skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It gets pretty thorny because you have to be careful about what aspects of traditional platforms correspond to the problems addressed by bitcoins. Some folks will try to compare the electricity usage of Visa to that of Bitcoin for example, even though Bitcoin doesn't provide low-latency payments and Visa doesn't provide distributed consensus.

Another easy thing to measure about Bitcoin is its economic value. You can readily assess the market capitalization, and you can also examine the blockchain to see precisely how much it cost users to conduct the transactions in recent blocks. The bottom line for me is that the miners aren't working for charity; they are taking fees+reward >= their electricity cost, and this is paid for by the users of Bitcoin. So those who criticize Bitcoin as an environmental catastrophe might as well say the same thing about YouTube, Aluminum production, or modern industry more generally.

It's just a particularly easy target because many people find the economic importance of Bitcoin and the recent development of the same mystifying.
We should clearly use Esperanto words.
> Go back a few years and many here were incredulous if anyone suggested we might be looking at decades to have full door-to-door self-driving.

As someone who has done this kind of push-back here, I can confirm - this place was highly incredulous of, if not downright hostile, to people with experience in AI who were explaining all these were false promises.

Anyone who actually did robotics knew just how much of a pipe dream this is, how slow progress is, and how solving the easy 50% is worth nothing because the real world gets superlinearly difficult. ML made a great jump, but it only solved parts of the problems we needed solving, and so far failed to introduce a bridge to those other parts. But you try telling people, and they won't listen, and now I understand the curse of Cassandra. :)

But I'm reserving special bile for those CEOs and Directors of Research who knew full well that we don't know how to make this stuff, and that most of it is an open research problem that's decades away from productizing - and yet they marketed it anyway, as if it was a done product that's ready to go, and took customers' and investors' money for something that experts knew was very, very, very clearly vaporware.
It's really no different from the deceptive advertising, food labels, etc. that were rampant at the beginning of the 20th century. I'm glad we appear to still have functioning regulatory bodies to deal with the new incarnations of the same old schemes.
I tend to be on the riskier side, so if it isn't in my 401k it's in these ;). I do keep some cash for emergencies and stock from my company too!

1 in particular (the Double Leveraged In & Out) has quantitative papers written about it with backtests of its performance all the way to 1928! Like all risky investing, I only invest what I can afford to lose here. Hope that helps!
You are absolutely right, and I think the author would agree with you. Sometimes there are strong, compelling reasons that justify not changing things.

Inconveniently, sometimes the reason is "a lot of work went into that".
Why don't criminals just use Monero or another privacy coin?
I completely stopped using linkedin once I realized they were doing this. I don't think my career has suffered.
Absolutely not made in Paris, but La Roche-sur-Yon in Vendée.
Ha. Reminds me of the old warning message that used to come up in rn when you posted something to USENET:

This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing.
You can do this with a browser like Chrome by creating a shortcut with "Open As Window".
1. COVID-19 isn’t going to be “over” in any conventional sense any time soon. There are too many cases and too many variants.

2. With billions of institutional money and billions more waiting until ETFs in the US are approved, Bitcoin has something it didn’t have back in the day: a floor.

The days of 80% drops are over.
Most web servers do out of the box, so I would assume most do. Basically all unless they have some reason to turn range processing off or are running a custom/experimental/both server that have implemented the feature (yet).

Not supporting range requests would be a disadvantage for any service hosting large files. Resuming failed long downloads wouldn't work so users might not be happy and there would be more load on your bandwidth and other resources as the AU falls back to performing a full download.
This is not really whataboutism, with two sides.

And in any case, I don't care. I know what I feel is good content and it's stuff like this, and I want more of it, and less blogspam.

So yes, my assumption is that my judgement is more correct for me - because it is.
Assume they’ll be rolling out a link to the ‘ad free’ version imminently in that case.
No you... didn't? The headline is "Buying a Bitcoin emits 195x as much CO₂ as buying an iPhone" on both HN and Medium.
American GE at least has an extensive parts network in country

Maytag, too. I had no problem finding Maytag parts recently.
Yeah, it's not like a solution for deaf people cannot be built on top of Clubhouse ?

