skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have fond memories of Solidity. Not the prettiest language but I built some fun toy projects ("sports prediction" AKA gambling) with it circa 2017/18. However the whole energy thing discouraged me from building anything bigger. I may give it a shot after this merge.
Bitcoin is an independent financial network. It opens up economic access to literally billions of people currently shut out of the traditional financial system. I'd say that's quite valuable to the human race.
I think the difference is that a means of building green buildings and green cryptocurrencies have been proven viable. Once the same happens for the category of product YouTube falls into (which goes beyond just video distribution), the non-green way can be eliminated.
Use the "classic" extension, it already does this. And has the added bonus of not putting ALL of your passwords into your browser memory.
Really smooth experience - especially considering the purpose of the application.

From the "Better html-notepad" section:

> Application Development is tought. Especially design of simple and usable applications.

> I've created this HTML-NOTEPAD application for myself as I am writing a lot on Internet these days. And I am giving it for free with the hope it will be useful for others.

Second: I may follow up directly with the author, but are there any convenient workarounds for num-pad shortcuts? I'm on Windows but really don't prefer using my (detached) numpad for common shortcuts.

Not going to complain about lack of shortcut customization considering the first part of this comment. Great work - cheers.
The government can simply pass a law. There are far bigger injustices. Why do I pay taxes and Facebook doesn‘t?
Ask HN: Are displays/filter apps blocking enough blue light?
Hello HN.

I am currently looking at some blue light filter glasses. I was wondering if I really need them or f.lux and monitor software do enough to block blue light.
Workers at conservative think-tanks breathe oxygen. Ergo, breathing oxygen is wrong.
I always thought having a federation of states was a great idea because you encourage competition between them which hypothetically means better outcomes.

But this example makes me feel like maybe that's not always the case. Is this a failure of federated states / competition?
The amount of energy used is only one aspect of the matter. The other is value derived from that energy. I think it is safe to say that regular banking provides not just twice the value of Bitcoin, but in fact probably two orders of magnitude more. Pretty much everyone uses regular banking, while pretty much nobody uses Bitcoin, and not only they use banking more, they use it many times a week or even a day. The comparison is not even close.
Tail risk as I understand it is going to be fun. If your staked nodes lose connectivity (or your pool's) the network can penalize them by slashing the ETH and the stake, right? So after everyone centralizes on a few nodes in the main providers, aren't bad actors heavily incentivized to attack common infra to remove $/power/currency/voting from others and thus shrink the chain?

I don't think the network can figure out an "oops, AWS or Comcast went out; my nodes at home or in the cloud shouldn't get slashed" vs "lets sabotage an ISP or network for enough time to trigger penalties and repeat it".
Maybe he chooses to ignore non-paying users, which is fair. Hell, ignoring any kind of user is fair. Might not be a great business strategy, but it's his site.
Carbon phobia is a mental disorder.
I haven't. I didn't realize the move. Looks like I need to find some new learning material. BTW, do you know any up-to-date tutorials?
Yeah, it does. I posted sources in a reply to another comment. Or, you can look it up yourself.
Promoting to a bishop is a rule of the game.

Solving a chess puzzle where there are for some reason three black-square bishops - recognizing that the bishops are important to the puzzle is meta-knowledge.
Yes, but

> We believe that native apps with deep integration create a better experience, so 1Password for Linux will feel right at home on your desktop, whichever flavor of Linux you choose.

> Out of the box, you’ll find:

Automatic Dark Mode selection based on your GTK theme

Open network locations (FTP, SSH, SMB)

Integration with GNOME, KDE, and your favorite window manager

System tray icon support for staying unlocked while closed

Open and fill in your default browser

X11 clipboard integration and clearing

GNOME Keyring and KDE Wallet support

Kernel keyring integration

DBUS API support

Command line API

Integration with system lock and idle services
Looking for increased pay based on programming language used is going to lead to disappointment more often than not.
The best thing that anyone can do to increase their compensation is be aligned with a business, or part of a business where they’re a profit center vs a cost center. The language itself is more about a persons preference and the things that you value as far as day to day working experience.
Oh, I fear that this might be on the route to Ethereum-Classic-V2.

