skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have sources who have purchased hydro plants in South America and refineries with installed power production and use the excess capacity for mining. My feeling it’s more common than a single crazy dude.
Context:

https://twitter.com/DrJK_Murali/status/1381567386587852800?r...

https://www.opindia.com/2021/04/aap-mla-amanatullah-khan-cal...

I'd like to say this is related to "one" wing or the other, but it's not. International liberal media like the Guardian have consistently biased reporting where they report hate speech from the Indian pagans, while completely muting out similar messages from adherents of Islam and Christianity.

Worse still the former tend to be simple rabble-rousing, while the latter often have had real consequences. See for instance,

https://www.opindia.com/2019/10/kamlesh-tiwari-murder-post-m...

In fact, barring a few indoctrinated people most folk I know are very aware of these biases - many such stories often find uniform coverage in "vernacular" media", and is in fact one of the reasons why, ironically, BJP gets votes.

English speakers of the world, of course, are both pretentious of their own half-baked knowledge, and at the same time, and dangerously, have both the resources and a desperate, almost religious, need to affect change.

No wonder they've destroyed much of the Middle East.

Please don't bother India - you lot have done enough damage already.
It would become an oven
Could you explain why you think that they should be?
Boom/bust cycles preceded central banks.
It’s very much an “or” situation from a practical standpoint. Maybe not exclusively or, but it’s unrealistic to say one does not significantly affect the other. Python core dev (CPython or otherwise) is already thin on resource for a long time, and you can’t just keep adding things without cleaning up old cruft. Parties most involved in development of the Python language (CPython devs, the Steering Council, etc.) value sustainability most, so it makes sense they decide to drop old stuff when they see no need of it. On the other side, parties that value stability more (e.g. libraries authors) need to actively lobby their goals to the core devs so they can assess the situation correctly and find the right balance between the two. You can’t just sit there and expect people to understand your needs; you have to tell them, which is what pydantic failed to do in this situation.
Is shiv better than pyinstaller? When turned my script into a binary with this, it took 10 seconds extra on every execution just to start running the script (Eg to just print the help message). I found that to be unbearable since this was a command line script that was invoked anew for every execution
Your premise is false. It's not an environmental disaster. If you think it is, point to the harm. Then explain why video games or Netflix or whatever are not bigger "disasters".

People buy electricity and do what they want with it. It's not your business. I don't come into your house and check how much ketchup you're using on your fries. Please sort out your own life before going and being a neo-climate-alarmist-electricity-use-hating Baptist about how other people are living theirs.
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> People who run a business guiding other people to the summit are fools.

I think that’s an insult to people with limited opportunities in life and families to feed.

If you run such a business, but don’t do any of the climbing yourself, you could call that unethical, but not foolish.
I am the developer of FindMeSAR (https://findmesar.com) which is mentioned here in the comments. The first time you open this web page your device must be online. The code is saved in a special part of your browser's memory. This web page (aka web app) will then work offline. This is done with service worker coding plus appcache coding as a fall back.

If you are a bit skeptical that a web page can work offline, just go ahead and try it.

There is an icon you can save on your screen and a 'Tips' button with more information.

Finally, it turns out that if you ever need to call for help with your cell phone there are some things you should know in order to have the best chance of reaching 911 or anyone else. After reading through a whole pile of documents on the FCC website I put my findings into 4 PDF reports. The end of each report has links to the other reports.

Open PDF:
https://findmesar.com/p/pdf/smart_way_call_911_with_cell_pho...
Isn't majority of bitcoin mining done in China? If so then we can safely conclude that the people don't care under whose influence it is.
Yeah because it worked so well for piracy. /s
Can't someone from the top force the office people to use code libraries?
one district did ban crypto: Inner Mongolia
But looks like Linus doesn't know the specifics, he is asking for more info while at the same time making already clear enough that if his concern cannot be addressed than there is no point working on the Rust integration until it is fixed.
Maybe they rank higher because their product is superior? I mean is there really anything better than Google Earth?
Where do you draw a line between abusing and feature?

If Apple didn't position itself as privacy-focused, then not allowing other browsers would be clearly violation, but if this is basically part of the product description - and many people buy iPhones in the first place because they don't want or case about other browsers - they want safety - why should Apple be forced to do it?
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It is also hard to manage humanity if the temperature increases by 5 degrees celsius.

Yes, this is hard policy to get right. So what? We have the entire world to figure this out and we are on a timer. Any first attempt will have flaws and loopholes and need to be improved over time. But this is just an excuse for people to avoid acting.

We need to do something. A carbon tax is the least extreme solution that has any chance of functioning.
By adding this header, does Chrome just stop sending the FLoC ID? Or does it also prevent Chrome using your site to build up the users FLoC profile.
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Do you live in a country with runaway inflation? If not, shut up.
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> So all they need is a slightly sexier or faster app, and they're done.

