skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is because you are thinking as a programmer/something.

Folks now have web page editors in their phones/tablets. Drawing apps, etc.

When I was 16, yeah, I want to make a webpage about WWE/F, so I had to spend days learning table based layouts and how to ftp files to a server (and find one).

Now I (my son) can open his phone and he has various tools to do so. He can share/post pictures of someone doing a full nelson and write about it, and get it up on the web in minutes vs days.

Just because he didn't have to learn 45 different incantations at the command line, doesn't mean he isn't creative, he just doesn't need to slog through programming to do it. (He is learning python though)

Think about it as frameworks, when we started, we needed to learn it all to make any kind of decent page, now most folks here would use bootstrap/material ui/whatever, or react/rails vs writing all the css by hand, fighting with all the problems it brings, configure perl scripts to be able to send an email from it, etc etc.
I resent your baiting-abating, which is really thinly-veiled baiting-hating.
Indeed.

Something else I'd like to point out is that it might seem easy to 'blame the Cirrus' pilot or them call out for inattention, but doing so by itself isn't helpful. Aviation is so safe partly because it has managed to turn a culture of blame into a culture of continuous improvement and shared learning: I'd be very surprised if the airport's procedures came out of this unmodified, for example.
> What's stopping Chia from doing the same thing to the storage space?

The gobsmacking amount of HDD supply on earth. For now people are burning SSDs to create the plots (1TB SSD can probably create a petabyte of plots to "farm"), but if you have that petabyte of storage space you're keeping online 24/7, do you suspect playing bingo to win crypto tokens is the most profitable use of that memory?

How the economics shake out remains to be seen, but I think they have a solid vision that farming can be just rewarding enough for people to use old harddrives, not profitable enough to burn NVMe sticks.

eg: I farmed 2 coins running an old thinkpad and a network drive for a month so far. Worth ~$2200 at current rate. Nice profit, but probably not buying a new thinkpad to dedicate to it.
The actual flight is purchased with the Dogecoin currency.

https://www.space.com/spacex-dogecoin-moon-mission
This is called tooth-coaching. It congratulates you on brushing your teeth, and then reminds you to do it again in the morning. If you ever tire of this endless brushing and begin to wonder what it's all about, it will display an inspirational quote.
Probably due to manifold opinions on those topics, a rather slow law creation system, lobbying forces, competing EU governments, prioritisation and corruption.
Despite claims in the title: This is not Open Source, nor Free Software, due to the choice of a license that does meet neither OSI nor FSF definitions, as it has restrictions on commercial use.
>I mean, isn’t this exactly the behaviour we want to encourage?

I want to encourage 'corporate flexibility and social accountability'.

I do not want to encourage market-whale-individuals to attempt one-person pump-and-dumps on small(ish) global markets and further market opportunism & manipulation.

Personally I believe that the decision has little to do with environmental impact; I think that the btc opportunity is beginning to dwindle in various ways, so the focus shifts to other *coin markets where they can profit similarly using the same or similar tactics.

BTC specifically is made out to be the boogeyman so that the excuse doesn't disallow similar behavior with other coins in the future. I fully expect similar reasoning with DogeCoin when that opportunity dries up and they move to greener pastures for the third time -- inevitably when profit margins are greater elsewhere.
1000ft separation isn't much when you have an issue, if you loose an engine at cruise altitude you typically cannot maintain that altitude for example.

Oceanic procedure, without radar control, is to turn 45 degrees off track while descending, but it takes a little bit of time to set all that in motion when things go wrong while you were just seconds before happily cruising straight ahead on autopilot (autopilot is mandatory above 29,000 ft in a lot of airspace)
NSFW? ;)
> However, relatively few American citizens abroad choose to renounce their citizenship because they find it useful to retain it.

