skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not a question of whether that's good or bad, it's just inevitable.

Things are always inevitable until they aren't. The ozone depleting was "inevitable" until it wasn't. I don't find this "tragedy of the commons" style argument very convincing when you know that what you're doing is harmful.

> The number one goal of humanity should be to find or create sources of energy that give us orders of magnitude more supply than there is demand.

Agreed. That's in the future. Right now, however, there is an environmental cost to energy usage that's simply being ignored. Costs should always be balanced with what they produce. Currently, the environmental cost of bitcoin is far exceeding the benefits, and the vast majority of people participating aren't even concerned with any of the benefits of bitcoin other than trying to make a buck.
300k/yr with amazing perks for sitting on your ass. Lots of people think that's the best thing evar. Unless you care about, say, building novel things people actually use. Then it's a dystopian nightmare.
I'm completely clueless on the court process. Wouldn't that mean that, depending on who you got, you might have to travel an absurd distance just to get your court case heard? It's good to help fight patent trolls, but it sounds like it puts a lot of burden on the sincere cases.
Business travel is not as fun as it sounds
"Soulless" -- they'll be low quality, both in rendering and in plot/acting, but they'll be anything but soulless. Each will be a labor of love of someone with a dream.
I own a chunk of the Berlin Wall. If we had left it in one piece, imagine how much historical value it would have.
What's the relevance of the anime theme in the linked video? It also doesn't show any of the points discussed in the tweet.
> I once saw a sensor chip that claimed to measure both CO2 and TVOC (total volatile organic compounds). After finding some further documents on the part I discovered it was a total scam. It only actually measured one of those things, then it used this measurement to look up an expected value of the other in a table the manufacturer made based off “common indoor measurements”.

I remember similar thing with some UVC sensors, they just returned expected UVC based on UVA level
Bitcoin mining does not need to be nearly the scale that it is right now to sustain the volume of transactions. If the value of bitcoin completely crashed tomorrow, back down to a cent per coin, how many people would still be interested? How many people would still be mining?
> If we can build up an immense library of clearly defined problems and solutions, with variants which fit with all conceivable unique contexts, then maybe it will become possible for AI to provide useful assistance.

Agreed. What you're describing (an immense library of problems and solutions) is essentially what's in the head of a very experienced developer. A system that helped surface those in a simple way for "new" problems so that people aren't constantly reinventing the wheel and making the same mistakes would be great. I've seen ideas about similar "tacit knowledge" systems in other domains (though I'm not sure there is a good one yet). For software, such a system would be way more helpful, and a much better goal, than this kind of idiot-savant gpt stuff
That would still waste bandwidth.
I turned down two job offers
Because Netflix and data centers provide a huge tangible good relative to their energy cost. Bitcoin just doesn't.

It might in the future, but there way it runs today? No way.
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>If the powers that he wanted him to stay, then this would have been an Official Apology with The Most Sincere Words, a Commitment to Do Better, and then business as usual. IMO, what he said was immaterial and is distracting. I don’t believe he was fired for saying this, even if he’s a public leader that is always representing Apple.

When has Apple ever done that?
Launch day purchased M1 MacBook Pro with 4TB SSD.

I have custom pmset setup to NOT dump to disk (mostly) with two aliases:

pmset-fast: sudo pmset -ab hibernatemode 0 sleep 0
pmset-secure: sudo pmset -ab hibernatemode 25 sleep 0 displaysleep 1

First one is memory only, if the battery dies, the battery dies and the OS goes away.

The second one is hard drive only, closing the lid writes to disk only and puts the laptop into deep sleep.

I know I'm weird for having this but since I run the first one (fast) 99% of the time I can basically say I almost never write hibernation files to disk.
Yes, and it has already been done.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoinpos/

Bitcoin is open-source software. Anyone can fork the code and change it however they want. Just need to convince others to run a node with your code and convince the market that your new network protocol is worth something.

