skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't doubt the number, but it does make me genuinely curious. How does this compare to other software? How much energy does running, for example, Facebook require? How much extra energy is required if you use a language like Ruby, PHP, Python, etc. versus a language like C?

It will be interesting to see how energy consumption will be a part of software in the future. I wonder if we will see something like "green" programming languages.
https://learn.cantrill.io/p/aws-certified-solutions-architec... I I highly recommend Adrian Cantill's courses. They are in-depth and easy to understand.
If you define cancel culture as angry k pop fans attacking people they don't like, then yes it is probably bad. If you define it as a service banning effective private propoganda machines spewing baseless conspiracy theories to people who are seemingly unable or unwilling to acknowledge reality, then I'm definitely for it. I don't have a lot of faith in people to discern reality from fantasy anymore. If Twitter can stop people acting in bad faith from manipulating people, with real world consequences, then I think that's their obligation, regardless of political alignment. In this case the ban is because of spreading COVID vaccine misinformation. Countless lives could have been saved if this nonsense had never been given a platform.
Sure, and many care about crypto. Just not enough to sway elections.
I saw a great, pithy tweet recently, and I won’t do it justice, but I’ll give it a shot.

Crypto, and Blockchain, are like little fiefdoms that are being created, and the people who create them, and in the process mine the first couple million blocks, will be the Lords.

As you say, the rich getting richer. And doing it all by hijacking this message of the “little guys” banding together against the establishment.
Any thoughts on the color selection?
You probably should use this measure instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-years_lost
I mountain bike and ski (backcountry + resort). I find these really fun and exciting and find it hard to _not_ do them.
They have a fair amount of work to do to achieve that goal.
Jesse and Walter steal a barrel of methylamine so Jesse no longer has to boost ephedrine across the state. It does not, however make the end product blue
Yes. Many years ago I did about 5 straight years of kung fu, found it fun (but a bit too hard for me), and stopped when my tsuzao stopped giving lessons. Then I found it impossible to motivate myself to start somewhere else.

This was the last time I did any kind of exercise.
>When people say "hang the rich" on Twitter do you see them getting banned?

If you believe these people constitute a direct threat to the safety of the rich, why don't you report them?
KiwiFarms isn't the only example. And would you provide a source for your assertion?
Back in the Arena
"Pants" can also mean that something is ridiculous. There was story a while ago about a Chinese building that looked like a pair of trousers. "The building is pants" means that the building is silly, not just that it looks like pants.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-20526220
Most deception is build on half truth and partial truths and or even selective truths. Outright lies tend to be less believable
The Future Is in Interoperability Not Big Tech: 2021 in Review (Cory Doctorow)
The more I see the more I believe connections / networking are the only thing that matters.
No matter what your DNS says, browsers are hard-coded to refuse to send requests via plain HTTP on a TLD with HSTS required (like .dev).
I remember eating spicy level three and my body was sweeting and shaking.
How much energy did the standing army for the dollar and it's logistics network consume during 2021? Much, much, much, more. And yet the energy expenditure to defend the Bitcoin network from attacks both succeeded using far less and the energy was used completely non-violently. Bitcoin's efficiency and morality stands head and shoulders above nation state based mechanisms for defending the integrity of their currencies.

And no, bitcoin doesn't depend on one single country. If, say, China made it illegal (hmm!) it'd still keep working. So no, a nation state going down does not actually kill bitcoin but it would kill that nation's currency. We'll see how well the Ukrainian hryvnia holds up this spring.
Absurd. Of all platforms, Twitter is best positioned to assess how big the Streisand effect really is and measure whether the howls of outrage from her supporters are really louder than the low-level rumble of discontent from her opponents.
There are statisticians who have made such claims by modeling many highly vaccinated countries. I am not claiming they are right or wrong, but there are people who claim they have found this signal in the data using statistical methods.
Upon hearing the student ask this question the wise old man looked quizzically for a moment and then asked another question in response: "why would a man who is busy building not one but two sheds in his garden create additional work for himself by taking the time to grow and maintain saas infrastructure?".
From the 1940s on there was a Fairness Doctrine for companies with broadcast licenses. The Republicans killed this off in the 1980s, saying private business should be able to do what they want. Hoisted by their own petard.
30 minutes fasted cardio every morning m-f, and then an hour of weight lifting sprinkled in-between meetings. I find that for me, this is the minimum needed to stay in "good shape" - anything less and I can start to see my belly grow within a couple weeks.
Novels and bicycling were as well, particularly with women.

