skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I upgraded to Windows 11 and the volume bar simply does not show when left clicking on the sound icon on the lower right of the task bar.

No amount of things I've tried makes it work, so to change the volume I have to either use keyboard shortcuts or open the volume mixer in the control panel.
It's not limited to cows, but it needs to come from an animal.
That all might be true, but there are ways to improve on those points. For instance thorium reactors are much more efficient in terms of waste, and they are much safer.

A lot of problems we have with Nuclear is because the tech most widely used was created with a side goal of advancing nuclear weapon production.

I'm by no means a nuclear maximalist, but I could see better nuclear being a component of a larger sustainable energy strategy.
Treat crypto no different from stocks.

You can’t just buy, trade, and cash out stocks from some random guy online. Crypto is basically no different from stocks at this point—things change in value just because people think others expect the price to change and follow the herd.
Facebook Marketplace to start charging some UK sellers
you don't use crypto do you? playing with money is honestly just a fun thing to do, putting it into coins you think will do well or staking it to earn more or lending it via defi, or putting it into a yearn vault etc

the other thing is that (for the 9 billionth time) people are clueless and associating all of crypto with bitcoin.

There are tons of chains that aren't proof of work and there's also nothing suggesting proof of work can't run on renewable energy either, something like 60% of chinese mining was.
The is roughly what you are to be able to do with the Java SecurityManager- it was especially intended for code mobility scenarios where you can’t be certain that everything is well-behaved (and not just applets- we used it server side).
But wrangling all those capabilities and policies gets really really difficult on a decent sized system, and comes with a runtime overhead to boot.
> I have never run across anyone with legal training using "spirit" language.

I know what you mean (and agree), but some spirit language seems required by the subject matter :-)...
Where are you based? You should be able to find some oil free alternatives
Sounds reasonable. I guess most process controlling syscalls (ptrace, prctl, seccomp, bpf, remotely operating on pid's FDs, setsid, signal masks) will have to be replaced to be able to operate on remote process or on a fd, but yeah, this can work, potentially.
Man I wish that were the case.
I've written way too much that has been discarded after a furtile glance.
Maybe u just bad at bringing my ideas across
The art of working with constraints does not seem to be lost; just look at late cycle console games.

A PS4 was/is effectively unchanged hardware between Nov 2013 and today, yet the late lifecycle games look great. Upon release of the hardware devs had plenty of performance to play with, then 5 years in they have honed their craft and are able to use all the tricks at their disposal to squeeze as much graphical and performance life out of a limited resource budget.
Most farming is done for live stock feed, so your argument makes little sense. Also if there's the choice to be made between soil and live animals I'm choosing the animals.
Yes, seems like I got it wrong.

Thank you for checking
It would actually make the network more secure, since mining would shift from big industry players to local private users who mine from home electricity. You can't hide a power dependent business and poor countries lack the power production for significant mining operations.
Ask HN: Student Internships Relating to Cryptography
I'm a 3rd year student majoring in computer science at the University of Texas at Dallas.

I've been looking around for Summer 2022 internships and all of them seem to be just general software dev, machine learning, data science, etc., internships. Basically anything except cryptography.

I've applied to positions at IBM and a few other places relating to cryptography and even though there's a good number of cryptocurrency startups, many don't seem to take on interns.

It's a shame as I've realized I have a passion for cryptography. For example, I've recently taken a midterm for a grad crypto class and it was one of the only times I got full marks on a university exam. I've been going through the Cryptopals Challenges and doing NSA Codebreakers 2021 though I have much to learn.

So, how does a student find cryptography-related internships, both academic and industry?
No, it isn't a payment system.

Check out GNU Taler (and alternatives), which really are payment systems instead of currency alternatives
We could ban bitcoin and still drown in rising oceans. 100 companies contribute to 70% of Earth’s pollution. Why aren’t we banning them?

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...
They posted the [version diffs] (https://my.diffend.io/npm/coa/2.0.2/2.0.4)in the article. Not sure if this site catches all the changes though.
Although I'm pretty conservative regarding climate change, it's a real problem that needs adressing so the Swedish government has a legitimate reason to intervene. Maybe we can indeed travel more if we ban crypto. But more importantly I think crypto is the most wasteful, pointless and potentially dangerous development that happened this century and I fully appreciate any government wanting to ban it for literally any reason.
Oatly Barista for me.
> Imagine that across thousands and thousands of repositories being accessed at once.

Not the idea of a decentralised system, is it?
Readily fissile materials aren't just found lying around next to the reactor though. There is a non-negligible amount of CO2 emitted to get fuel, even for nuclear power.
Maybe figure out how to curb the use of jets, the use of fossil fuels in industry, and China's conversion of coal into cheap products????

No... let's talk about which veggie milk is the best / worst for the environment.

