skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
«Shouldn't that be observable somehow?»

No, because of two reasons. First, many miners simply pointed their hardware to mine other cryptocurrencies such as ETHW or ETC. For example we have evidence that about a quarter of Ethereum's mining farms moved to ETC over the last 24h. Second, contrary to sensationalist headlines Ethereum miners only represent a drop in the bucket of the global electricity consumption: only 0.1%. Yes that can be a "country's worth of electricity" but in relative terms, 0.1% would be barely visible on charts you might examine.

Also, digiconomist, an often quoted source of Ethereum miner's energy consumption statistics, was grossly overestimating the figures. The actual consumption was probably around 20-30 TWh/year instead of the ~80 TWh/year figure they estimated. Just look at their chart: it made no sense, for example between Sep 2020 and May 2022 Ethereum hashrate grew 5-fold from 200 to 1000 TH/s, whereas in that same time-frame digiconomist estimated the consumption grew 15-fold from 6 TWh/year to 90 TWh/year. If anything, hardware has become (a bit) more efficient over time, it didn't become 3 times less efficient...

But that's not too surprising, given the author of digiconomist has a history of exaggerating his figures, like he did for Bitcoin see https://blog.zorinaq.com/serious-faults-in-beci/ But nowadays his Bitcoin estimate is more in-line with more reputable estimates such as Cambridge's https://cbeci.org/ Last time I looked he was within ±30%
Can you do auto layouts? And components like figma?
>You are saying two contradictory things. First that those with the most money control Ethereum, and then that transactions can't be controls be reversed

No, absolutely not. I'm saying it's controlled by those with the most money, and history has show as that transactions __can__ be reversed when those large players throw their weight around in a too-big-to-fail sort of way.

I'm also saying that I don't mind there being a human layer of judgment, but also that it goes very much against the trustless ethos of crypto. And also that the currently layer of human judgement is vastly less accessible to the average crypto hold than it is in traditional banking & finance.
Remember that the US is huge, diverse, and opinionated, and really struggles to realize "My experience isn't everyone's experience"

I've had the chip struggle like once in my life. That was on a card very near it's expiration date. Most people I see in the store have no problems with their payment method, and when I was a cashier in 2012, people seemed to have significantly more problems getting their magstripes to scan.

All of this is SUPER dependent on which flavor/brand of POS is popular around you, the effort your bank put into making a good implementation, and whether your local merchants actually put effort into running their business and keeping equipment maintained. Pretty much nothing in this discussion is generalizeable to all of the US other than "We were late to the party of chip cards"
No I mean 50% as in nobody can ever remove you from the 50%.

But to your point, who should decide who the misbehaving actor is? In what situation can you punish the network with only 1/3, as compared to 1/2 as with Bitcoin?
Exactly. Especially when your decision is hitting a business right where it hurts: Cutting off revenue and invalidating customer-facing payment links.

How can any founder rely on Stripe, much less recommend the platform, if you need to have a backup system in place “just in case”.
>Running is actually good for your joints.

Running a reasonable amount (contextually defined), with good form, in appropriate footwear, ideally not on hard surfaces (i.e. concrete) can be good for your joints.
Most shit pins probably have few miners, and are pretty susceptible to market manipulation. I large influx of miners across the market could dramatically change the price.

Also, many miners are already using software that automatically changes their hardware to target whatever coin has the most profitability. It’s expected that this will continue just without ETH
Compare stocks with the highest correlated log returns. Anything that's economic should impact the correlated group the same, if it's company specific then that company will stand out.

Most correlated with ADBE (all have > 0.8 correlation) that I see with there price change today are:

ANSS (-0.77%)

INTU (-1.94%)

CRM (-1.73%)

MSFT (-1.77%)

ADSK (-2.61%)

As you can see none of these stocks are experiencing anywhere near the drop today that ADBE is, so you can pretty reasonably explain the drop as company specific.
Is it even possible to license a standard? Not a particular implementation, but the standard itself, like a file format or a network protocol.
Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease Doubles in Older Adults Who Caught Covid-19
I've run into this before and it's a massive PITA.

