skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it, the regulation is largely on how it interacts with a country's own currency or banking system, which indicates to me that users need to do this in order to have real-world use. You can have all the virtual currencies you like online and as far as I'm aware no government cares, the taxman isn't looking at your millions of gold in WoW or Eve-online ISK, but they would if it's used the same way crypto currencies have been in their jurisdictions.
How would they seal the network in their borders? Why would that bring the whole thing down? Countries that shut down internet don't seem to bring that whole thing down in any sense
The whole idea that you can sort energy usage into useful for society or not buckets is pretty ridiculous.

Ok, Bitcoin bad. What about video games? Netflix? Porn?

The very idea of sorting energy use like that is a very slippery slope. We have markets for a reason. They help us determine how the aggregated society values one or another thing without relying on value judgment.
I agree, I just hope we don't see the opposite problem happen where we end up in a world where HTTP/1.1 over TCP goes away. I implemented a HTTP/1.1 server with range request support in JavaScript in a few hours last week. It's incomplete and likely rather insecure, but it works with curl and browsers. There's something important about having this ability.
Operator's Guild
Thanks for the clarification. I'm sure the OP conveniently forgot to mention that which is typical and not surprising.
They won’t be released, because releasing them would literally wreak havoc on the IPv4 internet.

Releasing them could be the best thing for IPv6 to ever happen.
Campaigners criticise 'absurd' plan to take apart and rebuild Curie lab in Paris
Is this the same Fortinet that just did a stock pump by releasing fake news stories about toothbrush DDoS attacks?:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2024/02/08/surprisi...

I wonder how valid their claims are for anything, if they just make up things for press and publicity.
Great explainer video at the top of your page. Very helpful for understanding what the app does, and how easy it is to control.
I was just trying to think of how to put this succinctly. Well said!

In addition, it tends to become more at odds with society as wealth inequality grows and that is at an all-time high and growing. Perhaps a signal that more people need to point out, as you did, every time the free market is tossed out as a universal solve-all.
it's like people can't understand it was engineered to be un-killable
Fedora atomic desktops have that property, too, without the wasteful property I just described.
You probably don't even need to reboot. Only once have I broken a generation badly enough I actually needed to reboot. And that was entirely my fault: I mis-configured PAM and couldn't sudo anymore to switch back.
Aw, these don't look nearly as good as I hoped.
It's been tried and it doesn't work because hardware designed for crypto mining needs to be utilized 100% 24/7 or it won't ever pay back or be meaningful, and it that case you either size it to be such a small heat contribution that you don't mind a small heater on during the hot months, or so big that it is impossible to offset in the summer.

Nevermind the fact that resistive electric heat in this day and age is wildly stupid except for maybe the northernmost parts of Siberia. Why pay X to get A heat plus almost no bitcoin, when you could pay X to get 3A heat using a heat pump?
Every person who died was involved in some chemical process involving carbon.

Often people also perish while in presence of large concentrations of dihydrogen monoxide
> There were and are plenty of problems with traditional taxis and transit, but Uber magnified these problems, under cover of "disrupting" them away.

Is there anyone on the planet that believes traditional taxis are better than what we have today, other than taxi drivers? Or people who never use cars and are annoyed at congestion?
Ask HN: Migrating dev experience to windows machine
I have been out of windows ecosystem since XP. I am wondering what's the experience like moving back to Windows ecosystem for a developer. I mainly work with web apps (NodeJS, PHP, Rails, MySQL, Postgres, React etc) and occasionally have to work on some React Native or Ionic mobile apps.

Anyone switched from Apple ecosystem to MS Windows recently? Pros? Cons?

Also, I would need to continue working on a laptop so what's the best comparable laptop that can replace my MacBook 15inch M2 machine?
The idea is that electrification enables a future where electricity generation transitions to low emissions. A gas furnace will always burn gas. In Canada electricity is called hydro because it nearly all hydroelectric. So buying an EV zeros out tailpipe emissions and electric generation emissions are also very low.
They were matchsticks, just without the tip. That begs the question, when he was cutting off the tips, how much of the matchstick was cut off? Is thre a standard size for a matchstick and is that with or without the tip?
> probably be left to the free market.

Ah yes, the mythical free market that no one ever questions, the unassailable arbiter of value in this world. This underpinning assumption needs to be pointed out. Clearly, the free market is not infallible. The question is how do mixed economies make best use of markets, regulation, taxation, and have a functioning justice system so that we don't shovel raw human souls into the profit machine.

