skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all energy is equal. Consider gas flaring in remote areas, which companies like UpstreamDataInc are tackling. Transporting the energy is impractical. Normally it costs a company to flare gas, but is a necessity because the methane that would otherwise be emitted into the environment is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.

Using excess methane power bitcoin miners puts an economic incentive on flaring gas and reducing the amount going into the atmosphere.
On reasonably modern phones, you cannot pass SafetyNet with an unlocked bootloader, see

https://nitter.net/topjohnwu/status/1237830555523149824

Luckily, all banking/authenticator apps I depend on only check for root and do not require SafetyNet. Yet....
Median is exactly the proper way to look at it

Averages are a horrible way to look at things like housing prices, incomes, etc

The median income of Canada may not be the median income or Toronto, but you still want to look at the median, and never the average

In 1984, the college major with the highest average starting salary was Cultural Geography

Know why? Michael Jordan

Averages are very deceiving most of the time
> actually HELPS the environment by making renewables more profitable by buying off-peak and surplus energy

I've heard this argument before, and it's intriguing. But I would imagine that storing that energy into batteries, or diverting it to where it might be needed but isn't available, would be a better use of surplus energy. Bitcoin might be competing with that, and that might be bad.

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Also, the ASICs used to mine BTC take energy to produce. And what do you do with them once they're obsolete?

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Or let's say you've got a factory producing goods. Then wouldn't it make sense to ramp up production during off-peak hours? At least it would be producing actual goods instead of casino tokens.
I mean, that's fine. If you're being 'cyberbullied', it's not an emergency, you can wait a few days.
I'm pretty new to jq (maybe 2 years of exposure) but from my perspective - on some level, jq does to json what powershell does to everything windows, except powershell gives me the get-member cmdlet, so when I don't know what is even in my object, I can explore.

Sometimes jq -r '.[]' works, but its all just trial and error. I use plenty of jq in my scripts, but I can never seem to visualize how jq looks at the data. I just have to toss variations of '.[whateveriwant].whatever[.want.]' until something works....I suppose the root of my complaint is that jq does not do a good job of teaching you to use jq. It either works, or gives you nothing, and while I've learned to work around that, I'll try anything that claims to be even 1% better than jq.
How do you "zero mouse acceleration" people survive? I have three monitors side by side. If I went with zero mouse acceleration, I'd need a 3 meter wide mouse pad in order to be able to move the mouse cursor edge to edge! Or do you do that mouse bicycle move where you constantly pick the mouse up, bring it back to its original position, move it some more, pick it back up, and so on? Such a weird subculture :)
IIRC Spectacle is no longer maintained and is spiritually succeeded by https://rectangleapp.com
I totally appreciate geeking out on something like this, and take no issue with people who are really into these locks.

However.

I find this argument to be a bit silly:

> If you get in without my notice, you may be lying in wait for me inside.

The risk to the average person for this type of threat is so low, that you are more likely to die because you fall in your shower and rescuers can't get through your door than an assassin lying in wait inside your house to get you when you walk in.
There are no community norms at the scale of Twitter. It's helpful to have community norms for a small forum to discuss model trains or mountain biking or whatever. But Twitter users are a cross section of the whole world. There's nothing to unify them.
Well done, Guys! This tool is a life-saver for Devs
> Global trade as we know it is possible because since WWII the US Navy has, by policy, secured the ocean for all participants in the global economy.

Was international trade that hard before Pax Americana started ruling the waves after WW2 ? Did trade ships had to "run armed or with escorts" outside of time of war ?
> If the SEC got an injuction against Elon tweeting

This is not what the SEC do, thus the whole thing is a non existent hypothetical. But lets game it out anyway.

As 100% owner of Twitter, any remediation for failure to comply with the injuction would fall on Elons shoulders. Be it monetary sanctions or even imprisonment.

Independant Twitter: Elon is silenced for months while the courts thrash it out -- Elon Twitter: Elon sits in county lockup for months while the courts thrash it out.

> Imagine if he threatened to let Trump back on twitter and whip up anti-biden sentiment in the run up to an election?

Threatened? Have you not been paying attention? Its basically nailed on Trump is back day 1. I see 0 correlation with Trump having a platform on twitter and anti-biden sentiment. If anything the greatest gift Trump recieved was his Twitter ban. Contrary to what you might hear, twitter is awash with anti-biden sentiment, pro-biden sentiment, anti-trump sentiment, pro-trump sentiment etc.
Anecdotes are fun, but the statistics paint a better picture.

It's not as interesting to say "My friend graduated college in 4 years, got a good job, and now he owns a 4BR house, and his wife stays at home raising their two kids"
Exactly this. In this case it does seem like emergency speed was justified. However, every year over 1,500 drugs are pulled off the shelves because, like vioxx, they were discovered later to have terrible side effects. Maybe some of these would have been found with different study demographics. Maybe not. Drugs are dangerous.
> I’m sure some of you are thinking: do hardware companies really need more data?

