skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm thinking the Coal plants will be built in newly industrializing economies, as it's the cheapest way to provide constant cheap power. China is still building Coal Power plants and so is India. The US hasn't built one in a decade and is closing existing ones.
I know that Silverblue and Kinoite are more established, but I would have liked to see a consistent rebrand. "Fedora GNOME Atomic" is a better name for the same reasons that "Fedora Sway Atomic" is.
I'm in my 30s and still regularly check my own resume to know what I was doing certain years. I assumed just not having a mind for dates was a normal thing? Should I get checked out?
> It was intent to harm through lying. I'm not sure why that feels scary, seems pretty right in line with defamation in general.

Not in the US. If no harm is done, there's no defamation, harm being done is part of the definition:

> To prove prima facie defamation, a plaintiff must show four things: 1) a false statement purporting to be fact; 2) publication or communication of that statement to a third person; 3) fault amounting to at least negligence; and 4) damages, or some harm caused to the reputation of the person or entity who is the subject of the statement.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/defamation
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You're going to compare the entire banking system, which services essentially every American to this complete waste of time and resources which services a vanishingly small number of people?

>The point is the amount of crypto being mined.

Is it? According to who? You? What's the utility of crypto? I've yet to see any materialization other than casino and funding terrorism.
No, but some ritual slayings might do the trick.
APKMirror has it, and it can be installed from there...

...but then I get "Location not supported" when I start it. Helpfully suggesting I use Google Assistant instead.

My main reason for trying Gemini is that I hope that it makes fewer errors than GAss, and be more powerful too. Operating Assistant's voice controls in the car might be more distracting than just typing. And that's just for reminders and Spotify playlists. Anything more powerful is completely impossible.
The us banking system is multiple orders of magnitude larger than the crypto markets.
Ethereum switched to proof of stake a while ago. So yes. Hardcore crypto fans don't like it because theoretically it could be subject to the 51% attack. Personally, Ethereum is big enough where

A) I don't think that attack is likely and
B) the efficiency gains are worth the risk

Disclaimer: I have Ethereum so i benefit from other people buying it. I do honestly think it's better for the environment.
The standard talking points from Bitcoin proponents.
Could you just suspend them on a cushion of air like indoor skydiving?
Ah, that makes some degree of sense. They could have done degrees of rotation like skateboard tricks, but then I guess the Xbox One would have been Xbox 720 which sounds like it's a 720p console.
Try using the flatpak version of browsers. Acceleration should work ootb
> 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

You have it backward, it comes up when reporting tries to seed FUD about crypto energy usage. Every point I made is that this article isn't actually saying anything obviously scary, it's just saying some facts in a scary voice.

> 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.

That's not my argument. They do different things. Despite its name, most cryptocurrency isn't really used as currency. As you say, it's slow and not very useful for that. I'm just making a comparison because most of the thoughtless FUD discussion assumes that USD is free (in energy terms).
(All money is make-believe)
Totally agree. This is behavior of authoritative and totalitarian governments, who demand to have so much authority and power, that they need to attack and undermine the most successfully businesses, bending the laws to do so (or creating abusive laws that give them the power to do so).

France authorities also recently ransacked Nvidias office in France: https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidias-french-offices-ra...

More and more is it so, that European governments see successful companies as a threat to their power and control.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/beware-theres-a-fake-lastpass-app...

“UPDATE 2/9: Apple has removed the "LassPass" app from its App Store and also pulled the app's developer from its developer program, the company confirms to PCMag. Apple says it has also received a trademark dispute against the now-removed app.“

I guess you can stop the logorrhea now… Although the true lesson I hope you take away from this is that you could have stopped the logorrhea at any time if you applied just a little deductive reasoning and common sense.
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> Incidentally, if someone gets mad about you running this sort of thing, you probably don't want to work there anyway.

Well that depends I guess. A lot of companies/orgs have privacy policies that prohibit accessing services out of "curiosity." I.e. if you're working at a university it's OK to access student information if you're doing it for a specific work-authorized purpose but you can't go casually looking at people's information just to satisfy some personal interest.
if you split the network, you can add your own machines, that can rewrite the history arbitrarily from the future of that split.

As for "a few minutes", it depends on which one we're talking about. BTC, yes -- but disrupting the global BTC network requires only a few minutes of time. Just dump everything into unusable addresses, and watch the reaction.
> The simplest case is a single tainted block, after which other miners could roll back by consensus.

Invalid blocks are rejected trivially by any node as soon as it sees them. You can't "force" an invalid block to be accepted by throwing hashrate at it and miners don't need to do anything to make an invalid block be recognized as such.

