skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, the discussion really isn't about Bitcoin's footprint. As a society, we don't care at all about high energy usage, CO2 output or waste.

We've ignored the issue for decades and fully embraced ACs, huge cars, big TVs, high-end gaming PCs, cheap products from China, air travel and the excessive eating of meat.

Even in these times of peak awareness, the typical consumer continues to add more electrical devices to their homes, install jacuzzis in their garden and get ever bigger cars.

Nobody is outraged about any of this behavior. We deserve these toys and justify them.

Bitcoin simply stands out as an easy scapegoat. It's not that people actually care about sustainability, they simply see something they don't understand or need, hence let's ban it. Compare it to the outrage regarding very large trucks, and people calling for a ban.

The trouble is, there's only a few of such trucks, so it does nothing. It would be much more fruitful to ban or heavily tax big TVs, as there's many more of them. And just like that, nobody's interested in sustainability anymore. Not when it personally hurts. So it's all optics, not outcomes.

I see no value in high-end gaming PCs and think they should be banned. They have no meaningful societal value to justify their energy use. You see no value in Bitcoin and think it should be banned.

Neither of us has the moral high ground. We're all a bunch of hypocrites that hand pick whatever we consider of personal value, and to disregard anything else that others may consider of value.
But people who haven’t seen fewer insects probably aren’t posting.

Anecdotes are misleading and they are always a huge trick.
Every addiction treatment effort is to introduce friction, like dumping out your booze in your home into the toilet, getting a new job that doesn't tolerate smoke breaks, or finding new friends that aren't going to peer pressure you into using. If the vice is easy to act upon, you will continue to act upon it indefinitely.
and the journalist would describe a crane as 'construction companies lock workers in small box at great height, on top of giant robot arm'

this type of sensationalist news is annoying at best and harmful at worst
Ironically the apple use aligns much more with the 'official desgnation' (UPNP) than all the other uses that people are complaining about (dev web servers).
In my experience, management cherry pick aspects of the agile method that disempower knowledge workers and destroy any sense of ownership over the product, while ignoring all practices and intentions of empowering knowledge workers. Until the Agile custodians address how their philosophy has been corrupted in the real world, I want nothing else to do with it.
> https://www.thisfuckeduphomerdoesnotexist.com

I'm now more interested in how the transitions are made than in the generators per se.
Looks like elementary teachers are the ones paired with everyone the most, even with themselves. Not sure, looks to me like the data might be off
Spotified basically means your company decided it was Agile™ and forced the Spotify model on teams so essentially now you’re a cargo cult.

https://blog.crisp.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SpotifyScal...

Our problem at the moment is we have no processes/documentation because we’re Agile™
When i used it for web I hit a max of 6 simultaneous connections in chrome. I seem to recall that it was an (intended) browser limitation - but it doesn't throw any errors, so it's not very obvious.
I forked the socket-pouch library and changed it a bit to sync unlimited db's over a single websocket connection. It worked like a charm (despite my messy code).

If you're hitting the same issues, this might be it. A non-throwing limitation in the browser runtime.
Loitering
Ask HN: Should HN flaggers be public to users with X karma?
I saw a benign-but-valuable submission flagged. The submission was getting upvotes and there was discussion. It would be useful if respectable long-term users with high karma could see who flagged posts that get flagged, particularly when the submission is amassing upvotes and discussion. Otherwise, this place is no longer any better than reddit where astroturfing, gaslighting, and brigading are now the norm.

These high-karma users would then be able to vet flags and remove flags that may be coordinated. We need to face the reality that there can be coordinated flagging that is designed to wedge an ideological bent into the flow of the conversation.
Could be something to do with a tech-literate person is _more_ valuable to an arts person than to another tech person. E.g. arts person wants their small plumbing jobs done, their offspring taught math properly, and so on, but other tech person doesn't need that because they do those things themselves.
Yeah, it's horrible. If anyone has a way to get in touch with DDG, that'd be great.

I've been using !sp to get startpage results with wikivoyage queries.
This squarely falls into the anecdotal camp, but my understanding based on online commentary and more specifically the actual experiences of four of my friends who run businesses ranging from a two-employee, furniture-building firm that probably generates $300-$500k in annual revenue all the way up to a major concrete contractor with a thousand employees and hundreds of millions in revenue applied for and were granted government funds and not a single one of those companies needed the money to keep staff on the payroll because their businesses continued to operate as normal for the extent of the pandemic. At least one of those folks fully admitted to putting their entire $80k+ "loan" into the stock market (the cruise lines in particular when they were getting beat up early on). It's appalling. And yes I said friends. I'm not condoning it, but business people will justify by saying "that's why I pay taxes."