YouTube is not just an app, it's a network that can distribute content along the lines of "200 million videos watched, 65k new videos uploaded per day", it's also the people who moderate it, it's also the people who market it, uptime and reliability, etc. And you'd have to beat YouTube on every single one of these to get at even a substantial fragment of those precious ad dollars.

Notice that your hypothetical "NotYouTube" does not have _any_ advantage over actual-YouTube in a world without IP. It's in the business of connecting advertisers to potential customers, just like YouTube, and to be able to do that, they need content that people watch. And hence, it has an incentive to support the creation of such content. Especially so if it becomes the market leader (by having a slightly sexier app, or larger reach, or less obtrusive ads, or better recommendations, or a nicer privacy policy, some other appeal^1): with that advantage, more people will watch the new content on their website than elsewhere, so it will be able to get more ad revenue from hosting it than its competitors.

There might be

> You really need to think through the entire chain of events that'll unfold if we had no IP rights.

Agreed. We should be especially careful not to: 1. assume that Econ 101 would also cease to apply, and that anyone would be able to make money by spinning up YouTube clones. If your dystopian vision was correct, Wikipedia would have been outcompeted by one of its ad-supported mirrors long ago.

^1 Note: All of these are QoL improvements for the users of the services. As long as there are many more content consumers than content creators (and there is overlap between the two categories), this may constitute a further argument against IP rights.
Yes it is absolutely worse. The very notion that we need a identification profile that tracks are behavior is ridiculous. Contextual advertising works. If you visit a blog that covers tech hardware... advertisers can pay to put ads here or PC parts etc. If you visit a website that covers hiking trails .. advertisers can buy ads here for camping gear etc.

It is utter ridiculous to think we need to be tracked from site to site and profiled to this degree.
The nonce used as input of the mining hash function IS random (or rather, arbitrary).

Comments like the above are a sad demonstration of the fact that, while Bitcoin was originally an interesting technical project... Discussion of it has now been completely taken over by shills that try to dismiss/refute/hide all of the problems with Bitcoin (or the cryptoasset du jour) to safeguard their bet
> What happened to building a profitable company, or at least one close enough to ipo, and “making it” that way?

Nothing, the option is still there. Just depends if you want to risk it and work your ass off, or accept the security of a lower reward now.
The last time I looked into this it seemed like US junk mail might be roughly the same CO2-scale as Bitcoin.

Which isn't an argument against killing Bitcoin for its contributions to CO2 emissions, mind you, but it seems another similar low-hanging fruit of generating a huge amount of waste to benefit a small number of people economically, while being extraordinarily simple to "just stop doing it". (As opposed to, say, fixing all building insulation in the US, which is a larger problem, and should be done, but is non-trivial to fix.)

With the added benefit that a hundred million people actively hate the existence of junk mail, so I think "we need to ban junk mail because global warming" has legs.
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Yes, but my post was specfically in response to your claim about Everest. I have close friends within the no-supplementary-oxygen Everest-tackling community, and everyone is well aware of the brain damage ramifications.
This may be the single best thing I’ve ever read on HN; truly awesome and generous for you to have reached out in this way.
The camps are Facebook/Twitter/MSM (far left/Marxist), Youtube (left), NTD/Joe Rogan/Rubin (center), Fox (center-right.)

Leftists do not watch center or center-right, so they don't know anything about Jan. 6 facts, Hunter Biden, election fraud, #blm fraud, CCP non-kinetic warfare or political Islam.
In other news, shit stinks.
Same. Although I have a Spotify account, if a podcast moves exclusively to Spotify (e.g. Rogan or Last Podcast on the Left) I pretty much stop listening to it.
Rust std::alloc has the same standard interface as everything else- return null on failure to allocate. It's just that the development in std collections to use this is in progress. And it's being retrofitted to collections that assume they can just abort or panic on alloc failure.
It's possible for a monopolist to have a great product that allows people to do amazing things that were never previously possible and still be harming the consumer.

Microsoft had the leading desktop operating system in the 90s that allowed millions of ordinary people to start using computers for the first time, yet their browser bundling was considered problematic.

Bell telephone allowed you to talk to people across town and across the country in real time. People love talking to their far away friends and relatives! But they were simultaneously providing this futuristic service and harming consumers with their anti-competitive practices and monopoly pricing.

It's possible for Amazon to both be providing a great service to you and me and be harming consumers with priority placement of Basics products and even harming competitors by abusing their access to product metrics in deciding what Basics products to make.
It was much easier than that in the earlier games as you could make much more unbalanced spells (and enchantments too).

