skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, we should stop generating electricity using fossil fuels.

That said, I don't think it's right to just short the connection between "coal" and "bitcoin", we aren't mining coal to get bitcoins, it just so happens that majority of the electricity generated is through coal and mining uses electricity, so does our conversation on the internet.

> And the legacy systems from barter to bitcoin are all still around.

I'm not sure I get your point here. At some point, money of any form will be exchanged for goods or services.
Joanna Wiebe is hands down my favorite Copywriter. I know her voice just by reading her copy. She is truly a master of this craft.
"Negative pressure"? Ughhh!
The only problem I see - who will pay for it? Considering that in the future most jobs are automated/remote moving a company somewhere else will pose no problem so taxing them will simply fail
I agree there is a lot of dross on CPAN. I've also lived the frustration of seeing two kinds of exception handler TryCatch vs Try::Tiny in the same subdir of a codebase. The issue is really that a lot of basic modern functionality requires CPAN, and the core of Perl 5 is small and mostly not super helpful. Something akin to Moose in core as the new standard way to do OO would have been a good plan 10 years ago.
"This artist's concept shows [...]"

F you artists concept. Drawing fantasy pictures in news messages is not ok.

+ I'm no grammar guy, nor a native speaker,
but "artists's" is wrong, isn't it?
The DeX stand has some regular USB ports (and an Ethernet jack!) in the back, so you can already plug a wired keyboard & mouse directly into those.

I think the DeX is limited to a 1920 x 1080p display, though.
Myths of the 1 Percent: What Puts People at the Top
Basics of Chrome extensions development part two
Ah interesting to know that GCC does this! I figured there would be compilers which did this but I sadly didn't have any examples.

> the compiler DOES have that special logic.

Indeed it being a controversial decision does not imply that no compilers would do it; if anything it implies that there should be some compilers which make that choice.
The point is that the laser will likely be infrared. And it might well be of a kind that you can't easily source sensors for.
Ed will error a lot and not give you meaningful reasons as to why it errored
> By the late nineties the phrase "No one has ever been fired for buying Microsoft products" was a very popular phrase.

This is the second time recently I've seen someone on HN refer to this expression with a Microsoft branding.

The late nineties are a little too early for me to have had any awareness of technology politics. I never heard the expression you describe.

I did hear, many times, "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM". It seems odd that that would have been a later form of the expression than "nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft".
According to rensmart.com, 1KWh is approx. 0.5 kg of CO2 saved/used.

A RX480 uses 160W on average according to TomsHardware, mining might pull more but lets use that as a conservative example.

A Mining Rig, decent one, might have 4 cards and pull 100Watts for itself (conservative estimate).

That puts the total power of the rig at 750Watts (approximately)

This will yield a hashrate of about 20MH/s for each card or 80MH/s for the entire thing (atleast from what I can tell)

So the right has about 0.7KWh per hour for 80MH/s, which yields about 0.35kg of CO2 every hour.

Ethereum has a total of 120TH/s or about 1'500'000 of these mining rigs. Which means the total carbon footprint estimate of Ethereum is about 525'000 kg or 525 Tons each HOUR. And that is using my conservative estimates.

The entire year (ass. 365 days incorrectly) is 191'625'000, or about 191 kilotons of CO2.

To comparison, a single person uses about 6 to 8 tons o CO2 per year so Ethereum alone produces as much CO2 per year as 191'000 people combined.

>if anything, we're pushing entropy away, we're tending towards order not away.

What order? Burning any fuel is literally increasing entropy. If you break a wineglass you increase entropy. If you repair the broken wineglass you still increased entropy. Entropy inevitably goes up and you can maybe delay it by putting in massive amounts of energy compared to the entropy saved.
Nobody loved node because of callbacks. Node was the only ecosystem where everything was written with concurrency in mind.
Making sense of the culture war over transgender identity
I saw those videos (primitive technology) many times in the past - good stuff indeed!
Ahh so JavaScript is just Java which runs of the client as well.
That’s what auditors are for - solving exactly that problem. Well mostly - like everything else it’s imperfect
http://article78againstnydfs.com/docs/317-cv-01882-BitfinexC...

