skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can it be proven that there's not a teapot in the asteroid belt?

Extraordinary claims required extraordinary evidence. A massive rock being hurled to by a supernova to our solar system is far more likely than advanced aliens dumping a ton of future tech to get this huge thing into our solar system for a split second.

Why? Because, it would cost a lot of energy, something I doubt an advanced race would spend. Further, an advanced race that wants to probe us wouldn't need such a huge object, it's far easier to observe from a far (think, james webb telescope but better). Sure, hard to know what aliens are thinking, but it just seems incredibly unlikely they are thinking "Let's build this half mile long space probe for a glimpse of a distant solar system and send it off for a million year journey".

A star exploding and sending a bunch of mass our direction is far more likely. Why? because we know that happens relatively frequently.
He lives and works mostly in Texas now, and used to live in LA, with some time in SF
> I am building some SaaS products and this is an important decision. After reading numerous Indie Hackers discussions about this topic I came to the conclusions above. I figured I would take an afternoon to put this up as a resource on its own website.

Sounds like he wants to contribute to the conversation on a subject that he cares about by building something? Seems like generally a good thing to me.
The study was too small to come to that conclusion, but the articles do mention that it is likely that they prevent hospitalizations.
If another cryptocurrency fixed the scaling problem so it could be used as a currency, would you have a different view?
Or, if you throw <10% of all your money in an account, have no liquidity problems, start an absolute stampede to buy the 'limited' amount of bitcoin and in 5 years, <10% of all the money you invested makes you 50% profit for that year. Pretty good bet to me, and i've been heavily invested in bitcoin since 2015.
I don't really see the cloud as attached to retail. But yes, if online retail remained flat, the cloud would still grow. Because most software will be built using the cloud, for the cloud, for the foreseeable future (I'd stake confidently 50 years, probably at least 100, perhaps forever).
He is a manager and a leader, he did not build Tesla and SpaceX by his own, nor he invented those technologies. As a leader, he is responsible to well behave and show example to others. Instead, he looks more like the Trump's type of a guy with narcissistic personality and disrespect to simple people, who can only manipulate them.
Yet another marketing article masquerading as an "expert opinion". The real reason Figma wins over Sketch, which is superior as a design tool, is not the freemium. Multiplatform availability and collaboration are the selling points. But if Figma wants to expand market share, soon or a later they must go native.
Energy grids are very big, and are planned very intentionally. Renewable energy produced in remote places is often used to power far away cities. It's very unlikely that a consistent energy source capable of powering a large bitcoin mine would not be integrated into the grid if the mine wasn't there.

Here's some further reading:

https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoins-climate-impact-global-c...

https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(19)30255-7

https://decrypt.co/43848/why-bitcoin-miners-dont-use-more-re...

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
Tesla really should take over the electric bicycle market. I'd be a musk convert then. But seeing the Cyber Truck, I just can't see that as a real future for our cities.
Where are "the aboriginal hinterlands"?
OP here...

As others have said, I was mostly referring not to the ability to easily convert to and from aluminium, but instead the fact aluminium is easily transportable and such a useful material that there is rarely surplus (if aluminium were cheaper, it would take over lots of places where steel is used, and even some uses of concrete).

That in effect means that if there is excess electricity in a region, it can in many cases work out cheaper to build a decent road to the region and build aluminium smelters than to build power transmission lines out of the region.
Look at polkadot. You can exchange any arbitrary data across parachains. How is that not the internet but better?
I encountered this problem a number of times. I believe, in my case at least, that I noticed a pattern. I believe that facebook's activity log filters posts related to disabled accounts.

I think that when someone decides to re-enable their disabled account, your posts related to their account re-appear in your activity log. Therefore, one can never be sure if all activity is deleted, and one must iteratively return to the activity log every so often to delete re-appearing posts.
What is the size of the BTC chain nowadays? A quantum resistant version of it must be really impossible to download.
Or maybe "without subsidies damaging the environment there wouldn't be a problem"? We can only thank Bitcoin for uncovering it, this subsidy needs to stop ASAP.

That Bitcoin didn't solve your problems doesn't mean it didn't solve real issues worth solving. Bitcoin solved the problem of quickly and cheaply moving money across the world without risking it will be lost. I was unable to move money between Africa and Europe before Bitcoin, now it's quick, cheap and reliable. Moving money between the USA and Europe also used to be problematic (took long and was expensive, at least it was reliable though), now with Bitcoin it's very easy.

Since Bitcoin uses waste electricity (you will immediately loose a lot of money mining with ordinary electricity), it doesn't make anything worse - of course as long as governments don't kick the balance away.
Producing the definitive map of the world ocean floor by 2030
I didn't say it was ok...?

