skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carbon dioxide has a low concentration in the atmosphere, the atmosphere is really big, and diffusion is not a particularly fast process.

Adding to that, industrial processes tend to be big and heavy, and also take fossils fuels to make. Even the outputs of these processes are measured in tonnes of carbon

No less, whatever format you're storing the carbon in will be very energy dense, either via compression, or by chemically removing the oxygens.

So, there's limits to how quickly your apparatus can interact with new carbon molecules, on moving it to new carbon molecules, and on making sure the products of you apparatus stay sequestered.

If they're thinking they can scale, it's by setting up on top of carbon emitters, but doing that is net carbon positive(some will leak, and carbon emitters will continue to scale up), rather than negative
> If you self-host, you are responsible for setting up the required infrastructure, taking care of updates, backups etc.

Are you speaking about Netdata or in general? Because if the former, then at least the updates part is not true: the installation script turns out nightly updates (and telemetry).

Frankly, the reason there is no basic auth is that Netdata doesn't use a third-party web server but a built-in one, so they would have to add this functionality.
Reality is more nuanced than that. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jan/29/howard-sch...

The survey actually states,
"Four in 10 adults, if faced with an unexpected expense of $400, would either not be able to cover it or would cover it by selling something or borrowing money." https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2018-economic-we...

Nevertheless, that doesn't strike me as having wealth.
To follow up on my comment here, I think Greg KH's later responses were more reasonable.

> ... we have the ability to easily go back and rip the changes out and we can slowly add them back if they are actually something we want to do.

> I will be working with some other kernel developers to determine if any of these reverts were actually valid changes, were actually valid, and if so, will resubmit them properly later. ... future submissions from anyone with a umn.edu address should be by default-rejected unless otherwise determined to actually be a valid fix
:) I appreciate hearing that.

_hyperscript is far more speculative than htmx, so if you don't need it, don't use it just to use it.

But if there are places where a bit of light scripting might help, it's maybe worth a try.
I don't like ORMs, but Prisma is one of the better ones. It avoids a lot of shortcomings of popular ORMs. I hope they find a way to make it work as a company. I've been following them over the years from the beginning of their journey through various pivots.

To use an ORM effectively you must learn both the API of the ORM and SQL. It does not absolve you from learning SQL, which I think was one of the unstated attractions to junior developers. Then you have to map between the API of the ORM and how it translates that to SQL under the hood. Then you have to understand how it handles caching and sessions and how that all works under the hood. This has been the source of so much complexity and so many bugs over the years that I no longer think the benefits are worth the cost. As always, there are exceptions and caveats, but I now believe it's better to use SQL directly than to use an ORM. In general there is too much complexity in all the layers of abstraction in software development these days, and I think the industry is strangely blind to the consequences of this. Complexity is death to software, and it should not be taken on lightly. The entire craft of a software engineer boils down to eliminating complexity and simplifying problems, the better you can do that, the more productive an engineer you will be.[1]

[1] https://github.com/sqljoy/sqljoy/blob/master/docs/pages/orm....
Well, yes? Seems like recourse in their case would be to make a convincing plea or plan to rectify the problem that satisfies decision makers in the linux project.
OP's hypothetical was a thief stealing a jacket. But I would expect that to not be professional territory. You added professional.
Takeaways:

>"o Bitcoin mining presents an opportunity to accelerate the global energy transition to renewables
by serving as a complementary technology for clean energy production and storage.

o Solar and wind are now the least expensive energy sources in the world, but are hitting deployment
bottlenecks primarily because of their intermittent power supply and grid congestion.

o Bitcoin miners as a flexible load option could potentially help solve much of these intermittency and congestion problems, allowing grids to deploy substantially more renewable energy.

o By deploying more solar and wind, these generation technologies will likely fall even further down their respective cost curves, bringing them closer to zero marginal cost energy production."

PDS: What a strange, yet interesting, set of ideas!

Before reading this, I had not seen these sets of ideas juxtaposed as they were here.

Interesting!
Why did they choose Southwark Bridge over Millennium Bridge as the substitute for London Bridge? It seems much better suited to sheep traffic. Plus then on the other side there's not as far to walk to take your sheep into Tate Modern. Some sheep might be into that.
It's really hard to fight this though, because it may take many years, even decades, to thoroughly answer a follow-up question. By then, everyone has forgotten about the original reason something got published.
Is this a proposal or a new bill?
I wonder if there is a very simple effect involving blood flow to the head. When you sleep, you lie horizontally, and so presumably it's easier for blood to circulate through your entire body. Maybe if you don't get enough horizontal time, it leads to head related problems like dementia and hair loss.
Thanks for that unjustified hostility.

