skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It burns the energy as a proof, its not just doing it because its badly designed.

The reason most money goes into bitcoin is probably, that people consider it safer than proof of stake.
I want to debate whether Philips actually committed corporate manslaughter. That's law, not semantics. The OP said the executives should be in jail for manslaughter. Do you think the criterion for going to jail for manslaughter should be "it made people feel angry on a website"? I don't.
Or, maybe there wasn't but they didn't care enough to test so they disabled it 'just to be on the safe side'.
Haha thanks for reading!
> Do we want some institution teaching us how to raise our kids

Whether or not we want it, institutions do teach parenting. I, for one, took the parenting course when I was in high school. I also took another parenting course offered by the local health authority just before I was about to have my first child.

Perhaps what is really going on is that parents/would-be parents don't want to be taught?
I hope they also publish the Lessons Learned report mentioned above, would be an interesting read.
Ok. My apologies!
There's a lot of expertise about COVID here! The problem is, in a variational autoencoder discussion, that's mostly all there is, and in COVID threads there is lots of energy from non-COVID experts.

This isn't complicated. You can just look at any COVID thread and see what a shitshow it is. That's not for lack of COVID expertise, though most of that expertise is probably Homer-melding-backwards-into-the-hedges when they see the thread.
There is no upper limit to the value generated by a slackjawed middle age guy saying “Woooooaahhhhooohhh!!!” to another little guy talking about tiger penis hairline treatments
Problem is we need that as a species, but success is individual, and the playbook is not the same.
Love this - There have been several fantasy map gen toys in the past, what I really like about this one was the opening passion for the maps in the paperback fantasy novels I read in the 80s - and how the pages still felt and smelled. I loved this maps - I like this tool - its fantastic for achiapeligo maps, and would be cool to import into an Enshrouded like SandBox if that ever is released.

https://i.imgur.com/Fcy8qQl.png

https://i.imgur.com/dPNgvZg.png
No they aren't! This comment isn't proposing anything!

They are arguing that even total bans should not be dismissed by default, and that there can exist situations “depending on the harms” that justifies a total ban.

And they did not say that in a vacuum, but as an answer to another comment that straight out dismissed total ban as an option.

This comment is in no way advocating for a total ban of PFAS in particular.
(Why) do you consider Bitcoin to not be a waste of energy, independent of TikTok or Reddit? What problems has it solved in the last decade that would make it sensible to shut down Reddit before you shut down Bitcoin?

(I'm not even climbing up the tree of Bitcoin's energy consumption being many multiples greater than Reddit's.)
LeetDebug – A visual debugger for Python 3 and Leetcode
Ask HN: What is the underlying factor behind the tech layoffs?
I've seen a lot of speculation about what's causing the tech layoffs but it's still not especially clear to me what the underlying cause is.

Particularly I've wondered why hiring seems to be going up in other industries but down in tech.

Higher interest rates seems like the most likely cause to me, but wouldn't that have the same impact on other industries?

Interested in HN's theory of mind on it.
Over the last couple of months, I have been working tirelessly to create (probably) the best and most fun way to learn about algorithmic problem solving and to debug your Leetcode solution - Leetdebug. It is not only a full-fledged Python debugger, right in your browser, but it also creates abstract visualisations of data structures used in the algorithm to make you fully appreciate it's operation. Code away and let me know what you think!
That’s not quite what I meant but is exactly what I said. I include myself in the masses. I want smart people to decide things for me. I don’t know how to negotiate trade deals, infrastructure projects and a fleet of other things. Short term leaders and changed objectives mess with progress.

