skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last time I checked (2021) the CO2 emissions of one bitcoin transaction was equivalent to driving over 2000 km in an average middle european car from the same year (see: https://www.forbes.com/sites/philippsandner/2021/11/19/bitco...)

Unless I made an error here, or that study is flawed this seems to me like a ridiculously huge amount?
What is it used for? Explosives?
Professionalism, in my opinion, includes taking reasonable precautions to prevent the problem from happening.

If you are professional you know what kind of potential problems might happen and you know what are reasonable possible approaches to handle it.

If security of your piece of software relies on default values of some settings I would reasonably expect you to have automated tests to verify that these settings have correct values.

Next time you hire an electrician who causes damage to your house because he did not follow procedure to wire it correctly, will you be still calling him "professional" because he quickly removed the short?
The 737 Max attempted pioneering work in this area.
They're marketed as such, I imagine to avoid antitrust of "general purpose computers" like the iPhone, despite both being generic computers
U.S. says new Intel shows Russia plotting false flag attack
IBM had been established for decades before the PC, also the PC in general was established for years before their entry.
I think they knew what to do. It was a bit of a gamble, sure. And you can make the argument they guessed wrong. But the success of the PC and subsequent crushing of the rest of the industry was incredibly successful.

The flexible design did catch on, simultaneously a blessing and a curse to IBM.
Neat! Not too much pressure though or you'll be peeling your robots off the ceiling :)
In a newly built 2500sqft house you should need a lot less than 200A for this, it should have almost perfect insulation.

That, and tankless water heater are stupid, frankly.
Sim City for Windows 3.x would read memory it recently freed.

This never crashed the program because Windows 3.x was more like a graphical shell on top of DOS. It wasn't a true multi-user or multi-tasking operating system. If you released memory, there wasn't anything else waiting to grab it from you. So the fact that you shouldn't read memory that's been freed, it went unnoticed.

Until they tried to run it on Windows 95. Then it would crash. A lot. The game was unplayable. Because Windows 95 was a multi-tasking operating system and it would reallocate freed memory to other programs that may ask for it.

So they put a specific check in Windows 95 to see if Sim City is running. And if it was, they essentially sandboxed its memory so nothing else could grab any memory it used.

While in this case, this isn't an example of a bug that was intentionally left in, it is an example of code written into an operating system to handle the bug of a single program.

But that's how they'd handle it. If PROGRAM X required certain behavior, they'd check to see if that program was running and alter behavior so the program would run. If feels like that's like half of what the registry is for.
Is ammonium nitrate used for weapons production of any kind?
There are literally hundreds of simple (and open-source) music players out there, including Winamp you mentioned and its offspring. What is preventing you from using those? IMO, this is the same argument like when people say "modern music sucks" without ever searching for amazing new bands outside the mainstream.
IP addresses are uniquely identifiable, sure, but not personally identifiable.
Your employer can already do this on both platforms, and Apple totally bent over for China and their abusive apps.

This needs a fix, and clearly we don't have one currently. No reason to let another ill occur in the meantime.
Honestly the reason I use facebook still is to consume content from people I don't know, facebook groups are the only social thing left on the website, and the rest of it I use for fb marketplace which at least in my area has totally stolen the spotlight from craigslist.
I mean, I'm the kind of guy to obsessively worry about diplomacy in professional communications, and my first impulse still would have been to respond with "no" and close the issue, so as far as I'm concerned, he's well ahead of the curve.

I really don't want to put the question-asker on blast, because software is hard, and sometimes you're trapped in a quagmire and just need to fire out a question, but I'm not sure how many ways there are to respond to 'is it safe to push the button labeled "don't push this button, it's unsafe to push it, it's bad to push it, please don't push it, dear God just don't"?' Time is finite and some questions just aren't very good questions.

When I feel the need to contact developers about their code, I tend to think long and hard about whether them responding to my question is a good use of their time. I feel very uncomfortable making requests of others' time frivolously, and asking "is it safe to use this field in production?" would have made me feel as if I was making a fairly brazen demand to address what is ultimately a self-answering question. I probably would have spent some time thinking "is there something different and more useful that I can ask instead?"

