skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Bitcoin consumes 'more electricity than Argentina' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56012952

I don't know much about energy network and power consumption of average Joe in Argentina/Slovenia/Greenland, so this article doesn't tell me much. Is that because 25% of a country doesn't have access to stable electricity, so energy requirements to run a country are small? Are their electric and electronic devices are mostly power efficient? Do they use a lot of geothermal heating without using electricity and gas to produce heat or cold, so energy use of a country isn't the same of another country in a different location? Are their energy providers close to cities, so less energy is lost in transit? Do they have home-based wind/solar power generators skipped from equation due to relaxed regulations?

Energy consumption in the UK dropped by 12.9% during COVID pandemic[1]. Is that enough to stop people blaming BTC for everything bad on energy market and pollution? That was _easy_ to fix.

I agree hashing and PoW protocols are crap and I even think they should be banned, but
let's start adding to this discussion other things, like how bad USD and traditional banking systems are. We talk even less often about international banks money laundering with ISIS, Al-Qaeda and Mexican drug cartels, hello all HSBC and Deutsche bank employees! I'm sure we have a lot of easier targets (still talking about ecological damage and pollution) to fix than networks like Bitcoin [2].

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/qeoyak/jeff_bezos_sup...
> I then fully expect that person to counter, because I feel that it's on them to do the market research to determine how much they're worth. That's what I've done through my career and I've been happy with the result.

Can you imagine why many others cannot or do not want to negotiate like this?
Getting it designed and a prototype 'made' is one thing. Getting a production run is another.

Pico and rpi are completely different levels of effort and cost. You should figure out what networking, ram, OS or RTOS, and cpu power you need first.
Silphuim, passenger pigeons, and dodos. Previously, wolly mammoths (and undoubtedly others that we don’t know about).
Omicron evolved from Beta, which had pretty much bottomed out in the human population. They believe it evolved in mice. Just because Delta is disappearing in the human population doesn't mean it's gone.
> ... preliminary evidence WHO based their recommendation on earlier this week: People who have previously had COVID-19 could become reinfected more easily with Omicron.

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/omicron-updat...
But it would be an innovative business opportunity to flash that sign when near the car manufacturer's trusted partners in the restaurant and convenience store businesses.
Will DAOs Replace Crypto Venture Capital?
I have the Mozilla foundation in high regard but this decision is nowhere near the quality standards I’d expect from a technology foundation/company. Saying Crypto has a bad eco footprint is outright wrong, sure Bitcoin and ETH and a number of other cryptocurrencies are PoW and therefore energy intensive, but on the other side you have platforms like Cardano and Algorand showing how you can do it much much better!

That Mozilla statement is unjustly labelling a whole sector, they should know better than doing that!
Google Tech Remotely Wipes Prisoner’s Samsung of Possible Evidence, FBI Says
A while back I decided to fix some of my bad keyboard habits. I forget the software I used, but it took me about 2 weeks of daily 15 minute practice to fix many of my bad habits and improve my typing skills in general. I’ve been thinking about doing it again because I still have some remaining bad habits, especially with the pinkies. Well worth the effort, at least for me.
> Posting wages might make it easier for companies to match their offers to others, leading to a sort of collusion, and salary stagnation.

As if that hasn't already happened

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
>the Fed and the CDC and WHO that have been proven completely incompetent when power is deferred to them.

I'm curious what criteria you used to make that assessment? Also, I don't know what you mean by "power" being deferred to them. What extra power was given?
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The article's actual headline is "China bans most exclusive copyright deals for digital music platforms", which is more accurate (and doesn't contain a typo).

It would be nice to have something like this in the West, applying to video streaming services. As a compromise, services could keep exclusivity for a year, for example, before being forced to offer their self-produced content to competitors, for a fee based on the production cost (which would have to be carefully accounted for).
Right, if you have I/O and a frame-buffer the speed of the main system will only affect load times, not what still-frames you can show.
The decentralization aspect of web3 is something I am striving for in my app designs, but more about doing more in the client rather than at the server. The Semantic Web is definitely the more interesting thing- for instance LD-JSON and OpenGraph are really opening up possibilities for those building crawlers, and we mainly have Google to thank for encouraging websites to use it for powering rich search results. I hope they keep it up and the rate of adoption of these technologies continues to increase :-D
Or quicker: 1000ia<esc>
I completely agree. Just wanted to point out our situation (which may be repeated across the globe in some other countries with corrupt governments as ours). I get the feeling that sometimes people from the first world believe bitcoin & ethereum and other currencies are only used for financial speculation but we've found a pragmatic use for them due to our conditions.
Anecdata alert: My wife got covid last year.