I want someone to who understands to make good decisions, and the ability to remove them if they start failing. How that’s best done from my perspective is with an electoral cycle that’s fine tuned such that results can be achieved, but that incumbents can’t rest.
The difference is that if the standards were in place before the manufacturing process, they shouldn't need to be recalled in the first place. "Forcing" means something different when standards aren't met vs. recalls related to fixes due to some non-standardized issue.
You buy drugs in the internet /S
It's possible that once people start, they gain satisfaction from the job by helping people. But that doesn't mean that they began that profession because of that. Also consider that many doctors were pushed by their parents into become so. I don't think students spend their childhood chasing "A"s and extra circulars in order to help people.
Who said they weren't?

Maybe it was that weird guy on a pole out in the field
How I Grew from $0 to $4000 and Then Messed It Up
In Geekbench, which doesn't correspond to real world use. Mid-budget Android phones handily outperformed top of the line iPhones on time to interactive in productivity apps until recently, and now they are merely neck and neck. https://9to5google.com/2023/03/01/galaxy-s23-ultra-speed-tes...
> Nobody can turn off IPv4 today

... for all services.

There are internal servers talking to other servers which don't need ipv4. There's zerotier that gives you a private IPv6 network regardless of your network capabilities. The only part that actually still requires ipv4 is the general public user.
Can they use some of that money to actually fix there horrible syncing with music on Android?
Its been years now since it worked right.
This will directly subtract from your mileage, and DC charging is among the most expensive electricity in the country.
The reason that AGI has proven so elusive is that traditional techniques can't achieve it - as our work shows, this includes all statistical approaches. Statistical approaches can only be benchmarked statistically, and are mathematical techniques, so they require math, data, etc. It is critical to note that this proof method, while popular within Computer Science for the reasons just noted, is not a 'strong' method of proof - as but one example it can never reach the levels of proof that can prove propositions 'for all n' within mathematics.

The only way to prove AGI is by showing that the right properties hold of a system at its top level. Generality means a guarantee that the system can handle any future problem seen or unseen, but we can't generalize from examples; showing it working for 10 cases doesn't tell you if it will work for the 11th.

Given that we prove our system 'for all n', the proof that we provide in this paper is in fact far stronger than even what you've asked for here. We employ the strongest possible proof mechanism available.

As for formal descriptions and applications, these are extensively provided in the papers noted in an earlier comment (cited in the proof paper). See especially "Semantically-based priors and nuanced knowledge core for Big Data, Social AI, and language understanding" for a mathematical treatment of waste entropy and how and why atoms work at a fundamental level.
Tarantino isn't exactly an obscure persona. But in general, perhaps your obscure stuff is known to the streaming platforms.

Was coincidentally just talking about this last weekend with some people. A lot of regional indie movies that we remember from youth are not available for streaming anywhere at any price. Movies that reached the theaters but only locally (one city or a few neighboring cities).

At the local video club places there used to be a whole rack dedicated to these local movies. Now, they're gone forever.

Occasionally someone finds an old VHS in a storage box and takes the time to upload it to youtube and things resurface, but that's the only hope.
Ratatui 0.26
Good for him.

So far it's been OK. I don't plan to buy the subscription, but I check the web app from time to time and listen if I find something interesting.

> Spotify reportedly cut an $18 million check for Meghan Markle to headline a podcast called “Archetypes,” though it struggled to nab a top spot on the Spotify charts, which was blamed on staffers’ error in judgment.

Shocker. :D
I also never ponder personal projects from a commercial standpoint. But I sure see that narrative here on HN frequently.

I have to conclude that most people on HN talking about commercializing are doing purely software projects.

My projects very often include hardware. Commercializing hardware+software projects is hard... orders of magnitude harder than just software. That's probably a factor in why the idea of making money from wiring/soldering/dremeling/hacking things is so far from the forefront of my mind.

As for what's attractive... novelty and usability/street cred do seem to be my subconcious goals. "Street cred" or even just aspiring to have people use a software tool is certainly a form of non-profitable entrepreneurship.
everyone like to scream free market until they run into something they don't like.

