skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are the people downvoting the above comment considering things like trapping excess flare gas [1]? This is energy that is literally wasted otherwise, and would be vented into the atmosphere, if not used for PoW mining (or put to some other undetermined use, but PoW is the only profitable alternative that has made sense so far vs just flaring the gas).

Maybe there need to be more guidelines around how to use excess energy instead of coal, but to totally disregard that PoW could be mined from excess energy is shortsighted. Flare gas is just one example.

[1] https://oilmanmagazine.com/how-and-why-natural-gas-flaring-i...
Typically when they do, they're built in to server chassis as a remote management/LOM tool. A few such add-on cards have been made over the years, though -- the PC Weasel 2000 was quite a nice card back in the day: https://web.archive.org/web/20110406024209/http://www.realwe...

Others like the Enidan J1 were specifically targeted toward people building clusters out of commodity hardware: https://web.archive.org/web/20010511215150/http://www.enidan...
This gives additional evidence to my personal hypothesis that the normal state of living beings is sleeping. The awake state only appeared as a survival strategy, to better adapt to the natural environment.
Bitcoins "power consumption" has two aspects - mining and processing transactions. The power consumption used for mining (or processing) is directly correlated to the relative earning potential - i.e. bitcoin price - power cost. Mining takes up the vast majority of the computation(s) and mining bitcoin should end somewhere between 2040 and 2050.

That is to say, it's self correcting. If the price of energy increases, there is less mining. Alternatively, the miners are also incentivized to find cheaper or develop cheaper alternatives; this spurs innovation.

If prices rise due to mining, innovation will take place and more energy will be developed.

There's nothing wrong with this mechanism, as it corrects itself. In 2050 when you can no longer mine bitcoin we will that have an abundance of cheap power. Which is the single greatest factor in reducing poverty.

Frankly, I think this comment is off base. So far there have been zero negative measurable impacts from power usage related to crypto.
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You quoted https://thefactsource.com/how-much-electricity-does-youtube-... which says:

"the internet uses 10% of the total electricity consumption worldwide. How much of that is consumed by Youtube? After Netflix and embedded videos, Youtube is the third biggest global internet bandwidth eater. About 11.4% of global internet traffic is consumed by Youtube"

That figure assumes that the electricity usage of the internet is exactly related to the amount of bandwidth - so if YouTube uses 11.4% of the internet's total bandwidth, that means that YouTube uses 11.4% of the internet's total electricity consumption.

That is a highly dubious assumption.
Tell me more, please, about the TCO.
Used both in an M1 Mac. Haven’t seen the beach ball yet (VSCode and multiple windows of safari)
>I really do think we need to rethink our idea of civilization

Why? Civilization is a description, not a value judgment.

If a society we value doesn't fit the description the answer isn't to change the description.

The answer is to remove the value you are placing on the label.
Tesla doesn't allow this because of the wear on the batteries, but it seems like a killer application for EVs and rooftop solar to be able to combine them like that.
Like any conversation, the thread's topic of discussion can change.
Ask HN: Why Isn't Paulgraham.com on HTTPS?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25214264

Paul Graham still does not offer HTTPS on his site
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23059825

Ask HN: Why Doesn't Paul Graham Get a SSL Certificate?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24351945

Why doesn't pg use HTTPS on his site?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27065639
And look at all the support for banning cryptocurrencies we see. The one way to sidestep the insanity of the modern financial system all of a sudden has massive support to shut it down. Arguing that to save poor people from CO2 we must perpetuate financial systems which impoverish them forever.

Wonder how hard it was to get people to fixate on cryptocurrency's energy usage vs youtube's, instagrams, or netflix's?
Application state is a trivial problem to solve. Even better is that if you figure it out once you can carry the experience forward to any other project.

The only reason people perceive this to be a real concern is because they have never done it without a framework.

https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/state_manag...
It’s most definitely NOT a VC scale business. I’d feel bad if it were.
This is assuming that they know the ad blocker is causing the problem. I'm just going to buy the power washer from amazon because your site's checkout is not working!
Bitcoin mining uses as much energy as Christmas lights in the USA. Should we ban Christmas lights because of their energy usage? This debate is turning to madness

https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-mining-energy-consumption-us-...
That’s a new one! Interesting.
> Another solution that has no harms and only benefit is to require the reporting of every ransom payment. That would give the government the crypto transaction information to conduct taint and attribution analysis. It is currently illegal to knowingly use funds received from kidnapping or ransoms, and this reporting requirement would help the government enforce that.

Definitely a must have for now and on a international scale IMHO.

But a effective ban on ransom payments would still be the most effective measurement.