I can't prove the scale, but I believe the op (or was it gp?) is right and those funds, to some extent, went directly into stocks, real estate, luxury automobiles, luxury watches, artwork and other assets, and a large percentage of the remainder found its way to those same places indirectly.

I have no concrete evidence or source for this, but I don't think my friends are unique here. For as many businesses as you heard were struggling there were countless others doing ok or even well during the pandemic.

Just trying to offer a different perspective on your comment.
> So no, it's not a good idea to try to make everything political. This is true regardless of anyone's moral intuitions. It's an objective fact that society is better off when certain things are not politicized, especially infrastructure services.

Our difference lies in the definition of politics. I am not from the US and I hold to a more original definition, everything that has to do with how societies are structured, are governed and how they act is politics. Everything within the public sphere is politics.

In your example, building a bridge is politics, letting everyone through is politics. You can't make or unmake something to be political. It either is or isn't _by definition_.
Presumably there are more "Trump is bad" (weird simplification, but ok) books than ones on Biden because a) Trump has been president longer and b) Trump's actions harmed more people.
This probably sounds crazy, but I think the best way to incentivize food production laborers is to pay them a fair wage.

Rural areas have a mix of the estates of the top net worth individuals and the laborers who work there. The wealthy are subsidized along with the working class. It makes more sense to stop subsidizing the rural areas entirely and then pay the working class fair wages.

As for defending the rural areas with force, that's the whole point of having a national military - it's not like we're going to forcibly conscript everyone just because they happen to live in the region.
John McCarthy, History of Lisp:

The advantage [of the prefix notation for algebraic expressions in LISP] is like that of binary computers over decimal - but larger.
> Getting Lisp to run as fast as C takes major effort when at all possible.

But Lisp is faster than almost every widely used language that's not C/C++/Rust, around Java speed.

> Lisp needs a lot of space to do it's thing; and while it's certainly possible to downsize it, you're left with something that's not really Lisp anymore

Dunno, by modern standards it seems pretty small.

> Finding solid libraries is tricky since it's not very popular professionally.

Ish. Because it's so mature, lots of code works even it it's not updated constantly. There's code out there for most use cases, at least for back-end-y things.

> Unleashing the full power of Lisp in a diverse team is a recipe for an adventure, if not disaster

So enforce coding standards. This isn't a negative and lots of us work alone or in small teams.

Honestly, the only reason I don't mainly use Lisp is because I use an even slower/easier language because I don't really need a performant language. But if I find a problem where I want more performance Lisp is probably the next stop.
And Blue Jeans Cable's 2008 response to a Monster Cable demand letter: The CEO of BlueJeans was an ex-litigator; excerpt:

<quote>

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1985, I spent nineteen years in litigation practice, with a focus upon federal litigation involving large damages and complex issues. My first seven years were spent primarily on the defense side, where I developed an intense frustration with insurance carriers who would settle meritless claims for nuisance value when the better long-term view would have been to fight against vexatious litigation as a matter of principle. In plaintiffs' practice, likewise, I was always a strong advocate of standing upon principle and taking cases all the way to judgment, even when substantial offers of settlement were on the table.

I am "uncompromising" in the most literal sense of the word. If Monster Cable proceeds with litigation against me I will pursue the same merits-driven approach; I do not compromise with bullies and I would rather spend fifty thousand dollars on defense than give you a dollar of unmerited settlement funds.

As for signing a licensing agreement for intellectual property which I have not infringed: that will not happen, under any circumstances, whether it makes economic sense or not.

I say this because my observation has been that Monster Cable typically operates in a hit-and-run fashion. Your client threatens litigation, expecting the victim to panic and plead for mercy; and what follows is a quickie negotiation session that ends with payment and a licensing agreement. Your client then uses this collection of licensing agreements to convince others under similar threat to accede to its demands.

Let me be clear about this: there are only two ways for you to get anything out of me. You will either need to (1) convince me that I have infringed, or (2) obtain a final judgment to that effect from a court of competent jurisdiction.

It may be that my inability to see the pragmatic value of settling frivolous claims is a deep character flaw, and I am sure a few of the insurance carriers for whom I have done work have seen it that way; but it is how I have done business for the last quarter-century and you are not going to change my mind.

If you sue me, the case will go to judgment, and I will hold the court's attention upon the merits of your claims--or, to speak more precisely, the absence of merit from your claims--from start to finish.

Not only am I unintimidated by litigation; I sometimes rather miss it.

