skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of that cow pasture/range land used to be better land, and has been degraded by bad farming techniques and/or overgrazing. The area around Pipe Springs, Utah for example, was significantly more lush 150 years ago, and now it's scrub land. It would be a mistake to think of land as static and only fit for a limited set of purposes, and to therefore exploit it without concern for what it is or could turn into (for better or worse).

We're also causing top soil to erode and blow away in much of the corn belt [0]. That productivity has a cost and shouldn't be assumed.

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-say...

edit: I don't think we disagree, much. I'll leave the above for reference.
It's the ultimate in handwaveism.
There is a crypto called Monero that doesn't have this problem. it is growing fast.
What do you mean? All transactions are verified by miners, so all transactions are equally "dirty".
This is good praxis. I have received some thoughts about how to do this without parsing DNS in eBPF (which would be a disaster).
It's true though. You can throw up a 1kw system for under 1k now.
latency and bandwidth are two different things... speed of light is a constant.
arbitrage is probably a better description
You beat me to it!

I'm interested in keeping this meme going (in the direction of the original article).

Anyone else jumping on the bandwagon? Don't miss out -- this could be the next coinbase thread.
This crypto-currency nonsense is getting out of hands.
Step 1. Get a quality mic.
Step 2. Control the sound in your environment. The best mic in the world won’t help if you sound like you’re recording in the middle of your kitchen.

One of the worst aspects of listening to a great interview is when the guest is in a space with tons of audio reflections. You want the sound of your voice, not the room.

Many podcast hosts climbed into closets with sound dampening clothes on hangers during the pandemic. It worked out reasonably well.

If you’re doing audio professionally, consider treating the recording space. If you don’t want to put panels on the walls, get free-standing panels that can be stored when not in use:

https://auralex.com/

Get a pop filter:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_filter

Control sibilance:

https://urm.academy/death-to-sibilance/

No use having a great mic if you don’t control the things you don’t want it to capture.
Here's my experience - it sounds similar to yours, but with a couple of key differences that might be useful.

When I was in college, I really REALLY wanted to be am Electrical Engineer. I applied to loads of jobs - found a list of 75 positions I applied to from 2 different career fairs (plus random others). I got 1 job offer and I was SO RESENTFUL.

Naturally, I took the job - but I kept applying. I found emails from 100-200 jobs I applied to (no interviews). I found an email to a startup - I got an interview! - but no offer.

I kept at my job. I built a reputation. I got ranked good. And bad. I networked and made friends. I got recruited by a former boss to move to a different part of the company.

I EXPANDED my network. I went to conferences and told people what I was doing - and I helped them do it, too (for free/fun).

I'm at a point now where I can move teams and people REMEMBER me. I have former co workers who want me on their team. I've worked up - slowly- and I never got the job I dreamed of in college, but I do have a good job that I love and it pays the bills.

Summary:
1) Be good at what you do
2) Make friends with the people around you: peers and boss
3) Make friends with THEIR friends
4) Help them be good at the things you are good at
5) Be good at more things
6) Make more friends
7) Repeat

Also, probably something about patience, hard work, being grateful with the life you have... idk, I'm not the Dali Lama ;)
Turns out if you can make money burning stuff people will buy stuff to burn as long as the cost to burn is less than money earned.

Who knew! Of course this won’t be a problem until it is.
So there is actually no such thing as "a bitcoin".

It's all just accounts with balances.
> Your writing is terrible, and unprofessional. If you can't get through this thread without discussing your mental health problems that's a serious red flag.

Are you saying that in "professional" situations (job applications, or even asking for advice on HN), you need to hide your struggles and present an image of a flawless worker who handles all situations in stride, even though you can't live up to it because of mental/life struggles, depression, and the looming prospect of homelessness?
You have to sign blocks every 10 min. Since it takes 8 min for light from the sun, the mining station there would have 2 minutes to land a hash. You’d need to move most of the network to the sun station for this to be effective, I think.
No loss due to transmission by locating the equipment onsite. With that built in efficiency it probably skews the numbers in a way that utility consumers don't.
Thanks a lot for responding. At this point with only 1 exam left which I've already signed up for, I'll be finishing off the exam just for my own sense of closure, but I'll definitely follow up with some more tech-centric projects.

Do you have any recommendations at all for what I should be focusing on while building out a resume in terms of skill sets to develop and projects to demo them?

My only real "portfolio" project is a SPA repo I've been working on that integrates most of the DevOps, Backend and Frontend knoweldge I've built up, but it's quite incomplete right now.

Also I guess a big question would be how I should approach making that initial transition career-wise in terms of what levels of SWE roles (Intern? Level I?) I should apply to.