Vitalik and core team wake up sulked and there we go..
I think most of Photopea's users would be using the free services. I don't see why a developer would want to bend over backwards to support users who aren't paying them, aren't viewing ads to support their usage/bandwidth costs, and are having an issue due to another piece of software they have installed.

It's like emailing an email provider asking why your desktop email client is displaying emails weird.
> Energy use will always meet demand for coins. This is true even in USD. Bitcoin is actually more efficient than existing financial systems. Bitcoin removes all the labor and expense that goes into running ATMs, Bank buildings, tellers, and so forth. Eth also does this.

How can you say this in good faith when BTC doesn't do the same things existing financial systems do?
Energy harvesting is real, but the amount of energy that can be harvested from stray WiFi signals is vanishingly small. Even with a hypothetical 100% efficient collector, stray WiFi energy wouldn't be able to power much at all in a small device.

Practically speaking, sticking a tiny solar panel on a device would collect more energy unless the device is completely in the dark.
The closest animal virus to SARS-CoV-2 was found in nature about 900 miles from Wuhan (RaTG13, in Mojiang). Dr. Shi herself thinks spillover in Hubei is unlikely:

> We have done bat virus surveillance in Hubei Province for many years, but have not found that bats in Wuhan or even the wider Hubei Province carry any coronaviruses that are closely related to SARS-CoV-2. I don't think the spillover from bats to humans occurred in Wuhan or in Hubei Province.

https://www.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/Shi%20Zhengli...

The WIV's program to sample novel SARS-like viruses from nature and manipulate them in the lab was the biggest in the world. The only other group that comes close is Ralph Baric's, and Baric has joined the letter in Science calling for further investigation of the origin:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6543/694.1
Show HN: Free and Open Source UI Library for Vue 3
Maybe it is spread out now, but won't there be centralized aggregators of eth so some point in the future a handful of POS nodes control a disproportionate amount of power? Is it so hard to imagine that coinbase or some other exchange accumulates enough eth to sway transaction validation?

Seriously, please answer if this is wrong!
Show HN: I wrote a book about Elasticsearch and I'm making it free for students
Hi! Most of us learn a new technology by reverse-engineering what works elsewhere. So I've published a handbook with carefully curated practical examples that demystify the Elasticsearch query language and provide a solid foundation to build on.

If you're a student (or a teacher), send me a proof of your student/teacher status (e.g. a school email address) to joe@elasticsearchbook.com and I'll give you free access to the book.

Cheers!
How do you incentivize people to spend 8 years of irrecoverable youth studying, and taking on the risk of succeeding and finding work after? Most people are simply not that interested in learning for learning's sake - and even if they were it wouldn't necessarily be a practical enough choice to generate enough doctors to satisfy the needs of society...
Products similar to that already exist, albeit not as low power as the device in the paper. For example, this passively powered UHF RFID tag has a moisture sensor built in: https://www.dipolerfid.com/RFID-Tags/Smartrac-Dogbone-Humidi...
To reduce the need for noisy cooling.
Nobody knows whether or not cryptocoins are currencies of the future but I'm certainly willing to let them innovate for the next few decades figuring out if there's a path forward.