She was ok until the moment tests confirmed it was covid. She developed shortness of breath and other symptoms.

All of those disappeared after reading to her the probabilities of hosp. and dying in her age/condition range.
The article also contains the following quote that accommodates greed into the picture. Paraphrased from memory:

> Selfishness beats altruism within groups, while altruistic groups beat selfish groups.

Moving from the former to the latter is group evolution.
Had I reported to the CDC (I didn't), I would have reported that I woke up in the middle of the night unable to take a deep breath, went nearly immediately back to sleep, and was free of all symptoms the next day. This would have counted toward the total (had I reported), and such counting needs a wider perspective before such things as say, creating lockdown policies based on these figures.
For some reason whenever I try to touch type 'correctly' I make typos. But I do get most of my fingers in play when typing normally. I just have a weird stance -- left index on f, right middle on j, right pinky on p. Index and middle fingers do a little extra work, left pinky is mostly reserved for control keys -- esc, crtl...

I dunno. I don't have anywhere near 60 words per minute that are actually worth recording.
It's the reason it's harder to work in a resort or operate a taxi in Cuba than it is to become a "doctor".

The former has access to foreign currency with a real value. The later can hope to maybe get an exit visa (the government will loan it's "doctors" to foreign regimes in exchange for real currencies).
That's why I got a Dvorak skin for my TypeMatrix keyboard. I know QWERTY well enough I don't have to look for it, and I can switch to Dvorak and be able to peek if need be.
Well, RunHers was present in the Washington, DC, area 40 years ago. I don't honestly know what they did, except sponsor the occasional race. (I ran in a Father's Day race that they most graciously put on: the criterion for entry was that one had to be a father or a son.)
As a handicap, I'm now beginning each new day with the prior day's answer word.
They're receiving the spam because it's sent to the customer.

They're sending spam when the customer asks.

They're also deciding that that customer is a customer no longer because of the choices that customer made with regards to sending spam, not receiving spam.

These are pretty different things.
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that he's a very prolific writer and speaker, in addition to contributing to a fairly diverse set of Computer Science fields.

I usually enjoy Lamport's speeches, and I have said before that his book Specifying Systems should be mandatory reading for nearly anyone interested in CS, due to how approachable it is, and yet how deep it goes.
Not that I'm advocating the use of Google Chrome (I am not a user), but they recently added the ability to follow RSS feeds: https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-follow-rss-reader-appears-...

So, this renewed interest in RSS might not be that farfetched.

For additional context: I've used RSS since 1999, and I likely won't ever stop. Much better than algorithmic social media echo chambers, and I can read it on my e-ink device offline.
Yeah, but it's different to read about it and converse with it yourself. It feels like a human, just the one that doesn't care about you or the truth.

There was a research about plugging such models into the fact database and it resulted in better answers with smaller model.
If you sell goods and services in Colorado and you write "not open to people from Colorado" on your job posting instead of a range, you can get sued in Colorado. Colorado's law makes it clear that you have to post the range for jobs if you do business in Colorado and you can conceivably have the job done by someone in Colorado (aka all teleworking).
> But it's still misleading, because a lot of these hospitalizations are going to ERs for testing.

I don't think this is correct. Going to the ER is not the same as being admitted to the hospital. From everything I've read, ER visits are not counted as hospitalizations anywhere.
I've dealt with several web hosting companies that had fully human operators respond very nicely when I had a problem even though my monthly hosting fees were tiny, rarely more than $20 per month. It's not impossible to offer a low cost service and still avoid being an unresponsive piece of shit to clients.
if natural immunity derived from omicron doesn't protect you against Delta then why is there no more Delta in Colorado (as per TFA)?
That was certainly my feeling too when I read it. I thought the simpson's bowling ball analogy was quite apt. He wanted it for himself more than for her I think.
CDC reports increase in human rabies cases linked to bats in the U.S.
It’s all moot. ETH 2.0 is coming June and it uses proof of stake which uses a tiny fraction of what proof of work uses. All things like this article should do is make you invest in proof of stake coins because they are the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_stake
Yeah but you are not going to get the speeds they boast about without steno.
My company's technical interviews are really practically focused. We ask candidates to achieve a specific simple web application development goal, using any technologies of their choice, with help from the interviewers as if they were pair programming. We evaluate them on how they work more than whether they reach that goal, but any smart experienced application developer should be able to breeze through it.

