skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh come on now, only 10$ for the soul??? If it was 10BTC I would consider it ;-)
For how much would you be willing to sell your soul?

> SECTION III. COMPENSATION FOR TRANSFER
> A. Buyer agrees to compensate Seller with an amount of no less than ten (10) United States Dollars for the transfer of the Soul within 48 commonly recognized Earth-hours of the receipt of the signed agreement via any medium, physical or electronic, as described in Section II-C, according to the conditions outlined in this Section (III).
Miami is fantastic. Phoenix has air quality problems, but I find the desert to be beautiful. To each his own.
This reminds me of After Man: A Zoology of the Future, by Dougal Dixon

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/586677.After_Man
i's used to be lowercase back in the day. nobody is certain why they changed to being uppercase but there are some theories that its because 'i' on its own could easily look like it had drifted away from another word or that it could have been made by accident. previously 'i' had been 'ic' or 'ich' so it would have been a lot easier to see.

im not sure i agree with the accident theory though because 'i' looks a lot more deliberate that 'I'
Hilarious post as expected from this camp. But there is some truth to it. Eg we explicitly do the equivalent of apt update -y: apt upgrade -y on our test builds to see update errors early. Only then our work dockers can be upgraded.

Of course those folks don't have these luxuries. npm upgrades without testing, dependency tracking in XML, closed source deps, no symbol versioning, loose dll hell.

But even with simple glibc binaries I have to maintain up-to-date and lts (ie outdated) versions for the recent fstat and time64_t changes. Then you start appreciating go. And podman.
You are free to leave if the governed collectively have decided on laws you don't agree with, and they'll probably ask you to if you go on about your demand to be granted veto rights on all legislation.

As an aside, I'm slightly curious how you explain the legality of said sign using your absolutist libertarian framework.
The background is this:
The Swedish government (of which the green party is part) has closed down several nuclear reactors and there is a ban on building more hydro electric dams. Before Sweden had about 50% hydro + 50% nuclear.

Now electricity prices are rising a lot, especially on days when there is little wind (which generally is the case on extremely cold winter days), and emergency power plants using fossil fuels are running a lot more than before.

So now they are going to blame something else, just like any other politicians in any other country would.
Doomsday cult means something else.
The role of government is also capturing and charging for negative externalities.
Londump is a truly awful city
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At least for the purpose of recycling, where it is ok to destroy any part of the housing, batteries are very recycling friendly, as they are made of modular cells.
>So now they are going to blame something else, just like any other politicians in any other country would.

but somehow they decided to blame crypto-mining instead of excessive house heating and refusal to wear sweaters indoors. funny that.
Depends on the nature of the issue at trial.

Sometimes it's fairly confined. Usually they don't need to understand the whole thing.

But the interpretation isn't piecemeal and usually requires understanding the background.
Google Ads revenue ignores Apple's privacy changes
> [Twitter] are going to be purposefully and continuously ejecting users. As long as the users are people who nobody wanted to listen to anyway then that is fine.
> But the situation changes because sooner or later (potentially already happened) Twitter will eject actual community leaders and a community will need to reform somewhere else.

You're saying this as if it's inevitable. It's not. The incentives are aligned to keep all reputable "community leaders" on the platform. If you're concerned about how a market driven organization judges reputability, well, (a) that's a different conversation, and (b) check to see who you're aligned with.
As an avid cow milk drinker (consume it daily with oats/muesli) switching to plant milk was easy. Cow milk tastes richer and more flavourful though.
But I enjoy the wheat(?) and spelt(?) based milk also rice,coconut and soy.
For some reason the almond and cashew ones taste a bit weird to me.

It's been great to learn that cow milk can be substituted so easily, still get it sometimes for the taste though.
This is nonsensical. If you want to tax carbon, tax it regardless what it is used for.

What you are describing penalizes somebody who uses clean energy for mining and ignores somebody who uses coal power for running his bot farm.
> You look at the assembly code, grab an Intel Programmer Reference manual (they were about 1000 pages), look up each instruction opcode and that would tell you the clock cycles.

Wouldn't this "just" tell you how many "cycles of code" there are, and not how many cycles actually run? Branches etc. will of course cause some cycles to be double-counted and others to be skipped, in the dynamic view.
Obligatory literature before signing this contract is the precedent described by Thomas Theodor Heine in "Der Teufel in Warenhaus"[0], first published in early 1930's Simplicissimus[1]. Even machine translation from the original German is probably worth reading.