However, I cannot abide by a money speculation mechanism which uses as much electricity to mine worldwide as the Netherlands use in total. That's absolutely asinine to me.
Less competitive marketplaces harm consumers. Consolidation means less competition. Amazon is already under antitrust charges and investigations in the EU and US for these types of misdeeds.
I work in a hospital and just rebooted a network connected computer running windows XP. Not isolated from the main hospital network as far as I can tell. Your lack of faith is warranted.
In the long run, it's going to be very green. There are Crypto Climate Accord groups working to ensure Bitcoin is carbon-neutral by 2030. What is being done currently is making leaps and bounds in using solar, hydro, wind and trapped energy for bitcoin mining. It's pushing industry to green. Not the phony narrative that's constantly pushed by people who are quite literally, spreading allowed disinformation across HackerNews for the past several years on end.
Because electricity costs money. When the cost of electricity exceeds the value of coin you mine, you will stop mining. If you make a coin that takes half as much energy to mine, miners will just mine twice as much of it. Its like y'all are just discovering capitalism for the first time.
I think this was one of the two that I missed. The timer was running out so I panicked and just made my best guess!
People who die in such situations don’t not smell the hydrogen sulfide. They just either have no way out quickly or they keep going in spite of the danger. I’ve been in such situations.
I'm relatively sure that a tank of hydrogen at ridiculous pressure makes a nicer fireball than a tank of gas at no pressure.
Lois Lew and IBM's invention of the Chinese typewriter
So there is evidence that Fauci signed off on funding of gain of function research in the Wuhan lab?
i'd prefer you ban cars
I think you're probably right. Money always finds a way.
Some of these earlier cards already have been jailbroken. Ultimately, it's a question of whether it makes sense for miners to sponsor a cracking effort vs the cost of buying the more expensive cards outright.
This has more to do with electricity demand. It's important to understand the relationship between energy price vs. population density and standard of living. Energy is always cheapest where population density and standard of living are the lowest. That's why bitcoin mining will find it's way to remote sources of natural energy.
Firefox’ New Site Isolation Security Architecture
China bans financial, payment institutions from cryptocurrency business
> I ask them if they use any site-modifying extensions. If they do, I ignore them completely, even if they wrote a long, detailed report.

Note to self, don't use Photopea due to poor customer support.

You would think the customer support would at least tell them to remove/disable the add-ons instead of ignoring them.
People are made out of opinions. If they don't like the way others are voting, they have the right to convince others of theirs.

Which is to say, discussing on HN is a valid way to contribute your opinion to society. Voting is not your only voice.
Sorry, no.

You said:

> ETH is competing against USD, not against BTC. Bitcoin is competing against gold

You also said:

> bitcoin is of course also competing against USD

BTC and ETH can’t both be competing with USD without competing with each other.

If your statement that BTC is competing with USD is true, then your statement “ETH is competing against USD, not against BTC” is false.

ETH is competing against BTC.
Yeah man, Government should point guns at people who don't comply with your ideology! Let's advocate violence against people because they do stuff we don't like!
Apparently lossless streaming cannot be supported on the newest bluetooth spec, and will probably require some kind of wired headphones for the near future.
Because the only threat from a 51% attack is rewriting a couple blocks until they recognized as attackers and they get kicked off the network because bitcoin users actually validate blocks. In a PoS system there is an incentive for large stakeholders to increase block sizes. 1. It increases the usability of the network which increases the marketcap. 2. It pushes out smaller stakers who can’t afford to validate anymore because tx throughput becomes too high. If everyday people can’t validate the chain how can they fork it if they think the current block validators are acting against their interests? The ether account set will be far too large. So they’ll start from scratch.
Proceedings against Amazon based on new rules for large digital companies
Sounds right in line with my experiences and exposure to the "Machismo" portions of many Latino cultures. I always brought this up to my far leftist friends who tried to pretend that the cuban revolution was somehow good for the LGBT minority of Cuba. LOL you think that they abandoned machismo just because they got a hammer and sickle? They call queerness "capitalist decadence" there...
He's not understanding that in the normal operating environment for Macs, there's an additional fan he's not seeing.

The person who bought it.
It's hard to hide a lot of money.

You can dodge taxes fairly completely when you're small (think cash only employment and side gig) and there's not much to tax but they have plenty of incentive to track you down and get your money if you get big and it's hard to hide that much money moving around. Government isn't gonna let that much money slip through its fingers.

