skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After years of work and $3M spent, Austin pulls plug on new website effort
The electricity cost of processing a bitcoin transaction on a dedicated ASIC mining rig is, at the moment, 308 kwh. This is roughly equivalent to the energy content of 100 gallons of gasoline. Assuming electricity is produced at the local power plant from fossil fuels at 40% overall efficiency, that electric vehicles have a powerplant to road efficiency of 30% while internal combustion car averages 20 mpg, if you drive for 100,000 miles over the course of a car's lifetime, you will save the equivalent of 8,750 gallons of gasoline. Paying for your tesla with bitcoin will decrease those lifetime carbon savings by 2.8%.

If for every 35 people who pay for their tesla in bitcoin, 1 is someone who wouldn't have bought an electric vehicle otherwise, there is still a net overall decrease in CO2 emissions.
Trust and the Viability of Cryptocurrency
In my opinion, this content should really be in a blog. I like the content however.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26093070
> How many wars started, how many countries destroyed, and how many livelihoods and families ruined for the USD? No one wants to talk about that

That is a huge issue, and I'd love to talk about that. The more people see the world for what it is the better. I don't see how this redirects criticism away from BTC, or how BTC would be immune to the same kind of incentives. The horrendous things that have been done to prop up the USD aren't an inherent property of fiat currency, if an entire nation state had a large stake in BTC would it really be any different?

> yet we are supposed to wring our hands in grief over some extra computers left running

So the fact that we're using as much energy as an entire developed nation to produce <10 transactions per second isn't concerning?
Wood really isn't that flammable either. Most thing in your house, furniture, paint, books, drapes etc. is on fire before your walls or your floor.
Huge caveat on solid wood walls and floor.
Maybe you're hanging out with the wrong people?
Sorry; the mistake was mine in my earlier comment. I pointed to "the crufty parts of POSIX" in an effort to point vaguely to the UNIX filesystem abstractions - fwrite/write, socket fds, fsync / fsyncdata, as well as fork() and whatnot. I don't actually care about the POSIX spec itself, or how POSIX differs from C11 (or how any of that is wrapped by the equivalent methods in Java).

This caused a distraction from the point I was making - which is that there are other ways we can do computing that don't use this model for files at all. For example we could make file operations transactional, or make files semantically rich - like database objects. So files themselves aren't "buckets of bytes" that need to be parsed by each application which interacts with them. There's lots of other ideas in this idea space - but the yoke of millions of lines of legacy code makes it difficult to explore this space outside of toy programming environments. And I worry as a result we might be stuck with the unix model forever.
It was 2-3x for intensive care, 1.4x for death

"male patients have almost three times the odds of requiring intensive treatment unit (ITU) admission (OR = 2.84; 95% CI = 2.06, 3.92) and higher odds of death (OR = 1.39; 95% CI = 1.31, 1.47) compared to females. With few exceptions, the sex bias observed in COVID-19 is a worldwide phenomenon."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19741-6#:~:text=T....
> This contradicts your earlier point that markets can't resolve negative externalities. Presumably a tax will cause a marked market response.

Not at all. Things like carbon taxes internalise the externalities. It makes all electricity consumers pay the true cost of electricity, at least as far as can be determined.

I know that libertarians are as dogmatic as any marxist, but it seems to me that you should be more interested than anyone else in internalising the true cost of things into their price?

If you want to rely on the market as much as possible, then all the more reason to make sure that the cost of making things includes all the costs. Only then can consumers make a considered purchase.

As the text in your link so eloquently puts it:

"Social inefficiency arises when the social costs associated with external effects, such as air or water pollution, are not incorporated into the cost of producing the pollution generating product or its market price."

