skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry if you've had some hard experiences in this area. I find it a bit difficult to give a hard yes/no, with the exception of the more polarized scenarios. For example, objectively-accounted (shared experience) abuse of employees is a big obvious one.

The concept of loyalty has a lot of understated depth to it. I think this is why you find people still working at companies that are even objectively awful. IMO consideration of one's practice of loyalty is best as an ongoing process or even a conversation. And it's really about relationships.

People who are gifted at thinking about relationships, thinking deeply, and taking their time to do so, can do pretty well at such companies in many cases. For example, while someone who expects to work for a fair company and has reasonably high ideals may get completely blown away by an awful work environment, the employees at the same org who are more nuanced in this kind of situation are thinking about the exact details of the give and take. They are mapping out the boundaries, quadrant by quadrant. They may even find their workplace a fascinating study in power dynamics. It's stimulating for them, in a very intriguing way.

I observed this myself while preparing to leave a job. Long ago I worked for a company that had a lot of problems. As one example, they had monitored employee phone calls, listened in on a call wherein an employee shared with a friend that she was pregnant, and then terminated her employment. (She took them to court and won) I found this out about a month into my employment there. Then I found out a bunch of other nasty stuff about the company. The main IT guy started a private chat with me and dropped a ton of insider facts, after he found out I was leaving.

Personally, I had to leave. My health was more important to me than the weighing and considering factors. But I noticed that the people who stayed there had really figured out the web of intricate power factors. They knew where there were hard lines and where there was blur. They understood how to work with management so that they got what they wanted, sometimes, or usually. This relationship-puzzling factor is very much an understated stimulant for people who can do it. They feel like they are Neo in _The Matrix_. Inside their head it's a powerful game.

On the outside, people like this look "loyal" to a lot of us who take more of a breezy, get-things-done approach to our work. We who may want to work for quality people who meet high standards, and return the same. But IMO on the inside these Matrix types are really counting on this loyal appearance as the solid foundation for their epic inner journey, in which all avenues are open. Power games, passive-aggressive behavior, I've even seen hacking of all varieties used in these cases. And they know the deal--I'm loyal on the outside, the company likes that. On the inside, on the deep inside, the company likes to turn a blind eye.

And most days are just fine, even if the company has a bad name and a bad reputation.

This is just one way in which loyalty gets really deep.
Failure at NASA isn't like failure at SpaceX. This was the culmination of 10 years of simulations and pork jobs. For SpaceX its the culmination of a couple weeks of wielding on a tent using private money instead of direct public funds.
Three cases for now, mostly:

- It's an excellent way to make payments and transfer value without giving up on your position on more volatile assets that you'd like to hold. E.g, I am long BAT. I can deposit my BAT stash on a MakerDAO vault to make an overcollaterized loan of DAI. I go on then to use DAI to pay people and services and other investments (see next point). If BAT's value falls between a certain threshold and the loan is no longer collaterized, then the loan is liquidated.

- Provide liquidity in a volatile-stable pair (e.g, ETH/DAI) on a decentralized exchange like Uniswap and reduce what is commonly called impermanent loss or impairment loss.

- Provide liquidity on Curve Finance on the DAI/USDC pool. The fees I get to collect from that so far more than offset the interest rate from the original loan, and if you put on top of that that Curve gives their own tokens as an incentive to liquidity providers, I am getting around 2% ROI per month by holding fairly stable and low-risk crypto assets.
I use a Kobo Clara HD. It has a Kobo store where you can buy books, or you can use the “experimental web browser”, point it to libgen or your libraries website, and download whatever book you want.

More often than not though I just hook it up to my Linux laptop and transfer books via usb.
That's really funny. Bitcoin - the ultimate in speculative assets, a money transfer system so good it couldn't even power a small country's day-to-day transactions, while wasting the energy of a medium country, industry and all - the solution to consumerism and world peace.
Plebeian-equivalent people make up the bulk of the US army. I don't see a link between that quote and the question of professionalism.
This was a Comment (dated October 2018), not a paper.
Ok, let us start:

How and why is it wrong?

