skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The basic idea of the economy is people can earn the right to energy, and then direct it to a goal of their choosing.

The government making a value judgement about what type of commercial activity is worthwhile is extremely risky. Countries with innovative financial and credit systems have historically steamrolled those that don't have such innovations. We still don't understand the nature of crypto.
Not super dense no, but denser than most places in the US. In fact, there are actually laws on how far it can sprawl.

I lived there for 14 years or so and never lived there more than walking distance from a grocery store. I think the farthest I lived from school or work was a 40 minute walk or 20 minute bike ride. I wasn't rich either. I worked through college at PSU.
I think the big bussiness opportunity is bankruptcy.

Lease some land, build a cheap warehouse, stock batteries for profit. Go bankrupt

Put batteries in a ship, dump them in international waters. Go bankrupt.

Sell them abroad as "refurbished" stock. Go bankrupt. This one actually works for expired batteries, you can buy them on ebay.
Damm, that puts it into perspective. A man can hope.
Note that you don't strictly need moc when coding Qt app. I use verdigris which is an equivalent of moc but entirely implemented as macros. The drawback is that since C++ does not yet have proper reflection, the macros are a bit uglier...
>>>Vegetables, clothing, and water and power are CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP to DIY.

DIY gardens/potable water/solar can easily create high-quality outputs, equivalent to the best available anywhere else. DIY clothing? Yeah, I don't think most DIYers can produce anti-microbial, moisture-wicking, flame-resistant, form-fitting-yet-maneuverable tactical shirts.

https://www.first-spear.com/the-asset-technical-field-shirt?...

>>>The biggest obstacle to attaining a better life for most people is breaking the construct of 'I'm going to be THE ONE' hyperstition that Capitalism engenders.

Is that capitalism, or just human nature? Every warlord/general EVER who overthrew a head of state in the past 4,000 years of recorded history just KNEW he deserved to be "The One". Unlike the commoners of the time, only a handful of people had the military power necessary to "make it big". Now, almost anyone can accumulate economic power to live like a king.
I must admit I'd have thought that in the present circumstances that getting that right would have rated very high in strategic importance.

Moreover, given the high density of shipping in that section of the world from the earliest days (and especially so its strategic importance during the Cold War), I would have imagined that those waterways would have been the best documented/most accurately charted of anywhere.

As it always does, eventually the real reasons will leak out.
Solar has the huge problem of not being available when it's needed. Early in the morning and late in the evening. Until that is solved with some form of storage it can't solve the problem of greenhouse emissions.
wow really? I'm currently in Richmond and i've finding the housing issue here so out of hand that it's depressing... Even with FAANG salary my friends are finding it tough to afford a decently sized home :l
I think externalities should be priced into the cost of resources (e.g. with a Pigouvian tax), but otherwise I entirely agree.

Edit: I suppose, if you want to subsidize all uses of electricity except for cryptocurrency (and a few other areas of your choice), you could simplify this process by only applying the externality tax to miners (etc). But this should be limited to the externality, not arbitrarily high.
Anyone using patch SCMs like pijul?
I was going to say, raw statistics like this are hiding a lot. There is a big difference between working because you love it, because you don’t know what else to do, or because you must do it or face starvation. Why is very important here.
Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
And if you’re implementing a git ui, it’s a great place to steal ideas from too!
That's funny they mentioned replayable financial message queues. Those are a hit here
I'm very happy for countries like France to have nuclear power but a little scared of less stable countries. While nuclear weapons require enrichment, dirty bombs or unmaintained power reactors are terrifying.
But in this case the negative externalities do not come from the mining but from the energy generation. So that is the level where the externalities should be priced in.
As thieves steal cars and trucks and boats and things, I’m guessing car batteries or stealing vehicles for their batteries would be a thing.. except for DRM.

I think it’s highly likely that batteries will be like printer cartridges and a battery taken from one car won’t just work in another etc.
Yesterday, a package (redis-server) for Debian Stretch in non-backports repository was updated, and now relies on a package not present for Stretch (libjemalloc2).

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/redis-server

So much about not breaking things.
"What you call a 'tyranny of the minority' is in fact an equal representation of classes..."

Arbitrary geographical lines don't define classes. Every state has both rural and urban segments. Is the "rural proletariat" of California better represented than the "urban bourgeoise" of Rhode Island in this system? It's an 18th century compromise where the justifications where invented after the fact. This seems to be true for a lot of things about the founding of the United States. Lots of mythology around the motives of the founding fathers and their supposedly great designs that don't really hold up to any scrutiny.
In fairness, we're only hearing one side of the argument here. It's easy enough for anyone to say they're hard-working diligent team players, but we don't know if they're getting the work done! Don't get me wrong, Google are notoriously nasty when you get on the wrong side of management, but to start claiming discrimination is a bit fresh.
Thankfully, crypto mining is adversarial so even if it is cornered into remote islands powered by the sun or nuclear powered siberian mines , it will still work.

