skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's ridiculous. Gold is used for jewelry (arguably the same thing as money, okay), electronics, medicine, as a food additive, glass coloring, photography, satellite coating, radio telescopy, aircraft cockpit windows... try opening Wikipedia some time.

I can't quickly find what percentage of gold is purely mined for the purposes of being locked up in a vault somewhere as value store. If it is a sizable majority and it uses as much power as entire countries, then we should make this practice illegal as well.

But that is two big "if"s that you aren't answering (you're just asking questions, hinting at "see this other thing is also bad!", without adding anything to the conversation). And even if you would then it still doesn't mean that we should just carry on with the easier-to-stop-because-it-has-no-practical-uses method.

FYI I used to own Bitcoin. I also made money with it, and I bought products with it. Back in 2013. I know the technology deeply, as a tech nerd with too much time (back then) this was great and I learned many things about the tech as well as economics. But it has since become clear that the only purpose it can realistically fulfill is being an investment scheme, which you could also do without proof of work. Anyone who still uses this is either (and I mean this genuinely) blinded by the money they're hoping to make, waving away arguments using logical fallacies, or misinformed.
That actually sounds like it could be interesting in the right game. Kind of a dreamscape feel
The alternative is to throw all of this plastic into a landfill where it will… leach into the soil and contaminate the environment with plastic particles. At least this option stabilizes the plastic for a period of time.
Exactly why I prefer Seaglass over Element for Matrix chat, even though Seaglass hasn't been updated in a while. Same with Telegram Desktop and Telegram for macOS.
Free Stuff Is All over Craigslist and Facebook, and It’s Getting Weirder
I disagree. If you liked Chris Brown's music but finding out about what he did to Rihanna makes you feel sick, would you actually want to be his fan?
https://archive.vn/KVg6I
Why not look for a brick and mortar University to teach at?

You could probably fund the project with research funding and pump out the required papers just working on it.
But those new uses (presumably improvements to quality of lives) are now gone because the electricity is used in mining bitcoins.
Still one of the best descriptions of bitcoin I have seen.

> imagine if keeping your car idling 24/7 produced solved Sudokus you could trade for heroin

https://twitter.com/Theophite/status/1030225104234373121
> Even if every major country on earth requires PoW systems to use renewable electricity (which won't happen any time soon in the first place) and can't run on the regular mixed grid, then after switching to countries without such laws (until there are none left), the renewable energy will be bought up at the source and the coal and gas plants will continue to supply everyone else. Nothing changes.

Never say never. Humanity has successfully banned itself from using CFCs in refrigerants, for example. I also agree that regulating pollution from PoW specifically isn't as high of a priority as, say, regulating pollution from coal-fired power plants or concrete production. But it's something that could, in theory, be regulated if we find the will to do so. And if we don't believe that we can regulate CO2 production, then we must also believe that humanity is doomed anyway, and thus PoW pollution ought to be beneath our concern.

> We need to change everything else to renewable before this really starts to be effective. It would make a much bigger impact if some countries, where users want to use cryptocurrency, make it illegal to use proof-of-work-based goods or currencies (whatever it's classified as). Suddenly a coin with PoS or something else becomes much more popular and we might, perhaps, shift over to a digital coin that is not a climate disaster.

Why stop there? Why not impose a global carbon tax on all goods and services known to produce pollution? Then it doesn't matter what the goods are or how the goods are procured; what matters is that CO2 concentration stays steady or goes down.

My original point was to channel focus on what matters -- energy-intensive industries are in need of pollution regulation. But as you point out here, this need isn't specific to PoW.
That's what I meant. Before the companies that used Facebook und Googles tracking have denied any responsibility because they just embeded the tracking scripts.
So in their view any violation was Facebook's or Google's fault.
But now they are the active part collecting the data and transmitting it intentionally to a third party.
This is an interesting post in that it’s complaint is totally different than the usual gripes we see about interviewing on HN.

I totally expected to see complaints about DS+A style questions, some discussion about how leetcode is useless for actual job performance etc. When people who make those complaints are pressed for alternative interview styles, a common response is to suggest a presentation very similar to the one described in the OP.

I’m somewhat skeptical that this style of interviewing is any better than the standard leetcode method, but I’m interested in hearing if there people who have the opposite view. Would anyone prefer an hour long presentation over an hour long algo heavy white boarding session?
An interesting alternative OSS natural language translator is Apertium: https://www.apertium.org/
Their public site doesn't support English/French, though, so it's hard for me to judge it.
it does, but most of the users of this module are accustomed to being able to run "pip install -e ." in order to get the module editable in their virtualenv, and since this module has dependencies that are also in the private repo, the issues that I alluded to (which affect private repos using artifactory which require client certs) cause trouble.