Make your case, however not simple. This will be powerful.

Once we have that, simple can happen easily.

Your turn.
> Even the cryptocommunity is starting to accept that Bitcoin has effectively failed as a payment network.

Where are you seeing evidence of this?
What I don't understand is how a not user-centered idealist designer can reach the top in Apple, my thought has been Apple is already big enough to care more about innovation and experiment instead of current user need, or it's just their motto to influence users instead of listen to them.
CBS includes an additional detail:

"Florida Department of Law Enforcement officials said Rebekah Jones has been under investigation since early November after someone illegally accessed the state’s emergency alert health system...."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/e2-80-98censored-by-the...
None of the farms analyzed in the article are in Mongolia: https://github.com/Camilo-Mora/Bitcoin/blob/master/Katie_Tab...
I welcome this.
It's a mistake to assume energy source composition too. I would guess that a majority of mining is renewable right now (mining is a perfect sink of intermittent excess energy, and because its profitability is related to energy cost, renewables win). More so in the future.
Forgive the grumpy old man approach here, but can't this all just stop.

The price of a TV (or almost any common product) is driven more by large scale factors (cost, competition, features and brand) than the latest 4 dollar shift because of some promotion in some channel somewhere.

We are optimising for the wrong things. Computers are supposed to be our agent in the digital realm, reaching out for us, in our best interests.

If we turn off all storage of personalised information completely and utterly, 95% of everything I ask can be answered from context (please show me cheap TVs).

Look, i don't object to the idea behind the sandbox (it's always been weird that browsers tell the server what fonts and other settings exist. I mean who ever optimised for that)

What bothers me is that it's a google id. Just let me have a few U2F ids - this is my shopping id, track it if you may. when I take it out of the slot stop tracking me.

I am sure I am feeling extra grumpy today, but when we stop tracking and trying to find ways to make me buy, and start finding ways to make my life better, that's when we have a digital revolution.
I always felt that Mac struck a good balance between my programming productivity and “the rest”, because I could use some great applications that were otherwise unavailable on Linux, sadly.

What pains did you have? Docker support was a big one for me, but otherwise I haven’t encountered anything too bad.
I agree that the large energy expenditure required (along with other mining costs, transaction fees, transaction latencies, etc.) to maintain the Bitcoin network ultimately makes it non-tenable for permanent financial infrastructure . However, I think the article could have made that point without completely discrediting the value Bitcoin provides by calling it a "collective delusion that value can created out of nothing by convincing greater fools to buy it after you do"...

I believe Bitcoin has served its purpose by being a pioneer, w.r.t popularizing an application of an immutable distributed ledger. However, it's not the one we should use. Ethereum's model (proof of stake) allows for most if not all of the uses of Bitcoin, without the non-scalable energy requirements and transaction costs, along with smart contracts, which have many potentially revolutionary applications (voting, public records, etc.). We could have our cake and eat it too..
Not surprised. There are also a few other popular technologies that eat up a lot of energy unnecessarily, see e.g. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320436353_Energy_ef...
Textmate users moved to sublime because they felt it was better, so did sublime users to vscode.

They could get a better experience with very minimal time of training or mastery, because the next tool they used was user friendly and better for them.

What’s wrong with that ? If new tools that are better and easy to use keep coming then that is something to celebrate.
What were you doing before and how big of a career change was it in terms of the new things you had to learn?
Biden to Prioritize 11M Illegal Immigrants over Legal Immigrants
That's a big fuck you to all you H1's, F1s, 01s, etc.

