So how would this work? Does this mean Microsoft will build a directly connected data center nearby?
Or is Microsoft just buying power from the plant's owner on the energy market?
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cpascal commented on Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions latimes.com/politics/stor... · Posted by u/rbrown
> lift underrepresented communities out
There already is, though - study hard!
This isn't always possible, though. You could grow up with parents and teachers who do not push you to study. Perhaps you are malnourished or abused. Having the environment and support to study hard is something not all students have. You cannot hand wave studying as the solution to the disparity in educational outcomes.
cpascal commented on Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions latimes.com/politics/stor... · Posted by u/rbrown
I think universities can probably come up with a different set of non-protected criteria to lift underrepresented communities out of social/financial oppression. This might even provide greater access to some equally needing students that are looked over by racially-based criteria. In a perfect world, everyone would have equal opportunity and support throughout their primary education, and college admission could be much more merit-based. Unfortunately, that is not the country we live in and there is little appetite to invest in ensuring all Americans have access to high-quality primary education.
cpascal commented on The teens behind the Mirai botnet spectrum.ieee.org/mirai-b... · Posted by u/rbanffy
I was a Rutgers student when this was happening. I recall some final assignments and exams getting canceled when they attacked the Rutgers network.
When the news broke about the perpetrators behind Mirai and specifically the Dyn attack, I was shocked that such a high-impact attack originated from one of my classmates in the CS department.
There's probably some virtualization overhead on the c7g.large, right?
I really want an EV, but they don't work for me. I live in an urban area and park on a city street. EV ownership would add a lot of complications to my life due to the current state of charging infrastructure.
I think EV adoption will eventually plateau until we solve overnight charging for cars parked on city streets or there is a large increase in rapid charging availability and speed.
What's the reasoning by the IRS to not refund you if for some reason you do not receive the shares you are paying taxes early on?
> but the only reason everyone got excited was because the value of Bitcoin went to the moon
I'm a blockchain minimalist, but I'd say that there are at least 2 other reasons why blockchains are interesting:
1) A trustless, distributed digital ledger.
But it turns out that _in most cases_, we are OK with a trusted, centralized, institutional clearing agent that maintains the ledger. The benefits are numerous as long as we trust the institution/agent.
2) An immutable record of transactions.
This follows (1), though: if you trust the institution, you trust that there won't be a malicious mutation of your records and in general, because the records are mutable, they can also easily canceled or reversed which also turns out to be generally beneficial.
So I do think blockchains do have some unique use cases where they would be beneficial (e.g. I think property (land, home, car) titles is a good one, car accident/repair history), but there are just way too many where they add no value.
You still have to trust that data was recorded into a blockchain correctly/faithfully.
So you can never truly remove trust. I'm not sure a immutable ledger is any more useful than a database if there is still some sort of required trust component.
cpascal commented on Everything in Tech Seems to Be Collapsing at Once theatlantic.com/newslette... · Posted by u/samizdis
> Ten years from now, looking back on the 2022 tech recession, we may say that this moment was a paroxysm of scandals and layoffs between two discrete movements.
The author is suggesting the first "movement" was the "browser era, the social-media era, and the smartphone-app-economy era".
It seems they think the next era will vaguely have something to do with AI.
What do HN'ers think the next "movement" will be (if any)?
You’re telling me that you’d rather this was done by a stressed, emotional, tired front-line private?
Reminds me of the debate about a self driving car that might need to mount the curb to avoid hitting a car - and therefore endangering a pedestrian.
It’s not an easy decision but I’d rather a machine made it than a stressed person!
At the end of the day, it's still humans deploying these weapon systems and accepting the risk that they might cause unintended casualties.