I'm still optimistic that these things will get fixed, but it's not going as smoothly as I'd hoped.
While I admire Snowden, I suspect his “senior role” was more like a Big4 consulting “senior” than a distinguished engineer at Microsoft or Amazon. It’s entirely possible he’d never have made it past a phone screen for a FAANG role.

I’m not sure $120k (in 2013) counts as “paid like garbage” for his role. What were SREs getting paid at Google back then? I get the feeling that was a reasonably close match for the role he had?
Along these lines I'm tempted to try out game maker studio 2 at some point, I think in code we rely way too much on text

I'd love lots of custom project specific UI in my ide showing all kinds of things to help me out with my larger projects
I rarely go on aggregate review scores, but instead on the worst reviews.

I read the text of these reviews. Sometimes the reviewer had unrealistic demands. If this worst case is acceptable, I proceed. If it is a choice between competitors, it often comes to the least bad option.

If there are no reviews under 5 stars, I'm suspicious. If a company replies to reviews, I mentally flag it as doing reputation management - not something you tend to need do when providing a service your customers love.

It is amazing how many nightmare companies have 4-5 star trustpilot reviews.
Well, they switched to zsh, but yeah.
> And like that there are a lot of other UX small things that make for a more pleasant experience in the Mac, particularly for end users.

There are also a lot of bugs and inconsistencies in the Mac UX that make it very annoying to use. A few that I have to deal with on a regular basis:

- App doc will randomly break - either it will not auto hide, or it will not show when pushing cursor down.

- For some reason the OS needs to disable/reset all displays multiple times in order to redetect external monitors. Not only can the monitor detection take a few minutes, but it often messes up window/workspace positions.

- You cannot drag fullscreen windows from one monitor to another. You cannot drag a non-fullscreen window to a monitor which has a fullscreen window.

- Audio will inconsistently switch between native speakers and HDMI, completely ignoring user's manual override.

- Windows will randomly disappear - app is still running and shown in doc bar but you cannot alt/command-tab to the window, or show the window from doc bar.

-Top bar will randomly not auto-hide, and/or not show when hovering.

Mac OS UX is far from any kind of golden standard fanboys try to make it out to be.

I'm more or less forced to use windows or mac for work (mac happens to be the lesser evil), but my personal debian pc is so much more intuitive, consistent, and stable.
> What is a public performance?

> A public performance is one that occurs either in a public place or any place where people gather (other than a small circle of a family or its social acquaintances).

https://www.ascap.com/help/ascap-licensing

> Generally speaking, public performances are very broadly interpreted under the law and are defined as performing “at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered.” This has been interpreted to mean that most performances at so-called private clubs and fraternal organizations are “public” under the copyright law.

https://www.bbb.org/council/for-businesses/toolkits/bbb-broc...

It's a place open to the public, so it is a public performance.
One of the pleasures of the ratpoison window manager is that the mouse is actually referred to as the "rat" in documentation http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/doc/Other-Commands.html#Othe...
Get some dinosaur kids books. Kids love it when you read with them and tend to latch on to the ones you make really fun. As others have said, nothing is guaranteed, but it will certainly improve the odds. Worked with both my kids, one girl, one boy. They are teenagers now and don't care as much about dinos now, but still think they are cool.
I don't have any specific knowledge of this event but I did work for a smart cities company for a while and can explain some of what hypothetically leads to messes like this.

Most municipal infrastructure automation is run by SCADA systems. SCADA systems are designed to be closed ecosystems by default, which means they don't have access to the internet. Cables are run and point to point connections are made to transport these signals. If you've seen a big shiny aluminum box on the side of the road, that's a SCADA system.

Consumer demand has changed a lot since SCADA was first thought up. These days people want to be able to log into a portal and see their billed water usage by the day. Cities want to be able to turn off a meter remotely at the click of a button rather than rolling a truck. They want pressure loss, contaminate, and fault detection. They'd like to balance pressure in the water system dynamically. They want to perform detailed reports on total water loss, which means instrumenting pumps, retrieving telemetry data, auditing that data against every home usage, identifying faults, and producing a report out of it. All of these things don't work very well with closed ecosystems as they generally require a certain amount of external information. In response, cities have either crafted their own devices because they don't have the money to hire an integrator to design and produce them a device that will survive extreme weather conditions, be fault tolerant, make minimal use of power, and employ standard security measures or they hire an integrator. Even certain integrators can do shotty work.

