skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experience handling on-call during DDoS, there's not much drowning in alerts. You mute alerts about things being down. Then look at ways to drop the biggest / isolated types of traffic. Then analyse what is affected and start logging the impact. I don't believe anything would be missed: security monitors would alert different people / channels than service ops, post-incident review would look at alerts raised, any weird traffic would be looked at during "isolate and kill traffic" stage.

Volume is not the only way to notify about anomalies. Poisoned data entries / canaries, outbound traffic which should never exist, unexpected DNS queries, and many others will trigger regardless of DDoS.
https://archive.is/oN3B0
>So outside of military field SU didn't have much to boast.

Well that was more or less the only field where money and researchers where available in huge quantities.

That's kind of a interesting article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_innovation
I think this is inherently limited to small, low-effort issues, for a number of reasons.

If I was to set a bounty for an issue that would be laborious and therefore expensive to fix, I'd want to be able to withdraw my funding in case the issue does not get fixed in a reasonable amount of time. Leaving money tied up on the service indefinitely is not really an option when you start talking about the kind of money that would actually motivate someone to do a lot of work.

This creates a problem where it's really risky for a developer to take on any hard problems. If funds can be pulled at any time, you might not get paid. Also, of course, there's duplication of effort- someone might beat you to closing the issue, meaning you get nothing and have wasted your time.

This, in turn, means that pricing on the service must be very high to account for the risks of non-payment, or be so low as to be insignificant.

There are some mitigation strategies available. Funding could have an end date, after which the funds are returned to the funder. This still leaves the issue of parallel effort, which seems harder to solve. Preregistering to close an issue by some deadline might work, but likely would result in a lot of issues going unsolved, and now you need some kind of ranking system for developers on the service...
I really wish I saw what everyone else sees in TypeScript because that language has not sold itself to me at all, even using it professionally for years now. Even using it's primary feature can be a pain because nobody documents their types as far as I've found. It's surprisingly common for me to write code that compiles but crashes at runtime. Other, better JS-targeting languages manage to allow me to retain type-level features at runtime while also outputting leaner, faster, and safer code. The only value prop I really see is the momentum, but it feels like a huge push for the right reasons and in the worst possible direction.

It's not that TypeScript hasn't helped at all, it just doesn't feel like it's this revolutionary thing that people treat it as. And I'm not even going to touch how visually noisy and distracting I find the C#-style type syntax to be.
Given your username, I'm curious. Are there many left anarchist activists in the UK at the moment? I had some tenuous contact with the ACF in the late-90s, but it doesn't seem a very active or impactful part of the political landscape.
I've met people who didn't know that cars need oil until they caught their engine on fire...
Or maybe if you do not have a specified fine, then in the heads of people there is still a “virtual fine” associated with being late, but it is not an exact number, but a wide range, and people tend to predict all kinds of bad things that would happen (but 99% of times it wont happen), so the fear of an unknown punishment is higher than a known one.
The first picture in that article is just one of the problems. On street parking and running cables across a public pavement. Many UK houses don't have off-street parking, particularly in cities. Like a thousand other comments, on here, until the infrastructure is solved, it's nowhere close to the tipping point for electric vehicles.

The other problem is range vs time to charge. Members of my family frequently drive hundreds of miles a day from one end of the country to the other. There isn't an electric car that can match a diesel (or petrol) car's range. And then charging time adds an hour to a long journey. No one wants a 5 hour journey to become a 6 hour journey. If time isn't an issue, and we want to be 'green', why don't we just return to a horse and cart?
That book is socialist junk.

To GP: yes, you buy BTC with fiat and cannot buy anything with it because BTC isn't money. It has no other function except acting as currency.
Alternatively: https://invidio.us. This third-party viewer enables viewing videos that require being logged in, without logging in. YouTube Lite doesn't.
The message passer has passed.
Traditional banks pay their electricity bill, so they naturally need to account for that. On the other hand, bitcoin network pays for that collectively. No single entity pays the bill. If a single entity had to pay for 621KWh for every transaction, I don't think that bitcoin could exists. That is the main difference here: multiple parties are doing small contribution to the energy consumption, instead of a single entity. That is the reason why bitcoin networks ecological footprint is huge compared to traditional banking per transaction.
You can even buy those on AliExpress (oh the wonders of Aliexpress). Here is a 250cm version for 8k€:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001531383799.html?spm=a2...
Of course one would hope this platform single handedly leads to major advancements on industrialisation, permanently eradicating child labour and slavery in all industries. One would also hope that simply not buying chocolate sourced from farms that employ child labourers that should be in school (as opposed to older children that don’t need to be at school, which according to the data I can find actually represents the vast majority of child labourers in the cocoa industry) would also solve the issue. My fear is however that it’s not that simple, and we could even make things worse. For example, child labour numbers have increased in recent years, haven’t been able to find percentages over time so cannot comment on that. One could hardly say that “ethical sourcing” and marketing has proven that it’s reduced child labour given this increase.
I think that you're wrong specifically and in what seems like an uncharitable insinuation about China.

