skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Subsidized energy can be cheap or even free, and it's hard to compete with free. For-profit Bitcoin miners are in an intense competition to find the cheapest energy. Anyone who can steal their energy or get someone else to pay for it via subsidies will win there, but only until the free lunch ends. Energy free lunches are ending all over the world now; nobody wants to build a coal plant in order to give away the energy to bitcoin miners so they can retire in Switzerland.

And that's why the Chinese authorities kicked out all the bitcoin miners a couple months after that, dropping the bitcoin hashrate by more than half. It's on its way back up, but it hasn't fully recovered.

https://www.blockchain.com/charts/hash-rate

By contrast, especially in tropical regions, you can build a solar or wind power plant to mine bitcoin profitably without finding someone else to fob the bill off on. In much of the world, solar energy is now less than half the cost of fossil-fuel energy, though not in cloudy polar regions like Germany, the Netherlands, or the UK. There's a new record-low PPA price every few months, and it's always solar; https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/04/08/saudi-arabias-second-... this April seems to be the latest, at US$0.0104/kWh, which is about a quarter of what coal energy usually costs.

That's why the Navajo Generating Station has been demolished, Peabody Coal has gone bankrupt and may do so again, and for the first time in human history, outside of PRC, more coal generating capacity was shut down than was built last year. This year that'll probably be true worldwide. Coal (and nuclear, and oil) just can't compete economically with solar anymore, even in temperate regions. And, consequently, neither can Bitcoin miners who are paying the cost of using coal. Fortunately for them, shipping their server racks to a more profitable region is a lot cheaper than doing the same with a steel mill.

Hopefully this gives you a clearer picture of the whole political-economic environment in which Bitcoin mining is happening than just a few hard numbers, which are of course fundamental.
I do not interact with any professional contacts who use Gmail. It's universally Exchange in my professional life.

This MIGHT be because the invite/accept/scheduling setup in Exchange is so good that it's hard to sell anything else. It also might be that most big orgs are very wisely reticent to host their email with an advertising company.

I'm also gonna push back on the "web tools are enough for most people." I mean, how effective is the web version of Excel, really? Can it easily interact with local data stores for elaborate data mining and updatable queries? My guess is "probably not". How is it for macro development? My company works closely with the finance orgs of our client parties, and let me tell you a LOT of these folks are extremely advanced Excel users. Web tools aren't to par here.

Web Outlook is also pretty awful compared to the native version, quite honestly, as is Word. Maybe PowerPoint is okay, but I'm not a power user of PPT so I don't really know.
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very valuable feedback. A slider for delta is my next feature to implement. But afraid of too many sliders that might be confusing.

You can sort by ITM/OTM column to find near or at the money options.

The CSV also is something I should add.
Of course we are still evolving. It's just that the selection pressures applied are different now than they were in the past, and this doesn't look like something subject to selection pressure so I doubt it is an example of evolution in progress.
Quite the opposite; number of contributions increased: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/graphs/contributors

Just seems a case of the same what usually happens: main author loses interest, has other stuff to do, etc. and no one really takes up the slack.
I wouldn't necessarily generalize issues using brew on a mac to issues all package managers on linux. Some of those errors might be attributable to OSX locking down application installation. You can install binaries on linux just like with any other OS most people just prefer to use package managers.
Average customer doesn't know. I go to dog parks everyday and talk to people randomly. I mentioned this to some of the dog park friends and they had no clue and didn't care/understand the implications of CSAM.
Probably means the typically vaccine side-effects that are similar to getting a cold as your body "fights off" the vaccine and develops immunity.
What did you observe in your friends' driving patterns that was different? I'm very curious.
The number of people possibly infected by a vaccinated person as an asymptomatic or mild symptomatic carrier and who may require hospitalization is still ambiguous. I will continue to err on the side of caution, tho I have little worry for myself personally.
I really doubt that (many) Americans in any Latin American country recognize any "authority" on the language, other than what the locals speak.
> The citizen seized the monopoly on violence

I think you meant to write "ceded". To seize is to grab hold of, to cede is to give away.
In addition to what myself248 said:

In case you aren't familiar with the details of consumer RF standards (including IEEE 802.11, but especially LTE or anything cellular related) or don't have some prior RF knowledge: To put it mildly, LTE is not an easy standard to implement on an SDR, especially if it's your contact with SDRs. Even GSM is nowhere near a simple stack.

If you want to get a feeling for what kind of cellular projects are possible using SDRs from a hobbyist/free software perspective, have a look at the Osmocom (Open Source Mobile Communications) projects [1] as well as Harald Welte's blog [2] (one of the main Osmocom contributors). The Osmocom projects are focused on the carrier side of LTE/GSM networks AFAIK.