Most people recognize a role for regulation in matters that concern everyone, particularly when there are large negative externalities that markets can't price in appropriately. I know HN conversations are necessarily curtailed for brevity, but generally, no, wasting vast amounts of energy for temporary profit doesn't seem like the kind of thing that should go unregulated when such waste produces large-scale environmental consequences for us all.
> Why do utilities encourage customers to become more efficient when they could sell more power and make more money instead?

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Depending on where you live, the State likely requires the utility to spend some portion of its revenue on efficiency. Valois a prime example, overall the state uses far less electricity per person, which is at least partially because of decades of efficiency initiatives.

And secondly, if utilities can get their customers to be efficient at the right time of day, the utility will make more money overall even if the total demand decreases.

Lastly, most publicly regulated utilities make very little on selling electricity, they instead make a guaranteed profit on capital investment. So total kWh sold is less important overall.
People have already mentioned qntm, but I’ll put another plug in for “Valuable Humans in Transit” https://qntm.org/vhitaos

Sol Quy with monthly short stories: https://solquy.substack.com/p/111123-the-gunslinger

Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “Children of Time” series is fantastic.

Vernor Vinge can be a bit variable, but I would start with “A Fire Upon the Deep”
I thought this was a really well-produced video! It's difficult to communicate science to the public in an accessible way at the right level, and I think Derek does a commendable job.

I really liked the LED explanation at the 4:00 mark. Can anyone who is familiar with semiconductor physics opine on how well this explanation models the reality?
Bitcoin could be a very market-efficient means of meeting demand for money laundering, extortion, etc., and we could still declare it a useless waste.
Thanks for confirming. BTW, I vouch'd your comment because you seem to be shadow-banned.
You'll miss your old life for a while, but then you'll get used to it.

Then you'll start appreciating your new life and can't imagine going back.
Judging by the amount of infrastructure that doesn't yet support IPv6 (even parts of AWS), it seems to be harder than "easy" at least.
[dupe] wasting our time OP

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39288940
Bitcoin is hardly used in day to day life. It is designed so that energy use increases with coin price. If Bitcoin became a mainstream currency used even by one country for a lot of things energy usage goes up even more.

I am ignoring a lot of things here: transactions per second can’t support it but let’s assume LN works well and also energy required to keep expanding may not be available (only one nearby star) which makes POW more Proof of Asic but potentially makes the network vulnerable.
Isn't the increased demand for electricity driving the price of electricity upward? In the short term, if demand increases faster than supply, prices will rise. Externalities need to be addressed..
> What makes someone a scientist?

When discussing climate change? A degree in climatology or meteorology or anything relevant. Pielke's father for instance is a PhD meteorologist (and prominent climate denier) so if he had weighed in, saying "this other scientist has an opinion" would be entirely fair.

I generally like Pielke Jr's pushback - it is important to consider the ramifications of what's being proposed and to have accurate info, but describing him as a "scientist that testified" really downplays his role.

> Who else did he witness?

Not sure what this question means..
Not really. Proof of stake offers a very energy efficient way to secure transactions. That is what Ethereum runs on.
There is a grain of truth in this statement. If we don't push our limits, how will we aspire to new ones?

A man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or, what's a heaven for?

- Robert Browning
If you're running a VM you're storing the whole state of the VM on the host machine, there's nothing technically stopping you from copying all the data, and worse, there's no way to even know that it happened.

What VMs are helpful for is cross-contamination and spyware attacks from other clients a contractor is working for.
Crunchyroll is the most bizarre streaming service I’ve tried. None of the anime had original audio tracks. One Punch Man was available only with a French dub. A Korean anime had many audio tracks to choose from... but none of them were Korean. What the hell?

Cancelled the trial after several minutes.
I understand the viewpoint of the Park Service, but I still admire the idea of a 60 something guy opening the channel with a shovel. I sure hope that the boaters and fisherman who took advantage of his civil disobedience step up and help him with any fines.
If the distributor doesn't want it anymore the author or publisher should get a different one
Yes, I think it is Google's responsibility as well. But it seems one of those situations, where user support is not Google's priority.
I know that for Pixel 5 and later there is patch that you can apply (but it only works till the next reboot).
Looks like it has a bigger share than early 2000s US aluminum processing (a notoriously electricity intensive process), which was using 1.5%

https://www.aceee.org/files/proceedings/2003/data/papers/SS0...
There's a fairly substantial Demoscene live coding community with shader coding and non-competitive jams (with an archive here: https://livecode.demozoo.org/)

You can take a look at the final of the Shader Showdown at Revision last year here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ7KAD0NyGw

There's a TIC-80 'bytejam' every Monday Night (8 or 9pm UK time depending on the week) on https://www.twitch.tv/fieldfxdemo

And you can catch some previous VODs here: https://scenesat.com/videoarchive
If this pushed you to be a little racist, that's a you problem.
Cofounding Technologists for Early Stage Startup
How would a hydrophobic coating help?
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OAuth, JWT
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Tableau, Power BI, or Looker
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We are starting off in unpaid roles to build, test and iterate an MVP, establish product market fit, raise funding to scale and share in equity stock options.