In this regard, Dan Ambramov did a good job, as far as I can tell, of iterating and eliciting a useful, actionable feature request from the question-asker. He converted what could have been a negative interaction for both parties into something that potentially improves the project, and it's hard to ask for too much more.
I'm wondering the same - or perhaps biological weapons? It's obviously a cover story, their farmland and farmer needs didn't just all of a sudden lead to requiring the amount it exports.
I haven't experienced the same issues you describe in terms of random beeping or the like. But I do think one of the most curious and irritating missing pieces from AirTags is no sort of tie-in with Family Sharing or some sort of contacts whitelist. I saw one thing saying that was about privacy but that makes zero sense because Apple doesn't do the same thing elsewhere in "Find My" for people or devices. While it's correctly opt-in, once everyone has done so we can see device locations for all of the family's stuff, which is very helpful when somebody is missing their phone or the like (anyone else can help with it) as well as checking in disasters. I don't see why that would be fine but keys wouldn't. In terms of privacy, someone is more likely to have their watch, phone or airpods on them then an Apple Tag frankly. Indeed that's the core logic of Apple Tags, we put down and misplace other random stuff but still have our phones/wearables. It can't be that rare for a family to have multiple vehicles where a certain amount of sharing happens, particularly if it's a pattern like us where the SO and I each have a car but then there is a single old truck that we both use. Family names are on the insurance, legally it's multidriver property. And even good friends/room mates probably share some kinds of property. Whomever has it is responsible for not losing it and thus has an interest in tracking it.

Yeah it's a v1.0, but even so when Apple already has all this infrastructure up strikes me as an odd omission that significantly detracts from the utility for no good end. Even a basic "ignore this tag for a day/week/year/permanently" would at least help sand down a bit of the most irritating notification spam. And worth noting that this sort of thing is a genuine security/privacy issue too: in real security systems, the human factor matters a lot. If people get spammed with noise, they will inevitably end up ignoring it when an actual signal turns up. We've known this forever.
This reminds me a lot of time I spend reading Dwell magazine a decade ago.

Since that time, I've moved past the point where building such a house is impossible for me financially, but I've also moved past the point where such a house is attractive to me.

I saved up a lot of back issues of Dwell thinking I'd refer to them when building a dream home, and in a move a few years ago I threw them out. It felt exactly like what I imagine throwing out an adult magazine collection might feel like - oddly relieving.

Like airbrushed nude photos in Playboy (showing my age, I know), grand home schemes of all kinds are a pursuit of perfection. But nothing is perfect, or stays that way very long, and the higher your expectation and expense in relation to objects-as-happiness, the greater the disappointment.

I really am a sucker for innovative architecture, but for me, innovation is about dealing with constraints, not conquering nature and heating your pool at all costs.
Except when it comes to mRNA vaccine mandates, then technology is suddenly bad.
Tile also isn't nearly as sensitive because it needs people to install their app to opt-in to their tracking network.

Apple coopted every single phone into a tracker essentially creating a biggest people following and tracking network in the world - plus they use UWB which massively more accurate than what Tile uses.

What Apple created would be Facebooks, NSAs and pretty much every spying entities wet dream to get fingers on.
While it sounds nice in principle, I really hope it is not as messy as the data governance and AI act.
Maybe I've just gotten better at what I follow/comment on, but the mood feels like it's gotten a bit better over the past few years, more tolerant, more heterdox, less shrill, more interesting, less combative, less "performative", etc. Not perfect, but improving over a few years ago. It does feel like the average age of the commenter has increased though.
Then don't use third party stores. Done.
> We're paying $0.30-$0.40 / kwh to PG&E, which pencils out to over $9 / gallon.

No way. An electric car (including charging inefficiency) uses about ~0.3 kWh per mile, so at $0.35/kWh each mile costs you ~$0.10 in electricity. If a gas car gets 35mpg, then for each mile to cost ~$0.10 in fuel, gas would need to cost $3.50 not $9.

How are you getting $9?
Congrats!

Unfortunately not in the US. Health care alone will likely to take at least a third of that.

"Because of the effects of inflation, a 50-year-old couple in 2019 planning to retire at age 65 can expect to spend about $405,000 on health care in retirement. A 40-year-old couple faces $455,000 in expenses, the report says."

https://www.annuity.org/retirement/health-care-costs/
They need to switch over to Helium's LoRa network, which has vastly better coverage...
Your comment hits the nail on the head for me.

Regarding bots, it feels like any time this issue is discussed here it gets pushed down rather quickly. I really think it should be examined harder though. I outright stopped glancing at /new since it often looks like the same accounts trying to push some messaging (e.g vaccine rhetoric, often from some random substack).

Your other point is one I’ve tried to put into words lately. I think I even put it to one friend (a YC founder no less) that “the people who actually wanted to build something left long ago, and often all that feels left is the old crowd that just complains about specific tech repeatedly”.

