skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where is Mr. Golyadkin when we need him to defend us from being brutally trolled by the most feared woman on the Internet, Netochka Nezvanova?

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mr_golyadkin

https://www.salon.com/2002/03/01/netochka/

Because she's back:

https://twitter.com/antiorp
My understanding of the world suggests that the value of gold and the value of bitcoin are equally "imaginary". Should humans not spend energy on their imaginations?
Coal is more portable than hydro electricity, so you can burn it where you actually need heat/electricity.

What do you do with unused hydro output? You can waste it or you can power bitcoin. This could be arbitrary big numbers in terms of KWh, but the opportunity cost and carbon footprint would be zero.

Since bitcoin mining is so perfectly competitive, it will be done where the cost of energy is lowest, which is zero for the most places - where energy would be otherwise wasted. And since other consumers pay considerably more than zero, they'd get oil/gas/coal delivered to them instead of wasting them on bitcoin miners.
Gold has a modest industrial usage. Fiat is backed by a government in control of resources or a military. Bitcoin is fiat without anyone to guarantee anything.

Considering the impact of mining it may touch everyone we can all make our voices heard. No need to buy or sell to justify expressing oneself.
The dedicated graphics cards have a terrible feisgn flaw that burns 10-20W at idle when an external monitor is plugged in. This is a problem daily, while a non-dGPU laptop handles external monitor just fine.
This story was debunked/refuted:

https://old.reddit.com/r/google/comments/8l231x/google_banne...
It's kind of interesting, it's supposedly about raytracer, but raytracers even existed back then. I think the code that was presenting him "typing" the raytracer code and then presenting it was really the harder part to do.
> Google search hasn't died because sites use JS.

I believe it's the other way around. Websites use just as much JS as they can get away with, without sinking in Google results. If Google never ran JS in the first place, most websites wouldn't depend on it.

And now every crawler has to keep up with Googlebot's computing power if they want to archive the web.
"Misinformation"

After of 4 years of Russia "collusion", is it that difficult to investigate election fraud?
I think the point is that Bitcoin uses an insane amount of energy for what it accomplishes, if one considers only the financial transaction aspect (and not all of the other benefits that Bitcoin might provide - depending on your position on Bitcoin, that may or may not be fair to do).

If someone invented a car that consumed 10,000x as much energy per mile, using that car would generally be considered a waste of resources, or at least a wasteful use of resources.
Actually this ramping up and down when the price is profitable is good for utilities who need to keep power supply and demand in check. When electricity is cheap to produce, they need demand to go up to balance the grid - sort of the opposite of peaker plants when demand outpaces supply. This is partially why a few electrical companies run their own Bitcoin mining farms.
Why does every article about this talks about the energy per transaction? Energy spent is completely independent from the number of transactions.
> People who aren’t of a militaristic, racist, fascist, or seditious bent are still welcome in other fora like Twitter and Facebook.

Problem is that such people are mostly welcome to those sites as long as they belong to the right groups. If you rant about women or left leaning people etc on reddit like women rant about men or left leaning people rant about right leaning people then you'll likely get banned.

So the large group of people who just wants to rant harmlessly but aren't allowed allowed to do it on mainstream sites has nowhere to go now so they seek out sites like Parler where they then get radicalized since the environment is so toxic. It would probably be better if Reddit etc was a bit more tolerant of them, but it is what it is.
For sure. It’s the “green” option at this point.
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The Gemeni and Apollo projects were very iterative, and rife with failures.

They launched a new mission every few months!

Apollo burned downed and killed the crew, the next Apollo was up a few months later! The second moon mission was launched a few months after the first.

1960's NASA was a little bit like SpaceX.

That said - we should remember that Space X is iterating on already established tech, at somewhat of a smaller scale. They started smaller. Let's see how it works with their newer, bigger gear that is breaking boundaries.
SpaceX gets tons of government funding, while NASA’s was greatly cut over the years..
That is full of broken assumptions and excuses. Bitcoin mining drives up the cost of those "waste" energy forms.

Excess hydro capacity can be used for electrolysis to hydrogen, hydrogen can also be produced from flared gas. Which can then be used to produce low-carbon-emission steel with hydrogen as a reduction agent.

Bitcoin mining makes all that more expensive, less likely and risky, because setting up a few miners is quick and easy. Running a steel mill or electrolysis plant is expensive and longterm. Too risky if bitcoin miners might buy all the cheap intermittent power you planned with.
> DI and IoC are for people ignorant of or hostile towards composition.

This isn't helped by the messy terminology. "Dependency Injection" is literally another term for "composition", but dependency injection frameworks imply automating the composition of one's object graph. However, people who like these frameworks don't seem to be aware that they can more easily compose their object graph using the structures available in most general purpose languages (literals for lists, maps, structs, etc as well as function calls and so on).