The problem is how do you effectively ban it?

For many countries such thing could never be enforced, so it wouldn't remove the sensitive for non-specific target ransomware attacks IMHO and as such won't work.
I suspect heat is a bigger problem than you're assuming, but also, you would want a similar architecture to simplify the os code.
That sounds more like an OS than a CPU problem.
I'm more interested in rights specifically relating to IP (with emphasis on the 'P' as in property), rather than rights in general - I agree that there are many cases in which the latter are inalienable or considered immutable in the eyes of the law. So the 'moral rights' idea is a good counterpoint, but non-compete is not.
I thought the tanks were much lighter than the batteries. I think they use multiple smaller tanks due to the rate of release of the hydrogen.

I don't know. I haven't done a lot of research since it will be at least another decade until a decent vehicle suiting my criteria comes out (electric or hydrogen). No point in me even looking at it now.
The chip shortage that is affecting everyone seems like the most likely culprit, but then again, I wonder if the cars would even be able to drive around a parking lot without the core computer.
I have always wondered why we can’t make visible the master password when typing it. My master is very long (pass phrase) and I have to type it very carefully, it’s even harder on mobile. Such a pain ! Isn’t it a basic UX pattern to allow the user to show/hide the password as type it (with the popular eye icon at the end of the password input) ? Am I missing something ? Is this not present for security reason ?
Has PG, or anyone else, ever referred to him as anything but a "he"? Since 99.9% of men refer to themselves as men, that would seem like a useful default.
huh I found this one to be pretty straightforward

"to opt out of opting in" -> ok so just "to opt out"

avoid not clicking yes -> double negative so "click yes"

the dependent logic statements like "none of the above are true" on the other hand..
To be fair, it would be more than half full when at half distance, because airliners carry a significant reserve in case they have to divert.
CO2 tax.
No. The site is no more than an HTML flyer. No user data or anything of value.

Minimal external access (http, https and SSH), so the attack surface is very small.

Even if I lost it, I can rebuild it from scratch in under an hour.
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> What is the "correct" amount of energy for humans to spend on such a thing?

Perhaps the "correct" amount is less than what it would take to increase planet temperature by 4°C?
Why are you making stuff up, CamJN?

The extension is using IndexedDB to store the passwords and other items. A lot of work went into making sure the extension uses as little memory as possible.

Roustem
Founder of 1Password
Sleep is basic resource management: it takes too much resources to both run all macro systems, and also all microsystems (on cellular level). So they take turns and interleave through the sleep/wake cycle. As you say, microsystems take over during sleep.

From a cell's perspective, they sleep while "we" are awake.

This means sleep is advantageous to all multicellular organisms, unless there's great pressure for them to evolve hybrid alternatives (such as sleeping dolphins or migrating birds).

It's a bit discouraging that in the mainstream we keep asking "but why sleep tho" or even worse, we keep propagating the wrong answers, when the principles lay before our eyes.
24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense
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Yes. EU only for now.
opening a gmail account takes about 30 seconds

vs. months of emails and meetings for something that more or less achieves the same result
And people who see all non-praising use of "SJW" as "a dismissive epithet", on the gripping hand, are 100% likely to miss the odd case where it's just used as a handily descriptive piece of shorthand.
hi, co-author of the blog post here. There is a more detailed blog post explaining how Site Isolation is better than the Electrolysis architecture here - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/05/introducing-firefox-new-si... (also linked to from the security blog post). Hope this is helpful!
I'd be in favour of banning the use of fossil fuels for corporations mining proof-of-work cryptocurrencies. There is a few examples of Bitcoin miners using Coal power sources!
They may have the skills, but not the attitude. I've met several entrepreneurs who simply can't work for someone else due to their own personality traits.
Considering it has been reported that over half of potential customers will abandon a purchase if a page takes over 3 seconds to load, failing to load at all suggests you'll likely get similar - if not higher - losses

https://www.vouchercloud.com/resources/consumer-psychology-t...
Things have changed a lot since then though. In a positive way.
Glad to hear it (pun intended, if puns are allowed).

The practical difference in the listening experience is, as you infer, negligible, to almost everyone. Classical music, or other such audio with large dynamic ranges, suffer the most. And while those frequencies above 12-16kHz are often the most obviously hit, the entire range suffers in other ways, phase, low end smearing, transient loss. And while first generation lossless to lossy conversion really is an excellent trade off, lossy to lossy very quickly produces audibly worse sound, even 320 to 320 conversion. But you knew that.
> They do not say that they do not decrypt your entire vault into browser memory, because they do.

