skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The quote says that a parallel CSS engine in C++ was hard to get right in their case.
You're appealing to future data that are not available yet. Bitcoin has never been stable in its existence. You are positing without evidence that it will become stable in the future.
Mining is what powers transactions as well as generating new coins. Once all 22 million coins are mined it is assumed that transaction fees will replace the coins miners earn . So mining will always remain in some form or another, and also the size of the network is what makes it safe.
As a store of value, bitcoin does not compare to fiat but to other forms of hard money such as gold. During Bretton-woods, the US dollar and other currencies were redeemable for gold and no one was saying that the US dollar was polluting the world because gold mining is polluting.

Comparing the environmental impact of gold and bitcoin is an open question. Gold mining pollutes the world in ways bitcoin never will. It creates ocean waste [1], long-lasting mercury pollution [2] and more.

As renewable become cheaper than fossil fuels, bitcoin will create additional demand for cheap renewable and accelerate the green transition. Because a mine could be moved essentially anywhere, it can be placed exactly where cheap renewable source of energy can be collected, thus maximizing the return on investment for renewable power plants, for example with geothermal in Iceland [3].

[1] https://www.earthworks.org/blog/drawing-the-battle-lines-ove...

[2] https://theconversation.com/gold-rush-mercury-legacy-small-s...

[3] https://www.wired.com/story/iceland-bitcoin-mining-gallery/
There's an `import` statement with its custom syntax, which yes, does not allow anything else than a static string literal on the `from` part. But there's also an import() function, which is, well, just a function, so you can pass to it whatever parameter you want. For example a string computed dynamically as in your example. The linked page in my comment has a couple of examples of that function.
As long as we need coal or gas plants, bitcoin mining is a net negative for the environment. It also doesn't add anything of value and facilitates crime. If you want to push bitcoin to low demand hours via pricing, you're increasing the price for the rest of us. It's a lose-lose-lose situation for people.
Beanie babies created impacts far beyond fabric.

- Consider the small plastic pellets, which will eventually work their way into delicate ecosystems and devastate the ecology for a millenium or more.

- Since beanie babies were considered a store of value, countless tons of plastic storage bins and millions of cubic feet of climate controlled storage space are consumed to store beanie babies.

- Back of the napkin calculations indicate that over a billion dollars has been spent heating and cooling beanie babies since 1996.

- Beanie babies take up alot of space, driving demand for self-storage facilities.

- When sold on the internet, consider the electricity, excess heat, etc generated by Ebay, as well as the carbon footprint of producing and disposing of cardboard, tape, labels, etc and the carbon consumed in shipping them.

- The human toll is real as well. At least a dozen UPS drivers have been seriously injured while delivering beanie babies.
> bitcoin mining be kind of a load balancer

Given that the difficulty adjusts only every 2 weeks, that means that the time to find a block will vary enormously during the day as the demand/supply imbalance varies. That'll make BTC even more annoying than it is already (it's currently peak electricity demand where most of the miners are sitting, so I'll have to wait 3 hours for my 6 confirms?).

At any rate, you're basically saying that with renewable energy it's ok to waste energy, and I think we are not quite there yet.
According to this I'm doing it wrong. And I don't care.
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That is true of a lot of things. Would diamonds or gold be as valuable if people didn't think it was a store of value?
Having a laugh, probably.
That's not how measuring the "store of value" quality works at all.

For example, inflation of a given currency is measured using a basket of goods and services, not other currencies.
> In times of truly global trouble, nobody will accept bitcoins as payment for bread.

That is true for gold as well. (Ofc not 'nobody', just 'almost nobody'.)
> Just regulate/limit mining

It's designed to be unregulatable.

It already uses the model where you can decide not to mine if it will cost you too much electricity.
I’m now a Vim user in the terminal, but while growing up on mid-90s Slackware I used `joe`. I really figured that little editor out, and it was surprisingly feature rich. Still shares a fond place in my heart.

In the late 90s/early 2000s I started encountering Unix machines that weren’t my family’s 486. I found that `joe` really wasn’t installed anywhere, so I endeavoured to figure out `vi`. This worked well as it was often the default editor on the systems I was attaching to. Some systems used `pico`, and later `nano`... and I found that annoying.

Fast forward a few years, and `nano` seemed to be the default everywhere. At first I found this very irritating, but over time I’ve come to realize that many have the same sort of feelings about `nano` that I did about `joe`. No, they’re not super-extensible mega-editors, but they’re fine for editing a few config files or a crontab. More than fine once I bothered to wrap my head around the feature set and stopped grumbling every time I was in a `nano` session. (Though I still set `vim` as my default when reasonable on servers.)

