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> Why are you handwaving away my concerns?

Calm down.

> Speaking of which, can you quantify what things pollute more?

You're all over the comments trying to pin the blame for CO2 emissions on the the existence of PoW cryptocurrencies. But if you stop and think about the problem for more than 5 seconds, you'll realize that it's the CO2 emissions, not cryptocurrencies, that are the problem. They were a problem before cryptocurrencies, and would continue to be a problem even if cryptocurrencies didn't exist.

I think you'll find that many cryptocurrency fans are also green-energy fans, and would love to live in a world where all energy was 100% renewable. Like, no one here wants to burn more fossil fuels.
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Yes, and it also doesn't take into account the time of use.

There are times when renewables have to be curtailed in some regions, so using renewable sources at that time has a marginal CO2 impact of near zero.
But the "I knew a guy once who did the thing" type of evidence is most salient in most peoples opinions about things
Yes exactly - is gaming/personal entertainment a "good" use of energy?
IRC, XMPP, email, etc. Please also see:

https://gitlab.com/libremonde-org/papers/research/privacy-ma...
I moved 8 months ago and put out feeders almost immediately. It only took a few months for the most skittish to get comfortable and I honestly haven’t tried as hard as I could have. The jays were fairly comfortable within maybe a month - they can’t resist the peanuts haha.

My place has some nice trees and shrubs so I think they were already comfortable in the yard. I don’t really see many feeders elsewhere in my neighborhood but I’ve passed a few houses where I’ve noticed significant bird song and I’ve seen a few houses with bird houses.

I think a lot of it comes down to the vibe you give them. I spend a lot of time thinking about how they interpret my actions so that I don’t scare/annoy them. Small things like slow movements, not staring at them, letting them dictate the encounter, etc.
The first comment in this thread already answered your question.

>I would say that Laravel is an extremely high quality framework (on par with and even in some ways better than Rails) that nobody should be ashamed to use.

And add to that PHP both a language and its VM get way more improvement than Ruby.
You can opt out with Chromium too
Three centimeters in a thousand years is without any management. All soil is built through the process of succession. We can drastically speed up that process with regenerative ag practices.
For that use case, you should continue to run x86 images. Unless there is a bug in underlying virtualization frameworks, you’re extremely unlikely to ever see that kind of issue.
Krugman: Andrew Yang Hasn't Done the Math
> writing "shouldn't of" instead "shouldn't have"

For me personally, this is the #1 bugbear of writing mistakes. I'm willing to tolerate most of the other failures (especially when they're exceptionally rare), especially because several of them can crop up when you decide to change the sentence between initial mental conception and committing to paper or keyboard.

> I know it sounds elitist, and it is, but with these kinds of mistakes their going to relegate you to the "not one of us" bin when looking for a well paying job.

It's not so much the "not one of us" bin as it is a sense of "you clearly can't put in the effort, so why should we?" It's for similar reasons that you are advised to dress up for interviews.
TL;DR: add friction to things when they're harmful to users, and don't just duplicate harmful designs in OSS.

Friction is a very well-understood tool in the designers toolkit. The key question is whether its added in places that are beneficial to the user.

Think of a 2x2 of user benefit x company benefit.

1. Benefits both user & company ex: GitHub's 'Danger Zone'

2. Benefits company but not user ex: difficult unsubscribe flows

3. Benefits user but not company ex: 'ethical' designs like stopping addictive behavior

4. Benefits neither: this is just bad design

The key is to create a movement to get people to do more of 3 and less of 2, and that's well underway with stuff like what Center for Humane Technology is doing. I don't think we should call that field 'anti-design' though. Instead, much like many engineering fields that bake in professional ethics into their work, we should frame it exactly opposite: the pinnacle of good design.
It's faster and cheaper to build out new capacity and then later retire old capacity than it is to do an in-situ replacement. Build the battery-backed solar and wind farms now, and then watch the coal and gas plants go bankrupt.
They have already been doing this in ND. There are shipping containers with mining equipment inside set up next to flares. The oil companies are catching on to how much they are making though and want in on the action (since they provide access to the flare). It's in the tens to hundreds of thousands per month in profit iirc.
> My question is: why would anyone want to start something new with PHP in 2021? Is there anything that it does better than any other language/ecosystem?

