skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, I have a similar sentiment. I am aware and dismayed by my abuse of online media on my phone and computer. And so I think I have an addiction to some extent, as I tend to partake in it despite not wanting to.

I have taken some preventative measures. I have not gotten a new phone yet, and do not plan to until totally necessary (using an iPhone 6s currently), since most new smart phones are appealing only in the ways that matter if I increase engagement with my phone, which is the opposite of what I'd like to do.

It's this awareness of addiction, or at the very least, being multiple company's sucker at once via their products, that is most disheartening. We are able to function right now going on and off the devices/apps/games/feeds, but when will be the point at which weaning off of these things creates real withdrawals, and will we be able to identify that transition if it ever occurs?

I'm gonna go sit on my couch now...
Which should tell you what you need to know to understand demand.
This isn't a full course, it's an IAP course. IAP courses at MIT are special short courses, often student-run, between the fall and spring semesters that are supposed to cover specific, often practical topics in order to spice things up between the main classes.
I think it is linear for frequency and non-linear for voltage, i.e. P~fCV^2. But in many current CPUS, the feature that adjusts frequency also adjusts voltage. That's why I stipulated that, for my comments to be true, such shenanigans as dynamic frequency (and voltage) scaling must be "turned off." I think the OP was asking, what happens to CPU energy if you load the web page with and without the optimized compilation. The OP was interested in core sleep states, but I think that dynamic frequency scaling is a confounding factor. It would be interesting to see the measurements w/ and w/out that feature perhaps.
Really though... other than perhaps Blizzard... is there any secondary store worth looking into?

Outside of Windows/Android/iStore... There's nothing worth switching.

I've passed up on purchasing games (IE: Mass Effect 3) because it's tied to a shitty NotSteam...
For you? Or for everyone? The former is a reasonable position, which I assume of you because I think your posts tend to be solid and well-thought-out--and also because the latter is demonstrably cracked.

And even if you don't, personally, like TDD, ranting about junior developers "wasting time" using it is some weird stuff. Whose juniors actually want to be writing tests? Most times, you have to hammer it into them.
> First, you have to deal with the security boondoggle. Add 30 minutes for that, because you never know what you are going to get.

You seem to be talking like the security theatre in airports is never going to come to rail? Have you ever been on the NY subway?
Well, we need to do something constantly, we human beings cannot be bored, but what you can do to avoid boredom is not only to check your phone, but also do something meaningful, what could make you happy/healthy, like learning/hiking/traveling. The point is, just concentrate on something useful. Life is not just a phone, and for most of the time, checking your phone can bring you nothing but the slight comfort for a second.
I share Shapiro/Anderson on email with anyone I can convince to read it. I remember it coming out well: I'd been slung off a UK JANET email list for abusive behaviour just around this time!
I have no idea what distinction you're drawing or what you think is demonstrable about it. Sorry.
already in line!
If anybody posted an article from Fox News here on HN, how quickly would that be flagged and commented on? Dang as a moderator you really should be be unbiased right?
I laughed, then I remembered stories about offers from the thesis committee that you can't refuse. Fortunately they can only kill your career.
Origin is the worse. While downloading games, it would often roll back the progress stretching the process into hours. A complete piece of shit that.
I endure it for Titanfall. If it wasn't required, I'd drop it so incredibly fast...
That's been repeated ad nauseum and isn't relevant to this discussion. Parent was replying to someone who said "punitive".
And after having lived in all those cities, the best Bahn Mi's I have ever had where in Ho Chi Minh city.
It's not really that expensive if you break it down. The $69 variety kit is basically 5 toys and 5 different pieces of software. Put another way, would you pay $14 for one of these with the software? The Google Cardboard kits used to be $10-$15 and they were much simpler devices.

The other one is $80 (okay a bit pricier), but it lets you "play" as the avatar instead of just waving around a wiimote (Nintendo seems to be a bit coy about weather you put the console itself in the headset to make it a VR experience, but whatever).

I think this is Nintendo about to freaking nail it again, and this shows their DNA coming from toys again. People are talking about buying more than one Switch for a household just so the kids won't fight over the labo toys. That's something Sony and Microsoft (and even Google who sort of came up with this concept) can't even dream about.

I'm really blown away by the Nintendo of the last couple years: NES Classic, SNES classic, Switch...their only execution problem at the moment seems to be getting enough hardware in stores, but it's almost like they accidentally dug up a joy vein deep in the Earth and are now selling the distilled and refined happiness to the market so we can all partake.

This Nintendo "gets" it.
Yep. They always have some weird off flavor from garlic, either from being kept for so long, or preservatives
And weirdly, I can’t think of anything I can buy for 6cents a pound.
> A lot of Americans talk as though needing a car is a law of nature

I can't speak for other people (especially those who do live in really-car-first parts of the US), but for me it's definitely not a law of nature. I've been single with no car, married with no car, had a kid with no car, had a kid uptown with no car. Can it work? Sure, with some concessions it can totally work. But things like taking the newborn to the doctor using public transportation _suck_, even though I consider the public transit system _good_.