Just don't see how it "breaks the camels back" or in anyway discounts his incredible achievements, any more than Jobs being an asshole to some of his employees makes the iPhone less of a world-changing invention.
I think it's partly FOMO, partly sunk cost, and partly https://xkcd.com/386/
This is very worrying. Don't they have financial advisors at Tesla? An automaker should focus on making cars. This is what they specialise in and what they are good at. They should not be speculating with financial assets. Tesla shareholders can do that themselves, if they wish to.
If the code was developed in less than 8.5 years, it seems like the answer must be yes based on their previous claims.
I know a number of people who have paid for someone to do the personality tests for them, but with video it’s gotten harder. It’s also gotten easier for companies to reject for tacit bias such as gender, race, and any other number of factors. There doesn’t seem to be any safe guards for it; we didn’t do it, the software did it.
What's particularly worrying is that all vaccines use the same spike protein (although AZ doesn't have the pre-fusion conformation stabilising mutation which a number of other vaccines do). So if this substantially lowers efficacy of one vaccine it will have directionally the same effect on all of them. Of course the response of efficacy to antibody titre and other correlates of protection is non-linear so it could be that AZ was just low enough for the mutation to kick them into the "doesn't work" zone.

I expect that come late summer we'll all be getting another booster of some sort against whatever mix of variants is around. The trick will be prediction although we are helped by the fact that both mRNA and vectored vaccines can be changed and produced quite quickly.

I also think that the emergence of this variant may save lives in the end because it forces to the front of everyone's mind the necessity of vaccinating the entire world and may make it politically easier to ship vaccine to the poor countries of the world before the rich countries have finished their vaccination programmes.
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They do have a separate offering for video streaming which is pay as you go.

https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/
Anyone know if it supports scrobbling?
Many of us have been around crypto for a long time (meaning since 2010-2011) and have not seen any progress in positive terms.

Most of crypto growth has been pure speculation/ crypto2crytpo related services/morally questionable uses.

Positives
* ...

Sort of positive/sort of negative:

Evading capital controls

Being your own bank..

Big Negatives:

* POW energy use - huge one

* POS stakeholder issue

* Hard to use for Joe Sixpack

* Promotes speculation for speculation's sake(I'd say 90%+)

* Instead of Central Reserve Bank you have very shady stablecoins run by select few individuals - ahem Tether and not only Tether

Maybe someone can educate me on benefits of DeFi for a regular human being?
Light duty vehicles make up about a bit over half of the transportation sector's 28% contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions.

https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-...

So if every personal vehicle on the planet was an EV charged by a renewable energy source, we would cut GHGs by ~17%
I’ll take the other side of the bet, for $100, that the core product of Stadia (video game streaming) will still be playable 18 months from today.
Unrest in every country, legal systems non existent or not robust enough to solve national or international disputes but local warlords still need to trade and cooperate.

Then obviously Bitcoin would be extremely valuable and useful.
I know I had two rather fearless pug dogs for 15 years, and the only scary incidents we had during their lives were with pits and mixes. There was one dog park in particular where there was a higher than normal concentration of them that I had to stop going to altogether due to the number of scary incidents. One in particular where I had to physically step in and was bit, fortunately the damage was minor.

As a consequence of this, I became accustomed to immediately assessing the aggressiveness of the dogs by eye gazing upon approach, and found the vast majority gentle and sweet. So I get the frustration of their owners, esp ones who take them in as rescues as the local shelters are flooded with them. 9/10 of these animals will probably go through life showing no aggression and live life as wonderful family pets.

But all these excuses about how it’s the owners fault in how they raised them, that there is no official breed, etc, etc... is bs hand waving. These dogs can be dangerous like that pet chimp who ripped that woman’s hands and face off. There is something instinctual in them, and the physical ability, to do real harm.

As to other breeds that can be worrisome, generally bred for protection, such as dobies, rotts, and German Shepard’s, I never sensed the fear that one of those would instantly end the life of my dogs within seconds. Pits and mixes - easily a “holy shit that was close” encounter in the triple digits, probably once a month on average throughout their lifetimes. Far too many situations where an owner had trouble controlling their dog and they got dangerously close.
The Python core developers have been working on caching in the interpreter for close to a decade[1].

They're very conservative, though, both about making the interpreter more complex as well as ensuring that nothing regresses in performance unless absolutely necessary to fix something broken. So I wouldn't exactly describe it as "low hanging fruit"

[1] https://bugs.python.org/issue14757
Very interesting and different way to "visualize" non determinism. The connection to quantum mechanics is intriguing...
Its great that you can find these consumption figures so easily in some cases.

It seems that Google only uses 10.6 terawatt hours.

https://www.google.co/search?q=google+total+power+consumptio...

