skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going by the vaguness of the site, I wouldn't be suprised if they're mining bitcoin for themselves while you pay for the electricity.

Edit: Dug around some more, looks like they're building a BOINC-like service? https://computing.qarnot.com/en/
It’s just a weird idea, but cant you use hollow copper winding, and run the coolant liquid trough that?
There are several useful BOINC-projects, for protein folding you have https://foldingathome.org/, the projects mine computers use most time on are the projects at https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org. You can find lists of projects at https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php and https://www.boincstats.com/page/projectPopularity.

Interesting idea to combine it with larger heating than to heat a room or two. Many will probably argue that it is an ineffective way to create heat without also looking at the benefits from the work done
Of course C and C++ apps transitively pull in dependencies.

First, pkg-config exists and most projects on Unixy OSes use it these days. It doesn't really make much sense to argue "it all has to be specified on the command-line" when the command-line the developer cares about looks like this:

gcc `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-3.0` -o test test.c `pkg-config --libs gtk+-3.0`

(That adds things like `-lcairo` which aren't at all visible at first glance)

Second, why do you think things like libwayland-client, libfreetype, and libexpat show up in the ldd output? They're certainly not in the pkg-config output.

Likewise, nothing says a library has to bump its major version number when it adds a new backend dependency, which means that a distro may add a transitive dependency through a shared library update that doesn't correspond to you bumping your version.

(You can gain new backend dependencies without even recompiling anything you're responsible for.)

Heck, this post explicitly touches on that disconnect between what you add to your build plan and what ldd lists for C and C++ codebases.

https://wiki.alopex.li/LetsBeRealAboutDependencies
Nice to see there are places that get it.
> Doesn't the fungus get its name from the oxidized metal though and not the other way around?

Huh, apparently so! So Rust-the-language isn't necessarily named after oxidized metal, but it _is_ named after something that's named after oxidized metal.
The solution here in Norway is that packages too big to fit in your post box (12x 25x35 cm) are delivered to a local supermarket, petrol station, or other shop nearby. You get a text or a note in the post with a number on it and go to collect it, if is valuable you will have to show ID.
Yawn, yet more crypto-currency drivel on HN.

I think this is meaningless junk, again ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26134264 )
HN would be better without the big media links. Mostly.
Why would they even need to stop it? They are already suing Tether and it will drop afterwards, because manipulation stopped.

History has already shown that during normal days, the value of BTC drops ( 20 k -> 4 k.). So it's definitely not a store of value or a replacement for gold.

I'm not really sure why Musk is promoting it though. Does he hate regulations this much ( = subjective) or does he really have some good opinions about it ? His tweets about it doesn't seem to prove anything except memes.
Well then let's start talking about headlines, not news. What is the value of a headline?
Cryptocurrency mining doesn't actually require huge network load
I think they really want to turn it into more of a Pinterest and get rid of the opinionated techie.
Are you condoning the destruction of our earth for short term profits?
You gotta love the English language. Contradictions abound.
One of these is a minuscule amount of waste over an entire population which is very hard to reduce. The other is a very small group using a very large amount of power for very little gain which would be easy to stop.

Regardless, the solution to all is pretty simple, a carbon tax. If bitcoin miners want to build their own solar farm, let them.
I don't recall what basilisks are, only that I burned it from memory for probably a good reason.
If it's a cover for anything it's right-wing politics.
TL;DR: during lucid REM sleep, patients with extra EEG probes around the eye socket can make detectable left to right eye movements that can be repeated to communicate numerical values (e.g. 2) in response to verbal questions like “eight minus six”.
There's nothing wrong with restating the facts.

Your argument could be applied to a host of topics. The truth is, the vast majority of people aren't willing to change. For example, heart disease is the biggest killer in the world and yet people still don't take the required steps to prevent themselves of suffering from that disease.
How gracious of them, a 13 year old "startup" with no product, revenue or customers.
In other words, when the last Bitcoin is mined, Bitcoin is well and truly fucked.

Bitcoin and other non-inflationary proof-of-work coins need to switch to proof-of-stake if they want any hope of longevity.
The situation with mobile reddit got out of control. It is impossible to browse anything without the app unless it is a post on r/popular or r/all.

Out of spite I downloaded 'a' free reddit client and bought the full version. The constant stream of useless notifications of the official app is just disgusting.
Doing computations hardly stores any energy anywhere (the energy stored in, say, magnetization in a magnetic disk is pretty much negligible), so almost 100% of electricity is turned into heat.