对等 duì deng: equal status/treatment, parity (under the law), equity, reciprocity

在对等的基础上
Zài duì děng de jīchǔ shàng
on the basis of reciprocity; on a reciprocal basis

Source: plecodict
Open Positions
Actually Intel has small army of Linux driver developers. Last time I counted in git logs there was around 100 of developers who one way or another contributed to Linux graphics stack: kernel drivers, Xorg, Mesa, etc. We can't really know how many people are working behind the scenes.

Yeah of course it was possible for Intel to do more, but they're clearly largest contributor to Linux graphics stack anyway.
I pay ¥2 for 6 hours at 400w (2400w total) which is ¥0.83/kwh or US$0.128.

My household electricity is about 30% cheaper so it's a pretty good deal.
There are two emission standards for California, state and federal. If the car was sold in a state that follows federal and it meets the emission standard for the model year, it can be registered in California. The state doesn't change smog requirements; older cars remain at their original specification.
Citation needed.

It’s not entirely clear to me how that could possibly be the case, when pasture raised animals often graze land that is completely unsuitable for agriculture. They also eat tons of byproducts of agriculture that are not suitable for human consumption.

This thing about how vegetarianism is sooooo much better for the environment is such a meme. Especially when you take into account what a tragedy modern industrial agriculture really is, with its monocrops, deforestation, and so on.
That thread is assuming that BTC runs on fossil, non-renewable energy, which was mostly correct ten to five years ago, but will be mostly wrong onwards.

BTC runs mostly on surplus hydroelectric power. This may change based on what's locally available and the local cost of oil gas and coal, but when renewables will become cheaper than fossil (which will never be soon enough) it will not make any sense to mine on fossils.
I rent an apartment, where would you like me to put the solar panel?
Right. I feel like that’s nit picking (your parent; not you.)

Of course I (teacher) don’t buy potatoes by teaching the farmer’s children Dijkstra.

Instead of bartering we chooses to track our debts. Using Bitcoin as a cryptographically secure distributed debt tracker sounds great.

But Bitcoin right now feels like a bunch of technology enthusiasts have blessed the world with such a debt tracker while also saying ”btw you collectively owe us $630,000,000,000 worth of stuff”.
WeChat is just how things are paid for here, obviously the solution would not rely on WeChat in any other country. In Australia you'd just tap your credit card.
Without specifics, Facebook has basically given the suspended person freedom to choose whatever reason they want. This is fair.

If Facebook doesn’t like this explanation and it circulates to millions of people, they are free to offer a competing explanation.

Arguing an unproven point isn’t a problem here, it’s a strategy, and it’s a good one.

A good guess for the actual reason would perhaps be that someone who posts lots of links runs a risk of posting ones found in a blacklist. That blacklist probably doesn’t deliberately contain “competing social networks” though, but could contain such links in error, indicated as phishing or malware.
Antifa shows up to other groups' protests to start fights and engage in political violence, sometimes with deadly consequences. Is that what SWP does too?
Perhaps I'm missing something I still don't see why you'd ever #include a .cpp file from a .hpp header file.
If you're designing a new one, I heartily recommend trying to go with https://aip.dev guidelines; they are built on a lot of practical techniques focused on making APIs future-proof (and also internally consistent).
- Non-native organism to most places around the world: check

- Negative environmental effect: check

We are an invasive species. Our species originated in Africa, then as we expanded we negatively affected our environment worldwide.
Could giant SPACs be next?
I'm not seeing what is about food being "connected to us on a biological level" that makes the comparison fail.

Not all aspects of two things have to be similar in order for a comparison to succeed (such a comparison is of course actually impossible).
Or just move over to Ethereum which is actually moving forward on proof of stake, which solves this problem in an elegant way. It also has major plans for scaling, which Bitcoin has ignorantly refused to budge on.
Traditional banks are not accountable for all the electricity their services consume. One example alone is considering all the clients, pos and other systems that operate.

Banks are also a very different model with different overheads compared to Bitcoin. I'd argue that banking infrastructure is quite wasteful with their physical skyscrapers and vaults. Executives at banks would argue otherwise.

Bitcoin aims to disrupt financial services to some extent. A significant electricity cost shouldn't be a surprise. Does that mean it should be outlawed? I think not.

