skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My concern isn't punitive damages in the abstract, its the 1m:1 ratio of punitive damages to actual damages.

From that same Wikipedia article:

> In response to judges and juries which award high punitive damages verdicts, the Supreme Court of the United States has made several decisions which limit awards of punitive damages through the due process of law clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. In a number of cases, the Court has indicated that a 4:1 ratio between punitive and compensatory damages is high enough to lead to a finding of constitutional impropriety and that any ratio of 10:1 or higher is almost certainly unconstitutional.

There was an exception made for a 526:1 ratio because the case was especially egregious, but this ratio is 1901 times larger than the one in that Supreme Court case.
Russia Deploying Starlink in Ukraine–Reports
It works great for the people selling "get rich dropshipping" courses?
I agree with your general argument that the ruling is somewhat self-contradictory. At the same time, I don't fault them for that verdict.

Nobody deserves to be compared to child molesters like that. That's extreme bad faith at best and deliberate character assassination at worst. He clearly suffered a moral injury.
I think it's here to stay. I buy the thesis that money is a technology, and BTC is a step in that evolution. Whether I think BTC is "worth the lost energy" is not really a useful question in that larger context. It is a technology that cannot be legislated or controlled to the point of shutdown, even by/in China. As a technology it has unique use cases, so even in the face of political pressure it will just shift and move and crop up in new contexts. It is a virus we are stuck with now. It can't be unmade.

Relative to other blockchains, like PoS ETH, etc- the question of whether BTC is "worth the lost energy" does have meaning. I think when one looks at the full spectrum of use and failure cases, the "lost" energy is an important part of the value proposition that BTC as technology offers. I don't see ETH or other PoS replacing it. Instead they are kind of complementary.

As a technology, like all technologies, BTC certainly has costs and externalities. Money as a technology is as important, say, as transportation technologies. So look at cars. Cars powered by internal gas-fueled combustion engines could definitely fit into the classification of "experiment of an interesting tech gone too far" given the incredible waste, ecological and sociological damage, and climate impact car-based travel and -based societies incur that, for instance, are lessened in mass transit-based societies. But we are stuck with cars, their global use continues to grow, and we're adapting, introducing and scaling electric, more efficient materials for roads and the vehicles themselves, safer automated driving, etc.

There is no going backwards. BTC and its ilk are part of the future, for both good and ill, IMO.

Specifically as a store of value, I do think BTC has a bright future. I have a small portion of my net worth in BTC, small because there are still non-nil risk and failure cases that could impact it specifically, and diversity across risks is important. It is also important to understand what one is getting oneself into in terms of one's investments. It is an "active" investment, not "passive." People who are looking for passive-like benefits should not look for them from anything in the "crypto" space.
Yup, that's right. It was over the course of about three years (2020-2023). Our JS team was made redundant when we switched to LiveView, which accounts for about half of that. Several of the others are actually still doing Elixir at other places now :).
I chuckled a little bit when I read this. I honestly believe this isn’t something these companies care about at all. It already does damage their reputation yet we see it happen again and again. I do wonder why, does it come down to the monopolization of content? I want to say I’m surprised but I’m not.
That's well beyond robot army territory (the world spends ~$2T/yr on defense)

https://www.sipri.org/media/press-release/2022/world-militar...

Also, at ~$1/installed Watt, that is about 1/3 of global energy needs (~20TW) if he just used that to install solar panels. https://atb.nrel.gov/electricity/2021/utility-scale_pv-plus-...
My wife has a saying "If you want to know why a thing is a thing, the reason is money"

Either poor(ish) people trying to get rich, or rich people trying to get richer.
Apple:

"You demanded Browser choice. Here is Browser choice"

"What is this Pee Wee Aaj you speak of"
That would raise the price for storage
Ask HN: GitHub Copilot in VSCode. Does it help?
I am using GitHub Copilot in VSCode for over a year now, mostly working with PHP, Java and various types of config files, Linux scripts etc.

And I have mixed feelings.

In general it helps me to write obvious, boiler-plate code and it shows examples (often useful) of parameters (names, default values) without looking into the documentation. This really speeds up things.

On the downside, it makes many mistakes, proposing correct values, mixed with made up ones, or once referring to a proper parameter, simply to change its name in another block of code.

Another pain point is that it responds slowly. I mean like 1 second later than is the comfort waiting time. So when I already thought it won't respond and press 'backspace' (or 'enter') to move on, it shows the answer and it is immediately destroyed by me.

Do you have any tips & tricks how to make it's usage more effective?

Both, in terms of quality of responses (like to increase awareness of the context) and the overall usability (faster responses by tweaking some parameters, or maybe having triggered requests only - always with manual call for help)?

