skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, you're right, I misunderstood the Linus reference as Torvals not Linus Tech Tips.

But so you count reductionist click bait opinion commentary on YouTube as "evidence"? Commentary that comes from a company who's profit motive is driven by clicks and attention? Saying that companies primarily care about their bottom line is tautological, it contains no information. It's still a straw man regarding whether or not segmenting 3060s is a net positive for gamers.

Last chance... you still haven't addressed the first-hand market effect on gamers of trying to get miners to buy something else. You haven't yet backed your claim that this is bad for gamers right now. I've basically agreed with what you said might happen, that the second hand market won't look like what happened in 2018. I can only assume that if ad-hominems are going to be the response to an honest question to what you said, then you don't actually have an answer?
Why not think about it?
I prefer not having to maintain code that is overly flexible with its input. Last time I ran into half a page of workarounds for bad input I spend a day tracking down all affected files and making sure I could either ignore or fix them. The result was a neat little string comparison that didn't have half a dozen unpredictable edge cases.
Show me a list of what you do in a day and I’ll find questionable, selfish uses of cheap energy that don’t benefit society. That’s not a game you want to play.

People making noise about Bitcoin energy consumption seem to have little idea how much energy anything else uses kinda like how Americans only compare everything to Hitler because WW2 is all we’re really taught in school.

People suddenly act like they care about how others choose to spend their energy when it comes to Bitcoin but not anything else, like the incredible amount of land and energy it took to bring that pound of meat to your table that you only eat because it pleases your tastebuds. Or the tech gadgets you own.

Seems convenient to only turn on the ol careface when it’s something you don’t happen to indulge in, yet it makes you blind to the inconsistency of your position. There are a lot of necks on the chopping block long before you get to Bitcoin mining when you start bringing up the metrics that you think damn Bitcoin mining, probably your entire way of life.
You've probably missed the most important one - diversification. A lot of people (rightly or wrongly) are concerned about the U.S. Dollar after what has transpired (and is still transpiring) with this pandemic. The Fed has unleashed it's full force and we simply don't know (although many are making their best predictions) what the future holds.

There's a reason companies and major asset holders are putting 1-10% of their portfolios into Btc, and I assure you it's not only speculation.
The companies in control of our secret identities
He clearly had issues and an axe to grind. Today we would feign pity, and magazines would put his face up on the cover and turn him into a martyr trying to sidestep the fact that he murdered people.

But this isn’t the pretty boy from Boston, this is a well educated erudite who saw things others did not wish to confront.
Nuclear loses to alternatives on a pure ROI basis. Even in places where political opposition or legislation is a total non issue (eg China) you see exactly the same bad math when it comes to the $.

I feel like a broken record posting this in every thread about nuclear. There's too many people on this forum that have some sort of smug attitude about not being "scared" of nuclear power and don't bother to learn what's actually constraining things.
I don’t follow. You could make the same argument about communal water heating versus having a heater in each home, yet of course such a position would be absurd.

Millions of individual homes running their own solar, even with everybody hooked up for exporting, is quite feasible. It’s happening today.

Having it be an arrangement where a power provider owns and maintains the panels isn’t necessary or desirable. Lease-to-own or outright purchase by homeowners works fine.
Land usage is not much of an actual problem. For one sunlight falls pretty much everywhere. You don't need to put a solar plant out away from cities like coal and oil plants. You can cover the acreage of a city with solar panels. Just putting panels up over parking lots in suburbs/exurbs contributes significantly to the area's power needs.

Offshore wind is also extremely productive and eats up no arable/useful land. Farmland is also great siting for wind because there's enough uninhabited acreage to safely put up large turbines. A lot of wind power in Texas for instance comes from turbines on farms and ranches.

That's in addition to more site limited renewables like hydro, tidal, and geothermal.

There's lots and lots of untapped energy hitting the Earth every day. The Earth is also really big. To handle a few integer multiples of human power needs with renewables by tapping a tiny fraction of that is not outside the realm of possibility or even all that difficult. It's more a question of will than technical capability.
Agreed. If you're going to start an ad business today, it should feel the least amount "sleazy," gimmicky? as possible. In case that was done on purpose to get more of your attention, that is.
> Tell that to citizens of countries who have experienced hyperinflation and whose currencies became worthless almost overnight

At best, this argument turns Bitcoin into a massive subsidy by stable countries of unstable ones. A subsidy paid for in the form of higher energy prices, environmental damage and opportunity cost.
Please provide factual data on the survival rate and not just your opinion of 99.7%

What we do know is It has killed (currently) nearly 400-500K people in the US alone. It overwhelmed the health services of many places in the world and even here in the US (Even though the last president sought to massage those figures for less bad press)

It causes long term problems in lungs and hearts, and goodness knows what else in perhaps up to 25% of the people who may not know how badly they are affected for years.

