skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I read these actions weren't "running to the right" rather "fleeing from the biased leftist media." For one, Rubin is left leaning, so is Peterson, though because they're generally fair, they get consistently mislabeled, but that's also how I imagine it must feel in his situation.

Let's say you're a shy/introverted engineer working at Google. You are going to a bunch of diversity events because it's an easy way to progress in your career. You find things you disagree with, or think are potentially illegal, but overall agree with the end goal: more women / PoC at Google, and so put forward an analysis that supports the same goal, even asserting that diversity is a good thing, but indicating that Google's methodology is problematic, and possibly illegal. You shop it around, including to HR, who rejects it, get lots of constructive criticism and feedback from peers, revise it, and continue hoping you eventually do cause a good change in your organization.

Someone then sees it, gets angry, and proceeds to leak it to the press. A few days later, nearly every mainstream news organization has an article calling you a woman-hating sexist, calling your memo a "screed" and treating you like some kind of Nazi. Peers you've never spoken to start sending you threatening and hateful messages, not having even read your work, instead relying on clearly defamatory claims made by "news" organizations, totally misquoting what you've said, and even putting words in your mouth. Then you're fired for "perpetuating gender stereotypes" when you've explicitly drawn a line in your work between societal expectations on gender expression and biological predisposition due to sex, that is, you're fired for something you didn't actually say or do, and it's final, there's no appeal.

You're this young guy here, with such negative publicity, and stuck in a part of the country that's 90% leftist or left-leaning, being called all sorts of horrible things by thousands of people you don't even know. You check Twitter and see your name is associated with some of the most hateful words you could imagine.

Now, in this situation, do you respond to CNN who has just printed their 17th hitpiece on you, and hope they'll be fair to you, because you're not assertive enough to deal with the confrontation required if they start putting words in your mouth or asking leading questions? Or do you seek to tell your side of the story from people who are already presenting the story in a more neutral way?
I don't think that would work. Sailboats can sail into the wind similarly to how an airplane can have a glide ratio greater than one. The wind presses on the sail, and the boat transfers that to the water in such a way that it is easier for the boat to go forward than be pushed backwards. Of course it still slips back some, but it goes forward faster than it slips backwards.
The only one of those I'm not sure on is the expose one. The rest seem like they already exist in emacs.

It is probably mentioned in every editor thread, but org-mode is enough magic with an editor to mystify most developers. Syntax highlighting for multiple languages in a single file is already stretching most boundaries.
It would be like "C with classes", with excellent generics, and a compiler that is smart enough to organize data into the most performant contiguous, tabular memory layout.
Every country has corruption, both illegal and legal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy
Here are the terms: https://about.sourcegraph.com/terms/

I note with some distaste that it includes an Oracle-esque prohibition on benchmarking.

> You may not release the results of any performance or functional evaluation of any of the Software to any third party without prior written approval of Sourcegraph for each such release.
Large shops pretty much have to, either to pay for new ASICs and GPUs in fiat currency, or return capital to existing shareholders.
We’re ready! You can do those sorts of rides today (totally driverless) entirely legally in Florida and Arizona.
the American concept of corruption is so endemic to him the Chinese system works it's not even really considered corruption there it's just how things work there. it's part of a formal business meeting to give gifts in exchange for favors
>How does miner compensation work in the cryptocurrency-free environment, and if there are no miners, what are the guarantees that some central entity did not rewind and fork the blockchain?

You can establish whatever hypothetical situation you desire, but in the real world not all blockchain/cryptocurrencies are designed to operate the same way. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple are all different approaches. They each have their own incentives and use cases, but they all sit atop blockchain.
Even mainstream media admitted its sins the day after the 2016 election.

This is from the political director of CBS News:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-the-unbearable-smugn...

Unfortunately, it's only seemed to have gotten even worse over the past year, even after such a mea culpa.
I'm not sure if I would describe a 94 degree angle as "behind them", but I would also observe it's a good idea to exercise caution in navigating a blind intersection whether you're on a bike or in a car.
As a means of investment, which is never what it was intended for, but they won't care at all about underlying technology.
> 2) today many of our passenger rides are 95+% autonomous

Do you mind if I ask what portion of your rides are ~100% autonomous? I feel like that's a more interesting metric for progress toward removing human operators.
This is a big nothing burger, you could practically infer the design from the fact that they supported encrypted group chats at all. Very sensible design IMO.
While calling out languages - rust.
I think it has to do with what is essentially money laundering, they buy miners with their Chinese money to mine coins to move out of China or hide.
Did you get permission from SourceGraph to post this comment to HN?

> You may not release the results of any performance or functional evaluation of any of the Software to any third party without prior written approval of Sourcegraph for each such release.