Oh wait, it's a closed source application on top of a extremely closed down OS, never mind...
Surprisingly, there is an interesting proof-theoretic connection between differential and sequent calculus! For a more detailed account of differential linear logic (DiLL), see Erhard [1] and Kerjean [2].

More generally, the same rules from differential calculus have reappeared in strange and marvelous places throughout computer science, including formal language theory [3], parsing [4], type theory [5] and automata theory [6].

We do not attempt to cover all these topics, research is just beginning to understand how they are related. The general theme seems to be, how do you propagate local changes through a computation? Can you compute changes incrementally without restarting from scratch?

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.01642.pdf

[2]: https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~kerjean/papers/EDP18.pdf

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brzozowski_derivative

[4]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2034773.2034801

[5]: http://strictlypositive.org/diff.pdf

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_differential_calculus
Such a simple and blatant example of false advertising. Why does the FTC need to request comments? Just take action and crush this stuff! We are so careful about making businesses sad in this country.
It’s an asset. So I suppose I wouldnt really compare it to cash or ATM card. I’d compare it to a bar of gold or real-estate. But unlike either of those it can be easily spent.
Exactly!

"Polite" and "respectful" can be a form of bullying too. Ask the women in your friends & family if you don't believe me.
If I read only this sentence I understand that a bitcoin emits 195*29 more CO2 than an iPhone.

But he got 195 by multiplying 29 by 6.7. And 6.7 is the ratio between bitcoin and Apple CO2 emissions.

I'm not convinced that any of this computation is meaningful. We don't need this to prove that bitcoin is a waste of energy.
Punching a bully in the chest seems like agency to me. I liked the way that worked out.
EmuTOS is a like-for-like replacement for the ST OS, using some of the Digital Research PC GEM code that was open-sourced by Caldera around the turn of the century.

So it's a single-tasking OS.

ST TOS evolved in multiple directions, with a couple of complete replacements, such as MagiC, itself now FOSS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagiC

People replaced various bits of TOS and GEM, which had a fairly clean layered design. A decade or so back, a project united various FOSS replacement bits for chunks of the Atari/DR stack, wrote some more code to fill in the blanks, and released an all-FOSS Atari-compatible OS.

It's called AFrOS: Atari Free OS. https://aranym.github.io/afros.html

It uses MiNT, a multitasking Unix-like layer that turns Atari GEM into a multitasking OS.

The first time I heard of EmuTOS was basically as a bootloader for AFrOS. I'm delighted to learn it has grown into a complete TOS replacement, but TOS itself evolved into a whole new sort of OS and that has resulted in a complete FOSS ST OS years ago.

EmuTOS is much more like the original OS.

AFrOS mainly is intended to run on a dedicated emulator, called ARAnyM: Atari Running on ANY Machine.
https://aranym.github.io/

ARAnyM doesn't aim to be a completely accurate ST emulator for running ST games. Instead it's aimed at people doing serious productivity-type work in GEM, and aims to run GEM apps quickly on modern hardware, at the price of losing perfect hardware compatibility.

Those interested in Atari OSes may enjoy AFrOS on ARAnyM. I certainly do.
That punch, that was tech-bro language. Good on her. And it worked.
If Bitcoin reaches those prices, it would have twice the market cap of all gold and significant % of global wealth, so that energy would be well spent to secure all that wealth.
> I’ve come to the conclusion that buying “consumer” or even “prosumer” appliances is a lost cause, all the brands use the same 3 white label Chinese manufacturers and you get the same quality no matter what you buy, you can expect to be shopping for a new appliance in <5 years time.

