skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A single transaction requires an average of 1,173 kWh, enough to power a typical UK home for more than three months

This is somewhat misleading, as the vast majority of that energy expense
is competing for newly minted coins, i.e. the block subsidy. It will take a few more decades for transaction fees to overtake the exponentially decreasing block subsidy and become the dominant part of the block reward. At that point it becomes more accurate to attribute Bitcoin's energy costs to the processing of transactions.

Also note that if Bitcoin were actually used as a currency (like in early Silk Road days) rather than a speculation vehicle as it mostly is now, then its price would remain orders of magnitude lower, and few people would be complaining about its energy costs.
All the people replying to this minimizing the concerns of the original comment need to go back and reread it. The point that really raised their hackles was the electrical issue, not insulation or overlapping rooflines.

Electricity can instantly kill you or start a fire, which could kill you and your neighbors. Look at what just happened in Boulder. Fire is dangerous, especially when combined with high winds. I personally saw that play out twice while living in Boston, one of which was determined to have been caused by sparks from unpermitted welding, the other by improper disposal of smoldering construction debris. Both small starts whipped up by winds, both times multiple people died.

The phrase I’ve heard is “regulations are written in blood.”
> Well we’re not designed.

At least, that’s currently the prevailing theory among scientists.
This! Had a printer bug and all results where like top 3 ways to share a printer
Yeah I saw that sort of thing frequently on smaller websites back then as well.
You can rent a M1 at Hetzner or Scaleway. Even AWS if you want to help Jeff Bezos to pay his bills.
I’m a subscriber to consumer reports, but as it put Tesla Model 3, the most successful car in the past few years on the back as the least reliable, I feel that I can’t trust its results to be 100% independent reviews. I don’t have a Tesla, but if something grows so fast where people pay a significant amount for it, it can’t be that bad.
There are many things that are wasteful and yet not illegal.

Flying to Hawaii for vacation.
Recreational powerboats.
Keeping your thermostat at 72F in the winter and 68F in the summer.
Buying a house larger than 3,000 square feet.
Commuting to work in an SUV.
Having more than 3 children.

In general, we only make things illegal if they are harmful to others. Mere consumption of electricity is not harmful to others, except indirectly in the same way that the aforementioned activities are. Would you propose banning them too? If not, where do you draw the line, and who gets to interpret your prescription?
> Combine all those settings with google maps and it easy for me to see how you could get complacent driving a new car and make mistakes.

This along with the fact that in my 2020 Toyota Corolla those features can more than likely get you into an accident is the reason I have them turned off. I don't actually feel safe with them on after experiencing their performance. Also notice a stutter in acceleration due to fuel injection timing and response from the gas pedal that concerns me.
Best Articles I read in 2021
>- Fentanyl deaths were trending up before 2020.

They were trending up but there was a very sharp increase once the epidemic started.

>- The degree to which fentanyl is lacing other street drugs is unprecedented and seemingly independent of lockdown.

There was precedent before 2019. Seemingly independent growth that's also parabolic during 2020? Unlikely

>- Look, we don't really have "lockdown" anymore.

The genie is out of the bottle once people relapse. Maybe you don't realize how dependent recovering addicts are on rehab programs and social connections to stay clean. For some people giving them a steady unemployment income and forcing them to isolate is basically a death sentence. This was a predicted outcome during the start of the isolation.
Rtings is my go-to for most things. Been satisfied with several purchases researched there.
AirPods Pro 2 may come with lossless audio support, case that makes sound
I haven't seen anyone mention the main reason I end up using signed: to allow for an "out-of-bounds" value to indicate "value not set". As long as the N-1 bit version of the integer is large enough, not having to use an additional variable to indicate "var not set" is really quite lovely. One could potentially replace the use of a negative sentinel value with a maximum sentinel value, and I've done this on occasion too (i.e. if (var == 2^N-1) var-is-not-set). But the cognitive distinction between negative == not set, positive == valid value is easier to deal with (for me, at least).
Reddit appears to be back up now. (Although I also saw complaints about it being down on Twitter.)

Interestingly, there was no mention of an outage on the Twitter feed of Reddit -- or a grassroots Twitter account called "Reddit Status."

It was down for several minutes -- kind of surprising for a major site like that. Wondering what the story is -- and if it was an upstream outage that might have affected other big customers too.
This doesn't require algorithmic feedback loops. People simply would seek out (and create) content which provides inconsistent rewards. A slot machine simply needs a random number generator with a certain small chance of jackpot. The null model here is what can be achieved without individualization.
SEO is not the reason recipes have life stories, the reason is that the life story part of the recipe adds copyright protection because the story is a "substantial literary expression". Recipes by themselves are not copyright-able as they are considered to be basic facts/ideas.