I am sure the creator of Commento is happy you are here exacting vigilante justice against his customers for their imaginary entitlement.

I signed up for a free trial of his commento.io service, and immediately tried to integrate it with my static site.

When I ran into difficulties (bad responses from commento.io) I contacted support.

If I had got it working, I would have gladly paid him, and I would still be paying him.

I think I was within my rights to request a modicum of support during the free trial period for a paid product, and then to not pay for it when I did not receive a response.

In this context, I find your story about some open source project you have to be quite irrelevant.
TDD or other approaches which shorten the feedback loop, a bit of planning, selecting a task-appropriate language and task-appropriate libraries (either standard to the language or external), frequent refactoring.

Don't spend a manic day writing 10k lines of code and only compiling it at the end of the day. Don't go in without a plan and develop the structure in an ad hoc fashion. Don't delay refactoring until after the first 100k lines are written. Ideally never even write 100k lines because you've selected an appropriate language and libraries to let you write something that closely matches the problem domain.

Use templates/frameworks where possible for common activities. These don't even need to be heavy weight, but relates back to using libraries. If you're making your 100th CRUD site in some language and you don't already have a default structure, you're doing it the hard way.
Wow!

Let's check a few reasons someone might not be getting it:

- They're ugly as sin

- They suffer from some condition that impairs socialisation

- They can't do it for medical reasons

- They can't get it from their partner, and they won't betray that partner

- They have high standards, and won't chase after just anything with two legs

None of those reasons is reprehensible. And it's a nasty, sexist slur to imply that all men are potential rapists.
> Bitcoin takes away resources (energy and semiconductor manufacturing) from socially good things

The provision of high-quality money/savings/etc is a social good.
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/what-difference-between-ef...

>Efficacy is the degree to which a vaccine prevents disease, and possibly also transmission, under ideal and controlled circumstances – comparing a vaccinated group with a placebo group. Effectiveness meanwhile refers to how well it performs in the real world.
Are there causal analyses of sleep on those other forms of dementia?
Which, for Americans, is not the same as the city you know of as London. It's about a square mile inside greater London and is often referred to as such.
> What if a team needs a way to spin up private channels, so they need access to setting roles, wouldnt that open up the whole "role" system to anyone?

There are certainly bots that automate that on Discord. A bot can open the private channel, add the temporary role, assign the temporary role, then close all that stuff when the chat is done. If it's a voice chat you don't even need a temporary role, the bot can "drag" users to/from other voice chats, so you can have a "public" lobby for the private voice rooms that only the bot can fill. (I've been in game servers built that way.)

> What if you just want to join a channel to drop one line and leave, where did they put that role bot button thingy again to automatically assign roles?

Discord just released a much more comprehensive slash-command system. It will be a while before more bots migrate to it (and away from Reaction "buttons" and weird individual choices for command prefixes), but it supports now some powerful auto-complete/help prompts and argument schema validation.
My opinion is that the stock market is setting the tone for what is going on and that at some point the major players might want to cash out their position causing stock prices and consumer sentiment to drop. Although I wonder if it’s more profitable for them to cash out slowly as prices keep getting pushed up thanks to the relative lack of a bond market and other manipulations.
This seems like an extreme case of cognitive dissonance. People who hold bitcoin (or are somehow vested in it) are trying really hard to rationalize the energy costs associated with bitcoin. But there is no way to avoid physics. Energy - no matter how it's produced- is lost as heat while mining bitcoins.
I've perused that filing in the past. Most of the language is about how votes "could" be fraudulent, with little to no actual proof that votes were cast or counted fraudulently.

I do remember it using that "1 in quadrillion" statistic that appeared pretty questionable even on the surface.
Bitcoin uses less energy to immutably log transactions than the manipulated rube goldberg system we currently use for keeping track of money balances, that should be all that matters.
>The "extraordinary" circumstances used to justify getting this data has a way of expanding over time until it becomes almost any routine reason being justification enough.

One need to look no further than the widespread use of swat teams and no knock raids for mundane purposes, when even 50 years ago most cities didn't even have a swat team.
Also, apparently, not an award? From your link:

"Whilst undoubtedly a privilege, strict instructions are given that the Freedom of the City of London should not be presented to others as being an honour or award."
do you know that would resolve the issue? this just seems like idle, retributive speculation.
If a product can't be secure without using more energy than most countries (and if that security is considered to be important), that product is garbage and shouldn't be allowed to continue.
Variable length is always going to restrict the parralelism of your instruction decode (for a given chip area/power/etc cost).
Intermittent producers becoming baseload is a contradictio in terminis. No amount of handwaving or cherry picking can change this.