And a pretty trivial one: should the resume be more then one page?

Really appreciate your help!
Thank you, good point. I forgot about HashMap's type unsafety even though I wrote the following monstrocity a few days ago to loop over a HashMap<UUID, ExpiringEntityPlayer>

Iterator ghostI = hashtableNPCs.entrySet().iterator();
while (ghostI.hasNext()) {
ExpiringEntityPlayer expiringEntityPlayer = (ExpiringEntityPlayer) ((Map.Entry) ghostI.next()).getValue();
}

Apparently this is the only way to do it, and the Map.Entry type absolutely nukes any semblance of type safety.
I would highly recommend focusing more on the relationships you can build working for a massively successful company like this rather than the fear of failing or making slow progress on your assigned task. The reality is that as a developer in a burgeoning field Complex Progress takes Massive Time investments.

Build real relationships where you are at so that you have something to stand on when you venture out on your own.

Plus if you have people in your corner you are less likely to get fired if you fail to accomplish a task up to par. I definitely am not saying to be a kiss ass but instead to find meaningful valuable relationships with mentors and partners so that you can build a life of your dreams, and not just look at the opportunity as a job.

Blessings in your endeavours, keep praying.
Corn is one of the worst crops... water intensive, land intensive, and bad for your health too.
I would like justification for the downvotes please. Thanks.
The plant was converted to natural gas (even before it started mostly powering bitcoin hashing).
I’ve been prescribed some form of stimulant for the majority of my life at this point — initially Ritalin, then Concerta and most recently Vyvanse.

Can I function without it? Absolutely —- I have purposefully gone without it for periods of several weeks and months in the past.

My opinion is obviously biased, but I really don’t think that I ever would have found a way to be successful in school or professionally without being medicated. Yes, there are many strategies that can be effective at managing ADHD outside of prescription drugs, but ultimately they never really fundamentally solved the things I was struggling with the way medication did.

It’s hard for me to put into words exactly how stimulants change the way my brain works, but I think it basically boils down to giving me some semblance of control over where I direct my energy and focus throughout the day. My ADHD is still there, but more often than not I’m able to channel my focus (and periods of hyper focus) into meaningful work, wether that’s something for my job or a personal project.

If you think you have ADHD, I encourage you to get tested and work with your doctor to try out several medications. Trying different medications is a really critical step that I think many people (and even many doctors) overlook. Everyone is different, but Adderall in particular never really worked well for me and tended to give me pretty severe anxiety issues.
It still generates heat, which warms the planet.
This reminds me of the "Cash for Ash" scandal in Northern Ireland, where people were doing exactly that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Heat_Incentive_scand...
AFAIK monero runs on POW as well so from an environmental impact level I don't see how it's any different. From a traceability perspective I don't see a difference either because mining can be done anonymously. You really can't track a mined block to a specific power plant. I guess you can set up some sort of voluntary program for green miners, and treat non-compliant blocks as "dirty", but with monero this wouldn't be possible so everything would be treated as "dirty".
It's still on the same power grid. The renewable energy would have been used one way or another. It's still contributing to the burning of fossil fuels on the grid.
How to Become a DeFi Developer – DeFi Weekly
This case seems like an aberration, though? I think the logic goes something like this: bitcoin miners have a huge incentive to find the cheapest power in the world; renewable energy sources are cheaper than fossil fuels and getting cheaper all the time; therefore miners will prefer renewable power.
Proof of stake is in or will be in just about every major crypto except bitcoin...
I was remembering 3.6 but you’re right. September 2015.
I agree with you.

Actually, Java has great tooling, JVM is very nice, it has great potential for high performance code generation. It has everything for debugging. But at the end of the day, language is driving people to write bloated software.

I just wonder, how come e.g Linux kernel code 100 times more readable than any project in Java? More importantly, how did we come to this point that we accept bloated/unreadable code in the name of higher/better languages?
Sometimes it's better not to respond, gbrown.
You can find a few open-source Android "GPS test" apps on GitHub, and ditto for other "sensor test" apps.

(I've always thought the terminology was a little confusing/imprecise, since I wouldn't consider these apps to be "tests", but rather simply the UI of a GPS receiver. Then again, when I hear "GPS" I think of a receiver-only, i.e. a device that just tells you your current lat/lon/etc. position, whereas I guess what most people consider a "GPS app" would more precisely be termed a "GPS navigation/map".)
ummm,
Yes. It's thinking similar to the backyard steel mills of Mao's "Great Leap Forward". 600,000 backyard steel mills for 11 million tons of steel per year.[1] Slightly more than the single U.S. Steel plant in Gary, Indiana.