Almost every single one of your statements here reflect a misunderstanding of my argument, basic economics and/or your own Austrian philosophy.
They layed off a lot of their Austin-based Exynos CPU design staff two years ago, save for those working on the AMD/Samsung GPU partnership work - still, will be interesting to see how/if Exynos comes back, know they are aggressively hiring for GPU work.
...Hence my classification of it as a human problem. I apologize, this is a quirk of my personal vernacular. This is a problem that emergently arises out of the way human beings interact with each other socially, even before tool use comes into the picture.

Alice has a thing.
Bob had a thing that Alice figured would make her life easier so integrates it without looking too hard at it.
Alice didn't reallize that by adding Bob's thing, something Alice wanted private was no longer the case even if her primary use case was solved.

The technical solution is making Alice's thing include a really onerous to configure permissions framework that takes the work of getting a thing set up and increases the task list from program thing to program and configure permissions for thing.

The human solution is to realize you don't know Bob from Adam, or his motivations, and to observe what Bob's thing actually does. Then depending on criticality, remake something similar, or actually take the time to get to know Bob and see if he can make what you want for you under some sort of agreement that facilitates good business and trust all around. You can't be sampling for malicious changes in real-time, so it's all about risk management. The issue in our case, is a lot of these projects are essentially gifts with no active attention paid to them after a certain point. It's a variant of cargo cults. You want this thing? Go here, get that, presto. Businesses, developers, (and their exploiters) like that. The price though is that once a project is abandoned, and the rights transferred to someone you don't know, you have to rerun your risk management calculation again.

The thing people should be worried about is all the PHB's (pointy-haired bosses) who just got ammo for their NMIH (Not-Made-In-House) cannons now that supply chain attacks are becoming increasingly visible vectors for attack.
It's probably "on" in the sense that it creates a virtual webcam device. When Zoom pulls up the list of cameras, it probably doesn't know "Actual Camera" from "Cat Mode Virtual Camera" whatever heuristic it uses to decide which one is going to be the default picks Cat Mode.
Thanks!
Indeed it's less lucrative than freelancing or working in a big company, but so far the experience is so enjoyable that the ride worth it :)
Deathmatch programming doesn't sound very pleasant.

But I hope most people here don't feel a morale hit when their code gets tossed. Inherently, I understand the desire for one's creative work to live on, but that's essentially incompatible with this industry. And I also have found much joy in turning-down/deleting existing services I've written. My team celebrates these events and it's always fun to give that high-maintenance service a viking funeral.
"Over 90% of the homes that are built in the United States each year are constructed using wood-frame construction"

https://awc.org/codes-standards/firesafety
I think they meant "like that" wrt drivers not being an issue and not having to drop out of the GUI.
The next sentence is

“Nonetheless, even at this point, it was still a roughly 50 percent drop in suicidal ideation compared to the pre-treatment levels. Secondary measures of depression and suicidality also saw improvements.”
There's lots of misdirected anger these last few days towards Bitcoin.

First, the only thing that's energy-intensive about Bitcoin is block production. Making transactions, relaying them, validating them and storing them have negligible energy cost.

Second, nothing about the Bitcoin protocol requires block production to use fossil fuels. Just like with every other energy-intensive industry, the problem isn't the industry. The problem is the fossil fuel use.

Therefore, if you want to get mad about the high energy use of block production leading to environmental pollution, you should direct that anger at the appropriate target:
miners who use fossil fuels to mine.

How do we fix this? The same way we fixed it in every other energy-intensive industry: through taxes and regulation. Let's get some laws passed to require miners in your area to use only renewable energy, and to require exchanges to impose a carbon tax on coins whose miners rely on fossil fuels to mine. Properly applied, these laws would make fossil-fuel mining unprofitable, which is exactly what we want.

