skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin mining is not destructive. The production of electricity via Coal, natural gas, oil, and biomass is. It makes more sense to ban the direct source of these carbon dioxide emissions than the downstream users of the electricity. Cryptocurrency mining is very compatible with renewable energy sources because it can be mined from anywhere, the energy usage is very predictable, and the mining can tolerate rare occurrences of loosing power. The publicly traded company RIOT sources 100% of it’s bitcoin mining energy from renewable sources.

Also, as a comparison, nearly all the gold mining machinery runs on gasoline.
Vietnamese pop music is really interesting in that songwriters will normally be credited alongside the artist at the start of music videos.

I wonder if we could ever see this in the west.
In the very long term converting excess generation into methane is almost sure to happen provided that can get accurately carbon priced versus ground extracted gas.

It's not even just seasonal capacity shifting, any situation that weight matters in will favor LNG over electric batteries for the foreseeable future even if batteries get 10x better.
Looking at the best in everybody. Nice. Thanks for sharing!
I'd love if they just remove Likes as well, honestly. I've been using the 'Hide Likes' Chrome Extension for over a year now. I have to say, not seeing Likes or Dislikes on YouTube and other social media is a huge quality of life increase. There is a perceptible difference in reaction when you don't know how popular or unpopular something on the internet is.
>We were all supposed to love that movie because it has four women in it

I see this sarcastic quipping a couple orders of magnitude more often than I see the attitude it is skewering in regards to that movie (not that that attitude didn't exist). I think part of that is the normal overreaction to anything "SJW", but I think the bigger contribution might be because, after the incredible degree of hatred the black actress got, the reasonable backlash to that enhanced the perceived magnitude of the different-but-adjacent attitude you're criticizing.
A throwaway printer is probably your best practical option.

Other than that, using a vintage dot-matrix printer with a low enough resolution (e.g. a 9-pin head) that it's unlikely to have either the smarts or the resolution needed to make this work.

Of course, this just means that if you are conspicuously buying a curated collection of vintage printers, you're providing another type of evidence.
Works very well. Had some time to try out the 2.8 build and all existing tooling works just fine. Solid work by everyone involved in this.
Honestly, it seems like there's no easy win here. I think people for and against this both have good arguments. For example, getting rid of dislikes could mitigate the effects of synthetic brigading campaigns. On the other hand, keeping them could in certain cases give a better view of the organic reaction to a video. I don't spend every day trying to solve these problems so I don't have a strong opinion about what the right answer is.
I think in Germany it was biased towards health care workers, who are more likely to be women.

But this is interesting of course, since there are speculations about young women's baseline increased thrombosis risk weighing in on the stats.

I think this makes it much more likely to be an actual problem with the vaccine.

Either way, the numbers don't justify the restrictions. People should be allowed to make an educated choice for themselves.
Well, make sure you completely destroy your printer before throwing it away or it's never stolen.
> I desperately hope this is the case, but a quick google couldn't find a link. Do you happen to have a citation that you'd recommend?

Cdc agrees:

https://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/faqs.html

> Is it better to use warm water or cold water?

> Use your preferred water temperature – cold or warm – to wash your hands. Warm and cold water remove the same number of germs from your hands. The water helps create soap lather that removes germs from your skin when you wash your hands. Water itself does not usually kill germs; to kill germs, water would need to be hot enough to scald your hands.

Soap helps break down/encapsulate/dissolve oils/fat that aren't readily soluble in just water.
Is the “cult” of Y Combinator good or bad for Africa’s startup ecosystem?
But what are the opportunity costs of learning stuff on YouTube, especially if you're watching hours of content?

There is good stuff in there - don't get me wrong. It's just that the good stuff you want to find is often quite hidden, and I've on occasion spent more time trying to find some video that actually shows a tricky part of some bit of equipment maintenance than it would take to just do things the slow way (think "If you know the exact sequence of steps, you can slip the alternator out this hole between the engine and suspension - or you can just unbolt the exhaust and lower the alternator out that way" sort of tasks - if it takes longer to find a video with the steps clearly displayed than to just drop the exhaust, you've taken longer).

I've also found that YouTube leads to a very poor, surface understanding of most issues - and this isn't the fault of YouTube specifically, it's just a limit of video. If I want to learn about a new topic, I'll typically try to find three or so books on it and read those. A single book can have biases and misunderstandings, but by the time you've read a few, it's usually clear enough what the consensus is. Does it take more time than an hour or two video? Certainly. But I also get a far, far better understanding of the material (which, if it's an area I care to learn about, is probably useful) than I would through videos. Plus, I use an awful lot less data in the process.

I'm perfectly happy to be called a curmudgeon or such with regards to my preferences for text and images over video, and there may be part of it that's true - but I've weighed video versus the alternatives, and outside entertainment (which there's certainly some value in), I find video coming up wanting.