The problem with this ~100% efficiency is that, if your goal is heating, you can move way more than 100% heat with 100% electrical energy if you use, say, a heat pump.
Will all web content creators eventually get to charge social media companies for sharing links? Is this the end game?
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I'm pretty sure it would be more efficient to directly heat the air inside than the heat pump input, though. At most they can transfer exactly the added energy.
I would call ~80 TWhpa "huge": https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/
> relatives who died from it this year

Any reason why they did not stay home? Wear masks? Keep social distance? Avoid social gatherings?
It is not wasted. This is the most common misunderstanding on this forum.

Miners are required to provable expend effort in order to become eligible to produce a block. 2nd law of thermodynamics as core security mechanism, as it cannot be reversed.

If you were to improve efficiency by routing excess heat for other purposes, it will gradually spread across the entire mining industry, and eventually you end up right where we started.
It sounds plausible that anything with the ability to disturb hormone production could also indirectly affect things like sexuality and one's gender identity. A quick googling suggests it has been suggested before, and that it's a highly controversial topic as it indicates that something is inherently wrong with being transgender.

At best, it's something that needs much more research before any conclusions can be drawn.
Based on random website I found googling, it starts to break down and release PFOA around 300F, which is easy to achieve if the pan is not filled with water.
No, essentially 100% of energy used for computation will turn into 'waste' heat.

If you calculate 1000 digits of pi, those digits will not embody any energy.
> You can read and research all day long, but that does not build skill.

This is honestly what gets me every. single. time.

I’ll get stuck and I have no idea where to reach out for help and I’ll start trying to research, fight with google filters, then decide to put it off and start researching other things (for the same project or a different one) and eventually give up.
I did this in an apartment I lived in years ago, and do it now in my house.

My computer room in the house is the lowest point in the house, so naturally, it tends to be a couple degrees cooler than the upstairs. This means that if I set the thermostat so that the computer room is comfortable, the bedroom is too warm. If I run the house circulation fan constantly, it's not an issue, but that consumes a decent amount of power.

If I'm going to consume that much power, I might as well mine crypto and make a few dollars. Mining for NiceHash, a service that lets people rent hashing power from miners, I'll average $100-400/month worth of Bitcoin on my RTX 3080, depending on current hashing prices, and how much of my time I spend gaming, since mining is effectively paused while gaming. The mining happens while I use my computer with no noticeable loss in performance, and it puts a few watts of energy into the room to heat it up a bit, evening it out with the rest of the house.
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> Many will probably argue that it is an ineffective way to create heat.

Electrical heating is as close to 100% efficient as you can get. Every watt your computer uses ends up as heat.

Generating those watts from non-renewable sources is much less efficient though.

I wonder if it's possible to calculate when the benefit of contributing to BOINC projects outweighs the CO2 generated.
Path of Exile does not have any decent PvP (while PvP in D2 was popular endgame option). Path of Exile is also a very anti social game where most players play alone.
A link from that is interesting:

https://inflatablekayaksandpackrafts.com/2020/12/02/lindeman...
The distribution infrastructure for distances above a few hundred meters(yards) typically uses 10 or 30 kV, and the former is fairly easy for pantograph-powered locomotives. So if the locomotive can optionally use a pantograph instead of it's diesel (tunnels and urban areas on the east coast come to mind), it has a transformer between the low-voltage traction motors / diesel generator rail and the pantograph rail (15~25 kV, typically).

The alternator and transformer don't care about the lower voltage, except that their current capability won't change much (so you loose power capability).

So I'd assume they should be able to use existing power lines from the other side of the overpass to the school, possibly after isolating that segment from the rest of the grid.

This might also connect some other buildings, but typical transformer ratings here (DE, urban, residential; are a few hundred kVA. So

(If you don't know what kVA means, "kW felt by wires/ transformer/generator, but not the diesel" is a rough summary sufficient for this scenario.

(Don't worry, it's neither wrong nor misleading. If you disagree with that statement, elaborate and feel free to downvote.))
I’ve heard this too. They have a term for dying due to being overworked called Karoshi. People who specifically commit suicide due to overwork are called Karojisatsu.