Bitcoin and PoW aren't going anywhere at this point. So let's make sure it's continued existence doesn't make the world worse. Sound good?
Solution: Multi-Path Payments.
Facebook itself got started among Harvard students, who are certainly a kind of elite.
How do you know if someone spreads their tokens across multiple wallets?
In the end GPUs are better off using energy to play counterstrike than to generate sound money right?!
Authorities arrest SIM swapping gang that targeted celebrities
It's a bit naive to think that Microsoft's argument there wasn't just them grasping at straws at any attempt to avoid anti-trust regulation. History has shown that Microsoft themselves would happily jump at the chance to stuff their own pockets by pre-installing crapware on your computer, as evidenced by all the junk and ads on even fresh installs of modern Windows. Remember the Candy Crush auto-install debacle? https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-steer-clear-of-windows-...
Sure, just one change... ”Currency is intended to transact with, not for speculation...”

Bitcoin is forcing an expansion of the definition of money. A self-regulated financial network backed by tremendous amounts of hardware and electricity is "advanced money".

We are at a transition point so I don't expect good labeling/categorization from the shortsighted/incumbents/fiat-boomers (directed at the gatekeepers, not you personally).

Side note: What people complaining about electricity consumption don't get is, BTC transfers the uncounterfeitable properties of energy to a money.
I invested my inflationary fiat in deflationary bitcoin.

I sit on it while it appreciates.

Number go up.
I misunderstood this article as well!

Anyone want to let me in on what the book's really about?
DIY Exoplanet Detector (2014)
Facebook will start showing some of its users less political content
Sorry, am noob, ELI5 please.

Those RADb responses include this line:

mnt-by: MAINT-AS32934

AS32934 is the account maintaining Facebook's public presence(s)? How'd you figure that out?

Using routing table mainteners to DNS entries seems like a terrific why to create those ad-blocking lists. Is this how it's done? I always assumed those lists are manually collated and curated.
Why couldn't a baseband attack facilitate this? It was shown at least as far back as 2017[0] that a program on a baseband could affect the memory of the application processor, and in 2018[1] that a specially crafted message can achieve an RCE on a baseband. Since then, cell modems have gotten even more integrated with APs.

[0] https://comsecuris.com/blog/posts/path_of_least_resistance/
[1] https://i.blackhat.com/us-18/Thu-August-9/us-18-Grassi-Explo...
While sibling comments mentioned a bit about differences in building approach with heavy use of brick and concrete in Europe, at times it reaches into cultural incomprehension.

When US action movies started to show up more in Poland, many people joked how american movies exaggerate things by using cheap plywood scene sets for houses. Finding out that american homes are actually built like that was a bit of a shock to many.
If I were Paul & Rohan, I wouldn't be concerned about this, or Twitter Spaces, or any of that.

Scale is an advantage, but also a massive disadvantage when trying to launch a product like this. Clubhouse has gotten to work out the kinks and scale things like trust & safety and room moderation little by little, and flesh out the exact things necessary to achieve product-market fit.

Facebook and Twitter are going to have to figure out how the hell to handle all the trust and safety issues for audio at billion user scale, before they can even launch the product (IF they ever actually do).
They also have to figure out how to jam it in to their product line, another non-trivial problem (how many people even visit the Reels tab on instagram, or know it exists?).

Case in point, remember Facebook Dating? I don't.
The reason is that Samsung already has a huge logistical presence in the city supporting the A2/S2 lines. Adding deliveries & pickups for across the street is much easier than building out a new facility in Arizona and replicating all of that over there.

Additionally, if there is some technical fire in the new PSS fab, it would be expected that employees from the existing fabs could walk across the way and assist. They would probably do something where the existing engineering & manufacturing teams are divided up and shared across the facilities to get everything bootstrapped. Their systems are very strictly standardized, so staff from one factory can very easily support any other in the fleet.
The truth is that BCH fanbois are REKT.
When someone asks a question, why not just answer it instead of questioning the person and making them feel stupid about not knowing something?