Right on.
Yes it is very difficult, it took me one year and thousands of unit, integration, e2e tests for it to become usable. It is quite stable now although in some situations a full reload still might be needed.
> All laws of physics are CPT-invariant.

That is true as far as we know, but we also thought all laws of nature are P and C and T invariant, and that turned out to be wrong: the weak interaction is not time invariant or, equivalently, not CP invariant (though it is CPT invariant as far as we know) [0].

That is, if you look at two particles with the same parity forwards in time, they will interact differently than if you look at them backwards in time. However, if you look at two particles with the same parity acting forwards in time, and you look at their anti-particles backwards in time and with opposite parity, you will still see the same interaction.

Also, I don't understand what you mean when you say "there is no separation of future and past in thermodynamics" - the second law clearly states that entropy increases with time in a closed system.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-symmetry
Yes, and it lives on in a variety of minimalist environments under active development, such as:

* U-boot: https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/common/cli_hush...

* Busybox: https://github.com/brgl/busybox/blob/master/shell/hush.c

* Barebox: https://github.com/barebox/barebox/blob/master/common/hush.c
Have you tried taking a look at UPX for the binary size? I found that it significantly decreased the size of the binary to the point where the problem was more the size of my dependencies (large JARs that could not be optimized away) and could get the binary to a completely manageable place. They aren't C small, but they were definitely better than traditional Java apps by an order of magnitude.
>Perhaps the film school should add some courses on networking, fund raising and an internship at film shoots?

My wife went to film school and it had all of these things. The experience was expensive, but she left school with a good network and job opportunities
How do you rig all that stuff up? Commandline or is there a pretty gui for doing it?
> The whole selling point of Apple is that "it just works"

It does (generally) just work! However, it works they way they want you to use it.

That's fine for me and I usually am happy to adapt. It doesn't mean infinitely configurable.
I think they are buffaloes, but yes, both look malnourished.
If he can’t improve it, he might just.
Brave New Faves, once a week on Saturdays. It's not really a "streaming service" but you might enjoy it.
> That's the obsoleted narrative that the proliferation of nuclear weapons would create long-lasting world-wide peace. ... Easily disproven by current events.

It's clearly not obsolete nor disproven by current events at all.

The conflict would have to involve two nuclear powers at war with eachother. The US and Russia are not at war; NATO and Russia are not at war; MAD hasn't failed what-so-ever, nor has it even come to that context. The situation is presently one nuclear power vs a non-nuclear power (being supplied with weapons by foreign allies).

The present events don't disprove the effectiveness of MAD any more than Russia in Afghanistan did.
Maybe give a hydrolysis plant for an ammonia generator, feeding an ammonium nitrate cooling pack factory. Extending the workable time catching fish, while producing sterile fertilizer for deep water.
Yeah it really started to come together when all my friends with literally no experience ended up getting picked up by companies working on really cool projects who won’t even engage with me.
I would start with "A Tour of C++", by Stroustrup.
Success story: Using Twitter data to study how people adapt to climate change
Something I've always disliked about electronics instruction, is discussion of actual applications.

Consider the esteemed Art of Electronics. By chapter, it covers Fundamentals, Transistors, Op Amps, Filters, and Oscillators.

That's all well and good. Except, in my case, while these are all interesting in isolation, I don't know what I am supposed to do with these components. How do I turn these components in to, say, a radio, or a garage door opener, or whatever else folks do with electronics?

No doubt it probably doesn't help to approach it without an application. That said, when learning programming, we had all of these contrived exercises to illustrate a programming concept. I remember an early Fortran exercise was computing the date for Easter in any particular year. Did I have a particular need to know where Easter fell? No, but it was nice to see math, and expressions, and variable, and input/output in operation vs just being presented with operators and precedence rules. We had to apply it to a "real world" task.

I took an electronics class in High School. And, frankly, we didn't build anything. We wired components together and took measurements. I learned Ohms Law, the resistor color code, etc. I did build, I think, an AM transmitter kit. Discrete components, PC board, soldered it all up. But I had no idea how it worked. Just an array random components soldered together.

Honestly, I think the success of modern hobby digital electronics, centered around mostly interfacing Things to a microcontroller, has such good velocity due to how little actual "electronics" knowledge you need to get your LED blinking or servo moving. It's mostly wiring up black boxes.
Live reloading is difficult, but it has some use cases.

There was some interesting discussion the last (?) time the topic was posted [1] and some links to similar projects.

In general, the limitations seem to prevent me from using techniques such as this as a default.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26035623
>I guess the unanswered question is did we humans make a society because we like people or did we make it simply because we needed goods and services?

