skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the huge amounts of cryptocurrency stolen from exchanges, it's important for many people to hold their own keys

Can you cite the data for your claim that there is less loss of Bitcoin from holding keys vs an exchange? I'd image the number of Bitcoins lost people people don't have their keys is large.
Current battery production is tiny, services small consumer electeonics and some cars. It's at least two orders of magnitude.
Day to day drops are realistic, but buffering from summer to winter is out of question really.
Energy != Stuff. Renewable sources are rising. We'll be OK.
This doesn't seem to account for debt, does anyone have stats on debt in Europe?
I've seen this claimed and I doubt the claim is made up, but I haven't seen the evidence itself. The FLIR video is the only publicly available evidence I'm aware of
Something that isn't just "unlimited everything" might help. Bring back plans like there used to be: <X> minutes of talk, unlimited nights & weekends. Of course no company would do that, for the same reason they wouldn't switch to a bid system with opaque monthly costs. Customers wouldn't like it, and any competitor that kept the "unlimited" plans would win out.
To offer a contrasting opinion, I had to step away from "meaningful" work in order to recover from burnout. It was absorbing my life and I ended up feeling like I was trying to save the world with just myself and my little band of trusted colleagues. It was truly the most exhausting and deeply frustrating "job" I've ever had. Quite frankly, I don't think I'll ever go back. I don't know what could be worth the emotional difficulties that came with all that. Triumph, maybe? But we failed so I never got that. Fighting for something you truly believe in as meaningful can be _hard_. Insanely hard--because sometimes the world is just against you on it and there's nothing you can do about it.

In the end, I get paid far more to work on "junk" (cloud infrastructure) and it's orders of magnitude more easy to walk away from it at the end of the day and sleep peacefully over. Maybe it makes my boss far richer than I'll ever be, but I'm happier, my family's happier, and overall I enjoy my life more. So for me, I'm gonna keep being a "drone" (and happily continue to serve my customers that do seem to need these things for whatever reasons they have) because it's easy and sometimes it just beats suffering ever day--even if it's for something you believe in. Maybe I'll find some meaningful "work" in my free time but at that point is it even really work?
Pretty good. Tanks unsupported by infantry have a really bad success rate.
Fumigation against mosquitoes and not “sonic attacks” in Cuba
Sigh this beautifully captures the tragedy of biostats and epidemiology which is held hostage by lack of systems thinking. Unlike say a clinical trials, ML competitions are not limited to data available at start of the competition in fact by having a fair measurement of performance there is strong incentive to label and share more data and run checkpointed models. Further since the goal is not “publishing” with arbitrary requirements of P values / Power an empirical strategy is likely to provide much better long term accountability and better models. Sadly the cult of bio stats is so deeply vested in publishing rather than thinking end to end (designing a system as whole) any other models is quickly rejected by the community.
The universe is indifferent. Humans don't have to be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
How does this reconcile with the data listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe... ? That shows $530,244 for Switzerland and $403,974 for US. Difference in sampling or does the wiki one not reflect net wealth?
Is it solely a W.E.I.R.D. view that women have the same agency as men and are not commodities to be protected? If it is, I'd like to think we're all W.E.I.R.D. now.
Would be interested in looking at two things:

* How we do in terms of relative consumption along the percentiles, since that reveals how well we distribute consumption among working people. I believe that by moving savings into consumption we increase aggregate welfare, as spending by the people that receive the cash injection will end up generating more consumption than there would have otherwise been. However, I suspect that the current level of income inequality is also what's preventing massive inflation from occurring so it's something of a wash.

* As well as how our even lower percentiles compare to other economically developed countries. 5% of America is something like 15 million people, or ~two Washington State's

* Lastly, it might be interesting to look at what people have to do to earn the consumption they get at the 20th percentile. A lot of people in America are out their working 80 hours in minimum wage jobs to do that.

As a soap box: imo the biggest issues with American socioeconomics today are more about mobility and safety nets than about how much the poorest can absolutely afford. Like, do we do a good job of enabling people to improve their situation and do we do a good job of helping people stay there once they have made it through e.g., helping with substance abuse problems, mental health, and unexpected debt burdens, among other things.
I guess I was exaggerating a tad bit, you can have a Ferrari for 3k per month, after all it's just a car and your back would hurt literally driving it all day. I was think that mundane things like running to the Post Office or picking kid up from school would be a blast because all trips start and end with a roar. Of course you have to be a car person, some people would get the same feeling from riding their bicycle.
Go to the Subaru forums and you get similar examples. Modern cars are generally very safe.
FWIW, someone made a tool that emails you if your comment gets a reply.

http://www.hnreplies.com/
That's only if you cut out games. An overall lifestyle change of much less consumption would slash jobs.
As you accurately notice, the comment was an attack on the article's basic premise.

