skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about an international treaty instituting a carbon tax, if C02 is what you actually want to minimize. Sounds like that's not the goal based on your comment though.
While I agree with many of the points I think it's hard to generalize like channel = bad. It does make sense to have topic based channels for more specialized topics and some for more generalized socialising. It is a fine line though and better less channels than too many.
The elites are working hard on impoverishing the average citizen as much as possible, and a very reliable way is to increase the price of power and food in the name of "ecology".
I thought we weren't allowed to call plant based "milk", milk anymore? Its a soy beverage.
> G. In the event that the Buyer fails to send the compensation as described in this Section (III) within 48 hours of receipt of the contract signed by the Seller, the contract will be considered null and void and the ownership of the Soul shall revert to the Seller.
Stop the crap.
Nuclear is neither clean (long term waste problem) nor a solution (building nuclear plants will take too long)
And even less does it make sense to waste resources on mining hardware as well as mining farms that produce heat just as a by product.
"Heating their homes" is as likely as Santa being real
once I switched there’s no way I’m ever going back to cow’s milk.
Why?
Health, much greater taste variety, no cruelty involved to make it, environmental benefits.
Sure, let them go ahead. Then see what happens when they start having blackouts (or other problems).
You seem to think this was a bad outcome? The ability of a business to steer customers away from a credit card that charges the business high fees?
Then let’s ban this waste of electricity everywhere. I’m all for the idea of crypto currency, but I’m not in support or baking the planet just so a few people can get some virtual goods.
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>If you want to tax carbon, tax it regardless what it is used for.

And this will happen, we will pay carbon tax for meat, electricity and electronics. I would like to get a tax discount for planting trees too, but we know that's now how governments work.
Is this a distinction without a difference? If the climate impact of mining were truly priced in, is there any chance this activity would be remotely profitable?
The best tasting plant based milk I've had and consume regularly is Plenish Oat Milk (UK).

It's particularly creamy without having any oil additives, not great for frothing in coffee though.
whoops! thanks for letting me know about the bug, I'll get it fixed this weekend :)
That waste is much easier to dispose that the waste created by "renewables" like solar panels, especially with newer generation plants that burn old nuclear waste.
I think that in a proper API, we could have:

int process_handle = spawn("/bin/true", SP_PAUSED); // create process but don't execute, and return a handle
// most API would take a process handle, thus you could do stuff (such as prctl) on the new process
unpause(process_handle);

There's a bit of a move in this direction in the Linux API with the PIDFD stuff.
I really appreciate people like you reminding most everyone that new != better. I live in Japan which people usually mock for still using fax machines, or keeping "the old ways" in many aspect of society.

There are important positive things that people don't realize are lost as we "modernize" society.

For example, these days the TV spies on my usage and sends that data back to the maker company; they will then sell it to advertisers. Every update is aggressively pushed to me, and after i accept it, i notice more ads (rebranded "you may enjoy" or "now trending") on the home screen.

Another example would be how awesome paper is. It displays information without requiring an energy source. It can be folded and unfolded. May not impress you until your phone battery dies on a trip or at the airport/stadium where you need to present your e-ticket
There are plenty of ways to inject violence and excitement into modern life if that’s what you’re missing!
At least in theory the government should benefit from economies of scale and do a much better job at planting trees than you ever could.
I think it's fair to call it milk. It's definitely not a beverage as a soda or beer would be.

It used to be "secretion from the mammary glands of certain farm animals" but you can rephrase it to
"liquid that is taken from a particular protein source — a coconut, a soy[bean], a cow, a goat..."
High mining cost is what provides network security.

I doubt there will be popular support for military interventions against Bitcoin. But if a "War against Bitcoin" were to happen, it would probably be as successful as the "War on Drugs" and "War on Terror"
The new React documentation page[0] is still in beta but worth checking out, since the current documentation's code examples still use class/component-based code, which is not so common since React Hooks were introduced.