Also because the US government will not allow you to renounce your citizenship if you are doing so for tax reasons.
I would assume to prevent situations like the left-pad incident.
They’d need to burn silicon too’
I think a lot of people are aware that bitcoin transactions have an energy cost but haven’t sufficiently gone down the rabbit hole of quantifying exactly what that cost is.
I'm a final year undergrad and all my courses have used C except for the funcprog and OOP courses which used haskell and Java respectively.

I've even been a teaching assistant for the very first programming course students take, so I have taught C to first year undergrads!
It is neither open source nor open hardware, as there is a "commercial use" restriction.
I cut out the middleman and just wrote a script that copy-pastes all my config files into a git repo, and another one that copies them back. I'm sure there are better ways but this is just a list of `cp -r` commands, so no matter how tired I am that day it's dead simple to extend.
Doesn't seem to be working so fine now, is it?

Also I wouldn't put behind well financed groups that hire PhDs to find a way to accelerate the PoW enough to gain a significant advantage (as in, ability to centralize the blockchain).
The explanation is obviously bullshit, everybody knew the climate impact years ago. He realized his power for market manipulation for Dogecoin and he milked the cow for real this time.
I think a lot of people feel that the good faith explanation isn't sufficiently plausible in this case, assuming even just the most cursory of research was done before this decision
What kind of bank makes business loans without encumbering any collateral?
Rather than have one reactor per ship, perhaps you could have just a few ships with reactors? Regular electrically-powered ships would tether themselves to the reactor ship, and they'd cross the ocean in a large convoy. The tether would supply electrical power.
Not really, since 1) Musk knew environmental impact well before; 2) it took him a lot of time to react, way too much to put it into 'oh now I understand' ; 3) they happily support dogecoin which is basically exactly the same issue

Not much respect for Musk for this one, either he is knowingly manipulating market for whatever amoral reasons or his asperger is getting somehow the worst of him
I get that things are busy but considering the incident is "ended" to leave such a glaring error in the first word feels sloppy to me.

I also note the headline only talks about "slow" performance but when you dig into the report you actually find out there's failures too.
Bitcoin is not a regulated market and the SEC cannot interfere because of this. Someone might sue in civil court I guess.

It's not market manipulation in the strict legal sense, more so in the moral sense.
I'm kind of surprised the company isn't insolvent already given that it was one enormous bet on the value of inner city commercial real estate.
What I don't get is, why people are talking about environmental impact per transaction. Transactions or not, the computers are churning constantly to solve the useless function that would produce the hash with the most 0s in it.
It really doesn't have anything to do with transactions(the fees are only a fraction of the profits). The energy impact would be precisely correlated to the fiat price since the miners will be paying for the energy and equipment in fiat.

Transactions or not, the higher the price, the dirtier the proof of work blockchain is.
Just look at the most recent block: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/block/00000000000000000002865...

reward: 6.25BTC

fees for transactions: 0.5BTC

total revenue: 6.75BTC, that is ~ $350K at the moment.

Each block is mined every 10min on average, so it is 2.1M per hour. So the total energy consumption is limited to $2.1M per hour or $1.5B per month at this price. It would be $150M if the price was $5k instead and $30B if the price goes to $1M per BTC. When that happens, 1 transaction will amount to the energy consumption of an American family for 1 year or more. At $1M per BTC, $360,000,000,000 worth of energy would be wasted per year on calculating a hash of a block that is functionally exactly the same with the same amount of transaction as the one calculated for $360, $3.6 or $0.03.

I'm sure I'm missing something like investors betting on price increases, infrastructure elasticity etc. but the correlation must be roughly like that.
More likely they’ll allow it but the seller has to report the info to the tax agency, who automatically sends the bill to the citizen.
Why is is Bitcoin mining mainly happening in China, but not other compute bound tasks?

How about machine learning. Why aren't the leading data centers for ML based in China?

Or are they?

And on the energy front - if fossil fuels are the best energy source for calculating hashes, why not for other types of number crunching?