So the rich report their income, mostly, or at least enough of it to be rich on paper. They just minimize their liability as much as they can.
I’m sure the recent, existential hand-wringing over Bitcoin energy consumption has nothing at all to do with upcoming ethereum changes.

It’s all bullshit and hype — the crypto equivalent of the Chick-Fil-A cows saying “eat more chicken”.
> Under Proof-of-Stake, when the price of ETH increases, the security of the network does too

This does not follow. Security level is independent of miner reward value under PoS.
The "Cantillion Effect"

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-cantillion-effect

Ethereum is already a system where those who are closest to the money printers benefit the most. At first it was oligarchic just because of its pre-mine and air drops, but PoS just takes that to a new level. You get paid to be rich.

The reason this uses so much less energy is because it's so much closer to a centralized fiat currency. The only value implied by PoS is that some rich people are backing it... a lot like the dollar.
If Statistia is to be believed, Facebook consumes 22x less energy than Bitcoin. 5 vs 110 Terawatt hours.

And Bitcoin is hardly used for any transactions, and its energy usage will increase linearly with BTC price.

(If someone has a direct source that would be great. Statista is not good)

Update: seems the FB figure is correct, for 2019: https://sustainability.fb.com/report-pages/renewable-energy/
Also bail firms act as their own personal police. Old law dictates that the bail firm can seize you wherever you're at if you don't show up. So instead of actual police you get unidentified guys with guns and tasers breaking down doors without a warrent. Even if it's not your place.
Cortex platform for microservices Reliability as Code
What you want and the realities of our current world are two very, very different things.
> Vertical integration in steel production could as easily involve intellectual property as it does here.

I didn't say Intellectual Property, I said Copyright. Copyright—much more than other forms of IP—has a significant impact on our shared culture and cultural transmission. Yes, there may be other factors with IP that we should consider when dealing with mergers, but end-users and everyday people are harmed much much more often due to copyright issues than they ever are due to patent and trademark issues.

> I do not know exactly what will happen in this case, but it seems like Amazon's proposing to buy a single studio is very unlikely to result in harm to consumers.

Sure, and I do not know exactly what will happen when we place a straw on a camel's back. But in each case it seems like it's very unlikely that the camel's back will break. It's a sorities paradox in reverse: Which individual acquisition is the point at which network effects start creating problems. Each individual M&A is unlikely to be the one that causes the problem, and yet if you allow each one because it is unlikely, eventually the system stops functioning correctly.
Funny and disgusting, well-executed satire!

I wish there was a browser extension or other automation that could decline/minimally configure these things correctly. Fight scale with scale, you know?
I think the proposal here is very simple. Pass a law against proof of work crypto currencies, don't let perfect be the enemy of good, and deal with the next big waste of power when it comes about by passing a law about it.

Don't address of any the things that you are proposing need addressing, because they don't need to be addressed in the same law, or really addressed right now at all.

The law doesn't need to try and anticipate the actions that occur in the future, we will still have a legislature in the future capable of addressing the future when it comes about. The law needs to address the actions of today.
We should impose a large tax on data centers for their massive energy usage to power such "valuable" resources like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
That's a slippery slope of an argument.

If the government starts arbitrating on what is a judicious use of energy on environmental grounds, then you're a short step away from banning, say, beef production.
We all want luxury, but at some point the changes that come from energy usage will be very unluxurious, no?
Why do people act like governments are some benevolent entity that corporations must do favors for?

It's like any other market. You create jobs, tax revenues and opportunities and different governments create incentives to lure them in. If anything the complaints should be levied at the governments who citizens think are doing a bad P/L analysis on these subsidies. Alas, only Amazon in mentioned in this title.
I doubt Jobs--who died nearly ten years ago--was as likely a trigger for this essay as Gates, who is currently in the daily news due to his alleged bad behavior.
Kiwi TCMS v10.1 Released
Why is your electricity use posting on HN more virtuous than making Bitcoin?
By the way.

