skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's intriguing to witness this phenomenon live, for example with Google: first we were all in love with it, so refreshing, fast, humble when compared with Yahoo, Lycos et all. We loved their "do no evil" mantra. When they started to offer their free e-mail, we were queueing to migrate. Then the phenomenon you're describing started to happen and people are struggling to de-googlify their lives only to discover it's already too late to do it 100%.
You could also see this if you viewed source when it was fully working, of course. And occasionally before images loaded in if you were on a slow connection. I don't think it's any great secret, but still interesting to see.
Oh wow, that is so lame... I wonder how this will affect LiveOverflow ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClcE-kVhqyiHCcjYwcpfj9w ) and all the DefCon video's, etc.
You still don't understand. While the average time length of a YouTube video might be 10m1s, the time length of a specific video isn't. Worse, the file sizes are all quite different even if the time length is the same due to video compression. The way these sites work is you download segments of the video of fixed time length (such as two seconds), roughly in order, and so it becomes trivial to fingerprint which video you are watching by what sequence of specific file sizes someone downloads.

This is absolutely not an "obscure" attack: it has been used, successfully, to build a tool to guess what city you are looking at with Google Maps. There, tiles are downloaded to render a map (similar to the segments used to render a video on YouTube). While each tile may have a fixed dimension, again, due to image compression, each tile has a different file size. Since tiles are downloaded in clusters, you can pretty readily fingerprint different regions of the map a user is looking at (and if it weren't for local caching, it would work almost instantly 100% of the time, live).

With type-ahead searching, as each character you type returns a different list, given the file size response sequence you should be able to determine exactly what search query someone made with almost total accuracy almost all of the time when they type it, with the only reason it ever not working well being due to caches and delayed queries (if you type fast enough on many type-ahead query boxes it will avoid sending queries for the prefixes, to reduce load for something that by the time the result is fetched won't even render).
Spalling mistek
Missing from all of the discussions about this is the fact that almost all of the electricity is purchased with the mining reward, which is temporary. It is cut in half every 4 years, and will eventually dwindle to nothing. The amount of electricity Bitcoin miners can afford to buy therefore will fall.

Of course, until now that effect has been more than compensated by the increase in the Bitcoin price. But that certainly can't continue forever either, and so the electricity usage and carbon footprint of Bitcoin will inevitably fall in the future.
I dont think youtube can run their business without infocsec personal. But the US community as a whole also doesnt seem to have a problem with working for for 3 letter agencies, so its not really surprising that youtube doesnt have to worry about their personal leaving. Please think about what kind of effect your work has on the wider world. Some here are likely in the privileged situation that changing the job because of your conscience is a possibility.

edit: I would add to think about the next generation of us and what example those actions sets, but i dont think i have to. Too many people here already grew up in an environment where taking jobs at 3 letter agencies is nothing out of the ordinary and the head of the NSA gets to speak at DEFCON while kids rot in jail for the same curiosity that made us who we are today.
It's not necessarily just about storage. If old articles and comments are on a different content management system, that requires hosting and maintaining as well. They may even run on different languages or operating systems.
I was thinking the same thing. I've noticed this multiple times in the past, but I guess alt-tags are too archaic for Average Joe.
The problem I have with your argument is that your proposed solution is worse. And just because one holds a value most dearly doesn't mean that I'm willing to trample on the freedom of others to get it.

Take your example: the community derides walled gardens. I personally dislike walled gardens and I move away from iPhones mainly because of that. There are plenty of ways that I feel that they're bad. But at the very same time, I believe that Apple is entirely within their rights to have a walled garden. The freedom to create software you want to create should be held dear by anyone on HN. Why should that be different for Apple.

I support the right of free expression; that government cannot restrict free expression and you can't be imprisoned or harassed for your speech. But at the same time I support freedom from speech as well. Just because you have freedom of speech does mean that I'm required to hear it. My freedom of expression also means I don't have support your expression. That's my right.

I also support net neutrality and common carrier requirements for phone companies and monopoly shipping companies, etc. But I also acknowledge that there is difference between being a communications carrier and a publisher. In fact, to be a publisher you need to have a carrier so they're already not the same thing.

Requiring publishers to maintain the speech of others without restriction is an impossibility. Is YouTube really going to be required to host every piece of video published to it forever? Is Hacker News? How would any of this work. They are fundamentally different and what you are proposing just doesn't work. But even more so, if I'm the owner of the website you'd be restricting my right to free expression with this scheme. I think that is equally as important.