Arguably there's some repetition in constructing an object graph (initializing a list of objects that vary only slightly) that one might want to DRY up, but we already know how to do that with helper functions in host languages, and anyway this is just boilerplate--it's almost certainly not where your bugs are, and it's not where your developers are spending their time. A framework introduces a bunch of complexity at the top level (near main()) i.e., the stuff that everyone from developers to testers to operators/sysadmins will probably need to dig into at some point, and all that for no material advantage to anyone.
In "Eaters of the Dead", Michael Chrichton's fictionally-historicized retelling of Beowulf, it's speculated the monsters are a relic Neandertal tribe. It's a minor point in the novel, but it stuck with me (and has become much more scientifically plausible since the 1970s when he was writing), so I always think of Beowulf as being about Neandertals.
> persistent access

Given a successful login and session, perhaps on some sites this is enough for passwords reassign via some backend (likely intended for mobile apps) API?
That's not true. If ETH gets devalued through inflation by too much the security of the network would be compromised. They are explicitly moving to a 100% proof of stake model for securing the network (already partially deployed). This directly incentivizes stakeholders to protect the valuation of ETH. Finally, if EIP-1559 is implemented, the network will begin burning transaction fees. That is to say, it's possible in the future more ETH will be burned via transaction fees than produced from staking, in which case ETH issuance will go negative.
The U.S. now already has alternatives in the form of SpaceX and ULA. I’m sure that the military wouldn’t mind having a third option, but I don’t think it’s the ultimate reason for the continued existence of SLS.
Step 2 with AI, see if you can make it human.

It's great to see research on this.
> ...there's at least one downside that users might notice: lots more ads targeted only by the demographic of the publication, making the web look more like print media or TV...

...this is bad? Sounds great to me.

> ...showing ads for things you don't care about.

This is what targeted advertising already accomplishes: showing me ads for things (or equivalents of things) I already own. Either that or things so wildly off base I have to wonder if the targeting works at all.
Vim 8 and neovim don't have any major differences. Even as a decades-long Vim power user, I can use either. neovim deserves credit for stimulating Bram to accept changes, though. Most notably Vim 8's support for async plugins. I don't think Vim 8 ever would have happened without neovim.
Personally I'm mining on my new gaming PC right now instead of running my heater when I'm not doing anything intensive. I wonder if decentralizing the hardware into people's homes or putting it in very cold places that need to generate heat during winter would be a way to cut down on some of the excessive waste of energy and thus emissions.

EDIT: Some good points down below WRT heat pumps. I have a window unit AC/Heater for just my room so that I don't need to run the whole house's AC/Heater the vast majority of the time. I'm not sure about heat pumps in such a small scale. Would it be more efficient to run a heat pump for a whole house than to mine to heat my one room?
Nice. There goes another 3 weeks of my life :-).
I'm an activist about childhood poverty and education. This makes its way into my data science work because I pursue projects and analyses that allow me to understand how poverty affects education progress. I often explicitly state my biases, because I am sure my interpretation of data is colored by my pre-existing beliefs. Yet, I often discover analyses that I wouldn't otherwise have considered due to my beliefs — and I have integrity — I continually update my beliefs based on data. So, on one hand I agree that being an activist can bias one's interpretation of data, but I also think that the biases can be essential for generating useful hypotheses to guide analysis.
> I bought Somu partly for convenience, and partly for the promise of PGP support, which unfortunately hasn't been added yet (though there is a development version).

It is sad that with PGP being so horribly broken, it still casts its shadow over security products.

PGP should have been dead and buried eons ago.
I remember the hate that closed-source Winmodem got back in the 90s but software-defined modems can be far superior to hardware. Case in point: direwolf. I think it decodes APRS better than any hardware solution.

https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf
>> People naturally look to authority figures for what to think about the issues

You do this? I don't. I just automatically rebel against any authority that tries to tell me what to think.

Probably to a fault but it has served me well so far in life.
Clubhouse is going nuts on my German Twitter bubble. Even some high rank politicans opened up accounts. But what is the difference between Clubhouse and an old fashioned skype meeting without video?
There are lots of issues with bitcoin, but the inherent value one is the least interesting.

Clearly, some people think there is value. That's it.
This is ideally how QA should be run at most organizations. Help familiarize juniors with tooling like git, the command line, deploying things, writing tickets, communicating with the team-- have them see different parts of the engineering organization and then let them choose where they think they have the most interest.

I know because I've done this with wild success and everywhere that doesn't do this has had by comparison awful QA.
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I think the difference is that bitcoin mining is an intentional race about who can spend the most energy.

You can argue about how useful it is to move gold, but at least it's a physical process that requires a well-defined amount of energy - and can be optimised if you want to spend less.