The issue is on malicious actors trying to rewrite/replace recent blocks (to double spend, usually) which was the core innovation, but that also includes trying to censor txs or generally DoS the network by refusing to allow txs to be accepted.
You can have a belief that this is wrong result based on nothing. If you want to say that this is fraudulent then you have to prove that this is fraud. There is a difference as I said in my comment.
Tucker said nothing of the sort, nor did Putin claim it was Poland's fault they were invaded. Putin did, however, explain what Hitler's motivation was, The Free City of Danzig. [1] It was an area primarily populated with German peoples but 'granted' to Poland after WW1. Germany wanted it back, Poland refused, and eventually Germany ended up invading to get it back. This doesn't mean Germany's actions were right, nor Poland's wrong. It simply is what it is, and is obviously an extremely important part of history.

There's a transcript of the interview here [2]. It looks like an auto-translated version of the Russian transcript, and a rather terrible one at that. So I would take it with a grain of salt, but it should at least be a decent way of finding whichever topic you're interested in and correlating that against its location in the actual interview.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_City_of_Danzig

[2] - https://voxday.net/2024/02/09/tucker-putin-interview-complet...
To address two of your points in particular:

1. Even if the energy consumption of the traditional banking industry is comparable or higher, it supports the daily activities of literally 5 or 6 orders of magnitude more entities and people than the 137 outfits mentioned in TFA.

4. The environmental angle is only one aspect - the other is simply that energy costs have never been higher, and crypto mining adds another energy consumer competing against householders, pushing costs up yet further. (Yes, I know, crypto mining can be set up to happen only when there's spare capacity, and I'm sure the miners can be relied upon to act responsibly in that regard...)
It's good, but it's unfortunately easy to split up your code in unhelpful ways just to get the dopamine rush of passing all of the metrics. (without aggressive configuration)

Additionally, you can get much of the benefit of RubyCritic via the Rubocop extension in your editor (with the same caveats as above)
Scary.

Interesting sales tactic though. Just floating this absurd number out there is classic highball, perhaps will make an investment of “only” 100 billion feel more reasonable to Abu Dhabi or SoftBank.
I thought Microsoft, Adobe, Steam, etc do but I'm not sure.
Yeah don't want any pesky citizens or colonies standing up for themselves if we go full tyrant.

When in history did we ever need, oh wait...
I’d love to see a write-up of how you did this! It’s been on my bucket list for a while.
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> I somehow doubt you can convince even half the liberal voterbase that that would be a good idea. let alone any of the conservative base.

Don't conservatives like capitalism and religion? Just get some polyamorous nerd to give a TED talk about how they're building God for real to serve the Titans of Industry. That should get the conservative voter base in line, right?
>Dropping Chevron would put judges in the position of being experts in all the fields where Congress requires regulation.

Genuinely curious as to why people think this. This is the standard talking point you see about this issue, and it's just not true. Getting rid of Chevron doesn't mean that judges need to become experts in all minutia of a particular field. It means the executive can't liberally interpret statute to their heart's desire. Maybe you mean that you expect more cases to come to the courts if Chevron is dropped, but cases on complex technical matters already come to the courts all the time in all fields. Are you concerned that the volume of cases goes up or something?
> 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?

As other have pointed out, Bitcoin relies on a larger and larger usage of energy by design. You could to a more energy-efficient Netflix, but you cannot do a more energy-efficient Bitcoin.
Renewable energy burned on cryptocurrency mining is still displacing renewable energy that could have been burned on something else.
"let me have a copy locally" is a very naive view of the world.
1. netflix works also in places with horrible connections/terrible bandwidth
2. what would you do? preemptively download all the series, movies etc that they think you'll download? (that may work in places with good internet, but even there, how much disk space would you need like on a mobile device?)
3. most behaviour on netflix is "let's try to click on these random series/movies and see if i like it" so you'd be downloading things that you'll never come back to see.

I am not sure i understand your point...plus netflix has the HUGE problem of optimizing the stream as much as possible to give people fluidity in their experience (exactly for the - low bandwidth - connections)
Which is what Bitcoin uses, and it is one of the largest and most commonly used cryptocurrencies out there.
> Ok, Bitcoin bad. What about video games? Netflix? Porn?

Yes, they're all bad. Markets are no substitute for morality. And if the market properly accounted for environmental damage, all of those uses of energy would be priced out of existence.
This works for me to an absurd degree. I sometimes remember, hours later, that I had some idea e.g. while showering or while brewing coffee. Returning to the bathroom or kitchen respectively helps me remember these ideas.
Either

(a) someone's source is off by a whole ,000 and the Journal ran with it

(b) OpenAI is going to assume nation-state levels debt become the most valuable and powerful company since the Dutch East India Company,

or (c) OpenAI is talking to investors and governments around the world about public-private investments in fabs, electricity generation, attendant cities, infrastructure, etc. that might require a total investment over X years and all parties involved of $N trillion dollars.