So, I’m sorry little `nano` for all the past grumbling. You may not be my first choice, but I respect you for the workhorse you are!
Elsewhere on their blog (and especially on their gemlog) the author discusses and uses teh constructed language Toki Pona[1].

From wikipedia:
> Capital initials are used to mark proper adjectives, while Toki Pona roots are always written with lowercase letters, even when they start a sentence.

I imagine they've deliberately carried this across to their English language writing too.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona
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Would be nice if it threw in a "how far up the wall should this be" number
I think that this is a great big stretch to try and justify BitCoin mining. I don't know if you personally own BitCoin, but I would say that this is a prime example of motivated reasoning.

> or even negative

I can see no way that consuming more energy can result in an improvement to the environment (unless that energy usage was directly related to improving the environment). There is absolutely no time where you can say "the more lights I leave on, the better the climate will be," no matter what your energy source is.

In general the rest of your argument can be summed up as "if there is more demand for electricity, more utilities will build renewable plants." The problem with this argument is that there is already far more electricity being used than renewables can supply, so there is already all the incentive needed to build more plants.

As for the present-day, a BitCoin mining rig consumes whatever proportion of fossils are inputs to that grid. If a grid is 50% renewable and 50% fossil, you can't pretend that you're consuming only the renewable portion. Indeed, the opposite may be true: renewables generally just produce their max output, the fossils can ramp up and down to meet higher demand. So it's best to think of the fossils as the ones that are rising to supply any "unnecessary" usage.

> where you turn off and effectively provide the grid with more power

This is again pretty striking motivated reasoning. Yes, if we turn off all non-essential lights during peak hours we are kind of "supplying the grid" with more energy, but if we build a huge energy-suck, and then occasionally turn it off, we don't get to pretend we are actually energy suppliers. If I set fire to $1000 of my company's money every day, I don't get to pretend I earned them $1000 on the days when I don't.
> Such 'nagging donation requests' were banned by npm pretty much days after they first appeared, IIRC,

What does "banned by npm" mean? Here's an example from the source of the latest version of nodemailer (with 1.4M weekly downloads) sleeping for 4,100 ms on every install so that it can show a "Sponsor us to remove this lag" message: https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/blob/a455716a22d22f...

> and npm itself is literally a tool for installing code to execute later, so there's no security issue here. If someone wanted to embed malware into a package, they wouldn't need postinstall scripts for it.

It's fine to have a standard mechanism for postinstall steps. It should be opt-in by the end user rather than opt-out. That way people know that they're running additional code and ideally selectively pick which packages are allowed to do so. The vast majority of packages do not need it anyway as they do not have C++ bindings or need to generate data.

The defaults for NPM are such that you have to know quite a bit of how NPM works to download a package and inspect the contents without executing random code.

> This is really a complete nothingburger.

It's defensive in depth. With the default being to execute remote code, a single typo could be installing a package that immediately runs malware.
Do you feel bad that you used bitcoin to save $30 instead of speculating on it to make $30K?
You can't just buy a house with a suitcase full of cash these days, it's not possible. The gov will be asking where that money came from, to prevent money laundering and to ensure it's not proceeds of crime. Whether not you agree with that, this is the situation.

The idea that somehow they'll let you buy something with Bitcoin without requiring the same level of disclosure is a complete fantasy.
No they don't? I frequently send large(about £50k/month) amounts of money between one EU country and UK, we always pay extra(50 euro) to have the transfer done as an express transfer and the money arrives within 60 minutes in the UK bank. Or if you don't mind doing a SEPA transfer then it's 15 minutes. And no, I was never asked to prove any source of anything, it's an invoice payment, it goes straight through.

Maybe by "international" you mean something else, but at least in the EU(and EEA and UK) transfers can be incredibly quick.
Then Swift should be replaced by something more mainstream. Adding Rust would be less monoculture than what we have now.
We need to get rid of DST switches permanently. We should stick with DST as most people prefer extra light at night.
>Bitcoin is hugely volatile. That's great for speculation, but nobody with any sense would use it as the equivalent of a savings account.

Consider the classic store of value asset: gold. It's up 17% compared to a year ago, and down 11% compared to its peak last august. Sure, it's less volatile as bitcoin, but it's hugely more volatile compared to t-bills or a FDIC insured bank account. Does that mean gold also isn't a good store of value?
When BBSes started telling me to call back when I could connect faster than 300 baud, I discovered they would let me in at 110 baud.
It’s an energy virus and needs to be stopped.
What countries?
What data are you using for the DEM?
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But you have this problem as well, even if you use networked systems. Now you need to mitigate both.
Remember, the earth is burning.