If I am paying for the electricity do I have the right to use that electricity however I like? Next time you don't like how much electricity "bitcoin" uses ask yourself: am I okay with the government dictating how I am supposed to use electricity? in fact, am I okay with the government dictating anything that can and should be adjustable through the free market?
Assume that if I have a ‘no junk mail’ sign, I either will be informed some other way that doesn’t involve unwanted propaganda, or I do not care.

Anyone with the mentality ‘this junk mail is more important that your junk mail sticker’ can go fuck themselves - similar behaviours in the physical realm include rape.
No matter your impact, you will eventually be forgotten, which IMO is the best case scenario–in the worst case, you're reviled for a while for something you'd never even understand or imagine while you were alive, and then forgotten anyways. The longer you're remembered, the higher the likelihood that society's values change enough for vilification. The best you can do is to try to instill your values in those around you while you're alive to live decent and comfortable lives, enough that you believe they will propagate them to those they care about after you are gone, and so on and so forth. There doesn't have to be any one name attached to such values.
It's a classic triage problem. But "tell them to go away" isn't a triage strategy.
> Would you like Elon Musk’s life as of 2024? What about Jeff Bezos? Or, for that matter, Vladimir Putin?

They seem to be enjoying it. There's a stratum that believes in their right to do whatever they wish and all of them are in it.
https://ycharts.com/indicators/visa_inc_v_total_transaction_....

Their volume is impressive.
That’s lower than I would have expected. I looked up some stats: the EU is 5.9% of global population and has a 17% share of global GDP.

Maybe they are living their lives and not on their phones 24/7? :) That’s my best guess.
The correct term may just be "non-compliant design"
Not disagreeing, only nitpicking on this being the most egregious divide between rich and poor. It's been worse before. Rather, one could argue it's the best its ever been in human history. Progress is slow.
There is also Coq's documentation system, which has its own distinctive look:

https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/lf-current/Basics....
Generally, after asserting that someone is drastically wrong, the next few paragraphs should be about backing that claim up with convincing evidence and explanations. Instead you digressed into talking about droplets vs aerosols and forgot to even make a connection between that and the "drastically wrong" take you were replying to.
Money closely followed by greed. The first one is why any layoff happens. The second one is when you see a large net profit by the company who performed the layoffs.
Did you order the code red?! I want the TRUTH.

(Sorry, so sorry, it was just too low-hanging not to to pluck: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W2G2sac9s34)
…both of the users of this feature are outraged
AliExpress has been around since 2010. I'm not saying there's nothing shady going on in their funding scheme, but clearly someone thinks they're worth continuing to pump money into.
I agree with you, yet I can set up a sensibly controlled Linux notebook, but I cannot do that with either iOS,OSX or windows.

I think that tells me something about the actual priorities of the people building all those systems.
Bitcoin mining is not just an economic activity but a catalyst for innovation in renewable energy. By inherently seeking the most cost-effective power sources to maximize profitability, Bitcoin miners are driving the demand for, and thus the development of, cheap, renewable energy worldwide. This process aligns perfectly with the goal of expanding humanity’s energy supply, a necessity for continued growth and technological advancement. The decentralized, uncensored nature of Bitcoin provides invaluable financial infrastructure on a global scale, while simultaneously incentivizing the energy sector towards efficiency and sustainability. Viewing Bitcoin mining’s energy consumption as a problem overlooks the broader benefit: it acts as a buffer in energy markets, ensuring there’s always an incentive to increase supply and reduce costs. Criticisms focusing on environmental impacts should address the real issue—regulating harmful energy sources—not curbing the innovative push for more and cheaper energy that Bitcoin mining embodies. Condemning Bitcoin’s energy use echoes failed collectivist approaches, ignoring the potential for positive, market-driven environmental and economic outcomes.
But it's not an alternative to the financial system, outside of crime in order to do anything useful with it you have to move it back into the existing financial system.
Tech doesn't solve almost any real issue people have. Life is pretty much like it was in the 90s except more distracting.
A collection of links from the Twitter thread:

https://serl-robot.github.io/ "SERL, our open source software framework that enables learning manipulation skills in 15-30 minutes from raw images"

https://sites.google.com/view/reboot-dexterous "dexterous hands doing in-hand manipulation, from pixels, in just a few hours."