In general that's very true across industry now. For more information on this white labeling phenomenon this documentary is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeTgLKNb5R0
It's fun to add the tree?
Halfway the same thing that's driving the prices of stocks and pokemon cards: people with extra cash from stimulus checks, spare time, and fomo. "Crypto being the future of finance" is a story people tell themselves to justify the price of bitcoin, and while some flavor of blockchain tech could someday back parts of finance, it won't be bitcoin. Buying bitcoin is a bet that more people will buy bitcoin.
Also, 1 BTC is about 30 iPhones in money. It’s as interesting as saying a holiday consumes more than a bus trip: only CO2 / dollar is interesting. Or equivalent-CO2 “per service provided”.

Because, with all the remaining dollars, you’re not going to destroy them, you’re going to consume other services/products, and if they are heavier in CO2 emissions per dollars in average, we’re not in a better position.
Boy I really wish I'd written a little more. Serves me right for underestimating the breadth of experiences on this board, and how that can lead to drastically different takes.

If you were to argue that the pre-fear environment was unprofessional, exclusionary, immature, and that it often led to miscommunications and hard feelings, I'd have a hard time disagreeing. It's certainly not my preferred style (any more) and I think we can all do better and be nicer without giving up the meeting of the minds that's so essential to progress, at any scale.

But what came after? It was polite—because nobody talked. It was respectful—because everybody was afraid. Afraid I can't go into further detail, but it led to far greater harm in the long run, for the whole world, not just the company.
I have never, ever used, or suggested the use of shared_ptr, which I believe is not a construct that should be in C++ or any other language.
Not to mention how awful their AMP pages (redundant, blame grammar) are already. Searching for topics on Reddit is a nightmare, you’re stuck with their awful native search, their awful mobile app, or the awful mobile site.
Salesforce is this generation's Lotus Notes.

It's incredibly powerful software that when implemented well, can streamline processes, provide easy access to information, and make teams really efficient.

However, it rarely seems to be implemented well.
I spent years optimizing physics simulations from different domains (weather, fluid dynamics, all sorts of stuff). Even there you have to carefully pick the parts you want to optimize to get the best outcome for the resources you invest in optimization. It's completely infeasible to make everything crazy fast with a blanket approach.
You don't mean "orthogonal" (that would mean something like "independent", "non-interfering"). You mean it's "in direct opposition to" or something like that.
Roaring Eighties The Japanese Bubble during the 1980s
For bitcoin you'd probably not be able to really determine it.

One component would be reasonably straightforward, take the fee paid for the transaction and divide it by the block reward it appears in, it's arguably directly responsible for that percentage of the emissions related to that block.

The other potential component would be any impact on the value of bitcoin due to the transaction. It's likely close enough to zero most of the time, but when it isn't zero it's gonna be a doozy.
> That shit should be punishable by literal prison time.

Forcible corporate dissolution, chapter 7 style.
I made two claims:

> this would be unusable over high latency links.

That is objectively true

> SQLite databases of pure data usually aren’t over 10MB in size.

No one here has refuted this point.

Any other counterargument is addressing a claim I did not make.
Email the mods and ask this question. They won’t see it here and they’d take the time to consider and reply if you did.
I assume part of the point of the personal blog is to let loose in a way that she wouldn't at work, yeah. I certainly would understand that; I've supported stacks that I didn't like because that's what the business used and being a professional (IMO) means supporting what the company uses even if you hate the product, when on the clock.
NFTs only present an illusion of scarcity.
It is quite a racket. I don't believe they set out to actively harm the web and open standards, but when they make _such_ a killing on app store profits, it must limit the incentives and motivation to invest in Safari/WebKit
If they really don’t want people to use it on the web they should simply turn down the web site and tell people to use the app or GTFO. Instead they keep it up but cripple it and then repeatedly beg the user to something they clearly don’t want to do.
Do you use browsers? Browser makers spend billions of dollars in engineering time making them "fast", with great results.
Here is what I wrote:
There are straightforward language and practices that the FTC should mandate for online purchases.