This site has some stats on suicide due to overwork, but it doesn’t have a comparison to suicide due to other reasons. It’s definitely a thing though!

https://www.statista.com/statistics/622325/japan-work-relate...
At least you know what's in bottled water, the water supply and its contents can vary wildly. In some places they still use lead pipes iirc.
If I remember correctly, they pay for the network and electricity use of the heater. They rent the platform for computation to other third parties.

So you, store and cool the computer for free. They probably sell directly to buildings and municipalities during construction, so it's installed and left there.

So you either just rent it for a nominal fee or pay nothing.
Stink mobiles.
I lived on a tropical island for a while where the roads were so bad, narrow and busy that speeds above 40 km/h almost never happened (there was a one km stretch on the opposite side where I could reach 50-60 if lucky).

Turned out that the low speed combined with short drives (it was a smallish island) was bad for the engine: the oil never really mixed well and had to be replaced much more often than expected for such low milage.
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It is assumed that transaction fees will be enough to
incentivize miners.
I got an impression that (so take it with a grain of salt), for incremental linking, Zig emits code that always uses PLT and GOT to access global functions and variables. Later, in order to replace functions or variables, Zig rewrites only PLT or GOT entries.

On the other hand, by default, gcc or clang emits code that does not use GOT or PLT, which makes the situation much more complicated.

In addition to that, maybe you don't have to support all ELF fancy features if you know that you are linking Zig programs? I'm not familiar with Zig, but I can say that some kind of minor feature, such as weak symbol, can make incremental linking a lot harder.
I think the reason JSON caught on outside of the javascript community is because it provided a succinct way to represent tree structures of common types (numbers, strings, dictionaries, and lists), using a syntax familiar to anyone who has used C, Perl, Python, Ruby, or Java.

S-expressions might have caught on for this purpose, but they lacked a killer app (jquery, and later rails). Like JSON, they are easy to parse and easy to generate, but being more loosely-specified than JSON, it's less clear how to map a given S-expression to a native type. As a glue format, JSON feels just right, even if it's a bit picky sometimes (e.g. trailing commas).

For anyone who wants extra features like comments, YAML is the oldest popular format I am aware of that is a superset of JSON. For any new format to succeed, IMO it needs to sufficiently distinguish itself from both YAML and JSON, and not just support a feature set that happens to lie somewhere between the two.
I believe that post was a neutral reporting of the actual situation, or at least the user's perceived take on it, and not an attempt to introduce flamebait. It certainly isn't an unrelated controversy. The EU/UK disputes over vaccine development and manufacturing has been well covered in many forums: it even led to an abortive attempt to create a hard border in Northern Ireland by the Commisssion, an extraordinary geopolitical development! Relationships between the UK and EU have perhaps never been worse, and the AstraZeneca vaccine is a part of that.

In addition the pro-EU/German press have been telling people for years that the UK will wither outside the EU and even that there would be medicine shortages in the UK. Now immediately after leaving, the UK is drastically ahead in its vaccination programme. Some European politicians reacted to the UK buying up the supplies in advance by spuriously claiming that the vaccine doesn't work. As a consequence there's now quite some shock in German society about this state of affairs.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/28/best-advertiseme...
Your electricity likely comes from burning coal. Coal pollutes quite badly.

Other ways to heat a dwelling are more efficient. For example natural gas heaters burn cleaner and energy losses are much smaller compared to all the conversion losses (by the time you produce a BTU of heat from electricity, several BTUs of energy have been lost due to conversion losses, while burning gas is much closer to perfect efficiency though obviously not perfectly efficient). Or if you can use co-generation, you essentially produce no noticeable environmental impact at all. Or you could go the other route and invest in insulation or a molten salt wall for passive heating.
I think that BTC (and all other cryptocurrencies) could have better uses for any AGI or whatever you wanna call that than piggybacking on their infra. In theory it would be relatively easy for "it" to hack its way around and install miners, steal wallets, and manipulate markets in order to make more money with which to either buy hardware or time/space in datacenters or cloud infra.

I don't think it has ever been easier for a software to make money than it is right now. The volatility of these markets together with the obscure nature of many of the cryptocurrencies and the fact that many vendors are starting to accept them is an interesting win for any singularity.

</scifi>
Do you really think Bitcoin mining/speculation is up there with the most wasteful and counter-productive things we do? It doesn't currently have much social value, but, man, there's much worse things. Think of US military spending. If you think that military has a reason to be, while speculation doesn't, you don't understand speculation.
Which is OPs point. The energy has to be wasted, or else everyone will do it to reduce cost and the difficulty just goes up until the net mining reward is similar to what it is now.