[0]https://beta.reactjs.org/learn
> Yes. Also, a lot of companies operate under the principle of, "It's better to turn away ten good engineers than hire one bad one."

I wonder how successful they are at this. There is no way to have a 100% hiring success rate, and the benefits from hiring ten good engineers should strongly outweigh the impact of hiring one bad one.
Same argument as against network neutrality.

The provenance (or "color") of energy use, the "social benefit" of it, somehow becomes criteria for discrimination of utilities and human rights.
How you define waste of electricity? You writing that comment might as well be declared a waste and prohibited.
This setup is straight out of manufacturing consent.
Widevine is completely broken. The Nvidia Tegra Boot ROM flaw exposed the Widevine private keys of all Tegra-based devices. Google can't revoke those en masse without breaking Netflix et al on a ton of tablets and other devices. And those keys are for the highest level, since it's supposed to be handled in TrustZone. It's been game over for Widevine since 2018.
My ideal city would be where I’d want to live; unless question was also about fictional, made up places.

For example I had job offers from Amsterdam and London and they have much better <a lot if things> but I didn’t want to live there. So they aren’t my ideal cities.
Have you substituted butter out too?

For cooking in most things the taste is generally better (unless you're trying to make a buttery croissant) and there's no impact on quality.

I do find it hard to substitute out eggs though.
yeah that's been debunked AFAIK. The "soy boy" meme is still funny to me though.
This is an important fact. A lot of people think crypto currency==bitcoin. It would be a lot easier to have meaningful discussions on the impact on society if more effort was spent on helping people understand the different types. Maybe Bitcoin will fade away eventually and some other type of currency will be the monetary lingua franca?
Thanks for the details. In our case it is easier.

You have the gross that is the usual negotiating point because the number sounds larger.

Then there are compulsory deductions (national, the amount decided by the law). They cover health insurance, disability, retirement, ... The amount deducted from your salary is also (for the most part) paid by the employer (same amount).

To this may be added extra money, again regulated by the law which is a percentage of your "gross before taxes" (above) - this is dependent on the size of the company, inflation, etc. (intéressement et participation)

We are now at "gross before income taxes". These taxes change between people (married, children, some specific renovations in your house, ...) but for the vast, vast majority of people (probably 95%) they are pre-calculated and you go to the national tax site, click next a few times and you are done (literally 3 minutes). The taxes themselves are deducted by your employer.

So what you get in your bank account is really a net amount you can spend. It is substantially smaller than the gross (about 50% I guess) and it would make much more sense to negotiate on that one because thi sis what you can actually spend.
Countries also ban ponzi schemes and nobody raises an eyebrow.
Wrong analogy. ISPs also complain if we use too much data.

Steel Corp and Google have no right to snoop and sell what they find, but Google found a way.
What evidence do you have that the politicians elected would be any different under a different system?

I mean, San Francisco uses ranked choice and they ended up through a fluke with some District Attorney who everyone hates.

You may just want to consider that although you may not like the outcome, many voters do?
I agree with the article. Oat milk is my favourite for a few reasons. To start with, it doesn’t have a weird after taste. It’s not quite milk flavour but it’s very good in its own right. Really great in coffee and warm drinks in general. I assume it would be great with cereal too on account of it being.. oats, though I haven’t tried. I bought some Oat Nog recently which was surprisingly good.

Overall the taste and creaminess feel very authentically milky, would recommend.

I understand it’s also one of the most environmentally friendly alternatives across all categories, so that’s a big bonus too. And I bet it’s pretty easy to make yourself if you’re keen.
Increased exports will probably continue and accelerate if nothing is stopping new transmission capacity from being built, the hydro is such a good pairing for wind in continental europe.
Then, how is it? Mining bitcoins does not use a lot of electricity.
Yes it is. In Europa we use 3d secure some kind of 2fa for credit card payments (online at least, in RL most still use their maestro kind cards) and fraud is more or less a non issue.