> I, J.L. van der Velde, hereby declare as follows:

> 1. I am the Chief Executive Officer for iFinex Inc. (“iFinex”), BFXNA Inc. (“BFXNA”), BFXWW Inc. (“BFXWW”), and Tether Limited (“Tether”). I have personal knowledge of the facts set forth below, and if called and sworn as a witness, I could and would testify competently thereto.

> 2. iFinex, through its subsidiaries BFXNA and BFXWW, owns and operates a leading global Virtual Currency platform called Bitfinex.

Bitfinex is responsible for Tether.
> Yesterday, we discovered that funds were improperly removed from the Tether treasury wallet […]

> […] they have been flagged and will not be redeemable by Tether for USD.

How will this ever work in real life?

If I yesterday — right after the hack, but before the announcement — in good faith received $1m in USDT, and paid in Bitcoin, who’s liable?

In effect, this policy just shifts the financial burden to innocent people, who may have paid e.g. Bitcoin in exchange for “fake” USDT in good faith.

The issuer needs to take sole responsibility for this. Not because it’s the right thing to do, but because the USDT is useless otherwise. How can it be used for payments if the issuer can make a blog post saying “by the way, if you received USDT from this guy then you have nothing”?
> the OS can page in and out SGX pages...

That doesn't seem right. How is the OS supposed to page SGX in/out without being able to read its memory?
What is s/g?
This is how Epiphany built its in-office colab stack
HN discussion from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10179467
Well in Austria the current standard is triple pane windows (my parents house form the 70ies had double pane windows).

I don't know the current percentage, but passive houses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house) are getting more and more in this area.

Not beeing in the construction business I can't give you any details how the way we insulate our houses compares to your information. Most of the houses here are built with concrete and bricks, so they're insulated differently (styrofoam, as much as I know).
Cool. Still, availability, word of mouth, marketing, etc.

It's one thing when a random person (no offense, Dennis Aleynikov) does it, another one when you have 6 big companies competing for this segment.

And I'm not sure the software part is here. At least not in a polished way. The closest solutions that come to mind are Microsoft UWP (but Microsoft doesn't seem to be gaining traction due to various reasons, not least because they're Microsoft and few people trust them these days...) and Ubuntu Unity (I think they've abandoned the concept?). From what I've read Android tablet and desktop apps are not really up-to-par, at least today.
> IE did dominate the world

For a brief period. So did many other short-term phenomena, from BASIC to MS Access to Clipper to Pacman. And now they are stuff for the museums. Except for Pacman, of course.

> Never made much of an impact on the desktop

So? It still survived competition with Microsoft - and, arguably, won on every platform except Windows, non-Windows .net use is still basically zero and Linux rules server world, so...

> What's the most widely used Java desktop app?

I honestly have no idea. Well, Eclipse of course, IntelliJ suite of tools, probably, but it could be some other apps are Java too and I just don't know it. The point is Java is alive and well despite competition from mighty invincible Microsoft.
Artist’s is fine (“artist his”), artists’s would be artists’. Depends on how many people worked on the art piece :)
I'm using it exclusively as my main browser to give things a try after hearing so many people taking about it. I want it to succeed so we have healthy competition in the browser space.

I cannot understand why modern browsers use so much memory though, it drives me bonkers.
How close to earth did it pass ? A possible extinction event just flew bye and there where nothing we could do about. Btw, that looks like a gravity assist/slingshot ...
>> So what if fire isn't plasma. They categorized the world by states of matter

> I think that ramchip meant fire, earth, air, and water, when he said "four classical states of matter"

That was the best interpretation I could come up with too. I wasn't saying fire isn't plasma, though of course it isn't. I was saying fire is not a state of matter. "They categorized the world by states of matter" is not correct.