However the history of Bitcoin hard forks has shown that they're all almost certainly doomed for failure or irrelevancy, because one of the main value propositions of the original Bitcoin is that it's resistant to change by any single authority.

Want to replace the original Bitcoin using PoW with a new Bitcoin using PoS? You have to convince everyone running a Bitcoin PoW node (~50k globally) to switch over to the PoS client, including all the miners around the world (~6k globally).

Why did it work for Ethereum? Because it's centralised. The community will follow the lead of whatever Vitalik and the Foundation states is the path forward for the protocol. Bitcoin has no such centralised leadership and so is resistant to top-down decision making.
This starts all the way at the interview btw. If you go out of your way to do something extra, you’ll be suddenly judged on it even if it wasn’t originally in the scope of the interview, so you’re pushed to be the most average you can get.
Launch day purchased M1 MacBook Pro with 4TB SSD.
To be more precise, the market has realised that the economic illiteracy of our leaders is worse than previously feared.

And I use "leaders" with scornful irony
Typically an API gateway is behind a lot of these. Lookup KrakenD, Gloo Mesh as examples.
Star-link + widespread mesh network nodes? Although, what about jammers?
> Management want to expand at all cost. The only metric that matters to most managers in Google seems to be the size of their teams. The larger a team, the more "successful" a manager will likely to be.

Good old Parkinson’s law strikes again.
Why did ArchLinux embrace Systemd? (2016)
So, he could use his money to help his country?
I said in a sibling comment that scheduler activations may have been a flawed idea, but I don’t think the space of user-space scheduling APIs is fully explored. Google’s ghOSt work is an example of that. If io-uring is proof of anything, it’s that there’s still fundamental changes we can make in how we schedule work with the kernel.
This has a hint of a moral relativism. “All things people do/will pay for must be valuable and good”. I think that is mistaken.

Maybe we could say “all human desire is ok, but behaviors can be good or bad”
https://github.com/oxen-io

Seems to be a fork from Signal by oxenio. It's selling point seems to be the crypto currency relation?
The point is that BTC network is for secure & decentralized final settlement. That's really the most important aspect of a sound money.

For daily transactions Lightning bundles those transactions (as long as the channel exists) into a live tally based in a single BTC transaction. The beauty is that the Lightning protocol even uses the BTC protocol to coordinate that live tally over a channel, without having to commit it to the blockchain at every update. You don't lose security much, in fact you actually end up gaining privacy.
It's an inevitable consequence of Madoff's Third Law of Finance. There's just no getting around it.
> The "tax cuts for the rich" aspect of the mini budget was miniscule

In the grand scheme of things, that is true. However, that isn't the only issue - and public perceptions count. Here's how it's put in an article [1] in the Economist:

> Cutting taxes is the politically easy bit of a growth plan, in other words. But by needlessly cutting the top rate of tax on the highest earners and whacking homeowners with higher mortgage payments, the government has associated growth with unfairness in the public mind. That impression will strengthen as Ms Truss slashes public spending to regain market confidence.

[1] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/09/28/how-not-to-run-...
My thinking about carbon taxes is they will just result in political blowback and a lot of the push comes from entities with an interest in the status quo..

Bill gates is right, trying to impoverish people in the developed world would both result in blowback and be a disaster if implemented. I think there is an 80/20 rule with consumption in developed countries. 20% consume 80% of the resources. Getting the 20% to reduce consumption is a won't fix politically. Yet degrowth people think somehow the 80% can reduce their consumption and not go under. Look at the amount of reduction in consumption that triggers a recession, it's 10X less than the shock degrowth people are demanding.

The complicating factor is the upper classes are completely resistant to any sort collective action that benefits lower class people. And they are hellbent to make sure no one ever gets to see a successful example.
It is completely decentralized and works like Tor (Onion Routing) while others are centralized or federated.

It is based on the signal messenger, the apps look nearly identical.