Yet it took the form of a question. It doesn't even try to support its implied criticism with any data or argument.

As such, it's a cheap shot that doesn't add anything. If you believe someone's work, published in a somewhat reputable outlet (and a book), to be wrong, find something that supports that criticism. Don't just throw out some lame counterargument that anybody reading the headline can come up.

Specifically, the article uses examples that are unlikely to be outsourced; Paper and cardboard, especially, aren't major inputs to big-hairy-manufacturing.

Fertilizer is an even better case, because it's impossible to outsource its use without also outsourcing agriculture. Agricultural output has obviously been growing steadily. And those statistics are rather reliable because the products are standardised, often need to be reported for various subsidies or regulatory purposes, and are traded on public markets.
Two years is not that long.

Power through it.
Autodesk in the largest Coal Mine of Europe
> reduce() on the other hand is always illegible to me.

I used it recently in ruby to write an sql query using Rails' ORM and it seemed quite nice to me. Something like:

foos.to_enum.with_index.reduce(initial_query) do |query, (foo, i)|
query.joins(...).where(...)
end
Income inequality has only been increasing over time in the US, and GDP climbs while deaths of despair (drug overdoses, suicides) go up and life expectancy goes down.
FYI median per capita wealth figures are listed on the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe..., but the amounts are somewhat different (I posted a separate question about why)
I would personally go with ansible and consul if your application is something like a rest api, should be trivial to setup.
My point is that we shouldn't regulate weapons based on anything the US gun control movement ever says. Not because guns are too hard for anyone but gun nuts to understand, but because the whole shebang is built on a foundation of willful, weaponised ignorance.

I don't think it's possible to patch up those policy demands and make them sensible either. The whole case for why rifle regulation is more important than handgun regulation and should be stricter than it - one of the key pillars of the current US gun control movement - relies heavily on the imaginary distinction between good hunting rifles and evil human-hunting rifles. Without that distinction, it's hard to justify the position that those guns should be banned or tightly restricted but not the handguns used by the armed guards protecting all the Hollywood celebrities cheering on gun control as anything but urban-vs-rural cultural warfare. Handguns cause a huge amount of death and misery in the US right now compared to rifles. (Of course, there's also some constitutional issues with taking those away... but that's another problem entirely.)
It depends what you mean about bank transactions. Buying $1 billion of stocks does not increase GDP. If I do an IPO, then the big-$ bank transaction I do when I pay a bank to manage it does increase GDP, because I paid them for a service. The productive output is the advice that was given, the service that was rendered. These kinds of services are clearly useful (people pay for them) but don't cost a lot of energy.
Light does quantum-y things at room temperature. Other quantum systems have to be very cold before they do quantum-y things.
That’s a good point. I’d like to see that as part of the comparison as well.
> Now if they buy 100 000 vehicles at a rate of $100 000 each (pretty reasonable for industrial vehicles),

Ahem, electric delivery trucks built by a DHL subsidiary (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/StreetScooter) are selling for much less.
I define it the same way the dictionary does: the condition of having or being composed of differing elements.

All I'm saying is there's two ways to look at it: either there's a lot of different options, or there are a lot of different options and they're not evenly distributed. To me, I don't know why "evenly distributed" matters and it feels like sophistry. Especially when the people making the argument are generally anti-diversity (to be ridiculously generous) in the first place.
Value of Information in Probabilistic Logic Programs
You should probably set up a custom Docker container to act as your "cached instance". If you're doing the same setup steps over and over for each build, and these setup steps are immutable, just throw them into a Dockerfile and create your own custom action environment.
I doubt the extrapolation is that simple. Most fatal wrecks happen to people who are unlikely to be owning an expensive EV.
Add lack of treatment, lack of criminal sanctions for companies pushing it, even after they learn of abuse.
It sucks because high fructose corn syrup tastes worse than sugar for a lot of people too.
If it’s of interest, our recent experience and the impression it created were very similar. We also somehow seemed to wind up with two or possibly three concurrent discussions going on, possibly because my initial contact went unanswered so I wound up chasing. We still use my business email address as our point of contact with Stripe, so if you look for chris.newton in your tracker, you should find all of the relevant discussions.
and trash amazon's reputation.