The takeaway from this isn't that SCADA is bad or the infrastructure version of "the sky is falling!". It's that we desperately need to be thinking about how different generations of systems can be modularized and be built upon to minimize cost while maximizing security, capability growth, and reliability.

For the folks talking about "who tests what", I don't know what I can talk about in regards to specific programs but I feel confident that I can say that the FBI tracks this vigorously and works with companies that work in public infrastructure.
One I love is that I can rename a file (or even move it!) while it is open in any macOS app.

The latter will pick up the rename/move and even reflect it in the title bar. You could have unsaved changes to the file in that app, and when you saved it would write to the new name/location.

That would mess up Windows (at least the last time I used Windows, admittedly a long tie ago). Do Linux/BSD-based OSes support this?
The data is also as close as you're going to get to accurate in the uk. Just on the topic of comparing graphs.. Again you have made so many assumptions.

Some countries have different methods for measuring covid deaths. For example you have to have tested positive before you died vs autopsy after vs if you died in a care home automatically covid.
Yeah, it’s not a 1st / 3rd world thing as much as a regional thing. Here in California wood is practically free, while stick and sheathing construction is the best way to build an earthquake resistant home. Other parts of the world have different concerns and costs.
But that's cheating!
Another feature idea: be able to export videos with "focus pull" effect. I was editing a video earlier this week; would've been great to have a tool like this.
Sounds like the South African government approach, except they released their own browser with the last Flash version: https://www.zdnet.com/article/south-african-government-relea...
VTubers: The Rise of Synthetic Media in Entertainment
Stick building homes is labor intensive and requires a skill as well…
I think for most people that would be a significantly larger time investment.
I'd assume those 308 kWh come from a hydro station nearby and drop the loosy calculations about teslas and gallons.
Florida sunshine laws are the reason we heard about it. The press conference was a good sheriff getting in front of news that was coming out sooner or later in the investigation.

(This is also thought to be the reason "Florida Man" is a thing: https://www.oxygen.com/florida-man-murders/crime-news/why-ar...)
Shouldn't that be the default config option then?
Yes it does, since it's not presented as factual.
Anybody have insight into why WebSQL was chosen in the first place? I don't think I've even heard of it prior to this article.
Takahashi Method
Replace “water engineering” and “gold mining” with “oil” and “lithium mining” to see that the world hasn’t changed much in some important ways in 2000 years, no matter how thin our phones are or how close to self driving our cars are getting...
Keep telling yourself that if it helps. ;)
While at some level ads probably do help consumers (indirectly), my impression so far is that at a fundamental level they are about companies competing for money, in a way which wastes everybody's time. Since your point of view is so vastly different, I'm curious in which ways you feel like they give consumers choice?
Crates like actix-web, rocket, and warp do target web application development. They're certainly not Rails replacements yet (and maybe don't aim to be), but it's not unreasonable to expect a Ruby developer who has learned and likes Rust to do some web backend development using Rust.
This reminded _SWIM_ of another artifact of netizen legalese. Some forums were almost hysterical as nobody ever did or experienced anything ever. There was only frequent hearsay about "Someone who [wasn't] me".

I hope SWIM is still in good health, despite everything they've been through.

Would be interesting to know if saying SWIM did, or didn't, save someone from unwanted legal attention at some point.
The Switch also benefits from a nearly complete open-source reimplementation of the full operating system and kernel.

https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere
Pity because you don't understand a language is a weird one.
"OS companies should make their own hardware."

That sounds like car firms should make their own petrol/gas or 3D printer firms should enforce their PLA/etc or perhaps printer firms (like HP) should enforce their own ink/toner.

That's my personal definition of a monopoly with benefits - no thanks.
Thanks for clearly articulating the problems I see with the LISP ecosystem as well. You beautifully show why having a good programming languages is only a small part of what makes a programming language successful.
Crystal is nearly at 1.0 and seems way faster than Ruby in addition to having a Ruby like syntax, i'd suggest you take a look at it, promising stuff there.

https://crystal-lang.org/

edit: did i win the fastest comment to the bottom on hn? what do I get?

jokes aside, care to explain why folks?