https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/aprl "just 5 minutes (!) to learn to walk from scratch"

https://sites.google.com/view/fastrlap "Learns in as little as 20 minutes to race indoors, outdoors, etc."
As soon as you know it won't work. Of course, that's the hard part. The level of near-delusion required to get something off the ground makes it very difficult to know when to let go.
Still can't get away with murder. Kings and lords could :)
Running my AC and my oven at the same time adds to grid resiliency, as the loads can be easily shed.
Game journalists are truly just bitter complainers. They took a political turn and just got consumed with complaining. Many of them lament the fact that they have to play so many games of low quality and then just treat the entire body of gaming as a chore. Consolevania has always been the epitome of gaming critique because they really only play games they like, or hate but enjoy because it's so bad it's funny
> just because it is Chinese.

That's not why.
Kodable is hiring a Full Stack Engineer to help teach kids to code
Basically, they are jerks but not to everyone and you can profit off it if you keep yourself in group of people they are not jerks to.
Simon PJ glares :)

For those not in the know, Simon Peyton Jones is one of the originators of Haskell, and sort-of-but-not-quite BDFL of Haskell... and he uses Comic Sans for all his presentations because it filters out people who will complain about font choice for a presentation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kahn_(writer)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/02/01/david-k... | https://archive.today/dxEzv
> The question is will there be a way to mine more difficult problems using less power. That is the only way bitcoin power usages stops growing (slowly).

That's not how it works. The whole point is to spend power (work).

If there was some breakthrough that allowed finding hashes with 10x less electricity, then the network wouldn't burn 10x less electricity. It would instead find 10x more hashes.
> Having a hobby seems pointless and embarrassing?

Holy out-of-touch-with-reality, Batman.
> Where once any increase in consumption was considered harmful due to its reliance on fossil fuels, the rise of renewables introduces scenarios where the marginal environmental cost of electricity can be beneficial if the demand is flexible.

This is a major flawed assumption. Even in a 100% renewable world, every extra watt consumed carries an environmental cost. It is of course less than when burning fossil fuels, but it's still there, and not necessarily even that small.

> The ability of Bitcoin mining to consume excess renewable energy when it's available (and potentially at low or negative prices) could improve the financial viability of renewable energy projects by increasing the floor price these new projects can sell electricity at.

The world has not run out of useful things to do with energy yet, so this is already a bizarre claim. But even ignoring the uselessness of Bitcoin for a moment, this clearly incentivizes the wrong kind of renewable development. If you need to turn your power to Bitcoin to be profitable, that means you can't afford to store this power even as the technology to do that improves. And if you can't store the power, then you can't be part of a fully renewable grid, so you're essentially building the wrong thing and it's better to leave the resources alone to be used in other projects that can actually be self sustaining.
what gives you the right to bucket something as waste? maybe to some people tiktok is a waste of energy, resources, time. Some people would argue that alchohol consumption is wasteful since it does not have any health benefits?

ultimately, once you start thinking you have the right to ban things you should be prepared for someone else to ban things you enjoy.
Were I a musician with control of my output, I’d sure as hell disallow Spotify streaming. Paying this dork $250M and me 3 cents for the same time period? Nope.
For a while, yes. On longer timespans, the production is quite elastic as wheels dry and new ones have to be created all the time.
> Let's apply this argument to the use of a head tax. Everybody pays the same amount unconditionally with no way to avoid it, so it's free money with no downside?

No there is a downside to that.

The downside is one of redistributionary effect of having a flat tax. IE it negatively effects poor people more.

Thats a separate and unrelated downside to the other example.

