skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, as software and frameworks get more complex, they require more compute to run. Software hasn't decoupled economic growth from energy consumption, it has just made the energy consumption harder to see.

Edit: since people are asking for examples, I would have to point to the insane cost of training modern ML models. For instance, according to [1], training a single big NLP model can burn up to 620,000 lbs of CO2.

I say a lot of energy consumption is hidden because it's generally moved to data centres, which by the way use up astronomical amounts of energy [2]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02243

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/trends-data-centre-e...
Fentanyl is unusually deadly due to extreme concentration and ease of manufacture and transport. Other than exact dosage it’s very similar to other opioids.

Some interesting data: https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/opioid-overdose-de...
I've watched this debate from the sidelines so many times I can repeat the arguments...

The answer is: tanks need to refuel somewhere, or trucks need to bring them more fuel. Also, the people inside the tanks need to get out to eat. And worse... again, just repeating the usual argument here... if it was against a truly dictatorial regime, let's say, to give the benefit of the doubt... the people inside the tank have friends and family that are not with them inside the tank.

But I assume if it got to the point that hundreds of tanks and hundreds of aircraft were being used against US citizens, the humans in the military would probably not be okay with that and this scenario would never happen.
A few confused people would pay. But why should anybody pay if the service is the same?

If on the other hand one service paid the authors for licenses, curated the content, offered consistently good availability, performance, and convenience, and was without malware, I guess a fair share of people would pay. In fact a lot of people do pay for exactly these reasons.
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> Because there's a large number of us who want to pay with that data

Okay, cool, don't opt out then. I on the other hand would prefer to see ads based on the content I'm viewing for which no other data from me needs to be passed around.
It's the Climate Conspiracy Theory!
I've recently dumped a lot of time into making our CircleCI pipeline faster. I'd love to hear why you switched to BuildKite because we're looking at doing the same thing. My understanding is BuildKite has the following advantages:

- You can have persistent workers since the build machines run in your cluster.

- Much better Docker layer cache hit rates. We use custom Docker images and I've never seen a Docker image cache hit on our CircleCI machines.

- Better download throughput. CircleCI appears to be bandwidth limited to about 15MB per second.

- It's much more straight-forward to programmatically generate workflows instead of hard-coding them in multi-thousand line YAML file.

Some of low-hanging optimizations on CircleCI I've used to reduce build time are:

- Using a shallow git checkout. Reduced checkout time of our 500MB repo from 30 seconds to 2 seconds.

- save_cache into /dev/shm. This cut our 1GB node_modules (yea, it's huge I know) save_cache and restore_cache from 30 seconds to 10 seconds. The HUGE downside is /dev/shm is mounted as noexec so you can't run anything in node_modules/.bin without some hacks.
Or centralized operation with decentralized checking that can be implemented with SQL databases and/or logs. So much more efficient. One can use non-profits/foundations with the protections built into their charters, policies, and contractual agreements with steep penalties for violations. As in, use existing tools with tons of operational experience and case law supporting that they work. Also, these have basically none of the drawbacks of the fully-decentralized solutions.
Geothermal is not renewable either, but we say it is. There is so much Uranium, I would consider it "close enough"
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“What we want to do is to become the operating system for the open web. We want every website, whether it’s e-commerce or anything to be powered by WordPress."

God help us all.
They're a little wrong, mostly by conflating current (amps) and power (watts) because of standardized cells, all with the same voltage.

This post is worse. It's easy to get any voltage you want out of a big battery pack. And it's pretty easy to convert between voltages. The hard part is sustaining whatever max voltage your motor can accept, which is a matter of power. If your motor is big enough, and your electronics are at least competent, the limiting factor is the power your battery can supply.

Edit: Like, a Model S battery supplies about 330 volts and rearranging the battery cells in a simple way would make it supply 4000 volts at lower current. You could replace the coils in the motors to accept that newer voltage and get very similar performance but with significantly higher chance of electric shock.
Is opt out given equal weighting or hidden 3 pages deep into "Learn more" > "manage preferences" while opt in is just an "ok" (or worse "X") away. the one site I know that gave that yes/no choice was Wikia, and they've converted to the dark patterns approach now too so presumably they saw their opt out rate as too high and were emboldened by others getting away with it
Miley Cirus could do promotion work for such delivery methods.
Why Billionaire Warren Buffett Still Pays Less Tax Than His Secretary
Fed funds is not the repo market. Someone is trying to borrow billions in cash for some reason either a bank or country through banks or company through banks so far unknow what party(ies) behind this. Generally should not be possible to corner General Collateral repo market so its a very weird situation. Maybe someone blew up a derivative trade is trying to pay it off borrowing? Very very strange larger than hypothetical reasons put forward to date. Who needs dollars the most right now?
My opinion: you shouldn't need to manually tag anything because it should be done automatically via your ci/cd.