-- https://about.sourcegraph.com/terms/
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"That u-turn sounds legal for everybody."

There's usually laws about how far you can see, how far you have to be from an intersection etc.

"My only issue with cyclists is I feel I can never predict what they're going to do."

This is not entirely the fault of the cyclists, it's the fault of the law givers

The laws are not written in such a way that it appears safe to people using bikes to follow all the rules, so everyone is compelled to come up with their own rules. The build of roads is the same; a small detour for a person in a car can become quite substantial for a person on a bike.

At the moment the laws get written and the roads get design assuming almost everyone is going to use a car, and then they say "well, is it physically possible to follow it on a bike?" - if they consider bikes at all.

If governments wanted people to ride bikes predictably, they must consider them when crafting the laws. It's probably quite okay for people riding bikes to act differently than people driving cars: just like people walking around behave differently. It will then take some time to spread the word and regain the trust of cyclists. But it's a more helpful solution than saying "they must follow rules and infrastructure designed for cars in the same way as cars, except that they must not delay me: that way they will be predictable and safe".
They decided to become a political organization and obliterated their credibility.

If they release something is it real... probably. Is it free from spin? probably not. Are they releasing things in a fair and even fashion (i.e. everything gets released unless there is a damn good reason not to, like people could end up dead)? I doubt it now.
You do realize those are ideal properties for a backdoor, don't you? If you were writing the spec for a dream backdoor, you would write that down. The only way you could improve it would be "everyone thinks it's impossible, and they never figure it out."
It may never overtake USD, EUR, or other majors. But it doesn't have to, even just making it to the top 10 currencies would put it into the trillions. As more country's currencies fail or get reset, bitcoin becomes that much more trustworthy.
https://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-ansys-accelerations.html
Westerners who travel abroad on behalf of corporations are trained on this religiously. It’s considered corruption on home turf, and entertaining it can come back on a company quite hard both domestically and internationally, particularly when a government official is involved.

“But $trainer, you mean I really have to report the $80 dinner I was treated to in Shanghai?” You bet. If you operate a startup that does deals internationally and aren’t training your team from a risk management standpoint, the legal downside is huge if a government decides to look at you. Start with the Bribery Act of 2010, the FCPA, and so on.
I use Google Coldline for irreplaceable archive storage. Pricepoint is close to Glacier without the complexity of the business/cost model.

I use Dropbox for everyday, but I’m probably going to drop it becuase of the premium pricepoint and less than premium features. Services like OneDrive and Google Drive suck less than they once did and offer useful features like search.
Don't you think that your test for the presence of the cacerts file in java.yaml is kind of redundant in that case?
> If Microsoft gave a shit about its users [...]

While I like that you're mentioning examples and welcome such, it is never this black-and-white.

All these big corps do things which aren't in the best interest of the general public, or in the best interest of their users. Microsoft is no exception to that (I am well aware of the Halloween documents and hated that company to no ends), but 1) neither are Google and Facebook 2) they've broadened from a proprietary software company.

The open source community seemed to be pretty happy with pro-FOSS companies such as Google and Facebook getting more popular and powerful. Free as in beer seems like a great deal, but you're always paying somehow. In this case you pay with your privacy.

Companies like Google and Facebook do a lot of Good Things (tm) for the FOSS community, but in this specific case they're on the bad side of the moral compass because it hurts a major source of their income.
I went to check on google maps, I suspect I misremembered and it was a 4 way priority loosing (downwards triangle), but the road markings are mostly worn out (but I think they are 4 dashed lines, not continuous), and Germany being Germany, I can't use google street view.

St Peter Strasse / Von der Tann Strasse in Rorhbach in Heidelberg.

Sorry for causing a stir with my bad memory, I remembered that from my French point of view that would cause a deadlock.
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I think this is pretty weird thing to talk about, because it's kinda pointless. Do I think Intel ought to refund us somehow? Hell yeah I do, especially given the fact that I have bought a laptop with Intel processor recently and why even bother buying products with a warranty if any fatal design flows don't qualify as refundable anyway? Do I believe Intel will refund or replace something? Of course not, it's hardly even realistic. Even if they wanted to (which they surely don't) what kind of loan do they have to get to afford even a partial refund of every single Intel CPU out there?
Yep, great idea. We were actually thinking about an interface like that. Thanks for the feedback
I did some research into several crowdfunding marketing agencies and wanted to share my findings here. It's a must read if you are considering working with a marketing agency for your crowdfunding campaign.
Whereas fox remains as steadfastly committed to propaganda as ever.

CBS should fire that guy.
*IS an experiment... It's still in the very early stages. :)
Volatility of returns and guaranteed increased complexity?

I think 21.co got AH financing on the idea of building a "miner for the masses" https://www.coindesk.com/21-intel-bitcoin-mining-strategy/ but they pivoted since then.

