skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is unclear to me why any home user would deliberately opt for DoT. DoH and DoT solve the exact same problem, and DoH is by design harder to filter.

Perhaps a parent wants something that's easier to filter.

Paul Vixie has said a lot on this topic.
We generate html pages and then convert them using wkhtmltopdf. It works pretty well and the simplicity of it is nice.
Regardless of whether they are just talking about not looking into the background of their clients, or they are banning all discussion of politics in their offices, this is incredibly shitty. Ignoring politics doesn't make it go away.
Pandoc.

https://pandoc.org/
So if the white male has some important information for the bottom line of the company, should he wait 2hrs for wonder woman to stop playing or go and 'interrupt' 10 women not working and be a bad ally? What a joke.
A footnote says:

> The assumptions underlying this energy consumption estimate can be found here [1]. Criticism and potential validation of the estimate is discussed here [2].

[1] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption#assumpti...

[2] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption#validati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_...
This board can only consume power. ST sells chips which act as USB PD supply but they're only interface chips. You'll need a DC-DC converter and charger circuit as well which is usually complicated with dozens of components and tricky layouts.
Bitcoin is artificially limited in capacity by people like Adam Back and his company Blockstream.

The number of transactions is a simple limit set by whoever controls the Bitcoin GitHub Repo, thats it. Bitcoin Cash is much closer to the "Bitcoin" described by the inventor Satoshi Nakamoto.
Look: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21259267

> "Building another event organization platform isn't the solution"
> "open-source aggregation [of different event feeds]"
Layman here. To your second bullet, yes, the universe can be infinite but also be expanding. A rough analogy I've heard is that there are infinite points on the surface of a balloon, but if you blow it up more, the distance between any two given points will be greater than it was, so it has expanded. I don't think we know if the universe is infinitely large or not though.
> The engineers, designers, and PMs shouldn't have an outsized voice in society because they have a specialized useful skillset and ended up on a successful product.

They built these services. They are, ate least in part, responsible for how they work and the consequences of what they built. The content they’re serving and data has a meaning to us.

You can’t pretend that a social network doesn’t have a role in bringing anti-vaxxers together and enabling them to organize.

You can’t pretend that an advertising platform doesn’t have a role in distributing misleading information by business or other interests.

> If these users are breaking laws...

Laws aren’t the ultimate arbiter of everything. There’s a reason they change and evolve over time. Personal responsibility is not a law, yet we expect everyone to have some.
[0,1] is not less infinite than [0,2]. Also the less does not need quotes, there is an ordering of infinities.

Edit: typo
No, police don't enforce traffic laws because they all drive in from Long Island and spend their whole day in a car, so they view cars and their drivers as belonging to the same tribe as police, which puts them above the law. Pedestrians and cyclists are "the other" that is capable of actually breaking laws.

Put cops on bikes and see how enforcement changes.
If 625 kWh per transaction is accurate, then 300kg CO2 is plausible depending on the grid. Many electric grids emit 500g CO2 per kWh or more. Others are much cleaner depending on the production mix.

See: www.electricitymap.org
My reading of the slide is that they're making the distinction that it's an action (verb) not a state of being (identity), similar to the meme that "human being" is an action rather than a thing.

I take the following sentences as confirming this reading:

> Being a marginalized person takes no action - it is an identity:

> Acting as an ally is about action - it is not an identity, which is why we talk about "ally skills" instead of "allies"

> Depending on what is most relevant about you to the situation, you may switch between being marginalized and acting as an ally
Their DocSearch program for open source projects is really great [0]. Check out the Jekyll docs [1] instant results that usually find just what you want. My only complaint is I want a plugin and play solution I can deploy for private internal documentation websites.

0 - https://community.algolia.com/docsearch/

1 - https://jekyllrb.com/docs/
Gravitational Interaction of Antimatter
Why would I want to walk to a train/bus station, wait around, cram into a space full of people (some crazy or smelly or muggers), then walk even more afterwards and probably have to take even more connections, or be forced to use a bike all the time (I use one recreationally but I'd hate to rely on it)? We're not all such smug masochists that we're willing to turn every day into an inconvenient exercise routine and carry the cross of carlessness for ideological reasons.
Bitcoin is an ongoing environmental disaster, profiting off of subsidized coal power in China and elsewhere in the world. Millions of people die every year from air pollution.

But on the other side, hey blockchains are so cool they can do the same work as banks but six orders of magnitude less efficiently.
Says me? No. Says the person I replied to. Their outrage wasn't sparked by the size of the payment, but that payment went to Apple at all.