Don't these writers maybe consider that what they are doing is creating NOISE??
My point is that will lose more time installed unsupported packages than losing some time when arch breaks, because it rarely breaks (less than once a year). And fixes usually take 5 minutes
Do digital payments need replacing?

I haven't seen physical cash in almost two years (one exception, a contractor wanted to dodge some tax) and the system just works effortlessly.

Tapping a card is easier and faster then counting change.

I don't see how paying a $20 gas fee and waiting 15 minutes would improve the situation.
We don't boast about acceptance rates anywhere on our website, or claim that we optimize them in any way (which we don't). In my opinion having differently colored buttons makes declining easier for users as they have more visual clues to distinguish the choices. Most users are accustomed to a green "yes" button and a grey "cancel" button from system dialogs (though there are many variants these days), so they don't have any trouble finding the "cancel" button. Acceptance rate for Klaro on our website is around 50 % (33 % when it's on HN :D), which is much lower than what other solutions claim to achieve using dark patterns.

Personally I often click on the wrong choice when e.g. asked about giving a website access to my location on iOS, as there's no color difference between them and the texts are quite similar as well.

BTW Klaro is full customizable so users can change the styling, and some users choose to display the buttons in the same size and style, though I don't think this influences acceptance rates too much.
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I’m so confused. The ruling agrees with you?

Edit: nope I was wrong, I read it the other way.
"GitHub and GitLab offer nothing comparable. "

This is true. But this is a criticism of Git**b not git.
I hope that the app makes it clear which country/culture it applies to. (I assume it's for a European-origin family in the US?)

We recently had a kid, and in case of our native culture (Japan), people want to pick a name that not only sounds good, but also carries "good fortune" in its characters... based on ancient literature or something (it's kind of feng shui, I guess). The shape of the letters also kind of matters. Note that Chinese characters not only carry sounds but also represent a meaning (ideogram) that adds to the complexity. Also in Japanese many characters tend to have multiple readings. So there are tons of websites where you can search kids name with various conditions (sound, meaning, shape, strokes, popularity, etc), and they look pretty popular.

My point is that, the requirements and restrictions of names differ vastly between cultures, and the app can be clear about it.
But it doesn't work like that. You might reserve 20% of the time to chores, but you don't have to use all of that 20% every week. Efficiency of maintenance will improve after you get your processes and tooling in order and everyone has had a bit of experience with them, and the leftover time can be used for whatever the developers feel most deserves the extra time.

The reason to do maintenance constantly is practice, which makes the difference between taking weeks or days vs. hours. When the time spent is evenly distributed, it's also less likely that an important task would be blocked by unavoidable maintenance.
Security is the argument of last-resort for so many bad technologies.
"messed up"
Intelligent generation of storyline and personalized dynamic narrative
Thorium reactors are a castle in the air
What country do you live in?

By definition, in a parliamentary system, the executive is de facto subordinated to the legislature, even if they may be theoretically considered equal. If the executive and legislature are equal in your country, not just in theory but also in practice, then you do not live in a true parliamentary system, even if some might call your system “parliamentary”.

You mention France-as I said, France does not have a true parliamentary system, it has a semi-presidential system. In a semi-presidential system, the executive and legislature are more equal than in a true parliamentary system (in both theory and practice), albeit not quite as equal as in a true presidential system such as the United States.
nitpicking your nitpicking :)

1997 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_II_micro...

with everyone being able to afford fast 450MHz in 1998 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Celeron_micropro...
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Interesting read, personally I disagree with the author on the risk-benefit tradeoff of having lots of updates.

Something work calling out though - the author appears to have completely unironically updated their own post.
These are things which we as consumers can control why not? Why can’t we talk about plant based milk and do all those you mention?
A few years back, HN started hiding other people's comment scores. Algolia only has point values up to that time. Still, impressive.
Eh it worked well enough for the whole history of humanity so far
I’m not looking for any high ground, I’m looking for decent ground. There’s no way you can compare the cruelty involved in producing cow milk to that of producing oat milk for example. It’s not in the same universe.
I hadn't even noticed so I walked to the fridge and indeed: here in The Netherlands, it's called "Alpro Soya naturel" or "Alpro Soya Barista" or something. My grocery app calls it a "soy drink". Cans of coconut milk are still called coconut milk, but the 1-liter-sizes are called "coconut drink".
If the estimated cost on society "varies between 700 Euros [0] and 100.000$ [1]" then those scientists should be back to the drawing board because those two numbers can't make sense at the same time.

Also I don't see why only a small part of society should be paying for that "carbon tax" - all citizens should pay an amount corresponding to their energy spending and then we are back to miners not externalising anything.
Option c: price energy usage accordingly and profit off cryptominers. You'll have the funds to expand energy production capacity to both solve today problem and future proof infrastructure
There's a lot of words, but no data in these posts.
The only argument is that sales are expected to decline very fast, so stopping piracy there is very efficient.
I would argue it is quite dishonest to pretend Steam is popular because it is a DRM solution, it is popular with consumers because is is a convenient marketplace.
It seems like confounding publisher and consumer mindset.

