skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something like an Ibeam could, it would just require something closer in size/larger than a helicopter. A 50 foot Ibeam is a bit over 2 tons; a small modern military helicopter would be able to carry that easily. When I say drone I just mean a remotely controlled copter-thing, not specifically a small one.

An entire building is less feasible unless it is small, but it could be done using modular components
Define “transaction”.
That's definitely a position worth considering, but I don't think it relates to the reasons behind this change.
For one, the straw-man argument you put forward relies on the seller not knowing the customer's intention with their product. Given the timing, I think it's absolute reasonable to assume why they put forward this change (though I'd be happy to be told otherwise).
An appliance seller can reasonably deduce that their pressure cooker will reasonably be used for cooking if there's no evidence to the contrary.
If a neo-nazi recently featured on the news for blowing up some people with a pressure cooker turns up at your pressure-cooker store asking to buy a pressure cooker and you knowingly sell them a pressure cooker, yes, you are absolutely complicit if they blow up some people.
Similarly, if a government organisation, recently in the news for putting children in cages, wants to buy or license your software, it's reasonable to assume that they're going to use your software to directly or indirectly further their goals, which may or may not include caging children.
Washing your hands of it, in a pull-request, is a moral and ethical choice, as much as they wish it wasn't.
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Perhaps look at it another way: this is what people will pay to avoid tyranny.
Fair enough. But what is it these days compared to Facebook, Reddit, Google Groups, or even Tumblr? Yes I know that the latter platform is suited for types of content much different than Yahoo Groups, but I'm thinking Verizon cares mostly about it in terms of engagement metrics (userbase, page views, potential ad space, etc).
I don't recognise fzf as a tool, but is that better than

get-command *smb*

for fuzzy matching? Incidentally you can do

get-command |% Name

To avoid having to write that {$_.} wrapping blob all the time, if you're merely expanding a property or calling a method on every object in the pipeline.
There’s no indication I’m aware of that Bitcoin is removing any labor or equipment from the banking system. So far all I’ve seen is traditional banking layering crypto on top.
Thanks for explaining this, I have a much better idea about those systems now
Anything can be spam because spam is in the eye of the beholder, but nonetheless, politics is generally not spam. You can have a politically-neutral policy against undesirable content that passes the smell test. It does require that you a) use reasonably objective terms in the definition of "spam", and b) that you resist the inevitable pressure to reinterpret those terms to cover that which others find undesirable political content.
> Wasteful compared to what though? How much energy, human capital, and resources are consumed by the banking industry?

The article actually answers this to some degree. See the following graphic: https://i.imgur.com/8TdKevG.png
If only governments and corporations did not insist on limiting people's freedom to trade freely and anonymously we wouldn't need that. Just make trading and privacy fundamental human rights like air breathing is and huge amount of energy will be saved.
Doesn't Meetup also "ban" itself from development countries, where $2 is a lot? In some places, $2 is like $26. — Or will Meetup charge less, based on local purchasing power?
I live in Tasmania, about 3km from the nearest Apple store ;)

You’d think the most obvious sign of a living Thylacine would be poop.

Poop isn’t nocturnal and doesn’t run away when spotted.

Is there anyone who claims to have found Tassie Tiger poop?
I’ll take a shot at it, with the caveat that I too would like to not be downvoted into oblivion xD.

So discussion for the sake of discussion is not exactly what I would see as a high need for the workplace. If you are trying to address these types of issues in a way that has business impacts, I think you’re outside of what I would term as “discussing politics”. From that list — discussing inclusivity initiatives has clear workplace benefits. Discussing a highly charged political event involving lgbt issues is adjacent to that, and has a highly likelihood of being inflammatory, and isn’t directly correlated to anything actually going on with the business.

I think that framework would also help everyone stay on point. You don’t go to work to solve the worlds ills. But you can address some of the ills where it’s actually impacting your life at work. Further, it should prevent backlashes from other groups, and help humanize by getting out of ephemeral arguments and getting into discussions about building a collective environment where the business thrives and everyone is equally entitled to feel safe at work. Making work a better place — good. Making work look like Crossfire — bad.
The by far more common scenario is taxpayer dollars build infrastructure which is captured by private land holders. But thanks for coming up with an interesting thought experiment by inverting it.

If the government is reasonable they should have exemptions for this:

* Pay you back for infrastructure development

* Have the government agree to treat the area as a whole (it was unimproved land til you improved it) then grandfather prices in as you subdivide

If they are completely unreasonable I guess you are left with:

* Don't subdivide instead rent out the parts of your unimproved superblock

* Charge so much for a subway there is no consumer surplus and recoup your money that way
Thanks for explaining this
Perhaps I just worded it poorly. I encourage people to make the long-term decision to live below their means so they're not put in that kind of a position. I'm sympathetic to their short-term position and very supportive of changing their long-term position.
The New Caledonian crested gecko was thought to be extinct for over 100 years until they were rediscovered in 1994. Now they're common place in the pet trade because they're so hardy.