Nothing is reasonable about what you're writing, not one thing. At best you're being absurdly pedantic yourself, and hiding behind a throwaway no less. At worst you're trolling. I'm guessing it's the latter, so stop trolling.
The problem with this seemingly simple philosophy is that it results in minorities being ostracised. "Democratising social norms" turns into "Outlawing anything the majority won't tolerate". Suddenly you have towns where black people can't live, because no-one will do business with them. Sure, "healthy competition" should solve this problem - there's money to be made! But people are not perfectly economically rational. We are tribal creatures of prejudice, predisposed to subconsciously reject and suspect anything or anyone as "different".

Laws are often made to protect minorities, because history shows us time and time again that an unchecked majority of people can be real dicks.
Codswallop.
Bitcoin Core is 100% a tire fire, Cryptocurrency, like Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash are on the other hand killing it.
Democracy bestows upon you, certain responsibilities. Earlier, you did not have to worry about political stuff because someone else (the lord of the land, the king or an emperor by divine right) took care of the things for you. You just work the fields or smith around.

Since the concept of democracy, the rule of the people, politics is also one of the unwritten (or written) responsibility of the people. If you do not want to do it, then you are actively running from your responsibilities, which might make you a bad citizen in other people's eyes.

Fact: In ancient Athens, if you were a free citizen and you did not participate in politics, you would have been considered a non ideal / bad citizen
Async doesn't mean "never", you do need to respond to your colleagues eventually.
Python doesn't have such a function on the int type, so it will naturally wont show it.

The IDE (or, here the "dir" method) shows everything _available_ to use as a method on an integer.

If you meant "but can it show functions that are not on the integer type but that accept integers?" -- then many IDEs cannot, but it's not a difficult feature to add in an IDE for known libs/modules.

Can't think of any other way a question like "Can my IDE really tell me all the ways I can use an Integer?" makes sense. Of course the IDE wont know about yet unwritten methods which still count as "ways to use an integer". But nobody claimed it can above, and the absence of that doesn't discard autocompletion as an argument (to using the noun first).
I like it but I don't fully get it. Why use this service and not Lambda or Azure Functions?
I wonder how that compares to mining various precious metals.
Mentioned on the article but worth an extra mention: the movie "Adaptation" written by Charlie Kaufman. It's about orchids, adaptation, writing a book about someone writing a book on orchids and also a crime story :)
I think we're all conflating social and political opinions here. If you aren't comfortable with gay people, then that's super lame, and we're probably not going to be friends, but I wouldn't want to try to get you fired. However, if you support denying equal rights to gay people, then I don't want to be associated with you in any way.

So I don't see some things as political issues at all; they have political components, and extend into politics, but they start somewhere else: I see them as human rights issues, and issues around empathy. If you're going to deny someone their existence, and are arrogant enough to proclaim that your lived experience is the be-all, end-all of everything, and that your exclusionary way of life should be enshrined in law, then I frankly just don't think you're a good person. And that has nothing to do with politics.

(To stop the expected rejoinder: no, this isn't a way to justify things like pedophilia. Everyone should be able to live their life they way they want to, but the key component is: as long as they aren't hurting anyone else in the process. Gay rights doesn't hurt anyone else. Pedophilia does.)

Regarding guns, I've had many productive discussions with people who own guns and staunchly support the 2nd Amendment. (My personal view is that 2A should be repealed, and we should have strict licensing and training requirements around gun ownership.) I don't know that I've changed anyone's mind, but I do feel like I understand some people better, and vice versa. With a few people I just hit an impasse; then I agree to disagree, and get on with my day.

And regardless, there's plenty of room for common ground there, too. Most of the gun owners I know think it's ridiculous how easy it is to get hold of a gun, and support more restrictions and requirements. Some even agree with me that "assault style" weapons should be restricted to gun ranges (or banned entirely) and not sold to the general public. And I've fired guns at ranges before and totally get how fun it can be. I'm generally skeptical of self-defense arguments, and think defense-from-government-tyranny arguments are laughable, but there's still plenty of common ground and productive discussion to be had.
USB-C for devices sure, but headphones could co-exist with the 3.5 jack.
There was a long stretch during the early days of the Internet when it seemed possible that tech was going to have a uniquely positive impact on the world. Certainly in the 1980s and 1990s, it was possible to think that tech was going to help people overcome the past, and move towards a world of greater understanding. These last 10 years have brought many disappointments. It is frustrating that these tech companies refuse to do the right thing. Over and over again, when we might hope they will take the ethical path, their response is something like "Don't talk about politics at work" which is the corporate way of saying that they've decided to duck their ethical obligations. Very frustrating.
I have found myself using pipes many times in Elm, because they make the code so much more readable. Now I understand why!

I haven't seen an autocomplete that works on pipes. But with a good type system, it is technically possible to list all compatible functions that take "noun" as first parameter.

Sometimes you supply partially applied functions (also with pipes in noun->verb order) and that's not so easy to match:

noun
|> verb1
|> (otherNoun >> verb2)
|> etc

But perhaps even functions that take "noun" as nth parameter could be suggested.
if true Bitcoin needs to die, and eventually will under its own weight.
So a few different things are going on.