1. The FIRST option in any screen or sequence that could result in a purchase must be affirmatively worded to clearly indicate a purchase is being made or a transition to a screen to purchase will be initiated by choosing that option. The word YES shall be included in any option to buy.
2. If second or subsequent options also initiate a purchase, they must similarly be affirmatively worded.
3. All sequences must TERMINATE with a negatively worded decline option, in the SAME font, size and style. 1-3 seek to enforce a standard wherein consumers can EXPECT the first and intermediate options to be BUYING options, and the last option to be a DECLINING option.
4. Double negative wording is not allowed.
5. Check boxes shall NEVER be pre-filled in. Use check boxes, they must all be blank. In general, an action by the consumer shall never be required to cancel a preinserted assent.
6. Purchasing screen. At some point, a screen is arrived at where the purchaser’s credit or bank information is obtained, and the purchase completed. Wording near the TOP of this screen, and in the LARGEST font visible on this screen must reinforce to the consumer that she is about to make a purchase. (Banks and airlines, which incur significant costs to correct purchases or payments consumers consider incorrect, are an excellent source of ideas for this screen.)
I used to get the Guardian paper delivered - that makes me feel sad.
To be fair, we don't know if Intel's chip architecture design is falling behind. Their inability to move past the 14nm process is preventing them from using their newer designs.
"Sabbath mode" ovens work in a clever way, where the temperature switch is only checked on a certain interval. So when you change the temperature you're generally not completing or breaking a circuit, since the circuit is likely currently broken anyway.

Most rabbinic authorities still prohibit Sabbath mode ovens on Shabbat for different reasons, but on holidays with weaker restrictions but that still have electricity bans, like Passover, permit their use.

I remember when my parents first got a "Sabbath mode" oven, the local Orthodox rabbi came over excitedly just to see it at work.
Really? I wasn't able to find anything like that on the internet, was this during the economic crisis there?
My father never watched Bob Ross, but treated his paintings in a similar way. Many of them were nailed up in the garage.

He enjoyed painting. It didn't matter what happened to the painting afterwards.
Yeah yeah yeah, but why isn’t this been blasted with the public airwaves, especially in India?

Plus, they’re giving zinc to people already sick. Why not check people for zinc deficiency and supply them with the zinc they need? I know why, it’s because we don’t believe in preventative care in this country.
Both big Linux Desktops(KDE/GNOME) do try to make the desktop UIs design work on a small screen. Phosh/phoc is mostly GNOME Design and Plasma mobile is KDE.

And that's the point of libhandy(for GTK/GNOME apps) and Kirigami(KDE) to take desktop Applications and make them work on smaller screens. So you can use the same applications on the phone and Linux desktop. And nice bonus is that optimizing the applications to have low CPU usage will have a positive effect on the linux desktop too.

In the case of postmarketOS to give that devices a second life(Hard work cause mainline linux support of most android Phones is bad).
It's not only about emitting CO2, it's also about wasting the earth's surface to produce electricity, such as damming rivers or plastering it with solar panels, or mining for resources to fabricate the bitcoin-mining hardware (which needs to be replaced every few years). The problem will be increasing as the price of BTC goes up. It's a tragedy of the commons.
And in US$/kg Bitcoin is a real deal. At $50,000 that is about $143/kg of CO2 and an iPhone @ $1000 is less than $10/kg of CO2. :-)

I completely agree that using arbitrary numerology to cast shade on a technology you would rather not exist is not very good reasoning, but some folks respond to it so it persists.
mind blown. how is this possible???
I enjoy selling people things that I've written the firmware for and that I've done at least a bit of the manufacturing on. It helps me to think of my customers as real people, even if it's just someone who bought my thing on Amazon. I don't get how people who don't feel that way work. I'm sure they do, and good for them, but I can't really grok how they work.
For context, 100k DKK is approximately 13k EUR or 16k USD. The largest DKK banknote is 1000. This would take 100 banknotes. I'm not talking about affordability. I'm just saying - someone who already has 100k DKK in their bank account could convert it to 100 notes.

