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The same argument can be said about BTC. BTC doesn't pay dividends. I would rather own a company than the amount in BTC. Well in case of Gold in worst case you will be left with some shiny metal, that also has some intrinsic value because it's used in electronics (e.g. gold plated contacts). If BTC goes down then you will have nothing.
Yay, free code review?
> I assume founders were people like us - normal family- what happened to them?

Why assume that? For example, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were reputedly always extremely competitive, ruthless and success-oriented. I wouldn't say they were ever normal. Even their family background wasn't typical - Jobs was adopted, while Gates was born in a dynasty of some major law players.
I don't think it's a simple as that, and you have to separate the ownership of the club and the makeup of the team from who makes up the bulk of the fans.

The fans don't particularly care that it's owned by an american and sponsored by a UAE airline, because what matters is the coming together of the fans behind a common cause.

The fans do typically come from the area around the stadium in North London.

When you get just a little bit further down the league it's still very much a geographical thing because the teams are less well known and less successful, so are less likely to attract people who want to support "the best team". For example, Southampton FC fans are pretty much exclusively from Southampton.
A scientific paper is not a magical thing either.

There have been absurdly bad papers published in the "best" journals (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2455231/ - on the memory of water by Benaventiste - the graal of homeopaths) and then quietly retracted. Unfortunately the information is now in the news and it is much more attractive that the debunking.

Then you have the poor quality of peer-review in many journals (the more one moves aways from hard science, the worse it gets). I had the opportunity to review a PhD thesis in a prestigious university in Europe (in biology) and the statistical part was disheartening. It was so bad that I have now concerns about everything biology :)

Finally the publish or die approach to contemporary science does not help to have quality and honesty in papers. There were recent cases in South Korea.

I do not have a solution, though. Probably not linking grants and career to publications would help.
That would help with variance, but not with bias.

Business incentives presumably reward all such companies for helping the police get convictions, so it doesn't seem a far-fetched concern.
i'm always curious what people are training ml models on, and what they use it for?
Google Play / Android != Stadia
MS Word - almost everyone knows it.

At work we need a standard application. We cannot have each person with their own unique application as we do not have enough IT support people to handle that.

We do not use the online version as internet is not reliable enough for that.
Ultimately this comes down to Mr. Musk stomping his feet until his personal vision starts being called "strategic" by Tesla C-level.
And even further, we friggin’ engineered them genetically through artificial selection to be that way.
Maybe you're right.

But the truth isn't a popularity contest - in either direction. Just because something is popular doesn't make it good. Just because something is unpopular doesn't mean it's a transformative technology that's being misunderstood.

(Fwiw, I'm a blockchain skeptic - I think about the only thing the blockchain technology is good for is cryptocurrencies. About cryptos specifically, I'm very unsure whether they are "good" or not.)
This brings back memories. I helped set up the first GSM network in California / Nevada. Strange to see its remnants still out there. I would have expected it to all be deprecated by now. Anyone from HN still currently working with it?
That's US where everyone drives everywhere. Now we do the same for Europe or China and the effect on the whole world ends up much less.
Me? oh no I'm just another moron. And I can be influenced as well, I'm just, due to my profession, more aware of how the influencing works, and I think we need awareness that the algos which helped fracture the US in 2 factions are deeply detrimental to society, and yet they keep getting used to boost a few companies' ad revenue.

We accidentally built the paperclip maximizer AI, and it doesn't give a shit about collateral damage.
My first ever mobile app was an experimental bit of Android Malware. It got demo'd by my colleague at Blackhat [1]. I'm definitely not a hacker, but with a few basic tricks I was able to create a pretty effective trojan which we then injected into a popular game (again only for experimental purposes, it was never released in the wild). In our lab we had literally millions of samples of Android malware, but for iOS we had only two (which only worked on jailbroken phones). Fun times.

1. https://www.softwaretalks.io/v/4047/black-hat-usa-2013-how-t...
Should we? Bitcoin went up 4x from October to January, and was dropping from early January until today. I don't claim to be able to predict the market, but that seems consistent with a bubble that's close to its peak.
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>It’s also gotten easier for companies to reject for tacit bias such as gender, race, and any other number of factors

In some European countries like Germany, Spain and Austria it's not even tacit as it's tradition to have your photo and birthday in your resume, especially for more traditional companies, to the point where it generated some scandals in Austria and Germany since in some companies, being black or having Slavic/Turkish/Arabic names got your CV rejected by default even though the CVs would fit the requirements.