Also, books don't keep (buy this!) interrupting the content (buy that!) to feed me ads for (vote for this person because their opponent eats babies!) whatever happens to (watch this movie!) be paying the best rates (check out this new online bank and stock trading app!) at the moment.
> if I am looking for "interview of HenryBemis" and there are 10 likes and 1000 dislikes, it means that this is probably NOT the video, but someone commenting on the video

This is the sort of thing I had in mind. Some of it is complete junk and some is probably interesting to some people, but the titles are sufficiently misleading to attract an eye-catching number of downvotes. I can't remember exactly when I last came across this kind of content, but it was definitely quite recently, so I don't think youtube has stamped it out.
I dont think thats true. If people stopped using youtube people would upload to other sites. Google hasnt taught you how to repair anything.
Did anyone else initially read the title as "Show HN: Anon -- Create anonymous, self-defeating blog posts"?
what's up with all the "I left CA for TX and I'm so much happier" articles lately. Silicon Valley and CA isnt for everyone. There is tons of info on what it is like to work in SV and the culture is based on hustling, grinding, getting rich and networking. If you're not into that and are not willing to work long hours then it's probably not a good fit. If you want quality of life, reasonable housing and relaxed pace then another part of the country is probably a better fit
Wouldn't a more appropriate HN title be "remove public dislike count"?
That’s a very good thing to teach your children. Thanks for sharing!
I knew about this aspect of printers more than a decade ago, before I ever got into tech, so I'm 100% sure it was/is semi-widely known. It's really sad that the Intercept and other news orgs are so technically oblivious that they would screw their source like this.
The last time I was at a start up (~2 years ago), it was a running joke that the easiest way to raise money was to say your product had something to do with AI. We saw so many companies that were branding everything as AI simply to raise a round.

One of the funniest cases was a start up that claimed to be using AI to process their customers' requests but was actually just farming out the work to contractors who were doing everything by hand.
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I don't think they document it, beyond being a "weighted average", but as I understand things, they already do give one stars a very low weight, in addition to a weight of zero in some cases.
Ironically YouTube feels a lot like Reddit to me - nothing really changed there the past 5 years, no matter what happened on the business side.

Some of it is really weird. Like YouTube trying to get into streaming, but never actually implementing anything for it - no clips, no emotes really, but the weird "create a channel from your personal GMail account" thing is still there. It's like the people there were told nothing but a keyword.
I'm happy for the content in any form, but a bunch of things would be easier with a wall of text and a couple pictures I could scroll through.

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Simple and genuine is the key. Thanks for sharing!
I took a professional development course in C from Alan Holub in Berkeley that I think was the base material from that book, ages ago. I can say that a room-full of talented people worked really, really hard to keep up the pace in that course. Like some other classes at UC Berkeley proper, surviving the course says something about you! It was all in portable C, and rigorous.
cpio is pretty shitty too. After reading the manpage I found a pretty serious bug:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14866

https://blog.habets.se/2019/11/CVE-2019-14866-gnu-cpio.html
Why does it make a difference whether your wealth is denoted by USD, Bitcoin, milk caps, or Rai Stones? If tanks roll over your capital city and your countrymen are made to kneel in a row, what good is it that you can refuse to give up the private keys? And how does the medium of exchange have any bearing on nations going to war over control of oil, rare earth minerals, strategic islands?

It seems to me you're implying that the colossal environmental damage inherent to a Bitcoin-driven world economy would be offset by the abolition of militaries, police, and banks, but I don't see how you make that jump. $trillions of military spending are used to secure resources and strategic assets and ensure national security, not to defend against bank robberies. A world without militaries or police is unimaginably different from our world in so many more ways than just the medium of exchange.

And if you can't point guns at people to make them give up part of their pile, how will you implement the CO2 tax?
Agree! It really depends on what your product is, just about everything has an API these days. If you are only selling APIs, then likely developers are your target users, but are they the buyers?
If someone (companies included) is so sensitive to being down-voted perhaps the internet isn't for them. In the case of one campaign of which I'm aware, Lucasfilm and Disney has been hammered by Star Wars fans, down-voting their videos because they have no other way to send a message to Disney that the personnel actions of Kathleen Kennedy have thrown the plans for the Mandalorian -- and it's connected shows -- into delays and uncertainty. I'm pretty sure Disney (and their shareholders) are more upset by the fact that #CancelDisneyPlus is still trending on Twitter, something that actually costs them share value. That YouTube would do this further shows that their platform is for big companies and brand-safe content free from negative perceptions and not "You" like their name implies.
I was thinking of that too. Thanks for sharing!
It really depends on your priors. If you think California is lighting the money on fire or taxes are theft, it is pretty easy to justify.
I'm not exactly sure which settings you're talking about, but it seems like you're saying that there are multiple places a user can go to change specific settings.