People are weird.
> Just to give you an idea of how bad that is, a three-sigma or a one-in-200-year catastrophe would be 10% increase over pre-pandemic,” he said. “So 40% is just unheard of.”

Do we have an actuarial crisis on our hands? We’ve seen the same thing in finance, disaster preparedness and other unrelated industries. We have “once in 200 years” events happening it seems far more often than once in 200 years.

And how does it even pass muster that a 10% increase in deaths would be a “once in 200 years” event. When has there ever been a 200 year period without major war, disease or disaster? What exactly are they smoking?
The excess mortality numbers:
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...
But would restrict understanding to those few who understand IPA. I prefer when you use both IPA and a more colloquial representation.
No. I do agree that discrimination based on protected characteristics should not be allowed.

There's obviously a conversation to be had on what should be protected.
Instead of switching to unsigned 32 bit int to buy another 21 years, they should switch to 64 bit ints. Or even 64 bit double - inside every double is a 53 bit int hiding in plain sight! That would buy them another 90073970 years.
Even if gold were exclusively used as an investment, it would still be lower-carbon than Bitcoin. The energy spent per dollar of gold mined is much less than the energy spent per dollar of Bitcoin mined.
They roundup the woods? Source?
> Logically you should expect it to block indefinitely

Frankly, that’s completely insane. It should block if and only if there is actual io in flight which could produce a failure return that an application needs. Syscalls should be fast unless there is a very good reason not to be.
One day a swarm of self replicating probes will turn up and start building a Dyson sphere around our sun. The purpose is to power the alien equivalent of Bitcoin mining.

Another storyline I came up with is this: Imagine that an alien civilisation has the ability to send electromagnetic signals faster than light by some mechanism such as a micro wormhole but not ships and such.

They still want to destroy other civilisations before they become a threat. They are able to connect to some unsecured wifi networks and start posting on forums. The username: Satoshi Nakamoto
I think the other thing that may be possible (just guessing, I'm not a statistician or actuarial) is that by using the term "3 sigma" I'm assuming they're modeling the data as a normal distribution. But these types of outlier events often follow power laws, such that you get "fat tails" when looking at a bell curve.
My dream. Set the course and take a nap.
You've stated a fact. Why does this fact make Twitter the speaker whose free speech rights take precedence?
If you compare with other asset classes, you'll find a crisis of legitimacy in all of them.

Cash: Not backed by anything but literal 'trust' in the government. It's fiat, and has been since 1971.

Government Bonds: similar to cash, also relies on the trust and "too big to fail" ethos.

Houses: Greater fool theory. People realized they can simply ban building them to make theirs worth more, as the remaining home supplies are in far-off, economically irrelevant (undesirable) areas.

Stocks: Over 90% are owned by the top 10%. Someone had to make it to sell it to someone else, just like crypto.
> The bigger problem is dealerships

FTFY
> Everything the free market does is voluntary by definition. Every "intervention" is by definition not.

In some ideal world, where both parties of an exchange hold equal bargaining power, the "free" market might be "voluntary".

This is certainly not the current state of affairs, though. Being able to "choose" between a crappy option and a horrible option is anything but voluntary: "you can choose to work for me for little to no money... or you can choose to starve to death. it's your 'free' choice."