In fact Covid19 has actually reduced the average age an American lives to by an entire year.

And we know that wearing a mask was politicized to the point that its still a symbol of division instead of common sense protection that, lets face it, had it been adhered to and not turned in to a conspiracy theory divisive action may have enabled those very stores in California to remain open.

Cant have it both ways!
zkrollups, like all rollup technologies just kick the can down the road. Not every transaction needs to live on a blockchain! This is the fundamental point that folks miss. LN is about true 'off-chain' in that a blockchain is not needed to provide a probabilistic model to funds.
Do you see how this is similar to MW cut-through, in that a probabilistic model is used to store funds on chain? Imagine all the ZKrollup solutions and throw away the sidechain.

Rollup is just another name for sidechains. I agree, the sidechain model works today. The BTC Pegged liquid network also does zero knowledge (confidential transactions) exchanges of BTC between exchanges. But ultimately it is still kicking the can down to another blockchain.
Rollups are not 'off-chain', They are on another chain. We need to think beyond this for true scaling.
It's really not high maintenance at all. Leftpad issue was fixed in less than hours the same day it happened and since then the NPM tooling for package management has improved a great deal.

JS shiny new culture doesn't really exist on the back end (and even front end js has calmed down in recent years). Express.js, the go-to framework 7 years ago, is still the go-to framework on Node today.

Node and Mongo are at this point "boring tech". Their limitations and trade-offs are well known, their benefits are also well-established, and their APIs and tooling have matured.
I watched Silent Running last year after learning the Steam Gardens area in Super Mario Odyssey was based on it.
The key difference is a manufacturer exerting control over what you're allowed to do with property that is supposedly "yours". That the terms were announced ahead of time will mean little once this becomes commonplace.
Opium wasn't illegal until it was associated with Chinese immigrants back in the 1800s.
When my city opened a new airport, they had plans to redevelop the old one for other uses. I remember hearing that, in order to stop people from fighting to keep the old airport around, the city quickly destroyed a section of the runways with dynamite. Supposedly this would make it cost-prohibitive to try to use it as an airport again.
If I were in Texas last week, I would have loved to have a home solar system with a battery that let me island from the grid. This is definitely practical and happening even at today's high prices.

In a decade, ERCOT will look nothing like it does today. It will have massive amounts of solar and storage, and even more wind. This is replacing gas plants as they age out.
Clients do not support wireguard, but I wish. I use it for my own uses but there's practically no chance it gets approved by clients!
I'll take them over echo-chambers where extremist left/right stupidity can fester unchecked any day.
The big problem with proof of stake is that it requires a centralized root of trust.

Suppose for example that I takeover the Cardano website. I could create my own root block and generate millions of 'stakers'. Staking requires ownership but since it's my own new chain, I can generate coins easily without expending any real-world resources. As a new user, how could you differentiate the 'real' Cardano chain from mine?
> a lot of people also tried to get in on the dot com bubble

Ex ante, it is difficult to differentiate a Pets.com from an Amazon, or a dot com bubble from a beanie baby boom.
I always thought these look cool. It’s on the list of machines I’ve never seen for sale sadly.
This guy planted an entire forest by himself, probably did more for the world thank most of us ever will:

https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/08/man-turned-desert-forest-plan....
> ... but it's the job of the central bank and government to do that

says who ? the central band and governments ? The whole point of crypto is to provide an alternative to arbitrary decisions from unelected officials.
Because ultimately you have no idea what you are doing, unless you spend your whole day tracking what is going on with the (often hundred) pieces that make up the software you are using.

There might be an error in the software you are using that malware or hackers can use to run abitrary code on your machine. Unless you keep your software up to date or manually make sure the updates are not for security purposes, those who not update increase their exposed surface.

Then imagine you don't update your software, but (because of security reasons) you update your operating system. Suddenly your (back then working) software finds itself in a changed environment. If you are lucky it works, but just as well it can stop working (or create new security holes because the software relied on something in the OS that changed).

I know people who e.g. run 10 year old Audio programs or stuff. But they do so on a computer with a 10 year old OS that is not allowed to connect to the internet. This is a good strategy.
I'd consider doing something outside of sprint again like looking around for job offers.
FYI using the terms ADHD/ADD when not talking about the actual disorder is often offensive to people who have ADHD. It fails to acknowledge that the condition is more complicated than just getting bored quickly, especially when your statement can be interpreted as implying that people with ADHD "lack curiosity and are not digging deep enough". Things are hard enough for people with ADHD without trivialising/generalising/moralising their problems.
Good thing we all have our own rights and responsibilities and can make decisions for ourselves.
React has innovated somewhat with lifecycle methods and hooks, but the main value is not in it's API. It's the ecosystem and scheduler.