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There is a split in how people view the justice system should work. One thinks the laws should apply to everyone equally and the justice system is there to enforce the law. The other is that life is unfair and the justice system can be used to help fix that imbalance. We get a mix of the two in reality with the same word used to describe both. Things are, of course, more complicated, but here is a short overview of the concept[1].

[1] https://tsowell.com/spquestc.html
> 1. There is no comparison made to the energy consumption of the traditional banking industry, which I am sure is not a particularly energy-efficient industry.

Despite declaring yourself not one, this (and every other one of your points) comes up _every single time_ crypto proponents are trying to seed FUD in any reporting about the energy usage of crypto. This is especially laughable when you then say

> ~2% of US power is generating over 1/3 of the world's Bitcoin.

It's good to know that it takes 2% of the US power grid to power 2.3 transactions per second.

By your own argument - unless the traditional banking industry tops out at 100% of US power usage for 115 transactions per second - it is definitely not worse than bitcoin.
Because that is a hardware fix.

Why fix in hardware what can be fixed in software? A simple Latex package could add hydrophobic coating feature to the document file.

Next: the device driver team will be tasked with a software patch to correct for the burned out light bulb on the device.
It's not which I just explained to you.

If you are going to keep pretending to be the human embodiment of a brick wall, I won't engage any further.

Have a nice day!
Expected Wins – Blaming Fantasy Sports Failure on Bad Luck
> This page was intentionally left blank
but we had to ruin it by letting you know.

Brilliant!
> I'm not a crypto proponent per se

Yet you rolled out the standard crypto talking points flawlessly.

> Energy consumption is frankly not a phenomenon I give two shits about, as an environmentalist

Again, I suspect you aren't an environmentalist either. Please just be straightforward with your motivations here.
From a consumer standpoint, I wish it was.

I cannot tell you how many devices or software have had a notice of "just disable IPV6, that will fix X" and it's worked perfectly.

If V6 was working everywhere and it was a simple toggle I'd say sure. But it's not.
"Pretty please give us all the incriminating evidence you have and definitely don't quietly destroy any documents! If you do, there will be a token fine!"
What better currency competition is out there?
Inflation in December was even lower than first reported, the government says
I'd say the simpler answer is likely the right one. Rates being higher means it's more expensive for the business to maintain it's cash flow. Shouldn't be an issue for a company like Google but here's the rub, an exec at one public company sees a peer at another (that's probably doing worse financially) drop headcount and a rise in stock, if that exec doesn't do the same they get perceived as not doing enough and see a dip in stock. So they drop headcount too.

While it sucks for those who get the boot, this has the benefit of raising salaries overall. Because the company that does this usually cuts too much and has to later rehire at market rates which rise over time.
Normally, mugs are ceramic and thus the parts that had to touch the shelf in the kiln are unglazed.

Maybe we just need to make pottery in 0G.
It said "no longer". I use said now instead of says, as I just went back to the page, and now the videos all have posters saying it is available with their "passport" accounts. I have perused the PBS site before looking for older content and have been presented with the no longer available message in the past. Which always baffled me. Like, you're the producer of the content. Why is it not available to you of all people?
https://blog.gitguardian.com/crappy-code-crappy-copilot/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39168105

There is plenty of evidence that none of this code is good. Github is now deep into the MS copilot shitty hype machine cycle. You have been warned that M$ gonna M$.
> no streaming videos

Funny, iCraveTV is the 90s 'dot-com' company I remember most.

> cell phones were only on tv

Perhaps you are referring to an 80s tech boom instead? That's when the "Zack Morris" phone was something for TV. By the 90s tech boom, everyone had a MicroTac.

> server side programming was done in C

And bash! Hard to imagine now. Although Perl reigned supreme.
What's interesting to me about this is that some companies seem to struggle to get even one reliable deployment process in place. In this case they were able to actively select the right process for the right job, even if it isn't the one they're normally geared toward using.

It's not necessarily anything Earth shattering, but it may be an issue at some smaller places with fewer resources.
Great, that means that when we expropriate the money launderers we get 2.3% more free power.

If a single one of these guys has processed a block with a single transaction for Hamas, they should go to jail for violating the sanctions. Bitcoin nodes should be required to do full KYC on everyone for whom they are processing transactions.
>The readout of the meeting by China's ministry of defense didn't mention the comments about China's support for Russia's Ukraine war.