Well, on Twitter the other day, I asked, only partly tongue-in-cheek:

> Even in 2021, any new server-side web app with even a vain hope of being installed by people who are tech savvy but not modern web nerds should probably still be written in PHP. True or false?

The "false" responses cited things like "it doesn’t matter what you write it in as long as it runs cleanly in a Docker container" and "Node is widespread enough I think it goes beyond 'modern web nerd' at this point," and they might be right -- but I'm not certain they are.

So, I guess I'd suggest that maybe the answer to your first question ("why start something new with PHP in 2021") doesn't actually depend on getting an unqualified "yes" answer to your second question ("is there anything it does better"). If I was starting a project that I wanted to have installed by the kinds of people who will not use the word "deploy" instead of "install," if you take my meaning, then I'd at least seriously entertain whether it should be in PHP.

Now, for the kinds of projects I think get talked about on HN (e.g., actual paid jobs), this is more of a fair question. I appreciate Laravel and Symfony, but PHP in 2021 has traded the feeling of being a cargo cult version of Perl for the feeling of being a cargo cult version of Java. If I do write a new project in PHP, it's probably not going to be with any existing framework, because even the lightest one feels like endless mazes of "get a Request object from a RequestFactory by instantiating a dependency injection container and passing it to a RequestFactoryFactory".
And I discourage anybody to write Death Notes. Its...um...quite well-crafted.
Maybe read https://jwmason.org/slackwire/considerations-on-rent-control... a bit, basically history is repeating itself with the economic consensus on the minimum wage.

Also see this comment https://jwmason.org/slackwire/considerations-on-rent-control... and the author's response. One can argue that it's less that the theory is "wrong" but that that the theory doesn't match reality: the housing and employment markets are deeply flawed in hard-to-fix ways. Maybe we want to fix these markets, but if we want to intervene at that scale, we might as well be open to other non-market strategies at managing those resources too.

In the mean time, rent control is "easy" with empirically demonstrated benefits.
An increase in energy price wouldn't (in equilibrium) affect the Bitcoin price - it would affect the Bitcoin block difficulty, requiring less energy to mine the blocks (the mechanism being that miners unprofitable at the new energy price are driven out).
It depends how many of these minors are near the sun. If the minors near the sun start mining on top of blocks discovered near the sun, then they have the head start again.
This means there would me many more chain re-organisation, and that a 50.1% attack would be easier, so the network less secure.
My main frivolous gripe with math notation is how everyone uses radians by default, to the point where your first visual clue that something is an angle is not any kind of unit, but rather the fact that it's being multiplied or divided by some multiple or fraction of pi. I think that the most sensible universal angle unit is "rotations". So, 360 degrees is 1, 45 degrees is 1/8, and so forth. Radians are only useful for a few special cases, like determining how far a car rolls if it's 10 inch radius tire rotated by 300 radians. (I wonder if somewhere, there's a mathematician who has modded their car's tachometer to output radians per second rather than revolutions per minute, just to make the math work out easier...)

Anyways, programming languages generally follow math notation, and use radians for trig functions and so on. Usually that's not too much of a problem, but when applied to file formats like VRML which were meant to be human readable, the results are ugly.