Preact is a good alternative if you have a small app, but the reason it's so small is because it doesn't have a scheduler which might cause issues with larger apps.
I’ve been wondering when we’ll see a service that lets you upload a headshot from the company directory or Facebook, and returns every nude of that person that ever found its way onto the internet.
how do you know they don't have good ventilation and/or an outdoor space?

furthermore, it's not deadly (though possibility of long-term organ damage?) for most people, especially under ~70 years of age and in otherwise good health. making low-risk people stay at home, indoors, is generally making their mental and physical health worse. not to mention their economic situation in many cases. that all needs to be factored in too.
Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: The Science of Making Rain
About 0.5% of the US needs to be covered in solar panels to meet the US's current energy requirements (about the size of the Mojave desert).

About the size of New Mexico needs to be covered to meet the whole world's energy consumption.

In the grand scale of things, and considering how much sunny, arid desert land there is in the world (and without even thinking of floating solar farms) that's really not a lot...
That's a bummer. I'm always doing work outside my sprint/scope/team, probably as much as 20-40% of my time— my company has no issue with it, and I think it's especially valuable for building cross-team empathy, technical understanding, and so on.

Now, I'm quite senior at my org and I also have a track record of my "side bets" turning out to be tremendously valuable on multiple past occasions. But I don't think there's a special policy just for me— this is a company-wide culture thing.
I suppose you could see it the other way. A nuclear plant in everyone's backyard might be incentive to put competent people in charge?
It's not wrong. Bitcoin's energy usage does scale based on usage; it scales based on the value of money flowing through the system (in order to secure a certain transaction volume, you need electricity usage that corresponds to the value of those transactions). In order for Bitcoin to replace banks, it would have to consume an incredible amount of electricity.
Thanks, I didn't know that. One more reason for application specific keys, I guess.

Product placement and UX improvements could coexist too; sometimes literally, e.g. this keyboard has a MS office button and an emoji button: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/11/20909475/microsoft-offic... .
Forming a Community of Practice
Exactly the same thing I read about Delhi (Indian) Schools, 10th standard is board exams where the marks are published Nation-wide so to look good on Media, students who didn't do well during their 9th standard were "Pushed-out" of it to different schools so that their 10th std cohort looks awesome - https://thewire.in/education/delhi-govts-push-out-policy-for...
Also when breaking new ground, if 10 people mention the same wrong thing, you may be onto something ;)
Is the arrow of causality that way, though?

I'm at the traditional "first-time-homebuyer" age, and I'm personally saving a fair portion of my income primarily because assets, such as houses, are so expensive. Were housing cheaper, I'd be paying a mortgage instead of a saving account.

(And, I'd argue, sending longer doing so too due low interest rates.)
If your grid covers a large region and you have sufficient transmission, then somewhere, there is excess electricity from wind/solar that you can bring in.

Remember, we're talking about a world where building renewables to 4x peak demand would be actually economical.

This works on the same principle as an insurance market: it's likely that even at 4x capacity, your local solar farm has a few cloudy days. It's highly unlikely that your entire regional grid generation falls below demand. That probability falls (super?-)exponentially in the size of the region.

Taking a step back: yes, renewable power is intermittent and you need electricity here, now. Either 1) transmit from elsewhere, 2) store locally, or 3) supplement with a stable source (nuclear / thermal). The choice simply comes down to cost (to provide a given level of reliability).

The most efficient solution is likely to do all of the above, taking local conditions into account. Adjusting for local conditions is one thing that a (well-managed) market helps tackle.
Ask HN: What flow/techniques/tools do you use to keep up with multiple tasks?
Hello HN.

For many years, I have worked as a Product Manager of one product. It was relatively easy to follow, the team was small.

But now I have more products, and it is getting very tiring and complicated to keep up with all of the tasks, notes, etc.

What flow, technique, and even tools do you use too keep up with multiple stakeholders, requests, and products (or projects)?

Thanks!!!
"He clearly had issues". You don't say. He tried to down a commercial airliner.

My friend Thomas sees things others don't wish to confront, too. He was just removed from his university physics professorship for, among other things, seeing the 5G waves that are killing us all, the obvious falsity of the moon landings, the hollow core of the Earth, and the ways in which Jewish people are controlling society. He sleeps in his basement, away from his wife, with a wire connecting him to a power outlet. I forget the logic behind that.

Kaczynski slept in a tiny shack. He had a hole cut in the floor to use as a toilet. He is probably the only person in ADX Florence to have been given a drastic lifestyle upgrade upon incarceration. It's funny how people are so driven to mascotize him.

When something horrible happens to Thomas (I worry about this a lot), I wonder what the message board people will say about the forbidden truths he managed to confront in his writings.
> The comment that RCS scales for binaries couldn't be more wrong, RCS hates binaries with a passion.