Realistically speaking – will this policy spur spending, or will people go back to just hoarding cash?
They are like picking up a grain of sand and trying to claim its rare. Yes, there is only one of that grain of sand you are holding but that doesn't mean a whole lot.
As an engineering manager in an unrelated field... this could also be a way to not have to support a feature on X platform because I don't have the resources to make it work on every possible mobile browser. Or the mobile browsers don't support X feature and I don't want to (or can't) spend the resources to make it work there, QA it there etc. It's not something likely to be able to curb with regulations.
The Ideal Sales Process for Professional Services Firms
> delivering a boatload of breakfast tacos from the Austin airport

Ah yes, the lesser-known cousin of the Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel, the Austin-Bergstrom Breakfast Taco Canal
I’d argue that a simple law “companies may not lie to people,” with wide latitude for judges to define lying, would instantly and massively upend business for the better.
Social networks are not a homogenous group. You have broadcast social networks like Instagram and Twitter. You have community-based social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn and Discord.

Clubhouse is just another twist on a community-esque one. Will we ever see a social network at Facebook's scale? Probably not. Will we see more social networks at the Twitter/Discord level, I bet we will.
You don't need detailed research because a little back-of-the-napkin math shows that it's way too much.

A comparison I found recently is that Bitcoin uses 10x as much electricity as Google.

Why is this? Well, you can think of Bitcoin as giving away prize money to miners who win a contest. Currently they are giving away over $50 million in Bitcoin every day. [1] The electricity spend by miners is capped by the amount of prize money.

Why so much? It wasn't planned. The bug in Bitcoin's algorithm is that energy usage is proportional to market price, and the amount it went up wasn't anticipated. If Bitcoin crashed to a tenth of its current market value, it would be about even with Google. That's still way too much for what it does. Maybe it should crash to 1% its current price, to be reasonable?

Besides a market crash, the other way to fix it would be speeding up the schedule for lowering miner awards. It's going to drop in half this month, but there's no principled reason to wait another four years for the reward to drop in half again. But good luck getting consensus for that. More revenue is better than less revenue and miners don't want the prize money to drop.

Another comparison: Musk sponsored a $100 million X Prize for inventing carbon capture technology. That's a very big prize for an important cause, and it's only 2 days of Bitcoin prize money.

The Bitcoin prizes are too damn high.

[1] https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_miners_revenue_per_da...
[2] https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk
I'll just leave this here, then.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article250944639.htm...
Best I’ve found are the ones at Homestate in LA: https://www.myhomestate.com/
I neglected to add “in an Irish context”. No Normans ever invaded Ireland. A great many English did, the military leadership of whom were mostly descended from those who conquered England a bit over a century prior.
Show HN: Tweets to Blog Posts
This reads like a meme/copypasta about clubhouse, and thats why many people don't like the idea and are hyperpolarized. A subset of people like tedtalks and using words like "exegesis", and the rest of people, well, don't.
"renewing," card billing cycles. LinkedIn advertising "renewed" the amount of my fixed ad spend multiple times, turning a ~$200 spend into almost $2,000 WITHOUT an email notification.

I did not discover it until I got my credit card bill. They use their internal support interface web tool to manage the support commitments to customers, so they memoryholed their reps commitment to refund my money, which they did not.

Any other so-called subscription services need at LEAST as much consent from you to bill you as they do to add and remove you from mailing lists.
In horse racing, at least in the US, betting is done via a pari-mutuel system where the house pools all the money, takes a 20% cut, and then pays the remainder split between winning tickets proportional to the bet size.
I accidentally signed into gmail via LinkedIn a while back and it caused me grief for months. I had to write a number of apologetic emails, and I’m still annoyed at LinkedIn -it’s been 13 years.
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I do this too. A good question for OP is: why is this a problem? Just let users do what makes sense to them. Why do you have to get them to stop?