[0] https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/heineth/maerchen/chap001.h...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicissimus_(magazine)
It's somewhat off topic but why do you say this? Is it the 'progressive' issue or the 'web app' issue. My view is that a browser is a really good way to deliver applications - in fact, I prefer them to any other form of application. I'm not too hung up on the whole 'progressive' thing these days but a NoJS application still has it's benefits.
Yes, why do we have to have reams of paperwork? It would be better if my doctor had time to get to know me. Instead, he fills out paper work, everyone around him fills out paper work.
As person living in country with ties to Scandinavian grid. I see this as very positive. I could argue that current market price situation could even be worse if crypto miners were allowed to externalize their energy cost to rest of society. That is by applying high demand the hydro would have less stored capacity available. Which kinda is currently part of the price problem.

They lower the stored capacity and pay cheap price for that which results later the general population and other industry having to pay much higher cost of electricity, while they probably stop buying it, thus not taking their fair share of costs.
Afaik, Windows "Home" is limited to 1, "Professional" to 2 and "Pro for Workstations" to 4 CPUs.

Can be nicely tested with virtualization (e.g. KVM). Just assign multiple CPUs with one core each and Windows will only use the amount of "CPUs" that the license allows. A single CPU with a bazillion cores is no problem, though.

I only know this because I ran into that exact pitfall several times already.
Is there any data in which places on the Earth the norm is to cover your mouth when coughing? Anecdata: in the London tube it seems normal that someone can cough straight in your face then say "I have mask exemption". If not masks, I wish that one thing could be fixed.
Actually, never mind. I saw your other replies and it's clear you see epicycles as a badge of honour.
I think Google Widevine's security is fairly tight. It got cracked before, but the extracted keys promptly got revoked.
Nuclear is clean and sustainable and can allow people to mine bitcoin and even heat their homes, which seems to be a problem currently in some regions of Europe.
There is no incentive to optimize code right now. Like, if I had an employee doing some academic low level stuff I would fire them for wasting my time, so unlike many tech spots that pretend developers would do this I also don't interview for that skillset either.

Just copy and paste the solution but conform it to our networking or state storage system.

The bottlenecks for most apps I work on (not games) are somewhere else, like the network.

So there's a lot of crap code that makes a lot of money.
Assuming this one-sided story to be true, let this serve as yet another reminder that Human Resources is designed to protect the employer - not the employee. The cynic in me would go so far as to say one should generally avoid reporting anything to HR at all costs. It almost never works out the way one would hope.
People in the developed world consume massive amounts of energy on non-essentials. Energy consumptions is not the problem. In fact, it's strongly correlated with quality of life. The problem is polluting sources of energy.

Singling out one non-essential for its use of energy and banning it, while leaving all others legal, makes no sense. Doing so is a case of scapegoating one small facet of a larger phenomenon, instead of addressing the root problem.
That is not the purpose of AMP, that’s the superficially plausible line used to sell you on it.
I don't see how banning mining will have any negative consequences at all. What benefits would a country get from having a lot of miners? A few people would get rich at the cost of everyone else getting less electricity or higher prices. The miners relocate, and you can enjoy using bitcoin without any of the local externalities of having miners around.
They are not externalising their cost to the rest of society. They are paying the exact cost of the energy they spend just like the rest of people.
Actually using government mandates to curtain negative externalities would look way different though, right? The negative externality of energy production is the same per unit energy regardless of what the energy ends up being used for.
Given the source of the list, I'm surprised they were able to find a single Apple product to add to it. And even then, it was only half heartedly since they had to mention that it was connected to (in their opinion) a great computer.
Someone was complaining that git's non-recording of what branch name a commit was done in can make it hard to figure out the history. Then aaaaaaaaab mentioned that not having branches solves this problem.

I don't see how that helps the problem.

One of git's goals is to record the history of a project, and one can argue that that feature can be improved.

I think recording every typo would be worse, as it becomes harder to find the edit you're looking for. More hay covering the same needle.