Some things scale really well. Recycling is one of them.

[1] https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1...
Monero uses PoW mining as well.
Renewables are getting cheaper and are in certain circumstances but in general they definitely are not cheaper than fossil fuels.
Simpler: ban banks and credit card companies from dealing with anything related to cryptocurrency
Is heat generated by humans really a significant contributor to global warming compared to the warming effects of human generated greenhouse gases?
I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being like buying power "in bulk" where you pay a little more but there's a guarantee that when "the chips are down" (sorry, couldn't resist), the company will eat the difference.

I do think the market won't use these suppliers a lot just like the US-made masks which got millions of orders but only after china stopped sending stuff.
They're so worthless lol. The idea legit makes no sense. Nobody cares about owning unique digital goods. Digital by nature is not unique.
The sun generates heat when it lands on the ground. One could say PV helps keep the ground cool!

Haven't done any math either ways, but it's not like sunlight doesn't already heat up the planet.
Click was built as a coaxial copper last mile network - not comparable in performance to any new build fiber based efforts in the years 2016 and later. In industry terms, it was best charitably described as "HFC" - hybrid fiber/coax, meaning they would have some small amount of fiber to the network node locations of the CMTS, but the actual houses were all served over copper.
CouchDB was a really elegant implementation of this strategy without the SQL bit. Local database in all clients, synced back to a server whenever there’s connectivity.
the speed of light (or radio waves) doesn't become any faster with beacons. it's latency that's the problem.
It's now using natural gas:

> ...drawing power from the plant’s 106-megawatt generator now fueled by natural gas.
https://www.treehugger.com/ask-pablo-do-solar-panels-contrib...

"Cities and their expansive hardscapes are certainly to blame for the heat island effect and, since the hardscapes and solar energy-absorbing roofs are already there, solar panels may actually represent a reduction in heat absorbtion. Add to that the fact that solar panels produce renewable energy that does not contribute to climate change like conventional sources like coal. Adding to that, the soot particles in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels contribute a radiative forcing of 0.1 to 0.4 W/m2. Solar panels, on the other hand, are reducing the amount of climate change-causing emissions.

"So if you're wondering about the heat island effect before installing rooftop solar, don't. According to the numbers, the solar panels will not only produce energy, but keep your home slightly cooler, which means you'll be using less energy in the first place, which will keep us all a little cooler."
United States v. Microsoft Corp. (2001)
But shouldn't this be solved with Multicast DNS [1] and DNS based service discovery [2]?

Sounds to me that your .internal TLD is causing a lot of headache and sticking to avahi and .local would be easier?

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6762

[2] http://dns-sd.org
I agree, my first reaction on seeing the title was "Underhyped? Really? You must be joking."

The reason Java can be a nice language/runtime today is the sheer amount of resources available to be poured on it due to all the hype in the 90s. It was supposed to save us from all the effort porting our software to many operating systems and processor architectures (the computing world was much less homogeneous back then). It was supposed to run everywhere without modification, from the smallest smartcard to the biggest mainframe. It was supposed to not only run within our web browser, but also be the implementation language of our web browser, or even the whole operating system. It was supposed to magically be faster than even C and C++ (those who used Java back then can recall how slow it was; for instance, hanging the whole browser for a whole minute while the JVM started up was not uncommon). Everything was supposed be written in Java; it was not good enough to call a native library for whatever functionality you wanted, it had to be rewritten in pure Java.

Java was a mediocre language. All that hype led to a virtuous cycle, which allowed it to grow into what it is today.
these beacons are in worm holes, obviously
sorry long sentences are not my forte

## python comprehensions,

better then java or c++ way .
which is absolutely same .
so java === c++20 (ms way) .
https://calmcode.io/comprehensions/example.html
(not affiliated)

## jupyter lab

your data and your processing is on same machine
potentially remote, nas, privatecloud...
so you can do things on your data without unnecesary bs
from browser with youbikey, google titan auth.

## neovim

because... well, dont be negative and treat it as fedora
for your redhat (vim)
(yes i remember, im that old)

## little bit of trolling

do this on your brand new mac in vscode ...
yes, he has fingers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I1b8BINyEw

## Java

is good for
Transform UML to code.
thats it, DONE.

## AI ! ! ! ! XOr Not

Btw who said machine learning can code for you ?
uh, me not!
Lets draw pictures for ML,
to have better MS Office!
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1845265-back-to-the-future
A coding camp is the opposite of hustling. It's called "bootcamp" for a reason - it's there to impose some structure for those who need it.

