skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Portugal and Spain manage it, but it would be extremely contentius among around half of the NI community.
Using a URL isn't what makes Go's dependency management that good. It's just convenience that the import is a URL.

The key thing with Go is that all dependencies have a checksum (go.sum file) and that should be committed to the repo.

So even if the domain gets hijacked and a malicious package is served up, then the checksum will fail and it will refuse to build.

People should be using internal module proxies anyway for Go. You can just store the module files in a directory, a git repo or a web service and serve up an internal cache.
The package integrity would be fine in this case. The packages downloaded from PyPI would be legitimately signed by PyPI, and the internal packages would be signed by the local package server. The issue is not knowing which source to use for each package, and you'd have the same issue with not knowing which certificate to use to check them.
There's a small chance that
Goru caves and changes their name - the extra W in Grouw standing for Wikipedia.
Appears to be the latter. However, a computer is also "just" a technological curiosity once we know how transistors work.
I only spoke to the inherent incentives and risks for each type of leader: monarch and President. The rest of that stuff you filled in on your own.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine_escape
From my understanding, the iOS permission to track prompt is only if your app uses user device data for the purpose of targeted advertising by accessing the IDFA. There shouldn't be a problem if you disable the collection of IDFA and you can configure exactly that via Firebase Google Analytics [1]. I don't see a whole sale banning of free analytics SDKs but I do see a positive shift in forcing developers to have more awareness about what data is collected and what it is used for.

Edit: Per Apple's definitions of tracking, it also includes sharing user or device data with data brokers.[2]

[1]https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/configure-data-co...

[2]https://developer.apple.com/app-store/user-privacy-and-data-...
In a hypothetical alternative universe where there is no vaccine in sight I might agree with this, but now we are just on the cusp of rolling out wide-spread vaccinations. It would waste all of the last years' measures.
This is not entirely correct. AMDs existing CPUs beat M1 quite comfortably.

Where M1 shines is power usage under load. That's what it's fanless, hence even longer battery life.
As far as I know, ES modules do not allow variables as module name:

const moduleName = "foo"
import something from moduleName // will not work
const something = await import(moduleName) // will not work

I'm genuinely curious about how someone would do this with ES modules:

// somewhere in a function or a class method
const plugins = pluginModules.map(require)

EDIT: I was wrong, the import() function does work with variables.
Deploy machine learning NLP models with Docker Swarm as done at nlpcloud.io
proof of work is immoral if you’re an environmentalist. that’s why tesla acquiring BTC was especially egregious
So, I have a new link! And yes, she has agreed to a lot of controversial legislation, including Brexit!

This article has the thousand-plus laws she's been consulted on: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vette...
Genuine question: how much does this matter if much of it is renewables and cheap hydro? I feel like the negative externalities of using a lot of electricity are very very tied to where that electricity came from
Mozilla already tried re-writing the CSS engine in C++ before. They failed. C++ simply wasn't usable for writing a parallel CSS engine.

"This top-down structure is ripe for parallelism; however, since styling is a complex process, it’s hard to get right. Mozilla made two previous attempts to parallelize its style system in C++, and both of them failed. But Rust’s fearless concurrency has made parallelism practical!"

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/11/14/Fearless-Concurrency-I...
It depends how much and how you're consuming it, but drinking your calories, especially through coffee or soda, is a great way to get fat. Just ask any 32 year old who doesn't exercise and starts every day with shitty coffee mixed with cream and sugar. Drinking cream and sugar will probably offset any positive thing you do for your heart to some extent, unless you're doing something that really demands that kind of calorie consumption.
I love seeing all these approaches to the same basic problem. Catching your ISP in the act of providing poor service.

Here's mine: https://github.com/zaphar/durnitisp No readme sorry. It uses UDP packets to various different stun servers to export network statistics to prometheus. Then I just use grafana to review the results.
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Perhaps not all of it is entirely "wasted" though. I've largely been able to avoid heating this winter as a result of crypto mining.

A computer pumping ~300W into the air 24/7 is remarkably effective for a small apartment
And as Bitcoins get more scarce and get adopted by more and more banks and companies as reserves, the value of mining rewards is only going to continue rising, until Bitcoin will consume more electricity than the rest of the world combined. (Around the time it is worth $1.2 Million a coin.)

Change my mind.

Bitcoin rewards miners in Bitcoin, which is the ultimate deflationary “store of value”, and has the world mindshare as such. Even if a network arose that was better in every technological way, if it was a “sidechain” to Bitcoin, then BTC would just be locked up as people migrated to that network, so “unstaked” Bitcoins on the original network would become even more scarce, thus mining rewards would go up even more. Bitcoin would be a store of value / collectible just like gold, except its supply would always be shrinking and mining rewards rising.