Crypto is a huge environmental issue.
Gold makes a nice filling for your teeth, if you like that look.
Can US live without army? Can it live without bitcoin?
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Waiting 10 years to start eliminating emissions to cost more than $3.5T
A nice middleground on your example is renaming during destructure:

`import { check as ValidatorCheck } from "validator";`

This keeps the context at the expense of a slightly more verbose import.

Although the primary reason I use destructuring is to enable tree-shaking, and that's only really applicable for the frontend. I'm not sure why I'd destructure on the backend.
Of course VMs escapes exist. But many of the vulnerabilities are in functionality which aren't relevant for modern servers. Hardware virtualization support prevents many attacks. For example firecracker supports little more than network, block-storage and vsocks, which keeps the attack surface small.
I have the idea that banking for a country the size of Argentina uses much, much less energy than bitcoin mining, yet serves more people than bitcoin.
This is incorrect. The mining reward halves every 4 years, but if the price of bitcoin goes up then so does the value of the reward. Also it is a bit of an arms race so more power is required to power more machines,to mine the same number of bitcoin.
It would be easier, this TX came from my work's hotwallet & this one was part of my inheritance, you can see these TXs where that address sent to the tax authority assuring all tax has been paid as opposed to being passed around a call centre to talk to "Bob" so the bank can provide those details.
Check out FakeSpot[0]. They do meta analysis on reviews to try and remove/filter inorganic reviews. They have a browser extension which really helps, imo.

Doesn't exactly remove counterfeit products, but goes a decent way towards correcting the fake review problem. Once you've crossed that bridge, you can focus more on the top results without paid bias skewing them.

[0]: https://www.fakespot.com/
Well I'm mining conflux [0] not bitcoin.

And yeah that does seem to be "profitable". A 2070 Super card seems to net me a couple of bucks a day...enough to offset the cost. Probably not profitable in the true sense, but hey free heating is a win for personal finances.

[0] https://confluxnetwork.org/
It seems superficial
We always have to take into account the usefulness of what we spend energy on.

It's not as simple as calling out the top energy users and saying we should start there.
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It's worse in Canada than it is in large parts of the US. Typical deregulation/capitalism will save us B.S.
Right or wrong, the theory is that eventually it will stabilize and then the early adopters got a reward for commiting early.

This isn't so different from any network.
Like finding out that the house is actually not yours after landing in a foreign country and having spend you life saving on a BTC transaction.

Big issues, big risks, but maybe you have big balls too... I personally don't feel so self assured about myself.
Why did you chop the last four words off of that sentence you quoted? All it accomplishes is making it so that the response rebuts a statement that wasn't actually made.
Godot is written in C++, but it has a stable C ABI, so it's pretty straightforward to include functionality written in Rust.
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I have empathy for not wanting to be filmed, but then why be a member serving the public if this is the case? There is zero expectation of privacy if I’m performing an act in public on the government’s dime.
You already pay to heat your house, what if you could be paid to hear your house?
Back in olden days, Windows used to get pwned as soon as it was connected to the internet.
This makes me wonder if there could be a version of this that attempts to extrapolate the ISP network topology, at least to the node level, and to arm users with information at the level of ‘your issue is shared with at least 5 others in your area’.
I took my honeymoon trip to New Zealand almost a decade ago using a Garmin gps and a map I made myself from the OSM database flashed on an SD card. It worked great.
You can use diamonds to cut things. As for store of value, nobody sees it as a store of value. If you think it has value, go and buy a large diamond from a jewellery store, and then try to sell it somewhere for the same price.
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Speak for yourself, I played korfball for twelve years ;). Jokes aside, korfball isn't an olympic sport, and it didn't have Ard & Keessie to popularize it either.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ard_Schenk

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kees_Verkerk
Reading my post again, I probably could have chosen some better wording here and there. However, the point is that it doesn't matter if homosexuality is either environmental or a choice: the effects people having gay sex remains the same: people have gay sex with no negative consequences to anyone at all. Nothing more. And therefore they should have the freedom to have as much gay sex as they damn well please. Everything else is, quite frankly, just bullshit.

As I pointed out in my other comment[1], I definitely chose to have gay sex at some point and certainly could have chosen not to. I don't think it's so black/white.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26073364
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If electricity is made combusting fossil fuels at a power plant at say 40-50% effciency thats the problem.

If your using fossil fuels for heat its more efficient to burn them directly at point needed and capture the heat, rather than use the heat to convert to mechanical then electrical then back into heat.