Biden hates Indians.
Non-mining nodes are still responsible for storing and relaying blocks. If no one stores and relays your block, was it ever mined?
The alternative of stack-ranking what constitutes a good or bad use of energy doesn't seem particularly feasible to me. If energy is cheap, abundant and clean you don't need to create such good/bad energy list.
There is also Jambavan who appears in both Ramayana and Mahabharata. Jambavan’s army fought alongside the Vanara army in Ramayana.

Even though he is depicted as part of the monkey army, he was really known to be a bear. A bear like giant creature.

He appears again in Mahabharata as the possessor of the Syamantaka Gem that was stolen and was in his possession. They live in a cave and hidden from the rest of the people. He is defeated by Krishna and he accepts defeat. He also offer Krishna his daughter Jambavati’s hand in marriage.

In the Puranas ..after the Ramayana war, all the monkeys and bears who lost their lives were brought back to life and they returned to their abode. Mahabharata is to have happened in a different yuga.

Hanuman keeps appearing in all puranas because he is Chiranjeevi..one without death. And hence more of an archetype than a character in every yuga.
We'll see what happens. The main dynamics at play are:

- You're right, if I build out some of the more interesting AI features such as live draft assistant it will become more computationally demanding.

- As long as volume is low, that's fine. If not, I'll have to answer this question earlier ;)

- This will always be a side project. I would only want to start charging if I was really providing enough value to users where it made sense to charge. That said, I hope that by picking the right problems to solve the site can be immediately pretty useful.
> Even the cryptocommunity is starting to accept that Bitcoin has effectively failed as a payment network.

It’s got that sweet hype-commodity power though.

Although what can I say, when I saw my non-tech family talking about it I assumed it was dead. That was at $3000. I know nothing.
* Unless you get an Evil Maid attack [0], like adding a physical keylogger to the keyboard bus.

If the device is decrypted but on lock screen (like with TPM) there are more options, the main one is reading memory via DMA [1] on an ExpressCard slot (eg the wifi card). Also swapping out the memory to do a cold boot attack [2] is possible.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_maid_attack

[1] https://github.com/ufrisk/pcileech

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack
Not a project per-se but a lot of small example projects: https://github.com/inancgumus
> Of course a frugal person doesnt spend an hour trying to save $5

Have you ever seen a reddit thread on any personal finance related topic? You can find millions of people who regularly defy this logic every single day.
Pretty unrealistic standpoint here. Might as well not even try.

I’m using resistive heating in smaller rooms and it cut my gas usage to near 0, saving me almost 50% in electric and gas costs.

This is the only way to make people change their behavior: show them another way. A realistic way, and make it cheaper or otherwise more desirable for them in shorter timespan
I’d argue that “valuable for humans” is brushing over something: is Bitcoin valuable for humans as a collective or is it valuable for a small minority who stand to gain from it?

From my view, and despite the initial promises of Bitcoin, it’s being used by people of means to get even more money than they already have.
> Humans also reproduce exponentially - with a sufficiently high birth rate, numbers of people can rapidly grow.

With a sufficiently high birth rate, daycare, cheap real estate, schools with less than 100 pupils per class, free higher education, and solid, assured pensions, and state elderly care.
peer review is not infallible. Stop worshipping it.
So Nature publishes comments without reviewing them?
Uhh no. Stephen is not discussing BTC energy usage. This is sanctimonious, moralistic grandstanding that presupposes “Bitcoin bad” as a moral absolute straw man to set up a nasty, useless screed railing against it.

If there was some legit discussion in it, that would be fine. There utterly is none.
Indeed. Which is why this mention of gold coins seems pointless.
GitHub admits fault in firing of Jewish employee, head of HR resigns
Actually, this is one area where pgp's use in pass works really well. You use your public key to encrypt passwords. So, adding a new one doesn't need the physical key.
Back when I did my degree in the mid-90's, our labs were running a mix of LC III, Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, the recent Windows 95 and terminals for the DG/UX server.

The only classes using UNIX were the ones specific about UNIX content.