Rediscovery of "extinct" species is common place, because of the inherent difficulty in proving that all individuals of a given species are dead. Combine this with the robustness of biology, allowing species to quickly boom under favorable conditions, and then false extinction ends up happening more often than you would probably suspect. It's normal for many healthy populations to fluctuate wildly around a given carrying capacity. r-selected organisms are particularly notorious for having like 95% of the population die off regularly, and then bouncing back in a few years.

In the case of the thylacine, it's a macro organism so it probably has a higher profile when compared to a small gecko. So the likelihood that they're still extant probably isn't quite as high, unfortunately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crested_gecko
Posted previously, and well worth the (re)read.

Notably:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11931270

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581487

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1635499
>"Single transaction footprint: Equivalent to the carbon footprint of 742,348 VISA transactions"

One thing is clear, no matter how far blockchain technology progresses, proof-of-work will never reach the efficiency of a trusted intermediary.
It rains each three minutes, the sea is deep and wild and the water is cold as death. People talk in high pitch tones, are easy going and friendly by default with (civilised) visitors but also complex inside and sometimes release their sadness or little inner martian also. Is all by the weather

So is basically like the planet Kamino (de Santiago) but with really memorable food. I love it :-)

Here is the official unofficial anthem that explains everything about this crazy people:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t02dFZI7nw4
they said they ll do business with customers that are incompatible with their values. That doesnt sound like an absolute amoral acceptance. its instead a statement that they won't be restricted to 100%-ethically-equivalent companies. You 're stretching the argument to absurd proportions
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So give up China (lost billions) or give up democratic propaganda.

It’s not the size of the market that should determine right or wrong. Having free speech laws means you get democracy and nazi stuff and spend time on more important stuff as to what’s too nazi or too democratic. Just rely on the rule of law.
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That's not an accurate statement, since the pollution costs of Bitcoin are an externality not being paid by the people using it. It's more like Bitcoin users are dumping costs on the unconsenting public to avoid the "tyranny" of AML/KYC banking regulations.
No, this is super helpful.

Booz Allen, United Technologies, and Raytheon are government contractors. For several years, the USG had a policy of requiring DNSSEC for its own internal zones and had sent signals that its partners would require DNSSEC as well. But a year and a half ago, the USG rescinded the requirement, and no longer recommends DNSSEC even for internal .gov zones.

Comcast is an interesting example because their adoption of DNSSEC broke a major project rollout: the week HBO NOW became available, it was unreachable from their networks due to a DNSSEC misconfiguration.

Another data point: of the Alexa Top 50 in the US, only FORCE.COM is DNSSEC-signed. But SALESFORCE.COM isn't; similarly, Paypal is signed, but its popular subsidiaries like Braintree and Venmo aren't. Or take the Moz 500; you'll find Mozilla is signed, as are a bunch of .GOV sites (see above), some European sites, and, if we're keeping score in the US, also Fox News, Time, Mediafire, and, weirdly, Themeforest. For reasons I do not understand, Stanford, Berkeley, and CMU have taken the time to sign as well. And that's it.

(For others reading: you can take a list of domains and do a quick spot check for DNS by just running "host -t ds (domain)".)
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An average block has something like 2500 transactions in it. It means that there is about 1-2 transactions per second. Bitcoin network is running at 100 million TH/s. Modern mining hardware does 10 GH/Joule = 10^10 H/J, so 100 million TH = 10^8 * 10^12 H = 10^20 H is 10^20/10^10 = 10^10 Joules. 1 kWh is 3.6 * 10^6 joules, so 10^10 Joules is something like 3 * 10^3 kWh, so 3 MWh. One ton of coal produces something like 2 MWh. So yeah, assuming some of the electricity is not coal, the numbers do add up.
Definitely agree.

I have some rather left-leaning friends, vegans and all, who recently mentioned they were going to take a punt on Bitcoin.

Might have to show them this.
The way the model works is very interesting:

1. Calculate total mining revenues, across all miners in the Bitcoin network.

2. Estimate that, on average, miners spend 60% of their revenues on electricity. (I believe the origin of this number are the calculations in this paper [0]).

3. Find out how much miners pay per kWh on average.

4. Convert the costs into a consumption.

There is some discussion of the origin of the assumptions, and some criticism and validation here [1] and here [2] respectively.

[0] https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(18)30177-6

Specifically, see the calculations using Antminer S9 in Table 2.