They could probably provide a more informed comment.
The question was, why don't the pickaxe manufacturers charge more, since there's an axe shortage. Maybe they will, when they finally get around to filling all those orders. Or maybe they're just trying not to alienate their core market?
It's fine, although its amazing how long it took to get native async testing (iOS 8?).
What public key do you suppose would be used to encrypt those messages without giving the server the ability to read them?
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I am not your target market. I just wanted to say you are handling the feedback here better than most people seem to. I think that is a real strength, both in terms of PR and in terms of suggesting that you are prepared to learn and adapt. Both of those are important factors in success.

I will agree that the website talks too much trash about other services. Maybe list all the customary fees people expect that you don't have. That would be valuable information and doesn't require trash talking anyone. Something like:

No fee to print tickets.

No cancellation fee.

No bag check fee.

No other hidden fees.

Just one low price stated up front so you know exactly what to expect.

--

I will suggest that you might try apologizing less and thanking people more. It is more of a position of strength. For example, instead of apologizing that the site does not work on iPad, you could say something like "That's good info. We will get right on it. Thanks for letting us know."

Your replies here are fairly solid. I am not suggesting they are bad. I am only hoping to help you further up your game.

Best of luck.
I liked that at the top the publisher put "Read time Approx. 7 minutes".
This is a good reason for these miners to short the bitcoin futures contract
Salaries for our pilots are as competitive as major commercial carriers. A reason pilots have been interested in flying with us.
E-gold, Liberty Reserve, PayPal, ...

All of them failed or bowed to the US's FinCEN. Bitcoin was the first without a chokepoint the governments could step on.
Actually Bitcoin needs to drop 94% for mining to be unprofitable. The break even is 1 BTC = $922. Yes, mining is insanely profitable right now. Miners are swimming in cash.

This is assuming $0.05 per kWh (which is a rate available to many miners outside of China, eg. Gigawatt Mining in Washington State pays $0.028 per kWh,) and a miner efficiency of 0.1 joule per gigahash (such as the popular Bitmain Antminer S9). The break even point is calculated with:

j_over_gh × cost_per_kwh / 3.6e6 (joules per kWh) / reward × (2^32 × diff) / 1e9

The parameter are: j_over_gh = 0.1, cost_per_kwh = 0.05, reward = 12.5 BTC per block, diff = 1931136454487.72. (This ignores transaction fees which have pushed the average block reward from 12.5 to around 17 BTC over the last few weeks, so the true break even point is even lower, around 1 BTC = $680).

I am occasionally interviewed by journalists who write about Bitcoin mining and they often get many details wrong. This one is no exception—Dan Murtaugh should have contacted me :)
What's unclear to me is given how much extra electricity (20%) is consumed in charging up the battery, is this more efficient than just firing up another turbine?
I think it was supposed to be a pun on "hold". As for the word "reference", your own link uses it.
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It's very unclear that Bitcoin's problems are a direct result of its decentralized nature.
>It sounds like he and many others are investing in BTC itself, not the Bitcoin ecosystem. If you can get a 10x return per year just by hodling, why bother to develop anything?

I completely agree as of 2018, but Bitcoin has been around for almost 10 years now and has seen "real" returns for the past 4 or 5 years. I suppose my question should be restated as "Did Bitmain take a gamble and it paid off?" I still find it strange that not a single prominent US based BTC miner manufacturer has hit the scene.
Can't help but find it ironic the winner of the 2018 Levchin Prize for Advancements in Real-World Cryptography has an invalid SSL certificate on his research website.
Just because people don't agree with his tactics, doesn't mean they are on "the other side".

Wikileaks has done a real disservice to its image as an objective, truth seeking organization when it acts like it has.
Risk tolerance.

With net worth of $2.6 billion Peter Thiel could lose $26 million and make it back with a 1% fluctuation of the market.

Other people less so.
> target price: $200,000

That's 148,019.4 GBP. The average wage here corrected for a proper living standard is about 22,000 GBP give or take.

