skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. But a centralized power plant could be surrounded by solar panels that offset the carbon costs.
It's not about today, but tomorrow. Inefficiency is way easier to fix than break paradigms. How much it spends per transaction now isn't that relevant.
I think that the loading speed is really a technical achievement. I don’t even know how it’s possible when just executing a git clone of a repository can take upwards of 10 times longer than what this website is capable of. Let alone the rest of the work of getting those files into the vscode editor. Even if he just pointed it at GitHub- GitHub itself loads slower than this!

On the other hand, I agree that a lot of people seem to think that OP has recreated vscode from scratch, which seems to have led to a lot of over the top praise. “Obviously” this is just an embed of the Monaco editor, which is still very cool mind you, but not a towering UX achievement or anything.
I absolutely love Paw. It rapidly allows me both to test APIs and, more importantly sometimes, create examples for specs. The ability for me to mock up the output one of our in-development APIs in JSON is amazing.

I wish it had some of the scripting of Postman, but that may take away from its simplicity.
Sounds like you had some poor experiences with people who didn't know what they were doing.

The proper way to audit your dependencies is to run an in-house Maven repository server. Just like you would for npm, or any package repository really.

So you just spin up Sonatype Nexus, proxy the repositories you trust and disallow releases from being overwritten. That way you're certain the jar you're using today, is the exact same as the one you'll be using years from now.

Alternatively, if you have a vendor who ships their jars manually, you can just vet them, then upload them to your in-house Maven repository and have your developers pull them in as usual.
That's because of the nature of the Lightning Network. You can only see transactions going through your own LN node, if you run one. Only the opened LN channels are visible for everyone.
> and out comes purified polysilicon for making "green" PV panels

Oh purified silicon like also used in making all the computers that people use to mine Bitcoin with a bunch of other resources.

Since you say Bitcoin can run on nuclear, why do you think that generates less “radioactive uranium”, one of your concerns for pv mfg, and other radioactive pollution than pv manufacturing? Does the uranium not get mined, concentrating and releasing its decay products into the env?

How much of the power for Bitcoin is generated by nuclear and hydro right now? How much will that increase in the next 20 years?
I have often seen people saying things like "Bitcoin is orders of magnitude less efficient than Visa". While true, it's kind of like saying "the Atlantic Ocean is orders of magnitude bigger than my swimming pool".

Bitcoin is six orders of magnitude less efficient than Visa. Six.

And it's getting worse every day.
It’s a small window because it’s going to take about 20-30 mins for the dev to figure out why tests failed, locate the bogus dependency and shut down their computer, notify secops, revoke keys (if they even think of that), etc.

If you know your computer was compromised. Shut down and reinstall from a backup, you don’t try and clean it.

Edit: I’m assuming the attacker would be replacing a dependency with an empty repo since they don’t know the actual source code. If they know the interface the dependency is supposed to provide, it could spread across the entire organization before anyone noticed.

> I would hope most SSH keys are password-encrypted

TBH, these are probably weak passwords for convenience.
> I don't think most normal people see "without banks" as a feature.

The other day I walked into a shop where I couldn't pay by card because the banks didn't provide the service to them. Users don't see "without banks" as a feature, but businesses will. It will reduce their fees and their dependency to the whole industry.
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Quick back of the napkin math suggests that the kwh numbers are the right order of magnitude (surprisingly to me)... work below:

It looks like transaction fees are ~8 dollars right now [1], lets call it 10 dollars for easy math.

The cheapest state/kwh is Louisiana [2], at 7 cents per kwh, let's assume that the cost of mining bitcoin is just electricity, and that you can get it at 10c/kwh for easy math.

You now have 100kwh/transaction... that's 1/6th of what's reported on that site... but the same order of magnitude and the above analysis ignores block rewards...

[1] https://privacypros.io/tools/bitcoin-fee-estimator/

[2] https://www.energybot.com/electricity-rates-by-state.html
Good target, getting an initial job is the hardest part. Once you have some experience you become a lot more employable.
You don't even need a consortium to avoid the energy-intensive mining. Ethereum's beacon chain has been running a low-energy consensus process for months with no problems so far, and $5 billion in ETH participating, on about 100K nodes. They haven't migrated the legacy chain to it yet but that's coming in a year or so.
Please look at this thread again because you brought up ISO and ECMA to derail the thread and it turns out you have to pay to have a say in it, after you said that:

> There is no payment to be a member in ISO.

So why bring this up in the first place? and now you're sprinkling clarifications afterwards. When are you going to admit that what you said is incorrect?

> ...We are discussing about Rust here, C and C++ WG members don't pay for membership.

Incorrect, we are talking about the Rust foundation. Which covers more than just the language.

Again, what difference does this make in you having a say as a community member? Seems like you need to join a big company to have a say, because that's all I see.