If one thinks about tracking the carbon cost of a mined BTC (based on the energy source used to mine it) such that a carbon tax can be accurately exacted, the usage of blockchain to track carbon offsets and cost is a pretty obvious thing that comes to mind.
Filebase's S3-Compatible API Aims to Ease Decentralized Storage
find ~/.password-store -name '*.gpg' -printf '%P\n' | sed -e 's:.gpg$::gi' | fzf | xargs pass -c

There is also an extension:
https://github.com/ficoos/pass-fzf
Open Source Best Practices
"The FEC only gets involved over specific things."

On what basis? Legal restriction or historical precedent? This is how we get timid regulation, by never moving beyond what has gone before.

"The basic statute enforced by the FTC, Section 5(a) of the FTC Act, empowers the agency to investigate and prevent unfair methods of competition, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices affecting commerce. This creates the Agency’s two primary missions: protecting competition and protecting consumers. The statute gives the FTC authority to seek relief for consumers, including injunctions and restitution, and in some instances to seek civil penalties from wrongdoers. The FTC has the ability to implement trade regulation rules defining with specificity acts or practices that are unfair or deceptive and the Commission can publish reports and make legislative recommendations to Congress about issues affecting the economy. The Commission enforces various antitrust laws under Section 5(a) of the FTC Act as well as the Clayton Act. The FTC monitors all its orders to ensure compliance."

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/media-resources/what-ftc-doe...

Your comparison is a little absurd. If the police had a specific role in investigating and preventing unfair chair usage than calling the police would seem like a very logical course of action.

In this case, the FTC has a clear role in preventing unfair methods of competition. Huge media conglomerates closing out access to smaller competitors via the software and hardware consumers use to watch TV could certainly be considered unfair.
The Case for Using MDMA to Help Heal Victims of Trauma
No that isn't all YouTube does thank you very much. It's one of the greatest treasure troves of educational video content. It has helped my life, career, and those of my friends. It has probably contributed far more to humanity's advance, in efficiency alone, than most other websites of its kind.

That you only use it to watch videos that bring zero gain to your life is a You problem.
IDK in Germany it's forbidden per § 30 StVO to drive around senselessly inside settlements. You are still allowed to drive around, even if the reasons are stupid. But if they are too stupid, police can fine you. There is a youtuber in Berlin who specializes in driving around for hours and he's been stopped by police already. The original video has been made private [0], but a raw version of it still exists [1].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLozreFvl24

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LfccX_pBHM
FTA:

"It means going from:

Frontend > React > [state management library of choice]

to

Frontend > Data Layer > View Layer (React)

"

I'm not really sure what "Frontend" means here, but I'm pretty sure this is how I was using React + Redux, back when I was developing in that ecosystem a ton. I certainly wouldn't diagram it as the first example.

The hard part with doing this "purely" is that it'll murder performance for text inputs and animations. All this developer-centered convenience comes at a performance & resource-use cost to the user, it's just most-obvious when you're dealing with forms and animations.
That may be true from a technical perspective, but it ultimately is TeeSprings problem. The problem they face is lost revenue from people who already clicked the purchase button.
Obviously the people want to put energy towards finding hashes or they wouldn't be doing it. What you're advocating for is a minority of people who actually vote to influence the government to send people with guns to stop the actions of people who are voting with their labor.

There will come a time when people like you -- who play God over others -- are ousted from society.
He's probably not renting if from "AWS" but instead from "AWS Ireland" or some subsidiary like that. If the VM is located in us-west-1, AWS Ireland probably then rents the VM from AWS USA for a price designed to minimize profit in the high tax (USA) jurisdiction and maximize it in the low tax jurisdiction (Ireland). This is called transfer pricing.
Also ad block should not break log-in process.
I recently discovered that I could not log in to a web site unless I disable ad block. All core web site functionality should be tested to work with ad blocking. Unless you really hate your users.