You could basically make a Fortify Alchemy 100 for 1 second spell, and because potion crafting paused the game, you'd cast it, open your inventory and voila, infinite potion crafting at max skill level.
But OP talked about "all central banks", he didn't say anything about trusting Erdogan, which we can all agree is a bad idea.
I mean I have the Fifine with the non-tripod stand (linked above) and mic sock and use it already besides my notebook slightly angled towards my mouth out of the frame. I keep gain knob down and when I am lazy, I just set Zoom's auto audio gain adjust which makes for an even output signal even when you move slightly.

On conference calls my headphones are usually plugged into the audio-out of the back of the mic so I can monitor my audio (and Linux can also output the system sound to that channel).

Pulsecaster is a very good tip, thanks!
Is that really a fair ranking? We don't even know,

We kinda know because people keep using Google. If people thought the results weren't good, they would switch to bing.
About 65,000 people flee Damasak after Boko Haram attack ~UN agency
I would even argue it has been so since the industrial revolution which brought along medical advances. So ~300 years
The actual Earth is, arguably, a bit better, imo.
Maybe a bit unrelated to the post, but I have been wanting to ask the question of why you still choose C as you language for new projects. Is it because that is what you have always used and what you know best or do you not think modern languages like go, rust, nim etc. are sufficiently better?

ps. I really hope that you can get a nerd talk about your eso project accepted, it sounds like a really interesting project.
Me personally if I would be asked something like "we can;t use PHP starting from tomorrow for our backend crap, what should we use?"

I would say node or if we need to use a static language would be Java. And the choice is not about the language but about the entire ecosystem(libraries, tools, developers, documentation)

Using type hints and a good IDE there are not many type related issue slipping in the code.
The mods only force you to use the article's headline when it fits closer to their ideologies.
a lot of tech stacks aren’t going to require cross compiling though
People say this frequently. Is this true? I always assume the fine establishes the illegal behavior and awareness of it for both parties and Google would be forced to correct the behavior regardless of the fine's size.

Were they to do it again or resume the behavior after the fine I assume the charges would escalate and eventually become criminal, hence companies curb their behaviors.

While this does create a 'get fined first' mentality, it does mean that good regulating could curb bad behavior. Am I wrong?
is there a better method for lisp?
Really the only comparable pain is my equally large penis. It’s a drag.
> It takes considerably more effort to go to a different store than going to a different website.

Not if the different website becomes hard to find because first pages of Google's search results are sold to better bidders.
So how has it? I was not aware it has changed (also I dont need the changes, as I use Rust for more highlevel stuff)
Sure thing. So did you ever issue a mea culpa regarding your statements in ACM Queue [1]:

"The past 30 or 40 years of hardware and operating-systems development seems to have only marginally impinged on the agenda in CS departments' algorithmic analysis sections, and as far as my anecdotal evidence, it has totally failed to register in the education they provide."

Cache-Oblivious Algorithms and Data Structures - Erik Demaine

http://erikdemaine.org/papers/BRICS2002/paper.pdf

Abstract:

A recent direction in the design of cache-efficient and disk- efficient algorithms and data structures is the notion of cache obliviousness, introduced by Frigo, Leiserson, Prokop, and Ramachandran in 1999. Cache-oblivious algorithms perform well on a multilevel memory hierarchy without knowing any parameters of the hierarchy, only knowing the existence of a hierarchy. Equivalently, a single cache-oblivious algorithm is efficient on all memory hierarchies simultaneously. While such results might seem impossible, a recent body of work has developed cache-oblivious algorithms and data structures that perform as well or nearly as well as standard external-memory structures which require knowledge of the cache/memory size and block transfer size. Here we describe several of these results with the intent of elucidating the techniques behind their design. Perhaps the most exciting of these results are the data structures, which form general building blocks immediately leading to several algorithmic results.

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Cache-Oblivious Algorithms - Thesis - Harald Prokop - 1999

http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/Prokop99.pdf

[1]: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1814327
No it won’t, miners that are mining at a loss would just stop mining which would make the difficulty to drop.
> It seems you have identified a lot with that language, and I see this often. Usually this happens to people who have little experience with other languages. The defend it like it is their home.

My take on this topic comes from extremely pragmatic and focused on results angle: delivering product. Not sure what about 2 sentences I wrote allows you to make broad assumptions about my experience, I don't feel need or desire do describe it here but it's not only my own opinion [0]

I think that Reddit "lolcontent" could be not good metric to use when deciding what should be used for building software.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26830757
I don’t think that was their point. Why is Google Earth ranked higher than, oh I dunno, Earth?
...in the US. Once. For alcohol.
your understanding of blockchain, nft and crypto is very superficial. do your research better
What's really curious is that you aren't using ublock origin. Life's too short to be harassed by marketing.
So since only a few decades I can do this:

1. create a shared hosting account for almost nothing (or literally nothing: https://www.000webhost.com/free-php-hosting)
2. write index.php
3. upload index.php
4. ???
5. profit!