If we banned every costly disruptive idea that emerged, we wouldn't get anywhere.
The (CIA) World Factbook
None of the things you listed are on the same scale if that 621KWh is true. What you should say is: "crusading against people who leave their a/c on for 2 months when they are away, people who drive 2500 miles for fun every day, people who run their clothes drier for a month non-stop even though it's empty".

Regardless, I would be sceptical about that 621 KWh. Does not sound realistic...
I was thinking in terms of AWS, which while more diversified has lock-in, and someone who's already using AWS is probably never going to use ES own cloud hosting
People computing the joules/tx of Bitcoin are missing that PoW scales such that the amount of a transaction has nothing to do with the amount of mining work that validates it.

I hope that initiatives like Lightning Network can help it scale further though.
Ask HN: How do you practice digital minimalism?
“I will defend your right to free speech, provided I agree with you”
For long applications you get into he realm of tool chain bugs with C++. C compilers are more reliable.

If you write C-style C++, which parts of libstdc++ can you safely use without exceptions?
This is interesting:

> To whom it may concern:
>
> I am a psychiatrist treating Mr. Smith. He tells
> me that he has chronic back pain (“lumbago”), and
> asks to be allowed to bring in his own chair to work.
>
> Yours,
> Dr. Alexander

I think it's a good hack. What I imagine is happening is
that someone has gone to a medical professional with a
problem, and this note documents - the person, the
problem and the date. If there's a lawsuit in the
future a lawyer could refer to this note saying "on
this date your employee had a condition that you
didn't address". So HR caves.
The article on Ars suggests that the new law would not allow them to delist one provider and allow another.
This is not law yet, this is part of the proposal. I am still looking for some evidence that they are not allowed to delist all news sources. This may be my lack of understanding the legalese. There is maybe some 'poison pill' in just delisting news and they are going the nuclear option in Australia.
> The bitcoin network annually wastes 78 TWh (terrawatt hours) annually or the energy consumption of several million US households.

That seems like a lot, no?
The point is not hosting, but to monetize the Rolling Stone's brand reputation. They have a well-known and somewhat trusted brand (although less trusted than it once was [0]). They're allowing "thought leaders"—aka PR flacks—to leverage their brand to publicize marketing and personal branding content. Forbes does the same.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/business/media/rolling-st...
Great reply to this mindset. The chance that anyone who makes this claim has actually evaluated enough (or any) JS projects to see why they churn is effectively zero.

We have version pinning for a reason. It lets churn exist without forcing the effects of it onto other developers. I don't care if a library I use gets updated every week or even every day, I'm not installing every new version when it's released, that's silly. Nobody does that in a real project, that's chaos.
Shutting down a political group's Facebook page is not the same thing as shutting down the group.
Site died, mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20210123100731/http:/www.multi-s...
Well a bank account provides all the functions of money, and to a much greater level of functionality. But the whole reason cryptocurrency exists is to avoid some of the issues you get when dealing with centralized financial institutions. If you want to decentralize that role, you need a new way of managing scarcity. Proof of work is one way to do that. Whether that’s wasteful or not would be a personal judgement, but the reasons the demand exists are pretty simple to understand.
Years ago I remember significant paging if you had <4gb of ram on windows vista.

No in 2021 I had the run into paging on 8gb of ram with what should have been a lighter OS (windows 10) and a very mild use case. I bought a 16gb stick thinking I would need to remove the 8gb first. and instead I found I could use both so now I have 24gb. No paging but it’s pretty crazy that the thing idles at 10gb and its even possible for my basic use case to need 20gb of ram at times.
It's a federal suit filed in DC, all the filings are public data, save for identities.
I think his point was that in Europe, most deforestation happened much earlier than the industrial revolution, and he wanted to clear the relatively common misconception that everything was green until the industrial revolution.
and favor Proof of Stake and other more modern implementations of the blockchain that accomplish both technological innovation and climate preservation
This is true. It also means the minimum you can practically give as a micropayment is 68x more money for the recipient than the piddling penny the OP claims they would like to be able to give content creators.

I'm fairly confident this means that they don't actually want to pay. They just want to believe that if we got payments as close to zero as possible and got enough people to chip in a penny, magically it would be enough to live on and stop being slave labor.

In reality, that doesn't align with how the world works. Once you get it down to a penny, then people can tell themselves that not paying at all won't really matter because it's such a tiny amount. And then we are right back where we started: with people wanting content for free while not wanting to admit this is an expectation of slave labor.

The way to pay producers mere pennies for visiting thier site without having to pay them at all is via ads and the HN uses as blockers very aggressively and while they claim this is for reasons other than money per se, if you want ad-free content and don't want to be demanding slave labor, the way to do that is pry your wallet open and kick in a few bucks via Patreon, PayPal, etc.

