skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I use some electricity to run PoW on an electronic litecoin transaction from me to my friend in Kenya, that's a hell of a lot lower energy than building and operating a Western Union in Kenya isn't it?

On an aggregated pre transaction basis we know this isn’t true. Crypto is not more energy efficient than existing financial infrastructure. Additionally you’re comparing a small part of a financial transactions (I.e. and database update) to a complete end-to-end transaction, including turning those digital funds into spendable cash.

Unless you friend in Kenya is also capable of spending that crypto, without turning it into fiat, then example is meaningless, because your ignoring all the infrastructure need to do that fiat conversion.

Additionally Kenya has digital banking infrastructure. Send a SEPA payment instead, no need to Western Union.
Such as this civil forfeiture reform that passed unanimously in 2016?

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

Sometimes it feels like people online are arguing about some imaginary California.
At least it's less often than the "what can I do about climate change as a developer" posts
Starlink has been incredibly unreliable for us in our testing. VPN's dropping alot. I'm sure its great for basic web surfing or things that don't require low latency but it has it issues for sure.
The idea that the constitution doesn't allow the government to force me to say something, but might allow them to force me to put something into my body, is completely wild to me.
The Mueller report concluded: "Ultimately, the investigation did not establish that the Campaign coordinated or conspired with the Russian government in its election-interference activities."

How do you square that with the Steele report, which alleged exactly that? Steele and Mueller may have agreed about some details, but not about the primary claim.
Were you binge watching "Halt and Catch Fire"?
This was done in the past. "Internet appliances", I don't recall any being free but they were inexpensive and paired with free/cheap (for the time) internet service. Netzero was also an ISP that offered free internet funded by ads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_appliance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetZero
>Separately, a proposal to federally deschedule marijuana that does not include social equity components was filed by a pair of Republican congressmen in May.

A perfect example of a party willing to wash its hands of all the harm the previous policy has caused. No remorse whatsoever for the years of life and opportunities stolen from people, families and communities ripped apart over five decades of an explicitly racist[1] War on Drugs.

1. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

-President Richard Nixon’s domestic policy chief, John Ehrlichman

https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminal...
Rich people don't usually do "on call" because that would suggest using a service-for-hire. Rich people hire everyone as directly as they can because it gives them maximum control.
So much apparent bias in this article (from telecom vendors).

>Bowles says a fiber-to-the-home alternative would’ve cost $5.5 million, taken at least four months longer to construct, and covered just over 600 homes.

This is the problem. If it was a wealthy neighborhood, no one would blink an eye at spending $5.5 million of government funding to string fiber to 600+ homes. But if it's rural people, especially the black or brown ones, then it's a questionable decision, and they should just get shoddy CBRS-based Internet instead at a $2m cost instead.
I mean, if it's a random comment on the Internet that makes a claim without presenting evidence, yet evidence does exist and is readily available, I don't have much of a problem with that. After all, you just made the claim that the theory is often present without evidence without actually presenting evidence of that claim. The real question is what evidence exists, not what evidence may or may not be presented with every online comment you may come across.
> If it's cheap and simple to make a manual test, why replace that with something that complex, expensive and hard?

Because you don't want to make _a_ manual test, you want to make _hundreds_ of tests.
Old coal plant is now mining Bitcoin for a utility company
Please don’t overestimate the importance of crypto in this world. Crypto investments in renewables are, at best, a rounding error. The ROI from them certainly won’t offset the very real harm being done by all the additional fossil plants being brought online to deal with the increased demand they create.
They've already added an explicit prompt for that.
Right, the operative keyword in my comment being scalable. How many solar panels does it take to generate the same amount of power in a full day that nuclear does in a full day? Now, are you assuming a sunny day? What about cloudy days? What about weeks of wildfire smoke blotting out the sun? Are you including the energy it takes to create your fuel battery? How much fossil fuels do we burn in manufacturing to cover the Earth's surface in enough solar panels to meet our collective needs?