Is there really a problem here? Maybe. Is forcing everyone to host everything the solution? God no. As long as we are free to choose what services we can connect to then we have the freedom to choose something other than buying an iPhone, going on Facebook, using YouTube, turning on Fox News, or reading the New York Times. We don't have to host our content, for free, on YouTube so they can monetize it. Having our freedom and eating our free cake too isn't going to work.
Bitcoins energy consumption has no correlation with its transaction throughput.

Price goes up > People turn on more miners > Difficulty goes up > Less efficient miners become unprofitable > People turn off more miners > Difficulty goes down.

It's a self-correcting dynamic purely due to economics, not linked to usage.
Or encouraging cheap and nasty fuels to be used to an even greater extent.

I'm pretty sure miners don't pick and choose when they mine, to coincide when there's going to be 'wasted surplus energy' otherwise. They just add on to the demand on the grid, around the clock.

They almost sound like Buddhist monks re: meat eating, from the way you phrase things!
He literally can't do his job on this OS... He runs his critical workloads (Linux virtual machines) on another laptop with Linux installed.
That's my understanding, a difference is made between paternal lineages (through the father's brothers) and maternal (either father's sister or any sibling of the mother).

Possibly denoting similar v different family names?
Yup. With things like heating, refrigeration etc at least it has a tangible benefit on human lives. This is just selling the health of the planet for money!
Throw away those veggies, slave!
Lua is a famous one that defaults to 1-indexing for arrays.
> otherwise wasted surplus energy

This makes sense only in two cases: you're using energy from power sources which can't regulate output, or you're adjusting usage immediately based on feedback from the source. Otherwise the generation side just raises, accounting for your usage. Does that actually happen anywhere?

> Energy can't be transported long distance

Of course it can be. I expect you're quite far from a power plant right now. On the extreme we've got high voltage lines going over 2000km.
This is nothing new, I've noticed that several months ago and talked about that with one of my security friends and he confirmed that Facebook is tagging pictures at least since 2016.
Yeah anecdotally every non-tech person I know clicks the refresh button.

It also doesn't catch people watching on mobile web who refresh. And I don't believe their mobile app has a refresh button, whenever a stream glitches out for me I force kill and reload the mobile app.
It's both at the same time. "Mining" is just a fancy word for securing transactions. The new bitcoins are a reward for doing the securing, along with the transaction fees. Over time, securing transactions will yield less new bitcoins but will still keep yielding transaction fees.
>the applicable "C ABI" for a platform

Was the phrase i used. It is well known that the C standard does not define an ABI but a processor arch+OS i.e. platform defines it. Over time that defined for C binaries on a platform have become the "de facto" standard and almost all other language run-times hew to it as needed.
Thanks for sharing the information! Even if its 9 years old now, its very interesting for us dreamers.
"Energy can't be transported long distance" -- Electric power is regularly transported long distances with low loss. Total transmission losses in the US are about 5%, and a lot of power is shipped 1000 km or more.

"Bitcoin creates a global energy arbitrage market for the first time" -- There are existing energy arbitrage technologies, such as aluminum smelting. The requirement is low capital cost with high energy cost, so you can have plants that are idle most of the time, waiting for low marginal-cost energy. Bitcoin mining isn't actually very good for this: the capital costs of rapidly depreciating mining chips are quite high.

"Incentivizing cheap green energy" -- every consumer of energy does this. Consumers that run mainly during the day are much better at incentivizing wind and solar.

"Mining for ambient heating" -- also suffers from the problem that mining chips are too valuable to leave idle, so you can't place them in homes and only run them when it's cold.
In principle yes, but I tried in 4 (edit: 5) browsers and couldn't reproduce the problem, and it's late here and I'm running out of steam. So you may have to suffer overnight. Sorry about that.

Edit: ok, thanks to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_character_property#Whi... I put in a bunch of &NegativeMediumSpace;. I hope that fixes it because I need to sign off now. If it isn't fixed, it would be helpful if someone would email hn@ycombinator.com so we see that in the morning. Short term memory does not survive the firehose.
The energy consumption is priced into the cost of holding and transacting Bitcoins.

I wonder if it is any different with any other thing you pay for. Or if any money you pay for anything ultimately results in energy being used up.
They don't fix off-by-one errors, just move them around.
Me neither. My thoughts were: if the server already is running 24/7 for some other reason, you could put pihole on it as well.
If, like a desktop computer, it was mostly consistent across the board, it wouldn't be so bad.