Another warning: While cellular technology involves lots of networks, it is completely different from the standards and terminology used in the Internet. For example, citing the description for OsmoHNBGW:
"An Open Source implementation of a HNB-GW (HomeNodeB-Gateway), implementing the Iuh, IuCS and IuPS interfaces. It aggregates the Iuh links from femtocells (hNodeBs) and presents them as regular IuCS and IuPS towards MSC and SGSN (such as OsmoMSC and OsmoSGSN). It uses M3UA as signaling transport."
The description totally makes sense to an insider, but if you only dabbled with TCP/IP, routers and switches so far, be prepared for learning a whole new world of networking terms.

If you are familiar with RF/cellular engineering and/or if you're trying to do this on a corporate budget then you probably already know what I mentioned above, and your project can certainly be realized for $$$.

If you're looking for a one-off DIY solution then you could use something like a u-blox SARA-R4 [3] modem (for NB-IoT/low bandwidth). Similar boards with higher bandwidth also exist.

[1] https://osmocom.org/projects

[2] https://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/

[3] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14997
When things eventually break, its possible that those customers and more would leave also because of that same code.
Since you seem to get the whole deposit back, it seems like it'd be preferable to rent in many situations if the landlord still assumes liabilities (repairs, disasters, etc) and the costs associated with them. If it's "free" to live there either way, I'd rather someone else cough up 10k for a new AC, heater, etc.
> he purpose of this tungsten cube is not for engineering or practical utility.

I would think you can easily sell it for the same or better price. It's like gold. It's a capacitor of wealth
This doesn't contradict what I said. I said that the odds of a function needing more than 3n digits was 4^-n. For single precision, that means you would expect almost all functions to be OK with 3n bits (1 in 2^46 wouldn't be).
I've been using the same arch + i3 setup for at least 5 years, never had to change my habits due to an update (except thunderbird which is becoming worse and worse). I've lost a lot a lot of time setting up hibernation and sleep and solving broken depencies, but I have never been limited by gui tools, quite the opposite actually, it is easier to use Pacman than what you need to do on windows or mac.

I honestly don't see what I would gain using Mac or windows , except that hibernation works from the start
It was also the color in which TSR would print maps for old Dungeons and Dragons modules, so that players couldn't photocopy them and pass them around. Functioned as copy-protection.
thanks. looking forward for the feedback.
He is right though, gotta stop the problem at it's source.

Often however that is a far larger/difficult task and it is easier and better for ones sanity to just fix the things that affect you directly.
I probably tweak more settings than most on macOS and I've not encountered any of the common bugs people experience.

Reviews on tech boards about macOS are similar to reviews for apartment buildings: why would anybody bother writing a good one? Complaints and issues bubble to the top.
There are over 2 billion G Suite users.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-g-suite-gmail-2-billi...
If your finger is broken it will swell up so fast you may not even be able to get to the ring with something that can crack it. This is not something that I would risk for any price.
Their max is about double that (other kinds of systems, and service.) That’s about a p/e of 60 which is too high but what this market has done to many stocks. There is some expectation of growth, too, of course. ASML will keep pushing their capabilities and if trends continue, they should eventually be selling individual machines worth an order of magnitude more.
Dealing with slow `perf script` on Debian
A Mathematical Paradox Allows Infinite Cloning
> Like yes, they could survive there, but most people couldn't get a decently paying job so even if you get a house for 1$, you're still brokr, just not homeless.

Nobody owes you a beautiful life.
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And even then, it seems primarily to have lost trust in the people who didn't have much to begin with.
I enjoy some of his podcasts. Yeah some are a waste of time but many have been spectacular.
cool interpretation :)
Can I contribute to your repo? I know only Scala but I have need of more features like OI, volumes, etc and backtests to find UOA. you can reach me at eamocanu on GitHub or gmail
"Teach the controversy" is just an Enlightened Centrism(tm) way of catering to bad faith actors.

You've got one side that's backed by statistics and studies, and another that has decided to take a stance that has killed over 600K Americans just to own the libs.

Dissent for the sake of dissent is not virtuous. Automatically rejecting anything the CDC says just because you don't trust the government does not count as thinking for yourself. We've somehow reached some sort of insanity where people think it's reasonable to disagree with facts. We're in a Bizarro World where someone could stand outside in a white-out blizzard and claim it's a nice warm sunny day, and just keep exclaiming "Well that's my opinion and you have to respect it!"

Vaccines are safe. Vaccines are effective at significantly reducing infection with the original COVID variant, and are effective at significantly reducing the effects of the Delta variant. At this point, over 90% of people hospitalized with COVID are unvaccinated, and hospitals all over the country are at their limit.

Do your part. Yes, YOU might be healthy and could possibly survive a bout of COVID just fine, but think about everyone else.