Storage isn't the only problem, and I mentioned this in my comment: weather patterns are changing in unpredicable ways. Building more weather-dependent power sources is stupid when we already have a great solution.
Bezos likely just pays for it directly rather than having Amazon pay for it. There could be a million reasons for that, but in either case it's like not Bezos gives a single fuck about $10 million a year
Is the Go EOL? I’m curious if they’ll do the same thing for the Quest 1 or if we’ll have to wait a few years.
Arizona officials hold press conference on elections audit results
It seems like there are two effects we're considering at the same time:

1. UBI might increase people's willingness to pay for goods in general, and the prices of goods that are most strongly driven by willingness to pay would rise. (Rent in expensive cities might be an example of this. Milk, soap, and socks probably aren't.)

2. To the extent that UBI is paid for with higher taxes, the prices of everything would go up. This seems obviously true on average and to some extent, but the specific numbers matter a lot. For example if prices go up by 10%, but the people whom UBI is designed to help see their income rise by 20%, then UBI is achieving its stated goal. (Importantly, the hypothetical 10% rise in prices doesn't reflect wealth being burned or spent, but rather resources being moved around in some sense.)
In percentage, poverty is probably at its lowest in history.
Why? The information is yours to seek. People only eat for a day when you give them a fish.
I had the exact same experience. Nothing like being woken up at 2 am because Windows decided now is a good time to update. It's one of the major reasons I decided to switch to desktop Linux permanently.
Additionally there have been cases where the flight attendant or otherwise have abused their power and tossed people for whatever reason.

Off the top of my head some incidents I recall seeing in the news the last few years:

>Pilot tosses passenger for having a hat that says has curse words or are deemed “inappropriate”. There’s multiple examples.

>Boarded and seated passenger is forcibly deplaned because another employee wants to deadhead in his seat.

In general I avoid flying, partially because I’m tall. Partially because the entire experience from getting to the airport to the flight itself is just one experience where at any time you will hit someone that’s a bit power trippy and agitated.

I’ve turned down jobs due to travel requirements as a result. And don’t regret it.
> At some point there's a tradeoff between the realism of your tests and the cost of them and how many of them you can do.

Yeah, you're not wrong. I'm just griping because of the previous list of complaints.

There are some benefits to running your tests against a mirror infra to reality. But they are limited. The bugs they catch that you won't catch running fake infra are very small in number, but terrifying in difficulty to solve.
Power & Sleep settings > Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Sleep > Allow wake timers > Disable
Can you answer the question "who gets money literally put in their pockets as a result of a stock buyback?"

Hint: the answer is... no one. Investors who held see the value of their holdings increase, again, different from "cash in your pocket"
If there is an electric/telephone pole, put fiber on it. I don’t see what the hell the problem is. Power and telephone were run before, thus fiber can be run now.
> Russia has been pretty irrelevant to US geopolitical interests for over thirty years.

When Russia has active, long-running disinformation campaigns designed to destabilize the US, I'm pretty sure that I disagree.
As a soon-to-be father I get a little worried when I read things like this. Is there some new mental condition? Is it plastic in the water? Is it an inescapable risk?

Surely, playing with the child, rubbing feet, tickling, rough-and-tumble play, throughout their childhood would all help against such a thing. Tried and true methods from ages ago.

It even says in the article that the child is awake, so I don't see why you couldn't spook or tickle them into action. Is this just "new age diagnosis" that I have to wade through? (Not being facetious)
What's insane here? Waking the machine up is a legitimate use case, and it's easily traceable and configurable.
“When what you’re doing sounds like an Onion headline, stop.” — Bill Maher
The sad fact of E2E is that the tests genuinely find broken stuff. The “false negative” test results usually just mean false as in “something was broken, just not what the CI claimed was broken.”

It’s could be anything, so you need automatic specificity as to what’s broken (hard) or buy-in from the entire organisation to be on standby for finding broken stuff (also hard.)

“Anything” as in if your external DNS provider has 1 of 10 resolvers with an out of date zonefile, or a dodgy switch port to that particular resolver.

It’s hard but if it’s broken then it’s likely it is a real issue one of your end users is also experiencing. A commitment to E2E is committing to a level of quality across your entire infrastructure that few people are prepared to own.
So just like Windows since... 7? Or something like that.

I can guarantee you that a Mac will still shut down when its battery is empty. Unfortunately Apple hasn't yet cracked unlimited power.
Ten Commandments of Salary Negotiation
> Which is driven by a welfare system that punishes married couples with lower payments

Is this true? If you're not married, then doesn't only one person get to claim the benefits? Not benefits x2?
Good idea, I've added the comment
Just shut the fuck up, you annoying loser. Jesus Christ.
One can just as easily flip this massive generalization: are people still supposed to face consequences these days?