I have to learn how to use three operating systems to be able to use very nearly all computers in the world. Car UIs can be wildly inconsistent even for the same brand.
LostboY always included a Vigenere cipher in his mystery challenge at DEFCON. It’s worth searching for team write ups of his challenges; they were some of the best and most difficult.
Qi Gong tends to put more emphasis on working with "environmental qi", drawing it in from the outside (Earth, nature, space, your imagination). It can be great for charging yourself up when combined with a practice like 5-point breathing. The kicker is that you can also do it while doing yoga asanas.

Yoga pranayama typically only works with prana in the body or uses mechanical breathing techniques (e.g. bhastrika, etc) to draw in prana as a by-product. But it'd be impractical (and probably dangerous) to do a practice like bhastrika while performing yoga asanas.

Doing Qi Gong practices while practicing yoga can really supercharge them. On the inhalation draw energy in from deep in the Earth through your feet to your lower dan tien/navel, and on the exhalation send it out your hands wherever they're pointing (probably the sky or Earth). Then on the next round inhale from where your hands are pointing, taking the qi/prana to the lower dan tien and then exhale out the feet or crown. Keep repeating this, always inhaling in through the 'gate' you just exhaled from. Do this for 5-10 minutes at first and build up. It'll really charge you up. You should learn the Macrocosmic Orbit first, but hopefully you already know that if you've been learning Qi Gong. If not, check out Mantak Chia's Awaken Healing Energy through the Tao.
So ever since Bitcoin's creation, it has been using the exact same amount of power? Because the transaction throughput surely has changed.

Do you not agree that, loosely, there is a correlation between transaction throughput/ popularity/ real world usage, and the amount of people being happy to invest time, effort, and money into mining?
> I’m trying to think of the punch that’s landed the hardest and actually caused damage, and I’m coming up short.

SNL's Palin parodies? Not sure whether that actually mattered or the Republicans just, for unrelated reasons, failed to GOTV. I'm pretty sure most self-identified Republicans still think she's great and weren't turned away from the polls over her, but maybe it swayed some moderate/no-party-affiliation folks?

Beyond that, humor's kinda a sustaining force for the left, in the same way... whatever you'd call Talk Radio style entertainment-news is for the right (AM radio, various web shows and podcasts, Fox News). Its efficacy may be more in group cohesion than converting "others".

[EDIT] incidentally, SNL probably played a large part in painting the (fairly negative) pop-culture image of Hillary that was such an important part of the 2016 election, overshadowing the whole race. Think mid- to late-Clinton-presidency SNL. So there's that.
No it doesn’t, assuming the mining tech improves via FPGA and ASIC, leading to more hashes per KWh. It’s very hard to predict the future ratio between hash rates and mining rewards.
Dang will come and politely stomp on your neck.
This is definitely untrue for present-day Twitch. When you're in a chat room, you're in the chat room with everyone.
Hashing power is not directly equal to power consumption

Sweden may hypothetically purchase miners 2x more efficient than the average miner and therefore need only half their countries power output.

In addition I would be surprised if Sweden can't source power from other countries ( prove me wrong I'm not sure on this one)
> Yes. It is, and the parent is saying why (despite the fact it had more features) it shouldn’t be treated as anything more than a nosql document store with mature replication.

This is very unfair to innodb which is a mature enterprise level relational engine.
If you still have any fossil investments I am begging you to divest. It might not even impact your returns http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/news/the-mythical-per...
this is all wrong. first you don't need to normalize by r ruining vehicles, both metrics are yearly. second the real signal is death per mile driven, now that's something you should look for, not abstract drivers. third using drivers as base assume all cars vehicles have no passenger.

this should at least get you in the right direction, but you'll likely want to put motorbikes into their class at some point.

anyway short story long you want the cumulative chance of getting killed, basing the estimate on the average person lifetime miles, which varies widely anyway one person to another making a synthetic number over such variability unfit for any purpose
I know for sure that this technology improves life of visual impaired persons as special software will read respective text.
Mining rewards will be replaced by transaction fees. There will still be an economic incentive to keep the hardware running.
I must say, I'm a little confused re the radio- hasn't that been the default UX for car audio for as long as cars have had radios? Even old AM only radios would come on when the ignition was turned on, and would retain the volume & station from the last time the car was used. I don't think I have ever driven a vehicle that defaulted the radio off when starting, they all retain the setting that was last used.
money has a tangible benefit to human life
this comment makes me happy having removed gmail from my life.

I dont give a fuck about my google account anymore.
That's not very encouraging for their "fully self driving" hopes and dreams.
I read somewhere that many of the larger mining operations use solar power to make it affordable.
They should have used Qt :)
Does this now hold the record for most frivolous moderator story edit?
You can think of a municipal government as a group of people who decided to do that. They could used a co-op or LLC or whatever instead; it would change the paperwork but not the reality.

