skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely it's 1.5B USD dollars worth of BTC, being roughly ~39k BTC
Yes it does because as one ages, he realizes why things are and have been the same for a long time. Plus one gets used to those things. And therefore conservatism creeps in.
You cut out the code between the opcodes that's used for figuring out what to do next. (Removing an indirect jump at the end of each opcode execution.)
Yeah, same for all the drug kingpins with their "US dollars"
Not sure how much of this is speculation and how much is pure trolling. Welcome to the postmodern capitalism where nothing makes sense.
> During WWII, a number of stock markets had “permanent breaks” with the market closing and never restarting again. That happened in [--] Finland when they were taken over by the Soviet Union.

Only Finland was never taken over by the Soviet Union. I haven't heard of a Finnish stock market not restarting either, so perhaps they are thinking of some other country?
Yep, you still have to deal with all kind of people when you do OS, and that isn't always nice.

I once made a PR to a project I use a lot at work. The PR was about the documentation of the project, so no change to any feature, no new thing, just an improved version of the tutorial... Or so I thought.
The maintainers refused my PR.
My first instinct was to be upset about it, but then I thought "this might be a natural reaction because they said 'no', but maybe, just maybe I can avoid acting like a kid and use my brain". So I re-read their reply: it contained a valid reason and provided me with a good solution to my problem, I thanked them and moved on. They were just right to refuse my PR.
While this blog post has very little in the way of proof, we actually got screwed over by CF a few weeks back. Basically, one morning all requests started being slow: small responses would take 7 seconds (within a few milliseconds, if you accounted for the RTT to the edge) with 7 seconds TTFB, larger ones (not sure exactly what the threshold was, but it was hundreds of KiB, not MiB) would take 1 minute (again, almost exactly 1 minute), but these would just stream very slowly. All while having cf-cache-status: HIT.

It turned out we got throttled because we were serving some (a minority, something like 10% of the traffic) video files from the domain and they wanted us to upgrade to enterprise (from business, I think). We just stopped serving video through them.

The annoying part was that we weren't notified and, obviously, had some downtime (no way you can call a site loading in 5 minutes up). They said they have released an update that does notify customers when this happens, though.
You can say about Elon Musk what you want but he knows how to make headlines.

I'm not sure you need $1.5B for those kind of headlines but these bitcoins can be sold again after all.
So this is indeed what happens if there is no SEC protection against pump and dump schemes
alt https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/08/tesla-buys-1point5-billion-i...
I have hope for something like Stellar and Lumens rather than Bitcoin. It's environmentally responsible, and it's here and ready right now given the network of anchors like AnchorUSD.
There's plenty. You're just not looking for it, because you're not interested. That's ok. Just don't say that there's no evidence, say that you don't care.
SoftBank Turns $11B Profit, Helped by DoorDash
Fiat system costs a lot to run too, pretty sure this assertion debunked.
Why would backup codes etc help you against an account suspension because some random algorithm decided your usage pattern is suspect?
The RUN? I thought about that but I don’t see how that would work. Or is the argument that Dockerfiles are just too hard?

(An argument I’m not unsympathetic to)
The timing on this announcement appears designed to overshadow other Tesla news from this morning:

https://www.autonews.com/china/tesla-called-chinese-regulato...
Expected Thrust Fraction: Resilient Trajectory Design Applied to ERO
While that's not really clearnet, I quite like yggdasil for that: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/2018/07/15/remote-access...

I didn't see it on your list. It isn't clearnet again, but so are others, such as Zeronet :)
Musk has been pumping Doge on his Twitter feed a lot too. I wonder how much if this is about Musk thumbing his nose at the mainstream finance industry that he so clearly loathes as it is about anything approaching a valid business plan.
No.. he's just sick and tired of the financial system, the SEC, etc.
If he was Chinese or Russian everybody would blame the ties with so-called authoritarian government.
Expanscape – The TeenySERV Prototypes
I've been writing apps for a long time. They are usually free/Tier 1 apps.

A while back, I was approached by a [NATION OBFUSCATED] developer, asking to buy up one of my older apps (they are all open-source).

I ignored the request, and reported the approach to Apple, as I'm sure that this actor has been doing the same for many other apps.

This is apparently a common method for malware-slingers. They buy established, older apps, that they assume the developer has abandoned (I hadn't abandoned it, but it's a simple app that hardly ever needs tweaking. If I stop supporting an app, I remove it from the store).