Conveniently, there isn't a single downside mentioned!
Some games have stutter at launch or take a 20% performance hit, so there must be an impact on sales.
Adding DRM is also far from free, it is always a good idea if you don't talk about the cost.

I would expect the picture to be quite different depending on the type of games/market. But these posts only show that there's a belief that it works.
Sure it is.

Here's in EU coconut milk: https://hjem.foetex.dk/produkt/kokosmaelk-max-18-fedt-oeko/6...

And another EU retailer selling goat milk: https://naturkost-odense.dk/product_info.php?products_id=202
Not true, live stock feed is mostly the husks and stalks of the plants that are inedible to humans, which if it weren't for livestock, would be discarded as waste. See this video for some more common misconceptions, if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGG-A80Tl5g

Every plot of land used to grow crop represents countless animals that used to live there, and were wiped out by the farmer. Farmers constantly battle against pests, which too are animals, just trying to live. Vultures are often seen following combine harvesters, to prey on the corpses of field mice and other small mammals that get caught in the blades. Zero harm is a myth.
This is a feature not a bug. What I'm hearing is, it takes the energy necessary to drive 1.8m kilometres to forge one bitcoin. Perfect.

And humanity is not on the verge of climate extinction, although it is the dogma of our times.
LTSC is only in windows enterprise, but what any windows pro user should use if they want to avoid the bleeding edge is switch to CBB, which is generally a lot more stable than the consumer releases of windows (which effectively are public betas during their first few months).

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/...
It's more of a haven asset. It doesn't make sense as a payment system, and it hasn't in a decade really succeded in that role. It has accumulated a lot of capital, however, that might otherwise have gone into other haven assets.
First, physical cash is still the norm in most of the world.

Second, higher competition in the payments ecosystem would force providers to reduce their fees. The glaring example is what is happening in San Salvador, where by using Bitcoin they are likekly to save 450 USD millions/year in fees.
I'm literally looking at an Oatly Barista Edition pack right now and it clearly says it's free from milk or soya. The ingredients don't contain any soya reference as well, it's likely the rapeseed oil that makes it fatty.

What makes you so sure??
I’ve seen some really sloppy analyses. There was one in Canada that was similar to the US. It entirely ignored factors like vaccinated people never testing positive because they are asymptomatic.

The Singapore one isn’t perfect since those at higher risk of exposure (medical workers) tend to be vaccinated so that isn’t corrected for. But that would also disappear as you start to get most of the population vaccinated.
Why would malware authors target NPM in particular? Maybe they are targeting lots of package registries, and NPM is just more vigilant?
Then you just calculate them all.

If Branch A is taken ... total X clock-cycles.

If Branch B is taken ... total X clock-cycles.

If Branch C is taken ... total X clock-cycles.

And so on. And then make sure that the "longest" branch fits into the clock-cycle budget.
It will happen the same what is happening with used tires in some countries. Stockpile tires, gather millions of them and let them burn. There is no way to extinguish such fire. So now batteries are stacked in piles, hundreds gathered together in one place. Another fire that can’t be extinguished. Battery problem is solved! I really don’t believe about rising value of used batteries in the future. The future recycling process will be designed for future more recycle able batteries and not current toxic waste.
I am not sure how much you have looked at these newer plants? While must can use since amount of nuclear waste (which is great), their biproducts are only somewhat less toxic than the original. These are nowhere as clean as people seem to imagine.
> Broadly speaking, modern developers don’t have to deal with resource limitations (neither computing nor financial) so they instead devote that extra energy on completely unnecessary orchestration systems and build toolchains to feel like they’re doing something complex and challenging.

That is massively far from truth. Rendering graphics to the level modern games require is driving even current powerful hardware to its limits and it's far from "not having to deal with resource limitations".

Your post seems to be horribly condescending and not realising just how much work goes into squeezeing performance from modern GPUs and consoles.
But the problem isn't that it can use renewable, but rather "steels" renewable that could be used for other purposes
No, what the current government has done is not object in 2015 when the commercial owners decided to permanently turn off in total three reactors in Ringhals and Oscarshamn because electricity was just too cheap.

The actual problem is a regional on: the most souther parts of sweden is that they have more connections to the energy market in continental europe than to the big hydro-plants in the north that have plenty of excess capacity. In fact Sweden is a net exporter of electricity even in times where the emergency plants in the extreme south are running.