In all seriousness, the results speak for themselves, when comparing to Ruby in terms of speed.

https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks

https://github.com/kostya/crystal-benchmarks-game

https://github.com/the-benchmarker/web-frameworks
> For instant messaging you need to be able to receive messages even when the phone is locked.
Why?
Holy crap, is there anything pandas can't do?
There is no GUI version of Vim or Bash provided. They are expected to be used via the command line, where hidden files can be seen just as they can on any other Unix.
I wouldn't have a problem with that, but the messaging that they're sending me should be consistent. They should tell me that my account is banned in these marketplaces for the QC issue years past and leave it at that. Instead what they do is string me along, have me pay fees, tell me to submit paperwork, and then I hear nothing. This leads me to believe that there's nothing really wrong with my account, they are just disorganized. What a waste of so many days of my life I've spent trying to resolve it.
Not only that, it is begging for people to shoot themselves in the foot (and later call techies to fix their broken computer with no idea what they did).
One of your sources is a decade older than the link, and the other is quoting a guy critiquing their methodology but "Marohn said he could be convinced that more spending is justified, but not before he sees a smarter analysis based on the return communities get on their investment."

You probably could find better ones without much effort, as I also didnt use a ton to find mine in the first place - I was just referring to a document that was pulled up when the bridge collapsed in my home town.

If you want to quibble about specifics sure, but that's different than the parent's "I dont know what the conversation is about"
It's disengenuous to make that argument without a comparison to the full manifold energy consumption required to support fiat cash... (including things like burning gasoline and jet fuel to move paper and metal for shredding/melting.)
Good for you. Obviously the rest of the world uses phones and video calls, which is why this thread exists. You should give them a try sometime!
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From what I can tell, a high end chip goes for almost $1/mm^2, which given typical wafer thicknesses and density, is about $1/mg, or $1,000,000/kg.
Access what?
Yes, people used it for the best available purpose. If that purpose was not available to them they would have chosen something inferior.
The challenge being is that Congress doesn’t want to go through all the trouble to do that, and frankly would probably be too slow even if they did.

Say Congress writes a law saying it’s illegal to dump toxic waste in a river. Pretty clear cut, right?

Well, law rolls out, and now you have an enforcement problem with all the edge cases. For instance, what counts as a river? Does the drainage ditch behind the building count? Does the creek? Does it matter if it has water in it right now, or will have water in it later?

Also, what counts as toxic waste? If a substance is poisonous at say 100ppm and considered toxic - what happens if we dilute it so it’s 100ppb. Still toxic waste? What if the background level in the tap water in the area is 100ppb?

Is it dumping if a building containing the waste catches on fire and falls in the river? Does it have the same penalties? What if it was arson?

These edge cases come up during the regular course of enforcing these laws, and at some point someone has to decide what the right thing to do is. Situations can change too - say a dry river wasn’t considered a river - until a massive conglomerate used that ‘loophole’ and started dumping massive amounts of toxic waste into dry river beds, that then flooded and poisoned a bunch of people. Do you want to wait for congress to get it’s act together, or do you want an agency to step in and follow the intent of the law, clarifying the prior ‘dry rivers are not rivers’ stance to ‘a channel that has, or will have, predictable seasonal water flow’?

The rule making process is designed to give visibility, and predictability into this process. It used to be people would just do whatever and never formalize these decisons, or formalize them internally and never publish them so people could challenge them.
I wonder about the quality of the data they're getting from all the random people training them. A few days ago I had to answer one by "selecting all the parking meters" and it wouldn't let me continue without also selecting a picture of what was clearly a rural mailbox on a post.
Heck, I live in a 91 year old wood framed and clad home in California - this isn’t limited to the east coast.

This house is going to outlive me as well, barring a natural disaster (which it is better suited to withstand than a masonry home, given that my most likely disaster is an earthquake).
Interestingly, Google later wrote their own relational db in javascript called lovefield, which was motivated primarily by the deprecation of WebSQL: https://github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/dd/00_i...
This needs more upvotes.
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I don't think we need a detailed study for most everyone to accept that fiat cash is several orders of magnitude less energy costly than bitcoin
This is the content for the first two weeks. It will updated regularly - probably every week starting from next week (I'd put it all out if I had it, but planning and recording these things is an ongoing process!)

As for the context, this is the UCLouvain master compiler class. We currently can't have in-person classes in Belgium (because Covid obviously).

Since we're no longer bound by the usual 2h lecture format (and it's the first time I'm giving the class), I figure I might as well go with a timing that is natural, and that depends on the material, what I have to say etc.

If anything, I'm thinking of moving towards more consistently shorter videos, as the ~30 minutes videos are both harder for me to make and for the students to consume. Sessions that include live coding or code reviews will probably still be longer.
They didn't waste his time. OP put in work and in return the company gave them a chance to be hired. Once it was known that there was no longer a chance for them to be hired, the company told OP to stop putting in work for it.

If the company had known from the start that there was 0% chance of hiring OP, or if the company had allowed OP to give their presentation while already knowing that there was 0% chance that OP would be hired, that would be wasting their time. But that's not what they did.