At any rate, the U.S. government imposes many standards on federal government contractors including minimum wage standards, hiring practices, paid sick leave, a host of responsibilities that any contractor that wishes to do business with the federal government MUST adhere to. For example, in the area of construction all federal contractors must pay employees at a minimum, the prevailing wage including benefits for the locality of the construction site. It's not unreasonable to think and to ask what are the requirements and responsibilities that IT professionals working as federal contractors might also have. There are a ton of other requirements and conditions that you can read more about some of those requirements here:

https://www.employer.gov/EmploymentIssues/Federal-contractor...
I've been meaning to do a deep dive on semiconductor supply chains for a while now. I'd start by aggregating annual reports for the companies named in [1], identify their major categories of capex, gather information about their suppliers, and recurse.

[1] https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/cn/Documents/...
Yeah I shared it with a lot of people but I was feeling bad at the same time :-)

But good to know what guy enjoyed it in the end.
'The best solution to pollution is dilution'
A bit off topic but wood houses can, if done right, last quite a lot longer than 150 years.
The presence of bundled apps which I don't use realy bother me, and always have. On old versions of macOS, I wiped all of them out with a post-installation script. sudo -rm did the trick, and never broke anything else. (They sometimes came back after major updates, but I had a "post-upgrade" script for that.)

Big Sur makes this incredibly painful though, with its root filesystem stuff. Not sure what I'll do if I ever need to use that version. It may or may not be worth it to modify the snapshot...
WhatsApp is even worse, let us not even go there. If anything, I would go with Briar.
I think it is a very worthwhile observation, that existing, comparable systems also have massive 'externalities', only they aren't measured in kwH.
I haven't looked into it too deeply, but she has one of the less expensive netbook-type models and it appears to raise errors quite frequently because she should buy more iCloud space even though she has space on the local disk.

She's also found it increasingly hard to find config settings the last few years.
What about HPKP? This would prevent such a MITM attack.
A crippling ice storm will stretch 1,600 miles across the US
This, combined with what the Terraria dev suffered this month, makes me think there is more need for fast human interaction in automated ban reviews.
My simple definition is "harmful actions are bad, not beliefs." What is or isn't religion isn't very important.

I wish people didn't hold beliefs I find nonsensical, but they likely feel the same way and any action I try to force on them will not improve anything. It's unfortunate that many are fine forcing things on me, but that doesn't mean I should adopt the practice.

>DSM-5

DSM-IV, it was changed in DSM-V.
Basic 10 Liner Contest
Not an expert, but I did make my own erc20 once.

Are you sending it over the network, or to someone else within a website? (eg: binance, coinbase; doesn't need to be an exchange)

Do you track your transactions later? Do they get confirmed? How many confirmations does a website need to count it? How long does that take?

I would expect a low-fee transaction to eventually either expire or go through. I don't know what timeframe that might take: higher fee typically means higher priority as I've understood it. I can't imagine it'd keep your $ in limbo forever, but who knows. If you haven't used it in a long time, I understand that the network is much more congested these days.
They may well have done that, but as a very nit-picky aside, that font has a pretty general art deco vibe, so it's not necessarily unique to that GQ cover.
This comment helped clarify a lot of my intuitions regarding privacy.
> Facebook will exempt Covid-19 information from national and regional health authorities as well as posts by official government agencies from its political content experiment.
Assuming proposed US semi fund will be chipping in for Samsung asking 1B in tax subsidies like TSMC.
I agree with the sentiment, but I believe this is an elective class. When I looked, the school I went to had electives for tools like AutoCAD, Adobe tools Photoshop and Premiere, Python, Android development, MySQL etc. If students or professors had interest in learning or teaching about a specific set of tools, often they'd offer classes on them for a few semesters as long as there was interest.
Rather than hacking Signal itself, maybe they were able to access the iOS app preview files from the iOS app-switcher? I'd imagine the app-switcher (the feature when you swipe up to switch between recently used apps) works by overwriting a screenshot every time it's minimized. Maybe they were able to access this data directly or indirectly (or maybe even via iCloud).