For the most part though, I think math notation is pretty good. At least when compared to something like standard music notation, which is full of weird rules and historical accidents.
Yo right here. What you got :-)

Remember, fusors are losers. I wanna see lattice fusion with metallic hydrogen cores embedded in 3D printed diamonds or I'm out.
The AP is a newswire that sells its feed to newspapers. The best way to support it is by subscribing to a newspaper.
I've been playing with the idea of maintaining a repository of common dockerfiles, ci/cd pipelines, and kubernetes manifests with tooling for answering basic question about your app and then generating the skaffolding automatically. It would be kind of like backstage.io in this regard, but aimed at smaller companies that don't have dedicated platform teams. If anyone would use this, I would love to talk.
This is a really sad (and rather disgusting) comment. Your comment takes an incredibly depreciating view of humanity, and it ignores / rejects the beauty and wonder of humans, by comparing us to bacteria. Humans are the peak of Earth life; humans are the most glorious form of life that’s existed on this planet. I agree with everything that the user Grimm said in reply to you. I have no clue why such a horrible, repulsive, and repugnant comment would be the most-upvoted/top comment on HN.
It is no guarentee, but temping/contractor work is how I got into Big Tech. I did a good enough job and impressed enough people the team was willing to pick me up full time.

However, I would warn the OP that the most important thing is to start building a portfolio of reliablity. Temping/contracting can be demeaning- you ABSOLUTELY are a second class citizen on the teams. You will be assigned the least strategic work, because if it was strategic they would have an FTE do it. The key thing is to push through and build up a basis of trust- you can do whatever is needed, when it is needed, even if its not what you wanted, and do so in a way that people enjoy being around you.
When the externalities of your actions cause undue harm to others, your activities are no longer appropriate. I consider the damage to the environment caused by all this mining to be an end game that results in misery for everyone.

Your responses are obviously hostile, so I'm going to bid thee adieu.

EDIT: Lest we forget, there's a thing in Libertarianism called the Non-Aggression Principle (aka NAP). If your actions are an aggression on the health and well-being of our planet and future generations, this would violate NAP.

Bitcoin violates NAP in the long run. Ergo, Bitcoin is a net negative. QED.
New Horizons now 50AUs from the sun, shoots starfield containing Voyager 1
"its price has risen from $3,729 in December 2018 to more than $62,000 this week."

Nice advertising. How about:
"its price has risen from $19,650 in December 2017 to more than $62,000 this week."
I dont know how can you sleep at night in good conscience while using the US Dollar, so glad theres BTC, energy consumption is its only sin.
Do you have a source on the housing statistics (people per house, house size, square foot per person)? I'm curious how this trend holds up internationally; maybe a US source would help.

We have problems, but I intuitively agree with this narrative of progress and want to see good data to back it up.

I do wish there were more choice - the ability to buy 1950s-70s grade housing, medical care, etc., for a lower price - but that seems to be becoming rarer.
Do you believe that news media should sell data about you and your behavior to advertisers? Or do you believe that the news should simply be free?
I’m not so sure. I think AP itself is subject to the same institutional capture and biases that have swept the rest of the journalism industry. You can see the cracks in their “gold standard” in the All Sides article about how they rated them (still Center but with reservations): https://www.allsides.com/blog/updated-media-bias-ratings-ass...

You can also see AP’s bias in their stylebook and guidelines on how to describe certain events - for example when do they use the word “riot” instead of “protest” or when should they label something as a “crisis”. The creeping bias at AP has been covered a few different times by other news outlets - here’s a random article I pulled from Google on the same: https://nypost.com/2021/03/26/aps-orwellian-push-to-change-t...
All I see is more people going to trustworthy non profit broadcast/journalism outfits like Deutsche Welle.
You didn’t answer their question. Can you quantify what things pollute more?
It's a surprisingly fun "game"! I've been on a quest to geotag all my older photos, from digital cameras without GPS. It's a great combination of a trip down memory lane – what do I remember about where I was when I took some photo on a trip, or back in college? – plus playing the role of a satellite spy-photo analyst.
The only way out that I can see is to follow particular authors, not particular media. Find a set of authors you trust, who deserve your attention. Ignore everything else.
"I'm sorry Ms Smith but you have a tumour. The good news is that it is completely operable - at the moment. The bad news, well, until we can measure every conceivable metric relating to this tumour, and unless we can determine every conceivable path its progression might take, we are very reluctant to operate. We have chosen, instead, to wait until the outcome of this cancer is more certain and, having weighed these against the small but measurable risks of surgery, that we are comfortable that we are certain of the benefit surgery will provide."