And water+nuclear has been at around 80% total, not 100.
I'll bet the physicist was also an ex-environmentalist. I've seen a few nuclear/carbon PR pieces dressed up this way.
Please furnish a comprehensive list of your uses of electricity. We'd like to go through it and see which of them are wasteful. We'll let you know which ones you won't be allowed to do anymore.
>there are people that have bought in that want others to buy in also so they can liquidate for a profit.

Is that any different than a ponzi/pyramid scheme?
> It is a fairy tale what it is said is absurd.

I find myself swayed in my convictions by your well constructed argument.
That was so lol I had to post it to our #random and probably should have to r/assholedesign
They adjust your salary up or down when you move to office in a different city. I don’t see how this is any different.
Meanwhile the bitcoin marketing mega machine is going into over drive. Full/Front page ads in newspapers, targeted campaigns on the most misguided, propping up talking heads and influencers, 24*7 sms bombardment in countries all over the world offering free coins, games and wallets to rope in more and more people who have clue about anything. Show growth. Get funds to buy more marketing, target the most ignorant, produce more growth, rinse and repeat. The whole process is like a death sprial that gets more effecient every year.

The marketing industry has turned into such a global exploitative scam with the tools that have today.
Berlin has all the benefits and little to none of the disadvantages of a place like London. Why does a place need to be diverse to be great? Does the absence of a heap of Mincéirs make a city worse?
Handy Git commands for beginners – revert commits, manage PR, reset branch, etc.
The thing is it doesn't matter whether there are a few miners or a lot. Bitcoin will continue to mine a block every 10 minutes. It's like an energy sink, you can drip in tiny amounts and get the same, or you can pour in all future fusion power plants, you get the same.

So actually it won't affect bitcoin, but it will release the energy to other uses.
As someone who has worked with doctors for much of my career I can assure you the quality of doctors varies just as much as other professions.

I remember having to personally call a doctor and ask them to stop prescribing a drug because it was pretty much malpractice to not use the newer approved drug from another company.
It converts images to text.

The input is a scanned PDF. The output is the same PDF with the recognized text on top, in a transparent font.

Copy and paste now works because when you click the PDF you are selecting the transparent text.
As someone living near one of europes largest uranium deposits, i can tell you that nuclear itself might be clean, but getting the fuel is anything but. Uranium dont come in nice nuggets like gold, its mixed up with other things so that its only fractions of grams per ton of rock you have to mine. When this rock is processed we are left with big holes in the ground that shifts the level of the waterbed, and big piles of toxic rock dust that leaks all kinds of nasty shit into said ground water.
It does well when you compare it to coal and gas. It's not 1980 though. We have cheap battery backed solar and wind now.

3x the cost (5-7x if you take out the batteries) with a small chance of catastrophe doesnt really add up any more unless the country is trying to maintain a nuclear industry for military purposes.
> > I don't know, git doesn't have very good memory when doing rebases.

> https://www.git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rerere

Thank you for this, looks like exactly what I need at the moment maintaining a dev branch alongside a bugfix deployed main branch and having to do lots of rebasing.
If it's all syscalls (i.e. no libraries messing with hidden state) and you don't mess with parent's memory, you might be able to do this all with clone(CLONE_VM|CLONE_VFORK) instead of fork(). This is what musl uses to implement posix_spawn().
if it works, don't try to fix it. for sure. the problem is with security updates which can trigger a massive dependency hell.
Good point, the Danish wind power is partly made viable due to interconnection with the swedish grid and its hydro power, which can generate on demand to even out the production. We sometimes see the spot price go negative when there is an excess of wind. In those cases the optimal routing of energy is essentially going through as much wire as possible, to incur transmission losses. I don't think the excess energy should be used for crypto though, it would be better to pump water back up into the reservoirs.
Good write up. I’d also add to that, that modern techniques are written to use the modern hardware.

It’s easy to forget that each upgrade to graphics is an exponential jump. Going from 8 colours to 256 colours on screen. Jumps in resolution. Jumps in sound, number of sprits the hardware can track. Etc.

When we look at graphics now and the tangible visible difference between 8k, 4K and HD and Moore’s Law no longer in effect it is easy to forget just how significant the jumps in tech was in the 80s and 90s if you hadn’t lived through it and/or developed code during it.
The older such a system is, the more there is a "don't trust anyone" mentality. Some decades in the past you did not just run alien code in your system.

Edit: without looking at it beforehand
Ok I made a mistake not all brands mix it with soya milk. Some generic supermarket brands do it in Germany
It is a very slippery slope, though, when a small group of people starts deciding what use of electricity is allowed.

Also, I think it is absolutely BS to claim that allowing bitcoin mining equals not "letting society transition to a more sustainable future".

If electricity production is constrained then this should be addressed generally on both demand and supply sides instead of essentially finding scapegoats.

(I don't like bitcoin, by the way, but it's not a reason to go over the top)
Who's "we"? Maybe you don't need it. Personally, I don't need golf courses, professional football or a new phone every year.