> Again, please provide a famous programming language thriving on the market that fits your beloved world view.

So R does not count as a famous thriving programming language that is driven by the community (not corporations) and allows donations? You're more likely to have a say on R than on C, C++ and now Rust.
Yes. As they should. Its a much bigger achievement. I don't think these things are related.
The first time I saw something like this was when Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion used FaceGen (https://facegen.com/) for character customization. Realism has improved a tiny bit in the intervening 15 years.
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The best way to reduce carbon emissions is to keep using existing cars, whether gas or electric for as long as they're drivable. Electric (and ICE, to a lesser extent) cars have a very significant carbon footprint when they're newly produced.

Abandoning cars after a few years is far worse to the environment.
Why not institute policies to build more housing units? Taxation should be used to manipulate prices downward only when other market options don't exist.

The government could finance the construction of new houses. They could even go so far as incentivize the construction of entirely new suburbs or towns outside of major cities like Vancouver and build ultra-fast trains to connect the commercial district of the major city to the new suburb that is being built with affordable housing in mind.

Trying to halt foreign investment is a fool's errand. There is too much money to be made from these people, giving a strong financial incentive to find legal ways to subvert the taxes/regulations put in place.
> Buy a Tesla with them? No way for the IRS to notice that unless they audit you.

Or the IRS could ask Tesla for a list of everyone who bought Teslas with bitcoins and what their bitcoin addresses were.
> Almost half of the world gold demand is for speculative/investment purposes

fair (and I think gold as a "beautiful" metal is dumb), but the other half of the usage (on your claim) is for an array of productive things. I don't see wires, heat reflectors, etc being made out of bitcoin.
The emissions come mostly from the mining necessary to secure the transactions, so it's blended across where the mining is happening. Much of it is done in China on coal power.
Definitely true!.

However, in this case, I doubt that he's interested in flying Starships around earth any more than is required to fund the Mars adventure. If there is other funding, I'd bet nobody ever gets that 90min(?) ride from Texas to Australia
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It's harm reduction.
According to that page, a single Bitcoin transaction (e.g. me purchasing a fraction of a coin) uses enough electricity to charge a Tesla Model 3 up 8.5 times.

That doesn't seem right.
Great idea. Could you explain what differentiates it from Tock? https://www.exploretock.com/ -- not that there isn't room for two solutions here, but just curious.

We've used Tock a few times in the way you described (recreate resto exp at home) and it's been awesome.
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It might seem tangential to what you're asking, but I felt I learned more about 2d indie gsme dev from Yahtzee's Dev Diary, than most other resources out there: https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/category/yahtzees-dev-di...
The purpose of boxing is to knock the other guy unconscious. There is no safe way to do that, and numerous boxers have died after matches, and many more have suffered brain damage. I don't wish to ban boxing, but I think it is morally wrong. Pairing a brain-damaging sport with an intellectual game (that I love) seems odd to me.
> I have been fascinated by the level of trust we put in a simple command like this one

sigh... am I the only one that likes environments where you can run simple commands to install stuff and you can generally trust your package managers? All the security folks love to act dumbfounded when people trust things, but post-trust environments have terrible UX in my experience. I hate 2FA, for example, because now I have to tote my phone around at all times in order to be able to access any of my accounts. If I lose my phone or my phone is stolen while travelling, I'm hosed until I can figure out how to get back in.

> So can this blind trust be exploited by malicious actors?

Yes, it can. Trust can always be exploited by malicious actors, and no amount of software can change that. And it creates a world that sucks over time. Show me a post-trust, highly secure environment that isn't a major PITA to use. And not just for computers. I'm sure you could use social engineering to abuse trust of customer service reps (or just people in general) and do bad things, and the end result will be a world where people are afraid do any favors for other people because of the risk of getting burned by a "malicious actor".
moves couch closer to tv...

still waiting for ATSC 3.0, and the darn NFL and any Canadian broadcaster to show games in 4K
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What is the energy use to produce a dollar bill? It uses plant matter - paper and linen. Coin production uses refined metal (although is more durable).

;)

[more seriously, I wonder what percentage of USD currency is physical vs an entry in a database]
> When a person tells you their own lived experience, the thing to NOT say is, "nah, that's probably not true."

As far as I can tell, your GGP comment wasn't actually talking about your lived experience at all. It was making general remarks about society and history that's very external to you, which you can definitely get wrong in ways that can and should be corrected.

For instance, if I told you my lived experience was that Donald Trump won the 2020 election and Biden is a Satan-worshiping cannibal, the exact thing to say to me is that those things aren't true. They aren't lived experience, they're errors in fact.
Don't bitcoin transactions offset from transactions within the classical banking network? How much electricity do banks use?
It gets points for being a novel form of broken!
Though I personally like the idea I don't really see the value in the long term.

