This story got kicked out of front page quite suddenly, not sure how/why. Lots of points and comments.
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Is there some way to get a better rate by selling CPU time instead, when the sun shines and batteries are full? Especially if you have your own server rack.
I have computing needs that can wait for 12/18 hours. Would it make any sense to have those processed by distributed solar server farms between 11am and 5pm? They just take data in and send results back, using their own "free" marginal kwh.
It would reduce the need the connect to the power grid, but still benefit from selling solar power indirectly.
Cloud providers may just be so much better at doing this already?
So maybe your idea has a future...
This explains how, written just before Trump assumed power:
While he can't force Gensler to step down as a commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, he can name a new interim SEC chair as soon as he's inaugurated on Jan. 20. He can also nominate a new commissioner to the Senate, which has to confirm the pick.
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/11/07/heres-how-quickly...
And Gensler resigned as Chair as soon as Jan 20th:
Michigan-based attorney Amir Makled [a US citizen] was detained by federal immigration agents while returning home from a family vacation
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5357455/attorney-detain...
Say we implement this, a natural consequence would be mega-corporations providing every service possible. My Yamaha bike displays a message to promote a Yamaha music keyboard, then expanding to a new Yamaha bookstore or grocery chain.
No money exchanged out of the first-party Yamaha holding.
We would need to improve the proposal to prevent that too.
As I get older, the desires that "work" are very frequently the same ones as I had when I was a child.
It's been a month, so far it's great, I hope I will be able to stick to it.
(I am an occasional user of Office, I used to be a heavy one.)
Feels like evolution is not as perfect as we want to believe sometimes.
Could something similar happen with sloths? Maybe their eyesight would improve quickly?
To be fair to the author, this is very much mentioned.
And yes, luck has played a role as well. We closed out 2023 with a near-perfect record, but not without a few close calls.
Results are polluted for me with public transportation stations. I did not realize each of them had a wiki entry... of course geotagged.
Not sure how much parsing/filtering is done. Looks like the wiki entries for stations use a formated template "Infobox station".
I would vote to exclude those by default.
Also, in the list box, it seems I can only select to include result, not exclude. I would have done that for train stations and alike.
But thanks again!
> product-focused dev with 10 years experience at a-list startups [...] I don’t have enough cash saved up for significant runway. I’m 35 with family and living in the US.
The earlier you start, the more you accumulate, the more flexibility you have later. I had 12 months runway when I started mine, and it is so valuable not to look for investors and just work on your product/company when you feel pretty confident.
Not a Mac user/dev here. If I am not going through the store, if I don't use xcode to sign my executable, won't MacOS force the user to go through cryptic command line changes to let them install my software?
In my dreams, I take the time going there in person with my ID, my anger and my badwill, and no tax return.
I get wildly upset in front of all other clients in a very lively way, just to laugh at them when they tell me I am "dormant" later.
I know, it makes no sense, just daydreaming...
I have a bank account with about 5K euros on it. I have not touched it in 20 years (no deposits, no withdrawals). I earn tiny dividends on it each year.
I got a request from the bank 18 months ago to provide my tax return to them. I said no, why? They threatened me to confiscate my account (orally, on the phone). I replied I understand you need to ask info from me, by law. But if you don't get the information it's ok too, afaik. And there is no possible way that I can launder anything if the money is just sitting there.
I will see what happens...
I work in a different timezone than where I live, so my laptop is set to a different time for convenience.
Half the time, the delivery time is adapted to my computer clock, half the time, to the local time.
Ok ok I know, I brought that to myself... but what's nice is to clarify which time zone you use when you give a time.
Their CEO was fired, but came back because of employees. Similar, in a very different industry.
I dont see any way to register the sender's expected email on the printer. Back to fax spamming...?
To make this palatable to the American public, those whistleblower rewards are not courtesy of the taxpayer; they’re courtesy of money seized from previous Bond villains. A portion of Binance’s settlement(s) will go to pay the whistleblowers at the next Bond villain. It’s a circle of life.
Does not matter, it works then!! But not because of technical cleverness.
No idea if what I am saying is true.
> It was a quiet revolution [...] “It felt good that everyone behaved exactly as usual "
Not sure how I feel about "revolution" when things don't change.
@bradrn on this thread kindly extracted the description of the proposed physical model from inside the paper, it is helpful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37830265
Is there a minimum number of rotations per coin flip to consider it valid?
If looks like the bias was not evenly distributed across people. How did you protect your experiment from skilled bad actors who could influence the data with a few bad/skilled flips? Did strangers on the internet fare any differently than in-person attempts from trusted people?