If I see another discussion repeating the same Linux on the desktop talking points, or the problems with Electron, I’ll scream.
Heh. So if you click the Apple icon, you get games that are NOT playable on Apple devices :S

*confusing*
I'd say that Star Citizen and video game NFTs are both on par with being all promise and no meaningful delivery (yet) though. I could see both Ubi restricting sales of their "NFTs" and Star Citizen adding resale features later. That's how nebulous both are.
How a Boston sewer employee redesigned drain covers to reduce hazardous waste
1.7 million people may disagree with you

Oct. 22, 2021
A record 1.7 million migrants from around the world, many of them fleeing pandemic-ravaged countries, were encountered trying to enter the United States illegally in the last 12 months, capping a year of chaos at the southern border, which has emerged as one of the most formidable challenges for the Biden administration.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/us/politics/border-crossi...
Reading through this, it doesn't sound like ABS was required in 2009: https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/....

Another source says it's been required (federally) as of 2013: https://knowhow.napaonline.com/what-does-abs-mean-on-a-car/.
A quick search on Amazon for 'gps tracker' will yield at least one option on the first page for $29.99. GSM for communications. Not as small as an AirTag, but 1.5 inches by 0.9 by 0.6 inches isn't exactly huge either.

A legitimate point is that the battery life isn't great. But that's not too hard to solve, if you tolerate a little more space for a bigger battery.

I'm sure there are even better options out there, that's just what I could come up with in under a minute. For anybody with more than idle curiosity, I imagine there are some pretty clever solutions available.
Tile does not have nearly the network that Apple does. I attached an AirTag to an electric scooter, which I ended up returning. I forgot to remove the AirTag; I've been able to track the scooter over hundreds of miles with quick updates (even driving down a freeway). I've been having a fun time checking in on the scooter for months now.

I have a Tile attached to a generator at my house. Since I've disabled Tile on my phone in favor of AirTag, my generator hasn't been detected in over 31 days. Even with neighbors walking past my house constantly.
I read it, and he seemed entirely polite and cheery. Is there any way to refuse something that can't be read as rude by someone?
No Costs listed.
Didn't read it.
NA uses 120VAC at most loads - but service is 240V split. So 200A service in NA is the same as 200A in the EU. Of course this is confusing since we often talk about 120V loads, e.g. a 15A electric kettle in the US is pretty lame compared to a 15A electric kettle in the UK.

The 120V outlets are approximately equally split between the two legs (which you could view as -120 to 0 and 0 to +120), so one way you could view it is that 200A service in NA allows for about 400A of 120V load. But then larger loads are usually across both legs and you have to account for imbalance so it doesn't work out quite that simply. And then there are "weird load" like dryers, which commonly put the heating element across both legs but the drum and blower motors across only one, resulting in some amps on both legs and some more amps on only one of them.

And while we're at it commercial buildings often run the lighting across both legs for wire gauge economy. So there's a lot of nuance on the load side. But on the supply side it's all 240V either way (well, kind of, could be 208V in case of a wye supply, but that's not common).
First comment from my partner was “I don’t know if this is the Parasite house of an Apple Store” :-).

But really, so many weird decisions here that make no sense: why would you put your kid’s bed next to your bedroom in a new build? Why the bathrooms next to the bedrooms for your kid? Why cement floors and no floor heating? How did you end up at 400A/96kw of service (my car charges slower than that!). Why not building a indoor pool instead of a outdoor one? Feels a lot like your architect and contractors saw you had too much tech money and not enough common sense.

That, and the fake pretending to care about the environment when you live in the middle of nowhere and have a heated outdoor pool with 96kw of service in Canada is just astounding!
> How can I offer explanation to the decline of a regime? Is it not obvious that mental health has been in decline for decades? Or that economic inequality is ever-growing? The average lifespan is in decline. Houselessness is on the rise.

Yes, and Facebook is contributing to the acceleration of those things.

Is that not something you have considered?
Correct, it has been proven many times that the lack of blindspot directly in front of the vehicle (to the driver) is the main factor. New "stubby" nose school bus designs greatly improved this over existing ones which were closer to a semi. Lately, front cameras and warning systems have made this less of a concern but it still remains the case.
The parent company is Jump Crypto - crypto HFT

It's parent company is huge HFT trading company too - Jump Trading

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/02/03/jump-trading-ba...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_Trading
There isn't, but there ought to be so that's on the todo now. But I'll try to give you a quick rundown here.

The steps to getting an ASN essentially entail setting up some objects over at the RIPE database and then letting us know what these are, we will then send you some paperwork to print, sign & return to us.
From here, we submit this application to RIPE (along with company documents, if applying as a company) and they will then request ID verification from you directly (if applying as an individual) or seek to validate your Company, if applying as a company. A few days later, RIPE will give you an ASN. This is the short version but it is essentially just a bit of paperwork and that's all.