Add Facebook's 5.1 and you get the amount of power required to kill half of the planet's productivity.

[Edit] typo
I can't prove it's not an alien probe, no. But I can't prove it's a piece of space debris that just wandered through, either, so why not assume that too?

The problem with "can't disprove" being used as evidence is that you need to consider the full universe of statements that we "can't disprove", but humans tend to think as if "alien probe" is a privileged statement simply because it is cognitively appealing and drives our imagination. If you put it on a list of the things we can't disprove about this particular object, it wouldn't really be the most likely one you'd find.

On the flip side, you also ought to consider the question of all the objects for which we can't disprove they are alien probes. It isn't just this particular object; the solar system is filled with millions of objects we can't disprove are alien space probes, things we've labelled as "asteroids" based on a streak someone took a picture of once. Apply the same standard to all of them that is applied to this object; does it now claim that the solar system is just filled to the brim with alien space probes? Probably not good logic.

Personally, I can't wait until we improve our detection a bit and detect another several dozen things like this object so we can get over this and real science stories can be written about these objects again. Guess this is a taste of what reading about pulsars must have been in the first few years.
Zuckerberg has complete control over Facebook.
Whatever the bull case is, we're approaching 15 years of it not coming to fruition. Makes you think if the time for a reality check isn't due.
Ah thanks! I didn't see that at all. Perhaps I mentally filter out symbols.
I'll ask again because you didn't actually answer my question. What do you mean by "discounted"?
indeed - this works well with i3 + spotify (I only use spotify as my media player nowadays):

bindsym XF86AudioPlay exec "dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.PlayPause"
bindsym XF86AudioNext exec "dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Next"
bindsym XF86AudioPrev exec "dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Previous"
bindsym XF86AudioStop exec "dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Stop"
bindsym $mod+Shift+comma exec "dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Previous"
bindsym $mod+Shift+period exec "dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Next"
bindsym $mod+semicolon exec "dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.PlayPause"
I assume that not all roles go through this process. If you are hiring for a sensitive position (CEO, other C-suite, any type of Compliance and Internal Audit), the process is different.

I will also assume that the "AI" does only the first clean-up. Basically moving them from the 'pile on the floor' to the 'table', pick the 'top 100' for a role.

Fun story: When working for a US tech company some years back, we were looking for IT Auditors. Someone saw the word "audit" on an ad and applied. The guy was a "night auditor" (hotels). He didn't bother reading the ad, he just applied. HR didn't review his CV at all, they set up the meeting. We laughed, apologized, got him a coffee, we exchnaged funny/horror stories, and he went his merry way.

An AI system would have picked that up in 1ms. A lazy/overwhelmed HR employee did not.
I know it's a bit impolite to doubt their math on displacement and speed and all that, but it seems like a bit of a stretch to me.

The boat is 200m long and the sails only occupy about half of that. The all-down configuration is 45m and the all-up is 105m so I'd guess the sails are about 70m tall. So 70 x 100 = 7000 sqm of sail area. That's approx. equivalent in area to a wind turbine with an 83m diameter rotor. Doing one of those online wind turbine calculators with an efficiency of 40% (limit of 59% ala Betz) comes up with about 1.5MW or a little under 2000 horsepower.

Most of the big boats like this start around 10,000 hp and only go up from there so I can't help but wonder what's going on here. I guess it could have a very efficient shape and go slower but that seems unlikely to make that big of a difference to me.
There's a difference between 'easy mode' - and possibly having an advantage.

Being tall, or white, might give you an edge in some circumstances, in some places in life.

It does not put life on 'easy mode'.

It's tiring dealing with woke racism - this new world ideology is troubling.

Privilege is having parents who give you $20M - that's 'easy mode'. Otherwise, it's not.
While there is a natural "that's not fair!" reaction to this, and also I think that a lot of these companies are selling snake oil, I also have to wonder if it can be much worse than the human screening most applicants go through for these kinds of jobs.
Dec 2020 - Raises $5bn from investors

Jan 2021 - Spends 30% of raised money to buy Bitcoin

What value are Tesla adding here? Those investors could have just put 70% in to Tesla and 30% in to Bitcoin directly.

Arguably, the only positive here (for BTC and TSLA holders) is short term, and it's that Tesla are associating their brand with Bitcoin to whip up froth.
I'm sure they are unhinged to some extent. But I've also come to realise over the years that a lot of it comes down to different priorities.

Ask a number of men what their dream women would be like, and odds are you'll get more descriptions of women we'll sleep with, than will want to stay with long term. Sometimes we'll even known this and still opt for the short term payoff, even if we "in theory" want the long term payoff, because impulse control is hard.
Yeah. Its super scary. The idea that an algorithm decides and no legal recourse, all decided by a company that has an illegal amount of control on what is supposed to be public space.