The very premise of what would make a free market efficient in the real world simply doesn't exist, but we keep trying to convince ourselves that it does because we don't know or aren't used to anything different.
I don't, maybe I should try this. But again, the pull of actually doing something sedentary (I have multiple hobbies) is always stronger...
I’ve got this one bookmarked too.
Since you are not posting your sources, it's hard to tell what claims of Marjorie Taylor Greene you are referring to. I recently stumbled upon a site that reports on covid data from Denmark. The rate of Omicron infection in both vaccinated and unvaccinated populations >15yo is the same. This corroborates with a recent DHH post surfacing similar Denmark data. There is a distinct uncomfortable possibility that the vaccines targeting a 2 year old variant are, indeed, ineffective as a measure to limit the spread of Omicron. Unfortunately, I can't corroborate with US data because CDC is obstinate in not publishing covid data with a breakdown by date/age/vaccination status/virus variant.

Based in prior variant data, it is likely the vaccines do work to prevent severe omicron cases. Feel free to clarify what is it that the vaccines work for, and which of Marjorie Taylor Greene tweets fell afoul of that.

PS. This post is in no way an endorsement of Marjorie Taylor Greene political activities, of which I know very little other than her being a Republican Congresswoman.

https://covid19danmark.dk/#gennembrudsinfektioner

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29765351

https://world.hey.com/dhh/should-you-vaccinate-your-kids-169...
What happens if there isn’t another dealer down the street, or if every dealer is marking up the price?
For these companies these licenses are pennies, so "own" is probably the right word.
I think they mean they don't get the joke even knowing the correct interpretation. (I'm British so read it as underwear naturally, and also don't get it.)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censorship
Two Mechanisations of WebAssembly 1.0
> The whole thing literally works on competing on consuming more energy.

An observation from 2018:

> imagine if keeping your car idling 24/7 produced solved Sudokus you could trade for heroin

* https://twitter.com/Theophite/status/1030225104234373121
> "The synthetic and highly addictive drug"

Funny use of the word 'synthetic' to add extra spookiness. Something like 60% of first-world medicines are natural origin or secondary metabolites of natural origin - the other 40% are all synthetic. [1]

[1] https://www.spandidos-publications.com/10.3892/br.2017.909
Ask HN: How do you avoid dopamine addiction on social media?
After posting on social media, I found myself refreshing my notifications quite often. Do you know that feeling? If so, how do you overcome it?
What works quite well for me:

- An app that blocks distracting sites (I'm using Freedom)

- Change that pattern by changing my habits (e.g. excluding my phone from the morning routine)

Edit: A complete deletion is not really an option since I enjoy Twitter, Reddit, HN to stay up-to-date with the tech world :)
I was told I'd be looking at an offer in the $350k+ range working remotely, based on my location in Texas.

If that's not outpaying everyone, I'm very interested in hearing of companies that aren't so repugnant willing to come close to that.
An interesting experiment, had to look in the comments to see how the group was distributed, and looks sufficiently random for a simple test
> start sending rigs in orbit close to the sun

Does heat dissipate well in vacuum? Won't having it so close to the sun result in more heat? I guess the only way to dissipate so much heat would be via radiation. Outer space seems to be really really cold so that might help.
I’m no fan of mailing lists, but GitHub PRs get ignored in much the same way.
DST has long overstayed its usefulness. I wonder why it's so hard to get rid of?
That's a potential COVID complication, right?
I think chicken is a perfect vehicle for spices. I like to experiment with spices so I look for things that will give me a taste of how the rest of the world enjoys their food. A couple of years ago I found a Peri-peri spice mix in the import section of our local grocery store so I bought some to try it out.

It is spicy and the heat level can be too much for someone who doesn't enjoy a good burn after the burst of chili flavor. My family is a mix of high heat lovers and mild heat lovers so I found that a couple of us wanted less heat while the others enjoyed it. I grilled the chicken over coals and the combination of spice and char makes a delicious flavor profile. I had totally forgotten about this spice blend. Thanks for the reminder.
Not an expert, but Proof-of-stake (what Etherium 2.0 does) solves this, right? Now Bitcoin needs to find a path to implement it.

https://blog.ethereum.org/2021/05/18/country-power-no-more/
That's not how it works. For a geometric distribution with p=1/80 the mean or expected value is indeed 80.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_distribution

Your gun example has a uniform distribution between 1 and 80 with an expected value of roughly 40 if you don't spin the chamber each time between pulling the trigger. If you spin it each time, then it's again the geometric distribution and the expected value is 80.