Can't even do a mail merge from 1983, wow, AI ML expertise at amazon on show there. I bet it makes you feel valued as an employee too.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=how%20to%20exit%2...
At a high level, your use-case maps well to a Kubernetes DaemonSet, which is a resource that represents the desire to run a copy of something containerized on every node within your cluster. Kubernetes would give you some things that might be useful:

* A unified control plane (monitoring, statusing)

* An automated rolling-upgrade system

* "self-healing" in the form of automatically restarting your containers if they go awry

However, for your use-case, it is likely more effort than it's worth:

* Settin up and maintaining Kubernetes on bare metal servers is a huge amount of work

* A lot of Kubernetes features are not needed for your use-case

* The Kubernetes networking model essentially requires you to set up private network spanning all of your sites in order to work but provides almost no benefit for your use-case
How about this. Household debt to disposable income. US seems to be in the middle.

https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-debt.htm
What's the opt-in? GDPR doesn't allow opt-out as a default.
Thanks, can you give some links to that discussion?
I never realized that before, but you're right.
I feel the same way as you, but Airbnb lets you filter for this when searching ("whole apartment", "one room", etc.). I've been in one where the owner lived in a different apartment upstairs, but there was no sound travel or anything.

The weird cheap investor units I've been in never had the owner around, but there was a lot of noise leakage between guests in different units because the units were low-quality industrial "pods" retrofitted into some warehouse space or something.
You're forgetting what they're doing to Tibet.
Snapchat app has made over 5000 requests in the past 24h
This is new behavior I've noticed from the android app. During the 24h period it accumulated over 5000 requests (on one device!) to chat-gateway-prod.chat.snapchat.com and app-analytics.snapchat.com. During this time, I didn't use the app at all. Noticing this behavior, I decided to open the app and take a glorious screenshot of my dns requests to their analytics domain: https://ibb.co/NyTLbfX, it immediately made 28 requests over the course of 6 minutes, averaging one every 12 seconds. I didn't interact with it at all, I just opened the app and waited a few minutes.

If anyone who reads this bumps into someone that works on the snapchat team, can they look into this? This is the sketchy sort of behavior where I go into work and black hole all your domains across [redacted large number of] employees.
Thank you for mentioning nuclear ships, they are a very important and totally ignored piece of the puzzle.

We already have a large nuclear fleet of ships, but they are mostly warships and ice breakers. But as soon as you mention that giant containerships should be nuclear people go ballistic!

They also miss the fact that a nuclear container ship would be 2-3 times faster as fuel economy is a non-issue. That means it would go a long way in replacing air freight and land freight, where you don't need shipment in a day but can't wait a month.

By the looks of it's due to public fear, we will end up using synthetic fuel.
You might have a point on offsetting normal fuel by sequestation, but in terms of policing and managing abuse, synthetic fuel might be easier.
I strongly suspect that if you asked people 50 years ago whether it was ok for companies to eg. track everywhere most people go, I think the vast majority would have said no. Google et al. just started spying on everyone without any serious debate over whether it was right. Then once people caught on, they either had to stop caring about privacy, or they had be Richard Stallman and eschew pretty much all mainstream computing technology.

If someone went back in time to tell people that this new internet thing was going to lead to the US having more surveillance than East Germany or the Soviet Union, there would have been laws passed and systems designed from the start to prevent it from happening. The fact that it didn't happen this way, and our culture's privacy norms have been destroyed as a consequence, is more reason to act to prevent further damage, not a reason to just give up.
Your quoted statement conflicts with the following:
> Businesses can, however, offer “financial incentives” for being allowed to collect data.

Couldn't a financial incentive be charging more?
Ask HN: I'm a 44 year old (sole) designer at a startup – what am I doing?
Some background:

• I did marketing design from 2000-2010 and then dove headlong into product design which I still do at a fairly high level in a large city

• I've worked at a handful of already successful startups in which I didn't really identify with the mission for one reason or the other

• Since Mar 2017 I've been working as Employee #1 at a startup on a moderately interesting enterprise workflow kind of tool. The company is 12 people and we will pursue Series A early next year. I have 120,000 options, half of which have vested.

The downsides? I'm 10+ older than anyone there. We work in a really crappy dirty warehouse. I've asked for either more design hires (it's just me), a bonus, a raise, or some kind of ramp-down of the sheer number of features and requests made on tight deadlines which, after 2.5 years, still seem relentless.

We're going live to the public as a SAAS/self-serve kind of product in January and it's comparable to Slack or Notion in terms of ease of use. Business-wise, I could see it being moderately popular, but who knows. All I know is I'm totally exhausted and just want to play music and travel for awhile. But we haven't technically launched yet.

What's keeping me? FOMO. Fearing I'm leaving at "the wrong time." Fear of resentment. Fear of not knowing what the next move is as a 44 year old designer. Fear they'll hire a mediocre replacement, the app experience will suffer, my equity will be worthless...

Any advice?
The Derp State strikes again!
We never really "switched" to Buildkite; its what we started with, and its been great for us. But I'm always experimenting with other options, which has recently included GHA and Circle.

Buildkite has pros and cons, like any CI platform. Managing your own agents is nice in the sense that you get really fine-grained control over their performance and cost. But, that being said, it would take some engineering to create an agent pool which can match the cost of something like Circle.