</quote>

(Extra paragraphing added.)

https://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/response041408.pdf
Can I equate this with "exploring the computer"?

Windows 98 was the first OS I used, played games on and explored internet on. At that time exploring the windows itself use to feel fun let alone finding all those new websites. Yahoo and MSN were a thing back then for the same reason I think. They were big and each had so much to explore and enjoy.

Now days with improved search experience and better internet speeds everything is more accessible and there is more of everything. You don't have to stick to one thing and explore it from A to Z.

I use to explore features of Windows 98 even XP but that all stopped and now I don't have those interest anymore.

Maybe your idea of why we are not "exploring" is just maturity and growth in this domain. We now don't need to explore like the way we use to because we have probably grown out of it.
I’m aware of mentat and eternally disappointed that it got shelved :(
That makes much sense, thanks! But then why didn't they call it mix() or lerp() or interpolate()? I would have immediately spotted the logic behind it.

EDIT: I think I get it, there also a mix() with a different type signature but same parameter order.
> Getting Lisp to run as fast as C takes major effort when at all possible.

The Computer Language Benchmarks Game shows Lisp Code as generally being between 2x and 10x slower than C++[1]. As fast as C? No. Way faster than Python, and more than fast enough to be used in almost every single application, modulo hard-real-time systems and AAA video games? Yes.

> Lisp needs a lot of space to do it's thing; and while it's certainly possible to downsize it, you're left with something that's not really Lisp anymore.

Again, while a 13MB SBCL image might be significantly larger than a 100KB C program, given that that's the entire compiler and runtime bundled in, and the size of additional code scales also like C/C++, that still makes it viable for almost every kind of program (and still an order of magnitude smaller than Electron). Same deal with memory usage.

> Finding solid libraries is tricky since it's not very popular professionally.

This one is so true it's not even funny. (although there are C, C++, and Python FFI's that cover most of the stuff that you want, although that's kind of cheating)

> Unleashing the full power of Lisp in a diverse team is a recipe for an adventure, if not disaster.

The list of companies using Clojure[2], in addition to the commonly-cited Viaweb/Orbitz/Grammarly, beg to differ. Anecdotally, most Lisps have less footguns than C++ - if people can figure out how to use Stroustrup's monster in massive video games, Lisp is easy.

[1] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

[2] https://clojure.org/community/companies
While printing money doesn't create value by itself, not printing enough really puts the economy into a gridlock. I tried to give an intuitive explanation here:

"Imagine an isolated village where people farm for subsistence. This is a village disconnected from the world that has not had a currency up to now. People rely on barter instead. Every fall, villagers usually produce excess food to have something to eat in the winter, even if, the real returns on the investment is low. Because of spoilage, crops stored for the winter are only worth 90% of their usual real value. 10% rot away in storage. That is, these crops have a return of negative 10%.

One day, this village mandates its government to create a currency that always keeps 98% of its real value on a yearly basis (2% inflation) even during times when private savings assets can’t retain this much. The government puts money into circulation by buying part of farmer’s crop during the summer (civil servants have to to eat).
Most farmers produce enough food for the summer, sell some of their crop and keep their money to be able to buy something to eat in the winter. They do not produce a crop to store for the winter since it would only return -10% on their initial investment and the central bank promised money would keep value at a rate of at least -2% (plus maybe a bit of interests).

What happens when winter comes? People have cash but few have anything to sell because they didn’t reinvest in the production of a crop to be stored!

In this situation, it’s going to be very difficult for the government to control inflation because there will be too few goods for the amount of money people will want to spend.
If the government does manage to control inflation, it will be through high taxes or by depressing the nominal value of the crops of the few farmers who did store something for the winter. The central bank might do this by giving high enough interests payments on cash to prevent people from wanting to spend it immediately.

In any case, people won’t eat much during the winter because the food will simply not exist.

The point is, government money can easily jam markets and crowd out productive investment."

https://medium.com/@b.essiambre/the-world-deserves-a-pay-rai...
Dronesitter: Connect to drones from the browser through WebSerial
Only Chrome/Edge browsers supported due to WebSerial standard support.
It's a shame to marry because of financial incentives.
I clicked random for a while, just waiting to find a job with an usually high correlation with any other job. Pharmacist is unusually highly correlated with Pharmacist. Edit: Same with Lodging managers, high correlation with Lodging managers.
To quote Fowler and all of his ilk, this means you're doing it wrong, and you must contemplate the principles of Agile further until you achieve enlightenment and discover True Agile.
I'd love to have access to a free search engine, email, and a video platform. But objectively running and improving those systems takes money that people is not really willing to pay for. Wikipedia is a good example on how our anchor on that everything digital must be free keeps us from developing free systems. I wish we could change that.