Furthermore my own stand is that presence of miners remove pressure on grid operators to install storage capacity. This means miner presence does the exact opposite of that statement.
I think believing this (the title in particular) is even more partisan and more wrong than not participating in Bitcoin because it's "bad for the environment" which I read as "I feel I missed the boat, so I'm going to criticize".

I would rather suffer the environmental damage that Bitcoin incentivizes over having central banking control our currency (not saying it's that simple, but that is how I think about it in broad strokes). No government can print Bitcoin at will to fund military spending or generally increase social inequity, which I think printing new money usually ends up doing.

I think there are far worse things for the environment than Bitcoin. Have you seen our land and water usage?
why would they give all their vaccine and forget about their own people

they did, then stopped to plan the production, so they can share more later, that makes 100% sense and seems to be the best strategy to vaccinate everyone safely

Saying "no they don't" is mostly a lie and is unfair to say, such a simplistic sentence that hides the real intentions
I think reading the entire article is important here.

My initial response was that the headline writer was sloppy about risk, correlation and causation, but towards the end it notes some studies where one or more nights of poor sleep appeared to cause measurable increases in substances that are present in elevated levels in dementia patients. If those studies did a reasonable job of showing causation, then this could be an extension of that work.
Right, that's the "Osborne Effect"[0], which is certainly a consideration.

But I think Apple's secrecy is more about maximizing the marketing impact of announcements, and making competitors work harder to predict product directions.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
In practice it means that the offer isn't conditional on their financing being approved.
FLoC by itself doesn't solve fingerprinting, the but larger Privacy Sandbox effort does have changes such as Privacy Budget which aim to fix fingerprinting.
In the UK, I’ve basically only used WhatsApp for sms-type communication for the past 4 years. Actual SMS is for one-time passcodes and automated messages from my bank and doctor.

Previous to that, I was in Australia where practically nobody used WhatsApp, favouring iMessage or Facebook messenger.

Messaging app adoption is highly localised.
To me, this seems like a convoluted way to hide malicious actions as research, (not the other way around). This smells of intentional vulnerability introduction under the guise of academic investigation. There are millions of other, less critical, open source solutions this "research" could have tested on. I believe this was an intentional targeted attack, and it should be treated as such.
Do you have any quickstart guides that you could recommend to get started with Typescript and Deno?
>Hah, another disaster at the hands of Tony Blair.

I wouldn't be surprised if it came out of the civil service in response to increasing congestion. It's easy to blame the current minister but the reality is much of government goes on with or without them.
Why do people who have no money think they have a say in how energy is spent? Historically, in the whole of time, there has never been a period where that happened. What is making people think it is different with Bitcoin?
huh I never knew of plonk I bet I've been plonked before
"Frugality of people in the past". Or, looked at from the other side, "extravagance of people today".

Or, more neutrally, our standards and expectations have changed from the 1960s. If you want the 2020 life on the kind of job that got you the 1960 life, you're in for a disappointment.
that's a huge problem and terribly short sighted. it assumes a continued hold on power.
We should pass a law that all ICE vehicles must get less than 5 miles per gallon. That will make people need more gas, and it might accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles!!

What a horseshit argument. So bad that I have a very different sentiment towards Square as a company now.
Naive tree planting definitely isn't as simple a carbon capture method as 1 ton trees -> -1 ton carbon, but in current circumstances it's still a good idea. For one, thanks to deforestation most tree planting (so long as they're planted in a sustainable way) is growth, increasing total biomass. For another, if I could snap my fingers and offset some current day carbon emissions by a few decades, I definitely would. We are right against the wall at the moment, buying a bit of time could do a lot for us.
Man these things are all over eBay and I can’t help looking at them and feeling like they were a children’s toy.
Just wait until you've heard my idea for quadrupling the filtering of SARS-CoV2 particles...
At some point we have to reach the conclusion that most of the time products fail because they are of lower quality compared to their competitors.

The only way I can see psychological safety effecting the eventual outcome of Google+ is someone who, being psychologically safe, would have said right at the beginning, "this is stupid, don't even try it".
Whenever I see articles about this topic I'm left with so many questions. Where does one go to buy such location data? Is it expensive? Are there minimum orders or do I have to buy all of it and hope what I'm looking for is contained in it? Are there restrictions on who is allowed to buy it? Who are other consumers of the data besides the government, insurance companies? Private investigators?
This is the key problem. All automated moderation is essentially a wicked mix of an iterated prisoner's dilemma and Goodhart's Law.
Programming AR to understand how to build IKEA from a box in a house is also not worth the effort. Its amazingly hard to do.

You'd need close to general AI, when we can do that we'll probably have general purpose robots in the home also.
iPhone XR caught fire after getting trapped in airline passenger's seat
I like this sort of thing.