And we are hiring: https://www.mcg.com/about/careers/search-jobs/?gh_src=266419...
(Feel free to email me at the address in my HN profile to ask about the company)
You don't have to play the game. There are plenty of employers out there who do _not_ ask salary history, or will accept "my expected amount is $x" (which is not based on what you're making right now)
STEAR - not technically a word, but it is accepted, and hits the most common vowels and consonants.
Seems like it would be better to have the device be dictionary agnostic and leave it to your editor do know whether you're writing a comment, or code, or a string containing sql...
No, this is Netvyne ;)
That's right, unless the form was running in Browsix, or I suppose at least the same browsing context (ie same origin on the same browser instance on the same computing device) since you could emulate submission across multiple tabs of the same website using something like the BroadcastChannel API[1]

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Broadcast_C...

EDIT: To be clear, this would require effort (TM)- the form would need to have a Javascript onsubmit handler and use preventDefault to stop the browser itself from handling it in order to facilitate that
Except that "open relay" is to very specific numbers, not to just any # . I would like to think there must be a way to send whatever to authenticated / opted in numbers?

DISCLAIMER: I do work for TWLO, but on a completely unrelated division. My opinion and this message does not represent my employer in anyway. I'm just shooting the breeze here.
Not enough information provided but if the data can be organized into meaningful partitions then S3 using Hive partition schema. Pinot should be able to consume from there as well.
I think this model is less crazy than it seems. Businesses need to do product development and loose tons of money on ideas that don't work all the time.

What's happening is big corps realize that many ideas can only really start outside of their corporate mindset, but can only survive with it. So startups do the initial development on a product until it's something people want, then the corporation tries to turn it into a profitable business.

Admittedly I have no idea if it's a maintainable model....these companies loose a heck of a lot of money.
I've found myself exec-ing into containers a lot less often recently. Kubernetes has ephemeral containers for debugging. This is of limited use to me; the problem is usually lower level (container engine or networking malfunctioning) or higher level (app is broke, and there is no command "fix-app" included in Debian). For the problems that are lower level, it's simplest to resolve by just ssh-ing to the node (great for a targeted tcpdump). For the problems that are higher level, it's easier to just integrate things into your app (I would die without net/http/pprof in Go apps, for example).

I was an early adopter of distroless, though, so I'm probably just used to not having a shell in the container. If you use it everyday I'm sure it must be helpful in some way. My philosophy is as soon as you start having a shell on your cattle, it becomes a pet, though. Easy to leave one-off fixes around that are auto-reverted when you reschedule your deployment or whatever. This has never happened to me but I do worry about it. I'd also say that if you are uncomfortable about how "exec" lets people do anything in a container, you'd probably be even more uncomfortable giving them root on the node itself. And of course it's very easy to break things at that level as well.
The WebGL update is awesome! The costs of hosting map tiles for the whole world can be large. How are you funding it?
To die within one minute means the cold shock killed you, not hypothermia: https://gcaptain.com/cold_water/
Compatibility is certainly an issue for massive codebases, OTOH I think over time TruffleRuby is getting closer and closer to CRuby behavior to the point it would be fairly rare to find a compatibility issue.
Do you have personal experience trying to run such a codebase on TruffleRuby?
We already have a great deal of pre-existing immunity. The big question we're answering right now is whether vaccine-based immunity (which we have more of in AU, UK, and the US) is as robust as immunity from infection (main source of immunity in SA). It's still too early to say with certainty, but it's looking like the vaccines are working if you're not immunocompromised.
>- Ronald Reagan

For those unaware, the quote is actually from Stalin.
My friend group doesn't focus on score, we just celebrate getting lucky or lament if we take until the last try.

There is a point about luck taking away from the longevity of the game. Unless the developer adds more game dimensions (in the same minimal, non-intrusive way) I kinda think most people will stop playing in a few months
On the contrary, I think Introducing video as RGB is definitely the right choice. RGB is familiar to most people, and is ultimately how things get displayed on your monitor. For digital video, YUV is really just a convenient format for compression reasons as far as I'm aware.

I do think it would be neat to point out YUV in an aside though. The history behind the format's origins (compatibility with black-and-white TVs) is interesting.