If everybody that could afford this took that money and gave it to homeless foundations, what a world we could live in...
So a major city with a strong economy has a stronger housing market than a suburb in the middle of nowhere with a weak economy? Shocking.
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Right, but there was never a time during the Gold Rush where there was a shortage of pickaxes.
Mining is the best way to export cheap energy without building high-power lines. I am surprised Germany doesn't have more dominance in the field, considering the headlines of their wind energy farms going into negative at certain hours of the day.
Where is the evidence that Wikileaks was ever acting as a fair, impartial or apolitical entity?
>MAD hasn’t prevented wars

I disagree. While yes there were still proxy wars for the last 50 years, there has been no all out world war. Considering that for the 500 years before WW2 there was wars nearly every 20 years between major powers, this is an improvement.
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With all due respect to Warren Buffett, I wouldn't listen to his opinion on Bitcoin. He doesn't even pretend to understand it. Who cares if Bitcoin does or doesn't have a shot at becoming a major global currency. There is a virtually infinite variety of valuable assets of which currency is just one kind. Bitcoin is an asset, and has value. Same for many other cryptocurrencies. As long as there's a use case for cryptos (currency or something else) they will have some value. End of story.
So in the dystopian future of Chinese bank account/citizen social points and even present-day American Fed/Bank collusion, you are continuously supportive of centralization? And now you claim the experiment has been "worth playing out" while Bitcoin has experienced the most adoption it's ever had within the last few months? What?????? Please tell me you are joking.

Also, what incentive do governments have to keep people paying their taxes and using their own fiat that corporations seem to be able to control and play with hundreds of billions on their own accord and on separate rules. What about privacy, with the government having easy access to every financial institution I encounter and every transaction I make, why should I agree to that?
Franz[1] is the closest thing I’ve found to a client around newer IM protocols.

[1] https://meetfranz.com/
China moves to shutter Bitcoin mines
Great idea! I agree it's a good holistic-health measure.
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I'm not sure. Waiting in line at security and then again at the gate sucks, and I fly maybe once every six weeks. If I flew four times a month for business, I could see a private gate with no wait being worth some money. You're saving time, too, which I assume is worth a fair amount of money to the type of person who flies that often.
Sourcegraph CEO here. That shouldn’t be in there, I agree—we meant to remove that section. It will be removed in a couple of minutes. Please try it, use it, and post lots of evaluations about our product. :)
I wondered if I would be accused of victim blaming.

I'm just suggesting better education is probably a useful avenue to improve the situation.
What does break-even mean here. What time frame are you looking at?
We have a lot of these in the military (M203 blank adapter, box of grid squares, chemlight batteries, testing the armor on gun trucks or the shocks on armor like APCs or tanks, etc). But my favorite by far was convincing a FNG to collect a few exhaust samples from the Bradleys. This guy was a friend of mine in the civilian world and a really smart dude, but man he fell hook, line, and sinker for that one. He would climb up there on the vehicle with a trash bag, cover the massive exhaust port, then tell the driver to fire it up. It just blew thick, black engine smoke all over him, covering him in soot. Several times. When he finally managed to get a big cloud of exhaust in the trash bag (with the whole platoon standing around watching), I took it and opened the bag and looked in there and said, "Nah, man, this one's not quite good enough, gotta get another one"... Finally he ended up walking across the whole formation to the motor sergeant with this giant transparent trash bag full of engine exhaust, covered head to toe in black gunk, totally proud that he finally got a good sample.
price could go down if more affluent people buy, eventually it can become something the average people could "afford"...there are of course other arguments against everyone owning their own flying machine.
From the article:

> Anytime bitcoin is mentioned, it is expressed in U.S. dollar terms.

So this is a bad thing? If so, we should probably expect the demise of gold and oil barrels, and pretty much anything else in the world!
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This is just basic math, and nearly axiomatic: All else being equal, any mining setup that was was profitable when Bitcoin was at half its current price will still be profitable with a 50% drop.

Because the price spike is so recent, the headline is true for nearly any mining setup that existed even shortly prior to the spike.
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I believe in the end it will be the high transaction speed and fees that will kill it.
Of course the cost of producing products that actually perform at the level they're advertised to perform is passed onto the consumer, regardless of regulation.
Even I (as someone who has a profound hatred for MS and their business practices) have to admit that VSCode is vastly superior to Atom, which is why I have used the former instead of the latter for a long time.
There is a difference between giving a gift, even a lavish gift, and trading public services directly for private gain. This isn’t an American or Chinese view. When these arrangements become public, Weibo goes wild and Beijing is incentivised to respond.
Talk about noise in the gym, there is one sound that's missing lately.

My gym recently went to these 8-sided, plastic coated weight plates. They're easy to handle, they have holes to put your hand through. But I miss the old 'ching-a-ling' sound of heavy metal when you're putting a heavy load on the bar. Probably a sound that's gone forever.
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Just wanted to get some insight on this subject. What is the Un doing in Chicago? I've been thinking about it and Remember reading something about Obama working on the Un sercurity council. After doing more research I've found out that the Un has sub divisions for so call peace keeping in every state in the Us. Why aren't the national gaurds in Chicago instead of the Un? Have we been taken over already?
If price shoots up, lots of new miners join, difficulty shoots up, they can no longer produce enough bitcoin to cover their shorts, they lose a ton of money on the shorts.

Commodity futures only work when you produce a consistent amount.