Also bootcamp is very overhyped. There's some great people that come out of them, but I think mainly the hype is the fact that college is overrated (this is a cliche opinion I know) so bootcamps are there to try to exploit some of the delta that the myopic focus on college degrees creates. But many boot camps are super myopic in their own ways.
There is much more limited harm from a person wielding a knife for malicious purposes, as opposed to how quickly social media can fuel similar actions. If you genuinely believe scale doesn't matter and everything is the same as everything else, I don't know what to tell you.
When profits are being made, who cares what happens to future generations.

Cryptocurrency is, for the most part, a contagion. We opened Pandora's box and the genie is out of the bottle. Short of some kind of cataclysmic black swan event, I'm not sure this insanity will end anytime soon. :(
I have had this site bookmarked on my phone for years. Luckily I’ve never had to use it! When you allow the website to get your location, it shows your gps coordinates and accuracy.

https://findmesar.com/

It wouldn’t work in the case when you have cell service but no data.
All those years ago I would actually take helpdesk support calls from business users that wanted help punching the monkey from their work computers. People would put work on hold until I walked over to their desk and clicked it for them. I had a legal firm pay us to install bonzi buddy on all machines.

It's amazing different the attitudes can be towards things tech people see as silly or scammy.
His sources clearly say that rent control reduces the supply of rental housing as well as making people rent smaller and smaller units.

I would posit, however, that it isn't rent control having a major effect on housing supply but rather regulations on new housing. Zoning difficulties, permit difficulties, requirements to accommodate personal vehicles, etc.
What about proof of stake or off chain transactions
This is very surprising to me honestly. Yeah, folks have pointed out some of the big players, but none of them have really risen above the competition.

You would think NodeJS would have a clear cut dominant, monolithic web framework by now but there isn’t. Everyone seems to be happy to throw together hodge-podge Express apps.
Specific to Bigger ( Older ) Node, they have been in very tight Supply for a fairly long time. Possibly going back to 2018. Fab has been built but still not catching up with demand. So when there are capacity to be filled. People grab them.
That sounds rather rash.
apply somewhere that will actually hire you whether they have good insurance or not

go to healthcare.gov & don't forget to thank obama
Good reply but worth considering this phenomena might actually be due to teaching being an orthogonal skill. The master is a master because of that which they produce: there’s usually no requirement to be able to teach.
Does docker make it easier or harder though?

I was testing out Apache Superset the other day and it recommends using Docker to do so. I am not strong in Docker - I prefer to run things from scratch so I know exactly what is going on under the hood - but thought I'd give it a go.

I had so many problems getting it going. Part of it was the Superset instructions were slightly obsolete, but mostly it was this same problem in this issue[1] from 2016, which was closed in 2017, which is still obviously an active issue for new Docker users.

It seems to be just a relatively simple Linux filesystem permissions issue (or at least, that is how I resolved it quickly, just to get it working), but it strikes me as bizarre that this kind of thing could not be resolved with a better installer or docs or something.

I then ran into problems with the application running under Docker not being able to access the database in the host OS. Again there are a zillion resources for resolving this, going back years, with many dead ends as it has changed so much since then.

There's this hugely upvoted solution[2] on Stack Overflow - which works for Docker, but Superset is launched through docker-compose, so straight away a new user has to figure out the differences.

In PHP on a fresh Linux box, you can be up and running and developing on Debian/Ubuntu with two or three apt-get commands, depending on whether you need a database server. Adding Docker into this mix just seems like it would unnecessarily complicate things.

All that said, I appreciate once you're over the learning curve of Docker, it's super useful. I am finding myself increasingly reaching for it as an option to container-ise some setups away from my current setup, which is basically bash-scripted install processes on fresh VMs.
To fix this person's comment, this comment makes sense if by "problem" they meant "defending your coins from boycotters"--Monero is (supposedly) untraceable so presumably it is impossible to boycott specific "dirty" sources of Monero.
This "join teams" thing is a constant frustration.

If there is a problem, the best solution likely frustrates either team, at least a little.

And so time is wasted in bullshittery rather than getting on with the job.
That doesn't compare vaccination to naturalistic rates at all. It just gives rates of reinfection for those with antibodies versus without.
It could work the other way around, ie if your close relations have stock that may affect your governing decisions and they refuse to commit to re-investing more generally in the event of your election, then you are prohibited from running for office.

Obviously there would be complications, but are you advocating society shouldn't strive to clearly separate governance of the public from private, conflicting pecuniary interests? I can't tell if you're dismissing the problem or saying there's a better solution ...
Must of used the same agency that came up with "Inprise"[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland#Inprise_Corporation_er...