Accepting credit card as merchant for years now I only had 2 fraud issues, both using American credit cards.
Yeah exactly. Another example would be the impact on GPU prices: mining almost certainly plays a role in making GPUs less accessible, which raises the cost of ML for example. There's probably innovations which would affect the world in a positive way which we don't have right now because of the barrier to entry to ML research created by high GPU prices.
Being offered to the sun god - Achievement Unlocked!
I believe it's dose dependent. I've substituted soy milk fortified with calcium for full cream milk in cereal and protein shakes and I love it. My only remaining milk consumption is a small milky coffee most days. Anecdotally I did ask the doctor to include testosterone on my last general blood test and it came back healthy. My belief is that plastics are a bigger disruptor of hormones.
Nuclear waste is much safer than all other waste from energy production:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/06/19...
I remember EULALing my privacy away because Chrome was fast and freaking awesome. Now I have to block AMP links. I was once naive, now I'm more willing to deal with firefox
Well it’s not as cold as it used to be for some reason ...
I think it makes sense and aligns with the article's point. Unless we are at a point where clean energy is ubiquitous (there is no other kind), using power for mining or other power intensive processes which do not help us achieve our climate goals should be off-limits.
Manufacturers have caught on and prices have equalized as a result. It used to be the same drive for half the price, now days it is rare to find good deals.
> Really great in coffee and warm drinks in general.

That’s not my experience. It curdles with strong espresso and the barista versions are fatty and/or mixed with soya milk.
You should consider a mental framework of lean objectivity in the processes you code: what is to be done step by step operating with the real thing: memory. You want to turn that pixel on, so you should set that memory address to that value; structures become sequences of mentally labelled memory cells; your tools are the basic, sort of elementary: copy data, store somewhere the results of arithmetic and logic operations, branch conditionally etc. You reason in practical terms close to the actual low-level reality instead that through abstractions.

I think it helps develop a very good mindset, lean and faithful to base facts.
The only downside are services like Google AdWords or Etsy who don't accept debit cards as credit cards at all.
Well coconut milk has been coconut milk forever basically, I don’t see why it shouldn’t be allowed to call the liquid produces of plants milk anymore only because the threatened dairy industry suddenly decides. And I think some countries agree here.
I’m fine with nuclear, but producing excess nuclear waste simply to produce random bits to do absolutely nothing isn’t something I’d support.
Nothing has changed about the actual output of hydro power since the 80s. It wasn't growing to begin with, so it's definitely not a cause of very recent price increases.
Allowed?
Honestly do we really need cryptocurrency? I don’t want my transactions public. I like exchanging cash for weed (legal in California) and nobody needs to know regardless. I also don’t understand what’s wrong with USD. I grew up in a third world country so maybe it could help people there but in USA? I’m happy with the dollar fluctuations vs four digit fluctuations daily.

Can someone give me a good explain?
People decide that democratically. This is just like how California bans all showerheads that gives you more than a trickle of water, since they see good showers as a waste of water (All of USA has a similar ban but less restrictive). Just that in Sweden they ban wasteful businesses rather than "wasteful" quality of life improvements.
Only in Europe
Ya in Europe it’s not “allowed” commercially to call anything which is not an animal milk a milk.

https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/european-court-rul...
Energy consumption is not an environmental problem (whatever you use said energy for, be it Bitcoin mining, heating your home or powering your massage chair), and all policies that try to limit energy consumption are basically building on quicksand and doomed to fail: the world has and will continue to consume increasing amounts of energy by capita.

And anyone who's being an activist towards reducing energy consumption is completely deluded: energy consumption is strongly correlated with technical progress and civilization progress. Good luck putting an end to that short of reverting to the stone age.

Energy production is what needs to be fixed, specifically energy production that results in environmental damage, e.g.fossil fuel.