Can boycotting one type of calculations really keep the fossil fuels under the ground? If they are useful to power computations - won't they be used for some kind of computations anyhow?
Humor: So I'm sure your explanation of why somebody hasn't already successfully implemented practical proof of stake before is totally credible and unbiased! ;)

Not Humor: If somebody will work on it for free, do you promise to pay them in your own cryptocurrency? "Will work for stake!"
It seems that Tesla is using the popularity of Bitcoin to prove the concept while making a lot of money and then they can switch to Dogecoin propping its price up.
On the Xeon Phi, IIRC, it was an improvement. When it was added to larger power hungrier cores, it initial required downclocking for thermals, which defeated the purpose somewhat. I hear newer cores can do it with less impactful power limitation measures.
That assumption of good faith works (mostly) for individuals. It does or should not extend to for profit corporations.
Thank you for sharing this, I just adopted it.
Very unlikely. For Bitcoin this is just another day. 10-20% drops should be expected by anyone who knows anything about crypto.
Replace the gold standard with the CO2 standard. Tie currency to carbon captured and stored.
Is it time for the internet to get something like maritime law?

I could see each power controlling their own section in that case
Ah, you want to logout everywhere. That‘s not how most logout buttons work. (I can logout of practically all my accounts only on one device.)

If you want to logout everywhere that‘s extremely rare and as I said such a table to capture this information would be tiny.

Additionally these tokens are short-lived. So even without token invalidation, the „logout everywhere“ can just invalidate the refresh tokens and all device are logged out within one hour.
This is my issue: the only thing stopping it from becoming the most profitable use of that memory is the market value of Chia.

Chia isn't cool. Chia gives you bad breath, and it makes dogs hate you. Spread the word.
This is a first-world solution.
Perhaps some of the people you’re referring to are otherwise unemployable for related reasons—by giving them paid work, FB could do public good.

Of course, that is assuming they truly have “no problems dealing with” that content, and won’t be triggered by it to do something terrible in real life. Not sure if mental health care is/can be advanced enough to tell precisely.
For me, one plus of home-manager is that I can easily use it and share modules between NixOS and, say, Alpine + Nix
> the lines between many of these words are confusing and often intentionally blurred by people on various sides

This simply isn't true though. The line is intentionally blurred by one side in order to suppress any valid criticism of Israel or Zionism by labelling (libelling) that critique as a criticism of Jews. There is no "various sides" to this blurring of lines.

> It therefore is anti-Semitic when Jews are blamed for the actions of either Israelis or Zionists

Hypothetically it would be but does it happen? This myth that blaming of Jews is happening broadly (not just Israel/Zionists) is exactly the misinformation that's being discussed. Your comment only perpetuates this.

Linking to dictionary definitions is a bit of a strawman; everyone knows the difference, that's not evidence that conflation is actually widespread at all. I've certainly not seen any criticism of Jews.
Thanks, that does seem incredibly lucky indeed.

Also, I like the headline including "all parties ok".
Pilots of planes with CAPS are (now) taught to pull the chute if anything goes wrong inside the profile (low enough speed, far enough above ground) where the chute is designed to work. The aeroplane is insured, you can buy a new one. Even if the pilot and all passengers are insured you can't buy new ones.

They changed this because it turns out that the same phenomenon that leads to private pilots taking undue risks in the rest of flight ("Get-there-itis") also makes them reluctant to pull the chute even when it's clearly their best option. Pilots who clearly couldn't reach a safe landing spot, yet had working CAPS would dig themselves (and their passengers) a grave rather than just pull the handle. So teaching them to start by assuming they'll pull the chute and only then considering whether there are other options reduces the fatality rate.
Same on my iPhone SE 2
> The antitrust ruled out it was because Google wanted to sabotage competitor apps to the charging stations finder built-in in the Google Maps app

Should this say “…ruled it was because…”? I can’t figure out the reason for the fine otherwise.
Using a lithium battery in place of AA/AAA batteries, and having a backlit screen should be two obvious red flags.