They then "update" the app, with a little "extra flavoring."
In the US, buying something with bitcoin is the same as selling your bitcoin for cash.
Nerdy Elon Musk Interview: 1-on-1 with Sandy Munro
Soon, a nation might realistically buy $100 B + of bitcoin and declare it a national currency.
I suspect a lot of these experiences are related to the list of subjects in this list [1].

See also: [2].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness#See_a...

2: https://www.npr.org/books/titles/501161006/suggestible-you-t...
WordPress VIP acquiring content analytics company Parse.ly
Only if you are in the winning side and inflation does not destroy valuations. In Germany bond investors were wiped out.

In the US bonds maintained wealth relatively well during the war (inflation adjusted): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=ATg2
People paying attention to Elon's tweets [1] [2] saw this coming from a mile away. It'll be interesting to see if and when other big companies follow suit. In my opinion it's inevitable companies will start diversifying by a bit of exposure to Bitcoin but let's see how soon that will be.

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-cryptocurrency/tesl...

[2] - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/29/bitcoin-spikes-20percent-aft...
I've seen Stallman live, and in many interviews. The guy is in fact "crazy" in a loose sense. Really. Unfortunately, he is also often right. It's not a useful combination.
Yes. It was a badly titled submission. The TC headline is 'Tesla buys $1.5B in bitcoin'
"And it’s not like any of those outlets are pro-Trump! And neither am I!"

What is spectacularly frustrating about today's climate is that one cannot criticize the extremely poor, biased coverage of Trump as illustrated in the article without discussion-ending accusations of being pro Trump and even a Russian asset.

This quoted qualifier needed to be in there or else people would forever henceforth refer back to this article as evidence that the author supported Trump.

As I said elsewhere here, hit pieces more than anything else have eroded the credibility of traditional media for me, and the last 4 years have been unending, overlapping series of anti-Trump hit pieces. Speaking as a non-supporter of Trump, I found their coverage disheartening
He was on Sean Carroll's podcast and he sounded pretty reasonable to me. He clearly doesn't think "aliens" is the only or necessarily even the best explanation, just one that can't be eliminated and it's worth thinking about.
Ah I did say most, I also started investigating LSTM which I think might also offer some advances.

But I found that learning about the types of models and how to actually train them to be the hardest part of this area.
What percent of the electricity used by Bitcoin miners is generated by fossil fuels?

My impression is that most miners are located to take advantage of locales with very cheap hydroelectric/geothermal or take advantage of subsidized/overbuilt renewables. But I could be wrong. Any data on this?
Good thing you are only pretty sure then because it's entirely false. Bitcoin needs several orders of magnitude more energy per transactions.
I LOVE IT!
you just made my toilet sitting much more enjoyable.
because it's based on microphone it's interesting to see the echoes produces on multiples of the frequency, depending on the volume of my phone. simple design, works fast on mobile too. very cool.
I bought $100 of BTC a while ago for fun. I watched it go up and down and mostly up. I got bored, and sold it for cash to donate... literally an hour before the big spike just earlier.

I know about the fallacies of predicting the market. I understand 20/20 hindsight. But to actually experience it is such a strong lesson. To be flooded with, "ohhh I'm such an idiot!" and then think about how there's just no way I could have predicted this.
He should have gone for a proof-of-stake chain instead.
Is it too early to show some screenshots? I find that important when I look at a project. Just my 2 cents! :)
Great explanation, why it is from a throwaway account I cannot understand.
Cryptocurrencies are not a way around any of those things.
Yeah, but then I'd have to run Firefox, which is a dying product and probably won't be around in 5 years.
I would also argue strongly against this. When you have at least once in your life been on the side of a news story where YOU generated the truth and you see it completely twisted into whatever narrative the news outlets are currently trying to push, all trust in these organizations is lost.
whatever has the lowest costs
Bitcoin production is capped at 21 million BTC.
I reject that they ban "literally on a whim". I get that people do get banned, but clearly they aren't in the business of banning people based even on the number of people in this very thread with Google accounts. You don't have to exaggerate to make a point.

(And now I'm being downvoted for pointing out the Google One support product. What a lovely community we've got here!)
Good question. I've only seen cursory information about Dart, so I can't really have an opinion. I'd be willing to try it, though.

From a quick web search, it looks like JavaScript interop isn't totally frictionless, which is probably a good thing to- as crazy as that may sound.

But it looks like it does rely on making up a type signature for the JS you call into. I assume there must be a way to use TypeScript signature files, too.