Statistics tell one thing. And if we’re reasonable we can reduce unnecessary deaths.

Then besides ordinary reason we have hot-button and politicization and polarization issues. If mr O’Rourke were to say, mass shooters and supremacists are statistically unrewarding lines of attack, people would drop support en masse. People would accuse him of being a supremacist himself and someone who doesn’t care about victims of mass shooters.

And then there is the reality of the second amendment and confiscation.

That said, reasonable people can agree in screening people better and discriminating against certain anti social behaviors, etc.
People also report sightings of bigfoot, aliens, ghosts. I'd love for them to not be extinct but reported sightings aren't even close to enough to go off of.
There may be solid state LIDAR available? https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161213005517/en/Vel...
Most aspects of running an organization and having a culture are subjective by nature. The previous statement — “do not discuss politics in the workplace” — is no less prone to subjectivity and interpretation.
Per transaction is intentionally a bit misleading, as the amount of power usage is proportional to how-much-power the block-reward can buy regardless of there being 1 or 1 million transactions.

Not to mention, a single transaction can power an infinite amount of (wash) transactions thanks to 2nd layer stuff like the lightning network. So it'd be similarly misleading to try quote in terms of that.

So the correct unit would be power usage, per block or time unit.
The same thing I do in other hypothetical where nowhere near enough context or information is given: nothing.

I am not a helpless passenger in my life, so I don't get "stuck" with bosses who treat me like cattle. I anticipate problems like this and preemptively deal with them, and you should too.
> In the case of digital astronomy using various opto-electronic devices to take the light and convert to charge (CMOS or CCD sensor or whatever else they use), I wonder how possible it is to essentially sum together lots of pictures one after another where occasionally you would reject photos that had a satellite passing through them?

An exposure that a satellite passes through is potentially ruined. On the plus side, although there are lots of satellites, the odds of one of them passing through your target is relatively slim. A lot of the time astronomers are interested in a single star in the entire field of view.

This has happened to colleagues of mine however, so it definitely occurs. Other things which can ruin exposures are cosmic ray hits which you have no control over.

You could do a median sum to get rid of the offending noise. Problem is you often don't know until after you've got the data back; it's quite rare for astronomers to do their own observations and you get allocated a fixed amount of telescope time. So you might get given 1 hour of time on your target, but if you messed up the exposure calculations or a satellite happened to pass through, there's very little you can do about it.

> Not totally sure though how long exposures work on digital cameras -- if its actually a sum of shorter exposures or what..

The detectors used in astronomy are extremely low noise and can be used for fairly long exposures (10s of minutes) without stacking. That said, you can still use stacking to get better signal to noise. It's much more commonly performed with amateur observations though, due to noisier detectors.

You also need to take dark, bias and flat frames to compensate for detector noise.

https://www.eso.org/~ohainaut/ccd/
https://www.talkyard.io, another one. Talkyard is sort of a cross between HackerNews, Slack, Discourse, StackOverflow.

Events features under development. (Feature request topic, with more details: https://www.talkyard.io/-267/add-a-way-to-create-events-with...)
If you sue successfully you can get a legal order to take down the content as part of the judgement.

Libel, slander, and harassment are all crimes or civil offenses (illegal). They work pretty well.
I'm no Mac using a hammerspoon script.

https://gist.github.com/arlaneenalra/a3ea9cf2d3a57397bda14a7...

https://www.hammerspoon.org/
I’ve always had a hard time understanding the value proposition in the same way I don’t understand the value proposition of e.g. AWS Rekognition.

Paying per use certainly doesn’t make sense, because it has to be qualified by the accuracy you get per use.

And there’s no serious way to understand the accuracy you get per use (on your specific unusual distribution of queries) without employing the expensive ML / stats engineers you probably thought you could avoid hiring by outsourcing to Algolia / Rekognition in the first place.

But once you need to hire them anyway, you might as well utilize them to build this type of thing in-house in ways that are much more tailored and optimized around your in-house data models and data integration tools.

To put in perspective, I’ve worked in several companies (from small start-ups to large ecommerce sites) that have a variety of search needs spanning plug and play Lucene all the way to highly customized joint embedding neural network based nearest neighbor search, and tons in between.

The distribution of text in e.g. the support center search use case was totally different than the product search use case or the document store use case, where highly unique word distribution, special words, frequency of required updates to the search index, asymmetric costs of surfacing bad or deleted content items, etc., was the norm.

Every search use case was different and needed care to develop unique annotated result sets to measure mean reciprocal rank, NDCG, etc., as well as simple stakeholder subjective opinion of quality.

Short of basically hiring Algolia to be a gigantic consultant on all these things, I don’t see how it could actually be valuable.