> Most of the world's households do not own a car.

Right, and the sort of logistics that sucked for me with just strolling one kid in downtown Toronto suck for them too, often tenfold. Where I grew up (Brazil), it's common for single moms of 4 to need to take 3-4 buses to get to their first job of the day. There's plate rotation, vehicle ownership tax, tolls, alternative forms of public transit, uber, but also high crime, floods, corruption, inequality, you name it. The cars-vs-public-transit discussion doesn't even begin to scratch the transportation problems in Sao Paulo, let alone the environmental impact. For my specific situation and my level of disposable income, a car happens to make life much easier, but I'm fully aware that cars aren't a one-glove-fit-all solution, just as I'm aware that making sweeping political commentary wrt city design isn't going to cut it as a solution to the many different types of challenges involved in optimizing transportation in a non-idealized world.

> You're painting it as if the only people who could possibly disagree with you are this tiny box of single European instagramming metrosexuals

Not at all! Not having a car does work for a lot of people, and in places like the Netherlands, one can even happily bike everywhere with their kids without getting almost killed by taxis. But cars can be undeniably useful for saving time and for carrying things around. People giving labor use cars to go to the hospital for a reason. People uber for a reason. People drive in much of the rural world for a reason. I'm not sure what's there to disagree with.

> recognise that you do have a choice in the matter; recognise that approaches like the currently-under-discussion California SB 827

Generally speaking, the problem with social activism is that most people don't have the time, energy or interest to pour into the political game, and it's not even clear that a half decent solution would emerge even if they did (see, e.g., housing in SF). For my particular case, as I mentioned before, I'm not american and I'm about as unmotivated to be politically invested in San Francisco as I am in Sao Paulo.

> A good life without a car is possible

Yes, it is, but currently, as I mentioned, it unfortunately involves making a lot of concessions. If a better option came along, I'd totally be open to it. As I said, I've held the anti-car position for a long time, and I'm certainly not shy to change camps again.
Again GOG's is ok. It's not great, but it's also not an obstruction like Origin is.
I wouldn't say ridesharing. Young people are broke and they aren't going to buy new cars when a car payment is the equivalent of their student loans
+1 very welcome addition for exactly the reasons you have outlined.
Also, Baran was not the only voice in the packet networking sea.. Pouzin should be recognized more. No disrespect either Baran, or RAND, but this has a feel like the washington mall history of invention.. if it didn't happen either in the US, or by a person who subsequently immigrated to the US, it almost didn't happen.
> It's completely reasonable to state that the government has lost $1.5 trillion in revenue

Unless you don't really believe the state owns that money.
That reminds me of the quality of the claimed "study helping" material for similar certifications that I occasionally stumble upon while looking for solutions to actual problems. It's hard to resist a physical facepalm or other expression when reading some of that stuff, since it'd otherwise make for great satire.

Personally, I don't have a high opinion of anyone whose only stated qualifications are these sorts of certifications --- all it really shows is rote memorisation, when good IT support relies on creative and insightful problem-solving skills --- including being good at... Googling.
It's not avoiding Steam, because plenty of games there are given as Steam keys, but I have a $12/mo Humble Monthly subscription. It's literally more games than I could ever play, but there are some really good gems every month. They also have the "Trove", which is a bunch of DRM-free downloads that cycle in and out over time.

I also use GOG when the GOG-tuned Dosbox version of a game is better than the Steam one. I don't use their downloader app.
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> What a ridiculous article. Household air-conditioning wastes energy. Running your television wastes energy. Serving up webpages for The Guardian is apparently a waste of energy.

All of these provide some form of value to the user. I have yet to see what value bitcoin provides over USD. Okay, so we now have another medium of exchange, so what? Why is that worth the 1000x energy consumption per transaction over payment processors like Visa?

All your examples, by the way, have gotten more and more energy efficient over the last 50 years. Bitcoin is going in the opposite direction for payment processing.
My dad hates spicy foods (any peppers, garlic, etc). Ok, people can like what they like. But then I noticed he eats spicy radishes like they're nothing...
There are plenty of businesses where you can just roll up, make a better yet not more innovative version of the leading app, and just take all of the customers.

Game distribution is NOT one of them, at all, by any stretch of the imagination, at this point in time.

I've saved this article to share every time I hear that pitch.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-01-17-a-clever-way-to-meas...

^ non-paywalled coverage of the Goals product that we launched at Clever today!
The only upside will (briefly) be not having to deal with the TSA and showing up ~2 hours before the flight. Unfortunately, the TSA is making an appearance in local metro and train systems more and more, so I expect them to show up pretty quickly.