As far as the frame rate goes, I'm willing to bet that more people are aware of 60fps as a standard frame rate for videogames than 24fps as a standard frame rate for film.
Interestingly this article could serve as a template for 'Tips to grow your illicit drug business in the USA' with very few changes:

- you may get shot but police may simply take some of the goods;

- remove any labels of origin to reduce potential charges;

- contemplate various smuggling strategies;

- don't work with people you care about (friends and family);

- be careful where you store your money;

Banned economic activity is similar everywhere, it seems.
I did not mean to draw a parallel between Cuba and NK with respect to the facts on the ground, merely with respect to the arguments that are advanced for them, which in both cases are based on the premise that the conventional wisdom is wrong. Everyone I have ever met who advanced that argument with respect to Cuba was on the political left. The political right has their own version of this argument, except that they focus their skepticism on "the mainstream media" rather than "Western sources" (but IMHO both of these phrases are clearly dog whistles without an actual referent other than, "any source that disagrees with my position.")
And what could be better for "those living under corrupt regimes" than a system widely used for money laundering?
Labelled "exclusive" -- merely for excluding people? The indignity.
Regardless of how you do your RLE, you're almost certainly going to have many ways to encode something: you can almost certainly encode a run of four as two runs of two (you wouldn't want to, of course, but you could). It's not an encoder you tend to use if you want to use the absolute smallest amount of space, it's good if your data has enough repeats to get compression and your encoding/decoding systems are very resource constrained.

It makes a nice interview problem because compression is a real problem, but RLE needs almost zero previous knowledge, has many reasonable answers, doesn't have a gotcha solution, and most people haven't done it before. Lots of typically better compression algorithms out there, but I don't think any are suitable for general interview.
Bitpay stagnated because it is a known bad service.

You also have the rise of BTCPay Server and lightning.
What were they sued for? The feds illegally taking their contraband?

You can't get contraband returned, even if it was illegally seized, and I don't think you could sue for the value of it?

Who knows though? I was in jail with someone who was there because he bought some heroin off a dealer and only handed over $20 instead of $40, and then ran off. The dealer then phoned the police to report his stolen heroin and the buyer got busted.
I wholeheartedly support this - and if you support free markets you should support it too. Markets are free when information asymmetry is reduced, and currently there exists one.

The whole idea of free market of labour is that you will sell your labour to someone whose compensation you think is the best. Having more information obviously will increase your idea of how the market actually is, and allow a more informed decision - a freer market.
Kinda hard to tell who the target audience on this is?

On the one-hand you've got some direct kernel/release changes that go way over my head as a Linux user (what the hell is the uvm-handler?). Then a few lines down, you've got some pretty rudimentary Shell tips that I would expect anyone with a terminal to have learned within their first few months of use.

I like the concept, though. Site looks great on mobile, looks like you've got an RSS feed. This would definitely be the kind of thing I would add to my Pocket and read with my morning coffee, if I were a BSD user.
what happens to flutter?
Sure. Currently, most of the leisure time has been allocated to the poor and unemployed, but they can't enjoy it! If we got off the growth-for-its-own-sake consumerist treadmill, provided free education, and compensated everyone fairly for their work, then everyone could have a job and work 3 days a week.

Unfortunately, humans.
define "targets". Transmissibility or actual harm? Children are at no more risk of harm from this variant than any other AFAIK.
> Covid hospitalizations for children are at an all-time high.

I initially assumed this was true, though I also assumed that COVID-related hospitalization for children was extremely low. When I checked, though, it does not appear to be true.

For ages 5-17 (school-aged kids), hospitalization rates peaked at 1.4/100k in September 2021.[1]

As of Dec 15, 2021, 655 children 0-17 have died from COVID[2]. That's certainly not good, but it's a very small number relatively speaking. Consider that in 2018, there were 3,820 for ages 0-14 due to "unintentional injury".[3]

1: https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/COVIDNet/COVID19_3.html

2: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...

3: https://www.cdc.gov/injury/images/lc-charts/leading_causes_o...
Base images like alpine/debian/ubuntu get used by a lot of third party containers too so if you have multiple containers running on the same device they may in practice be very small until the base image gets an upgrade.
I can't speak for him, and obviously tweets are short enough they can't contain it either. But apparently the plan was (a) to use federal funds and manpower to get vaccines spread as widely as possible. There was an early goals of 100M doses in the first 100 days, which was met, and another goal was set and met [1]. Another factor was sending the message: this isn't a "Democrat hoax", that it is real, is killing people, the vaccines are safe and certainly much safer than getting covid. I say that has been accomplished.

On the other hand, there is a large contingent of people and talking heads who have tried their hardest to spread fear and misinformation. We are still at something like 60% inoculated, and many doses of the vaccine ended up going bad or were shipped overseas because not enough people trust the vaccine.

Third, there is no way to prevent novel variants from causing new problems, other than getting the old variants under control to reduce the vast pool of variant breeders.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/56901183

[EDIT] Also, your terse "he claimed there was a federal solution" is also subject to debate. He said he had a plan, but that doesn't mean the plan was a federal-only solution.
They keep the hospitalization numbers down, which I feel is rather important to a community.