A the end of the 5 years, the DG/UX server had been replaced by a Red-Hat one and most terminals, were dual booting between the university own distribution and Win95/95 OSR, some of us also had access to the freshly released Windows NT.

The large majority of students was still only booting into GNU/Linux for the UNIX related labs.

Anything related to graphics programming, Smalltalk, databases, AI, engineering tools (UML, Boochs, CASE), digital circuits, was done on Windows/Mac OS (System).
Right, they could have access to your account, but not full access. A good website will ask for 2FA again if a user tries to do something destructive (like change password, email, or disable 2FA). They wouldn’t be able to do those things.
It doesn't matter for a limited supply of energy. If we have hydro power available as well as coal, Bitcoin miners being located near hydro means that they hog that supply. Energy that could supply other uses is now not available and uses which previously relied on coal still rely on coal (because the usage only creeps up).
What does your workflow look like when you set up new credentials?
High info density, lean, threaded discussion is not an eye sort to me.

Nice work though. I am sure some will appreciate it.
Unfortunately, their own single-sign on services require us to have cookies enabled for client implementations (firebase auth), that remains the only reason to keep using cookies on the webapps I build.
I met one guy on a meetup in the UK who installed BTC miners at his parents house in Russia. He told this is a practice in Siberia.
Moral Panic FUD
Now add Avalanche to that comparison.
I somehow don't see myself buying a $4000 ASIC to mine Bitcoin in my home and paying like 280€ per month in electricity for it even though it was -20°C Friday.
Good question. I should probably make this clearer on the site.

The short answer is that if a player is injured we won't put them into your lineup unless there's an open spot (ie. we'll never bench a healthy player for an injured one).

Long-winded: we build thousands of simulations of every NBA game based on teams' recent lineups and depth charts, and incorporate current injury data into these. This lets us do some really cool stuff, such as bump up the minutes projection (and thus the value) of guys who are next in line on the depth chart at the position of the injured player. We then optimize your lineups over these simulations to maximize the chance that you'll win your matchup.
Do you have a better concept?
Obviously that just gives Google a monopoly on tracking. So that's cool, I guess ...
With their calculations, energy wasted on ads would push that warming by another 2500 C.
The number of transactions are limited by block size though so each completed block has a maximum number of transactions it can include.. also securing the blockchain isn't an end unto itself it's only really useful when it includes transactions.
Seems analogous to the average faces photography project where the composite faces of a large number of men or women end up being more attractive than you'd imagine for an average person.
> Nothing in life is free.

Should read: every action (including inaction) has specific, inescapable consequences.

The question is: what matters more? Is the cost worth it?

No one needs bitcoin. No one. You might argue that we need a viable currency, but the two are not equivalent.

What everyone needs, without exception, is a functioning biosphere.

I agree with your humorist. Now is a perfect example of a time when we need to be expending resources and capital on saving the planet. Generous? Or just adequate?
I think you’re underestimating Stone Age humans, we used to hunt freaking lions and other big cats with stone tools. We started causing mass extinctions long before industrialization.
Agree on all points.

VRML-97 is the near pinnacle of human achievement, for declaring scene graphs, a special use case of object graphs. It had reuse. It had patch cords (specify non parent-child relations). It only lacked path expressions.

I really I wish I could tell younger me to publish my own VMRL successor, way back when. Young me forfeited when confronted by XML's JavaScript-like metastasis, which had overwhelmed all rationale human endeavors. Then maybe I could have spared humanity the indignity of JSON and kin.

Had I only known that all bouts of irrational exuberance eventually implode...
Wow. Is this actually facts?
I enjoyed reading this comment almost immediately after reading one above about how people live in places that are too cold and they should move to warmer climates. Ha.
Sure value is subjective - I find it valuable because it's gold I can transmit through space quickly
> Because in 10 years nothing you built today that depends on JS for the content will be available, visible, or archived anywhere on the web.
> All your fancy front-end-JS-required frameworks are dead to history,

Pretending to know anything 10 years in advance is foolish.