[1] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption#assumpti...

[2] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption#validati...
> Per-transaction measures isn't the right metric since the Bitcoin blockchain can still be successful as a reconciliation backbone without being used for small everyday purchases.

This idea has been around the corner for a while now. How likely is it really, how long will it take, and what will adoption look like? Until it happens and is popular, it seems fair to discuss how much a Bitcoin transaction actually costs...
The figures are not per-capita. That's why.
Carriers can't be sued for the content they carry. It's been tried many times and so long as the carrier acts like a carrier (neutral channel), it fails.
There goes much of the pricing leverage that made Ting and Google Fi viable.
More like to choose a different tyrany.
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The news feed does not editorialize. It doesn't edit the content itself. It's automated curation.

Furthermore this whole "publisher" vs "platform" argument is not nearly as relevant as people make it seem. Contrary to popular belief, tech companies describing themselves as publishers instead of platforms does not affect the fact that they are not held liable for user generated content (so long as they meet reasonable standards for taking it down when notified). The New York Times is afforded the same protection for user generated content that they host (e.g. their comments section).
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The average number of transactions per block is easy to measure historically.

If each block takes 10 minutes, and the miner network indeed draws 73 TWh each year, then that works out to ~1.4 GWh per block.
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The Bitcoin network has a fixed transaction capacity that has no relation to the amount of power expended to mine bitcoin.

The amount of power used is proportional to the value of the reward for successfully mining a new block, which happens about every 10 minutes (12.5 BTC or about $100k).

If the value of BTC goes up miners will increase their spend and more power will be consumed per block mined, and if the value goes down so to will the power used.

Regardless of the power used for mining, there is a fixed transaction capacity in the network.
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Don't be yourself at work. Don't live at work. Don't say what you think at work. You have been hired to do your job, not to enjoy your time.

I get it, it's totally normal, I'm honestly not judging anyone or saying it should be otherwise: it's most probably the matter of that it couldn't be otherwise. But I find it kind of sardonic, that you take the fact you don't really belong to yourself for most of your life much more naturally, than the fact you have been told you cannot discuss politics by one of your potential temporary owners. Because, yeah, politics is special, obviously.

Oh, and I'm totally fine with treating customers as "just customers" by the way.
Human cost is not really very well measurable.

First we're talking about the free app for a good cause, so you're already providing an app for free, so you've assumed some sacrifice for others for whatever reason, and setting up a website for it may be comparatively negligible part of the whole cost to you in terms of time.

In my case I would have already had an infrastructure and knowledge how to host things, so it might take a few minutes to put some new files up on a machine used for other projects. Additional costs being pretty much 0.

And there may be benefits (even if I didn't have the knowledge and infra) like learning something new, or now having an infrastructure and knowledge that helps you save expenses or time in the future. So that would offset the costs. You can't just look at costs alone.
These diagrams look upside down to me. I think of gravity Wells like those coin donation wells: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/1e/c8/de/1ec8de8c6c3d15ff0df8cafa8...
It’s just slower. But there is an interest and there is a promoter, people selling books, talking on air, in movies, talked about by teachers, elevated by kids’s shows, etc. It’s more diffuse and immersive, thus, it’s even more effective because people rarely notice it. It has parallels to refined state propaganda.

Iraq war-like talk basically is the poorman’s version of ideal propaganda.
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Facebook certainly wants to be a platform based on their lobbying. But they are clearly a publisher by setting editorial guidelines and sponsoring and removing content.
These pics were taken out in the sticks of Everett, apparently in the woods where no one lives.

Where are the the piles of needles people keep claiming they need to walk over on their way out of their apartments in Seattle?
But they are outside the scope in very important ways this glosses over and which does make them much more sovereign than a state, such as sin taxes (cigarettes) and gun law enforcement (a PMC was incorporated in and trading fully automatic weapons through Indian territory). The basis for those is what is important.
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How much energy to mine an ounce of gold?
How many of these posts do we need a day? They have long ceased to be "news" or interesting. The only real variation here is that it isn't citylab.
That's the usual argument, but I don't see how that sticks around when it's pretty much just money laundering without even a cover story.

At the end of the day that new wallet needs to be converted to cash or use to pay for something to be useful, which makes it traceable, which ties the person to using a mixer which I have no doubts will become illegal itself if it becomes a problem.
>personally I don't see underrepresentation of women in tech as a problem that can be or should be 'solved'

I say the below not as an attempt to criticize you for this viewpoint, but as a way to try to explain why this viewpoint is often interpreted as sexist.