Based on my tendency to hit the front page here with my writing, my ongoing inability to make ends meet and the degree to which I get downvoted for talking about that late in the month when I'm stressed out because the bank account is empty and the cupboards are bare, I'm quite confident that the constant talk of how micropayments will solve this is just a BS excuse to help well-heeled people feel okay with expecting slave labor from writers and telling themselves it is not their problem that writers go hungry while journalism goes to hell, democracy suffers as a consequence, etc ad nauseum.
Very good, but — in good faith — it’s hard to tell if this is for or against Bitcoin!

At least gold has intrinsic value. Aerospace, electronics, it’s pretty.

For me, this skit would make a better illustrative point if the customer showed up wanting to buy tepid lemonade using dodo heads as currency.
A better way to look at it, who else has a grudge against MBS.
The longer he wins, the more likes of him we see.
I just hope enough people get to see this and understand, how people like MBS behave.
This is a decent, well-cited article on the subject: https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local

It summarises the differences in global greenhouse emissions between various types of food, and the contributions of the different sources of these emissions - farming, transport, land use change, and so on.
Sinn Fein had literal terrorists as members and were proscribed by government. This is the exact opposite of what has been seen in relation to the deplatforming on social media sites.
I don't have the ability to downvote your comment but if I could I would.

This sort of suggestion of niche web sites (by different people) that I basically would have never comes across except through some recommendation is something that I highly value HN for.
we invented something else than barter long time ago and that's money. Lately money isn't backed by anything else than belief and guns, Bitcoin is backed by belief and hash power that's all.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – Scheme/JS Comparison Edition
Thanks, that's described my thoughts about his films really well, I could never quite explainy problem with them.

I think they are good, but they are almost too well made, too persuasive. If they were less well made I'd come away thinking "that's an interesting idea/insight to add to how I think about the world", instead they give you the feeling of "this is how it is, and all it is". They are too definitive.
Click on the train icon next to "www."
> I'm not sure I understand what would be the value of using cryptocurrency under the hood for something like Strike. If they are settling the payments themselves, why not just use a simple database to reconcile their transactions?

A multi-country payment service can indeed just update their database. But If there is a net flow of value between countries, then they will still have to move that value over slower and more expensive traditional systems. If they implement fast transfers for their users on top of those slow systems, then that means they need idle capital waiting in each destination country so that they can front the money to the receiver. This adds cost and complexity: interface with traditional systems, capital opportunity cost, need to forecast demand, need to do currency hedging, ...

Transfering via bitcoin and converting via exchanges on both ends eliminates that problem. It also makes it easy to partner with other payment services that do the same, while minimizing the need for trust.
Proof of Work is a simple algorithm that has worked for over 10 years. Proof of Stake is incredibly complex and might be broken in implementation or from a game theory perspective. It also might be a huge improvement over PoW... it’s just too early to say.
Ask HN: How have you simplified your life?
Ideally parallel effort could be rewarded and combined. Have frequent communication between requestors and aspiring resolvers. The requestor could release a portion of the funds in exchange for the two developers publishing their wip and exchanging ideas. Both would get paid.
I would guess that most of app startup time isn't going to objc_msgSend (although it is still probably slow as it hasn't warmed up yet) but rather to setting up the various data structures used by the runtime, applying initial swizzling and the associated cache invalidation that comes from that, and those pesky +loads that every analytics framework thinks it need to have ;)
The Allen Brack letter wasn't that long ago, have we already forgotten our prizings? I wonder how that fiasco would have gone down if it was a 10% stake, instead of 5%. It would be pretty hard to top getting an American CEO to claim Chinese copy as his own in a publicity crisis management letter... addressing a Chinese censorship publicity crisis.
EU parliament website for Covid testing allegedly broke the EU’s privacy laws
I think his belts alone cost more than my entire wardrobe.
If they can get away with that sort of margin for a business with basically no moat then people must love them.
Yeah, because VLAs mostly suck.
Microsoft doubled the price of Xbox Live Gold memberships to $120 per year
He didn't just criticize the Chinese system. He criticized the Chinese system regulating themselves so that they could conform to the Basel V standards (which all major Western banks and global banks follow). Ant wanted to fight as a bank, while not calling themselves one. Ma's speech was an attack not only on China but on the Western regulated banking sector. He wants a return to the pre 08 wild west that the Western system was.
You will have a much easier time with more thorough understanding if you're there at the start of a project.
Whenever I talk about this I am downvoted too.
I follow hacker news for the rationality in the comments but on this subject it is rare to exchange good arguments.
The last sentence is the entire problem. It ignores the externalities of whatever it is you’re doing. Which in turn (amongst other things) makes the claim of efficient distribution questionable.

Huge energy consumption would be much less of an issue if it wasn’t also causing huge long term problems.