skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind that "other platforms" includes "different installs of the distro that haven't done the /usr merge yet" and "very close forks of the distro", but in practice copying it to any distro still worked.

And of course you haven't considered the "what package installed this file" half of my post.
I knew what Silverblue was and was decently certain about Kinoite, but had heard about neither Onyx nor Sericea. I think the rebranding is a smart move here for both brand recognition and searchability. I might have gone a step further and renamed the Gnome and KDE versions as well.

Beyond the naming change, I'm really excited about those projects. I strongly belive that atomicity is the way to go and believe that eventually many distributions will evolve in that direction. Right now I think the tradeoffs are already worth it, but there may be a ways to go before I'd recommend it as the default for new users. (Even if they might in particular profit from easy error recovery.)

EDIT: I want to add that the easy error recoverability that atomicity provides isn't just important for errors upstream that break one of your upgrades, it also enables much more experimentation. I have learned a lot more Linux systems because I was able to fearlessly tinker with many integral parts that I would never have touched in a traditional system for fear of having to reinstall. After all, if I broke it, all I had to to was to reboot to unbreak it!
Exactly: Liberty vs. Control.
I like the idea of atomic base systems; it's very BSD-like. I may have to give this a try.
AFAIK Unreal was only used in the first season of the Mandalorian several years ago. Disney switched to using ILM's Stagecraft software, which is what they use for their films as well.
Circumstantial evidence is still evidence, Chris. The fact that it was no longer available on the store tends to imply that Apple removed it. Especially since the alternative is that the developer, who clearly acted in bad faith publishing an app masquerading as another app for the purpose of tricking people into making that developer profit, pulled it himself. You can put on your big boy deductive reasoning hat and draw a pretty reliable inference.

Or you can simply read:

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 believe I understand how snowball earths can arise (more plants -> less greenhouse gasses -> colder climate). What I don’t get is how snowball earths can get out of the cold spiral. Is it catastrophic meteoric events? Volcanoes adding more CO2 without any plants to consume it?
It's what was commonly done across more than 10 companies in Europe over a decade I worked in the field. Looking back at the source code of projects back then, it was the normal method.
it's not actually irrespective of architecture. Some architectures are significantly more prone to certain kinds of problems than others. For example, monoliths can become so large as to make development, especially many-team development, inconvenient or impossible. In the specific case of microservices, the key benefit (multiple teams can develop and deliver in parallel without stepping on each other, separating concerns into their own ownership areas) has the tradeoff of distributed systems overhead, which can range from high latency (when a number of microservices are in a serialized hot path and the complexity is not being effectively managed) to lowered availability or consistency (when data is radiating through a network of microservices asynchronously and different services 'see' different data and make conflicting correct decisions). Monoliths see this set of performance problems much, much later in their lifecycle, because they have much better data locality and local function call characteristics.
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An IPO allows every employee and shareholder to be as liquid as they like, and optimize to your individual tax and risk situation.

An exit is a one time thing. At most, you get to elect how much cash and how much converted stock you want. More likely, the company decides what that breakdown is.
> If Bitcoin mining ends up using a higher proportion of renewable energy than, say, traditional banking, it could be seen as a net good for crypto use to rise

On the other hand if crypto being on renewables is displacing things that otherwise would have been - is that a win?
Likely wasteful when you can overcome efficiency with heat pumps instead of GPU.
Symlinks let you run unmerged software on merged systems, but actively break running merged software on unmerged systems.

And of course you haven't addressed the "what package installed this file" half of my post at all.
It can certainly be banned, prohibited, and censored to an extent (current BTC gossip protocol is unencrypted via TCP, if I'm not mistaken), plus the on/off-ramps can be outlawed.
The underlying problem is energy creation, not usage. If we had nuclear power plants everywhere and energy "too cheap to meter", no one would bat an eye at BTC energy usage. We need to stop thinking energy conservation, and start thinking on how we can GROW sustainable energy usage. People live better with more energy.
You got some hints for how/where to get that ASN and /40?

When I looked into this I only found relatively expensive options.
I built this by accident once!

We had this internal web application. It had its own separate username/password table. I was asked to make it so you could login with your regular password instead.

It wasn't hard to solve the password part. I could make the web app consult the main system to verify your password at login. But... I couldn't eliminate the web app's user table entirely. It was too fundamental.

So I built a thing that ran periodically, got a list of users from both places, diffed the lists, and then did the required create/update/delete operations on the web app's user table. Thus the web app's user table mirrored the main login system.

I rolled this thing out and babysat it, keeping an eye on its log file. Naturally my code logged operations done on the user table. And I was like, "Hey, this is telling me who is joining and leaving the company!"