"And when will that be?"

"Well, not to beat around the bush, but when the cancer has metastisized and is about to kill you, we will be certain enough of the benefit of surgery now. Yes, this will likely result in your death, but to move before we have solidified all of these variables to a five-sigma measure would be allowing too much emotion into our descision making."
There are no sources for the numbers other than another crypto blog. This other blog then uses "Negligible" as a unit.
> current events and real facts cost money

And people have made it clear they don't value this.
Oh boy, someone on the Internet wants me to calm down because I point out that they are making a lazy point. Sheesh, tough crowd!

Whether you realize it or not, you can want to not burn fossil fuels, but if there's a profit to be made doing it, believe me, enough miners will bend their morality to make a profit. You act like everyone involved in this experiment has pure intentions. I'd argue that's untrue.
Wow, I can’t wait for one of them to nuzzle up to me!
This was the first thing that came to my mind!!
"What about $otherthing?"

Neither is good, but that doesn't necessarily make the topic you're attempting to pivot to relevant in this situation.

Also, Cloudflare (provider of the external service you mention, assuming you're talking about DNS-over-HTTPS) definitely isn't Google. At least not yet.
Wait till you see what happens when Zscaler gets added into the mix for corporate laptops.

I now have to scenario for when Zscaler intercepts/rewrites DNS requests along with when the Cisco VPN is active. Given that a large amount of folks are still WFH, it’s enough to make me want to tear the remainder of my hair out.
The personal responsibility argument really falls apart when you consider the forces working against the user. The conversation has long since moved on from this line of thinking because the power is so lopsided now.
While I agree with you, my experience in hiring in this industry for the last few years has been to agree with the parent comment. Once you land an interview, I don't think any of my interviewers even looked at my resume, or cared what it might have said. Most companies, at that point, were 100% and solely interested in my ability to answer leetcode questions. The better companies asked more meaningful technical questions. None asked me about experience, career, projects, skills, etc. And yes, it is a bad hiring practice.

When I was a hiring manager, I specifically designed an interview process that procured me candidates that were great devs that didn't do well in leetcode style interviews, and as a result was able to hire a much better team than I should have been able to at my budget level. We did this, by doing no-brainer things like, actually reading the resumes.

But good hiring practices are hard to scale. Reading a resume or a person is difficult to teach. But a minimally competent leetcode style interview session can be run with some success by most engineers, so it scales. Which means it worked great for some quickly growing tech companies with large amounts of cash and little need to filter questionable resume lists (usually because their name brands guaranteed high level quality applicants). This then became a fad as every company copied the name brand engineering company without wondering if their hiring process had the same constraints as name-brand co, and is now what the industry thinks is 'the one true way.;
This. Java communities tried to solve redundant code problem by complex, hard to recognize way.
We want to outlaw math now? Are we even arguing in good faith at this point?

And so what if my post history is mostly anti-cryptocurrency. This is a position I hold to strongly, and someone needs to give the other side so these four walls aren't filled with infinite circle jerks.
Please read TFA. It answers this question.
I'm as empathetic as anyone to the loss felt here, but I genuinely have no answer to the question of how Reuters can otherwise sustain itself, if not by charging.

I'll be paying. I don't like it, but I like a world without Reuters even less.
The State of Our Eyes
Good catch, I didn't realize that was Ben.
Many of us have been warning of these stylebook changes for years. They've been making them quite regularly, and usually serve to set major biases in the initial framing of a subject.
Random story... I bought some resistor kits from aliexpress. I noticed the few I used were super accurate. So I tested a bunch. They were all accurate to, not sure exactly but let's say 0.1% ish. I went and measured a bunch of 1% ones from digikey,and they were around 0.5 to 1%.