And Google won't penalize these sites because these sites are useful and contain useful recipes that many people want to find despite your particular annoyances you have about it. I do not want a search engine that filters out all these recipes.
I don't know anything about how reliable or not Model 3 is, but surely reliability != popularity?
Bought a pair of audio-technica headphones based on their review. Sound quality was as described but it was so uncomfortable I returned it 5 minutes after picking it up. It was described as comfortable for long wear but it had a hard band with little padding and was uncomfortable for any duration.
This is exactly the reason I asked for reasoning. A perfect example of a specific reason for something in code where depending on what you are doing yourself you can safely ignore the code violation (except for the legality part). If the reason you gave is indeed the reason and only reason.

I would argue that if inspections for safety reasons are why this is in code then code needs to remove this restriction and other rules should be put in place and inspections should become less expensive, easier to get done etc. Basically make it easier and less of a problem for people to get inspected. You will still get people that won't do one of course. Make it possible to inspect them anyway. Of course I understand that there are conflicting priorities at work here too. Meaning funding. The optimal way for everyone would be quite expensive. So we get suboptimal solutions that are sometimes "OK" to circumvent and sometimes not.

Here the bylaws for example allow one main structure, a shed and a detached garage (even if you have an attached one already). No need for roof overhang code stuff. The intent of the bylaw is also much more clear.

The guy in the article arguably is creating such a detached building. He is also in violation of rules about how far structures have to be from the property line assuming the rules in his place are like here and that fence is towards the neighbors.
The stablecoin tether is a great example of how cryptocurrencies do not solve this problem. Tether claims to have a 1:1 dollar backing for its token and yet investigation after investigation found absolutely nothing backing their coins. Tether is the most popular stablecoin out there and has a "market cap" of 78 billion [0]. This proves that whatever issues the current banking system has, cryptocurrency has them much worse.

[0] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
Åh I see, I didn't realize what bifl means. That's helpful, thanks!
The name kind of sounds like a mash-up of education streaming platforms Nebula + Curiosity Stream. Maybe I have just seen too many sponsored video segments...
Blocking in that sense is usually used in relation to some event. E.g. sleep() blocks on a timer, read() blocks on IO, etc.

In the general sense, it means that the call has an indefinite run time. E.g. “this call blocks” = “this call could take an arbitrarily long amount of time”

getpid() is blocking but it likely does not block on IO (though it could as that is allowed by the spec).
well if you knew markets better you d know that my investment will be fine,ill just sell it to someone else which will remove the apartment from the renters market. now multiply this by 2million appartments and see the impact. rent will go up.

the cost to renovate an apartment will take decades of emissions to pay off. knowing also that three years ago EU was giving money,for switching to gas heated houses, maybe in three years they will find out that electric cars need harvesting of rare minerals from literal slaves in china or congo and that emissions of a new electric vehicle will never pay off compared to buying second hand. you can be woke and think there is a climate crisis - which is true- but it doesnt mean everything the,government see as green is… just look at macron after four years he decided that nuclear was ok. obama was praised for pushing gas.
The most advanced AI staff, their algorithms beating even go champions, still being worse in search than ever before. Beaten by bing.com, yandex.com and others, at least in my humble opinion.

Something must be wrong, but I don't know what.
What’s the difference? Nobody has a life or death need to be in Manhattan or San Francisco either.
On paper, yes, this is how the business works.

In practice, I've seen lots of situations where, for want of time and designers, engineers received vague instructions and were mostly left to their own devices.

Engineers were making significant contributions to the design process without noticing; and many of them were, as you might expect, not thoughtful. After all, the coder was being paid to code, right? Not their job.

You might argue that we could fix this by hiring more designers (you should anyway, but not for this reason). But without engineer understanding, you may wind up with a design team micro-managing a team of engineers.

To me, this appears to be a recapitulation of the 'architect-vs-tradesman' dichotomy seen in the building construction industry, with UX experts playing architect, and the engineers playing extremely-well-paid plumber.

Under these circumstances, no engineer wants to build anything unless it's been signed off in quadruplicate, complies with all extant regulations and guidelines, and is exactly like the last 10,000 ones like that we did. At this point, more or less, engineers and designers begin to resent one another.

It's a full-on zugzwang: The engineers begin to think of the designers as dictatorial and unrealistic dreamers who don't know enough about code, and the designers begin to think the engineers are callous boors who, yes, are hostile (or at least indifferent) to the expectable experience of the user. Which is what I take the OP was pointing to.

While other industries may be able to tolerate this kind of vibe, none of the habits of mind and culture that I just described are conducive to anything like a good UX outcome in software development.

Far better is to have engineers who are trained to make good empathic common-sense decisions. This is important for three reasons: First, it frees up design and PM cycles; second, it generates a culture where the engineer is respected as a conceptual contributor to the user's experience, and, thirdly -- and most importantly -- it creates a person who has both design and technical expertise, and can adjudicate tradeoffs between these two things without calling a meeting.