Get vaccinated.
Vice grip pliers capable of breaking a tungsten ring is cheaper and easier to purchase than the bolt cutters needed to remove a titanium ring
Manx: A catalogue of manuals for old computers
You're almost certainly right, as far as I can tell it should be fine with Wayland and 21.04 but I am just tired of reinstalling my OS every 6 months and don't trust direct upgrades much since they lose me even more time diagnosing an issue in the cases where they do break something.
> Both studies showed reduced protection against symptomatic illness w/ 1st dose, but VE recovered after the 2nd dose.

This is important because the "unvaccinated" in phrases like "epidemic of the unvaccinated" include people who've had their first shot after not leaving their house for 18 months.
Generally speaking the Linux community thinks that money is somewhat evil. There are little "take my money" moment. Most value only comes from services and support, not a common or sustainable stream of revenue on consumer computing.

Which is fundamentally different to the Apple and Mac platform. It is the polish app and "take my money" market. And for most part it is doing exceptionally well. ( On macOS, not MacBook )
This is a community of early adopters and also early disposers. I could be wrong but for the first time in my life I am getting a real sense that Apple could be making a huge mistake here.
As a game developer I can't really ignore or boycott the iOS market, but as a user, I don't think I'll ever use an Apple powered device for anything else than testing my builds.

I don't see the point, their products are becoming more bland, pricier and less reliable over time, and I simply don't like or trust the company.

This is very early to call it a dead brand, given their huge treasure chest and market inertia, but I think Apple is declining and I don't see them coming back.
I'm generally favorable to rent control (it's a socio-political tradeoff, like all public policies), but rent control on single-family homes or single units (as with renting an in-law), which is what that paper examines, is a horrible policy. The consequences for landlords are far more extreme than rent control on large, multi-unit buildings. This makes it's difficult to infer similar supply effects between rent control on single-family homes and on multi-unit buildings.

Turnover in SF is actually quite robust. The vast majority of tenants don't stay in the same apartment for decades. This is especially true during boom periods. IOW, ebbs & flows in turnover actually tend to benefit landlords. But a small number do. The average turnover rate is ~20%, which means the average occupancy is ~5 years. For large buildings what matters is the average. The fewer the number of units (either in a building, or in your portfolio), the riskier things become.

The riskiest of all is a single-family home, whether you rent out an in-law or the whole house. In the face of rent control you're not only risking being stuck with the same person indefinitely, paying an increasingly below market rent, but you're locking up for an indefinite period what is probably your largest and most important asset. It's a potential financial nightmare, and one with realistic odds (e.g. maybe 1 in 10 instead 1 in 10000) of befalling you.

As the building grows larger, the more the risk is spread and you can rely on the average occupancy term. Moreover, the larger the building, the less likely one would want to tear it down to build something larger. IOW, the larger the building, the more closely your expected future investment returns approach non-rent control levels.

Rent control policies should be accompanied by policies that promote densification. All forms of rent control will tend to reduce supply to some extent (at least, that should be the a priori expectation), but rent control also provides important social benefits. IMO, those lines cross, but I would never expect the benefits to be greater than the costs in the context of single-family homes.
A company that wants to pioneer client side scanning in industry is of course not trusted.
Because of the federal eviction moratorium in the US (and squatting laws in other countries), yes, people have the right to live for free in another person's property.
- RapidAPI as my frontend and payment provider

- Comet [1] for pretty highload machine translation service

- Hetzner for cheap but powerful hosting

[1] https://github.com/gotzmann/comet
> One thing I heard is that the drought (worst one in 50 years in Taiwan) has really affected them,

The power issues earlier this year in Texas also impacted production.

Weather issues are often the cause of the bust cycles in silicon manufacturing. Just people outside of the industry rarely discuss when memory prices or whatever spike due to a typhoon hitting Japan/Korea/Taiwan. This year, we've have major weather events hit chip production across the globe, at basically the same time, plus the pandemic.
This is money for convenience trade off. Just like some people pay double for food through uber eats. I use both the NHS and private healthcare. There is definitely an upper limit on this but if I can spend 10 minutes rather than an hour that is probably worth £100 to me.
As I understand it, and I'm not sure I do, the "you can't increase rent by that much" law got knocked down, and the govt response was to buy a bunch of properties and offer them for rent at rent-controlled prices.

Interesting times. It'll be fascinating to see this play out. Like a social experiment on rent control.
Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in September 2021
Does anyone know of a good resource to identify and explain unnecessary launchctl daemons, that I can then disable? My $4k Intel Macbook, new this year, can’t even smoothly handle cursor movement in vim/neovim because of the bloatware and possibly T2 chip interference, and it is driving me up the wall. Or if anyone has experience running the nearest thing to an open source version of MacOS, I’d love to get your pointers.