With bitcoin, there is no set amount of power that is needed to mine a block. The answer is literally "as much power as possible".
Since when does Bitcoin have to use greenhouse gas-emitting sources of power?
Penrose's CCC predicts all biological life on our planet and all biological life on all other worlds within our universe will end, just like the conventional Heat Death. To point out this fact - that all biological life is doomed to die - was the purpose of my original post. We can talk about nuclear war, climate change, hostile aliens, and other short term threats to human survival. We will survive these short term threats or we won't. But in the long term it is 100% certain we don't survive. We only survive the Heat Death if it turns out we are living in a Matrix of sorts and the computers of the Matrix are hosted in a datacenter universe that is truly eternal, unlike our universe which will die the Heat Death. Or we survive the Heat Death if there is an eternal God who gives us a post-biological existence after the Death of our universe. My point is that present humans and far-future humans are in the same boat as prehistoric humans: we all must learn to face death bravely. Future humans will never have permanent biological immortality, because our universe does not allow it. Neither does Penrose's universe. Furthermore, Penrose's only testable prediction (CMB concentric rings caused by past reboot of universe) proved unable to be replicated by three independent attempts. Einstein's theory in contrast said the orbit of the planet Mercury should have an observable precession if true: so we pointed our telescopes at Mercury and lo, Mercury did indeed precess just as his set of equations said it would.
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MIT: Is there a way to harness electricity from lightning? Sure, but
> Orthogonally, ever wondered why memory on your PC is so expensive? Thanks to Micron, Hynix and Samsung triopoly.

Should have mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing. It's not just speculative.
I think both can be true. Specifically, Bitcoin mining would itself encourage greater energy production; it doesn't merely skim off the excess energy, as you suggest. It generates its own market forces, it's not merely floating above them.
Slick ui!

If you can add in the ability to identify the likeness of whole folders (i.e. folders who's contents have been whole/partial copied elsewhere by %/# duplicated content) - I'd want it!

It's a file mgmt coding project that's been on my todo list for a while.
How is work on proof of stake going?
How is Bitcoin helping people that have a need for a bank and a stable currency?
https://sci-hub.st/10.1038/s41558-018-0321-8
Sure it is, on Ethereum: https://defipulse.com/btc

More tokenized Bitcoin is transacted on the Ethereum network every day than on the Lightning network, by orders of magnitude.
Do you realize that PC are not as energy efficient as an heater?
> Googletagmanager/analytics is everywhere, it doesn't deserve to be, it doesn't need to be

You might not care, but probably most people publishing any sort of content online want to know who visits it ( from where, mobile or web, what numbers, when, etc.). The easiest way to achieve that ( considering there's shared hosting and that most people who care about those numbers aren't the people who installed whatever software runs the site, or developed it. The average website runs wordpress ) is via Google Analytics.
Iregardless of what ones opinion on maintaining standing armies might be usually it creates significant added value (unlike mining bitcoin) for the economy. All those people in the military or working in industries producing for the military have to be paid etc.
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Bitcoin is useful for funneling money to the DPRK and scamming libertarians.
> While it's difficult to imagine a scenario in which humanity extinguishes itself

I used to believe this, until the pandemic. Now I think bio weapons are infinitely more dangerous than nukes. Imagine if COVID was a few times more contagious and as deadly as it's close relatives SARS and MERS. Not a big stretch really.

We would be pondering extinction right now. If the power was still working.
We use a fair number of google products, and you can turn on a lot of enhanced protection, and many businesses do. This means even password protected / private URLs may generate scans from what I've seen. I'm not sure how they actually fingerprint files (maybe locally) but it seems pretty broad

This seems to work across a lot of google products (gmail, drive, chome etc) so it scoops up a ton.

More here:

https://security.googleblog.com/2020/05/enhanced-safe-browsi...

Not sure if this is related to safe browsing. We also can turn on more scanning and other features of all email users.

The key though, if you allow users to PUT files onto your S3 (even private / signed in) then google may scan them. That means if your user uploads a suspicious file to a trouble ticket system, if there IS a virus in there and google sees it, wham. Obviously most folks will segregate those uploads off into their own s3 bucket by user/account to avoid contamination, but you really have to be careful not to hose viruses AT ALL on your key domains.
Except gold is intrinsically useful. You can use it to create physical items that do things. Bitcoin's only value is imaginary.
This may surprise you:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-06/why-bitco...

Rather than venting greenhouse gases produced from the oil and gas mining process, they use it to mine Bitcoin. Sure this results in some CO2, but that's a lot better than venting straight methane.
This is completely wrong. They scaled energy with number of transactions.

> At each time step, CO2e emissions for the given number of transactions were estimated based on the emissions generated to mine that number of transactions in 2017.