The /48 is PA space we give to you in order for you to announce via BGP, with your fresh new ASN. This is included for the life of your ASN (or the heat death of the universe, whichever comes first) and you are free to take that and announce it wherever you want. We do make a polite request that you peer with us but it's not a requirement. If you do peer with us we can help get you up & running and your prefix announced.

Hope that helps a little & if not, feel free to find me on Discord (link is in the footer of the website) and I'll be happy to walk you through it.
If there was no emissions testing to begin with, these trucks would be designed to pollute for their entire service life, instead of just the last 20-40% of it.

Also, I don't want pollution in my town. The tradeoff of 'tiny reduction in cost of transportation for way more air pollution' is not worth it for me.

If some other town on the other side of the planet thinks that trade-off is worth it, that's their decision to make. The effect of this kind of pollution, unlike GHG emissions, is largely localized.
So this is a failed product then. Too good for tracking because it can be abused. While the new version alerts the thieves in the intended use case. Should have been given a 10x-50x price tag right from the start, to make it less available and affordable for malicious activities.
I've been using Tile for years. It's inferior, yes, but it's definitely good enough for spying.
I'm pretty confident gaming addiction is a thing, but not sure how strong (in terms of studies/evidence) the correlation is with these dark patterns. My hypothesis is that certain personality types are just more susceptible to gaming addiction, regardless of patterns.
Yup, but the current system is not a decentralized, immutable database.

At least you kind-of-sort-of have a chance at reverting a transaction.

Heck, my bank completely blocks my transactions over a certain limit (I need to ask for temporary limit increases through a separate process) and frequently delays transactions larger than another limit and they call me to verify that I want to do them.

Sure, blockchains could do the same, through intermediaries, but then... they've reinvented banks.
Wouldn't it be easier to dismantle the mast and rebuild it?
Most hallucinogens are actually pretty reasonable when it comes to testing. Between the reasonably long effects, and the relatively short period where you won't piss clean, you can pretty much use a standard urine test as a test for being under the influence.
Yeah I get it, but Tile's network is still good enough to find someone's house in a somewhat densely populated area. I've done it.

>What Apple created would be Facebooks, NSAs and pretty much every spying entities wet dream to get fingers on.

The government already has this with cell phones, no?
Private properties in JS classes are syntactic sugar that compile to variable definitions like this in the object's scope
This was early days when WhatsApp was still searching for a business model.

That business model turned out to be acquire critical mass and then be acquired, but I recall people talking about how WhatsApp was hemorrhaging money in the process.
I feel downright minimalist now with my 120A/120V grid service.
I guess you are not aware that TikTok is both highly profitable and valuable.
Anecdotally from playing Euro Truck Simulator, shorter trucks are also helpful in German zipper merge lanes, which are quite a bit smaller than typical US merge lanes. This article has a pretty good photo.

https://www.ozy.com/the-new-and-the-next/german-roads-are-sm...
Sound like you simply dislike computer games.
Can you explain how this is materially different from the apps corporate security already makes you install on devices to allow them to track and wipe the device? How it is materially different from what goes on my laptop?
> U.S. government mostly doesn't enforce its laws against unlawful entry

If you ever get arrested for anything, get background checked for anything, get reported by somebody to the police, need to deal with legal matter, need health insurance, or if one day somebody at ICE missed his morning coffee......

Life as a fugitive is not fun. Even if currently the law is not strictly enforced.
My 100 year old house in the US has 100A service- though I'm thinking of upgrading to 200A service to help with Level 2 EV charging.
As a game developer they have the sweetest gig – near unlimited funds and zero expectations.
People are frustrated because their online experience is more frustrating than before. App updates, social media, and even entertainment options are all tightening their grip on revenue streams and profit, which makes online experiences far more frustrating without most people knowing that it's occurring.

Also, opportunity is still being twisted by corporations to prevent employee advancement and growth as "pushback" to economic protests going on right now.

There is also fatigue from our current world-wide pandemic to where people aren't communicating and social as they were prior.

All of these things are manifesting in our daily experiences, and when combined with intentionally limited tools where people can communicate and express themselves and in normally encountering negative discourse online, many people are becoming even more and more aggravated, triggered, and aggressive towards each other as a result online and in real life.

Our user experiences are a major issue now that we rely so much on software and now that they have almost all been corrupted by monetization, inundated by advertisements, and limited because they've scaled too far to truly be useful to us as individuals.

It may sound like doom and gloom, but that worry goes away if you turn the tech off and go outside and talk to real people without all of the feckless apps and overpriced hardware involved.

We need to stop letting corporations and individuals over-run the Internet for financial gain and bring tech back down to earth so that everyone can thrive, not just the wealthy and popular few.