Think you're doing business with someone in Turkey and they might be in Iran/Syria?

Because of "facilitation" I can't even tell them who to deal with to get what they want done, unless I'm a lawyer providing legal advice (I think).
What issue are you seeing? Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com?
And using Vanced on Android while ReVanced is on the works.
We're built on Rails which has the extreme luxury of being able to use ActiveMerchant, which does exactly this. The problem is, abstraction falls apart when you're using functions that are specific to a product. Stripe Connect is is nearly impossible to replicate with an adapter.
has this been reproduced? This one echoes the same but also mentions racquet sports and aerobics - https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/10/812.short

edit: more, this one favors volleyball and stretching - https://globalsportmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/sh...
Voting with legs isn't painless, but is the right thing to do.
> It'll be bundled as part of the Creative Suite

I can promise you it wont. None of their recent acquisitions have. Allegorithmic
Substance is extra money on top of CC now they've bought it. Figma will probably remain an extra subscription too.
It also depends on your feet. My case: I am a (heavy) supinator. If I had to buy a pair of shoes for walking/jogging a long distance I would look for supinator shoes. These tend to have more support on the internal arc of the feet.

However I got pediatric inserts designed by a foot doctor. What he didn't tell me was that for those kinds of inserts it is better to wear a wide shoe which accommodates the inserts, but "neutral". I still was wearing my supinator shoes. So it will not "overcompensate". This advice was from a specialist running shoe shop. When I tried the neutral one he offered me on one feet, and the old "overcompensating" shoe I had, I noticed the lack of stability immediately.

I have a friend whose problem is that their feet sweat more than usual. In their case the solution was shoes with extra ventilation around the soles.
Shortwave revives custom bundles from Inbox as ‘Magic Labels’
As I understand it, staking ETH in a pool doesn't mean you get to act as a validator in any capacity. That's handled by whoever is running the pool.
Thanks!

I also promise to document more the actual inner workings of the various components, I have some scattered documentation here and there which will help me in the task!
That depends of your weight and testosteron level because the body fights the inflammation by producing cortisol.
Sent, thank you. I also made sure to mention the "consumer harm" (keyword) of forcing consumers to engage with Adobe's predatory pricing model ("annual subscription billed monthly" bs)
Sure. Every individual manager is different.

I'm saying that, in general, this is extremely common throughout the industry.
We've been working on some concept docs at https://docs.signadot.com/docs/concepts. Please let me know if it could use more detail on anything!
See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32854831

Email Edwin and also reply to their comment on HN conveying the high level summary of what you think is going on with your account.

Normal Stripe support reps seem to stick to the script no matter what. Edwin has fixed edge cases for HN users in the past thankfully.
Do UV Light Phone Sanitizers Work?
This is a last year post, but what is your opinion about this? I want to get a UV light but is their better alternatives for cleaning our devices? So far I use Clorox wipes and Screen Cleaner, but I feel as if it's not getting clean at all.
Fully agree. I am mostly on the analytical side. When my client uses Snowflake it's usually smooth sailing because it's so automated and performant. When I have my own analytical Postgres instance on my local machine I tune costs and memory consumption parameters in postgres.conf but I only rarely run into major gotchas. If my client uses IBM... I go for a walk on the beach or go out to lunch when I launch my query.

Your point about equivalent plans can have very different perf characteristics is very true. I always try to review the query plan with EXPLAIN if my query takes more than a minute and rewrite the logic if necessary.
In the US a majority of your taxes go to federal and state governments, whether you live in the city or the suburbs doesn't change where your taxes go and how much you're paying. The cost of living difference in that case is based on micro-economic supply and demand cost differences.