For example, the ancients were well aware that ice was a form of water, not a form of earth.
if the airdropped token is a security token, then it's illegal. And since this a gray/developing area every token has a high chance of being classified as a security token.

This also may result in unwanted tax and other liabilities on the receiver's side.

It's a flaw in Push payments design. Either receiver need to confirm tx or use a design based on Pull payments.
Eclipse is way more than just Java IDE. In fact, I've been using Eclipse for many years for a number of purposes, and 80% of that time - not as Java IDE.
If a Textbook Falls in the Forest
Meditation is pretty simple. It's just getting better at something you practice. Specifically controlling your attention and being aware of what you're thinking about.

No magic, pretty straightforward. But an enormous amount of suffering is caused by us thinking/worrying about bad shit.

Now if you are more aware of what you're thinking and can change what you're paying attention to you can make your mind spend a lot less time worrying about shit that makes you miserable.
>React 16 is really an improvement. It pushes react in front of preact and vue.js.

Fiber is showing improvements.
Ha... seriously, you're using sed to make arguments for you? Not gonna argue with algorithms.
Yes I didn't intend to imply otherwise. That's why I specified "innovative uses", as opposed to all uses, of Counterparty as suffering the risks as Ethereum
There was a documentary some years ago on TV where a guy who repeatedly had gone inside the Chernobyl power plant came to the same conclusion. He based his theory on the amount of core material that was found, and which was less than expected, meaning that some of it must have been consumed in a nuclear explosion.

Thats all I remember, and I can't find the source anymore.
Can confirm. Even in a single session I like to slowly increase the speed. You get used to each one after a few minutes, and eventually you will turn it back to 1x and be shocked by how slow it sounds!
A number of web pages from better writers than me will argue why you need HTTPS. E.g. it provides integrity (so the coffee shop WiFi can't insert ads in your site), and browsers only enable some features on HTTPS sites.

https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com/
Windows 8 and newer versions fail to properly implement #ASLR
Free will is a big subject, so I'll skip that one, but regardless, we can't escape our cognitive processes. Each new tech revolution has provided new choices and exposed systemic exploitation (printing press, translation of the bible, 30 years war). Often the result was the establishment of new forms of exploitation with more complexity and division while at the same time maintaining the previous form or forms of exploitation for as long as they were useful. For me, the larger problem is not the time associated with attention, nor the exploitation of that time, but exploitation itself. Our attention, wills and... are bound by common factors within separate groups of similar cognitive processes. These groups are formed and formative. I'll cut short here, because I don't want to exploit anyone :-), but it is up to us and them and the others to focus on common factors within different cognitive processes, rather then using the divisive factors in different cognitive processes as a form of control. It seems to me that the amount of time spent, the attention time, is less of a problem than the exploitation of that attention time in the sense that the problem of the shadows on the wall remains anyway, and there are always people who will reject the new shadows for the old ones, and people who will use dubious methods to keep one group staring at these shadows and another group staring at those shadows and another... And the collection plate has always existed, and it will always be passed around. Thing is, the shadows don't care, and the flame keepers, they seem, more often than not, to fall in love with their shadows. Time's up.
Actually it is relevant, since math is syntax and semantics. If we get the semantics wrong it's gibberish.
Photoshop, perhaps?