But it's ok, since they write in the footer of their career page that they don't discriminate on such things. /s

Edit: There's even some German satire about the racism job applicants face over having photos in resumes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih5k7g8vUmE
You're not comparing bitcoin to the right thing. You're comparing bitcoin's energy usage to the usage of a country. Bitcoin is competing against much bigger players than small countries it's attempting to compete with Fiat currencies. The best comparison would be to compare it to the energy required to sustain the USD as the de facto fiat currency. It's hard to get exact numbers on the DoD's full energy usage but as some points of reference they use about 4.6 billion gallons of fuel a year, 10% of the US's aviation gas usage, etc. To put the DoD's usage into perspective, "The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) consumes more energy than any other federal agency—77% of the entire federal government’s energy consumption."(https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R45832.pdf)
As a consumer, every time the clause is not specifically negotiated, it is considered "abusive" and void (for businesses it may be different). If as a consumer you negotiate a contract with an arbitration clause it will be enforceable however if it is a generic clause in the terms& condition it will not.
"regard (a possibility or fact) as being unworthy of consideration"
Did they? maybe they simply became bigger so you see more of the same greed multiplied by their relative growth ?
(Completely off-topic: I noticed your username and wondered if it was a reference to the C&C community?)
Bitcoin is a mystery to me. Somehow it's hailed as revolutionising the economy, by replacing currency with a worse kind of currency.

It feels like this is where all the "how to get rich quick" book writers and other hustle bros went and created one giant financial pyramid, which works in quite simple way:
- buy bitcoin
- tell everyone around how revolutionary it is, so they buy it and what you holding increases in value, then tell them to do the same.

Keep repeating the above two steps through different layers of abstraction, so it's not so obvious anymore.

The other thing that comes into play and makes it grow even bigger is when people see others who made money on this bunch of bollocks, and think that the fact they are rich somehow makes them smart. Then they buy into all of the cryptocurrency platitudes wholesale without stopping for a moment to critically evaluate it.

I think I'm a bit sour, because this whole crypto-crap infested the idea space of decentralisation, which is imho very important step that we should try to take take as a society. Now it's just forever tainted with bitcoin and all the greed fuelled people there, while the decentralisation should be quite the opposite in nature.

You know what would be revolutionary? Getting rid of currency altogether.
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Anecdotally, my main reason for switching to Google docs was that Office was $$$$. A lot of people collaborate but I doubt it’s anywhere near the majority.

Would you use Google docs if it cost $200 a year?
Great, that's indeed the best solution for this problem. I don't use any realtime communication platforms, so I'm still having FB for emergencies say for asking blood(have faced the need before) but I'm running out patience and having moral dilemma very so often.
> My patterns definitely fit the ones described. 95% of the time, I create an account, and nothing comes of it:

You don't need a free-forever plan to make those decisions, in these cases, just a sufficiently long timed-trial.
This sounds very similar to how I use org-mode these days; lots of capturing (from e-mails, code, web pages, chats, anywhere), clocking and note-taking, maybe some quick calculations or sql's using babel, timesheets for end of month billing, agenda/calendar views and reminders …

But when I was in university, I used it mainly for note-taking on lectures, reading lists, ideas, and for writing articles and such (exporting to LaTeX). Considering the amount of things I've found it useful for, learning it has certainly paid off :-)
I don't think this is bad at all. If there are so many job application that human can't scale enough to process all of them, it should be a big firm with reputation and those companies are spammed by job application from all ranges of candidates. It is just a spam mail detector with job application flavor.
Some data does exist:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305270428_Character...

> Pit bull bites were implicated in half of all surgeries performed and over 2.5 times as likely to bite in multiple anatomic locations as compared to other breeds.
The defendant has a right to “confront” their accuser. So when an algorithm is the one doing the accusing it seems only fair that the defendant should be able to understand how and why the algorithm arrived at that conclusion. Running the analysis through every software package available wouldn’t satisfy the defendant’s 6th amendment rights.
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Because there are massive tax benefits to purchasing something with bitcoin. What other asset can be turned into a hard good without realizing a tax on appreciation?
Wouldn't this set a precedent to eventually force any forensic software to become open source?
That was ULA before SpaceX came around. They had a monopoly on government launch and they won almost no commercial contracts on the global market because they were uncompetitive. SpaceX has totally reversed both of those. They have saved the government $Bs by undercutting ULA and is the top commercial launcher in the world.
Anyone can stake. Even if you don't have 32 ethers.
Forget ML, this is just business process mapping. If it's a payer-customer's account, issues should be sent to a human. Payer-customers should have access to a secondary channel (read: alternate phone number). Payer-customers Google contact(s) should be notified & included in the process.