Occam says (a), but (c) seems far more likely than (b).
If you're not used to buying server-grade hardware, I know it seems expensive. I think the founder initially priced it too low in an effort to make it as affordable as possible, found himself giving tons of expensive support, and decided to raise prices to the market average.
I never tried Fedora before, but a few weeks ago Bluefin got mentioned here and I went down a hole reading about Universal Blue and ended up making my own spin. Love it. Immutable is incredible
I went looking and found an old storage device (binder) with long-term storage technology elements (sheets of paper) for my old R65F11 designs. Not the entire thing, but a couple hundred pages of H-CAD (hand drawn pencil schematics), printed code listings and manuals. Here's the main processor board:

https://i.imgur.com/a0fvjqa.jpg

Here are the front pages of three data sheets I have:

https://i.imgur.com/fPgRzc7.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/EeFNT8j.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/kmRsyXq.jpg

In the documentation set I have a full printed listing for some version of the code editor I wrote as well as a pile of utilities and drivers. This is dating back almost exactly 40 years.

Also have the schematics for various interface boards, including a floppy disk interface board and, I believe, the driver I wrote to run screen-based code storage and retrieval from it. This was a very long time ago. I can't remember how closely these schematics and code matched working hardware.

If any of this could help you I might be able to scan and post somewhere. It will take some work because I have to use a flat-bed scanner. It's amazing how well paper and vellum survive four decades inside a binder.
Everything you've said is _intuitively_ correct, but empirically wrong. I've experimented with training VAEs for audio diffusion for the last few months and here's what I found:

- Although the best results for a stand-alone VAE might require increasing the KL loss weight as high as you can to reach an isotropic gaussian latent space without compromising reconstruction quality, beyond a certain point this actually substantially decreases the ability of the diffusion model to properly interpret the latent space and degrades generation quality. The motivation behind constraining the KL loss weight is to ensure the VAE only provides _perceptual_ compression, which VAEs are quite good at, not _semantic_ compression, for which VAEs are a poor generative model compared to diffusion. This is explained in the original latent diffusion paper on which Stable Diffusion was based: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.10752.pdf

- You're correct that trading dimensions for channels is a very easy way to increase reconstruction quality of a stand-alone VAE, but it is a very poor choice when the latents are going into a diffusion model. This again makes the latent space harder for the diffusion model to interpret, and again isn't needed if the VAE is strictly operating in the perceptual compression regime as opposed to the semantic compression regime. The underlying reason is channel-wise degrees of freedom have no inherent structure imposed by the underlying convolutional network; in the limit where you hypothetically compress dimensions to a single point with a large number of channels the latent space is completely unstructured and the entropy of the latents is fully maximized; there are no patterns left whatsoever for the diffusion model to work with.

TLDR: Designing VAEs for latent diffusion has a different set of design constraints than designing a VAE as a stand-alone generative model.
On this scale? Easily detected and killed. Just check their power bill.

It has gotten completely out of hand. What was intended to be run on personal computers has become a juggernaut of rampant egregious resource consumption.
New York digital media was the epicenter so I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't a factor, at least for the past few years. The Reply-All meltdown comes to mind.
Doesn’t it suggest he was shaving the combustible part off rather than cutting off the head altogether, and that this is standard practice in the matchbox modeling community? It seems like that would yield a minimal change in size, just the natural length of the stick before it was dipped in the head compound bath.

For a satisfying visual from How It’s Made, consider https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Socf8Q3vRw&t=206

I do share your wonder about whether there are size norms in the modeling community, though, given the extremely wide range of match sizes I have even in my own house.
"Plus" has always meant "bigger" or "more".
The same law that bans artificial voices without prior recipient consent also bans recordings without prior recipient consent. So no difference whatsoever for phone calls.
All LLMs should be like this, there is too much abuse and misinformation
The code didn't look as I expected.
He more-or-less embedded an svg into the sty-file.

https://framagit.org/Pathe/coffeestains/-/blob/main/coffeest...

I am looking forward to a real generative AI that produces coffee stains.
> This is why I am not a fan of crypto. It's environmental impact is disastrous in its current form.

*Bitcoin, not crypto. Ethereum doesn’t work like that.
Where's the fun in building a structure of matchsticks, without a significant risk of rapid ignition?
Totally. I actually went to check mouser to see if they had nichia brand stuff - a few odds and ends but they're not even listed on the manufacturer list for LEDs.