If you don't spin the chamber between each time, then each time you pull the trigger the probability of dying at that round is not 1/80, the probability goes up and up at each round, it's only 1/80 on the first round.
I mean, most of the people who say they think they're going to die are just using it as hyperbole...
Can you elaborate on why you so strongly advise against it?
If anyone is looking into this, I really like Shed King (shedking.net) for plans. They have a few shed models you can choose from, costs around $20, include shopping lists, and are super thorough.

I recently snagged the 12x16 with porch plans. I’m excited to give this a shot.
I'd add unwillingness to share financial details including money in the bank, burn rate, cap tables, etc at small (<10 person) company.
I simply reiterated what Twitter shared in their statement as to why the account was banned.

What's with this gish gallop style response?
> because any arithmetic just silently does the wrong thing

The same thing, but worse, can happen with signed integers. (-3)-INT_MAX is either some huge positive number, or something crazy because it's undefined behavior and the compiler is allowed to do anything it wants.
If I lived in a place with nice scenery and where biking doesn't endanger my life due to cars, I would definitely do this. At least I think so.

Trekking I'm 100% sure I would do. But I live in a concrete jungle :(
Maybe what matters isn't exactly when they turn their compost, but that they turn it at all. Like, caring about the details even in a "whacky" way (according to most non-biodynamicists) is a lot better than not caring about the details at all -- and maybe to people who aren't into biodynamics, turning the compost is a weird detail that only "whacky" people would care about.

Just a WAG.
Research: Bitcoin Consumes Less Than Half the Energy of the Banking or Gold
Currently, I go to the gym 5 days a week for about 60-90 minutes per session. My workouts generally consist of cardio for a warmup and then free weights and Olympic style weightlifting. It has a great ROI.

I used to train 10+ hours a week almost exclusively on weightlifting when I was competing frequently, but over the last year I’ve spent less time lifting to have more time to work on my startup.
Please take with a grain of salt because I am no expert here: IIRC, ADHD is caused by brains that have too many dopamine transporters, resulting in dopamine being transported faster than normal, causing increased anxiety and impulsivity.

But then there's addiction, which can hijack one of your brain systems like your dopamine or endorphine systems. In the case of internet addiction disorder, reading endless feeds must be related to dopamine for sure.
I found out that competitive sports are great to eliminate the boredom.

I'm taking weekly tennis lessons with my girlfriend and casual basketball matches with friends and neighbors. It's good cardio while you also catch up with friends and essentially play something.

I'm sure it's not perfect, but I think the saying applies here: "imperfect action beats perfect inaction".
How many times a year do you watch C-SPAN? How often do you browse the press release page for your local elected official, much less someone else's? Whatever you think of this particular Congresswoman, Twitter is one of the largest and most influential outreach platforms. It's like getting banned from radio in the 1940s and saying, "Who cares? There's still newsletters and speaking engagements." Getting banned from Twitter is a big deal for people who engage with mass audiences.
Except it’s not really like a battery because you can’t get the energy back out. The energy ultimately turned into resistive heat and was lost. It’s more like something you manufacture using energy, which is most (all?) things.
Yup. Apparently some of the broad strokes of the plot are accurate, including the move to industrialized p2p production.
Sorry for the offtopicness, but could you please email hn@ycombinator.com? I want to send you a repost invite.
Link(s)?
> The US Congress took up the ACCESS Act, a law that would require the largest platforms to open up APIs to their rivals;;

> The EU launched the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a sweeping pro-competition proposal.