If these kinds of rules are enforceable under any legal structure, people like them, and the people who don't like them still buy property encumbered by them, they will persist.
That is all fine and good, but is it necessary at all (even if some people are willing to pay for it).
I would not go as far as to say there's no correlation. The price of Bitcoin is also dependent on how many people would use it / value it, so the profitability of miners. Multiply by 100 the usage compared to now and for sure the price would go up by a lot.
80% of the time something really gnarly is discussed on Stack Overflow, someone links a bug from Microsoft Connect. Alas, all of those links are now broken.

There should be a law against ”We are rebranding the customer experience, and conveniently throwing away most user-generated content”
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Improvements in mining tech do not change the total amount of Bitcoin earned by mining, and thus the budget miners collectively have to buy electricity. Efficiency of mining is irrelevant because the difficulty adjusts to keep the mining rate stable, and the total number of Bitcoins available to mine is fixed and unchangeable.
I get it. I run macOS for daily driver so I only need to care what I should care but wanted to keep an OpenBSD around on a hobby server but then again since I couldn't figure out how to make the identical environment compared to my other Linux servers, I just gave up and switched to FreeBSD, where things just worked.

Too bad but I also get the enthusiasm bit as I like OpenBSD's philosophy.
You can definitely do some yoga asanas wrong. And some are outright dangerous.

* I've heard hot yoga can lead people to over stretch and injure themselves.

* Doing the lotus unless you're hyperflexible will probably knacker your knees

* There's lots of controversy around head stands. Who could imagine that putting 12 stone of bodyweight through your cervical vertebrae could possibly damage them?!?

But otherwise I agree with you. People tend to prefer the carrot rather than the stick, so as long as you feel good and have fun you're probably doing it right for you.
If you're flying with a non-precheck friend and they're willing to let you book their flights and they pay you back, they'll benefit from you having precheck and their ticket will include precheck as well.
Bitcoin miners by definition wouldn't. If they did, they are not mining bitcoin anymore, but a fork.
> sell it to me without memory (or memory at a normal price), etc...

That's the catch isn't it? Manufacturers have a lot of markup on things like RAM and SSD that they'd rather force you to upgrade on their websites than sell without memory.

Anecdata: I was trying to buy a couple of Dell Laptops for our office and the Dell US website has a customize option. Base model had 4 GB RAM and the upgrade to 8 GB RAM was .. drum roll .. approx $67 [1] . Comparable one on Amazon? $37-ish [2]. You will have a lot of fun doing similar comparison with SSDs.

[1]https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebo...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-PC4-19200-2400MHz-SODIMM-M471...
Ask HN: Off-shore: How do they do it and can we as an individual do the same?
I was thinking, why can't we do what big corporations do? For example, big corporations have off-shore companies for many reasons, one of them is lenient laws for operating companies, so can an solopreneur do the same and register remotely a company in a jurisdiction where the laws are more favourable to the company? What countries offer these types of services?
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But at that point the cost of the electricity consumption of Bitcoin will be borne entirely by Bitcoin's users, who will not pay more than the value they derive from use of the network. That would only fund a small fraction of today's Bitcoin mining electricity consumption.
This one seems to come from chinese

* in many EA and SEA culture, there's a difference made based on the age differential aka different term of address to people older than you v younger than you, also gender

* chinese (and likely others) also make a difference between patrilineal relationships and matrilineal, so there's a term of address for people related through the father's brother (and thus sharing your family name) versus other parent's sibling (not sharing your family name).

The combination of the two yields what you have above:

* cousins through your father's brother (sharing family name) are 堂 (táng) all others are 表 (biǎo)

* older brother is 兄 (xiōng), younger brother is 弟 (dì), elder sister is 姊 (zǐ) and younger sister is 妹 (mèi)

Therefore an older "sister" (same generational rank) through an other line than your father brothers would be 表姊 (biǎozǐ).
I am not saying they are accept lower wages then their German or French counterparts, what I am claiming is that because they are available in the market, their availability puts downward pressure on the wages and that's why German or French doctor/nurses can't charge more than what they'd pay to a worker from any other country.
That might actually help if it was the default, e.g. you need a large supermajority or unanimity to pass a law that lasts more than five years.
1500-Year-Old Concealed ‘Font Within a Font’ Found at Jesus’ Birthplace
Trying to apply logic to a political decision is like playing chess with a pigeon.