That isn't what I meant, I was actually talking about Perforce. RCS doesn't even handle multiple files.
Facebook vs. Australia
Right, there's nothing prophetic about this. Extremists on both the right and the left take extreme positions and are prepared to take extreme measures. It goes with the territory.

I also don't think the right and left axis is misleading. It's up to the majority on right and left to realise they generally have more in common with the majority on the 'other' side than they have with the extremists on 'their' side.
The link directly contradicts this. Pooled mining with BTC (ETH too, but also BTC) on a GPU is something you can do and make a modest amount of money right now, to the tune of around $5/day at current prices.

There's a profitability floor on hashes/KWh. When coin's price goes as sky-high as it has been, it pushed GPU mining back into the black. This is likely a temporary state of affairs; either the network difficulty will increase to where only ASICs can break through, or the price will decline.
Though it's been out of production for 15 or 20 years, the Kinesis Evolution belongs in here. I have a chair-mount model that still works.
I think it's that it's just subtile enough that you question if it's moving at all, and that disagreement between expectation and observation creates a sense of unease.
> it is difficult to differentiate a Pets.com from an Amazon

Arguably a small minority were able to differentiate and it paid off very well for them.
I haven’t really followed Newsom’s term as governor, but I do remember him being a frequent guest on Bill Maher a few years ago. He was frequently touted as a future Big Deal since he “even looks presidential.”

It’s interesting how many political careers COVID has sunk.
> I'd say more generally, it's about control and having something police / government can hold over almost anyone, or any demographic, if convenient for whatever reason.

That statement glosses over the fact that such restrictive policies frequently come about as a result of trying to control minorities and never the dominant race. After all, if you do that, you'll get voted out of office.

For example, in California, gun control was brought about as a result of Black people carrying guns in public. When white people did it, it was totally fine, but once Black people started utilizing their 2nd amendment rights, the state government curtailed it.
> You are conflating the concept of commercial software with the concept of a walled garden.

Commercial software is the software for which developers get money. It can include free software, too. It has nothing to do with the license or the topic we are discussing. You are conflating the concepts here.

Walled garden in general is a convenient system, from which a user can hardly escape when the users wants to. This is exactly what Mac license does. Wikipedia has Mac OS as an example of a walled garden. I did not make it up myself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Walled_garden_(te...
How so? None of the fraud prevention APIs I've seen tell you if a given number is connected to a base station, only whether it's theoretically GSM, landline, VoIP, or something else. With the ability to tunnel LTE over an unstructured Internet connection ("wifi calling,") I don't have to be within range of a single US-based base station to "appear" like I am in the US to the mobile network.

And everyone tells me that only accepting "real" mobile phone numbers means they're just piggybacking on the identity checks that mobile carriers do. Which, if true, I'd like to introduce you to Constable George Crabtree and his nineteen perfectly valid mobile numbers, all of them with his name in the CNAM field.

All this does is prevent someone who's not tech savvy and who might be trying to save a bit of cash by using a Republic Wireless or TextNow or some other "free calls and texts!" service from fully participating in this new app-based reality we've constructed. Someone who actually wants to commit fraud will step right over these dumb speed humps and do whatever they like.

I'm not saying don't do fraud detection, I'm saying don't do fraud detection that is so screamingly trivial to bypass.
This is the kind of game you play in TableTop groups, not with some random friends at an arbitrary time.
It sounds like you haven't heard of that experiment on rats. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QsMJQSFj7WfoTMNgW/the-traged...
In each repo we have a TODO.md it contains a ## todo, and a ## done section.

way easier and its updated on every commit
From the article:

> I chose “boring technology” as the pithy SEO-friendly title for this content, and I regret it most days. It’s kind of distracting. “Boring sounds bad, why is he saying it’s good?” Et cetera. It’s a real shitshow.

> But what I’m aiming for there is not technology that’s “boring” the way CSPAN is boring. I mean that it’s boring in the sense that it’s well understood. It’s bad, but you know why it’s bad. You can list all of the main ways it will let you down.

> It’s important to master the tools that you do pick.
What do you mean it's not a "web application"? One surely could run this library on a server and expose it to users.
You cannot escape an evil government.

But if you don't like the services of a private corporation, just drop it. Nobody is forcing anyone to use WhatsApp. Pleople decide to do so. We are all free, and I believe we can all affort a (very) few euros/dollars/pounds and buy Threema. Or using Signal for free.

But if your government decides to bump VAT on food at 60%, you cannot escape that. Only leave the country.
Risk assessment is ultimately the individual’s choice.

You may have had a point in the beginning when so much was unknown about the virus. How it spreads. Who it affects.

But distributions are much clearer now.

If you’re part of the vulnerable cohorts stay home, cleanse everything from the outside. That’s your safe choice.