Personally, I find this tool very useful, but amount of time spend on correcting those "mistakes" is rather high.
Wow inflation has really spiked
7 trillion here, 7 trillion there, pretty soon we're talking about real money.
From the example it seems like it's to make HTTP APIs? You declare a route "/" and it returns the content "Hello Hono!" for this route. The word "API" appears twice on the landing page and github README, and the word "web framework" appears once on the github README. But indeed we shouldn't have to scrutinize all the sources of information to know what this is.

Also "web standard API" doesn't really mean anything? Might just be because the authors are not native English speakers tho.

I'd rewrite the main description to "Hono: Fast, Lightweight, web framework to build APIs" or something. See FastAPI landing page [1] for a reference: "FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.8+ based on standard Python type hints." I know immediately what this is.

[1] https://fastapi.tiangolo.com
Should You Buy the Vision Pro? A Guide
If they (or you) use a cap that's opaque to UV but transparent to the visible spectrum, then there won't be any issues with this.
> Can you imagine if firing a gun into a crowd was only illegal if you actually hit someone?

Yes, there is typically differences in law between reckless endangerment, manslaughter, premeditated murder, hate crime additions, etc.

If one were to balance benefit/harm, if the jury found that the would-be defamers benefited Mann personally and professionally in the manner of the "Streisand Effect," would Mann need to pay them?
Our neighbors are getting one (Central Oregon). Install price: $15,000. Or $20k with two additional heads.

I have baseboard heaters, and even I don't know if I could make up that cost before the heat pump needs replacement.

Every year now, though, it seems like we add one to the number of days we need AC, something that was unnecessary when I first moved here, so that would be nice...
Really? To me this number makes him look like adam neuman 3.0
Are you implying that we could or should replace USD with BTC? Bitcoin uses over 2% of the energy to process 0.02% of the transactions. Aside from all the geopolitical & economic detriments that would incur, scaling Bitcoin up to the national level would require us to increase our energy production roughly 10000% just to power the mining.

And then you're further implying that doing so meant we could or should disband the military? Uh, I don't know what to say to that other than that there are plenty of non-economic reasons to have militaries.

Bitcoin really is a complete waste of time and energy.
Harassment was not at issue. The jury found malice because they had to if they wanted to impose any damages at all. For a public figure—such as a public employee in the news—the "actual malice" standard applies in defamation cases in the U.S. I'm glossing over a bit of nuance regarding limited public figures, without which I'm not sure this would apply to Mann (I'm not a 1A practitioner), but Wikipedia does a pretty good job of discussing the cornerstone case and further developments, for those interested. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._Sulliv...
It may or may not be illegal (it probably would be in the case of fraudulently obtained grant funding), but academic fraud is career-ending. It is a very serious accusation. Besides, you are completely misunderstanding how defamation works. Defamation does not require that an allegation of a crime. Heck, there's even a term for this kind of thing: defamation of character.

https://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/civil-litigation/defama...

Another term you might want to look up is "Dunning-Kruger."
would you lower the points awarded if they were not to scale?
Well, we all know a Gemini cant be trusted ;-)
2.3% to support so little economic activity is just insane.

This is the type of tragedy of the commons issue where regulation is needed. For any one actor they can justify spending infinity energy as long as their ROI is positive.

There are enough justifications out there that it's easy to convince oneself that you're doing the world a favor ("I'm just librating finance and fighting the good fight against the central bankers").
US Navy creating revolutionary submarine that can reach supersonic speeds
I actually like their take on the vacat page [0] even more.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentionally_blank_page
Corporations are by definition persons. The “incorporate” means to “make a body” - a legal body that can act like a natural person under the law.

Imagine if, say, the New York Times Coporation wasn’t a person.

It couldn’t own property. Or enter into contracts. So no office building, unless one of the investors had a property they cared to rent to individual officers or employees.

Coworking for everybody, basically.

Salaries would be paid from the private accounts of individual investors. As would all expenses.

If an investor ran low on funds, they would have to be replaced, quickly.

All employees would be the personal servants of the executive officer, although their contracts would make clear they must serve the organization as a whole.

Some industries can function like this.

Maritime insurance functioned without incorporation for centuries.

Even today Lloyd’s of London has some “names” which are personally liable, with no corporate veil between themselves and liability.

But businesses like the New York Times Corporation can’t operate that way.
I believe it s larger for real estate
Earlier threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39290085

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39298218

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39304543

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39313060
Building a Standalone Kubernetes Cost Monitoring Agent
The NIC does not have the information required to make machine-wide optimal decisions about congestion control. It doesn't know what flows are critical at the application level. NICs also can't know whether you want to optimize median or tail latency for a given flow. Only the application knows and that's where the congestion control algorithm needs to run.
It sounds like something is wrong with your installation. That behavior certainly isn't normal for heat pumps and I would get a new vendor. I had a heatpump in my Condo and those things were rock solid, from 20 degrees to 110 I never had issues.
In my new house we have a gas furnace and are experiencing the same behavior this winter you describe where the programmed temp and the actual temp in the room wildly diverge.