They’re adults. They’re more than capable of knowing the consequences and acting accordingly. I’ve been on over 100 flights. I’ve never seen an incident in person. Most people behave. The children kicking the seats are common enough, let’s not encourage adult tantrums.
I have a 9310, it took some time to realize the laptop was not sleeping because it has no indicators. After some digging I realized the culprit was sensors which woke the system immediately after any slight movement. I'm now removing intel_hid module automatically before sleeping, no more issues since. But I must admit, this fault is moronic.
lighttpd is still a thing (I use it for very critical stuff)
Not so crazy, it's very feasible to roll it yourself! Postgres has a "copy database" feature that's very useful (`CREATE DATABASE xxx WITH TEMPLATE yyy`).

I saw a project on HN a while ago focused on "managing isolated PostgreSQL databases for your integration tests", never used it but looks like a good idea: https://github.com/allaboutapps/integresql
Could it be that in the distant future if you at human history (or even the history of life on Earth) from far enough away to smooth out the little bumps, it turns out that we 20th and 21st century humans are in fact in a pretty unremarkable point along an exponential curve?
Diminishing returns? In the '80s half of America was in cities, and the rest rural. But today its more like half are in coastal cities, and most of the rest in cities. Rural folk are a diminishing fraction of America.
>I used to love the idea of the government fixing societies' woes.

Tax the damn land and do negative interest rates on cash and use the negative interest to pay for the deposit insurance.

That's it. Bonus: Get rid of other regressive taxes. Lower income tax, corporate income tax, capital gains tax, sales tax, VAT and so on. Rather than redistributing incomes redistribute jobs.

In a world where economic rents are eliminated, income = spending is true on an individual and country level and jobs are fairly allocated there is no need for charity and welfare. It would be one small step closer to utopia yet it will not happen because nobody will recognize it as a "free market" that is supposedly the be and end all of economics even though it would be free-er than anything the capitalists will come up with.

Yes, here is the homework: If the solution is so simple how come there are so many people wanting to keep the system unfair and rigged?

Here is my answer: It's because the rich need to trick people into believing that the source of inequality is fair and morally justifiable. After all, if inequality has no place in a moral framework then any source of inequality would be tackled immediately.

https://youtu.be/Qe4x2Fv9to4
Wow that was a blast to the past! I remember my dad trying it out because AOL was getting too expensive for us to sustain. Good times!
It doesn't dispute that they were made intentionally - in fact, it says the opposite. (These are carefully made so they don't overlap and they were not produced by locomotion.)

If this is "art" art... is up to everyone to interpret for themselves.

But then again, today you can give yourself a paint enema, squirt it from your asshole all over a canvas and some people will call it art.
The phrase "climate apocalypse" comes from his interview of Michael Shellenberger, a pro nuclear environmentalist. Shellenberger's core points aren't climate denial, but instead optimism that we as a species will prevail against the challenges posed by climate change, and that the apocalyptic rhetoric of some environmentalists hurts that effort.
That globe is absolutely enormous. Was the expectation that people were so familiar with a physical globe that it must be the best interaction device? It doesn’t make sense to me once you get past 1x zoom.

As far as Google earth goes, I remember using nasa world wind before I had ever heard of Google earth. At the time that earth came out, nasa had the leg up.
>acting in reckless disregard

Negligence is a motive. Considering the influence facebook has a compelling argument could be made on the chilling effects of a "sleepy code writer".
IDK if it's the right one but I found this: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nasa_gr...
OK, if the contention/confusion is over a word, please consider my post upthread to indicate that the USB standards body approved 6 prior non-interchangeable variants which contributed to e-waste rather than approving 6 prior iterations which contributed to e-waste.