It even gave me a little additional info. The web app had certain roles and permissions, and these needed to correspond to organizational structure, which I got from the main login system. So if a user's web app roles changed, it was a clue they may have switched teams or got promoted.

I felt like I needed to be a bit careful with this info. Not that I wasn't allowed to have it, but I don't think IT expected anyone to have a tool that would make it that easy to notice changes as they happen. Potentially, I could have known someone was fired before their manager told them or something like that.

TLDR: Tried to streamline operations, accidentally developed a signals intelligence capability.
> Countries have this neat tool called violence that tends to override all security whenever humans are a linchpin

That doesn’t work with distributed systems. No single country is able to shut the whole Internet down, for example.
Curious if this is fine tuned to do this or just has a prompt telling it to always answer that way. Probably the later since its so consistent.
> I would rather we take care of our humans with the trillions rather than manifest a being that might eradicate or replace them

Quit it with the speciesism. How could you question the wisdom of aloof techie galaxy brains?
To me the concept of punitive damages is very suspect. Civil cases are supposed to have a lower burden of proof because they’re just compensation, not punishment, but then they throw in punitive damages. Maybe there should be a separate verdict for punitive damages with a beyond reasonable doubt standard.
No. Liquor can only be sold at liquor stores, which close at 9pm Mon-Sat and are closed on Sunday. You also cannot ship liquor from another state. You can, however, import from another country. So if you want some rare bourbon you have to import it from overseas after it has been exported from the US. It's a real catch-22 situation. Or you can enter a lottery at a liquor store, which is often restricted to customers that spend a lot of money annually with that store.

Beer and wine can be bought at grocery stores, though on Sunday you cannot buy until at least noon. At 11:45 on a Sunday morning you will often see a few people waiting near the checkout with a cart full of groceries and a 12-pack.

It's stupid.
Most Canadian houses (at least around where I live) are like this. And it often gets to around minus 20 Celsius here.
Bitcoin isn't "technology" any more than an accounting book is. Just because you do it with computers doesn't make it technology.
1. There's no need to compare to traditional banking. 2% of all US power is a lot -- the comparison is to all other uses of electricity. (But per-transaction traditional banking is orders of magnitude more efficient.)

2. "I haven't read the study but maybe it's wrong and maybe the real number is way way less"? C'mon. Give me a break. Trusting that an EIA report is generally accurate is not evidence of being "emotional." Handwaving it away without even reading it is.

3. It's interesting and newsworthy that a small number of players are using a tremendous amount of electricity. The article is about bitcoin mining. "Video games" probably use a lot of electricity too, but dispersed across hundreds of millions of users.

4. You're entitled to that opinion, but I assure you that caring about massive energy consumption is not evidence of an anti-bitcoin conspiracy.
I agree entirely.

> What do you think the response to "I'm autistic" is going to be?

I didn't intend to put it quite like this, though I'm not sure how I would work it into the conversation. I just thought awareness in general might be beneficial early on to help in the moments where my behavior might seem odd and be easily misinterpreted as something negative or antisocial.
Yup. It was one of those truly magical devices that leap frogged everything else. People who dispute that must not have actually used it when it came out.
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Its not about marketing. It's about people. Get comfortable showing and getting feedback on your work.
That's my whole point, though - it was tedious and error prone, so it wasn't usually done. Then React offered an easier and more performance way, that's why everybody jumped on it.
Hard to argue against anecdotal evidence one way or the other -- my view is probably skewed because I usually avoid big companies.

RE: microservices, yep, that's one of the ways to scale Elixir teams to more people indeed.

RE: one-man armies, agreed.

> I'm not trying to sell Elixir here. I think it has benefits in smaller org size that mellow out and equalize as a company grows.

No worries, I am sold for 8 years now. ;)

And yes, the benefits kind of plateau from one dev count and up I found. That was kind of the core of my comment, too.

> Also, startups should always work in whatever language is most comfortable to founding team.

Oh, absolutely. I love Elixir a lot but won't shill for it if I find myself in a situation where it would be a bad choice. Plus in startups development speed is probably the biggest asset of the programmers so I am not judging. (Though I don't want to work for startups anymore.)
You're brave to even remotely hint that you're in favor of crypto on HN!

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

Despite a few people specifically calling this sentence out as 'ridiculous' or whatever, I think this is a completely valid point. If 100% of the energy powering something comes from renewables, who gives a shit?
Even if HTTP/3 had gone the route of registering QUIC as a new transport protocol instead of UDP, I think it would have still been at least one or two orders of magnitude easier to deploy than IPv6 was (though still much harder than going over UDP is, I'm not suggesting this was a bad choice in any way!).