Just this morning I woke up to it feeling chilly. The thermostat said it was 65 and the programmed temp was 68 but it wasn't running. When the furnace runs it works great but something is off with the controller system. I need to call the heating people....
DataDome Uses Picasso for Device Class Fingerprinting
There is a positive feedback loop between ice cover and Earth's overall albedo. (i.e. more shiny white ice = more sunlight reflected = colder Earth = more shiny white ice...)

Model climates seem to require a LOT of added greenhouse gases, before they tip back over into a "hothouse Earth" (don't be fooled! that means our Earth with glacial and interglacial periods), which happens in a very short time.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3269
Da ba dee, da ba da
Agreed 100%

Build more nuclear, build more natural gas (cleanest 'fossil fuel') to replace coal and pipelines to pipe it. Doing anything other than vastly expanding energy production will result in the US economy being left behind as automation rises and demands more and more energy.
Before someone takes this seriously; this is a parody.
Only basalt absorption judging by the wording, and that sounds optimist (unsurprising for marketing material):

"One tonne of basalt captures 0.153–0.165 tonne CO2, depending on infiltration rate (400–1200 mm/a), reactive surface area (3.7–15 m2/g) and CO2 partial pressure (41.1–3000 Pa). When the infiltration rate is high (1200 mm/a), the CO2 capture capacity of basalt is exhausted after 9.5–11.4 years." [1]

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12665-022-10320-0
Not when it has repeatedly demonstrated over more than a decade that it is completely incapable of supporting a sane, usable model for financial transactions that isn't 99% scams, drugs, and burning giant piles of energy every time someone actually tries to use it as money.

Decentralizing the monetary system is potentially a laudable goal. Bitcoin has failed to accomplish it. Failed. Move on.
There is no single fix, of course.

In situations like this you prioritize... you cut the larger things that have the least value per amount of energy used.

Ending crypto mining is the easiest no-brainer in the history of energy systems.
Complementary: How to Write a Paper (University of Cambridge)
http://www-mech.eng.cam.ac.uk/mmd/ashby-paper-V6.pdf
We must remember that microsoft will have no share in AGI.

https://cryptoslate.com/agi-is-excluded-from-ip-licenses-wit...
The issue is probably more to do with how injury is defined in the context of defamation law. Actual damages require that they prove the victim lost something tangible as a direct result of the defamation. It's not hard to argue that he lost out on the grant funding due to the previous leak or some other outside factor. The decision is more like saying the original article was a marginal factor in the specific claim they made in the lawsuit but the egregiousness of the defamation was severe enough to warrant further damages.
By the end of this article, you’ll have a clear understanding of how to navigate the complex world of APIs and choose the perfect API for your needs.
There is two problems here :

1- there is a difference between being wrong and being fraud. Einstein was wrong in a paper claiming that gravitational waves are not real (he was convinced later it is). He did not fabricate anything in this work. He did not invent equations, made up observation data ...etc.

2- You are talking about conclusions and belief. Here is the problem, there is a scientific method. If you want to draw conclusions, then you have to follow that. You provide evidence. If you think this is fraud because the conclusion doesn't fit then you need to argue with better models/data or interpretation but not just based on final result that you don't like.

If you believe that everything contradicts flat earth is fraudulent then you are basically making up stuff and you don't have proof and this is defamation not science.
Money laundering, ransomware, speculation/gambling, purchasing illegal goods and services
HTTP3 works fine. It's used by Cloudflare, which (unfortunately) means that half the websites you visit probably use it. It's available in nginx, caddy, and a bunch of other servers.

Sure, most servers will just support the protocol at the reverse proxy level and lack the optimisations that make HTTP3 faster for the big cloud providers that stand to gain most, but you can just set up HTTP3 on your own server if you want.

I don't know what you're using at work that prevents you from using HTTP3. I'm guessing you're referring to one of those awful middleboxes or some kind of firewall that blocks outgoing UDP traffic. Luckily, that stuff isn't relevant for most connections on the internet.
Power usage by itself is meaningless. The real question is the power providing utility or not. Like, no one thinks data centers for AWS are bad. They provide real benefit and utility. But, perhaps power wasted on cloth dryers and Christmas lights are a western frivolity.

So, the real argument is Bitcoin useful or not. Which, like most things, is something that probably be left to the free market.
I care! And I know a lot of people who care, but we are still a niche sized group. I care mainly because of Raptor Computing Systems offerings, which I think are the main (only?) OpenPOWER systems available. I use a Blackbird, and I'm happy with it.