It's interesting. I'd like to look into it some time.
I remember watching a PBS Frontline episode about Facebook and they mentioned how they're able to create a profile of anyone basically because they purchase profiles from credit card companies and credit agencies. So even if you delete it, they still have your profile and match it with these other companies and are able to sell the data like nothing happened.
This is going to be one of those events that everyone points back to after the crash to show we had reached peak bubble. Like AOL buying Time Warner etc.
Japanese doctors warn of long-lasting Covid-19 aftereffects among young people
> "...at rates other animals will never match."

This is because we make the right decision to not live in close proximity to lions, tigers, bears, apes and all the other menagerie of dangerous creatures we share Earth with.

> "...only about 30 to 50 people are killed by dogs"

It's not a coincidence that this number is low. We keep domestic cats and dogs as pets precisely because their propensity and - in some cases - ability to kill us is low. If bears were as commonly kept as household pets as dogs you would see a completely different result.
80% of transactions are settled in USD so they'll either become an economic island cut off from the world, or just buy back USD later, possibly at a loss
The energy cost of running the bitcoin network is ~constant in relation to the number of transactions processed.

Cost of running the network also goes down with time as fewer bitcoins are issued as block rewards.

It goes up with the price of bitcoin, as more miners spend electricity on mining.

Those things have historically led to increased energy costs for the network, but in the future they could well lead to decreased energy use too.
If they're on an electric grid that also has fossil fuels, then it doesn't really matter. More clean energy to them is less to other customers, who have to make up for it with more fossil.
Meanwhile they block the Terraria developer's Google account, after which he's decided to cancel his game's port to Stadia. How are they so bad at this? Literally driving away legitimate developers while letting scammers run wild.
I think at a certain point, the only profitable way to mine BTC will be with energy that was going to be wasted anyway.
I wonder what phase sensitivity would sound (hear?) like
Clearly Elon Musk is the bastion of ideals that benefit the world. "We will coup whoever we want, deal with it"
AFAIK Facebook sends reminders to your email, so you can collect the birthdays from there.
They are criticizing the delay in administering the second doses.
Angular Dropdown
It's better to think of Bitcoin efficiency in terms of transaction throughput (value moved) instead of transactions per second. This tweet makes a comparison with Fedwire: https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1358155385081888778?s...

2nd layer solutions will scale Bitcoin transaction capacity in terms of transactions/s
> drop them en mass

The libertarian in me wants to believe that reputation is enough to make business act in the interests of the consumers and that personal responsibility would prevent customers from acting in their best interests: but we all know this is not true.

And, I know enough to know that any public policy that essentially says “Everything will be fine if everyone just does [X]” is bad policy, regardless of what ‘X’ is.
Hydro and geothermal aren't without environmental cost.
They don't destroy the whole world but can be fairly destructive locally.

If you're going to flood a valley, please make it for something actually worthwile.
I never went far with it. When I was more into gamedev I was one of those wasting time on trying to write a generic engine instead of just writing the damn game.

My initial tests with just the mouse look were promising. I did a lousy game for a small competition that used this part of the idea and it was fun for me, but you could barely call it a game.

With the akimbo play I hoped that the cool factor would win people if it would not be too easy to grasp.

Maybe some time in the future I will return to the idea, because I still have a small candle for gamedev. If anyone wants to experiment with the idea be my guest, I don't mind. Just let me know, because I would love to try it out myself ;)
There are many who mine on subsidized fosil fuel. Especially in argentinia.
> it would be reasonable to expect that aliens are looking for aliens, and will send more probes now that they've found them.

Sure, in about a million years. The speed of light is still the speed limit in the universe from what we can tell.
Even if that was the case, this excess power would very rarely go to waste. If bitcoin mining farms didn't pop up, then aluminium smelters would appear instead. Aluminium is pretty much electricity in a form that can be put on a truck.
I would say a majority of wars are fought purely as a means of transferring ownership of capital, not destroying it. You wouldn't want to destroy the factory for producing weapons - it's too valuable to destroy. Rather, you'd probably want to capture it.
That is not what it "seeks" at all.
Why not buy something useful like real estate?
That's no longer the case. In my experience, most companies have stopped responding to complaints on Twitter. They have a set playbook now which asks you to DM them and then sends you a holding message.
Yes yes yes, WW2 part 2
There are other alternatives to BTC, which are more efficient in terms of energy usage, more effective in terms of transaction speed and transaction fees.

BTC is a cryptocurrency, but not equal to cryptocurrency for the sake of this discussion.