There's a setting in Signal where you can hide the screenshot in the app-switcher, but could still be triggered and stored somewhere. Or maybe they just got lucky and one of the guys had it disabled.
The beauty of decentralization is that they can't stop it. Sure, a country can ban it and the price might drop temporarily, but a) that would just create a black market for it, b) they would be left behind while other countries that embrace it innovate and prosper.
Dunno why this is downvoted, IE11 isn't going anywhere in some rather crucial places, like all healthcare
You can enable client enforcement of Docker Content Trust [1] so that all images pulled via tag must be signed. Whether people are actually signing their images is a different question that I don't know the answer to.

[1] - https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/trust/#client-enforc...
> so I flew to another city (they paid) for nothing

Remind me of the time when a company flew me to their office for a remote position to interview with the team, and 4 out of the 6 sessions were held over zoom because the interviewers were working from home that day.

And then they ghosted me after telling me I was great.
Decline is relative. Despite being a crappy deal Austin is still a better deal than the options where a lot of the new people are coming from.
I'm tired of this anti-Rust horseshit
So true and portable across languages.
Should we not criticize that this is taking place? Two bad things are happening, so let’s ignore them both?
There’s always error handling.
Shut it down.
Not exactly. The popup in that example is an installer for companion software which provides functionality for the hardware that was listed on the box. The installer appears when you first plug in the device. If you close it, nothing is installed and it never appears again.
> The result was much more fine-grained "time zones."

That is true, but it did not bother anyone, because fast long-distance communication either did not exist or was very limited (e.g. smoke signals) and syncing of clocks wasn't necessary in everyday activities; for a medieval person, the idea that clocks in Vienna and Prague MUST be synchronized would be as strange as for us the idea that everyone in the same city should have their breakfast at the same time. It just did not serve any obvious purpose.

There are only two exceptions I can think of.

a) people doing astrological horoscopes for someone who was born in a different place (a big thing among some nobility and royalty) would probably be bothered a bit by the time difference,

b) armies trying to converge on the same target at the same moment.
> Since the fundamental value of bitcoin is zero and would be negative if a proper carbon tax was applied to its massive polluting energy-hogging production, I predict that the current bubble will eventually end in another bust.

Since the fundamental value of a piece of paper with dead presidents printed on it is also zero, and would be negative if a proper carbon tax was applied to its massive polluting military, I predict that the current bubble will eventually end in another bust.
> Taller constructions are concrete + steel.

There have been some advancements in wood for taller structures in recent years. Basically they have come up with wood that is as strong as concrete.

Main problem is fire/pests/rot/etc so you can't build crazy big but there are now 7 or 8 story tall apartment buildings made out of wood mainly in Helsinki for example.

Making apartment buildings out of wood is also much more environment friendly then concrete (somewhere around 50% less total co2)
Bankruptcy is only indirectly related to market capitalisation. Just look at Gamestop.
In this vein, I found it somewhat funny at the beginning of the pandemic how everyone was discovering Zoom's Virtual Backgrounds—a feature which Apple added to Photo Booth and iChat all the way back in Leopard. Presumably they took it out due to lack of use.

To be fair, Zoom's backgrounds seem to work in more types of lighting conditions, although the overall effect is less convincing IMO.
The Nordic countries have instant payments. It doesn't actually cost anything extra (just the usual flat fee, maybe $0.20 to $1... although for smaller payments like for a candy bar, you could choose a 0.5% to 1% fee which might be cheaper...), except for companies that gain from rents they charge for wire transfers, etc. Here's an example from the Nordic countries: https://nordicpayments.eu/p27-the-payment-gamechanger/

Actual expert on the topic: "For truly "instant" clearing and settlement the main hope is the RTP network, which already has extensive coverage. (FedNow, its rival, is 3 years away). The Fed can also quicken payments by (1) having Fedwire and NSS operate 24/7 and (2) easing FinTech Master Account access."
https://twitter.com/GeorgeSelgin/status/1356937488871358465?...