With that said, in some cases deploying everything this way is not realistic. I have always admired Netflix's "frigga" naming conventions: https://github.com/Netflix/frigga

I was exposed to it by working with Spinnaker which uses it. Pretty clean way to organize everything.

Here is a nice quickstart: https://github.com/spinnaker/moniker

> Every resource is assigned a Moniker which exposes app, stack, detail, and cluster fields. If, for example, a Moniker is assigned using Frigga, we can say that cluster = app-stack-detail.
Dematerialization is the biggest fallacy in the industry. Data centers need energy to run. Buying the latest servers, network equipments, iPhones and more every year or two, requires an enormous amount of energy. GDP is directly correlated with energy, so there is no sign of change: an economy cannot grow without energy. I wish more people understood the economy from a physics standpoint.
You don't need to suspect. Unlike this news, Global Wealth Report itself is a serious undertaking so it computes both median and average ranking. USA is #1 in average and #13 in median. Switzerland is #2 in average and #1 in median.
this is a result of data analytics pushing the bleeding edge and passing what is decent and allowing their tech to enter the invasive and creepy realm.
The main problem with nuclear in the west is mismanagement and loss of skills amongst construction and engineering staff. Many countries haven't built a nuclear powerplant in decades, and are having difficult now.

China is doing much better, and so is France and even Russia is doing ok, as they have a larger and more experienced workforce regularly building reactors.

I live in the UK and for the past decade every major construction project I can remember was massively delayed and over budget. Currently its HS2 and crossrail. So the faults don't appear to be specific to nuclear in industry.
Yes, they are irrational.

An AR Pattern rifle chambered in a rimfire cartridge such as 22 LR is legal under "Assault Weapon" ban laws. Rimfire rifles have been used in spree shootings.

What's the argument for why ergonomic features like an adjustable stocks should be banned?
One of the things that lead me to drop Gmail was the fact that the Gmail app on my phone started harassing me to turn location services back on. Why does it need to know my GPS coords to send an email?
why don’t you just one of the many other providers?
A lot of that is aerodynamics improving in newer cars. I drive a Jeep Wrangler and it catches a lot more bugs than our modern Honda
I'm not at all surprised they wrote their own, because it's often the case that people have different use cases, design constraints and so on. I am surprised here that someone attempting to reduce the JS download bundle size after the fact didn't start by running the standard programs (uglify/terser/etc) used to reduce JS download size!
As much as I hate the anti-US tone on HN, this article is kind of crap.

Fact is, getting good wealth data is really hard. Income is much easier as the govt collects that data.
I'm wondering if Kubernetes would be the right choice in our use case. Or if something like Ansible would be better suited and easier to setup and use?

I'll soon have to manage 50 remote bare-metal servers, all of them in different cities. Each one of them will run the same dockerized application. It's not 1 application distributed in 50 servers; it's 50 instances of the same application running in 50 servers, independently.

A frequent use case is to deploy a new version of this application on every server (nowadays I do it manually, it's OK since I manage only like 10 servers).

A nice-to-have would be to avoid downtimes also, when I update the application (nowadays I have a downtime of 2-5 minutes (when it goes well), which matters for us).
Amazon already has a delivery fleet, something like 7000 trucks along with a few dozen planes. And they're pushing very aggressively to expand their Prime 2 day shipping to 1 day, which requires even more. They also sell/lease trucks to contractors, and many of these may be earmarked for that program as well. I don't doubt at all that this is a legitimate order, even if their reason for going electric isn't all sunshine and rainbows and environmental friendliness.
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Also why I believe nuclear power must play a vital role in carbon neutral power generation. Wind and solar is great for homes, but what else can power the steel industry? The duty cycle is enormous.
Don’t bother with Vacasa. Same story. Arrogant and expensive. Cashing in on tech startup hype while looking to buy up as much real property as possible to sit on.
> Because if you were to run a survey over the general population the large majority is fine not having to pay for gmail, google search, maps and other "free" services while some data may be collected doing so

How is this an argument against the law? It doesn't make it illegal to share data but requires that users can opt out. If said large majority is fine with surveillance, I guess Silicon Valley can relax.
For constant resistance, voltage is proportional to current so "acceleration is directly proportional to how much current you can pull" is equivalent to "acceleration is directly proportional to how much voltage you can pull". I don't think it's particularly helpful to bluntly tell someone they're wrong like this.

(Disclaimer: not an expert)
No, further West. I'd like to visit Boston one day.
Reminds me of all the people mysteriously dying in the Dominican Republic[1]. The best I could figure out from reading about it was that illegal pesticides were being used in hotels to eradicate bed bugs and they ended up getting on bottles of stuff in the minibar and in the food and randomly killing or making people extremely sick all over the country and the resort chains covered it up.