And you don't have a phone number or an account login, you just have a long UID that you use like your phone number and a random recovery phrase. It is all about not sending much metadata about you, your phone, etc.
It’s just an expression ofc i blame the engineers (actually mostly tech leads and management)
This has always been my opinion: by definition the UN can't really have enforcement power...but a huge problem in international politics is that you have to actually have protocols and procedures by which the various world powers can communicate with each other at the correct levels of government.

It's the physical action problem: when a government makes policy, how does that go from words to actions? In the international relations business it's the same issue: the prime minister or president or whoever wants to communicate a message reliably to other nations - but who exactly do they talk to do it? (this problem was why the hotline system between the US and Russia was setup after the Cuban missile crisis - a major issue driving the decision making was 6 to 12 hour communication delays trying to go through embassies and hoping messages were being accurately sent).
The comment on Jupiter and Ganymede seems viscerally aware of Ganymede's role at court, having nothing to do with cups.
I was in middle school. We called it Nutscrape. It was abysmally slow, agreed.

But it wasn't a simple piece of software, either. This sound recorder is.

And I'll let an expert chime in here, but I think we're many orders of magnitude faster now, on the hardware side.
The Crisis of Men and Boys
I think that quote can often be the source of misguided beliefs like "it's OK to scan the whole Documents directory".

'Cuz why waste time doing something harder? Premature optimization and all that.

Honestly, in my experience, basically the opposite of the quote is true. If you want your software to be fast, you need to be thinking about speed in the design from the very beginning. Very hard, perhaps impossible, to make something not designed for speed from the beginning be as fast as something that was.

Of course there's a difference between having a holistic design that you know can go fast and immediately wasting time eeking out x% of speed in some random sub-fn that will only run y% of the time, when x and y are small.

But really performance does need to be built into the design.

(As an example, look at the heroic steps that are being taken to try to make the Rust compiler faster. It's slowly getting better, but it will never be fast. On the other hand, I would predict that if you started making a Rust-like-language from day 0 with a fast compiler as a goal, you could get something much faster.)
Even worse, there are developers with games due to come out in a few weeks or months who are just hearing about this from the articles.

https://twitter.com/sfbtom/status/1575558078367690752?s=21&t...

https://twitter.com/burgerbecky/status/1575585277594066945?s...
It's a tricky calculation for sure. Depends on the likelihood and duration of those pipelines ever being used again, and the take-up of alternate, renewable energy sources - or just doing without.
Why natural? Is it some effect of the "petro-dollar" thing?
> Sadly, Bitcoin's sales pitch was not what it delivered. It is not used as a new currency, it's simply a wildly speculative "investment".

That's out of Bitcoin's control. One could argue that it is a way to sabotage the project -that of turning it into an speculative investment.
While most estimates are between 150K to 250K, with at least one published estimate as high as 1.2M, the point of the quote was not to argue about causality numbers, but to demonstrate that numbers are "highly disputed," with an example of a lower estimate and claim of consensus.

IBC project in particular has issues, including accusations of internal anti-war bias and biased sources. IBC has been accused of both undercounting and overcounting. In any regard, due to so much criticism from all sides, other studies are probably more reliable, but even these do not agree.

My larger point was using the Iraq War in comparison to the Russo-Ukraine War to argue the US is no better than Russia, or vice versa, is tu quoque fallacy.
For clarification: Are you suggesting Dropbox’s leaders aren’t well rounded? Or that they are and that they also need to be stellar engineers?

I think you make a great point either way. I’d elaborate on that and say a business leader needs to deeply understand the product they make/sell, so if your core product is tech, I agree and see your point. But I still think they need to be really good at all facets of the business. They still need to understand the market and how to promote and how to close sales. Those skills don’t really develop if the only thing you do is engineering.