Air source heat pumps are basically solar assisted, they move heat from outside air into heated space using electricity which also contributes resistive heat in compressor friction. The outside air is heated by the sun.
I listened to the press conference, and I didn't hear anything about imported frozen bats. I heard them say that wild animals that are known to be susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 from Yunnan province, where bats are known to harbor coronaviruses similar to SARS-CoV-2, were shipped to Wuhan, sometimes frozen. They want to look into those supply chains. Fomite transmission is something that's widely acknowledged to play a small role in SARS-CoV-2 transmission (it's why you hear recommendations to wash your hands and avoid touching your face). If wild animals (both living and frozen) that can carry this virus were shipped to Wuhan from a region in which wildlife harbors the virus, then that's something that's worth following up on.

About the lab, as they said in the press conference, no lab in Wuhan (or anywhere else in the world) had any samples of SARS-CoV-2 before the pandemic began. A virus can't leak from a lab if it's not in the lab to begin with. The closest viruses anyone has found are 4-5% different from SARS-CoV-2. The discovery of a new one was announced in the journal Nature Communications just yesterday. With enough wildlife sampling, SARS-CoV-2 will eventually be found in the wild. But it may take a long time - bats are strongly suspected of being the reservoir for Ebola, but I don't think anyone has actually found a bat in the wild with an active Ebola infection yet, in decades of searching.
Yeah, (re)reading that reinforces my opinion that Rust is better off being supported by a foundation - provided of course that the foundation is better managed than Mozilla...
You'll have a hard time convincing people that Bitcoin is OK by comparing it gold since most people who think Bitcoin is wasteful would also think mining of gold is very wasteful. Moreover, I feel like you're making the mistake you highlight in your first paragraph: conflating 'mining' in gold with 'mining' in BTC. Bitcoin mining is necessary for transactions to occur, not so for gold. It's a very foggy comparison as far as I can tell.

Your comparison to VISA links to a source that says that better comparison is Fedwire and that it only settles 1% of the money that FedWire does. So Bitcoin significantly loses to VISA in transaction count and FedWire in value settled. So I'm not convinced by your argument. And how much energy does Fedwire use? Presumably much less than VISA.
15 years ago we had been leaving computers running in the background to download and share data over P2P networks, nowadays it's to mine cryptocurrencies. How sad.
Created an account just to say this but you beat me to it.
Is this really true historically? Obviously these are biased goldbugs, but there are at least some anecdotes that suggest https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/ronan-manly/the-power-of-g...

It seems more likely that people conflict zones would be happy to accept gold (with the assumption it will be valuable in the future/in more stable areas) than bitcoins that require electricity, stable internet and tons of disk space.
What incentive will there be for the community to continue verifying transactions after all the bitcoins are mined?

Is it just that the system of storage will have Ongoing operational cost like a vault has ongoing costs to protect gold?

Has anyone modeled what these costs might look like?
It's a difference in degree, not kind.

Royalty in Europe has abused their power. It's inherited corrupt power, that time and time again has shown that given this power they abuse it.

Is it the same? No. Just like how Anders Brevik is not as bad as Hitler.

But yeah, Anders Brevik's crimes are "cute".

Defending corruption and crimes because "at least it's not Saudi Arabia" is what's truly silly.
Yes, but the narrative is that Bitcoin is innovation and any government against it is basically against innovation.

If I wanted to neutralize it, I would do something like Bait&Switch. Support banks running own cryptos until point where general public will see no difference between BTC and private cryptocurrencies and leave BTC users with their wallets and even when it will remain legal and everything, the "crypto revolution" would be taken by usual suspects (the establishment).

However, I wouldn't like to see it. I prefer world currency to be run by nerds over bankers and politicians.
14x more people live outside of SEPA than live within it.
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Then the conclusion would be "Open Source is unfitted as model to build end-user software for the average consumer".

Which I still disagree with, but that is a different discussion. It has nothing to do with Open Source being unfit as model for sofware around OSM or GIS.

Edit: to be clear: Bing Maps, Apple Maps, Facebook, WhatsApp are just some of the (average) consumer facing products that use OSM for their data. Some solely use OSM as data, others enrich and/or use it to mix with other sources.
This to show examples of how OSM data is used in and by apps that you probably use. But where the data is Open Source, the app using it, is not.
I’m no expert, but https://nano.org/ seems to solve this quite nicely.
This could be said of any economic good.

"1 Tulip bulb will always be 1 tulip bulb. It's just that people but them with a bunch of different currencies and all the other currencies have been really volatile relative to tulips (though not relative to one another)."
How is the correct chain decided?