This is being studied in depth right now. Metro Toronto has around 6 million people. You know how many people that's above optimal society size? Around 6 million. The optimum city size is less than 500 people. Scientifically proven fact, but how can cities fix this problem? People point to Paris where neighbourhoods are designed around being self-sufficient. Some point of Israeli settlements and such. I don't personally think we know the answer.

It's happening in Africa right now. People from the west have gone there and have introduced economics and how to work together to build a pencil. There's a ted talk I can't find that goes into 'bring your donuts to the market, you will sell more and therefore have more to buy' etc.

>If it’s the former, then society will still exist because we yearn for human interaction.

Society is not about humans it seems.

> I might buy a book written by a bot, but I’ll still discuss it with my friends. Could my friends be replaced by bots? Maybe, but in the same vein my friends could be replaced by strangers but I don’t do that because of human fixation on individuals (e.g. I care what Joe thinks because he is Joe, no substitutions are allowed).

Or you discuss it on HN. Cant really discuss it with a bot.

>However, if the later applies then society collapses except for the very few people who can create bots better than the bots can create themselves and the monarchs who managed to seize ownership of all the armed drones first.

Society spreads out. I'm not worried about death robots and terminators. As the cost of owning 100 acres in the middle of nowhere with your own seeded pond and internet fiber right to the house is basically 0. Robots build all those things for you. Big cities collapse for sure but small communities of close families and friends will be where it's at.
Recursive Filters (IIR)
"I need a 5% raise because inflation is 5%" and then stare at them and don't say anything until you hear what you want to hear.

If they give you 3% or something, say "so I'm getting a 2% pay cut" and tell your boss every couple days you're not happy with taking a pay cut. They'll figure it out
> but we value the convenience it brings

Think about that for a second, you just said your "convenience" is transferable for some minimal amount of human lives. That this psychopathic "market" thinks that is fine?

No, the market does not have all the truth. How many people know the amount of suffering the cause when they use their dryer or buy bitcoin? Do you really think that most stop to think about this because it is included in the manual of every dryer sold in the world?
Could you outline the most important advances from recent years that you see as contributing to the accessibility you are talking about?
Looks super useful for my business budgeting
Or, for $43B, he could pay $10,000 for the top 4.3m accounts to switch to a different service.
Seems really interesting so I have been Googling to try to figure out what you are talking about. Is the Hydraulic product a way to easily deploy GraalVM software? And maybe by adding some type of search and document browsing capability, it can become a new type of web browser?

Could you take a look at my comment in this thread and also at https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet

I have not totally updated that but my current thinking is that we really want to finish deconstructing the overlay operating system that the "web browser" has become. For example, we should actually not bundle the information browsing program and application VM together, but rather have a simple standard for them to work together. Such as, the info browser can save the list of the application binaries to a file or directory that the VM system knows to watch.

We also actually want to further decompose this into a multilevel window manager concept. On the first level, just a rule that applications save and reload window layouts when the user adjusts them.

I really think it should be a goal to standardize on some web assembly extension with simple UI features like canvas or framebuffer and keyboard events.
Because middlemen take your money and never give u cows. Generic facilities such as Police, law are not available for poor rural farmers in india. Moving cows is another big headache, people often run away with them.
I don't disagree with the fact that the USSR did most of the work for defeating Germany in Europe during WW2, but it was with heavy American logistical support, which is what the comment was about ("guns made, ships launched and rockets fired")
That's why freedom is not enough. There's a reason why France chose to combine liberty with equality and fraternity.
I'm not sure your premise is correct. Hired.com's 2022 report says Ruby is one of the most in demand skills.[1]

In any case I'm not saying Ruby is high barrier or anything. It isn't! It is totally viable to hire non rubyists and build them up. I have seen it before many times. Ruby is a simple, forgiving language with fantastic documentation and an excellent community. It is pretty ideal for newcomers really. Training pays off.

[1] https://hired.com/2022-state-of-software-engineers/
You're thinking too concretely. The hardware we know is only one tiny implementation of computation. The broader concept holds across any writeable tape of any sort, whether it uses voltages in silicon, rocks on a beach, or exists only in a person's mind, does not matter one bit -- they're all equally powerful.
Sometimes west is best, and US/Western colonialism/imperialism is good when it's preventing worse forms of authoritarianism.

People from the eastern bloc who were saved by benevolent US policy would do well to remember this.
Your point seems kind of circular. CS can't be dated because you have a list of what is considered CS and your list is a single source of truth.

But I wasn't arguing about terminology. I was just pointing out that many of the big, required courses in CS aren't that useful. Or maybe not as useful as the professors might imagine them to be.

So call it whatever you like. I'm just agreeing that the curriculum is dated.
PowerShell is "Python interactive done right". It's too bad it has a bad rap in open source community and it might never get the traction it really deserves. Sure it has it's downsides, which tech doesn't, but PowerShell has solved so many issues and annoyances with the shells that we've been used to, that it still comes out as the winner.