Then we'll have an grossly underestimated project with higher than "expected" costs with high ticket prices and no tangible benefits over the alternative - and likely faster - mode of travel.

And odds are, the system upgrades will need to start immediately so the ongoing maintenance will not be significantly cheaper than construction.

Yay?
Revolve folding 26-inch wheel could be a game-changer
Who said Bitcoin is falling?
> It is well-known to me that lack of daylight cycle etc. for a longer time can cause medical conditions.

Some prisons have gotten around the requirement that prisoners be exposed to daylight by placing the windows where they cannot be seen, but some of the light can be from the cell. That way they can be say they're providing daylight, it's just that the prisoners cannot see a window. Sometimes it seems that the people who runs prisons are just as sick in the head as they people inside them.
Sadly, you are probably correct.
In the 80s my dad had business with almost every county in California, and they each required annual or semi-annual visits. It didn't take him long to get sick of the airport dance and just start driving everywhere.
The distinction being that you may feel less productive when doing TDD--but that TDD very obviously yields significant benefits for developers who aren't you. I'm not saying that you should do TDD because it works for me, but I am saying that it very demonstrably does work for me.

If you don't like TDD and don't practice it for this reason or that, that's totally fine. Going out of your way to disabuse junior programmers from using it strikes me as crazy-town, which is kind of the point I'm making here?
> If your career consists of Ruby->Node.js->Go then static binaries are radical new technology.

Rather than offer what amounts to nothing more than an ad hominem, perhaps you’d care to explain why whatever you’re using is superior.

Your preference may be containers or bytecode bundles, but you’d be hard pressed to justify a major advantage and add a lot of complexity overhead for the privilege of using them.
Apple wasn't breaking the law. Lawmakers were split and the majority simply didn't want apple to pay taxes. You can also hide your income from taxes if you are a business owning capitalist and not a commie laborer.
I do agree that boredom can be seen as a lack of purpose. When you're fullfilling a role or you're passionately sunk into an activity, or train of thought, not much can take you away from it; and most people would describe you as being in the zone, or in the clouds.

With a growing family, I find it's about getting some 'me' time. I've found it tricky to even just shut the door.
Just Gog. I find it interesting that it's basically killed a lot of the old abandonware rings that were out there. I played a lot of stuff I discovered on abandonia or homeoftheunderdogs back when I had an old computer that couldn't handle what was on the shelves in stores
I doubt that they still believe that, as much as they are highly incentivized to claim that. Bitcoin is a disasterous enterprise as it continues to scale poorly. But hey, some people get rich (for a while) and others get to have a waking ideological wet dream, so who cares if it’s a tragic exercise in “printing” entropy and calling it value.

Whataboutism isn’t going to change that.

Besides, hasn’t the world suffered enough for the sake of grasping ideologues? Does everything need to be seen through these same bland lenses? This is a truly maddening and mad use of a currently limited resource with globally damaging externalities, and it produces nothing except waste heat.

If the average Joe really understood this, and just how modest the real potential of blockchain tech probably is, there would be lynchings.
It actually tends to be counterproductive. If you shit on people enough and there is no upside to cooperating, people just become increasingly subversive, often with tacit support from otherwise law abiding citizens.

The US has a track record of punishing people of color disproportionately. We have the term jury nullification to describe one means for ordinary people to engage in peaceful non cooperation. During Prohibition, lots of ordinary people looked the other way so the mafia could make alcohol available. It basically gave money and power to the mob to make alcohol illegal. In Asia, Martial Arts were born due to extremes of laws forbidding people from having weapons.

The more unreasonable the government becomes, the more creative the people get in quietly saying "Fuck you. No." Or they eventually outright rebel. The first thing that happens when a government is overthrown is they empty the prisons on the assumption that most prisoners are really political prisoners, regardless of what they were convicted of.
My girlfriend uses it for the Sims. On at least 3 occasions it's taken over an hour to get the game running due to Origin issues. It's truly garbage.
Boy are you in for a shock when you find out the money that you spend, which you've paid income tax on it, goes to someone who pays income tax on it again!
Hey HN! Been working on this as a side project for a while and would love to get some feedback from the community.
Your original point does not hold after correcting your 3-orders-of-magnitude error. The Guardian article estimates that bitcoin is on track to use 42 TWh of electricity this year. Your corrected estimate, 87 GW, is 762 TWh annually.

Your contention that the Guardian article made an "outrageously large" estimate of bitcoin electricity consumption is contradicted by your own estimate, after you fixed the units-conversion mistake in it.
Think of the last big project you worked on. How good were your estimates at the 0, 25, 50, and 75% complete points?