I guess they were tight tolerance ones that made it into a ultra cheap smd kit.
> I see only one sustainable solution

The only sustainable solution is to abolish copyrights. Stupidest fucking laws on the planet. It's intellectual slavery—restricting people from peacefully sharing and building on information between each other. Propped up by billions of lies pitched daily by industry. It's the big dirty secret propping up big tech, the media, et cetera.

While Bill Gates had access to the world's best information growing up attending elite institutions, a significant number of Americans weren't even able to vote or attend their local libraries, or outside the country you had places like South Africa with apartheid preventing access to education. The charity work of these assholes is a fucking farce, as long as they are pushing #ImaginaryPropertyLaws. You want to improve the world BG—stop preventing people from educating themselves! (I pick on BG just b/c he's the most famous, but really goes for all these tech assholes who don't realize the #IdeaPrivilege they had, which they deny to others via their support of copyrights and patents, and whose outlier wealth is dependent on these laws which put chains on people and ideas).
Yes - its just so unfortunate all the good alternatives don't offer (easy, cheap) wireless / stand alone support. After using Virtual Desktop, I actually think there's a huge opportunity for a super "thin client" device that is just a companion for your laptop/tablet and offloads everything there.
Not a lot, I think I had like 10 dollars in there, which is why I forgot about it, and it was up to a couple thousand. I did randomly find a few BTC in a paper wallet when cleaning out my office a couple years ago, that was fun.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26820053
Here's another one that works similarly helping you find your location and send it to someone, but it also allows a rescuer or anyone else to create an automated request for your location which you can provide in an easy way.

https://yourlo.ca/tion
Most people misunderstand how news organizations work. Reuters was a "gold standard" because they enforce a division between the business side that makes money, sells ads, and cooks up a business strategy, from the journalists who are shielded from those concerns as they attempt to report objectively. In many good news organizations, the two sides of the organization barely know each other, work on different floors, and do not share a cafeteria. So yeah, you get situations where a spokesperson for the business side refuses to comment for the news side (all news orgs cover their owners poorly if at all, including other orgs like Bloomberg).

Reuters has been running a distance second to Bloomberg in both financial news and data for well over a decade. It is a much older organization, and got its start when the British had an empire. You could say it covered the empire that covered the world.

I doubt that it has gone from "gold standard" to opinionated journalism in the last 2-3 years. In fact, the quality and veracity of its copy and reporting always varied from topic to topic, country to country.

This narrative of media decay is a weird euphoric recall for better days that did not exist. The press was always flawed. But now we attack it more amid the information chaos of social media.
This is no solution, and the reason is obvious: such an outlet is beholden not to the tax payers whose dollars are being used, but to the government who allocates those dollars. This puts an explicit limit on what they can say and criticize, and what their bias will be: the ones holding the purse strings. Even if a majority of tax payers discard it at that point, the institution would have no incentive to change its messaging.

This is very easily seen already in the existing public news and media organizations that have been formed.
The Fed sells its assets to decrease the USD supply and raises rates. My best guess is a short period of higher inflation and then a correction, but who knows.
Ok, let me know how building your Bitcoin army and state to protect your Bitcoin purchases goes.
Well, congratulations on not having the problem being discussed ;P. One may as well tell an alcoholic that not drinking during an outing has never been a big deal, and that you see it merely as an interesting flavor ;P.
Why feel bad for the renters?
Another link on the topic suggesting rent control backfires in the long term: https://www.brookings.edu/research/what-does-economic-eviden...
the classic scifi trope of an advanced extraterrestrial race is one that is able to not merely ensure its existence but also develop and advance itself rapidly through aggressive intergalactic colonization and resource extraction.