For reference, this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OpM_zKGE4o claims that a million square km of the Sahara desert receives enough energy from the sun to power the entire human civilization needs in 2020. Solve the technical problems associated with solar energy production and you'll solve global warming.

Infinite clean solar energy lets you filter CO2 out of the atmosphere back into carbon using technology, something plants have been doing to aeons.
Related:

https://elifesciences.org/articles/64047
I did some research into this recently and it seems there is no definite link in humans. Also, a lot of common foods have phytoestrogen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoestrogen#Food_sources).
Interesting. I haven’t noticed a problem with curdling myself. Admittedly I’m buying my coffee from a coffee shop so I’m not sure if I’m getting 100% oat milk. But soy messes with my throat so I think I’d have noticed that.
This shitty comment uses a kilojoule max. A single BTC transaction uses 1880 kWh.

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
Like any other waste, when it does more bad than good.
I think it was about which city and country one would want to live in, given the opportunity of always remote. And for me that’s India and in India that’s Bangalore.

All these points you’ve gone on about - compared to where?

Dating scene worse than Chennai? Ahmedabad?

AQI worse than Delhi?

Water and sanitation worse than Kolkata?

I mean I didn’t get your rebuttal like response :)
Merchant here, not only are credit cards the least used option in my shop, but next to PayPal also the most expensive for me as merchant. This is Switzerland tho mind you and most people have what you'd call debit cards.

It's really only a matter of time until I remove credit cards completely in favour of non-US, local, low fee, secure, banking alternatives which already make up the far majority of transactions.
I'm not fond of cryptocurrency, but there are both traceable and untraceable ones.
You could buy weed with untraceable crypto.
A bitcoin cult documentary.

It is a fairy tale what it is said is absurd.
I completely understand what you are saying - and this is one of the points I like in HN that much. Your policing is the reason for that.

What I meant to say is that it is a figure of style to respond in a mirrored fashion (I think this is called chaismus or antithesis in English) to show that the argument works both sides.

But yes, you are right and, again, point taken. Thank you for the policing.
No I would support a real carbon tax. I would also support regulating specific activities with perverse incentive structures, like cryptocurrency mining.

You don't have a real argument do you if you are are resorting to name calling and ad-hominem attacks?
There are some horrendous practices prevalent in the dairy industry for sure, but it’s naive to think there is no cruelty or environmental detriment involved in plant based milk.

The natural ecosystem of the land that is now crop was obliterated before the first seed was sewn, and most likely the soil’s nutrients are depleted more and more each year, due to pesticides and crude plowing techniques.

If a moral high ground is what you’re looking for, drink water.
Could this be solved by having a process level attribute that forces for all allocations what mlock(2) does? Does mlock(2) even do this?
It is a bad outcome. The high amex fees put up the price of coffee for all customers. Amex are making money from customers they don't even service. It's a scam and the business owner should encourage the customer to pay cash if possible.
This is kind of a false equivalence [0], the carbon footprint of the getaway cars would be much smaller.

Generally problems are only handled* when they come up. In this case the carbon footprint of crypto is already a problem, so therefore it is now being handled. Getaway car carbon footprint on the other hand is not a problem as of now, so therefore this is not a correct parallel to draw.

* you could argue that we should have foresight, but unfortunately this is very hard to pull of. Most policy making is thus reactive, not proactive.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence
> I don’t want my transactions public.

First, not all cryptos share Bitcoin's open ledger characteristics.

Look up Monero, ZCash, Grin, Beam : they all implement untraceable transactions, not just pseudo-anonymous ones like Bitcoin.

Second, pseudonymous transactions is far from being the only interesting property of Bitcoin. Among others, no centralized control is a key aspect.
I agree with you, but how exactly do you check for that? Put a telescreen in every home?
The explanation is simply that there are people that have bought in that want others to buy in also so they can liquidate for a profit. Meanwhile, others are susceptible to what amounts to FOMO-driven investment. The same sentiment that drove the beanie-baby craze, the dot-com boom, the subprime mortgage crisis, the current metaverse craze, and so on. Nothing new under the sun.
Yes, Go, the Google language. Very surprising that it became mainstream.