The DeX already runs a version of Photoshop, and the Samsung store folks were pushing the DeX as an option for website development, especially as their browser supports both desktop & mobile modes. (If I recall correctly, I think he even said the desktop browser has some developer tools built-in, but I haven't been back to the store to check that.)
The Synergies Gained from Building on Ethereum’s Decentralized App Ecosystem
That's the case for any nuclear meltdown, Chernobyl isn't special in that regard. If you have a very dense blob of liquid fuel (called corium after a meltdown) generating megawatts of power it's going to melt through concrete and steel, it's just a matter of time. Once that blob hits a ton of water underneath it forcing all of that water to heat up will create enormous pressure and the only way out is up.
Fitbit killed the original Pebble, or at least I couldn't get my Pebble connected reliably to my iPhone. Apple watch is a great upgrade.
Unless the NAT is running on an affected processor... (Which is unlikely if its a COTS dedicated router).
The Complete Guide to Instagram Influencer Marketing for Ecommerce [Infographic]
> I'm not convinced those are such large projects

wat

> How much logic do they need?

wat

> People build large projects on top of them - I've done so - but where's the complexity in the components themselves?

wat

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So what you're saying is: Haskell that has monads is so bad that it cannot even produce anything of that calibre.
Not AFAIK.

This, by the way, is something that bugs the heck out of me about Google. Massively data-driven firm. Denies the public access to data about its own use of tools.
ASSISTING HIV-AIDS VICTIMS AND SINGLE MOTHERS IN NEPAL
Yeah, I like the idea of treating SQL Server like it's just a process and not the entire server.

Are you planning to do that in production?
Where it’s alway taken us. Forward.
> Honestly, I don't understand why there needs to be another CPU in the system.

There are tons of processors in modern systems. Most separate chips for controlling sub-systems have them, like DRAM, NICs, USB, keyboards, monitors, storage devices, video cards, etc...

The reasons are performance and flexibility - when separate components act like remote hosts, the device manufacturer can divide up work between the OS driver (main CPU) and target system as desired.
E2E Testing Angular Applications with TestCafe
I would go further and say the root of the issue is adversarial markets. Essentially our markets allow me to manipulate you to do what I want, since our laws are default allow.

But this doesn't need to be the case, we already deny certain things that historically have been terrible for commerce. Like intentionally misleading weights and measures. We know that if you don't legislate and regulate businesses will change their weights to short change people.

But is there any qualitative difference between selling 0.9kg of corn as 1kg. And brainwashing people (and the volume of advertising, product placement, forum shilling is brainwashing). Brainwashing people that some suger water will make them more popular. In my mind there is not, markets work because aggregate decision making gives us good choices. When it works even bad decision makers are lifted up since the average good decisions have already killed off all the companies with bad offers.

But in our phishing for phools economy we mostly have successful manipulators to deal with and huge quantities of free hyper-stimulus to lead us there. We will not be free of this without legislation. The powerful must be banned from spending on marketing. That's it, we cannot have effective market based economics when google and facebook can find all your secrets and set an AI to convince you to act in their interests. And that's coming sooner than I'd like.

I would personally go further and say that everyone should be banned from marketing & product discovery should be nationalized (trip advisor, amazon reviews are trying to solve a problem that is trivial for government).
They're differently bad.

One might even say that the medium is the message.
Azure Machine Learning Workbench
Papers I like (part 6)
>When's the last time WaPo wrote about the 99% or DAPL or TiSa or had an opinion about this last $700 billion pentagon budget?

They write about the 99% pretty much daily. You can start by looking at healthcare coverage.

They published articles concerning DAPL as recently as November 16 (plus more recent ones on Keystone XL and the ANWR drilling).

The Trade in Services Agreement process has been very secretive, and unless they get sources, there's not a lot they can actually report. The last I know of any leaks about the process was in 2016, so I'm not sure it's fair to criticize Washington Post for not having more information about it this year.

Pentagon Budget - again, an article specifically about it on November 16, others that included mention of it more recently.