In general, food services are in 5 categories.

1. Make it yourself, e.g. go to the grocery store, buy ingredients and prepare it yourself.

2. Buy prepared food, e.g. snacks, microwave meals, etc.

3. Buy service in which they prepare the food for you, e.g. restaurants.

Two new categories have been tried and failed throughout the years.

4. Buy service in which someone makes the food, at a specified location (2) + (3).

5. Buy unprepared and prepared food and make it yourself with instructions (1) + (2).

Generally (4) only makes sense and is cost effective in the catering context. (5) has failed spectacularly multiple times, most recently with Blue Apron. Unless this is somehow more cost effective than going to a restaurant (3) of similar quality because the chef doesn't have the overhead of a restaurant and passes the savings over I can't see this being successful long term or anything other than a very, very small niche. I can't imagine this ever being cheaper than a restaurant of the same quality (traveling is time that the chef will have to charge for or otherwise make up for in lower quality foods, it's a no-win situation).

The other issue is that something like this is going to be popular in an urban area, but urban areas are the same areas in which prospective customers will not have space, limiting the number of people they can host (+ the chef) meaning they would gravitate more and more towards just going to a restaurant inherently (the dining experience generally is more fun with more participants, to a point).

Personally, though (5) has never been done successfully, I think that's the next big thing. If someone can figure out the food distribution and partner with grocery stores and get some famous chefs at pre-scheduled times to cook food with people live (the same foods that have been distributed to the customers) it could work.
Certainly a shrewd move. Piggy back on the controversy of one particular subreddit who has been largely at odds with the rest of reddit, but because it's getting them attention (somewhat good kind) they're fine with it. Funny how 'reddit's standards' go out the window when money's involved.
I spent years at war with others at the company I work with keeping my own copy of paw test APIs up to date while many others used other tools for testing. Paw was just so incredibly killer, notably in the 'make one api call inform another' space. Using Paw always felt like I was almost a developer building my test cases rather than a person using an app. It was pricy, but damn. Good on you people, congrats.
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thanks for that! I wasn't sure.
Nic Carter's rebuttal to a Bloomberg comparison between Bitcoin/Visa, including assessments of total and per/transaction energy usage:

"First of all, Bitcoin and Visa are fundamentally different systems. Bitcoin is a complete, self-contained monetary settlement system; Visa transactions are non-final credit transactions that rely on external underlying settlement rails. Visa relies on ACH, Fedwire, SWIFT, the global correspondent banking system, the Federal Reserve and, of course, the military and diplomatic strength of the U.S. government to ensure all of the above are working smoothly.

Any energy comparison must take the above into account – including the externalities from the extraction of oil, which implicitly backs the dollar. As those who make this comparison inevitably fail to mention, the dollar’s ubiquity is partly due to a covert arrangement whereby the U.S. provides military support to countries like Saudi Arabia that agree to sell oil exclusively for dollars. It’s worth noting that the grossly oversized U.S. military, whose presence worldwide is necessary to backstop the international dollar system, is the largest single consumer of oil worldwide."

https://www.coindesk.com/what-bloomberg-gets-wrong-about-bit...
Cryptocurrency are inefficient by the design only at creation. But once mined, in principle with the right setup transactions can be arbitrary cheap. It is similarly as with gold. It is expensive to dig it once, but once a coin is minted, it can be used for millions of transaction making transaction cost rather low.
No, but I don't think ether uses PoS either (though I know they've been trying to move to it for years).

Further, whether or not some folks move to ethereum is more or less irrelevant to whether BTC carries on doing what it's doing. The problem is not individuals making the switch, it's getting enough people to switch in order to reduce the energy footprint of BTC.
We've been working with Google Cloud on a very difficult data extraction problem for about 6 months now. Seeing very impressive results with their DocumentAI service. One of my teammates is planning to try this out on some of our data this afternoon though!
> How many wars started, how many countries destroyed, and how many livelihoods and families ruined for the USD?

Hmm, let me think. The number of countries that were invaded to prop up the USD was... uh... zero.

The US has certainly waged imperialistic wars almost purely for the benefit of its corporations (see, e.g., the Banana Wars), but that has nothing to do with maintaining the power of US currency.
Indeed, the design of bitcoin assumes energy is limited. Either it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy (though if bitcoin starts approaching half of humanity's energy production I expect it will get shut down hard by governments), or bitcoin breaks when it becomes sufficiently available.

Though there is also another factor which limits mining: the availability of hardware. This cost is not negligible in mining profits, and in fact is one of the reasons the idea of miners using excess green power is a myth: mining hardware generally needs to be run close 100% of the time to make a profit.
> I don’t think anyone other than programmers thinks DST is much of an inconvenience. The clock changes twice a year, big deal

Everyone, and I mean everyone, I talk to about DST hates DST and wants it gone. It's definitely not just programmers who dislike it.
> Do we ignore the roll of IANA, RIRs, and other authorities that manage IP address and ASN assignments?