To anyone reading, I'd suggest a used TI-89 or Voyage 200 instead, 68000-based TI calcs.

They cost next to nothing used these days, and there's to my knowledge no better calculators out there.

It is old, but that means it is proven and well-understood.
> Except they still own a ton of Bitcoin

No where in my sentence suggested they sold all of it.

> so I don’t see how selling a tiny bit of it could be described as “to perfection”

Telsa did not lose any money from their BTC investment and are still up >40%. At that time, they (and others on Twitter) caused a run up in the crypto markets to drive the BTC price up to new all time highs and got out a large profit even by selling a small amount and then causing it to drop 12% after the announcement, sounds like it was perfectly executed and it worked for them.
I’d wager instead: the price of all crypto goes down.

Tesla buys into some unknown proof-of-stake coin.
It includes condoms, which means my definition of essential is quite different from WHO's one. Honestly, not that I really had one, but I expected something like "Medicines we need to prevent humans from extinction", while it obviously includes more than that.
With a market cap that is 20 times lower, higher market cap means higher prices, means more miners and thus more energy requirement
100%, go and exchange it.

It should not be performing like this. I bought a base spec m1 mac mini for testing apple silicon applications on and it has ended up displacing a 2019 16" MBP unexpectedly - the mac mini is far faster in real world usage for me, and your workflow is exactly what I'm doing with it.
Talking about the EU perspective in 2020 here: FCA (Fiat Chrysler and all of their brands) sold too few low/zero emission cars. Their fine would have been X millions of €. By paying Tesla X - 100 millions €, they save 100 million €, while being pretty pissed off that they are financing a different OEM.

Due to this reason, they already announced that in 2021 they won't need to "pool" with another OEM like they did in 2020.
> I'd be very grateful if someone could ELI5 the whole thing.

Don't worry, I have absolutely no clue either what this was about not who the intended audience is.
Well, when released in 2008 it was a $600 monitor, I got it second-hand for 80€.

I'm not sure what DICOM has to do with color reproduction quality ? Also it seems to be a quite a bit older standard than sRGB...

By definition, you can't "see the unseen". "Yellow" and "blue" are opponent "colors", so, by definition, a proper mixture of them is going to give you grey :

https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/color2.html#opponentfunctio...

Also, when talking about subtle color effects, you have to consider that personal variation might come into play (for instance red-green "colorblindness" is a spectrum).
100% pump and dump.
How I filmed the Faroe whale hunt (2018)
In this case it isn't plausible as GP pointed out.
When corporate tax is zero and corporations don't hire tax specialists because nobody audits them, individuals don't need an army of specialists to hide most of their income and expenditure in a corporation, and basically anyone that isn't an entry-level employee can do it...
And they would eventually find https://Nano.org, a totally green, fast and fee-less alternative to Bitcoin. (Which has seen a price jump of 60% since the announcement).
Hard to say - many were liquidated on the way down, may more sold in frustration. I'd suspect a ton of people lost a ton of money on the way down in 2017/8. They're not laughing.
Data centers mostly serve customers and customers care about reliability and latency.

Distance and Great Firewall of China do not help with any of that.

Also, because moving data to China is a legal nightmare in EU and public relations nightmare in the whole west.
For profit companies don't make decisions because they're right. Right and wrong have no meaning in capitalism. Companies make decisions based on profits.

We might wish it were different, but it very clearly isn't.

The best we can hope for is that public pressure convinces companies that right and profitable overlap.
> go has popularized long args, with a single hyphen (-name etc)

Why did they do that?

It took us 20 years to standardize on - for short and -- for long, with occasional finger rage on tar or find, and now this?