They would have had problems with kernel updates and with devices that make assumptions and more paranoid security policies, but they would have probably been able to convince most people to allow their packets to flow after a few years. Changing IPv6 is a much more fundamental change to the Internet as a whole.
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Top-posting in case this is of interest to others:

Link to my post on this thread about a Forth-based robot controller I designed back in 1984 using a dozen R65F11 Rockwell CPU's that came out of the box running Forth:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39298559

Schematics and other notes in one of my replies.
First few stains look a bit poopy. And last one a bit murdery. None of them look very covfefe.
> he is a political scientist, not an actual scientist,

He is an "actual scientist" by any measure. He has many peer-reviewed papers. One of the things he's spent the most time researching is around costs and trends in damage from extreme weather.

It is ironic that someone would make a post like this when we are talking about a blogger claiming that a different scientist's work was invalid.
How exactly does it make 8 years to build this? It took 2 years to build the real one.
> the jury was persuaded that Steyn was subjectively a bad person

This seems to be par for the course for the jury system, which is why we have an appeals process run by much, much more objective people, fortunately. At least so far.
IFE has been on the way out for years. Many airlines are optioning "streamlined" domestic cabins without IFE.
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I'm sure the extra cost of color printing makes it less economical.
>Unelected judges will have free rein to impose their own views in these cases.

As opposed to unelected bureaucrats who serve at the whim of the executive branch and are often political appointees? Do you not remember the meltdown this site had over Trump's FCC commissioner and his views on net neutrality?
I suspect that it depends on the dev. Where I work, most of the devs have tried this (and other similar) systems, but have largely stopped using them because on the whole they didn't improve productivity or code quality.
Yeah but one of those we have encoded into law, and the other is just vibes. What you define as a freedom of speech and what I do may be different. How should we adjudicate which one is correct in terms of how our laws are enforced?
In what way do you think my post was misleading?
Utility companies absolutely do both. Its not an either-or. Capacity only grows when usage grows. But, reducing usage is important, because if usage grows too fast capacity can't keep up, or it might burst too far above the load they've planned capacity for on the short-term.
Sincerely, every single person involved in a crypto mining operation should be arrested. Just pretend they are financing the Houthis or something and apologize for it in a decade or two, we are way beyond the 11th hour to get our carbon emissions under control and nonsense like this isn't helping.
I asked what is a scientist, not what is a climate scientist.

You said he frequently witnesses other irredeemable characters, such as whom?
That's a very low tech solution. What we need is an internet connected mug that senses with a camera if it's about to be set on top of a piece of paper and starts beeping uncontrollably.

With a firmware update and an additional charge to the customer a model for detecting polished wooden furniture could also be used.
Since it's really impossible to say, we can consider the possibility that humble not-famous not-inventor alternate universe man might just live in a house with rooms painted various shades of blue because he loves the color so much. Or might run an etsy shop where the products are curiously mostly available in blue colors. Or he's a hobbyist 3d printer enthusiast and likes to use blue filament. Would he tell others that story? Maybe to bemused guests who remark upon entering the House of Blue. Who knows!
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personally i hate TVs (usually sports) being forced upon me. but i understand how valuable the screens are for infrequent flyers.
> 2.3% to support so little economic activity is just insane.

It kind of is!

But honestly that's the price we pay for not having sound monetary systems. At this point BTC is, functionally, just an alternative asset that hedges against inflation. As governments print increasingly more money, and the amount of BTC stays the same, each BTC becomes worth more. It's very simple. The demand for such an asset is apparently quite high; high enough to spend up to 2.3% of total US energy.

If the world operated on non-inflationary systems there would perhaps still be a small need for BTC, such as providing liberty in committing financial transactions, but I doubt it'd be nearly as big as it is today on that basis alone.
> for companies like Google the state doesn't believe they can get what they need from simple subpoenas, but rather feel they need to forcibly seize records in person

Criminal versus civil. This sounds like sanctions suspicions.
It's 50/50 and really depends on the people, this is just my 8-year old experience, I don't make it as an argument that's truthful beyond any doubt.

There is also the fact that the companies I chose to work with didn't want a lot of Elixir devs and we truly made miracles happen with teams of 2 to 8 people.
Also, some portion of those likely shouldn't be allowed to use any channels of money transfer (criminal organizations and their ilk), as they ultimately provide negative utility to the rest of society.
I mean you could just read a variety of different sources, look at the different trade-offs, and make informed decisions based on the compromises of both different architectural designs and your own products’ needs?