If you're running an agent 24/7, on, say, an EC2 instance, but you're not actually using it 24/7, there's some serious cost overhead there where you'd see some nice savings on Circle. The great thing about BK is the flexibility; there's infinite potential to do some really smart things, like build an autoscaling agent pool. In fact, they have an AWS CloudFormation stack which does exactly that (we don't run that, but I've looked into it and its really cool: it essentially has a lambda cron which calls the BK API to determine the number of outstanding jobs, dumps that into a CloudWatch metric, then sets up an ASG which can scale-to-zero based on this metric). As far as I can tell, this is a "one-click deploy", so management should be easy.

We run our agents inside Kubernetes on GKE. We've had some minor issues with this. Docker-in-Docker is never fun. So we'll probably look to switching to that stack (and maybe set it up so, instead of the automated ASG, we just have a timeboxed ASG between 9-5 M-F, scale to 1 instance outside of those hours, as we're pretty timezone-centralized). The advantage of GCP/GKE is that we're using preemptable instances; ridiculously easy to set up on GKE and you get that 70% cost savings. The only downside is that, every once in a while, a build just fails because the underlying instance restarts. At our scale, not a huge deal; just re-run it. Maybe happens once a week.

Again, its trade-offs. You can go with more persistent workers, and get amazing docker layer image caching. Or you can go with an auto-scaling route and save a ton of costs. It shouldn't be impossible to find a balance in there which works for your company, and I like that about BuildKite.

I don't think we'd ever switch to Circle, just because I don't see a huge benefit in doing so. We may, one day, switch to GHA. We already use Github, so that integration is nice. If the performance is looking good and the cost is acceptable, then we'd do it; CI is so fungible that it really comes down to minutia like this.
Part of that is wrong (fertilizer/agriculture is a particular salient example).

And part of it is the article's point: there are now industries that produce information or services that can fully replace some physical goods: If Google Maps saves you from getting lost, you burn less fuel. If financial markets "shuffle around" smartly enough, those 50 metric tons of pork go into McRibs instead of spoiling, etc.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/jagotv/comments/d6mli6/matchthread_jacksonville_jaguars_vs_tennessee/

https://www.reddit.com/r/jagotv/comments/d6mlib/matchthread_jacksonville_jaguars_vs_tennessee/

https://www.reddit.com/r/jagotv/comments/d6mlit/match_thread_jacksonville_jaguars_vs_tennessee/

https://www.reddit.com/r/jagotv/comments/d6mljd/match_thread_tennessee_titans_vs_jacksonville/

https://qiita.com/yuro/items/f4ea39ae0937d9a0fdba

https://qiita.com/yuro/items/debbc8054a263bbc1383
Yeah, and those parts of CCPA I support. I also support the data deletion stuff. Everyone should be able to revoke consent at any time. What I object to is the "you must continue to provide service after opt-out". I think you should be able to say what you're willing to accept and get appropriate service.

In fact, ideally, the User Agent would advertise our privileges. Like a DNT option and websites would respond with a paywall or something instead and be expected (by law) to respect the DNT. Then, on first load, browsers could say, "Do you wish to allow tracking?" and warn about the added paywall cost vs. the tracking cost.
No, you're splitting hairs.

There are direct and indirect subsidies. Indirect subsidies include externalities: external costs paid by everyone else (that the government should be incentivizing reductions in by requiring the folks causing them to pay)

Semantic digressions aside, they're earning while everyone else pays costs resultant from their operations (and from our apparent inability to allocate with e.g. long term security, health, and prosperity as primary objectives for the public sphere)
T-Mobile becomes latest retailer to offer 3% cashback with Apple Card
> If solar costs less than a third what nuclear does (which is where we're headed, we're already down to half),

Because power to gas to power delivers a fraction of the input power, and has a bunch of cost itself-- it isn't free.
You can also shift the structure of the things people care about to be things that are easier to make. If people buy less cars and spend more time backpacking across Mexico, that also substitutes something with nothing (or at least less).
> If they don't have a single vehicle, they are years and years away, to the point that Tesla truck may beat them to mass market.

StreetScooter, a DHL subsidiary, managed to ramp up the production of electric delivery trucks much quicker. They also sell to third-parties (mostly in Germany I suppose).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/StreetScooter
Yah, you use nuclear for base load, and then conserve hydroelectric resources for times when you need to bridge over missing wind/solar.

It's almost like you're saying that having 30% of the power completely reliable and non-variable doesn't make the problem considerably easier.

Nuclear makes an annoyingly constant amount that has little to do with demand. Wind makes an annoyingly variable amount that has nothing to do with demand.
In the case of Tesla (and presumably other “skateboard” platforms) they also have an extremely stiff floor, which dramatically improves side impact performance.
Wikipedia source is from 2018.