Those are the two pieces of tech legislation I'm most excited about too, and I think that there is enough consensus from legislators across the political spectrum and the world that Mark Zuckerberg has too much power. Interoperability won't fix that overnight, but freeing people from the lock-in of network effects at least gives society a fair chance to create something better.
Bitcoin is a sink, not a battery. You can dump excess power into it, but you can't take it out.

The aluminum analogy is apt, but at least I can cook eggs on aluminum pans and wrap my leftovers in tinfoil, even if I can't turn it back into electricity. Bitcoin and other PoS schemes have no such upside.
Yes. Nationstates very much want to make the proven distributed mechanisms of consensus that allows people to exchange value without their oversite illegal. No significant cryptocurrency has gone proof of stake, and certainly none just starting out. Etherium will never actually switch. Making proof of work illegal would make effective cryptocurrency illegal.

The violent standing armies (and their logistics networks) that protect other international currencies from manipulation and attack use far more energy and do it in very violent, centralized ways.
There are absolutely other solutions. The problem is they don’t allow existing participants to extract as much money out of newcomers as PoW, so the artificial hype being generated around alternatives is much lower.
>Theft can happen only when it’s involuntary.

I suppose I am arguing that it is involuntary. Social media addiction is a real thing. "Stolen attention" seems to fit here. But I guess the line does get blurry. When a true heroin addict shoots up, is that completely voluntary or completely involuntary? Probably neither.

>The root cause is the choice people make, which we’ve established exists. If people want help, there are plenty of mitigations for social media, like alternative front ends.

So the root cause is not that these companies are being manipulative for financial gain, the cause is that users aren't choosing alternative front ends to social media (or some other mitigations). Hmm... Not sure I agree.

Yes, it is true users have some sort of agency or choice in the matter, but that doesn't mean these large companies aren't still doing the sneaky things that we know they are. Even you including the word "mitigation" in your response speaks to the fact that the problem is deeper than the users choice. Mitigation is secondary.

Also, I think this is a great discussion that is well worth having. The 'root cause' of all of this... (I tend to think it's just greed.)
How old are you? How many people from your high school years have passed? Say, in your year and the years adjacent, where you might be told the news?

Out of about 90, I can count 4. Graduated 1999. 1 in 200 per year sounds like it might be ballpark, though of course from my limited set it's hard to tell. Assuming the rate is low at around 40 but a fair bit lower when you've just graduated, and a fair bit higher as you pass 60.
Covid has obviously caused infrastructure problems, though the contrast with a war is similar. There are tons of minor maintenance tasks where there are one or two people who need to do some thing every week. Maybe all the people who are responsible for the task are laid up for a week and incapable of doing the maintenance. Multiply that by hundreds of thousands of people getting infected every week you end up with a lot of missed maintenance. And of course the risk that those one or two or three key people die and the task never gets done again until the system just hits the failure mode that the task was intended to avoid.
Yes. Lots of people. They don't have press offices like congresspeople do to complain about it though. Things like "in Minecraft" or "Minecraft parody" are popping up as loopholes that seem to work. All Twitter cares about is plausible deniability if someone strings up Warren Buffet after tweeting about doing it.
I feel like there is nothing like working with your hands to unwind for a screen and email infused day. And if you really make something, you can feel proud afterwards.

I do this too and it works for me. Better than binging Netflix. What would be your alternative?
Article starts off talking about homelessness. Those houses are for well off remote workers seeking a mix of nature and work space + instagram worthy shots.
There are literally "central banks", and if banks don't want to give somebody a bank account, there is nothing these people can do about it. That is the result of centralized control. You can not prevent somebody from having a Bitcoin address.

I know that transactions on the Bitcon blockchain are public. There are approaches to fixing it and several altcoins claim to fix it. It certainly isn't the last iteration of the tech forever. And I think you can also do things to anonymize Bitcoin transactions. I haven't really dug into it yet.

The real fire test of governments attacking crypto coins has yet to happen, agreed. It won't be easy, but nothing will be easy under authoritarian control.