This example isn't that though. The hypothetical that the other person gave, was that we could engage in taxing wealthy people and it would have zero deadweight loss (as in, those wealthy people apparently keep using the land exactly the same amount as they were before).

This would indeed be a free win, in economics.

Usually, the problem in economics of taxing wealthy people is that it puts a disincentive on productive work. This is called deadweight loss.

But in this other crazy hypothetical, we can get tax dollars infinitely for free from only wealthy people! Amazing!
System call pinning has been a classic example of an OpenBSD approach to exploit mitigation that exploit developers dunk on; a thread just a couple months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38579913

I think? this is the same work, just now merged into the kernel?
For modern folks that aren't in a warzone, these heat-shrink self-soldering connectors are super useful for automotive or household work:

https://www.amazon.ca/Kuject-Connectors-Waterproof-Electrica...

You do need to provide external heat though.
Not sure why this wasn't the case from the start.
Some TVs have a SPDIF output that you can connect to a D/A converter, but that's also an external box which you don't want. The thing here is that modern TVs typically have an integrated Class D amp for their speakers that has a direct I2S input for the DSP. The TV manufacturer doesn't bother adding in a seperate D/A chip on the board as it doesn't need it.

The good thing though is that those cheap $10 HDMI audio extractors work well for this use case if you have a playback device that outputs PCM over HDMI. As a side note those extractors are also a great way of getting 5.1 surround sound from a HTPC running the Dcaenc DTS encoder [1] into an old pre-HDMI AVR.

1. https://gitlab.com/patrakov/dcaenc
> parental controls and screen pinning

Will be used in scenarios with much more at stake than someone's belligerent teenager.

Think of these features in the broadest sense you possibly can.
If freezing temps in Texas or Buffalo that lead to deaths don't encourage improving the grid, I don't think crypto will either.
One is a basic technical question that I’ve been asked a handful of times in interviews.

We could eliminate the question, but then we’d need to have hundreds of phone screens and literally ask the same question. That’s not feasible. So this is how we screen.

We’ve received over 250 applications in ~1 day.
Can we keep this rubbish out of HN?
The thing is, you’re mostly right.
Probably sheer magnitude, no? The Google results for "how much power data centers use" show numbers between 1% and 3% (it's similar numbers whether I specify global or just the US). Let's assume that's at least somewhat accurate.

If we believe both statistics, then crypto mining uses roughly as much electricity as all data centers. But data centers drive so many different industries and benefit people in countless ways- entertainment (as you mentioned), financial, education, communication, etc, etc.

Crypto is like. Neat? There's some people who benefit greatly from it, sure. But broadly compare how different society would look if crypto didn't exist (not different at all, I'd think?) to how different it would look if data centers didn't exist. Looking at it that way, it's crazy that they at all use similar amounts of electricity.
It's awful, and I feel like Temu uses the exact same engine because it's equally terrible.
If we start telling people what they can and can't use legitimately-purchased energy for, we go down a dangerous path very quickly. We might as well tell people what they can and can't use wood to build, or what they can and can't use an internet connection to transfer (i.e. net neutrality).

If you purchase gasoline, it's not my right to tell you what to do with it, insofar as it doesn't create additional externalities from that point on, like if you pour it in a river or something. You legally own it now, you get to do whatever you want with it. Same with wood, same with internet bandwidth - this is generally how private property should work.

The burning in the thought experiment is actually the least bad thing imo. The alternative is to seize property from someone who purchased that property legitimately, which is unacceptable.

As a side note, burning gasoline for no reason is pretty close to what billionaires do whenever they fly their private jets. It's a fact of capitalism, and it will exist for as long as capitalism exists.
This one is great!
temu's exact same cheap junk is cheaper then amazon's cheap junk but with a $20 minimum spend.

Occasionally you'll find a category that is so marked up compared to actual manufacturing costs that temu seems like a fantastic deal (eg mechanical keyboards).

pretty soon you run out of stuff you want to buy anyway.