browser to a newer version."
Basically yes but in fairness there is a bit of operational expenditure. You need to pay a bit for energy (there is still a computer that needs to run), internet costs and your HW may need to be renewed every 5 years or so (perhaps longer). Typical costs of a normal consumer grade computer plugged to the internet, almost insignificant but not strictly zero.
It’d be more interesting if there were a Victorian HN front page
How Do Nanoparticles Grow? Atomic-Scale Movie Upends 100-Year-Old Theory
This depends on the renderer/render settings. e.g. https://openstreetmap.de/karte/ always shows the german names alongside, if available. But those are set by the site owner, not the user (those are not vector tiles after all)
I imagine the comments of such a site to be filled with people exclaiming “How dare you Sir! How very dare you!”
"99% of the time it works every time"
> Probably the least effective estate planning from a raw $ perspective in history.

For a very well planned change of ownership of an estate, see the UK royal family. The recent inheritance had zero death duties paid.
Shakespearean English in the sense of being written in the style of Shakespeare, rather than of his era, is without doubt beyond GPT-3
In my experience, it’s usually not about finding out the actual facts / truth for these groups of people

actual facts

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/covid-deaths-in-israel-h...

look at that chart and then recall the absolutely mad state so many
people went into Summer 2021

"time to blame the 'unvaccinated'"

"time to inject them against their will"

"time to violate their basic human rights"

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/i-know-what-you-did-last...

maybe, just maybe, the "unvaccinated" were able to see something you
weren't and chose the better path
You're making these very vague statements all over this thread. Why don't you just look up the current estimated fatality rate from Covid booster shots vs. the current estimated fatality rate from Covid infections from a reputable source like the CDC and post it?
If you're up for the risk of jailbreaking, there are ways :)
Great, now all that energy can be "wasted" rendering pixels with GPUs instead.

This was always going to happen. Eth was never going to realistically compete with Bitcoin for energy. Now Bitcoin is the only PoW network remaining, as it should be.

Looking forward to seeing Bitcoin play a pivotal role in renewable energy infrastructure build-out and capturing flared and vented methane to be one of the biggest carbon-negative industries on the planet.

It arrived right when we needed it to tackle carbon emissions.
> Using regular cryptocurrencies is incredibly simple and elegant. It's only when people started to believe propaganda about disk space and cpu time (that never made sense with the most basic examination) that somehow something that worked amazingly well is now a complete mess.

Bitcoin SV did not care about these things and is dead because of it. Its blocks are ~200MB spammed with mostly non-payment related data. Its blockchain has grown to over 6 TB, the global number of nodes verifying the chain is down to 20 and it has been delisted by many exchanges and block explorers.

Bitcoin and Lightning in comparison have ~25,000 nodes.
> I'm surprised that Toxoplasma wasn't discussed.

> It's associated with risk taking in humans. It'd be interesting to see if VCs ever start screening for it.

Since first reading about that one years ago (and how it's believed that a ridiculously high percentage of humanity is probably already infected with it), I've often wondered if it doesn't maybe explain at least some of the insanity that we see happening in the news so frequently. Perhaps we should add a new requirement to being able to hold a "leadership" position in society that you be screened for and certified clear of brain altering parasites?
My current state tells me that neither soul nor free will are possible in a closed system regardless of probabilistic events.
Please illuminate us then. Dang doesn’t ban people for anti vaxx claims on this board so you should have nothing to fear
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Between the antivaxxers in those threads and the "singularity in 3 years" ones in the AI threads, I think a significant downwards revision of the average IQ of hackernews commenters is in order.
This might depend on where you are. If you're from the UK, the only way of getting this diagnosed within any reasonable time frame is a lactation consultant. Most NHS staff is not trained to diagnose tongue tie, which is not surprising given their historical roots.

Tongue tie was quite obvious for my first daughter (it even runs in my family), but hospital staff still refused to do a proper diagnosis and said it was fine. It was not, and impacted the breastfeeding.
She did not get 10 years jail. She was sentenced to 2.5 years, with a minimum term of 15 months.
Thanks for the reply. I'm kinda naive and your reply has me realizing... all parties have been positioning themselves to be free of blame... except me. That needs to be my focus now.