"The general idea is that the application code contains default values for all configuration keys, defaults that can be overruled by a config file read from disk at application startup. "

This should be expected of any application but many don't get this right.

"The CMake file for this example project does not automatically download Hjson or Qt 5. The headers and libs for Hjson and Qt 5 are expected to already exist on the local machine. "

Good call. Just flag dependencies as required, detect when not present and let developer sort it out. Control over dependencies is not to be overestimated. Plenty of developers need to lock the version used of many dependencies for stability reasons.
All this vitriol for Bitcoin and how terrible it is for the environment. Honestly it is just the latest stick people want to beat it with. Its hardly the first and it wont be the last thing that damages our environment. And it is also far from the biggest causes of pollution.

Cargo ships cause more pollution than all the cars on earth, yet we are told to drive less but the cargo ships keep coming, keep getting bigger and keep polluting. Stopping/Reducing them would mean we can't consume cheap goods so a blind eye is turned, to an easier target, Bitcoin.

If everyone who I heard complain about the inefficency of bitcoin were also protesting Mcdonalds, Shell, Texaco, Amazon etc it might actually have some merit but until then I feel free to ignore the green virtue signalling.
https://research.umn.edu/units/irb/how-submit/new-study , find the document that points to "determining that it's not human research", leads you to https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw4LRE9kGb69Mm5TbldxSVkwTms...

The only relevant question is:
"Will the investigator use ... information ... obtained through ... manipulations of those individuals or their environment for research purposes?"

which could be idly thought of as "I'm just sending an email, what's wrong with that? That's not manipulating their environment".

But I feel they're wrong.

https://grants.nih.gov/policy/humansubjects/hs-decision.htm would seem to agree that it's non-exempt (i.e. potentially problematic) human research if "there will be an interaction with subjects for the collection of ... data (including ... observation of behaviour)" and there's not a well-worn path (survey/public observation only/academic setting/subject agrees to study) with additional criteria.
Ask HN: If Covid never happened,what all would've you done in on past 11 months?
You clearly don't understand the economics of the situation. Renewable power generation from wind and solar has a much higher ratio of wasted power because they have such high variability in output. Because of this, in cases where the power generally can't be cost effectively stored or supplemented (by dynamic increase of dirtier energy), wind and solar simply won't be built in favor of coal plants. Bitcoin mining can use this wasted energy, which increases the revenue that can be generated by renewable sources, thus making it more likely that areas will choose renewable over coal.

So please don't get all disgusted when you didn't actually read through what's going on. Your biases are blinding you.
There's a certain argument to be made for timber farming as a way to extend our temporary carbon sinks -- trees that fall over rot, releasing their carbon, trees that are cut down and turned into houses may be protected from decay for tens or hundreds of years.

You could really go whole-hog into attempting to maximize the amount of timber you can stuff into a house -- start building double-stud walls with 12 inch on-center spacing just to triple the number of 2x6's used, fall in love with giant cross-laminated timber panels, etc etc.
Isn't issuing conflicting votes, if proven, costing people their stake?
People in private companies want to make money.

People in government want power.
He's approaching the Brimley/Cocoon Line.
The key to small drone efficiency is that they don't need big airfields which can be bombed.

Instead the attacking force will be hard pressed finding hundred separate drone teams hiding in bushes, and forests on the frontline, while flying over enemy AA themselves.
Some people are willing to trade health for fortune and fame. There's been interviews with Musk where he describes being unable to turn his brain off. He's probably just leaning hard into the cards that life dealt him - a wildly productive brain that wants to go go go. I don't blame him for taking what he was dealt, and running with it.
I don't see any sense in which this is bullying.
A modification of your metaphor would also have a reputed institution in your life enter your apartment on the credibility of that institution. It is not surprising when that institution has its credibility downranked.
Some of the biomass is also washed away and becomes marine sediments, which can store a significant amount of carbon. https://cbmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13021...
By what conceivable mechanism could bitcoin "transfigure" an "intermittent power resource" such as a solar PV panel into being baseload-capable?

If I put a bitcoin on my solar panel does it start producing at night? Will a bitcoin keep the clouds from casting shadows on my solar farm?
I agree, I think a more broad ban might be in order. I don't know that I'd want anyone from this "group" contributing to anything.
Random HN commenters might have an agenda (what would it be?). Government agencies definitely have an agenda.
Higher density would mean you could live closer to work which solves some of the congestions problems. Because of the big sprawl commutes are long and it's harder to make efficient public transport. But you're right, how to go there after everything is already sprawled out is a good question.
Yes we like the bitcoins. We'd like you to know that we're not in the business of staying poor, to that effect would you like to buy a carbon green bitcoin?
what is the indication on how this bill vote will go ?

I see that the cosponsors cross party lines. But is it enough that it will make it into law ?