Now, what value do those systems provide? I would definitely be living a much different (and likely worse) life if I didn't had access to the Internet and systems like those since middle school.
Well, it looks like Norvig won that fight. Now I guess the question is was Norvig prescient or did his reluctance to get involved in the semantic web given his position of power set the mood for google and the other big players?
This is a good argument against running a k8s cluster when u don't need one, but not a good argument against this new serverless Cockroach product.

Serverless is not just about auto scaling up from 1 to n, it's about autoscaling down from 1 to 0.

If Cockroach provides a robust SQL DB at a marginal cost of ~$0/mo for small request volumes, that is a real value add over running your own pg server.

Not having to deal with administration or backups is another big value add.

This offering looks like it compares very nicely to say running an rds instance with auto backups enabled.
People with a higher ping can only benefit from it if there is lag compensation in place - that said... lag compensation isn't an on-off switch - it makes things unfair to users with that unfairness switching sides depending on how much compensation you offer since higher levels of lag compensation will result in unresponsive "muddy" controls where you may often be teleported back in time to die after locally taking an action you thought compensated for it.

All these factors are pretty heavily interwoven in how the game ends up feeling to players.
NPM Library Hijacked
There is nothing new under the sun.

It is a high bar to produce something truly innovative and different, and not just the same old with a shinier interface. Same goes for all the creative arts: television, music, movies, art, etc. You always come up against the law of diminishing marginal utility so very little ever feels as good as it was to begin with.

Do you have a favourite band but now only ever really listen to their first few albums? Do the majority of movie releases basically not excite you? Can you really be bothered to watch season n of some show you enjoyed initially?

The only way to escape that cycle is to be a creator (with yourself as an audience of one).
It would be nice if age or duration of marriage was also put into play. Additionally how much people moved. It's not always true, but sometimes one person in a relationship is the "portable" one who can find a job in many areas.
Except tobacco use does not increase healthcare costs and in fact reduces them, due to people dying earlier and more quickly.
>Allwinner was providing an "SDK" to vendors to customize the Linux kernel for their devices

I tried contacting them to get the SDK for a tablet I had and they just asked me how many SOCs I am planning to buy.
In a short search I didn't find any indication that this was one of the infamous "National Security Letters" that comes with a gag order.
One important reason is that P2P games that only require central services for matchmaking but not for the actual gameplay sessions are a lot easier and cheaper to scale to high player counts.
They could have sold books online earlier, they chose not to.
> The British guy who also didn't actually do anything and was jealous that he didn't get much attention and attacked him first by slandering him in the media? This made Musk look like an asshole to be sure, but it was not out of nowhere.

He publicly accuse the man of being a pedophile. That slander no matter how you look at it.

It's funny you accuse the man of wanting attention when that's exactly what he called out Musk on. Musk had no business getting involved but wanted to be in on the publicity. Musk of course having his ego damaged overreacted as usual - when a normal person would just brush it off. Projection at it's finest.

> So attacking CNN over false reporting is somehow bad now?

It wasn't false. CNN report that the governor said the hospitals didn't receive the ventilators which is 100% true - the governor did say that.

> And Musk is not even really trying to go to space himself primarly, if he wanted to he could have years ago.

That one thing you have to give Bezos, he was the first of the 3 to be willing to dogfood his own rockets. Frankly I think he did it, despite the risk, just because he really wanted to visit space.

> If you think ULA is 'equally accomplished' to SpaceX you are totally misinformed about the space industry

ULA has been around a long time and recently sent a probe to the Sun - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe. They are pretty darn capable and reliable. They just don't get much press - or money for the matter.

But I'm probably wasting my time. You seem like a huge fan of Musk and will just rationalize away everything I say.

Personally I think Musk and his companies are overhyped - frankly to an annoying level; and I'm not the only one to think that give people have created r/EnoughMuskSpam.

There are many great feats of space exploration that get gloss over while every time SpaceX does something it's seen as major news even if it's one of their just test rockets blowing up.

e.g.

The Japanese sent a probe to an asteroid, landed on it, collected a sample and sent it back to earth - all autonomously. That's a remarkable feat of engineering IMHO. 2 days on space related social media at most.

SpaceX launch something. People: "OMG it's so beautiful!!!" + Endless spam of the videos.
Can you please not start a dick measuring contest between cultures in these comments. Thanks.
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