And this third point is important for some relatively deep socioeconomic reasons -- I disagree with Hayek about a lot of things, but he was right about the value of local knowledge. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_knowledge_problem)

An engineer who is in the code every day may well have a better sense of what is possible (and what the tradeoffs may be) than a designer who is not on the front line. That honey-mustard combination is lost entirely on teams where engineers are not also a little bit designers, and designers are not also a little bit engineers. Think of this strategem as a 'local knowledge reuptake inhibitor'.

Thus, the aim of my programme is to create a corps of engineers who, when they see something, say something. But in order to see like a designer, you need imaginative empathy. The heart is the eye.
From personal experience the final search query is when the user realizes that none of the results contain useful information, or your actual keywords, and rage quits.

The user then asks someone in the office or goes and spends an hour at a university library.
Honey has only trace amounts of anything except sugar. In particular, it has no fiber.

If you can find anything that shows an important difference from sugar or high-fructose corn syrup, report that.
> No, it absolutely is not fine for the President to spitball dangerous ideas like that on live national television.

Maybe. This is topic for another discussion. For now it would be appropriate for you to admit you were wrong. Factually incorrect.

> I don't understand your reflexive defense of Trump.

I don’t defend Trump. I defend facts.

> There's a million things to hang the guy for

Perhaps you came to this conclusion after trusting fake news.
Sure, but I noticed those similar posts always have the same keywords in them. This time it is "sheds" and I am a little bit in disbelief that someone is gonna post more about sheds :). The first post wasn't even about sheds, it was a question about hobbies.

I don't say that this bad or anything, in fact I like that every day has a different topic on the front page. If this is a natural phenomenon then I have not heard about it yet (and it might be interesting to research?).
Interestingly, I can't seem to get an empty nim programme below 32k.

#> touch foo.nim
#> nim c -d:release --opt:size -d:strip -d:danger foo.nim
#> ls -lhs foo | cut -d\ -f1
32K
Maybe you got a lemon I've been using mine for a while now. Not as nice as my old one with customer firmware but still consistent.
Why is it the wrong approach? Well, for one, they aren't telecoms and they aren't utilities.

This has been discussed on this site ad nauseam. Feel free to search for the counter argument.

edit: lmgtfy:

https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+not+public+utility+s...
And makes people more vulnerable when they contract other diseases. COVID hits harder if you are diabetic and/or obese, for example. The people who try to promote body positivity are doing a disservice to the overweight. You cannot be healthy and fat, and we should not pretend otherwise to spare hurt feelings.
Long term, chargers may not end up being too important.

Today, range is like 200 miles. That’s enough for basically 100% of commutes, knocking around town, and many longer trips.

It’s not however long enough for a ski trip day trip, or a road trip, or if Grandma lives farther away.

If range gets up to ~500 miles, charging away from home base will be almost exclusively for road trippers which is already where Tesla is focusing.
Internet store =/= algorithmically determined feeds programmed specifically to capture prolonged attention.

Traditionally, video games were addictive because the game was good. The gameplay, storyline, art, music, etc have a part in grabbing attention.
We tried to migrate a reference library with more than 17k entries, but it never worked out beyond 2k.

Sorry to say: might be fine for small personal projects, for anything serious I don't see how.
Looks interesting, and I'd use it but the first example shown has quite obviously incorrect picture spacing. Am I missing something?
It’s the growth that’s staggering. What I read is that older car companies changed the rating to include small software bugs in the entertainment system. As Tesla has much more non-essential features, these while these small bugs are not that important for the end user, can bring the ratings down vs other cars that don’t even offer the feature.
Between a 1.2 KiB and 600 Byte program, probably not, no. I wrote that section to confront the general idea that program startup performance is irrelevant and that optimizing it doesn't matter; a language that assumes so will start piling up features until it actually does, like it does for C in the example.
This was the nail in the coffin for me:

When did Neil Armstrong set foot on Mars? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28224730) (October 2021)
I've done a lot of Haskell, and my approach tends to be a mix of the two. There's a natural split:

• types let me play with the architecture and interfaces top-down

• the REPL lets me write more complex logic bottom-up

Usually there are a few "hotspots" in the codebase that require a lot of logic and are easier to develop bottom-up; the rest of the codebase is focused more on organization, domain modeling and information flow, where top-down design works really well. In actual practice I expect my mode tends to vary even more than that, but this division seems like a good approximation of how I think about it.
How so? I use it on mobile, HN has a pretty nice mobile website
You need good quality sleep and a regular sleep schedule.
https://neurosciencenews.com/sleep-need-19124/
https://scitechdaily.com/hit-the-sleep-sweet-spot-to-keep-br...