PS: Consider I am right. How would governments even begin to stop it, if this use of electricity would net the provider more profit than powering a home?
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Laws still have to respect the rights of the people, no? I’m not well versed in UK law, but the US, the legislature can’t just make a law making criticism of the government illegal because it’s a violation of our First Amendment right to free speech.
>While admittedly the promise of algorithms that reconstruct internally generated or externally induced percepts is yet to be fully achieved

I find this kind of writing kind of sad. It seems to me that the authors clearly wanted to write something about reading minds, and its quite logical. But they have to write in this obtuse, dry way because even in speculation they need to be precise. I am not sure if this is good or bad practice, but its pervasive in academic writing and I don't like it. A paper should not lose credibility because they went on a flight of fancy for a sentence or two.
Ex-Amazon SDE here.

> a unique design flaw of the open-source ecosystems

This is a big generalization.

Inside Amazon, as well as in various Linux distributions, you cannot do network traffic at build time and you can only use dependencies from OS packages.

Each library has its own package and the code and licensing is reviewed. The only open source distribution that I know to have similar strict requirements is Debian.

[I'm referring to the internal build system, not Amazon Linux]

[Disclaimer: things might have changed after I left the company]
I have an autistic child of 3 years of age - we are going to a meeting to determine support he can get from the social system, in that meeting it is going to be suggested that he be put into a kindergarten that is for autistic children - many of whom are worse off than him in some aspects of autism. This seems to be the theory of how to deal with autism in Denmark and in the community I live in. It is not restricting him to only be around autistic children, but effectively it is since we have no family or friends with children for him to associate with therefore his only associations with children his own age will be with autistic children.
Can you not sue back for losses or anything in that situation? The US does punitive damages don't they?

I'd imagine you could make a mint baiting the RIAA if you were ok with being as sleazy as them
> "While unable to prove causality..."

Nutrition science (imo) is doomed if researchers don't take establishment of causal connections seriously. If they declare that they haven't causally connected drinking black coffee with reduction in heart failure, we're left with having to make a random choice between drinking coffee or not drinking coffee, ... i.e. the information is useless to us. What's the purpose of this research then?
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> If you define "democracy" broadly, to include representative democracies

I don’t think this is a matter of being overly pedantic. What you have done is redefined “democracy” to “republic”.

To use a real world example you don’t find many historians that call the ancient republic of Rome a democracy, or a representative democracy.

A republic is just that, a form of government where the people are represented by elected officials/representatives.

Does the US have any characteristic besides elections that results in you calling it a democracy? Do you call China a representative democracy? They do elect representatives after all.

Yes, clearly I give democracy the narrow definition where the people directly manage the affairs of the State, not elected representatives. It’s not just out of tradition though it’s because other forms of government have other names and democracies from the beginning have nothing to do with elections or electing officials. For example in Ancient Greece, the original “democracy”, they had officials for certain purposes that were not elected, they were selected from the populace through a lottery.
front-end is not bad for complicated, it's bad because people don't know what they need and invent / use unnecessary and bad tools
Criticism a about bitcoin power consumption betrays an understand of even elementary economics. Replace bitcoin with beanie baby, and one could have made a similar argument in the late 90s about beanie babies causing a fabric shortage or fabric being wasted on toys that could instead be used for better purposes. When the beanie baby market crashed, the problem effectively fixed itself, as there was this sudden glut of fabric. Additionally, increased demand for bitcoin production means more power will generated, similar to how increased demand for cloth due to beanie baby production lead to more total cloth being produced overall. It is not like cloth for clothes was diverted to create beanie babies. The increased production of power to mine bitcoins is funded by bitcoin profits, and represents a consensual economic transaction between two parties, not wastefulness.

Of course, then you can talk about externalities such as climate change but I am ignoring this for now and just talking about the criticism of wastefulness.
Question that came to mind after reading the headline: could this become a future reason for governments to criminalise the trading / use of Bitcoin because of negative environmental effects?

On the surface it seems the value of Bitcoin is directly tied to its energy consumption and thus environmental harm.

I get that Bitcoin itself is decentralised and cannot be banned outright. But could it be neutered in such a way that renders it more and more worth / useless?
Is there reason to believe even a majority comes from renewable sources? And then, how much of that clean energy could be powering other things which are instead using fossil fuels?
Even if it were all green energy, why not use it to produce aluminum or to get rid of coal instead of wasting it on math puzzles?
I completely agree!

I'm running an email server for myself since 1998 and in addition some low traffic email servers for a few small companies that I administrate and we have had no delivery problems so far, not even with Google, although I have heard from other people that run their own email servers, that Google occasionally puts delivered emails in the Spam folder.