Bitcoin network does not work that way. Energy is spent securing the blockchain, not per transaction.
The average transaction fee refers to the cost in btc to make a transfer. That amount is then converted to usd to make it easier to comprehend. Such fees go up during periods of high strain on the network and as people choose to pay more to get their transactions through quickly.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f...
A PC is a resistance heater. Only thing more efficient is a heat pump.
Well could it be the F9 etc. are targeted at a very well established commercial class with tons of buyers, economic outputs, stable market, opportunity for re-use.

Whereas SLS is more like big fantasy science missions, much less frequent and nobody willing to really pay for it but government?

As a very, very crude way of looking at it?
$8.99? How do I read the paper in order to comment on it?
Can’t put an accurate dollar amount on a destroyed reputation
Exactly. This is the key point. All fear-mongering about cryptomining energy usage is based on this completely invalid logic.
While that's arguably better than simply running an electric radiator, it's far more expensive than natural gas heating or a heat pump.
Employing thousands of human beings and computers and offices for processing simple transactions is wasteful too. Both using a bank (with outdated system) and "being your own bank" cost energy
Which was a net positive for the Internet? But this is not a companies' war, but rather a specs war (USB vs A bunch). Apple is not pushing for its own interests only on this one, but for the interest of everyone.
Both PCs and fan heaters are 100% efficient at producing heat.
Kubernetes started with a really early version of Go and had to create from scratch a bunch of stuff that's in the stdlib nowadays.

Basically they've reinvented the wheel a bunch of times and now it's too late to import stdlib.Wheel =)
> It's reasonably likely that in 10 years we have nuclear energy that is near the cost of other energy sources, which has always been it's blocker.

You will not get nuclear energy that is near the cost of other energy sources in 10 years because they route they chose to achieve it is incorrect.

They can't get the cost of nuclear power down by making reactors smaller, because doing so increases its cost, not reduces.

I can't fathom how anybody with above high school education can come with an idea easily provable wrong in 10 minutes of work on handheld calculator. When you see somebody obviously aware of such mistakes pretending that there aren't, don't assume goodwill.
You're running a "resistive heater" which turns 1 unit of electricity into 1 unit of heat.

Heat Pumps can "pump" heat from the outside into the house, and this get more than 1 unit of heat from 1 unit of electricity.
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Since the time where most of the Bitcoin "farm" are in Mongolia using electricity from coal energy plants.
Really? 9USD for single article? Is this the same article as in here https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328581842_Bitcoin_e... (free)?
> Maybe the most painful thing is package management.

Is Composer inadequate? Or maybe just not widely adopted by the community? I only used it for a short period of time several years ago.
If this is the case, we're doomed. The only salvation I can see is if Proof-Of-Work is changed for something else...
I think we just started. I was shipping for an external hard-drive recently and USB-C seems to be the new standard.
Actually, the "inefficiency" of everything is converted to heat. So, a PC is more efficient because it does useful work in the meantime.
Ideas, emotions (love, hate, apathy, etc).

See: 1/6/2021 events at the US Capitol, the number of children that die annually due to malnutrition, etc.
How so? I was under the impression that all energy consumed by computers gets turned into waste heat, which is exactly what a heater does.
archive.org probably doesn't have the same computing power as Googlebot.
There's not much evidence that video surveillance is effective. If it exists, the effect is small.

Street crime is generally not committed by people accurately evaluating their options and making optimal choices with a long-term view.
How about a comparison to something electronic, like a credit card transaction? This is (purposefully?) derailing as I don't think a single person is suggesting gold coins is a better alternative to BTC.
Or they could invest in storage technologies so that the surplus electricity can be given back when there is excess demand instead of simply vanishing.
Well, that's a really depressing solution.

The economy is supposed to exist to surve, not we fidn some way to minimize the oven to serve our PoW god
I was curious about the actual number; how much energy does Bitcoin use?

> the bitcoin network in 2020 consumes 120 gigawatts (GW) per second.

GW / s. (/year, I suppose, since it's just 2020. But FFS. Edit: no, GW / s / year is GW, but that's still not… really? right? I mean, maybe it's an average of the energy consumption rate over the year, and so on average, in 2020, it was consuming 120GW?)
And this is why patent duration should be tied to product lifecycle length. Pharma where you need 10 years to pull off clinical trials could keep 23 years, but consumer hardware where new generation of devices launch within 2 years should be limited to 10 years. Software should likely be limited to 5 years.
It's from 2018 and has been discussed many many times. Funny how fast it got to the front-page today.

Is that what we call FUD? News to try and scare people from a specific company or technology? There's literally no new arguments, just fear mongering.
I’m intrigued at the idea that this failure “puts the squeeze” on private companies to get their projects in order faster and more efficiently. Then again I’d rather see Elon or Jeff make the trip ahead of me, as a vote of confidence. I don’t want to get spaced bc of an asshole PM at deep blue! :D