NO ONE will know the total cost of this project until years after it's done and forensic accountants/auditors go through everything.
I'm 3 years into my career with a M.S in CS and I don't know how to read a TCP dump or Nessus report :( Guess I should be a recruiter. Oh wait, I used to be!
I take the train daily. I've only ever seen random cops walking around, setting up bag check tables in stations and infrequently armed swat guys on patrol. They never stop people and are more there as a show of force. The subway is no where near how awful the airports are.
Movers usually own and operate the trucks
It's amazingly elitist to ignore the fully half of Americans who own none of this capital
All the trains I have been on in California burn diesel fuel, including the one I commute on every day. Caltrain down the peninsula burns 10 million dollars in fossil fuels a year. I would hope we could convert already heavily used rail corridors to electric sometime in my lifetime.

http://www.caltrain.com/Assets/__Agendas+and+Minutes/JPB/Boa...
This is what the folks behind the HSR are banking on, and also why I voted for it
Is there a reason the proof of work can’t do something more useful, like protein folding?
Making WebAssembly even faster: Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler
My great grandmother saw the Wright brothers fly as a teenager. The moon landing was a big deal to her.

You’re absolutely right. I was little when I talked with her, but my parents would surely say she would have completely accepted interstellar flights as the next thing.
Just in time for a start of a new proj. Huge thanx to everyone who contributed the maturity of tooling and attention to developer productivity is amazing and puts many established languages to shame.
In the US, at least, outside of Silicon Valley, the type of degree isn't necessarily a barrier.

Some of the best developers, DBAs, system engineers, etc, I've hired had history degrees, math degrees, journalism, EE, etc. The degree itself, for me, is just proof that you finished something important. I care more about what you know, and how well you can learn something new.

I don't think I'm that unique in this respect. The tech shops I've worked in over my career were full of non-CS degreed people. Mostly my experience here, though, is with non tech companies. Things like the IT departments in Healthcare, Travel, Automotive, etc.
fast forward to a Dyson sphere for crypto mining
Back in 2002 one of their trucks (St Louis MO) parked and blocked my car at a Quiktrip as I parked in the parking lot to get breakfast. When I came out I saw my car was blocked. I could not find the drivers and asked about it in Quiktrip and nobody knew, some even laughed at me. I was 29 minutes late when the drivers finally showed up to move their truck without even as much as am I'm sorry.

I never used their service but they were illeaglly parked when they blocked my car.

It has been along time since. I suppose I can forgive them.
And Apple used bullshit rationale to hide their money in a territory where they did not earn their money. They tell Europe that all the innovation is from California, then tell USA that all the IP is owned by an Irish company.
The convenience of having your game licenses all in one place over the long term is too great. The only way you could shut down Steam at this point is create an open industry standard that would allow a license to play a game to transfer seamlessly across platforms. No one wants to buy a game from a website that isn't going to exist in a year and will take your game with you. And no one wants to have 10 different platforms on their computer. And certainly no one wants to have different platforms offer different games that can only be accessed from that platform. But of course the gaming industry has an entire business model built on exactly that: console gaming. It's kind of a miracle that Steam even exists and people are going to be very resistant to replacing it with a completely fractured system of owning PC games.
IBM PCjr: Zero-Day Data-Destroy Vulnerability (Joykill)
I wouldn’t sell NBC weapons short... at least not the B and N parts. Nukes are dangerous in the hands of nations, but my god you just wait until every asshole with a laptop and $10,000 worth of equipment can customize their own plague. We’re not quite there yet, but we’re close, and regulating that is going to be utterly impossible.

It’s possible to exist in a relative detente between nations, but when the capacity to end human civilization is democratized we are dead. Many forms of incredible tech are really maturing, and frankly our laws are a century or more behind. We’re in real trouble if we have to wait to be burned to believe in the fire this time.

Unfortunately it seems that most of the smartest people are desperately trying to strike it rich, and that’s just about all. Even most of the people who want to make a difference only feel they can/should after making “fuck you money.”
I'm more surprised she got away with $100 for 7 violations.
If it can’t be configured, people won’t use it. The kind of stuff most sites suffer from is as simple as being able to not have it look like everyone else: once you do that the odds approach certainty that someone’s design will load 8mb of ads, fonts, etc.
I'm not convinced that the current HSR project is the best way to do it

Most criticism boils down to a "perfect is the enemy of the good" problem. Anything that isn't the most perfect possible solution from a given critic's viewpoint is attacked as a "boondoggle" while ignoring that opening up the corridor and making it easier to travel between SF, LA, and smaller cities in between will be a good thing (and that there's plenty of evidence for it in similar rail lines elsewhere).
GOG links to your Steam Account and will add games to your library that exist in your Steam Library. It only does this for participating publishers but it's still an effective way to copy your library.
Max/MSP and TouchDesigner are used heavily in creative industry, especially related to large-scale "experiences" that marketing agencies throw in urban spaces.
Max/MSP is interesting because it was originally created under the auspices of a publicly funded French organization (IRCAM) before being commercialized.