In the case of Python: it's imperative and somewhat object oriented and mostly without advanced features which makes it attractive for university courses, for example. Also sometimes languages just become popular, perhaps due to a certain library or sheer luck. That doesn't make it false for languages like Haskell.
The problem is where I live soy is not grown and it’s imported has a huge carbon footprint and it’s usually grown in monoculture which is bad for the environment
I enjoy oat milk but wonder about the production process and how healthy it is long-term. For example the one I drink contains canola oil.
Why stop there though? Why don't we ban everything that uses energy and is unnecessary for achieving our climate goals?

Video games? Banned. Alcohol? Banned. Driving? Banned. Exercise? Banned - it increases your daily caloric needs. Food? Why would you need food? Eat your government rations.

Why should we prefer some activities over others by government decree? Have we not learned from the past?

Oh, you're growing the wrong kind of plant? To jail! Oh, you're doing the wrong kinds of calculations? To jail!
There really isn't (on HN, at least) such a thing as 'very fairly criticizing [anyone's] lack of reading comprehension' in those exact terms, it's just a slightly wordier version of 'did you read the article/comment/etc'.
There's a barista version for some brands and it comes with a small amount of rapeseed oil added in which helps with the blending process.

Normal oat milk curdles otherwise.
Crypto mining through PoW is already on the way out anyway, so no need to ban it. The market will shift to PoS once Bitcoin loses the top spot.
Complete transaction anonymity is not a feature. There are no protections against wash trading, and you have no way to gauge true market demand or pricing from transaction volume data alone.
Crypto doesn't try to replace cash. It tries to replace digital payments (i.e. bank transfer, paypal, credit card etc) and I'm totally fine with that. Some people like paypal, visa and mastercard, some people don't.
Some suggestions. Go check out PICO-8. All games take 32k or less (discounting the system runtime)

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

Also JS13k

https://js13kgames.com/

I know that's not the same but the concepts are similar. The core of most of those games is only a few k, everything else is graphics and/or interfacing with modern OSes.

Older systems had much lower resolutions, they also used languages that were arguably harder to use. In the 80s it was BASIC (no functions, only global variables and "GOSUB"). Variable names generally were 1 or 2 letters making them harder to read. Or they used assembly.

90s (or late 80s) C started doing more but still, most games ran in 320x240, sprites were small, many games used tiles, many hardware only supported tiles and sprites (NES, Sega Master System, SNES, Genesis). It wasn't really until 3DO/PS1 that consoles had non-tiled graphics. PC and Amiga always did had bitmapped graphics but Atari 800, C64, the majority of games used the hardware tiled modes.
I never wrote that hydro has decreases, obviously the idea was that renewables would replace nuclear but it has only done so on average, not when needed the most. Renewables including hydro would have succeeded.
I am 100% sure coffee shops use barista version which are fatty and mixed with soya milk.
Reminds me of the website of the late 90's early 00's.. was it wewantyoursoul.com or something like that?
Have you tried oat milk? The Oatly full fat version is very rich, almost too rich for my taste, but it works well as a creamer substitute.
I don't think that's conflation, really. When I say "[programming language] dev" I always mean the people that program using that language, not the people that make the language.
Which is externalizing the cost to the rest of society as there is either no or a too small carbon tax while the estimated cost on society varies between 700 Euros [0] and 100.000$ [1]

[0] https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/umwelt-wirtschaft/gesel...

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-020-02785-4
Actually had this package installed somewhere...

"version": "1.2.8",

Pfew, really lucky. Going to nuke npm now.
Grid scale batteries have become cost effective in the last two years.

It'll take time to build out capacity but it'll take more time AND cost to build new nuclear plants.