Imagine all the public squares to be owned by some company rather than the community. Now imagine an algorithm deciding to exclude you from that. To just ban you from participating in life.

It is taking too long for Google to understand what they need to do (to own public space, you must bring all the other public stuff too, like a legal system and proper rights protection and due dilligence).

We should kill the monster, while we still can. Break them up. They'll never learn. They'll keep destroying lifes. Less than 0.1% is acceptable statistical error, right? Just pray you are never the 0.1%.
> I was talking about doing Single Sign-On into the service, with your bank acting as the SSO (usually SAML) provider

Personally, I use my bank only for banking and would never ever consider using them as an SSO provider. They handle my money, I don't want them to handle anything else or have any more information about me than they already do. Also, in my personal experience, the banks aren't very technologically competent, so the less they are expected to do, the better.
I'd rather pay a (small) fee and get some support than deal with this nonsense. Come on Google...
It seems pretty likely that this also has a significant amount of generator capacity on board. Even small sailboats often have to run their engine or generator during passages to top up their battery.
Hey, thanks for the response. :)

I see it as analogous to structuring source code text. The sweet spot IMO lies in the place where the editor offers guidance for common use-cases (think auto-indent, on-demand auto-format), but allows you to arrange code in a non-standard way when appropriate. That I think would be ideal.

Not all good programmers care about maintaining perfect visual order and I think that's fine. They would appreciate the automation and would be discouraged by the lack of it. Same as in text languages/IDEs.

Of course it's totally fine if your audience does not care about such features or they are not a priority.

But for a good general-purpose system I think that would be a must.

Now the sweet spot is not trivial to achieve and I haven't completely solved it, but I feel it can be done and I'd invest in researching it.

PS I hope your project succeeds!
Interesting name—Nuvola [1] was a colorful glossy icon pack for Linux desktops, from the days when colorful glossy icons were trendy (see also Crystal [2]).

To be honest, these icons were one of the main reasons I was so interested in running Linux on the desktop—they looked so modern and fresh compared to Windows 2000's relatively dull icons (which I have also come to appreciate).

These days I don't really get a chance to see desktop icons, since I'm on i3wm. But seeing those colorful glossy icons brings me back to the sense of magic I felt every time I'd boot up Knoppix from a live CD.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuvola

[2] https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Crystal_Projec...
If 75% of the users want something, of course they can do that. They uninstall Bitcoin, implement a new software with the new rules, and install it. This becomes the new "Bitcoin". That is called a hard fork. You can't prevent that because it literally means people just chose to use something else. They may even keep the name and call the new thing Bitcoin, for what it is worth.
There's an easy answer that coincides with our current understanding of physics. Then there is "Aliens have discovered tech that makes it easier for them to fling a half mile long object vs a satellite sized object across the stars at a relatively slow speed."

Sorry if I take "explosion makes rock go far" as being the more plausible explanation than "Aliens want to wait a million years for a brief glimpse at a distant solar system".
By far the best solution I've seen is wireguard. Easy to set up, super fast and secure. My little swarm of VMs, containers, and raspberry Pis is all meshed together by wireguard.

The only "hard" thing is that wireguard doesn't port forward automatically, you have to add an iptables rule. Took me 10 minutes to figure out how and now whenever I add a service I simply copypaste previous rules and add relevant ports...

Edit: plus once you set it up you also get to use it as a VPN for your devices.
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Well I mean if something requires 8 man years of work you can do it in a year with 8 people. Not always, but usually.
Can you name a single compelling use case for Ethereum, Polkadot or Cardano?
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I'm god. God is now writing to you: Please send all your earthy valueables (money, bitcoin, house paper, car keys etc.) to me.

Thanks!
The amount of environmental destruction and pollution done by the farming industry or similarly land invasive industries is incomparable to bitcoin. It has an effect on so much of the ecosystem that it's just silly to put Bitcoin in any kind of calculation with regards to environment.

Water pollution, shit pollution, river pollution, ocean pollution, air pollution, probably only the last one somewhat related to bitcoin.
> a forensic pathologist was giving fake prosecution evidence

The doctor handled thousands of cases in his career, and a well-funded inquiry found issues with less than 1% of them.

Sure we'd like that to be 0%, and society should spend time thinking of how much they rely on complicated processes of reasoning, but that's a really good accuracy.
https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/ifft.html
Bitwig will work with all of your existing VSTs, MIDI hardware and of course media (audio samples, Soundfonts etc.) as will Ardour and any other DAW worth using. There's no need to start from scratch.
How exotic is it when the future head of the SEC is teaching classes at MIT about blockchain's roles in finance of the near future.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-s1...