From my own point of view, I'm willing to spend a $$$$ premium on hardware where I can have assurances that from the time I boot it, only code I authorize to run is run. Where every part of the system has code that, at least in principle, I or someone else could audit and fix. People have valuable IP stored on computers and it's worth much more than a few thousand dollars.

If you just look at price to performance, you are missing the point. Also, the price is not out of line with other niche desktops such as Apple's or System76.

There's not a lot of competition in this niche. The previous system that was useful was a ASUS KGPE-D16 motherboard, which could be librebooted (https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/kgpe-d16.html) I expect something new to come along in this space every 5-10 years.

For my purposes, I haven't fought with the software ecosystem, and was able to compile the very few packages that weren't already precompiled.

Here are some developments I think are worth noting:

* There is a libre driver for the onboard NIC. (https://github.com/meklort/bcm5719-fw) This seems to be the only project that cares about blobs in every part of the board.

* Dasharo https://www.dasharo.com/ providing alternative boot firmware.

* Artic Tern, (https://www.raptorcs.com/content/AT1PC2/intro.html) which is objectively still mostly a development platform (that if you're skilled you can get to work) provides a completely libre boot environment and the possibility of controlling other peripherals using only auditable code.

A few things have not yet made it onto the board:

* Flexver (https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/documentation/flexve...) which would allow for verifying and auditing hardware, firmware and the boot process isn't commercially available yet.

* Ultravisor state enabling more secure VMs is still awaiting implementation AFAIK. (https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Power_ISA/Privilege_States#Ul...)

* I'm not aware of a lot of hardware that would take advantage of IBM CAPI 2.0 IO accelleration. Perhaps someone has some information on this.

* I'm not sure what the status of transactional memory is, but I'm not aware of it being used in software. Perhaps someone can enlighten me on this.

These would be nice to have, and I hope to have them in the future.

The bottom line is that this is the only hardware currently in production that is going in the direction promised by the personal computing revolution back in the 1970s and 80s and is still capable of handling most people's current general computing needs. I write this hoping that other people like me who are reading this understand the importance of keeping hardware like this alive.
You can look at it like this... They jury was concerned about the speech by the think tank. They don't want anyone else to have to suffer through it. The plaintiff though didn't have actual monetary damages from it, but you and me might have.

The jury is signaling, stronly, that this type of speech isn't allowed and should be punished. The fact that it happened to someone who wasn't monetarily harmed much by it isn't relevant but let's put a high bar out there to deter anyone else from this type of speech towards people who could be damaged.

The way the laws work it is really the only thing they could do if they believed the defendant's speech is harmful.

That's how I read into the monetary awards...
This 2.3% mostly came from fossil fuels not new green generation capacity. You need to consider where these miners are located based on electricity costs and what infrastructure is built there not simply a hypothetical grid where arbitrary power can be moved anywhere at zero losses.
> The Department of Defense spews so much greenhouse gas every year that it would rank as the 55th worst polluter in the world if it were a country, beating out Sweden, Denmark, and Portugal, according to a new paper from Brown University’s Costs of War project.

> Why so much? Well, first off, there’s all those military buildings (some 560,000 on bases around the world) to power, heat, and cool. That accounts for about 40 percent of the total. The rest goes toward operations like moving troops and carrying out missions. The biggest CO2 culprit is, by far, planes. “Aircraft are extremely thirsty,” Crawford said.

https://grist.org/politics/u-s-military-emits-more-co2-than-...

US: 14.9 tons of co2

Sweeden: 3.6 tons

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
> tape falls off

So re-apply it when it falls off after 5 years

> can impede functionality

Give me an example where covering up a blue LED impedes functionality.
The only word I can think of is shameful. We should be ashamed. Digital currency with strong cryptographic protection will continue to evolve and will eventually be widely adopted, but the industry and platforms that have arisen concomitant with the Bitcoin hype are simply shameful.
The quality is not great nor terrible, but with a new and huge code base it helps find a starting point to work on it and to understand what's going on.
My uncle was involved in a chemical process that captured carbon and it ultimately resulted in his death.

^ it might be a fun game to see if you can outwit the AI by having a generated and submitted response voted by other users.
Yikes, that is a terrible ratio. A single emission source is considered an "insignificant" CO2 emitter if it emits less than 100,000 metric tons of CO2 per year. People don't realize just how much CO2 is being emitted; it's staggering. This seems way worse than (albeit not an alternative to) planting a tree.
I'm not sure why this isn't provisioned over an OTA update (like it is done with internet settings) but anyway, the fault seems to lie on google here
Does it work like that? Why do utilities encourage customers to become more efficient when they could sell more power and make more money instead?

And even if it's true, an expansion of generation capacity is only useful if it's eventually freed up for non-crypto uses, right? Otherwise it's just a wash.
It's HN. There is a very strong possibility its not.
No. It's not. Censorship-resistant is just another word for fraud- and crime enabling. It's a negative attribute, not a positive one.