I don't think rebasing is a bad feature, but I think merges and branches in the history provide o more useful story of how the code was written.
Tyres are breeding grounds for mosquitos, shredding them stops this so this law is having the intended effect.

https://blog.epa.gov/2015/08/26/improperly-stored-tires-lead...
How? Its not diverse at all compared to a city like London. Unless you are a German/looks likes one it's a poor city to be in.
This merely pushes Bitcoin mining to countries that do not have this kind of regulation (and probably have less renewable energy).
But you don’t justify a ban on robbery because of the energy usage of getaway cars, right?
AFAIK those weren't claims, as the claims aren't that specific: they were revelations that came from discovery that will be used as evidence to attempt to defend the claims.
I thought this was going to be about the more fun point that malloc is allowed to return NULL even on successful allocation (because malloc(0) is allowed to return NULL). This is a quick way to check if the authors of malloc wrappers know what they are doing.
Yeah, no single technology can solve the problem yet. I don't think the build time is really the main problem with nuclear.
If you could replace most of the coal and gas generators in a little over a decade the impact would be immense. Far sooner than I'd expect to see solar have a similar impact. But nuclear only works in wealthy nations.

The main problem with nuclear is the dangers of letting them get into a state of disrepair. In a politically unstable county it could be a real danger if they cannot secure the fuel or waste. A dirty bomb could be an environmental disaster.

Here in NZ many install solar and back feed the grid. They get paid to do so. But this doesn't help reduce emissions. During peak load the coal plants still fire up. We have significant hydro generation but require fossil fuels to deal with peak load. If home owners invested in batteries alone I suspect we could do a better job reducing our emissions.
That's why you ensure you have enough swap to cover the worst case scenario.

You as swap not because you need to actually use it, but on order to be able to guarantee there is enough memory available if the worst case scenario happens. In normal circumstances, swap should never really be utilised.
> anti-democratic institutions like the Senate

Representitive democracy is anti-democratic, not allowing babies to vote is anti-deomcratic. Based on the role purpose of the Senate, its more democratic that those examples.

Its purpose is 2 votes per state, with representitives elected by the people of those states.

You may not like that that is its role, and that is fine, but you can not say it would be more democratic if some states had more votes in the same way it would not be more democratic for some people to have more votes.
You described a lot of "decent" things. Question is about your ideal city. Not a decent city to live in.
Just some carbon, yesterday it was on TV:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/empa-forscher-entwickelten-eine...

Sorry for just being in german.
I'm confused. Your comment seems to directly contradict the top comment in this thread. You say the Supreme Court ruled merchants cannot be barred from charging higher prices to card users, whereas treyfitty[1] says the Supreme Court ruled merchants can be barred from charging higher prices.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29126521
>I could argue that current market price situation could even be worse if crypto miners were allowed to externalize their energy cost to rest of society

Nobody has ever proposed that they should be able to do this. This is a hilariously stupid strawman.
Your comment on hydro isn't relevant since hydro output hasn't actually changed[1], meanwhile wind production has overall replaced nuclear. Total production has increased slightly while total domestic consumption has decreased slightly. So basically it comes down to increased exports and variability of wind.

1. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/El...
One should check their local regulations too: here in Australia, Soy milk is fortified with B12 which is nice. I prefer soy milk to everything else personally.
Using clean energy for mining still increases the total demand for electricity which is going to result in more dirty energy production no matter what.
think of the honor if you could actually be a proper offering to the sun god!
I feel like you guys are completely inside the matrix here so allow me to explain...

Bitcoin is being fought by banks and governments because it threatens the dollar and the banking system.

The future they want is a global coin, not a decentralized currency.
I predict that there will be a bigger and bigger wave of bad press about proof of work.

I also predict that cryptocurrencies as a whole will suffer from that due to the inability of the medias to understand that Bitcoin is not representative of all blockchain technologies.

It’s a shame because today most modern cryptocurrencies are not based on proof of work.
Asking for my email before telling me shipping fees will make me abandon
It would still raise the cost of mining. And those countries that do not ban mining will face increasing pressure to do so, due to miners pushing energy prices up.

But yes, an international treaty banning PoW crypto mining would be more effective. Then confiscate the equipment and use it to attack the networks.
Energy-intensive crypto mining is accurate enough, proof of stake isn't energy intensive.
Logical next step: mandatory spyware to monitor what kind of software you are running on your devices.

We don't want you using your energy for unapproved computations!
I can tell you from first hand experience that neurofeedback is a life changing treatment. Far superior to ADHD stimulants which is a nightmare for some.
Using clean energy for anything still increases the total demand for electricity which is going to result in more dirty energy production no matter what.
Electrical power is only fungible in that sense if significant negative externalities exist which allow units of energy to be priced similarly when their sources vary significantly in total (including societal) costs. If societal costs are internalized (i.e. externalities are eliminated) then fungibility would surely disappear, because a unit of energy produced from coal would surely be more expensive than a unit of energy produced from solar.
Ah, the electricity police strike again. You're allowed to use the electricity you paid for for some computations, but not for others.