I understand that "Climate crisis" is becoming the new "Children and Terrorists" wrapping for the next decades' wave of state oppression, but overall this ban may not be a bad idea for sweden and most of the developed world. Westerners being monetarily dependent on poor and otherwise forgotten countries will be a breath of fresh air.
Glad to hear it :) Re-reading your comment again I think you’re right that we really were just saying the same thing in different ways, I just got tripped up on your “volatile should be fine” language and misread the rest of your comment. Sorry about that, it was a valuable insight!
One role of government is to curtail negative externalities. If it's possible for a few people to profit by causing general harm through accelerating climate change, that would be well within the government's mandate to regulate against this.

It's possible that cryptocurrency will be the future of finance. It's also entirely possible that crypto - which is incredibly expensive energy-wise per transaction - is actually a waste of energy and is a net drain on economies which embrace it. It might be a competitive advantage to ban mining.

I guess Sweden will be a part of that experiment and we will see what happens.
Well I "learned programming" in 1992 in the age of 12 with nothing else than a Microsoft Visual Basic book that came with my uncle's PC. So I think you are more than capable to learn any programming language in grad school.

About python: It's feasible to learn it in a month with some effort, every time on the toilet. That's how did it with this course https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/python-fundamentals/978...

For both of these examples I'd say the definition of "learn a language" and "learn programming" is important. For me it means learning to the point where you have a good overview about ideomatics and ecosystem and enough understanding to get done what you professionally oneedr as a hobbyist needs with the help of available documentation.

For example I work with C++ for at least a decade, but I always feel there is something new to learn or make better. Also there are endless framework specializations like Qt or similar that you could invest time on.

To sum up. Define your goal and then start learning. But I recommend not setting a goal like "know everything about the standard lib, humpy and pandas" - because everything is not required. Just enough to dig deeper while doing projects, the rest will come by itself (but never everything).

About your question weather it's worth, I would say yes. You will even become a better R programmer by looking beyond the edge of the plate, even if you will never use it. But I bet you will like it very much and start scalping Twitter for statistical research on a weekend 3 weeks from now with python.
Ah yes, the "it's useless unless it's perfect" argument.

Nuclear has the huge problem of not being available for another decade (because that's how long it takes to build plants). Until that is solved with some form of pocket reactor it can't solve the problem of greenhouse emissions.
>> Most Americans don't have the option to vote for AOC or Joe Manchin (nor for their ideological equivalents). Neither for congress, nor for the President.

But Americans do usually have a wide variety of choices in the primaries. It's the primaries where the actual policy ideological positions are fought out. There would be no AOC - or MTG, for that matter - but for some highly motivated sets of voters with various axes to grind. However, most Americans prefer political gridlock to any well-tuned agenda. The reason AOC and MTG are outliers is because most nominees are forced to run toward the center in general elections, and govern toward the center if they win. Yeah, this is why they mostly end up endorsing corporate handouts, and we can all decry it, but it's arguably a lot better than letting the more extreme left or right-wing agendas come in and flip the table.

Considering other presidential systems, look how close France was recently, to Marine Le Pen and genuine fascism. Or how quickly Venezuela turned into a one-party state under Chavez. Consider how close we were to Trump replacing the elected government.

The status quo in which corporations call the shots and banks rob everyone has been de rigeuer in America since the 18th C. This is an unfortunate but ultimately comprehensible state of Hobbesian chaos. The weakness of narrow-agenda political parties is the strength of that economic engine, and we are all - all of us with cars, houses, tech jobs, and money to blow on vacations and dinners - beneficiaries of a system that moves very, very incrementally and doesn't try to steer a tanker like a speedboat.
Indeed. I wonder how many, who in those states support monarchy, do this because the Queen is a well known entity. People know her as the head of state, mostly keeping herself out of politics. Abolishing monarchy formally would mean that you risk to get a president, who might be a disappointment. Something similar could be observed in Germany: Angela Merkel kept winning elections, because there were enough people who wanted her to keep her office, even if they otherwise might not have voted for her party. This explains - at least to a part - the huge shift in the political landscape when she announced that she wouldn't run in this years election. This was amplified though by her party not being able to find a strong successor and tied up in internal struggles.

I am sure, with the death of the Queen, a lot of states might reconsider formally being a monarchy, depending how her succession turns out. Even in the UK itself, monarchy is discussed and there were times in recent history, where the royal family hat little public support.
"The government making a value judgement about what type of commercial activity is worthwhile is extremely risky" Bullshit. That's what government is for. It already forbids commercial activities as robbery, stealing, fraud etc. If they put crypto into the same basket I wouldn't cry much.
Each developer may choose to minimize the software dependency attack surface to a different degree.