Jesus the quality of conversation here is not good today.
To make money from "coaching," one must either sell through the Internet, thus potentially reaching thousands to millions of people, or sell expensive individual 1:1 lessons.

This bifurcation has been observed, for example, in jiu jitsu, where the most profitable business opportunities are selling "instructionals" via DVD/digital download to thousands of people for over $100 a piece, or selling 1:1 coaching sessions for over $300 an hour. Owning a gym/teaching 150-200 students (kids + adults classes) may give a decent salary, but certainly not wealth.
> 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.

I ran the numbers a few days ago (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39234766). Bitcoin miners plausibly use more energy than the entire traditional banking sector. Not just on a per-transaction basis (which is blindingly obvious if you think about it), but on a gross energy consumption basis.
Imagine a world were someone with a private key could send money transparently to someone else by just signing the transaction publicly.

Suddenly you don't need PoW anymore. The only thing bitcoins gigantic energy consumption does is making sure there is only one central blockchain. Nothing more. And for that it needs 2% of total US Power usage...
Really this strange period of economic activity is one for the history books. All I know is my wallet is thinner than ever and the reporting on inflation always feels out of touch.

Prices aren’t dropping and wages aren’t rising to keep pace. That is the reality on the ground. These reports aren’t meaningful at all, and I don’t think the government is taking enough meaningful action to address issues of inequality that these things cause.

EDIT: I know inevitably someone will ask "so what should be done?" and thats a valid question.

I'm not a trained economist, but I know a few people who are (perk of working in fintech!) and their general consensus seems to be that holding rates steady is smart but the political pressure to lower them will inevitably mean they are likely to get lowered earlier than they likely should be. They also seem to agree that there are components of our current economic system that simply can't be addressed through monetary policy alone and are driving some forms of price inflation but are hard for the government to quantify, such as excess fees becoming common place across many economic activities, for example. Beyond that, its alot of theories and opinions, which I don't think would add more value to this particular post.

EDIT 2: I'm not conflating how inflation works. I know it means things go up less not prices come down (thats a different word - deflation - after all), what I'm saying is observational. I am observing this: prices aren't coming down and wages aren't keeping up. That doesn't mean I think nor posit that lowering inflation === lower prices. I think lower inflation as its being presented to via the US media (driven by press releases from the white house and other government agencies) is misleading.

Not to mention, there's entire classes of things that their own indicators don't track. For example, calculated inflation excludes housing costs.
>companies like Google

Is it because Google's mantra is "Don't be evil", therefore they will be truthful with their records and companies not employing such a mantra might destroy evindence therefore can to be raided?
I do admit that the comparison is not a strong one. It wasn't intended to be, honestly, it was just an easy example. My point was more that the data presented in the article aren't very useful on their own.

Again, if you think all cryptocurrency has 0 value, then all usage is obviously bad. But the reality is that it has some value, and much of that value is in the form of scams (most types of coins, by number, are scams), and much of the value is just speculative investment, but it is a real thing that people spend real money on. Focusing on miners makes it seem like all the value of crypto comes directly from energy - but nobody would spend energy mining it if others wouldn't buy it.
Indeed. It seems fraud is table stakes at this point.

Typically however, climate 'scientists' abstract their fraud. They take raw data, fit it to their 'model', and then produce a conclusion. Sometimes they get over zealous, and manipulate the raw data, like the NOAA was caught doing.
I'll be upfront with you: bitcoin is probably the worst "tech" ever mass-adopted. That's my bias.

1. The banking industry is thousands of times more important that crypto for everyday Americans. It's what literally makes our entire economy run. Crypto is used for speculation. What you should be comparing bitcoin against is the energy it takes to list a few ETFs on an exchange, which is essentially the cost of a few hundred servers, aka nothing. Bitcoin is ungodly inefficient and will only become more inefficient.

2. "It could be less, much less, or much less," This is a filler argument. Study says "around" a number, so you're arguing it could be a really broad definition of "around"? Not a serious take.

3. The absolute number matters because it's showing the economic activity is being concentrated in the pockets of just 137 entities. This is NOT a broad-base economic phenomenon that helps employ people in communities around the country, like say running gas stations (another polluting industry). If you're going to use 2% of the nation's electricity, you'd want the benefits spread across at least 2% of the population. Not 0.00002%.

4. Net energy consumption pulls from our current energy grid. Within a grid, if you use more clean electricity in one area, it'll pull more supply from dirtier sources elsewhere. Saying that bitcoin mining helps "green" the grid is a myth because you have to mine it 24/7/365, which means intermittent sources like wind and solar are at a big disadvantage. Battery storage tech is not there yet, thus gas plants and dirtier sources have to kick-in to keep up with 24/7 consumption.