Seems logical and enforceable.
> Far sooner than I'd expect to see solar have a similar impact.

Sure, and there's no reason we can't have both, that's my point.

> A dirty bomb could be an environmental disaster.

I live in an area with ~20 coal plants in a 15-minute radius and, let me tell you, a dirty bomb would probably have been cleaner.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211106084421/https://www.econo...
Doesn't soy milk affect hormone levels?
For a somewhat decent counter-argument to this pov:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-7dMVcVWgc
Nuclear is also a dead technology you can't have a rational discussion about, sadly. Much the same as GMOs.
Yes and the same argument is used for all green laws which makes things like manufacturing more expensive. When becoming greener, we have to start some where
Well, I've been around FOSS my entire career, I've read a lot of RMS's writings, contributed to GNU projects, and to be honest, I don't know. Except that RMS got really really mad for not being able to fix a printer driver. I'm not sure free software philosophy would stand up to serious scrutiny from a moral philosophy perspective.

One could argue that society as a whole would be better off if zero marginal cost things like software or poetry, or information in general, would be freely available to everyone [1]. But that raises the question how such public goods ought to be financed. In today's capitalistic society it doesn't seem like a very serious proposition. In today's world, the choice is often not between proprietary software for solving problem X vs. free software for solving problem X, but between proprietary software for solving X and no software that solves X. And I don't think society as a whole is better off by not solving problem X unless we have a FOSS solution.

[1] Even that has limits. We probably don't want detailed instructions for making, say, biological warfare agents publicly available.
The people turning to psychedelics on their deathbeds
This made be curious to check the real and virtual memory of some processes on my laptop (MacBook Air M1).

The real memory size of Safari is ~160MB but virtual memory size is 392GB which doesn't look right. I checked other processes and all the processes have similar virtual memory size which is around ~390GB.

I wonder if this is a bug in Activity Monitor or the virtual memory allocations really are this big for each process.
Nuclear doesn’t produce any greenhouse gasses, but with the radioactive waste it generates it of course isn’t really clean. It’s also expensive and takes decades to build.
It reminds me of one of my favorite SF novel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_(novel)

> The fixup[1] novel describes a legend consisting of eight tales that the pastoral, pacifist Dogs recite as they pass down an oral legend of a creature known as Man.
Unless they buy their own coal plant?
Haha, this is nonsense, they will continue to ride every initiative Google come up with as it’s almost certain to increase revenues or at least not decrease them compared to participating competition!
How about the people win against the evil banks and governments ... and then proceeds to drown in the rising oceans, burn in increased wildfires, freeze in extremely cold weather (including all the gas and coal power plants used to mine BTC, see recent Texas events).
Why is it not relevant if growth of hydropower output has ceased? That seems like a perfectly relevant thing to point out.
It’s not about the negative externality of energy production, but the negative externality of Bitcoin mining. Using significant percentage of the available renewable energy, driving up prices and forcing other industries that are far less optional to resort to non-renewable energy. And probably even preventing other net-good uses of cheap energy from ever coming into existence.
The science in support of the hypothesis that soy affects hormone levels is thin to say the least
Just like rifles. Surely there are things that could be done if we start thinking about the problem space.
Yeah fine, but then it's still completely consistent that if your goal is to decrease overall energy consumption, you would find ways to curtail energy intensive activities which provide little social value.
>Bitcoin is being fought

Proof of Work coins are being fought for governments because they committed to goals decided in Paris Agreement and PoW CCs are making it harder to achieve the goals. Swedes discuss banning Bitcoin, but not PoS coins or premined coins that do not have PoS or PoW
Nuclear energy may not release CO2 into the atmosphere, but that doesn't make it clean and sustainable:

- you need to store radioactive waste for hundreds of years

- "safe" permanent storage sites often end up not not being actually safe 50 years later

- warming rivers by using the water for cooling may wreck local ecosystems

The only thing that is actually sustainable is not using all the energy in the first place. Bitcoin is the opposite of that.
You don't have any credible argument against a real carbon tax, do you? Only an utter clown would waste time bikeshedding about cryptocurrencies when you could focus on real solutions.

E: Can't reply below, but here's a very real argument for you. It's completely absurd to bikeshed about banning an activity that doesn't even exist in Sweden at any meaningful scale. Discussing whether or not Sweden should ban cryptomining is utterly pointless when nobody is (planning to start) mining in Sweden at any significant scale.

It really does matter what government officials spend their time on, this is an utter waste. To suggest that they're doing a good thing here is just incredible.