Perhaps they would trust a package published by Google without a review. But would require a review before using a package from an indie developer.

Incremental decreses in the attck surface are valuable.
"Historically" the financial innovation that benefitted society was the joint stock company and similar systems of credit that essentially permitted risk pooling on wide scales.

As far as I can tell, bit coins ain't that.
How do we not understand the nature of it?
It is a mathematically interesting problem, but the nature of Bitcoin et.al. just makes it useful for speculation and scamming people who think it would become a digital currency.

I have yet to meet someone who bought something real with crypto.
Pwn2Own 2021: 60 New Zero-Day Bugs Found in Routers, NAS and Printers
2nd this^^
Though i'm 100% more a KL person , but bias since i grew up there lol. I feel Malaysia is so so so underrated. It's almost perfect in the sense that it's a foreign country u can get away with with just english, everything's cheap. There's luxury if you want it, malls up the wazoo. Only con would be the price of cars and alcohol i guess but heyy Proton's getting pretty good
Things like why you want to change positions, what motivates you, what tech do you like and why.
I followed Ben's guide to make a little ATTiny 2 colour VGA output of a clock counting down. https://github.com/duncanspumpkin/ATTiny-B-W-VGA

It was quite a challenge building it into such a tiny controller. Was doing it for a University project where we wanted to have the clock started from an external source so needed to keep one I/O free for that input. It ended up with every I/O pin of the 8 pin micro having a use.
The thread seems to be saying banks get along with each other. It doesn't seem to me to be saying banks get along with their customers.
It may be better to tax activities considered harmful for society, and subsidize those considered beneficial.

For example, Microsoft, Facebook and Google data centers are deemed appropriate use of renewable energy in Sweden and are thus subsidized.

However, will there be sufficient renewable energy available for Swedish citizens in the long run, with continued data center build outs?
Ok, that makes sense.

> I’m not quite sure I understand your comment though - it implies that you consider linear history to be a strange and/or non-default thing to do.

Sometimes you get a branch, I get them even on personal projects if I forget to push and work on a different computer.

I've heard people say that, when they do get a branch, they will rebase to make the history linear instead of having a merge. I don't think that is default.
In the current environment, you can't separate energy usage from energy generation in terms of externalities. Electrical power is something like a fungible asset, so even if you are using 100% green power (which doesn't really exist), you're still increasing demand for electricity overall, which will result in more carbon-intensive power generation in general.

In other words, decreasing power consumption is as important if not more important than increasing clean energy as a share of production.
No capitalist country lets you buy whatever you want for no reason. You aren't allowed to hoard all the food for example, all basic utilities are regulated. So when the global crypto scam starts to hurt unrelated people by raising energy prices those people will start to complain and create regulations like this to protect themselves. I used the word "scam" since that is how most people see the crypto industry, from their perspective this is a scam that drives up energy prices, there is no point in keeping it legal.
I think there is confusion about the term "rendering" here.

The term "rendering" is used

(a) to describe the actual translation of textual-instructive HTML/CSS/Javascript into a graphical representation within a browser window and

(b) to describe stuff being loaded into a page via Javascript, most prominently ads, and more oriented towards load time ("How long until the page has finished loading" = "rendering time").

With CSS, you can define pixel-perfect areas for stuff to be rendered into, which makes the browser not having to decide on the size of the area after it has loaded further material from third-party sources. Doing so reduces "screen flickering", which is generally annoying (and the major reason why I block ads with a vengeance). This can be described as "pre-rendering" when you understand rendering as (a).
This... sounds better than most companies.
"Breaking" is undefinable. I remember reading about some user complaining that a small bugfix broke their work setup because it fixed a bug that used to make the CPU go 100% when the spacebar was held. The user would hold it with a weight and get the CPU to make heat that way. The small fix broke his experience.

There are many other examples of this. Breaking compatibility by fixing bugs people rely on for instance.

Any change can break something for a user downstream. It's a very subjective evaluation for the producer to imagine potential impact to their consumers. It's easier if the relationship is rich and exclusive. In open-source where people do it on their free time and have thousands of consumers with widely different interests, it's pretty much impossible to label the release in a way that's conveying the right message to every user.