The question is why do you believe this? The possible explanations for why women are underrepresented in tech basically comes down to either nature or nurture. Either there is something in the way we as a society and industry educate, hire, manage, and promote women or there is something fundamentally different about women that prevents them from participating in this industry at the same rate as men. The former is fixable and you say this isn't fixable so we can assume this isn't your viewpoint. That would seem to mean your explanation relies on the idea that there is something fundamentally different about women that leads to them not going into tech. Do you see how that could easily be interpreted as sexist? It doesn't take much of a leap for people to hear the non-sexist "woman don't do this" as the sexist "women can't do this". You need to be able to articulate why you belong in that first camp or else everyone will just write you off as being in the second.
As others have commented, per-transaction is a very misleading metric. Hashing difficulty is based on the number of other miners and time between blocks, not based on the number of transactions.

With something like lightning network, a single Bitcoin transaction can facilitate millions of 'lightning' transactions.
So we've already destroyed 99% of wetlands in California in the last 150 years, let's play hot potato with the small patch that's left?

The entire central valley was a marsh. The delta is the small part that still slightly resembles its natural state.

Look at this picture of Sacramento from 1857 surrounded by ponds and wetlands:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sacramento,_Califor...
For some reason the bi-weekly vs. semi-weekly thing doesn't confuse me, but I take your point and the dictionary seems to agree that it can mean either every two weeks or twice a week.
I find it weird when people quote large velocities in mph.

Sure, we measure normal things in mph, but who has a reference point for 500 thousand mph?

Whereas, I, and I would have though other people, have a general idea that rockets and such travel at a single or low double digit mi/s, and (maybe it's just me) I would think the speed of light at about 186 thousand miles per second is well known.
You can't use statistics without a model. The problem is that you have a shitty model and it's annoying when you keep parroting it like you're so logical. Your model as inferred from this comment is that there's some way to quantify the current applicants, and that applicants below a certain value are always rejected. The remaining applicants are "above the bar" and could be hired. The current "above the bar" group is not 50/50, therefore changing it means accepting people below the bar.

The problem is that none of your assumptions hold water. Technical interviews are about as accurate as flipping a coin. Mundane factors like whether or not the interview is after lunch have a major impact on pass rates. Performance on the interview has little to no predictive value for future job performance.

You can't brush this off as social ignorance, this is simply ignorance of the facts.
I’m not sure how much of a difference there is between centralization and aggregation. Especially if it’s not just a read-only feed.

You can basically aggregate tomorrow with RSS.
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I find myself, when I have the choice, always gravitating to Google maps on my laptop. Enough that it frustrates me how far behind the web version is in terms of features compared to mobile.

My mouse is far more accurate than my finger and I can zoom more accurately and more quickly with my scroll wheel, it is milliliters of finger travel as opposed to a much larger, and slower mulit finger operation.
> Or, people enjoy Facebook and then rally their government for laws to be changed.

It's not going to happen, because people can connect to FB easily using a vpn without giving FB the chance to monetize ads. It's already happening in countries that have banned FB.
I can understand that if you're not familiar with them, but The Register literally predates click-bait - they've been doing satirical headlines for decades.
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Isn’t it ironic that trams are about to start running again in Sydney.
Orbital velocities are generally quoted in miles per second or km/s, and so is the speed of light. So mph tends to lack context.
I was referring to active attacks. I don't consider an ISP or a public resolver operator to be particularly different w.r.t. passive attacks: both get to do it, and both do do it.
I think the idea is you'd have mixers for each denomination e.g. 5 BTC, 100 BTC, etc, and you'd just send that amount so everyone gets the same payout and you can't tell clean coins from dirty.

Which IMO just makes everyone liable, the law usually doesn't look favourably upon intentionally tricky bullshit.
It's up and running now: https://bitcoinvisuals.com/lightning
I do this sometimes as well when Angolia isn't giving me the results I'm looking for.
http://stats.dnssec-tools.org/#
I registered a Fastmail account a year ago. Next thing I know, I had multiple stores (Steam, Target, etc) sending me e-mails that relate to a specific user account. Sad.
I'm not a physicist but I suspect this comment hits the nail on the head. You can only "undo" a black-hole by expanding the space it is embedded in.
Right, and moving from 0.1 seconds to 0.01 seconds means you can use one TENTH of the CPU time or Lambda time or whatever, so you can do more with fewer resources or scale down your infrastructure.

Performance matters, a LOT, and not just to end users; if you perform better, you save money on infrastructure.
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Haha, that's pretty good!
> That said, reasonable people can agree in screening people better and discriminating against certain anti social behaviors, etc.

Yes, but the concern is the unreasonable people. O’Rourke basically blew away the “reasonable compromise” position by making clear (at least in the eyes of second amendment advocates) that there is an end goal, that end goal is confiscation, and that any compromise is just one step toward that end goal.