I suspect it’s just an easy sell to CTO types that don’t really understand. They want “search” to be one problem with one little component to drop in to solve it, but it’s just not real.
I mentioned it in a couple of threads and people seemed surprised, so I figured it would be worth surfacing more broadly as its own post.
From a not-US POV, y'all should definitely ban pistols too. I know there's a snowball's chance of doing that, but if you broke the culture of people carrying weapons as a matter of course, you'd also begin to rectify this, as Police no longer had to treat everyone as potentially armed

> You are 4x more likely to be shot by the police than a mass shooter, and 40x more likely to be shot by police than a white supremacist.
I gave up on Coffee (it makes me drowsy), but I do have a laPavoni Europiccola, I highly recommend it.
And what happens when people go and talk to men who started out in the tech pipeline but left? Don’t they say similarly negative things?
One could drive an electric car for nearly 2000 miles with that much energy.
Are you thinking of dedicated on-ramps and off-ramps as well? Otherwise, I think stops will take a long time due to lane changes.
One of the main reasons why I dropped BTC.

"Getting rich" at cost of the environment (extremely high resource consumption)? No thanks, I'd rather leave that world for future generations.
Huh? Under what scenario would the shareholders get sued for selling their stock?

Also, people complain too much about lawsuits versus corporations. Wells Fargo just took a $1.6 billion charge for legal expenses. That's something like 700 person-years at $400/hr, 16 hrs/day. The stupidity isn't the system that allows the lawsuits, it's the corporate mindlessness that wastes the equivalent of 1,000 people's lifetimes on arguing that they didn't do anything wrong instead of just saying "welp you got us".
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> I think these bakers suck, but I do agree with the Supreme Court. A private business should be allowed to refuse to serve customers for whatever reason they choose.

That's not what the Supreme Court found; it has not invalidated public accommodation anti-discrimination law in general, nor even the specific law the State relied on in the case. It did rule that the specific procedural history of the case indicated that State officials acted with specific targeted religious animus in the case, invalidating the state enforcement action even if the law was Constitutional and the enforcement factually warranted under it otherwise.
> It is not possible to do that and make as much money as google, fb, etc.

Exactly. This is a choice that companies need to make. Or a regulation coming.
Economic Sanctions and the Tragedy of Trump’s Syria Withdrawal
Okay, good to know. It wasn't clear to me what the actual consequence was of forcing a, "retweet with comment" would be, if the comment could just be "." or something.
What happens when people start taking offense at opposition to affirmative action? Or take offense at disapproving of putting biological males with male genitalia that self identity women in women's prisons? And conversely, plenty of conservatives take offense at gay marriage. Whose offence counts?
Signal priority over pedestrians too?
The star would need to be in a _lighter_ background gravity than us, to appear older to us.
(Edit2: I interpreted your use of "outrageous" to mean surprising or unbelievable. If instead you meant inciting to outrage, then I agree, it is.)

My opinion is that if you find this outrageous then you don't understand the core principles of Bitcoin. The difficulty of mining a block on the network goes up with the amount of mining being done to maintain a constant block mining rate.

There are massive bitcoin mining warehouses in China, and for each one that opens all of them are less effective at mining, but still consume the same amount of energy.

So, yeah, it's pretty much a tire fire.

Edit: to add to this, many industries can use technology to produce more value with less energy. Bitcoin is fundamentally unable to do this for the same reasons I mentioned above. When bitcoin specific mining hardware first came out, it briefly gave an advantage to the first people to have it, but then the advances were completely neglected when they became widespread.
Suppose the custom cake bakery owner is black, and a customer asks for a cake with a confederate flag design? There's nothing illegal about the confederate flag, so the baker should be compelled to bake it, right? There isn't even a basis for refusal based on religious grounds.

I would want the black baker owner to be able to not only refuse to bake the cake, but to also tell the customer to take a hike and never return.
Amazing product and team. Nicolas still finds time to help small startups like us. Their success is well deserved.
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To put this in perspective, Bitcoin's 73.12 TWh annual energy consumption is enough to power over 10 million electric cars each driving 100 km (61 miles) daily, every day of the year.
FWIW, [2] doesn't seem to offer substantive criticism at all. It mentions a couple independent verifications of the numbers in [1], with one complaint (from a very biased party) whose claims are not sourced.

This pretty much lines up with what I've seen in all Bitcoin energy use debaters: the evangelists insist the numbers are all wrong, but never really provide any evidence to that point.
Wasteful compared to what though? How much energy, human capital, and resources are consumed by the banking industry?

If (and big if) bitcoin is able to replace a significant fraction of the banking industry it will be extremely efficient in comparison. Per-transaction measures isn't the right metric since the Bitcoin blockchain can still be successful as a reconciliation backbone without being used for small everyday purchases.
The Kindness Reminder – Encouraging Civility across the Nextdoor Platform