And that for something that’s almost exclusively used for speculation, because for anything else transactions costs are too high...
It's called "relaxed stability".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxed_stability
I don't see why not. Having Amazon on Google is clearly an advantage to Google because people go there to find stuff, so maybe Amazon should charge google for being listed on Google. Then Google can charge Amazon for listing them more prominently. That makes Amazon even more popular and therefore valuable to Google to list, so Amazon can charge them even more, so then....
> There's nothing wrong with restating the facts.

Sure, but it's still counterproductive. Most people respond to guilt by just digging their heels in. When you want to convince someone to give up something dear to their heart, you have to tread carefully.
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Formatting would be lost too (multiple newlines, array formatting, wrap limits, etc), and the order of keys. There are two separate tasks: comment json for a human and ignore that on parse(), and maintain pretty-json with all its usefulness programmatically with parseWithSyntaxStructure(). We shouldn’t mix them into one single problem, because in one case you just want multiple readers (a human and a computer) and in the other you want to rich-edit a human representation on its own.
Have you looked at the amendments? They are incredibly minor and don't change the basic operation of the law (i.e. to compel negotiations between Google/Facebook and news publishers). This is 100% face saving for Facebook. I would guess the original calculation re the black out was to gauge impact on other jurisdictions and when they saw/heard resolve tightening in Canada (who has a long history of imposing these sort of 'taxes' on middlemen)/UK/France/etc they blinked.
The author did not mention the key factor in this: Sufficient thermal insulation. Looking at the photo of his house, this type of modern house has at least 16 cm thermal isolation on the facade and at least 20 cm on the roof.
It is still not viable.

Assume your datacenter runs at 50C (122F) and the temperature outside is -40C (-40F), using the datacenter heat to generate electricity has theoretical maximum efficiency of 27.85%. If your datacenter is at 23C (73F) and room temp is 0C (32F), then the theoretical maximum is 7.77%. Note the word 'theoretical maximum', in reality probably at least 10 times worse than that.
In my experience, Teflon will always be scratched. Yes, in theory you could "use it correctly", but nobody ever does. So it's better to simply not have them.
I'm not sure if they're common where you are, but this is what Thermostatic Radiator Valves are used for. You can set an approximate room temperature, and the valve will open/close based on that. There are also smart ones now which can have a schedule applied to them, e.g. don't heat my bedroom during the day.
Sure, they are just not that widely used. As in, I've not really encountered much json with schema in the wild in my career. I know it exists (in several forms). Support for schemas in mainstream parsers is pretty much non existent making their use very optional as you pretty much have to jump through hoops to do anything with them. Most people seem to opt not to do that.

I never got anything out of xml validation either. It just lead to this ridiculously verbose garbage xml that was even less readable with all the namespace, namespace declarations, etc. Very tedious to write manually as well. Also lots of weirdness doing e.g. xpath or xsl transformations against that. The whole SOAP / web services bubble eventually imploded when people figured that you could send tiny json objects instead via REST.

I have many issues. People sending invalid json to my APIs is not one of them. You get a bad request if you do. End of story. Don't don that if you don't like bad requests. It's not a problem that justifies a lot of over engineering.

Json, yaml, toml, hocon, etc. are basically all just variants of attempting to send human editable blobs of information. Fine for apis where all of the requests are created by programs. Unfortunately people also abuse them for things like DSLs that are authored by humans. The real problem there is not using a strongly and statically typed language that simply does not allow illegal things. A schema is just a stop gap solution when you don't have that.

Kotlin is actually great for creating proper DSLs. You get IDE auto-completion and red squiggly lines when you do it wrong. I think Rust also has some nice syntactical constructs for creating DSLs. Typescript might also emerge as a language that is very suitable for that (with maybe a few more features borrowed from Kotlin). Using a non compiled language with weak typing kind of defeats the purpose. Hence the endless ruby but not quite ruby like DSLs for things like puppet.
Network load here refers to bandwidth on the internet, not power consumption on the electricity grid, I believe.
jeez point 2, western chauvinism strikes again.
Sure, but if the rebates result in wasted energy instead being used for good, then we’re getting an energy benefit while getting better power.

Hell, dont pay people, if I was mining and it was similar costs to donate the wasted energy I’d do it.
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