Will watch out for them and avoid whenever possible from now on.
Made me think of Sayyid Qutb's "The America I have seen":

Qutb argues that the American way of life, with its focus on hedonism and consumerism, corrupts the moral self and reduces human relationships to short-lived pursuits of pleasure. Qutb sees the American focus on individual pleasure as primitive and animalistic, erasing the gravity of death and the sanctity of life

He's the intellectual behind the modern jihad, distance 2 to a young Bin Landen.
Is it possible to build a smooth hires animation of these? How often are the images updated?
Actually no it isn't, I was indeed mixing Elixir and non-Elixir concerns in one comment.
This. Censorship resistance === Cannot undo fraud. A money system that cannot claw back ill-gotten gains is NOT "giving power to the users", but rather giving power to the con-men! Worse, fraud is such a huge return on investment that any system that enables it such as bitcoin does inevitably will have a market driven by fraud, because it easily out-competes the more legitimate business.

Bitcoin isn't full of fraud because "it's hard to track", or "there's nothing better to do" or "because it's new/unregulated"

Bitcoin is full of fraud and only fraud because a system that doesn't allow you to take back transactions unilaterally makes legitimate business HARDER than fraud, and for less return.

The other main "easy fraud" monetary system is gift cards, and they have to expend enormous effort and money on anti-fraud measures and just eating losses so users don't constantly have their money stolen. Crypto doesn't even have that, and in fact, literally cannot have that, because there is no empowered entity to do so.
One thing I noticed is we got in the last few years a lot stories of the form "Adobe donates Photoshop 1.0 source code to Computer History Museum, saved because early programmer kept it on a floppy disc in his house". Or games especially we get a lot of this.

It feels like if an employee did this with modern projects, they would at the very least be summarily fired, if not have legal action taken against them.
> a kernel update borked my laptop, and for some reason it deleted the older versions

Deleted older versions? That sounds severe. I hope you filed a bug report if there wasn't one already.

Did you change your installonly_limit?
> Indeed, in my own career what I've seen is that if one microservice goes down the user won't be seeing 500 errors or friends

Exactly what it does is that first few hours of triage call goes with people claiming "well my service is up and issue is somewhere else". So find which service failed itself take crucial hours instead of fixing the failing service.

But in a world where Micro Service Incident Commanders can pinpoint failing a service among 1000 micro service within seconds on their vast 80 inch monitoring consoles and direct resolution admirals to fix in next 15 mins. It might just all work fine.
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If AI can make a dent in the CAD/CAE interoperability problem I would be delighted. As a former Autodesk’er and long time amateur CAD jockey on “systems of opportunity” I’ve felt this pain and know how bad (inefficient and ineffective) it makes some workflows.
Maybe they just transfer them, first trillion+ barter based fundraising round?
What would it take for that license to change? Who currently has the power to resist pressures to renegotiate that license?
I realize now how long it’s been since I heard this argument. I don’t fully disagree to be clear—as when everyone in the coffee shop is on a laptop it starts to feel odd and sterile; I’m basically in a corporate office. But it seems to have gone way of the “I can’t stand people using phones on the bus/train.”
I just got into Silverblue (also love Nix), and I really feel that it's the way Linux "should be". I say this as a Linux user since 1999. If you haven't checked it out, imagine that the base (read-only) operating system (drivers, etc) changes in a very controlled and atomic fashion while all your userland stuff is updated via Flatpak (or Distrobox, etc). The odds of breaking your system are virtually zero, and everything works out of the box. It's amazing.
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i can use a ror expert to peer review my code in 5 hours. Or refactor a piece of ugly mess.
I’m no expert but I feel compelled to address your points:

1) “No comparison to the banking industry made” - sure, but the banking industry serves the entire world’s financial system, handling billions of transactions a second, while bitcoins transactions take anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours and process, like, 7 transactions a second. There is no reality we live in now where crypto transacts faster, more cheaply, than our current financial infrastructure.

2. Even if the it’s something g much lower, like .5%, point 1 above doesn’t absolve crypto from its share of energy expense for comparatively little work.

3. Again, splitting hairs and taking cover behind technicalities and specific figures doesn’t change the wider picture that crypto is insanely inefficient at what it’s trying to do compared to the financial systems it want to replace. I guess it’s clear I think it IS a waste of energy.

4. Where do you think the lions share of energy generation to feed crypto mining comes from? Even if it was purely renewable energy sources the gross inefficiency of crypto is still notable given its goals. There are better systems to do it.
> Is it?

Yes, because cryptocurrency is the thing we're measuring. The number of miners is meaningless in this conversation. It would be like talking about how many companies manufacture wind turbine blades.
In regards to 1, I found this to be a helpful chart:

https://xkcd.com/1732/
Indeed, it's down to the library API to give you the right knobs to control for concurrency. It says more about the quality of the library if it mismanages goroutines than it does about whether or not libraries should use goroutines at all.
Can some please explain why provisioning is needed and what it does?