Take HubSpot’s CTO Dharmesh for example. Brilliant engineer! But he applies his curiosity to understanding people and markets and solving unsolved problems. He understands the whole business. He also understands his own shortcomings and surrounds himself with people with complementary skills, because he knows full well that engineering alone isn’t enough.
> ...do we really need to keep him "alive" as an actor?

Does any movie really need $BigStar when $NewTalent could act just as well?
Why would we not tax the source of the problem. ie dirty energy generation via a carbon tax? That would then incentivize all energy use to become greener, rather than ad-hoc singling out individual use cases? A decent carbon tax would eliminate most dirty proof of work mining, as electricity is the major cost
I think it probably matters to the individual interviewees and also matters to the hiring committee because it reduces the quality of the hiring signal.
GPU Mining Is Dead, Where Are My Cheap GPUs?
What incentive exists for any programmers to care about speed unless it is a real constraint?

I’m not paid for a good user experience. My manager is happiest when features ship quickly.
What? North Korea, india, Pakistan are not on the security council, and most mitigation of nuclear war probably happens via things that are less public (red phones). Hell. The US and Russia even collaborate - to this day - on a space station, that's independent of and does more for preventing nuclear war than the UN security council
"Yellow" Tweetdeck.
Internally shared post. Any employee can confirm.
Another side effect of these shenanigans is that it's pushing the BRICS countries closer together.

Their SWIFT alternative has been in the works for at least 7 years. Their share of world population is over 40% and their share of GDP is over 20%.

And three of the five have nukes. Unlike Iraq, Libya, Syria, they won't be as easy to "liberate."
Ask HN: Is Climate Change even possible to change course on?
Background: Friend sent me a link to website today that’s been covered on HN before, looked into it, and based on my estimates, using that technology, it would cost over $100 trillion to get the current global production of carbon dioxide to zero; not mentioning specific tech intentionally, because I am trying to avoid making this post about it alone.

Is Climate Change even possible to change course on? Is the average person able to make a difference, if so, how —if not, what should they know?
Not only this, but these statistics are all pre-pandemic. Things have changed a LOT in America since 2019, and not for the better.
I'm not trying to be correct (I'm still confused). And here you stated they "can" mitigate - which sounds like it's not actually in practice (yet?)
> Morals matter especially when they are inconvenient.
Why can't you justify a console? The cheapest Xbox is 300 dollars. If the console lasts 5 years, that's similar to paying 5 dollars a month for a streaming service.
And honestly review should be something site pokes user to add at least month after purchase, not 20 seconds after they opened the package
A funny aspect of these stories is “secret” and “top secret” designations.

There was another story about a memo with “top secret” or “secret “ stamps on pages, that an agency had distributed internally. The information was like, use AES-256 for important data, or key length 3072 with RSA. It was all well known material, nothing secret. I was like, WTF!
I would be interested what percentage have ever opened it/used it?

I extremely rarely use the software I write as intended. I am just running it against tests.
I bet Netscape 2.0 would startup more or less instantly on modern hardware. Modern computers are so bonkers fast that everything should be instant on them. I mean, new CPUs can do 5 billion cycles per second, per core. To have an operation take 1 second, someone wrote software so slow that the computer took billions of steps to do something. How wild is that!

Whenever you have to wait for things on modern computers, you’ve essentially been robbed.
It won't necessarily work for single-player games, since it's trivial to build a game so that it requires a connection to an external server (put in some API with game logic there. Make sure logic isn't easily reversed engineered). Of course, a game company could always make a game which was built to run locally. It's all the company's choice regardless of NFTs, which are as useless as always.
Note to mention "In the Land of Oz: The Search for the Wizard":

https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/in-the-land-of-oz-th...

Which reads like a bad translation of a bad translation. Like the the old joke about the AI program which was supposed to translate "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" from English to Russian to English, and after the roundtrip came up with "The vodka is good but the meat is rotten."
>How is a terrible deal?

you got the answer to that right in the title.
Also, consider the energy required to mine precious metals or to produce those hard assets you mention.
It is quite common now. Their not crossing any boarders here. /s
You are presenting a disingenuous argument, intentional or not.