I've been using it since day one from 2006, every single day. It has come a long way and the current PS7 is the best shell experience there is. Hands down no contest.

Snover's passionate early presentation about the PS pipeline is a pretty cool tech video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=325kY2Umgw8
You are the one exaggerating by saying "lots of people" and "completely unbothered". Linux on the desktop is famous for being neither popular nor easy, surely this isn't new information for you.

If you like it, knock yourself out. I'll stick to OS's that employ product managers for my daily drivers.
that is the party line NATO would want you to believe.
> I'm a big fan of sensible defaults, lack of customisation (so lack of entropy) and just getting on and using it as designed, rather than trying to bend it to be something else.

This does seem to be the basic philosophy Apple has adopted for its devices. Which is why I don't use them. I don't like their defaults (which means the whole concept of "sensible defaults" doesn't really make sense except in reference to some particular set of users, and there are many such sets with different preferences), I like being able to customize things (because my idea of how I want to work is never the same as some designer's idea), and I'm going to be doing things that the OS designer didn't think of (particularly since I'm a developer). In short, my experience with Apple devices is that they don't let me work the way I want to work. So I don't work with them.
Freshii’s new ‘virtual cashier’–who works from Nicaragua for $3.75 an hour
Wow, as someone who went to a much more humble institution than an ivy school, that sounds terrible. We did have some kids like that in my classes, but our groups were small and somehow more than half of us truly wanted to engage with the subjects and I look back very fondly in the “luxury” to sit around debating the ins and outs of Plato’s allegory of the cave and how the Matrix (a recent movie at the time) seemed to portray the same theme and story.
Well, he’ll get to that.
Is there much different between FlyCode and other translation management systems (TSMs) like Localize? We use Localize at Notion, and set up a nightly sync operation that auto-merges a PR of phrase changes. Those diffs look quite similar to the FlyCode intro video. It was annoying to set that bot up once, but now phrase changes are quite seamless.

It seems like FlyCode does a better job integrating with Github. Is there anything else that's different from the TSM feature-set?
There is only one way to do so with a 100% success rate - get another offer and show it to your boss. Even if he says no, you still get the raise :D

On the other hand if the raise you are asking for is above current market rate (which could easily trail behind inflation), you don't really have much options.
You're not wrong, although I'd be a little hesitant to start that because my job is somewhat dependent on being in google's good graces (and I've definitely heard of entire companies being banned when a single employee - or even former employee's - account gets flagged.)

Also, I find it unlikely that we could compel google to do the right thing and unlock everyone's phones, even if we won. I think the more likely outcome would be a small monetary compensation that was hardly worth anyone's time (except for the lawyers).
Is the tldr argument that if we bring down the price of Bitcoin less miners will be motivated to mine and thus release less carbon?
This argument is what people would like to see happening because it makes sense in their heads, but in the reality it turned out that the opposite is true and that cryptocurrency miners are putting coal plants back to use in order to grab cheap energy to mine[0].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/18/bitcoin-m...
> If there were a loop, it would "always" have been there.

Yes, if the universe is fixed, anything in it has always been there. Basically it would be like a recording of a movie - both the intro and the ending exist at the same time, and the film could be circular.
> I have serious doubts the outside world dumped more than $5 billion on Ukraine's side.

They did send about $5 billion worth of equipment. It is probably a factor why Russia isn't currently sieging Kiev.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/22/ukraine-weapons-mil...
With a physical alarm bell and everything!

Unfortunately having smartphone is kinda mandatory around here for internet banking and commute tickets. Signal is also important for me personally.
Let the Collapse Start with Me
AirTags last longer than a device that uses GPS and cellular to provide location data. AirTags offload the sensor energy needs to the mobile devices everyone carries on their person and keep charged.
>Pacifism is free-riding.

Normal peaceful life is free-riding. Our entire lifestyles and our inability to comprehend what it's like to live in a war zone is only due to the fact that millions fought for it 80 years ago, and won. Violence is not the answer only once someone's been violent on your behalf and crafted a world where violence can be rejected.
> So what? You can opt-in to tracking in the macOS System Preferences, pane "security and data protection", tab "Privacy" at any time you wish should you not have done so during the macOS onboarding process.

You cannot opt-in. You can go to `System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Analytics & Improvements` and opt-out, but the default is not opt-in.
In fields with a lot of demand, like programming, loads of companies will go to recruitment fairs at universities and routinely hire people without any personal connections or professional experience.

Fields like fashion and journalism, on the other hand? Unless Mom or Dad has someone who owes them a favour you'll find there are far more graduates than jobs. Compounded with a nigh-endless supply of people willing to work unpaid internships in the hopes of one day getting paid.