As a general rule of thumb, if Google is struggling with a problem, it's not a tech problem.
At times like this, I’m not sure if I’m the only sane person in a world of lunatics, or the only lunatic in a world of normal people.
RFC2606 dates to 1999, so they've had a little time to migrate. tl;dr: .test .example .invalid .localhost
I get the following in the console, unless I click very fast as the page is loading:

(index):27 The AudioContext was not allowed to start. It must be resumed (or created) after a user gesture on the page. https://goo.gl/7K7WLu

There are also warnings about mixing insecure content, specifically the non-https version of Google fonts.
The entire post is really indicative of widespread misunderstandings on how linking is supposed to fit into the larger ecosystem.

Dynamic linking — on Linux — isn't intended to work on its own. There's a system around it, notably with a package manager and its dependency handling. It's only a component of the larger system, and it's failing because other pieces are just straight-up missing.

No, you can't build on one OS platform, transfer the executable to another, and expect it to work. Yes, other systems (notably Windows, but also Solaris and to some degree the BSDs) make that guarantee, but Linux doesn't. That's just how it is, and it's different across systems, and you need to drop that expectation. For comparison, on OpenBSD you can't link statically (not across OpenBSD versions at least) because syscalls are not an ABI. You need the system's libc, matching the kernel. (cf. recent Go story) Platforms have their own rules. Learn them.

The package manager is also what will fix some of the not-quite-linking-related problems the post cites. Headers and #defines matching the library version — you get that from the package manager's build dependencies. It'll also apply compiler & linker flags that match the platform.

But the most disingenious part of the article is this:

> If you want to move a binary from one machine (where it was compiled) to another

No. You're not moving a binary from one machine to another. You're moving it from one platform to another. Because if the machines have the same platform, it actually works.
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One gotcha for CloudFlare is that I find they will serve CAPTCHA pages for asset requests (like JavaScript or CSS) which will break your site (obviously the user won't see the captcha when the browser was expecting JS or an image).

To avoid this you need to turn the firewall and security feats to "Essentially Off" at least for asset requests (you can do this partial blocking via a page rule).

That being said this doesn't seem to be an issue with Free vs Paid, just a general problem with their blocking.
I've just been alerted to this same issue. I have a site hosted with DigitalOcean (ie. the domain A records resolve there) and use G-Suite for my emails. Would this affect the reputation of my emails, simply because the domain is associated with the blacklist. Surely unless I was trying to send emails from the DigitalOcean server itself, it wouldn't make any difference?
It's too short a description and ambiguous. I had to dig to your blog to find a better definition. https://mypath.ai/blog/jenya-and-kirill-we-introduce-you-pat...

Add this on your front page in some shape or form:

PATH will use AI and analytical technologies to show you new career opportunities at the intersection of your personal skills & interests and market demand in three ways:
1 — conventional (if you like your profession and want to develop it)
2 — comfort zone (if you don’t want to change something totally and just want to combine your interests and your profession)
3 — life-changing (something that can change your life — there is a career shift).

You’ll be able to use PATH for self-assessment (your PATH can show you your personal skills assessment and aspects for development or reconsider) and for career navigation to build your unique career path (and then find a job maybe not one and not once). And more: to become a part of a huge community of career surfers all around the globe.
Boosters are probably inevitable but once people are widely vaccinated, most are going to get on with their lives in a largely pre-pandemic way.
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On android (and I think iPhone too) you can scan barcodes with the camera app. It's not obvious, but I learned this from servers this year.

When we sit down they just say, "use your camera app to scan the barcode". It seemed to work for everyone at the table. Samsung, Pixel, and iPhone.
Here's their incident status: https://status.io/pages/incident/5b36dc6502d06804c08349f7/60...

Looks like the immediate issue was resolved a few minutes ago.
«as much electricity as Chile»

Or about as much as a single large hydroelectric dam.

Fun fact: many miners are located in places with cheap hydro/wind electricity like Sichuan & Yunnan provinces in China. These provinces abandon 100+ TWh/year of hydropower. They literally run water through the dams without powering the turbines. 100 TWh/year is more than what Bitcoin consumes globally.

«single transaction has the same carbon footprint as...»

Misleading. Bitcoin transactions don't consume mining energy. Mining power is completely independent of transaction volume.
> some consortium of goverments control the majority of tor exit points

Probably yes, but it does not necessarily break your anonymity for https websites.
Embarking on a task, realizing that it requires more foundational work than I'd anticipated, and plowing ahead regardless in an attempt to finish it all in one go. It nearly always leads to frustration and lousy code. Then I have to back off and break it down properly into manageable chunks.
Slack and Trello didn't start out as large companies, but they did both start out with a free tier.
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Then hear it from someone you are less likely to distrust. [1]

[1] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/12/martha-minow-...
GitLab team member here.