Netflix is literally 50% of "Bread and Circus".
Bitcoin is a threat to the most important part of the power structure.

With inflation raging and a cold European winter coming (and that's not to say that plenty in north america won't be choosing between heat and food) if I were you I would be more careful with how overtly you defend the propaganda outlets of the status quo.
He spends a lot of money to be heard. Nobody was listening to him until he started throwing millions around to organizations to platform him.
I'd bet those people only use cars when needed. Nobody will go cruising on a puke machine.

And we never need Oculus for anything. That's a big difference.
Anyone has their numbers? With this mass refund, I believe it is the biggest financial failure in the history of the videogame industry.
> I just wrote 1.7GB in the last 30mins while reading HN on Firefox

To be fair an HN page can consume hundreds or even thousands of bytes
This is not correct. Sushi menus for restaurants in Tokyo use a mixture of kanji, hiragana, and katakana.
Two of my favorite actors - how did I miss this? I'm adding this to my queue.

Also, your username totally caught me off guard and made me laugh.
They are free to cease offering unpaid accounts if they wish.
Why would s/he? S/he is prob. 10 levels below the actual decision maker and sometimes is not even a fulltime employee.
It’s 0.00038462% and I completely agree with your point that the majority of this discourse is based on anecdotes and non specific statistics, I don’t support slavery of any kind but I also don’t support pressuring social change based on bullshit. I’ve had it happen to me once for a small and largely inconsequential thing arbitrarily banned by my state government and I will never stand for it again it’s a feeling of powerless violation for nearly zero genuine social good, yes there’s probably some, but it was like this, on the order of a few police officers less inconvenienced each week.
> His underlings know that, and they know they can do stupid shit and work against each other without accountability.

This is what really sunk Eastman Kodak. The popular wisdom about them missing digital isn’t really true. Heck they owned many of the key patents. But everyone was too busy focusing on growing their little fiefdom for the company to use its assets and market position effectively.

I recall one year the CEO announced he was reducing headcount by some number and the next year it had actually gone up.
Multithreading in Rust
Why documentary horror Häxan still terrifies, a century on
I'm referring to the complacency of the last 10 years, when every time the fed even muttered about raising rates they caved to Wall St panics and politics. Those super low rates are primarily responsible for everything from the insane wealth inequality we've developed over the last 10 years to housing becoming largely unaffordable to people losing their shirts gambling on bitcoin.

What kept inflation at 2% was a perfect historical moment in global growth/globalization that will not come again in our lifetimes. Now when we need to borrow and invest in our economies the most, the cheap money is nowhere to be found up because we spent it all.

It was a big party, and instead of having a few drinks and going home slightly buzzed we binged out, threw up in the toilet and are now waking up in a puddle of our own making with a raging hangover. And now all of a sudden we're being proactive because we've decided drinking a glass of water might be a good idea? Yeah, it was a good idea last night. It's the only idea left now.
""premature optimization is the root of all evil" is the root of all evil."
Which reminds me, whatever happened to magic leap?
It’s amazing since, ever since I stopped using any Google product, nothing I use has shut down any more.
Who's the best-in-class dictator? Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, or Franco?
I hope you, your family, and the community are doing well.

Were you in Western Cuba when it made landfall? That was well before yesterday. Any particular landfall in general will be arbitrary and becoming Cat 4 is more or less objective.
Some ideas. Feel free to ignore.

Dry eyes? Maybe Sjogrens.

I spent years barely able to look at a monitor. Turned out my prescription was constantly shifting due to cranial pressure. Medication fixed.

Eventually found out that eye doctors were giving out wrong prescription when using machine. Has to be done by hand. It’s rare, but happens.
Going to be an interesting next 2 decades as these funds insolvency becomes an issue.