I am sorry but this is just wrong. I have close to 6,000 items in my 1Password across family and business accounts. Loading everything into memory all the time would be ridiculous.
Chiming in on this, its mostly correct, but not a key distinction as wealthy market participants have many tax credits as well. EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit) is the majority of their enforcement though, according to IRS agents.

The IRS uses a social graph which affects the working class more than others. Basically, if you get paid by someone and that someone deducts the payment on their taxes, the IRS is looking for the recipient (you) to see if the IRS was paid by the recipient to make up for the deduction. So this is done with W-2 employment and 1099 payments.

This affects individuals more so because there is no clear guidance on whether 1099 filings are necessary for payments to LLCs and other entities, and there likely never will be. LLC's are not expensive or exclusively the domain of the wealthy, but in practice they are, and the opportunities available to a contractor to act as an individual versus in a corp-to-corp payment situation are pretty heavily correlated to the value of the contract.

Just one of many examples of the different experience.
I'm just so tired about people like PG and Scott Aaronson (who I otherwise respect) talking about nerds all the time. Why is everything framed in this black-and-white nerds vs. the world narrative? I'm just going to accept that this essay and others incessantly talking about "nerds vs jocks"(or the more modern Gen-Z framing, "chads vs virgins") just isn't for me.

Sorry for speaking out against The Messiah.
Sure, but:

A) It's a satire game, so the rules of the game may not perfectly align with the laws of the EU.

B) I'm not from the EU, so who knows, that shit might be just fine in my jurisdiction. We'd have to put it in front of a judge to find out. I'm guessing it wouldn't fly, but I've seen the United States Courts come to stupider conclusions.
The top 1% of what? Income? Wealthy people don't have taxable income. That's not how wealth works.
Eth has a sidechain called Polygon with orders of magnitude more usage than bitcoin's lightning network. There are a number of other promising "scaling solutions" launching in the coming weeks. Sharding is unlikely to happen in 2021.
Reddit sends me intrusive notifications recommending useless, irrelevant subreddits.

Such a shame to see what has happened to Reddit
> This is at 66.9 km/h (40 mph) in order to greatly increase its range due to lower drag compared to normal highway speeds.

> As a comparison a Tesla Model 3 got 975km (606 miles) at 40 km/h (25 mph) [1]. I can't seem to find any range tests at a similar speed as the Nexo.

> It doesn't seem like current fuels cell have much of a energy density / range advantage even though hydrogen itself is much more energy dense, the fuel cell weight and efficiency and high pressure liquid hydrogen tanks must be accounted for.

I'm curious to know how you come to this conclusion? I don't know much about aerodynamics other than at, as a first order approximation, drag is proportional to the SQUARE of the velocity. Driving 887.5 km at an average speed of 66.9 km/h is, afaict, much more impressive than driving 975 km at 40 km/h.
Aspirational recycling has been part of my outlook for years, until recently.

So much stuff is made of plastic. Most gifts our child receives from well-meaning relatives are plastic, and I’ve asked them for wood and other natural materials instead. It’s too easy to buy petrochemical products.

I’d like to be able to put more things into the compost or firebox after I’m done with them. Recently switched from plastic garden hose to yoking buckets of water to our food-plants.

Perhaps the most-impactful thing we individuals can do is lobby our elected officials towards controlled change, whatever your preferred method of pressure. Will y’all with that, please?
To me, this says those other "similar 'industries'" should *also* be regulated in this way. We shouldn't excuse bitcoin just because there's other worse offenders, we should address the entire sector. I'll phrase it this way: do high-frequency-trading and coin-mining contribute positively to the world as a whole? Are they producing goods that improve the standard of living on a global scale, tangible or otherwise? Are those good worth the negative environment and social impact their production causes?

Assuming HFT/coin mining do indeed contribute in these ways, are there less energy-intensive solutions that could produce the same or a similar effect?

I think it's completely reasonable for there to be regulations that limit the global impact of activities (e.g. emissions, global warming, chip shortage) for the good of the general population, especially in relation to how much tangible good they produce. That's the whole point of governments and regulations to begin with; see also, things like leaded fuels, or asbestos, or trust-busting.
I slept for 10 hours last night and felt great today. It really is a great way to stay healthy (or regain health). I burned the candle a bit much last year building a side project and now I decided not to launch it because it really messed me up health wise and I can’t commit to day job, family AND side project without it making me ill.
Interesting... The domain did not considered to be malicious on VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/ab2a0f6d00de42ebf4ff8cb2c...
I can't help but think of the article on posted on here about a week ago with the old woman who refused to order milk online after her service canceled phone ordering.
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> Ethereum will remain multiple orders of magnitude less efficient than traditional banks.