Companies moving to Ireland IMO are definitely exploiting tax loop holes and committing fraud. You and I and all of the countries devoid of tax revenue are hurt by companies benefiting from tax-avoidance loop holes.
Well, mediocrity will create an opportunity for a new thing to emerge. I'm currently building my own figma for board games, so perhaps I'll focus on it sooner rather than later.
Hundreds of millions did! MS apologists always astonish me.

Even extreme IE bugginess was to try to defend their installed-app business.
This is one of the reasons that I usually use https://killbill.io/
I would not provide the user the ability to type a separator, but rather keep their number formatted with them in the appropriate places.
Hopefully "all-cause mortality" includes drowning.
Maybe you meant to post a link to the locator?

All I get is a signup page.

https://myrightbird.com/locator

It's kinda cool, if you're looking to adopt a bird!
Would you geotag your home for your government? 50M Indians did
Maybe there is a market for insurance to initiate a "Wrongful ToS Ban Lawsuit." I take no right/wrong position on the below gentleman but note that he did bring a lawsuit against Twitter for being banned and his account reinstatement coincides with a settlement of the suit. Right now the payment facilitators only have loss of an account in terms of incentive to reduce false positives in detecting fraud.

One year ago this month, Twitter permanently suspended a 340,000-follower account for “repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation rules.” The owner of that account, the former New York Times reporter and vaccine skeptic Alex Berenson, responded with a lawsuit demanding reinstatement. . . .

. . . Earlier this summer, Twitter put Berenson’s account back online, noting that “the parties have come to a mutually acceptable resolution.” Berenson wasted little time in calling out mainstream media for failing to cover the “pathbreaking settlement” that led to his return. . . .

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/08/alex-...
If something is not 100% fungible, it can still be fungible to some extent. Given the size of our electricity grids and to a lesser extent the capacity to store energy, electricity is definitely fungible at some level. I don’t have the numbers but I’d say this level is pretty high.
Who knows, dense fog could be an artifact of the abnormally wet 20th century that California has seen, looking back 2000 years the typical state for California is very dry. Back 1200 years there were a few megadroughts that lasted centuries, here is an article that shows history of drought/rain in California, (on the infographic showing wet and dry periods) notice the huge peaks in the 20th century, and the steep drop in the 21st century.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/science/californias-histo...
Yup I did this at my last business in 2008; instead of changing payment processors we abstracted them away behind a pretty small API that also stored and charged card numbers. We could flip back and forth between two. PCI DSS gradually became a bummer around that time but it was a very slow introduction which we were able to cope with.
This explains all the mysterious and opaque decisions that are regularly posted here by affected businesses.

Thank you for sharing your insight!
Hacking the PS4 / PS5 Through the PS2 Emulator
Broken in combat boots are some of the most comfortable things I've ever worn, and great for walking.
Why would an employer be unable to claim indemnity if their employee committed fraud? I agree that your position is the safe, conservative perspective, but I don't think it's quite so absolute.
> Stuff like this is why I think a business should have a system that abstracts away the payment processor.

Realistically, more humanly, payment processors and other big tech companies that are basically societies digital gum and infrastructure can simply not be tasked with making these calls. I also don't think they are very keen to do it but in the absence of timely regulation they must.

There have to be more rigorous ground rules (what is the business allowed to do, what must they do, what is the user allowed to do, and what are they entitled to), by law, and quickly.
This is incorrect. All the bars here in maine have no trouble opening a tab, no matter what payment method you have, including cash.

Some establishments take your card as collateral, some actually swipe it into their system to keep track, but that's not that common.
I think i understand. It’s a bit like removing borders destroyed car industries in a few countries, because germany could suddenly sell their cars and machinery import tax free. Radically transforming these industries in europe and america alike. Makes sense.
The company pays for that office. Maybe they own it, maybe they lease/rent it. If it sits empty, then it is a non-performing asset and they need to get rid of it. Or shrink what part of it they rent until there isn't any "wasted" space.