There’s a degree of contempt here. That makes me evaluate this as a rant.

If my target audience is developers, I’ll consider using server side rendering. For normal people I doubt it matters either way.
Please post original headlines.

"Biden to prioritize legal status for millions of immigrants"
> A good leader is supposed to take responsibility for the actions taken by his or her team. Failure of a unit implies failure of the leadership.

I've heard the same "leadership principles seppuku" and sure, this would be consistent with that ethos. (In my experience, that kind of buck-stops-here ownership happens less often than not.) But this isn't the part of your comment I want to argue.

> In my view, the right outcome happened here.

I disagree (if it was a subordinate).

If the responsible party was a more junior member of HR, I'd like to see the blowback land on the actually culpable party. (That could be in addition, or alternative, to the leader's resignation.)
That is a radical claim to make with no evidence and huge evidence to the contrary.
Billions? The bitcoin network is doing less than 7 transactions per second. It's less than useless for anything but a handful of people trading it as speculation.
One of the many reasons why we need to get over our fear of nuclear power (speaking centric to the U.S.) and focus on safety innovation in that area. It could solve the energy and pollution problems quickly and efficiently, making things like this a non-issue.

The whole global warming and climate change problem could be solved (while also stimulating the economy through job creation), but economic and political incentive to not solve the problem thwarts any real progress.

If you're curious or skeptical, it's worth considering the arguments of people like Michael Shellenberger[1] and Alex Epstein[2].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/06/19...

[2] https://energytalkingpoints.com/energy-q-a/
Lots of Bitcoin critics really struggle with the subjective theory of value (which is also the basis of Marginalism and modern mainstream economics). Nobody believes in stuff like labor or intrinsic values outside of a few marxist holdouts.
The problem is surveillance. Consent is a meme. People who work in warehouses don't get to shop among a dozen different employers like software engineers in the valley.

>Also bag-searches seem more invasive than video.

Then don't do either. Or only do some random searches or when you're suspecting someone of having stolen something. Treating employees like thieves by default is nuts. We don't accept petty theft as a justification for mass surveillance outside the workplace so we shouldn't accept it inside the workplace either.
> For a few decades (assuming fixed rate), until the population doubles and we'll be overpopulating two planets.

By the time mankind would be able to populate Mars, we would've probably have no effort to just build cities in space.

The amount of steel, and aluminum you can make just from moon, and earth is enough for billions of space cities.
Ignore the millions of 1-ton chunks of metal that move 1 person slower than a bike on average. It's the bitcoin network's fault.
Transactions are what makes Bitcoin useful (in theory) for "normal people". Thus it is fair to evaluate the entire Bitcoin network in terms of how much energy it takes versus (i.e. divided by) how many transactions it handles.
IIUC your point is that energy is wasted in the mining process. But I am not sure you can say it is a competition for who spend the most energy... Is power consumption linear with computing power, I am curious. Anyways, just as gold moving, computing power can be optimised for energy efficiency.
Also it would have been better for OP to compare not with gold moving but with gold ... mining, an extremely energy hungry ans environmentally destructive industry.
I don't use Yahoo. Are there other ways to sign up without having to sign up for another email address?
To continue the abstract car analogy, what if this car that used 10,000x the energy per mile also had some magic properties -- like that anyone could build the car themselves from the blueprints, it could magically teleport anywhere on earth and nobody could tell you where you could drive it (traffic signs are ignored).

"Would that be worth something to you, eh?" -- Scotty
For the same reason startups can win over existing giants: first to market is important.
Except that my example is more the more popular scenario. Pageviews of general news site surpass pageviews of niche websites about a specific topic. Just go look at the top visited websites.
they are mostly in western chinese provinces like yunnan and sichuan where hydroelectric power is common. Miners in (inner) mongolia are using geothermal.