[1]https://nypost.com/2019/06/28/fbi-to-release-toxicology-resu...
China rescheduled fentanyl in response to Trump on May 1st. One month later: "Most fentanyl is now trafficked across US-Mexico border, not from China". Because Mexico is importing fentanyl precursors from China and taking over distribution like everyone predicted. Then a few days ago Virginia took down a multi-state drug ring and attributed 30kg of the fentanyl from Shanghai.

The cynic will think China is using this as a bargaining chip, but fentanyl is simply too easy to smuggle. US is failing to detect imports, think how much harder it is for China, the worlds biggest exporter to manage on the export end. Import and manufacturing control is a dead end when it comes to opiates, the chemistry is too basic and the logistics too easy.

Look at all the places where fentanyl isn't a problem for solutions. IMO, export control is the "‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" (apart from Vancouver) tier thinking.
Hi Pat. Do you have archives of the original /dev/payments around anywhere? The internet doesn't seem to have any and it would be great to see what Stripe version 0 looked like.
I like how they calculated consumption, rather than income or net wealth. That's a more honest way of comparing poverty in different countries.
Twilio uses Stripe. So "telecom" per se is not banned.
You imply security agencies have direct uncontrolled online access to Google maps personal data today, this is not true. There is due process to access private data and you can always have the option to enable, disable, delete it. Lets stick to the facts.
Don't sling epithets.

My using the word 'native' was a proxy for a type of culture: a close to the land hunter gatherer lifestyle. You know one that would necessarily make them keen observers of their natural environment.

I could have said aboriginal, but maybe you'll take offence to that too?
> Well, no — they could charge money for them. But even this is a false dilemma; surely we can come up with at least one business model other than "charge directly for our service" and "surveil our users".

No need to come up with something new, we had content based ads long before Google and Facebook took over.
It's really hard, but Global Wealth Report does really try. This news is crap, the report referenced is not. If you are interested do read the report.
All of these arguments apply in guerilla warzones (eg. Vietnam, Iraq, Somalia) and while insurgents there have certainly been capable of inflicting casualties and denying the U.S. its strategic objectives, they also couldn't stop millions of their countrymen (and usually themselves) from being killed. Winning is cold comfort when everybody is dead.
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I agree a 100%. Magento used to be not so bad but after the Adobe acquisition its tended to be terrible in terms of implementation and pricing.

Hybris has a very good comprehensive and stable and extendable ecommerce solution. The only downside is its from SAP and not open source, which might not be bad for a medium sized to big ecommerce shop.
You just created fake news. You took the context, the facial expression and the exact wording out of that quote and ignored it. When I listened to EXACTLY what he said and watched EXACTLY how he said, it doesn't look like he's suggesting we shouldn't listen to the science, it doesn't look like he doesn't know why we should listen to the science.

The nuance of the way he said what he said is important. The guy could still be a complete idiot, I don't know him, but you seem to have not been too honest with your quote.

He's asking the girl to expand upon why it is SO important to listen to the science, it almost sounds like an exploratory question rather than him trying to say we should not listen to the science.

I ask questions at work that test basic assumptions all the time because when someone says something, they may not mean it the way you think they mean it.
That’s not a major factor. Winglet’s and other aerodynamic improvements are just one example where energy efficiency directly reduces energy usage per GDP. Improving car MPG averages has real impact.

Compare say a CRT from 1999 with an LED TV from 2019 and the vastly larger sizes are more than offset via increased efficiency.
If they're all using the same equipment it could be having the same artifact. If closely examined it should be different from different instruments then. And what I said is based on a lack of confirmation of multiple instruments detecting the same anomaly and taking the necessary steps to rule out any sort of reflection style thing
But the point McAfee is trying to do is that it requires less materials to do so. Yeah, energy consumption is on the rise, but instead of burning xx tons of coals to generate 1GWh like it did 50 years ago, it does so by using 10% of that coal. Advances in technologies allowed us to do that. In plus you cannot deny we do have a momentum to use more and more technologies involved in renewable then in fossils. I agree we are not quite there yet, but is way better then it was in the late 80's, beginning of 90's when the ozone layer hole was at its biggest.
I hope your mood improves soon. No one should have to be as bitter as you are right now.

I don't mean this in jest, I really do hope that you find some peace.
Lamo being alive likely would not have affected the attempt to compel Manning's testimony.