Cities depend on property taxes. If all the offices suddenly stop being used as offices, they're going to have a terrible time. Nobody is paying taxes.

Commercial real estate is over built. If too many companies decide that they don't need commercial space anymore, then the market is going to collapse. Every one who borrowed money to build/own commercial real estate is going to find their bubble getting popped. Like the 2007-2008 meltdown in residential property.

If commercial real estate gets re-valued to reflect the newer, much lower, need for that space, then asset values fall through the floor. So anyone who still is paying taxes will be paying much lower levels of taxes. More bad news for cities.

Too many managers depend on people sitting in chairs. This is usually called "presenteeism". Part of the problem with presenteeism is that people feel forced to show up to work even if they are sick. Mismanagers usually don't know what you do. Or how to measure whether you're doing a good job or not. But they can see whether you're at your desk or not.

Manager empires are based on the number of people. If all of your minions are working from home, then other mismanagers cannot measure your status any more. Likewise, this leads to why many mismanagers pad their staff so that they can appear to be more important. Unimportant managers don't get "good" parking spaces, nor good corner offices. Nor do they get admiration from the other mismanagers.
Knowledge is knowing "e" is a valid part of a number. Wisdom is knowing your users probably didn't enter their phone number as a power of 10.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the iPad
Down in the short-term. They're still up overall since the 3000 series release.
The FTC uses the Consumer Welfare Standard to decide antitrust cases, which means they have to show that a proposed merger would cause tangible harm to consumers. If "reducing competition" was the standard then all buyouts/mergers would be illegal since they all necessarily reduce competition.
Yes, they almost always fail to mention it. Then it turns out they’re selling cannabis to Iran or something. And (rightly so) payment processors can’t tell us what the problem is. So I’m inclined to flag all such stories missing the obviously key information.
The researchers appear to use reservoir computing approaches, which usually aren't terribly costly in terms of cpu cycles.

I'm unsure about real life applications though because one of the quoted papers [0] only uses idealized strange attractors or whatever they're called -- only systems described by math.

I'd be very interested to learn how the methods apply to real-world mechanical chaotic systems.

This isn't my field of expertise at all, maybe someone has some experience with this?

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.00521.pdf
Fair enough. I guess I should have left “easily” out.
> Kids simply do not need the vaccine

Oh for fucks sake.

> Almost All Teens in ICU With COVID Were Unvaccinated: Study

> Third of teens hospitalized for COVID-19 need ICU care; CDC chief urges youth to get vaccinated

> Throughout the periods of Delta and Omicron predominance, hospitalization rates remained lower among fully vaccinated adolescents aged 12–17 years than among unvaccinated adolescents.
College Tuition Is Marketing Fraud
Nothing is wrong.

The risk profiles are different. That is only thing the payment processor cares about, same reason why adult services get shunned. Not because they are puritans, it is because of risk of frauds and chargebacks etc are much higher .

Coaching is a service unlike Tailwind the software that can varying success and satisfaction levels customers probably do higher chargebacks and stripe's automated systems or low level staff with a playbook likely rejected it until someone senior got to see the bad press and got it fixed.
>then everybody would claim that Billie Eilish liked all their tweets and Joe Biden is their best friend

Twitter bots already do that.
In the nutshell, it's designed to drag an element into a droppable area. So let's say you are dragging a file to be uploaded, in this case, it makes perfect sense to use HTML API. Otherwise, you need a framework that can orchestrate the transformation. It's like using React. In theory, you can manipulate DOM directly in the browser but instead, you use a framework to build your app.
In America, greed eats purpose
120 = 51 in base sqrt(52)-sqrt(1) which is kinda like 51 if sqrt were linear.

i bet they have alien tech there.
Let us know what could improve. Thanks
Why do they need a media relations department? Their order backlog stretches into 2023.