I always keep an eye if some of our IPs may appear on any of the well known abuse lists, but so far that never has happened. I would guess if once there's coming spam from your mail server IP, it is negatively branded forever.
So easy? I’ve never created a side effect in my life with f-strings.

The same could be said about virtually any feature of any language.

Why would you want to impose artificial constraints on yourself? I really dislike the argument “people will hurt themselves, let’s go back to the old way“
Slightly off topic, but does anyone have any good resources on how alternative consensus protocols work, like proof of stake and proof of importance? I either see really simplistic explanations or ones that assume a lot of domain knowledge. I also recently saw a crypto coin that claims to be energy efficient, and I don’t quite understand how that’s possible without the possibility of a 50.1% attack.
Yet the amount of environmental destruction and pollution done by Argentina to support their massive livestock industry is something Bitcoin will never achieve.
This is similar to the idea of Codespaces from Github https://github.com/features/codespaces
Yeah I would. I’d love to get a little more control over my own life

> while the negatives are isolation & reduced impact.

Not like I have any meaningful socialization or impact now, working for other people so I still consider it worth it.
For the interested, the dataset used in this paper is described here[1]

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/687681v1.full
It worked very well for me.

My ISP in Germany was lending cables from another ISP. They failed to fulfill the "up to 100 MBit/s" claim all the time.

So I set up a Raspberry Pi (which is a bit flawed, as the network interface on the older models was too slow, to begin with) and let it run speedtests every 5 minutes for four weeks.

The graph looked terribly enough that I was allowed to change ISPs without any cancellation period or something else.

Sometimes they care, probably because I blogged and tweeted about it, too.
Rust has good C interoperability. So from C++ it’d look like a C library. You can either write your own glue code or use something like cbindgen to autogen the header file.
... and Nvidia.

But that probably doesn't count anymore.
Related: Here's a picture (in the video, if it is paused there) showing where the various cameras and sensors are located in the phone:

https://youtu.be/lEf1DGnvK_M?t=260
I think the conceit (the different styles for different chapters) sometimes overwhelms the book, but it has a lot of highlights, like the opening and closing chapters. I think of this quote often:

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
You are speaking in absolute terms. It goes against all logic that new technology wouldn't be funded by dumping energy into bitcoin mining.

Simple logic.. Billions of dollars in miners are bought by speculators, Bitmain orders new 5nm chips from TSMC... TSMC uses money for R&D.

Either you're being willfully ignorant or you're trolling us.
Does anyone have any figures on what regular banking systems use for accepted/official currencies? I feel like this has blown up so much that it makes sense to compare and contrast.
That doesn't explain how humanity can reach collective consensus to burn energy to further ruin our planet because we can't reach collective consensus on how to efficiently exchange goods and services.

That's what, you know, governments are supposed to be fixing.

I am being brainwashed on a daily basis to turn off electronic devices, I pay extra for electronic devices to be marginally more energy efficient, I am crossing local law if my car idles for more than 60 seconds but it is fine to be burning energy on massive scale as a detail of computing algorithm.

Not to mention I can't buy decent graphics card because of how prices are inflated by miners.

Let's face it. If you are mining bitcoin you are effectively engaging in a destructive operation where you accept small extra payment for burning much larger amount of energy away. While the rest of the world tries to minimize our carbon footprint you are wasting part of the infrastructure that makes it possible for a cut.
If we could burn bitcoin apologists we would have infinite energy because you are the densest bunch I've ever met

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change
https://perry.kundert.ca/contact-info
This is true, but the problem is the government policy may consist of (wrongly, without evidence) saying "no, it isn't poisonous".

The usual question is "what if the industry in question has made campaign or PAC donations? what if it's located in an electorally marginal state?"

Or, these days, "what if the government is dependent for its support on a weird youtube-based cult that thinks that 5G causes viruses?"
That would depend on how much heat the computations/mining itself generates - has to be some - and the total effort to make graphics cards or other hardware for a lot of clients that would not really exist if crypto wouldn't be a thing
How does it scale when a block can only contain about 3,000 transactions?
https://xkcd.com/466/

"Moving: There are few forces more powerful than geeks desperately trying to get internet in a new apartment."