Basically you're making claims that are pretty easy to debunk.
I started to use Firefox Quantum after a 8 years long breakup. I'm impressed, so impressed that Firefox Quantum is the first browser I'm paying for every month, there is a donate link on Mozilla's homepage in the footer.
Barcelona Look to Sign Arsenal's Ozil for £20m in January – La Liga News UK
The important question! I value (the late, amazing) Alan Watts' take on this: "The answer is the machine. The machine pays for it, because the machine works for the manufacturer and for the community."

or put another way "It will simply come from the share of productivity gains made possible by technology that should already be shared."

https://steemit.com/basicincome/@scottsantens/who-pays-for-u...

https://medium.com/basic-income/machine-labor-day-d77931dca9...
Yeah, just like Sentio, it is not available already. First beta testers will receive it in January, I hope I will be a part of it! Then, first deliveries will come to May according to their news.
Sorry, I meant Dashlane is expensive since there is no familyplan. Just individual license for everyone. Bitwarden is very appealing.
> I think the selection bias is 1980s companies

Most of 1980s companies didn't survive, whether they competed with Microsoft or not. Microsoft did, but that doesn't mean it killed every other company that didn't.

But Microsoft competed with Apple, and Apple didn't die. Xenix - Microsoft's UNIX offering - went nowhere (though it wasn't even MS product, technically), and other Unixes still alive. In DOS times, there were pretty successful competitors to MS-DOS (of course, those died when DOS computing died, but I'm not sure this qualifies as direct competition).
The Python ecosystem is huge :
matplotlib, numpy, scipy, panda, sympy, Scikit-Learn, celery, flask, sqlalchemy, airflow, sentry, scrapy, gevent, gunicorn, dask, pygments, docker-compose
>Drawing fantasy pictures in news messages is not ok.

You are aware that astronomers and universities and even NASA regularly collaborate with such artists to create photorealistic simulations of planets, moons, and similar objects, and that lots of information and striving for accuracy goes into making those pictures right?

Plus, when they say "artist" they don't mean they asked some Picasso to make a drawing of the object for art's sake, but tasked someone (graphic designer etc) to make a realistic depiction of it given the data they know.
> I'm generally a huge fan of the goal of Tether (a stable USD backed cryptocurrency), but the proof is in the pudding (i.e the reserves) and your access to it, and both of these are rather questionable.

A “USD-backed cryptocurrency” is a misnomer — it’s just credit. It’s a promissory note saying some issuer will, allegedly, pay you a given USD amount. But unless you believe this claim is 100% certain, it will trade under par, which means it’s no longer backed 1-to-1 (or, at least, the market doesn’t believe it to be in practice).
does minecraft count
I don't know if Python is important but it is a very good programming language to learn how to program since the code writing is very close of the original algorithm and since it is very simple (no problem of memory or of variable type). But to understand how the memory access works, it is not the best ;-)
No one is going to deposit 600 mill in a hacked exchange via Tether crypto-Hawala using Taiwanese shell bank accounts.

People with real money would instead wire the funds to Gemini or ItBit or even a terribly managed company like Coinbase.

KISS
I've never agreed with an article quite as much as this one.
That's my point. I don't need mindfulness to reflect on my thoughts.
Samsung accidentally confirmed it’s making a Galaxy X
> Mathematicians call this new system a number “ring”; they can create an infinite variety of them, depending on the new values they choose to incorporate.

Isn't this a little wrong?

As far as I remember ring is any set with multiplication, negation, and addition defined so that they satisfy a few conditions. No need for the "+ b * something" part. The usual integer numbers we use form a ring too, as well as booleans.

I might be missing something, and it's irrelevant to the main subject of the article.
Only a shill would claim to be happy with a 30% haircut scenario. Flagged.
If it is raining outside and I take an umbrella with me, I can say it's a solution to the rain. That doesn't say anything about whether I bought the umbrella specifically for today and if I had it longer than today I am lying...
The YouTube clips I show in my distributed systems class
They could just look at the sun. The stuff you see is mostly plasma.
It doesn't read that Ryan Dahl dissed it. He dissed every language and their role in adding to the complexity of the thing that is called IT these days. And he tried to make the focus about the user of the software: as it should be!

"The only thing that matters in software is the experience of the user."

I agree.
Even for people who do not spend much (or any) time on Windows, this makes for very interesting (and entertaining) reading.