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sk55··on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power
Not really. Proof of stake offers a very energy efficient way to secure transactions. That is what Ethereum runs on.
sk55··on If needed, you have a role at Microsoft that matches your compensation
Isn't no poach illegal?
sk55··on Michael F. Flynn has died
It's a good clarification. I initially assumed it was the other person.
sk55··on Apple wants rights to the image of apples in Switzerland
Nails it. This needs to be upvoted more.
sk55··on Show HN: I built an AI language teacher to get you speaking
I wanted to try it in Hindi, but it was unavailable. Would love to play around w/ it in that language.

I love the idea though!

sk55··on High Performance Browser Networking
What are the others you reccommend?
sk55··on Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco
I've been to all of those areas and though they are nice, they are not as safe as I'd like. Especially compared to other major international cities.
sk55··on Belgian man dies by suicide following exchanges with ChatGPT
Article is light on details around what the AI said to prompt a suicide. Does anyone have more details around the specific exchanges?

Without that, how can we really know whether it is the AI to blame?

sk55··on Just use Postgres for everything
What are some other frontend tools you've found to be effective?
sk55··on Just use Postgres for everything
Nailed it.
sk55··on Elastic.co lays off 13% of team
In all fairness, there is more than just cost when choosing a provider. Elastic has had higher uptime than the AWS alternative. I had to switch off AWS Elasticsearch hosting because it kept going down.
sk55··on All companies are fucked up
If we assume that all companies are imperfect, then what is the right mental model to navigate this world?

I think Wabi-Sabi helps us deal with this reality. Here's a cool explainer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M759yNSOTMs

"Wabi-sabi rejects the pursuit of perfection and embraces the reality of imperfection. The philosophy behind wabi-sabi can help us escape the hamster wheel of chasing an ideal life and teaches us to appreciate existence as it is: perfectly imperfect."

sk55··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
I love the UX on mobile. It’s super intuitive on an iPhone for me.
sk55··on The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa and Took It to Italy
Lindy effect kind of comes close
sk55··on MIT engineers build a battery-free, wireless underwater camera
Wouldn't many cameras already be able to run weeks on end with just a large battery?
sk55··on Nocodb: Turns Any MySQL, Postgres, SQLite into a Spreadsheet with REST APIs
Nocodb seems to create REST API endpoints for SQLite. Might be worth checking this project out.
sk55··on School vs. Wikipedia
I think Wikipedia is a great start to finding content at a general level.

Though, vertical specific niches often have better sources of information. For e.g. Examine.com currently seems better for nutrition and supplement information. Or even an old school reference book like The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth is better for algorithms.

sk55··on Steve Yegge Joins as Head of Engineering of Sourcegraph
Doesn't seem like they're hiring many engineers right now if you check out the jobs page.
sk55··on Apple Car: Bad Idea After All
Once autonomous technology becomes mainstream, UX becomes the differentiating factor. I think Apple would have a lot to offer.
sk55··on LiteFS
They don't have ACID guarantees with this setup.
sk55··on What we learned after I deleted the main production database by mistake
It's an ElasticSearch endpoint that automatically comes with every index. I'm not even sure if there's a way to disable. Maybe some sort of auth.
sk55··on Our attention span is being robbed
Try "Waking Up" course by Sam Harris. 10 mins a day for 30 days. You'll probably be more mindful after that.

It's an iPhone or Android app.

sk55··on After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
We need new protocols. Blockchain protocols can somewhat solve the spam problem by charging to send. Receiving addresses can also whitelist or charge to receive.
sk55··on The great junk transfer is coming
I digitize all of the photos so they’re preserved and organized. That way you can feel a little better about getting rid of the prints.
sk55··on Billion-Dollar Crypto Loan Is Easy to Get, but Gone in a Flash
Many financial positions (in DeFi or the real world) require you to have additional funds in order to move between different positions.

An example in the real world...say you're an employee at a large tech company with a bunch of stock options. You want to exercise those options and sell them. In order to exercise those options, you need money that you do not have. Luckily, your brokerage offers a service where they'll exercise the options for you and sell them. You're essentially borrowing their money very quickly to get out of your position.

In DeFi, you could use a flash loan in order to deleverage in a position. So instead of selling a small increment of your position and paying back your loan multiple times, you can instead take a flash loan and pay everything back at once to deleverage.

sk55··on Supabase (YC S20) raises $80M Series B
For people who have some experience in this, what's the best less-code backends? Hasura? Supabase? Prisma? Thin?
sk55··on Lets talk about blockchains
Rather than viewing it as “trustless” you can view it as “trust minimized”. Then it might make more sense. Trust with your counterparty falls on a spectrum.

You trust your friend, but maybe not an anonymous online individual. So you might use the blockchain to accept payments from the anonymous individual whereas with your friend, you might accept a check or Venmo.

sk55··on Show HN: We launched a new web browser
Using blockchain prevents the domain from being seized. This is helpful for service providers so they can maintain uptime and it also helps users who might rely on a service.
sk55··on What I learned from running a concierge search engine
Very cool! I actually did some of the research during a summer research internship at the lab. Lmk if you have any questions!
sk55··on GraphQL is now available on Supabase
Does this support Graphql subscriptions as well?
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