If my parents turned off the internet, or just blocked youtube, my #1 mission would be to restore that service by whatever means possible.
If governments banned the on/off ramps to normal currency, then yes it would be effectively neutered. There is an audience that wouldn't care, but it's a small audience.
SpaceX could probably help usher in a new age where we have mining nodes in space, big solar arrays (100 or so) powering a small 100-GPU cluster or ASIC cluster....
One could argue that livestock is more useful than Bitcoin, since it feeds people. Of course I agree we should reduce meat consumption.
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I agree with you that it was a debacle. It was meant to hold together the Lib Dem-Conservative coalition and once that went to pot it should have been scrapped. I don't think that it removed the Queen's (technical) ability to dissolve Parliament, instead it removed the government's ability to ask her to dissolve Parliament. It locked Parliament into a situation where no one had the power to do anything more than keep the lights on. It was gross.

* Had the Queen tried to dissolve Parliament I think they would have ignored her.
I think so too.
It'd be amazing to have python to receive this output and do stuff with it as people said in other comments.
Right — the only way to really identify malicious packages is a line by line audit... All the way down the dependency chain. On top of that, does a typical org using these packages have developers who can conduct these audits and identify obvious back doors? What about less obvious bug doors?
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With a heat pump you'd get about 3x the heat for the same amount of power
I was trying to avoid “Poe’s Law-ing” my comment, but Nazi genocide was exactly what I was thinking of. They (at least the higher ups) believed it was for the greater good, but the rest of the world (and history) has disagreed with them. So much so, we executed the higher ups during the trials afterwards.
This is a bit too hypothetical: the most generous estimate I can find is that Bitcoin is still using 61% non-renewable energy, in as much as farms are favourably set up in places with cheap energy (somewhat but not entirely correlated with renewable energy).
It’s a nice app
Two things can be bad
I've never seen the original introduction of Rust from Graydon Hoare before seeing the link in this post: http://venge.net/graydon/talks/intro-talk-2.pdf

The original vision for Rust sounds a lot like a typed Erlang without the BEAM.
Sorry I didn't know if one could send PM's on HN. Send me an email on kristian.erikson@laerdal.com and I'll pass it on to the correct people inside our org. We do have a few remote workers already and I imagine the whole Covid/Corona situation is making us look into this even more :)
Note that AMD already uses ARM in their x64 CPUs, although not as primary cores.

These are mostly not user addressable CPUs and are used internally for management etc.
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iirc Netflix set up a dashboard to show just this - how shit is your ISP when it comes to (specifically) passing Netflix data. They can use that to point out violations of net neutrality as well: https://ispspeedindex.netflix.net/. It seems pretty healthy nowadays, although they only seem to measure up to 3.6 Mbit/s
simple matter of programming
From what I understand bitcoin currently has a $20+ transaction fee with a transaction time takes 60 minutes+

With these issues in addition to the high power consumption, how will Bitcoin become a usable currency?
Electricity is one of the most inefficient ways to heat a dwelling. I think natural gas is still considered to be several times more efficient but I haven’t looked at it in a few years. Of course if you are also getting benefits from the crypto you mined that will offset the cost.
I guess this is where we need to define our anology

for a sysadmin the customer is "the employer" and they do not really have a contract with the sysadmin, rather the employer has contract with Cisco, or Nimble, etc. the sysadmin has "outsourced" his/her responsibility in that context.

For example instead of rolling your own storage device using linux, or freenas or something else, you buy an expensive 3rd party solution with expensive support contracts to outsource their responsibility. If it goes down "I have a support ticket open with vendor" instead of "I am attempting to merge the lastest kernel patch I have downloaded from github"

That is the source of the phrase "No one ever got fired for buying Cisco" or insert name of other large vendor. They do not get fired for it because they have outsourced their responsibility
This moves the goalposts though. Before the ethical question was whether or not it is ethical to trade items with unknown value to a less advanced group. Now it's whether it is ethical to do so under threat of violence (obviously unethical).
Since 2018, 13 states in the US passed resolutions to get rid of the semi-annual clock changes but also that daylight saving time become permanent. Of course, federal law doesn’t allow them to do such (a state only has the option to not observe DST, but not the option to permanently observe it).

It probably depends somewhat on latitude and longitude, I for one would prefer year round daylight saving time as I like the extra evening light in the summer and it’s dark when my kids leave for school in the winter anyway. I don’t golf.

The idea of shifting working hours to account for the season changes might work in some contexts but not others. Sure, if I’m an office “information worker” it’s probably not a big deal to shift to 7-4 in the summer. But I don’t think that’s going to work for retail, grocery, post office, restaurants, gyms, pharmacies, etc. where the public isn’t going want to constantly adjust to and guess at changing opening and closing times.
>Mind you - the UK can only have a standing army with the express permission of Parliament:

This requirement only seems to apply to British Army, the Navy and Air Force are exempt. W good example of how unimportant the pageantry is.
The 1,062 laws subjected to a royal veto in the UK
A brief reminder that Mozilla paid its top executive, Mitchell Baker, $2.4m in 2018. http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html