Media outlets put this disclaimer on practically every Tesla article because the media in the US are clearly butthurt that Tesla doesn't need (or want) them. Maybe we should be questioning our underlying assumptions of why a company should "need" a media relations department?
>The assumption is that it is somehow optimal for Bezos personally to extract maximal personal wealth constructing a pseudo-monopoly before exiting

I don't understand what you're saying. It's undeniable that Amazon revolutionized e-commerce and cloud computing. Otherwise nobody would be giving them money.

>the benefits accruing to a monopoly could theoretically just as easily be distributed to a collective as opposed to an individual, circumventing the billionaire issue

It does get distributed amongst a collective, and it's called equity. Theoretically, Amazon's first warehouse workers could have agreed to be paid in equity instead of cash, and then Bezos wouldn't have to take as much outside investment. If they had held on to this stock, they would easily be worth tens, if not hundreds of millions today. Obviously, this isn't practical in real life, so instead, this wealth got went to the investors that took on the risk.
People won't use it for traditional number crunching.

Way I see it, the idea is to get your data, code, and capital into the big global ball of state by consensus where it can coexist with other code. The point is being able to co-operate with others by writing arbitrary programmable incentive mechanisms.

The tech isn't there yet though. It still needs higher throughput (sharding, layer 2s), better visibility into the mechanics, and probably some kind of privacy layer.
While the focus of many will be on memory safety (which is important for sure), I think the idea that adding Rust as a second language to make the kernel more approachable for a new generation of developers is very compelling. It's a very "skate to where the puck is going, not where it is" mindset.
As someone who has built out a similar internal tool, one of the things I'm excited to see someone do is the route propagation technique. It's something I've evaluated adding to our internal solution as we rolled out a service mesh, but ultimately we manage routing in a different way under the hood.

Either way, this notion of slices of environments being deployed for testing, with "baseline" or fallback environments being used otherwise, is the future of software development. It's a real boon for developers when rolled out effectively, and I've seen it scale massively at GoodRx.

Congrats to the team. Wish you all tons of success!
How can they still be in development when the underlying tech has been available for 12 years or so?

In the real world, there is no anonymous e-money that doesn't end up having to be laundered back into good old cash.
They could significantly raise the threshold for automated action, though.

Did a ten year old account that does $1k a year suddenly bill $1M? Sure, flag that... but maybe give them a phone call, too.
I imagine it'll be much like the old days of dialup where I would turn the computer on, go do something, come back and connect to the ISP, then go away again for a few minutes.
Affinity Designer, Photo, and Publisher have been a breath of fresh air for the last few years. They have you pay once, not a subscription. The features keep coming at a great pace while retaining a very sensible UI.
It was a nice idea initially but implementation was rather dramatically more complicated than one would think (or at least than I thought it would be) The article mentions some issues but the most horrific one is missing:

If you focus the input field, hold the pointer over it and move the scroll wheel the value is rounded off, increased or decreased. There are 2 gotchas here.

Thus I found myself filling out a form that has to be filled out with the utmost accuracy. I look over the values again and again until the paranoia of potential financial disaster is sufficiently comforted. My eyes circle from field to field 6-10 times. (I'm never again going to make a mistake with this form ever again, enough is enough)

I then scroll to the submit button.

You can imagine what happens next, it involved a lot of adrenaline. One of the fields had changed, it was lower than before and everything behind the decimal point was unchanged. To make matters worse, I had no idea how this happened.

Next time I check all the values 20 times, scroll to the submit button and check the visible values again. So far so good?

I keep doing this and eventually it happens again!

It wasn't until the 5th time I finally deciphered what was going on.

https://jsfiddle.net/d63gv41k/
Stripe did something similar to our company so we switched to Parallel Economy (https://www.paralleleconomy.com). We've been happy with it so far.
They have Adobe XD which is a desktop app, and my UX designer friends tell me it's actually a bit better than Figma in terms of features, but the allure of a cloud based Web tool like Figma that really promotes easily sharing and collaboration as the designer work is why Figma is more popular.