As a payment network? Layer 2 solutions will be in production by the end of this summer which will enable payments that costs 3 cents, regardless of demand or amount transferred. Working alongside with smart contracts. Lookup zkSync 2.0 / zkPorter.
I’ve always been concerned with the chrome store in regard to chrome extensions. While I do know some level of scrutiny is applied to new brand new extensions uploaded to their store platform, my concern has always lied in a developers ability to update an existing extension, which is then almost universally updated on all clients upon which that extension as it’s installed.

I have seen extension updates (updates not releases) get approved much too quickly to be properly vetted on the stores side.
More and more businesses are adding prerecorded responses and menus to their regular line. It’s a matter of time until we completely automate delivery calls too, I guess.
How much of our global energy usage is spent on poorly implemented ACPI code, Windows drivers, inefficient GPU drivers, etc...

Even better, how much energy is wasted per page view due to inefficient frontend web frameworks?

Seems to me that code is speech, and restricting what one can and can't do with silicon that one owns is absolutely ridiculous.
That part in particular is as simple as... you get higher because you're laying down, so there's no vertical pressure on your back.
I expect they'll get over the loss of your business
If you log into Reddit you can configure reddit.com to use the old interface. (at least for now).
I've enjoyed using Halide for iPhone. It was interesting to get a tour of the thinking and design challenges around making a tablet version.
It's not just resource management. In humans, during sleep there is a cleanup program that gets rid of waste in your brain. My pet theory is that this is because running cleanup during the day would impair the function of the tissue too much, so it's ran during the sleep phase.
You can have that thought - but it's incorrect.
When Chrome was new and shiny, I used it for a time. Then, the first time I found myself needing to kill Chrome because it was completely locked up, I found myself staring at a wall of chrome processes in the task list, not knowing which one I needed to kill. At the time, I thought the idea of a separate process for each tab was silly. Though, with Firefox moving towards this model, I guess the engineers at Google were prescient in the correctness of that tradeoff.

I do use a lot of tabs, so I fear I'm going to find myself facing the same problem I faced with Chrome: a site misbehaves and locks things up, crap, which process do I kill? A way of tracking which tab maps to which process would be nice, so the next time I trip over a badly-coded page, I don't have to kill everything just to get my browser to respond again. Lazyweb question to y'all: is there a feature in Chrome or Firefox that can do this (mapping tab/page -> process), or have I just stumbled upon a side-project idea?
In Spanish there is a saying that goes: A hungry man thinks more a hundred intellectuals.
What things are similarly energy wasteful as Bitcoin?
We're mostly just talking about different things. Yeah audits are not the end of the world, and every transaction that was filed needs to already be rationalized for how it would be explained in an audit.

I've been talking about all the interactions one can have with the IRS before taxes are ever filed.
I have had the same issue as the parent poster. I'm on Windows 10. Everything was fine when I was on Elixir 1.9.2, but the moment I upgraded to 1.11.2, the ElixirLS extension just started to break frequently, or getting stuck while building. I ended up disabling it until I have time to troubleshoot further.
I interpreted this as a cheeky joke, not as an actually considered feature :)
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The video explains that when they do land overweight, they have to be inspected for damage. They will require a much longer stopping distance, too, and the runway may not be long enough depending on weather conditions.
Basic income?
Yuck. So now there's 3 of them. What's wrong with GLSL? HLSL? Somebody link that xkcd about competing standards.

But seriously, why do they reinvent the wheel? Either make javascript work on the GPU (because that's the language of the web, just like C++ and Cuda go hand in hand), or just stick with HLSL.
Even "Directional" cables, and "Oxygen-free" and "Cryo" HDMI as well, because you know, that's what your digital signal cares about.
No, if I visit a site that is broken by my adblocker, or that uses recaptcha, I just never visit it again.
I find calling is not just for take out unreasonably effective.

Somehow (well, we know the reasons) many websites and platforms require you to have a full inner model of its workings if you want to get things done. If you call, more often then not the person calling you does that work for you.
WebGPU on native is the best bet to bring back the times where you could reasonably write once and run everywhere. See also - http://kvark.github.io/web/gpu/native/2020/05/03/point-of-we...
That is the problem with using labels rather than talking about what people are doing or what specific actions they are taking.
Also stuck on 1P 6.0. Paid full price, now slowly their browser plugins stop working etc.

Very disappointing.
You definitely are an edge case if you were already paying your utility bills in cryptocurrency. Otherwise, you spent fiat currency to bootstrap your use of Etherium.