If that's accurate, that is a GOOD thing from a usability perspective.
Go was very immature at the time. Literally a brand new language.
Wow, that's pretty crazy. I didn't know Wi-Fi Direct was already supported on (non-Android) Linux.

It doesn't seem to establish a connection properly with my Intel 8265 card out of the box though. I'll have to play around with it a bit more.
> I wouldn't want to work for a company that sees that this way.

Don't choose corporation then
The reason downvotes didn't solve that issue was because you couldn't see the ratio until after you had clicked.

There was plugins that showed it when browsing and it made such a difference.
Relevant Achewood: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=02112003
TLDR: he bought coinhive.com! very cool
Microsoft is an American company[1]. Supporting government entities, including army, is essential to long term survival of any nation. If you believe that supporting your government/military is not essential, please go and take some history lessons. Pacifist societies are always conquered and occupied by their invaders; military might is essential (though not sufficient) for a thriving independent society.

[1] yes, I know about global offices and global workforce. But it is still an American company in terms of leadership, culture and values.
I'd be more for adding some kind of requirement for liking/disliking a video. I think that would be a decent way to get rid of shitty mass-dislikes from people who didn't even watch the video.
What sort of stuff, and what alternatives have you tried?

If it's a vehicle, the Chilton's or Haynes (I'm sure there's a difference but I sure couldn't tell) manuals will cover just about anything you'd want to do.

If it's a piece of consumer electronics, iFixit usually has good teardown and repair guides (in the "annotated images and text" style) that cover a lot, though for some brands you can actually find factory repair manuals.

Home, property, etc, there exist plenty of books out there, and often enough, plenty of slightly bored retired people who have been doing whatever the task is forever, and who are happy to help someone learn the ropes.
Exactly! There are around 155m people working. Half of them pays $0 in tax. That means ~77m people who pay positive tax now has to pay for that $22b contract. That $70 now has become $285. The math looks even worse.

The idea that some unjustified spending is OK just because it's "cheap" per capital is an absurd idea.
Can I ask how it prompts to change your perspective? I might want to implement that. It’s not clear to me based on the link you gave. Thanks for sharing!
All good points, though I'll say, when I added the music, there was no mistaking what I expected to see as far as Artist name, Genre, etc. I expected that my music would remain as I had provided it.

Once that expectation was betrayed, my collection's relationship with iTunes (now Apple Music) wholly changed. No longer could it be a slouching-toward-immaculate pet project of mine to maintain and grow and detail the music I love, because I could wake up the next day to Apple having literally replaced songs I myself had ripped and added to my library years ago, with these alternate, sometimes censored or even live versions. I can't easily hear the version of Bob's "No Woman No Cry" I grew up listening to and loving, because Apple replaced that with some studio version it guessed I had when tasked with playing the song at my request, 2+ computers and several years deep into trusting Apple with my collection.
It sounds like you don't think solving for data connectors + necessary maintenance has a lot of value. I would agree, not FTE levels of value, but most companies I've seen in the SMB space would do well to pay $1-3k per month to have their data all housed in one spot. That lets their 1-2 DS/DE/SWE spend their time actually analyzing the data.

Maintaining connectors is also a good way to demotivate high achievers - better to have them further down the value funnel.
This is why regulation of housing introduces more nightmares than it solves. Rent control eliminates used inventory. Building regulations limit new inventory.

Solve it by changing the laws to allow new buildings of all sorts, especially very small and cheap apartments. And by getting rid of rent control.
This will likely be so if it's not adding anything more to the discussion, revealing new information, or intended to only prolong any type of controversial flamewar.

I say this as an RMS supporter, but it is just how the community works.

@dang, If you're about, could we get the obligatory dedup post, links to prior art?
> Fuchsia network stack is also being rewritten from Go to Rust

This Android Bluetooth stack is mostly in C++. Only part of it (about 4K lines) is written with Rust.

The headline is misleading.
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Practically, iff browsers still relied upon SHA-1 to fingerprint and pin and verify certificates instead of the actual chain, and there were no file size limits on x.509 certificates, some fields in a cert (e.g. CommonName and SAN) would be chosen and other fields would then potentially be nonce.

In context to finding a valid cert with a known good hash fingerprint, how many prime keypairs could there be to precompute and cache/memoize when brute forcing.

"SHA-1 > Cryptanalysis and validation " does list chosen prefix collision as one of many weaknesses now identified in SHA-1:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1#Cryptanalysis_and_valida...

This from 2008 re: the 200 PS3s it took to generate a rogue CA cert with a considered-valid MD5 hash: https://hackaday.com/2008/12/30/25c3-hackers-completely-brea...