Also weird that you go from "likely" straight to "necessary".
Probably even better if one is looking for history: more traditional language, no cultural revolution, excellent foods brought in from all over mainland China too during the exodus of the KMT.
Presumably you have? Do share!
It isn’t just cats.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/09/widel...
Well given that life expectancy in the US is decreasing now, that decoupling seems to have been short-lived.
Moore's law has decreased amount of energy required to run the same code.
E-cigarette makers wage war to lure China’s 300M smokers
Surveillance cameras could really use a PCI-type compliance regime. Data must be stored encrypted at rest, intranets must be segregated from the broader web, etc. It isn't perfect but it's better than nothing.
Two years ago, no one in China knew about Relx Technology. Today, it is a firm valued at USD 2.4 billion...
> The Buddhist (and Jain, Ajivaka etc.) view is that results don’t matter because the actions themselves don’t matter—they are delusions.

That is not the Buddhist view at all. The Buddha himself spoke about skillful action vs non-skillful action. The whole eightfold path / middle way [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Eightfold_Path] starts from 'Right View': that our actions have consequences, even after death.
Could you explain this more? I would think energy use is quantifiable when payed for by metered consumption.
Production of all carbon free energy, sources: solar + wind + nuclear, is not enough to get to 100%in a decade, unfortunately
In theory battery tech can fuel Industry, though the ironic chicken-and-egg of the situation should be clear. Obviously we should invest in updated, safer, more efficient nuclear tech, but the public image is so bad that we might as well use coal and spend extra money on carbon capture
>You just have to change the onboarding process to include a fee, and offer an incentive/rebate of the subscription price to match the cost to basically make it free. That way if they decide to change their mind and not give their data, you're still in the clear by removing the incentive and either charge their payment method or disable their service until they do.

What's the practical difference between these two scenarios?

1) I offer a free service if you let me collect your data, but charge you $3/mo if you refuse to let me collect it.

2) I offer a $3/mo service, but give you $3/mo back if you let me collect your data.

Option #1 is explicitly illegal under the new California law. If option #2 is legal, then what is the law supposed to ban?
I'm not doubting you on the fact that gains exist, but I also think it's a slam dunk that non-material products are a much bigger chunk of GDP than before.

You happen to have any links to attempts to disambiguate the two? I definitely don't.
They also don't have mass shootings, actually nobody has mass shootings like the US, not even other countries with lots of guns.
They shouldn't. But you won't like what I have to say next: that's because the rational target for regulation should be any semi-automatic rifle with a detachable magazine. And (I'm relating a fact here): that's what the original proposals were. We don't ban cosmetic features because legislators are stupid; we ban them because the firearms lobby is powerful, and scrambled the original proposals.

(Again: I think another problem with firearms regulations is that they've been based on bans, when what's in fact needed is licensure --- in the US, for historical reasons, probably presumptively-issued licenses).
It's on a blog by someone that makes hiring decisions. It's not in the linked article. You can google it.
How exactly is this a Tragedy of the Commons effect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
"Worlds First"? There was something like this back in the early 2000's. In-fact I think there is a whole bunch of them.
The headline, apart from being clickbaity, is accepting the null hypothesis. Which is a STAT101 no no.

The article makes several good points. But just because the testing isn’t sufficient to prove that the winner didn’t just get lucky, it doesn’t prove that the winner did just get lucky.
I don't, that combined with other info may be enough to fully rule out any possibility of reflection

I consider the possibility of reflection high by default, especially with the properties this thing has (glow around it, seems to immediately react to camera movements, movements that appear to violate inertia)

But I'm definitely no authority on this, just sharing my perspective based on previous similar things I've read about.
Automattic is no different than any other private venture-backed company despite its "multi-generational open-source freedom fighter" marketing jargon. They raised because they are running out of cash and cannot sustain the business for much longer without an additional investment.

Private venture-baked companies that have been around as long as Automattic and are profitable or have favorable financials are going public right now. Automattic doesn't have the numbers or potential to IPO so they must raise.
I've found this annoying, but they always show you the total on the initial booking listing (if you've specified the dates and number of people). You know upfront what you're going to pay; there's no bait and switch. It makes searching by nightly price a little more tedious than it should be (search by total would be nice), but I've never felt deceived.
> yet if I showed any particular one what kind of information I have access to about them

This is where the line is drawn for most - if people from Facebook, Amazon or Google look at information other than machines. Totally fine if it's just a computer with a strong law like GDPR safeguarding it.
This is what I have been doing for the past 13 months, living on saving and building my dream startup... It's going ok, we are launching out first version before the end of the year, after about 6 months of delays.
There's nothing wrong with reviewing your hiring processes to audit for equality. Outright saying that you attract a demographic that you DO NOT WANT TO HIRE FROM is a whole different level of problem. Might as well say no blacks and irish. That whole quote could be associated with various different ethnic groups over the years depending on the time it was written. in 2019, that type of quote should not exist.
I'm sorry, but that second sentence is just ridiculous. Conflating NK and PRC does no one any good. Sure, the space for civil society has tightened a lot since 2011, you've got the trade war and a ton of other simmering conflicts, but on the whole (with the exception of Xinjiang) it's fine.