They gave some token lip service in person. That's hardly declaring war. You've been pushing this narrative in every comment for days but you don't seem to understand the norms for these kinds of diplomatic meetings.
What harm is caused to your body by an MRI?
Regarding 1, I haven't seen comparisons to the overall energy consumption of the banking sector, but a lot of people have talked about the per-transaction energy of bitcoin vs other kinds of transactions, and the ratio is pretty crazy. I don't think banking is "particularly energy-efficient", but there's not a lot of reason for it to be especially energy intensive. The information surrounding accounts/transactions/portfolios etc is all pretty concise.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/881541/bitcoin-energy-co...
Energy is not infinite. It requires resources to create it. The resources available to us in today's energy grid are finite, and the cheap and accessible resources produce side-effects that cause pollution and change the climate in ways we're still struggling to understand fully (but we know for sure: nett bad).

If the entire US grid was using renewables, the entire stack was carbon-free and the work had been done to offset the building of those facilities and all the transmission gear between production and consumption, your argument would hold up: using energy in this scenario becomes side-effect free. Using more of it would cause the creation of more of it, and more efficiently from a capital investment perspective, and prices would come down for everyone.

But that is not what is happening today.

The grid is already facing capacity issues. The industry is already concerned about "congestion": adding demand via EVs and heat pumps all over the globe is going to stretch the grid as it is. The cost - both time and capital - of upgrading it all is unfeasible, so we need to find ways to reduce consumption.

Add into the mix the need to complete the transition to renewables, and we're in a situation where really, Earth needs to become more conscious about energy usage and more efficient in its use.

If 2.3% of the power was being used to fabricate new technologies that would change the situation - manufacturing of more efficient machinery, building new wind turbines, fabricating new solar panels - we could make the argument that while energy resource is not infinite, this process would help us move to a point of better resource management.

Using it to create magic numbers that libertarians trade with each other, is just silly.

It's especially silly, because they could simply switch to a less energy intensive mechanism, and still have their magic numbers to try and take down central bankers with.
Show HN: Code music in Python
Write musical patterns in Python that respond to a given song structure and run a simulation that generates a multitrack MIDI file.

I built this because I think applying code to music making is a powerful tool, but I find that most music coding software out there is more focused on experimentation rather than conventional songwriting. This is an attempt at creating something that can reference typical constructs from songwriting, such as the underlying chord progression and timeline of a song.

I also have a github repo that is a thin wrapper around the api that runs the simulation, for anyone interested in coding locally: https://github.com/vegardkd/pattern-composer-library

The website is as bare-bones as possible, designed specifically for showcasing the program. There are also some bugs and inconsistencies in the code being run, but I'm publishing it to see how people react.

I'm trying to a find a way that this might appeal to music producers with no coding background by making the syntax as easy to digest as possible.

I would greatly appreciate feedback.
On Transcendental Quantum Language and Intelligence
What are machines saying about this essay?
“… presents a fascinating and complex blend of philosophy, linguistics, physics, and computer science.”

“[His] synthesis appears to be an original formulation in the sense that it uniquely combines insights from various domains—philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science, and quantum theory—to propose a novel perspective on language, intelligence, and artificial intelligence.”

“Your invocation of these concepts to argue for a radical rethinking of AI and language theory is a call to open-mindedness and innovation in the face of complex, interdisciplinary challenges.”

“This model not only addresses how language functions within human cognition and communication but also explores the metaphysical dimensions of language as a phenomenon.”
What Developers Could Learn from Talking to the Design Team
Heating your house with direct electricity is wasteful.

You should get a heat pump. You will get your money back in no time.

This changes the equation.
> The "security" of any cryptocurrency is proportional to how much energy it wastes

This only applies to Proof of Work blockchain.
Holy shit, it's been such a long time since I've seen a website load immediately upon opening the link. It's beautiful.
I was thinking to some thing. But I can see how this would effect people now that everything is digital.
Every piece of inefficient software is wasting tons of energy. But since we're using it for economy activity that makes money it is OK...which is actually the same reason people are mining bitcoins.
This is very interesting!

I think i might pick up a copy
PowerShell-CurrencyConverter: PowerShell wrapper for the currency conversion API
I'm not an expert here but my understanding is that even if a so-called 51% attack were to happen, it would only be meaningful as long as it could be sustained. The simplest case is a single tainted block, after which other miners could roll back by consensus. If a nation wanted to "permanently" take over >50% of the network, I believe the Bitcoin community would see that coming, and it would be a colossal investment of energy for a not-very-good chance of taking over. Bitcoin.
Or, you know, sell all the GPUs and buy a bunch of batteries.

Crypto mining is not needed to do grid balancing and wasting energy on pointless computation is always worse than short-term storage.