What were they thinking?
Also see:

The Islands and the Whales review – a community poisoned

> A protest group surreally led by Pamela Anderson arrives to stage a press conference, a part of the film which could have been shot by Bill Forsyth. In answer to Anderson’s slightly testy advice to embrace vegetarianism, the islanders reply that vegetables must be air-freighted into the shops – and that has its own environmental implications. There is a tiny undercurrent of anger elsewhere, a feeling that warnings about mercury levels are alarmist and disloyal. The local doctor advising families on this points out an airgun bullet-hole in his car. I sometimes wonder if a narrative voiceover (very unfashionable in documentary film-making) could have made the issues at stake clearer, and given an informative guide to the community festival at the end. It’s a very good-looking film, with lovely images.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/29/the-islands-and...
A company as big as as TSLA has people on payroll to figure that out. If they don’t, then it’s still on them. You think this is WSB where I see a ticker, strike and expiry and I’m in with my life savings?
The conflict is with the Israeli government. The discernment by race/religion is state policy.
Cool, Just need to
True - I am thinking of it as a programmer. And I wasn't entirely clear. You can create lots of wonderful things on tablets, phones, locked-down computers, etc. but it relies on someone else making the tools. On my computer I can use a program, and then make a program just like it. On a tablet I can use an app, but if I want to create an app I need to use a computer. It's one layer of abstraction removed.

The comments here have been a helpful reminder that creativity is very much alive and well! I do worry about how many people would think "This app is cool! I want to learn how to make them" but stop because the device for consumption is different from the device for creation.

Really dating myself here but the very first programs I used were ones from a magazine I typed in to a little TRS-80 pocket computer from Radio Shack myself (I'm not 100, really, I just started young and had an encouraging grandpa), and in the process realized "hmmm I could change this line and get a different output, cool!". I think that's about the lowest possible barrier between consumption and creation.

On the other hand, I learned very, very slowly compared to now, in large part because it meant getting a magazine or reading a book, and having nobody to ask when things weren't clear. On the whole it probably is easier, now that I think about it, but only if you're motivated. Maybe that's OK - people who want to can still learn to rebuild a transmission, even if most drivers don't.
Good points, but it seems optimistic to assume that git will have good, native, large file support anytime soon. I‘ve been waiting quite a while for git submodules to improve..
What I don't understand is why google doesn't just do what they do all the time and add 20 new APIs for it and strongarm everyone else into having to implement them too
That seems surprising bad. Maybe not strictly out of tolerance, but definitely something that could be considerably improved by having the movement regulated (or perhaps serviced, if required). Is it still under warranty?
Yeah except new cars you don't have access to the battery (they are starting to make the engine 'protected') and even changing a tire is more rare as many manufacturers are shipping a repair kit vs a spare wheel. Most also have roadside assistance (or your insurance has) which makes it easier.

Most people want a car to go from A to B, many times, if every few years (I only had a blown tire in 20 years driving) they have to call someone to help them, it makes much more sense than spend the time to learn how to do it themselves. Same with computers, they don't want to know how the bytes get into ram, they want to play Doom or write a school paper. There is no need for them to learn all that.
> isn’t this exactly the behaviour we want to encourage?

A company manipulating a volatile market for financial gains, then distancing themselves for PR while keeping the profits?

I don't see how any part of this should be encouraged. I could imagine a much larger backlash if this wasn't done by Tesla but, say, AT&T or Google.
Solid State Active Denial Technology
The concept that one person impulsively changed their mind is not correct.

The board of Tesla will have agreed the plans.
Isn't prevention of AIDS a way to prevent humans from extinction?
Chemical giants hid dangers of ‘forever chemicals’ in food packaging
The XWindow system used -long -opts long before that.
this is just pretending and games. it's a novel around something in the periphery, when the center is very stable and established
Which is why i explicitly qualified that the smart stuff in question should only be smart to do its job ( e.g. a smoke detector to alarm you and the fire department, not to have a microphone and camera to spy on you), like the French smart electric meters, which only report consumption to the utility ans nothing else.