They most certainly do matter for charging when you can't plug the larger plug into the smaller hole on a device.
Waldo, in the striped sweater.
Whether the content is third-party or first-party is nowadays the same in the eyes of the end user. They 'll believe a moderated story on facebook or a moderated story on nytimes.com with almost equal frequency. Technicalities of the law aside, why the first is more equal then the other is baffling to me
> A person breathes out roughly 1kg of CO2/day

I've heard that you mostly love weight by breath, and wondered what was the actual limit. Thanks for that info.
It's soft censorship with extra steps.
What kind of evil IoT crapware is sending WoL packets to random devices on the network?
Isn't this what protos are for?
Most mammal species including dogs and cats are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Someone in China apparently got in close contact with a bat at least once. All it takes is a single index case to start a pandemic.
In addition to the database pool approach, you can also write tests so that they are inherently independent. Each test creates and (optionally) deletes its own data, without making assumption about what else is in the database. That's not ideal, as it's hard to know you're not making a hidden assumption.
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck
I haven't written a book but just take TDD philosophy but apply it to e2e. For example, if you have an e2e test that often fails because something times out, or you've had to set a high timeout, then dig down why and fix it. Turns out you have a JVM that often has a 2s GC but no alarms, and yes, it impacts customers too. Fix that problem, don't get rid of the test (or all the tests). You got a slow third party thing, put an abstraction in front of it so that username: MyE2EUser's traffic goes to a shim. Then either negotiate with third party, or make interaction with third party system asychronous. Or does resubmitting the page order the product twice?! lol. I wish those were the old days. All that being said, I haven't done this for a couple of years now, and I have the joys of vastly simpler systems at vastly huger scale, so I may be seeing the past through rose tinted glasses.
The pandemic was global, the huge spike in homicide was American. If you look at North and South America, the majority of countries had a decrease in homicide in 2020, most of the ones with an increase had a small increase. This includes countries with some of the highest homicide rates in the world. El Salvador had the highest homicide rate in the world in 2018, during 2020 it decreased almost 45%. El Salvador had a significant response to the pandemic including a 30 day curfew. If lockdowns cause homicide shouldn't it have showed up there, and in the rest of the world?

The only country in the Americas with an increase approaching the US was Chile with a 28% increase. What was going on in Chile?

"Political unrest in the country continued into 2020. Following a period of relative peace amid mobility restrictions associated with the coronavirus pandemic, violent clashes between security forces and protestors resumed a year after demonstrations over high living costs and extreme inequality had first erupted in the capital Santiago."

Chile also has drug trafficking homicides, not sure if that increased in 2020. The fact that two of the countries with massive increases in homicide rates had political unrest at the same time isn't proof, but it's a clue.
This is great. I think Carmack calls out a huge issue with lots of hardware these days:

Once software servers are shut down and a company moves on, lots of hardware is essentially bricked.

I really wish this was more common.
One option I’ve used only works if there’s some natural partition of the data like a customer ID. Every test starts by creating a new customer account. Since by design customers can’t see each other’s data, therefore tests can’t interfere with each other and can run in parallel on a single database. After all, in production all your customers are going to be using the database at the same time right? So it needs to work anyway.
Hasn't been sold for over a year and runs completely different software than the Quest. I imagine the Quest will be backwards-compatible for the foreseeable future, so I wouldn't expect them to give it this treatment any time soon, if ever.
Def, as far as we know, we're just a little slope upward.

And I'm not sure what the Y axis is even measuring.
Absolutely, but calling the man with the opinion a misleader is defamation.
The article did make its points fairly poorly.

I think in the end they more or less did what you suggested as well they just didn't call it end to end testing.
That won't always save you, there have definitely been bugs where it tries to hibernate but gets stuck
Those Rube Goldberg machines will never survive contact with the public. 90% will be "out of order" at any one time, and in 5 years they'll all be scrapped.
> Western medicine has largely ignored environmental effects.

I wouldn’t say they ignored it, instead environmental effects aren’t in scope to medicine. If your doctor said ‘you live on Long Island so you have a higher chance of breast cancer, combined with your family history, I advise you to sell everything and move your family.’ The vast majority of people are going yo ignore that.

Even if you have the means to move, your doctor can’t quantify your local ties and relationships in a meaningful way to determine if increased risks from the environment are worth it.
> Not pushing for HTTPS everywhere doesn't mean all communications are now plain text and inspect-able.

The vast, vast majority of communications actually are - or are at least possible to reverse-engeneer with some effort. However, the inverse is true: Pushing for HTTPS means that no communication is inspectable because this is the whole idea behind HTTPS.

And yes, I don't want my ISP or my government or the cafe down the street inspecting my packets either, but I'd like someone not affiliated with the developers of the software I'm using be able to do so - because otherwise, the encryption is protecting the developers and their business, not me.