Yes, because Bitcoin doesn't have those issues. It follows the chain with the largest amount of PoW, it doesn't matter where it comes from.
Why stab the screen to get beautiful images?
Afaik, the relative mortality of men and women varried during pandemic, but overall does not seem to be in 2-3x difference.
You mean Mozilla, the organization that has maintained a 6 million LOC[1] C++ codebase continuously for nearly 20 years?

If they can't pull it off with C++, I don't care who can, C++ is not the right tool for the job and you can file writing such a thing in it as an esoteric programming challenge, together with template Tetris.

1. https://www.openhub.net/p/firefox/analyses/latest/languages_...
You are right, I had similar data and same warning as I got for COVID-19 from Oura cca year ago with regular flu. It is now more important because of COVID-19, but it is also very helpful for any similar illness that one may spread.
This will actually be the strategy for Tesla on long term - supplying clean energy for mining!

Interesting that the article totally misses out on that, it's a pretty big opportunity for Tesla and green energy (just have the banks print more money and use aluminum for coins isnt that clean either).
So the problem is more a coal energy problem than a bitcoin problem?
>Tesla's not trying to reduce the number of cars, it's trying to replace the existing fleet with electric.

This isn't completely accurate. A big motivator for self-driving cars is to increase the efficiency of their usage. Currently cars sit unused some 90-95% of the day. Once cars are driverless, they can be delivered quickly and automatically to users on demand. This removes a big motivator for individual ownership and can help usher in an era in which most cars are centrally owned. This is exactly what Tesla is planning to do with a fleet of self-driving vehicles. I have no idea when or even if they will get there, but it is a goal that is closely aligned with reducing the number of cars.
Yes I do. This is why my country had a space program before we solved all our social issues. You need to look at how much good an activity actually does vs how much resources it will consume. Entertainment is a good thing so is space exploration. But ISRO did not consume more resources than all other social improvement plans combined. Bitcoin is consuming more energy than the daily lives of a whole country. _Combined_
You can’t seriously be suggesting that public opinion and awareness about police brutality hasn’t changed in the last 30 years.
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That page does not explain how the correct chain is chosen...

I searched and found a blog that claims a chain is chosen by trusting other nodes:

“In PoS systems, weak subjectivity arises because the longest chain rule is not sufficient to determine the main chain due to the (nearly) costless process of creating an up-to-date chain.
Creating up-to-date competing chains would take little effort in PoS as opposed to in PoW. Therefore, new nodes or nodes that have been a long time offline have to trust the information they receive from other nodes about which chain is the valid one, causing weak subjectivity.

In the case of weak subjectivity, to ensure that the information about the valid chain is accurate, a node that is new or comes online after a significant period would have to get a recent block hash from a reputable source, such as a blockchain explorer, and insert that as a “checkpoint” into their blockchain client. This is the method of dealing with weak subjectivity, which relies on the trust with a reputable source. Although not completely in line with a trustless system, it shouldn’t really be an issue unless the reputable source is compromised.” - https://medium.com/better-programming/the-problems-that-ethe...
Tesla’s $1.5B Bitcoin purchase clashes with its environmental aspirations
I think femto or mili are more appropriate. Mili fits since IDE's a rather complex software and femto is a playful irony like less:

"less is more, more or less."
The "under penalty of perjury" is completely toothless and I don't believe has ever resulted in a judgement against a rightsholder.

Here is the exact text from the DMCA from https://www.aclu.org/other/text-digital-millennium-copyright...

(vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly in-fringed.

Note the particular phrasing. The requirement that the information in the notification be accurate is not under penalty of perjury. The only thing that is under penalty of perjury is that you can only DMCA claim things that you have copyright to (or are a lawyer representing that entity).

And it's worse than that, because you can claim something that is totally unrelated without this penalty as long as you own the copyright you claim to be enforcing.
I am worried if this will change the user experience of Paw for the Mac. I really appreciated it over Postman but the blo g post makes it sound like it will become a second Postman
The whole point of lightning network is to be p2p, so you're not supposed to know how big it is or how often it's used.
I have used both Pico and Nano. The selling point of Nano to me is it being small and available. I don't do my day to day work in nano, but even in the most minimal system it is normally there, which makes it useful for configuration changes in a pinch.

Another editor that works similarly to Nano, that most people don't seem to know about, is Micro (GNU) Emacs. Although it's not as small or common.

https://github.com/troglobit/mg
Love it, started yawning after a few seconds already! I might actually try it for real when I have another one-of-those-nights.