If I can’t solve this then I will switch to Ubuntu but as others have pointed out, I can see it will be a big time sink, that I’d like to avoid.
Looks good! Small typo, Open Intereset -> Open Interest :)
Docker on Mac is actually running in a VM, since containers are a linux feature, not unix. You can't develop for linux servers like you can on a linux machine.
I made a tool for myself so I could 1 click download videos to my iphone's camera roll. It's based on youtube-dl. I like to share raw videos and do not like to share URLs. I use this tool to make that easy -- I copy a url and run the iOS shortcut and the video auto saves to my camera roll.

https://github.com/rroller/media-roller
Maybe I'm missing something here, and I just read the Wikipedia article you linked. If the landlord takes the cash and buys the property, then the cash is gone and there is no cash to get interest on. Does the landlord just pocket the property appreciation?
...for a desktop, sure. For laptops, there is currently no real comparison on power and price.

I very much hope the rest of the industry can respond to the M1.
iMessage is a little weird.

I use other apps too, but somehow straight up SMS messages from non iPhone users seem to get routed to iMessage on my phone. The messages also seem to get forwarded to a computer if your logged in.
The vaccine is a basically partial copy of the virus, so it stands to reason that the virus would be more dangerous as well as trigger a broader immune response.

But now we're back to speculation about mechanism, which GP was opposed to.
My internet connection can be flaky, and just downloading stuff and playing it locally works a lot better. YouTube tries very hard to minimize the buffer size to only what's needed – which makes a lot of sense at their scale – but it also means that less-than-stable internet connections are difficult because it'll never buffer enough to bridge the 3 minute outage.
The Mountain Lions: these nine cities boomed in the Covid era
Summary: Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in September 2021. Online events are offered online at no charge, face to face events have a fee. We offer online Bootstrappers Breakfasts events in three time zones and are re-starting our face to face events as well.
Maybe I started to use computers too late (my 1st HDD supported UDMA/33 or 66 AFAIR), but I don’t remember any problems with master/slave. Just set jumpers and it works.
Per unit of mass yes, but there is rather a lot of mass for a given volume. And those are relatively slow processes when it comes to dealing with surfaces. Perpendicular cuts should be a lot quicker (you only have to separate the two sides, in theory one slice of atoms would be enough but in practice you'll end up with some minimal cutting radius).

Fascinating processes by the way, and the precision that you can reach with EDM is insane.
feedback like this is the reason I love this community. definitly considering going by your remark
Using variant as the storage type while providing a nice public accessor API makes sense given the huge difference in semantics between a struct containing optional fields and a variant.
No, https://cbeci.org/ says Bitcoin uses 0.01176 TW, not 1TW. You can take a deep breath of relief! The real energy use of Bitcoin is only 1.2% of what you thought it was!

So, if you thought Bitcoin energy usage was a pretty bad problem but not world-endingly dire, you should now think it's insignificant. If that isn't what you think, it probably means that your opinions are not based on careful cost-benefit analysis, just partisanship, and should therefore be disregarded.
That’s fair, fortunately those don’t matter as much.
Right - but without getting into the merits of apple's approach - what is the support for this claim that apple has worse reputation here than facebook etc?

I see the links to EFF groups which have (repeatedly) gone crazy over this. But the broader public? Are we even clear that the public doesn't like the new features (snitching on porn going to kids / CSAM detection)?

These types of things tend to be pretty politically popular. In other words, if govt does get involved - will it actually block apple from blocking porn sent to children to help prevent apple from "destroying" their users trust? How does that even work politically?

I get the HN crowd is majorly against this in aggregate - but that is not the general public (and obviously not all HN folks are making the kinds of claims we are seeing get upvoted here - destroyed all trust, committing felonies etc).
Doesn't matter, even outside of France, the results won't be able to be used. Worse, the person who got the test can get fined or even jailed for it.
Errr, I switched from Apple (II, and mac) after 20+ years of being a professional developer to -- Linux/embedded. To be fair, I was also a UNIX developer all that time, starting with Minix all the way back then, to Pr1meOS, HP/UX, SunOS, Solaris and blah blah.
The fact I had that UNIX background is what saved me. I was really highly technical and very highly rated Mac dev until about 2006 when I realised this was a lost cause.
I would not stand developing for the apple business these days -- these days, I can use my "embedded" skills on linux (or bare metal) and "be the tree that stands out from the forest" -- these days on Apple-land you are just chowder.

Mind you, I might have audio working on my linux workstation, but I can't seem to get the mouse wheel doing the right thing. That's the price to pay, and I might grumble about it (a lot) but it's better than having half the available API your app used to use just diseapear into thin air.
> Covid is therefore either feminine or masculine". Wifi has both genders in France and nobody died because of this.

Im not a native English speaker so I need to clarify my confusion. I take it WIFI is a noun. How is gender prescribed to a noun?
There's a thing called being judgement proof. These people don't have the money to give you even if you win a judgement.
What are OI and UOA?