But now, I can have the greatest and latest serverless multi-region, multi-something stuff with only these simple steps:

1. create AWS Account
2. follow these "simple" (nothing in AWS is simple) 4 steps to create AWS keys: https://bref.sh/docs/installation/aws-keys.html
7. #npm install -g serverless
8. #serverless config credentials --provider aws --key <key> --secret <secret>
9. #composer require bref/bref
10. #vendor/bin/bref init
11. edit index.php
12. #serverless deploy
13. ???
14. no profit, because your stuff went viral and your AWS bill is killing you

So at the end we have 14 steps to create something that potentially costs a lot and had an easier solution since about 1997. Awesome.
Facebook promoted a con-man / sociopath as savior of India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_image_of_Narendra_Modi
We are lucky that this is a link to the mailing list, and you can read the answers. Tech "journalists" read all mails from Linus and try to create click-baity articles from them, completely ignoring the context.
Well if that it all this could be solved by rust by having a "floating_point_usage" (or similar) lint
which normally defaults to "allow" but for kernel
devs defaults to "error" (which could be done through an option in the target spec, which as a side note is also what defines if you have hard,soft or no fp support). (there are probably better solution but this one should be the easiest).
the cookie debacle really illustrated how toothless and futile current regulatory attemps are, the industry simply side-stepped the intent of the legislation and that was the end of it. It seems the cookie notices are annoying by design to guide public opinion against future regulatory attempts. "See what they made us do? Don't regulations stink?!"
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You could get a substantially more useful passport and citizenship (Canadian) by investing $800K CAN in Quebec, not sure why you’d spend millions in Eastern Europe or Central Asia.
Note that the portability issue mentioned by many here is much less of an issue when writing drivers. After all drivers tend to be architecture specific.

This is why the idea is to start using Rust in the kernel for drivers.
€1029 is both for the 8/512 or the 16/256. The latter would be my choice for a dev (well, actually IS, that's what I got in my Air).
2nd anecdotal - I've reported several issues such as debris in the carriageway to the South Wales Police via Facebook Messenger.

(Not urgent enough to tie up a 999 operator, and it's faster to pull in somewhere and message, than ring and report via 101.)

They've been happy with location given by w3w.
Very dystopian to think Google is normalizing the idea enabling an ad tracking profile built into the browser itself.

The very notion that users need to be tracked and fingerprinted/profiled from site to site is asinine.

Advertising worked before the concept of tracking on the web. Companies simply paid for contextual ads based on the site. For example visit a site that covers college basketball and advertisers would pay to put ads here for sports gear, sports equipment etc, Go to a site that covers how to keep a nice lawn and advertisers would pay to place ads for mowers, fertilizers, etc.

The very idea that it is normal to have a specific adverting profile assigned to you to track you all over the web is disturbing.
> “ Let's not forget, we are talking about a US movie star from a time period probably before most of HN readers were even born.”

Ha! First, let’s not forget. Grant was a “movie star”. But seriously, he was a star from a time even before I was born.

The difference probably has to do with the difference between people who grew up during the ages of broadcast television, cable television, video rentals (prolly add PC video games here), internet entertainment, and internet ‘television’.

If you grew up in the age of broadcast television you watched everything or went outside.

As an aside, I was talking to an intern at work. Somehow movies were mentioned and I guess I cited a quote from Pulp Fiction (1994).

Me: Oh? You haven’t seen it? It’s a great movie.

Intern: I don’t watch old movies.

(>_<)
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I don't think content posted by elected officials should be moderated (except maybe in the most extreme cases). The society should have the right too see it and make their own conclusions about it. I bet a quite a few people would have had a better opinion of Trump, if Twitter actually removed his tweets where he made various untruthful and inciteful claims.
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Last time I checked standby power consumption only in the US was an order of magnitude higher than Bitcoin mining all around the world, but it's hard to estimate the emissions of the latter due to its decentralised nature.
I think Linux has gotten better but it's still pretty choppy and amateur compared to macOS.
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Well eye opening - not really beneficial - doesn't really give me a 1-2-3 attack plan of what to do.
The court case will reveal that google used the string "ad" to search within html documents, thy completely missed that <head> will contain the ad substring...
No because of the attack on the OP. They are able to deduce who you are quite quickly.

You can learn more about how safari protects you by reading these blog posts.

https://webkit.org/blog/category/privacy/
Key word in your statement being “maybe”. No one knows for sure if they’re exploiting their advantages or not. That’s really the biggest issue: the lack of transparency. I think if companies want to participate in their own marketplaces, they need to be required to publish all data they have that could potentially give them an edge. This obviously isn’t possible in many cases, so companies will just not go through the trouble.