We're actively working on mitigating this spam attack: https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus/status/1358777539624198145
> they don't discriminate on these things.

In the U.S. they explicitly do discriminate on these things (and are often required to do so by law), but only in one direction.
It's unfathomable that the state can introduce evidence of any variety that isn't open source.

Secret policing and secrecy in prosecution have no place in decent society.
What you said is true and perceptive — it is at base like writing the AST - but most of the time you’re just doing function calls with the opening paren shifted to the other side of the function name.

In other words, in Algol like languages you’re typically calling like(this) (or the dotted.equivalent(form)) and in lisp it’s (like this).

You do eventually take advantage of the fact that you’re writing an AST, when you get into macros. But that feels pretty simple once you’re used to the function syntax, since macros just manipulate the resulting structures.

What used to throw me off was the special syntax for lists - ‘(structures looking like this) - but once you get used to using the lisp structure for function calls it becomes clear why and when this kind of quoting is necessary (any time you want a list as data instead of a function call).
Noo, you should not hodl something forever just because you bought it and it's precious to you. The thing about investing and stock market in general is, that people are constantly seeking the _best_ returns. If you have invested in something and it goes up by 10% in a year while a similar asset goes up 50%, you should probably re-evaluate your investment.

I have noticed that companies and investments do roughly divide into winners and losers. Meaning a currently well-performing asset will do well in the future. And a badly performing asset will probably suck still years to come.

One of the best things in investing i have done is selling my badly performing assets and buying some over-priced but well-performing assets. Sometimes the price is worth the hype.
You’re looking backwards not forwards. Assuming transaction fees of 1BTC / block, the next drop isn’t to 3.125 BTC it’s ~4.125 BTC and the drop after that is to 2.5625 not 1.5625. In roughly 3 drops subsidies will be less than block fees.

Not that 1BTC per transaction is anything close to a constant, maximum rewards over the last 3 years where more than 100x minimum rewards, but it does seem independent of block rewards.
Ah, well, there's your problem: ESP has not been "very well documented from a scientific perspective", unless you mean that in the negative sense.
Eric Voskuil writes about the "energy" argument. All moneys can be compared on energy level, and it is important to note not to look at energy solely, but also labor, land, services, energy, hardware, and other resources needed to keep a system running. If you are comparing the coin to fiat, take into account the military industrial complex, the cost of physical bank branches, physical issue, the cost of seignorage on the money holder (i.e. gain of energy for those close to the printing press vs. loss of energy for existing holders).

If you rationally examine, the money holder will select the money with the least energy waste. All moneys not held imply a higher amount of energy inefficiency. This is why one may hold the USD, as opposed to the Turkish Lira. This is why one may hold btc, as opposed to the USD.

If you want to investigate a bit more in depth, cryptoeconomics Proof of Work fallacy is a great resource by Eric Voskuil.

Link: https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Proof-o....
this has actually only happened to me a couple times but it has happened - someone tells me Bryan, go look at the code X did in Y, figure out if we refactor. X would then tell me - that code is really complicated is full of algorithms! I go and look at the code realize that for what it is trying to do can be cut down from 10 pages of printed code to less than 1 and it was incredibly simple what actually needed to be done.

In short when someone tells me the stuff is too complicated because too clever and advanced I tend to disbelieve them.

that said I have of course written my too complicated stuff lots of times, but if asked I don't say it was because I'm clever.

names anonymized so as to not accidentally hurt anyone's feelings.

on edit: actually one time the code was clever but not especially difficult, they just used the algorithms line because they didn't want anyone messing with their stuff.
"You don't know everything therefore aliens" is my favorite argument too
While you may not agree with the ecological trade-offs, you would be arguing against reality to say that people aren't using Bitcoin to solve real issues right now.
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I used to work as a programmer in this field. I'm torn, on one side the "science" behind it is based on statistics and is supposed to be validated. Your view depends largely on whether you trust the validity of psychometrics. On the other side, someone makes a test wraps some statistics around it and says it's valid and measures what it's supposed can seem a little far fetched.
These app stores are a terrible software distribution model. Every day we hear about another reason they harm users far more than community maintained repositories and only protect the interests of the OS vendor.
Businesses that have this happen to them should call a lawyer and sue. That ought to get a human on the line...
I gave that benefit of doubt to FB but still doesn't explain why random posts turn up at random intervals. Even it was to with CAP, I'm convinced that there's some amount of dark pattern involved just from the fact that 'user is not allowed to perform intended action'.