... Was just discussing e.g. frankencerts the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26605647
I didn’t need a VPN until I did:

Recently visited family in a different state and stayed with them for a week. They had a fast internet connection but something in their router made establishing a new TCP connection take forever. I bought a subscription to Mozilla VPN and viola, now my TCP connections open quickly again. Also bonus: I don’t pollute their ad results with my searches.

While yes I could dig into their router problem, they had no issues with how things worked and I needed to get work done.
Imagine distributing political literature or posting things around town. Why should the government get to know who is doing that?

Of course, document control for government and corporations is probably the bigger reason they do it.
I can highly recommend https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbtzT1TYeoMjNOGEiaRmm_vMI...

I’ve deeply enjoyed his videos and after the course in which we treated the material, regexes were all of a sudden extremely obvious. I benefit from it almost daily.

Accompanying book I would recommend: Introduction to the theory of Computing by Michael Sipser.

Credits go to TU Delft professors for architecting the course.
as usual, attributing taxed funds to the government, attributing discoveries/development to that funding and assuming it would otherwise not exist, and ignoring completely the concepts of opportunity cost, waste, or fraud.

Typical blind government praise riddled with misinformation, meaningless platitutdes, and logical falacies.
Don’t, it’s not a good look.
He acquired it from someone with apparently good intentions. Contextually a bit different tldr.
No, I've definitely had some control panels take a long time to populate. Depends on the machine and the day for me.
What is the 5 minute fix that would allow someone to escape tax liability for income earned (but not yet received) while working in California?
Sounds like a contractor developing something that gets paid with public money.
Any movement on the Android side is helpful and hopefully Samsung can shame Google into following suit.

However, if we're going to count years where you only got a security update, the iPhone 5s is currently on it's 8th supported year.
You think Youtube is removing dislikes because of white house vids that average out less than ~25000 views each?
I think this is the appropriate analogy. Is a Hollywood movie studio being "harassed" if people give a movie negative reviews? No. Neither are youtube videos that get downvoted. And yet here we are. You will consume what the people who write the algorithm want you to, you will like it and you if you dont no one will know.
Risk of thrombosis decreases past a certain age. Young women got the highest risk. This seems to be bound to your individual thrombosis risk.
This does not seem to me like a move to "improve the user experience", but rather to hide the public opinion about certain topics, such as politics or consumer media. Others name examples here in this thread, such as Ghostbusters (2016) and their trailers and recent Biden administration videos on the White house channel.

I am curious __in a genuine way__ if someone who might consider themselves "woke left" (at the lack of a better word) here on HN who sees this as a positive development? (I.e., someone who views both aforementioned examples very positively)

Or actually, anyone regardless of political leaning for that matter?

Because personally I find it hard to construct even a simple argument for the viewpoint that hiding this information in any improves the website and/or society at large, with youtube being an important piece of infrastructure for the entire world right now. This instead would just seem like google continuing down their path of abandoning their "don't be evil" slogan.
Fortunately, thanks to existence of a Wikipedia article, we don't have to take ESR's word for the etymology of the word. The article is neutral in asserting that Fermi coined the acronym, but does suggest that the usage derived from the existing usage of scram, meaning to GTFO with all due expediency. Other possible expansions are posited to be backronyms:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram
It's hard to draw lessons from your own failures
That's already happened. License plate trackers, cell sites logs, phone and car location data tracks everywhere you go. Google analytics inside a google browser running on google's OS on google hardware, all to gather data on you to make slightly more money selling ads. Not to mention other data aggregators who will sell that data to anyone with a credit card. Every aspect of our lives are already being overtly interfered with, but no I really should care a lot about some stupid printer dots.
Similar type of thing was used to trace typewriters behind the iron curtain before the communism collapsed. All owners of typewriters had to register their typewriters with the police and they all had peculiarities that would trace back to each typewriter. They'd load a page and type all the characters and that was it. I guess it had more of an psychological impact as the matching would be quite difficult. I guess they were afraid of independent people writing manifests or disseminating information.

Illegal information was circulating somewhat freely though, maybe not very sensitive stuff (people were self censoring very political stuff as they were afraid of repercussions from authorities), but lots of things from the west were circulating: magazines, books, videotapes and so on.

Growing up there it was drilled in us that counterfeit money is an extremely grave offense and it is punishable severely, and the same story with drugs. I was surprised to find out that counterfeit money was circulating in the states and when I received such a bill I asked a police officer what am I supposed to do with that. He told me to just keep it:) He said I shouldn't bother to report it as nobody would really care about it.
That makes sense. Social sharing is enabled at the single post page level.

As for the trends idea, that sounds brilliant. Will consider it for the future. Thanks for sharing!