Semver, the way i see it, is just a way for the producer to subjectively label the amplitude of changes. The consumer should then ideally be familiar with the producer and get a sense of how they work and what they perceive as big. Still at the end of the day it's a very subjective judgment call system that doesn't offer real guarantees to consumers. If your software needs to be stable, don't upgrade, or spend time to review the changes in the dependencies. The version numbers are no guaranty.
Do your Java geezers work with Maven? Give me NPM (well, yarn, or pnpm) any day of the week.
I think I remember discussing this briefly in #rust with you. It's clearly not the case that "everyone understands" how these package managers actually work, but I'd rather see the reality become more obvious than give up and shackle these package ecosystems to Microsoft even harder than they already are.
2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29107832
Well, that first of all depends on whetehr the budget cut is a good thing for the US and the world. From what I understand, this package is about fighting the climate change and investing into infrastructure and economy. Yes, government spending always bears the risk of taxes, but the idea behind government spending is to get neccessary things done. As an outsider, it is not obvious to me, that this resistance was a good thing. Neither for the US nor the world, as we are facing an existential crisis.

Also, as the sums are spent over many years, the numbers appear higher than they might be. Like people calculating how much money it costs to replace every single car in a country with an electric car. That numer is eye-watering too. What often isn't told, is that this amount of money is spent on new cars in the same time frame anyway. Choosing an electric instead of a combustion engine car the next time you buy a new car has actually little extra cost.

And you should sum up just the military budget in the same time frame :)
That's exactly the parent's complaint: Git's tooling and user interface is (unnecessary) complex.
I heard good things about Oklahoma City
I see this as very relevant:

>In Oklahoma City, the batteries in the SNT warehouse mostly came from cars that are still under warranty, which means the automakers are responsible for them. Tyler Helps, the company’s head of business development, says automakers are paying SNT to keep their old batteries because they don’t know what the used battery market is going to look like and whether the materials inside the battery might be more valuable in the future. “So instead of the automakers saying, ‘I'm going to go and dispose of those materials,’ they say, ‘I’m just going to hold onto it,’” he says.

I am not convinced of the analysis, it is more likely that the car makers know that the cost of disposing properly (and in large volumes) such batteries today would be astronomical (let's say - only for the sake of reasoning - US$ 2,000 per car) and prefer to pay (say) US$ 50/year to SNT and postpone the problem by - still say - 10 or 20 years (and most probably they already charged you, inside the price of your new electric vehicle, some US$ 3,000, to stay on the safe side)

In a nutshell, you don't want right now to actually own an electric car past its warranty, you'd be better served by long renting or similar, as there is a concrete risk that if/when your batteries die, there won't be (yet) an effective way to get rid of them cleanly and you may have to pay a non-trivial amount of money for disposing of the battery.

Additionally, it seems to me like this opens a (large) can of worms when it comes to used vehicles.

Will there be specialized technicians/organizations that will give you some form of warranty on the batteries?
Thanks!
It'd be great if someone could go on about this for Mumbai as well.
I would have loved to live in ancient Maya or Aztec times. Playing ōllamalitzli with the boys, cracking open some cocoa, in the evening watch a proper offering to the sun god. Maybe a bit more violent and shorter than modern life but definitely more exciting.
At least in the EU, car manufacturers have to take back old cars at no costs already.
Extra specifically: Proof of Work cryptocurrency mining.

> Our conclusion is that policy measures are required to address the harms caused by the proof of work mining method. It is important that both Sweden and the EU can use our renewable energy where it provides the greatest benefit for society as a whole.
Any reason why you say hundreds of billions? My impression is lower but fusion research funding has been going on longer than I've been alive.

I take this with a big grain of salt too but 2.2 billion lined up is an awful lot of funding. To your point, if they are legit, I'm sure they are building off of prior fusion research and progress.
I appreciate the contrarian point of view, and I don't want to pick on the author, but this sounds like words of wisdom from someone who doesn't have much real world experience.

I worked in such a project who never upgraded once. And then Specter/Meltdown hit, and we had the mandate to patch all our systems (and the threat was very real). Welcome to a hellish mess of outdated deps that took weeks to sort out.

But is not only me. I watched a talk from a Principal Engineer from Amazon builder tools, and one of their biggest mistakes was not to upgrade often enough, which made each upgrade more painful.

So what do we do now working in multiple, large, multi-year projects?

First, we set tools that tell us when deps are outdated, and alarm when vulnerabilities are found.

Second, upgrading deps is part of the regular dev process. When you make a change, take the chance to upgrade the deps. Vulnerabilities are addressed proactively. The vast majority of times upgrades require no code changes.

Third, we regularly upgrade deps of inactive packages.

Lastly, if a dependency upgrade requires significant work, we create a ticket for it and address it as a new feature. In practice this happens very rarely, so it doesn't disrupt the development process much.

As other's said, the key is to upgrade often, and then it wont be as painful.
Didn't even consider it to be crypto, but traditional mining. Where there probably are some inefficient techniques and processes.