Magnesium before bed may help. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/magnesium-the-most-powerf_b_4...
It's interesting that you talk about using more senses while driving. I always crack the window to listen to the road noise as it helps me guage what the other cars are doing and has helped several times in avoiding collisions with other drivers that weren't paying attention since I could hear the change in noise within the standard noise of the road.
> so they'll take down rehosted videos regardless of its content if they discover it

If that were true then Joe's youtube channel would have 0 posts since the time he joined spotify. It's chalk full of clips from Spotify broadcasts. I'm also fairly certain Spotify knows of Joe's YT channel considering that's where they found him and hired him away. It likely also would have been in his Spotify contract whether or not he could continue to post clips to his YT channel, or elsewhere.
It is precisely that, and it is inexcusable.
>Filtered tap water isn't that different from natural water in streams.

complete with chlorine and flouride added? also, from a microbial activity and/or organic contaminants point of view, tap water probably has orders of magnitude less than most streams.

>Prescription / OTC drugs can mess with us fairly seriously if not used carefully and in recommended quantities, so this is actually a good analogy.

What's the equivalent statement for "the quantities of sugar that we on average do consume", but for drugs? I'd say that a big chunk of the population consumes infinitely more antidepressants and cholesterol-lowering drugs than we were "designed to consume".
Can you share a link to this ?
I imagine that Google does in fact use credit card data, but there is no way to tell if you already bought everything you want.
When I see the term "corporate political censorship" come up, I want to know why that action isn't constitutionally protected.

More specifically, most of the examples at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_censorship seem to be ones where a company exercised its First Amendment right of free association.

One of the examples is when the Dixie Chicks were blacklisted by country radio stations. Surely stations have a First Amendment right to decide to not broadcast songs from a given group, especially when most of the the owners, staff, advertisers, and listeners don't want to hear them.

Another example is when Sinclair Broadcast Group decided to not broadcast Nightline's list of the US soldiers who had died in Iraq. Surely that too was an exercise of Sinclair's right of free association, this time based on their belief that Nightline stepped too far from news into politicizing.

I don't even see how Amazon's ban on preorders of Captain America: The Winter Soldier in disc form can be called 'censorship' - it looks like normal predatory business practices which Disney should be familiar with. (Disney's own self-censorship of Song of the South would be another example of the oddity of extending the concept of "censorship" outside of the political realm.)

To be certain, the examples where a company acted due to concerns about political consequences are censorship. But that's the "normal" government censorship, simply mediated through private organizations.

I completely agree that free association is NOT an absolute right for companies! There is a tension with the rights of others, as with US civil rights laws that prohibit companies that do business with the public from discriminating on the basis of race, religion, etc.

But, what's the tension here?

If Twitter doesn't want to be associated with Greene, well, there's a long history of publishing companies, broadcast stations, newspapers, and more, who have decided to not be associated with someone. After all, that's the essence of free association.

> absolutely no recourse

Exaggeration like that seems a bit of a trite diversion/straw man. Very few of us plebians have "absolutely no recourse". You can hold a sign and protest on the street corner, or print out fliers and pass them out, or go door-to-door.

Those aren't as effective as being Robert Murdoch, but we can't all be media moguls.

What would be OK to you, and also not be unconstitutional? (Or, what amendment would you want?)

Followup question: If I don't agree to Twitter's Terms of Service, and no other service can provide any where to the same recourse as Twitter, can those terms I disagree to be nullified?
Just bees? What about maple syrup?
Let people know that you are willing to pay for good writing online without a paywall.

Support Patreon or similar. Leave tips.

One of my first big successes on HN got 60k pageviews and made me not one thin dime. No one left a tip. No one supported my Patreon.

I have been writing for years because I am seriously medically handicapped but educated. Writing is something I can do.

People don't want to hire me for resume work or other freelance writing. I'm a woman and former homemaker and most successful business people are men. They rarely want to talk to me about my work or how to succeed. Most often, if men try to talk to me, they are hoping for a romantic connection and from my end the experience boils down "All you horrible people are watching me starve but you think I will sleep with you??? Seriously?!!!!"

Leave tips (or support Patreon or similar). Tell people you leave tips on sites with good writing. Promote the various means people can accept cash for their online writing.

I don't know what else to tell you. But saying you can't make a difference because you are a nobody is part of the problem.

You don't have to save the world. Just buy a writer lunch or a cup of coffee, so to speak. Spread the word.
https://neeva.com looks similar
It's been done:

http://n-gate.com/
Cutting round things in a saw can be dangerous if they aren't clamped correctly: they can spin. (Don't know of a link, this was taught to me at community college in the context of cutting round metal stock in a band saw.)
That's a good tip. I too do this quite a lot; forums can be quite noisy but also a great source of first-hand experiences.