BTC is arguably not effective as an actual medium of exchange. Many BTC maximalists have retreated from the actual currency use case in favor of "store of value" arguments.
I mined some bitcoins when they were worth around 5€ and sold them when they were around 300€. I still made a profit. Don’t try to hang on the things that could have been, but concentrate on the good things that happened. I bought some nice headphones from that money I still use and which make me happy.
Hes legitimizing crypto in general. PoS will be proven to be more efficient in almost every way, people will gravitate towards that. Bitcoin has the network effects of being the first mover right now. Ethereum is surpassing it on many metrics, txs/day, $ volume processed per day, etc [1].

[1]https://www.blockchaincenter.net/flippening/
I’m afraid I don’t know the details. However, this post seems relevant - someone who worked on the JIT at Dropbox describes how expensive function calls in CPython can be:

https://blog.kevmod.com/2020/05/python-performance-its-not-j...
Now would be a great time to cash out
"Archaeologists often find “trade beads” at Native American archaeological sites. Europeans and others created glass beads using technology that didn’t exist in Native cultures. Explorers carried them to trade with aboriginal people they encountered. Dutchman Peter Minuit included trade beads in his deal for Manhattan Island in 1626."

I would like to get your opinion on this part. Do you consider this unethical behaviour? At first it looks like it is unethical but on the other hand: while the beads might not have been worth much to Europeans themselves, they could still serve as bartering objects among natives where they were rare, "uncopyable" and therefore could serve as store of value.

Maybe this perspective helps: if aliens arrived that could effortlessly solve cryptographic puzzles (think "crypto-currency mining") and there were humans who were very interested in these - should an alien refuse to trade with a human who wanted to give them things in return for a funny number?

(If there are flaws in this comparison, point them out, please)
That assumes that the demand for electricity is not price elastic.
I am assuming that the entire email system is a Times Square billboard in terms of privacy. This move gives me flexibility.
- Where are your millions?

- Take this Bitcoin wallet with 10 Bitcoins, please!

- Ok, but where are your millions?
I get similar vibes from these events, even though I am a cryptocurrency optimist (including Bitcoin).
Interactive map of chocolate milk reviews
https://render.com is easy to use and very promising
I just finished the book Silk Roads (https://www.amazon.com/Silk-Roads-New-History-World/dp/11019...) which deals the history of trade between East and West in detail, a fascinating read of this article piqued your interest.
Mixers are not that effective these days.
More like 150k. You don't pay anywhere near retail when you buy in that quantity.
Ggwave: Tiny Data-over-Sound Library
How do you prevent double spend in the intervening period?
Run Clojure CGI scripts on cheap shared hosting with babashka
That sentence reads like a summary of the article :)
The only downside to deleting your FB account is that you'll have to explain to people why you don't have an account.
The annualised energy consumption of the Bitcoin network is currently between the United Arab Emirates and Argentina.

https://www.cbeci.org/cbeci/comparisons
One should not ever sell Bitcoin, because it's a deflationary coin. Circulating Bitcoin is just lowering its value.
I don't think we really know the extent to which primate behavior in relation to ours is cultural vs. genetic; after all, things like this haven't often been tried!
https://kyoo.in/cat/full-forms/
Bitcoin uses as much electricity as Chile and a single transaction has the same carbon footprint as ~700k Visa transactions. This may also be underestimated and account for around half of global data centre energy consumption as per a recent study. [1]

[1] - https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/
The Meme Bubble
Hmm, we've been experiencing vastly reduced throughput as well (something like 100 kB/s on images >100 kB in size, cache hit). We're on the free plan, though. Makes me wonder if there's actually some throttling going on behind the scenes.
Maybe, if you completely disregard everything else that Bitcoin puts on the table, and how much energy is required to sustain the infrastructure it will make obsolete.
Ghost busters
For investments from large institutions and companies, I don't think there's any other option out there with the security and regulatory support similar to Bitcoin and with a fixed total-supply.
How you going to use that to host on Stadia?
Such mechanisms have already existed and never needed OS-level sanction. It’s pretty clear that Apple is employing the strategy of “embrace, extend, extinguish” against tracking and privacy compromising dark patterns. In other words, force developers to use a special API, then give consumers the ability to block it. The current stoush with Facebook is only the most formidable hurdle Apple has encountered so far.
He’s also throwing some fun shade in other interviews towards physicists that are obsessing over theories designed to be unprovable (multiverse, string theory, and similar). But are then utterly against something like his theory, even if it’s left in statistical form (IE: based on our current understanding, this object is x% likely to be unnatural).

(Not in this article though)
Deleted mine years ago also. My only issue is trying to join other systems that only allow "login with facebook" and no other means of authentication
OT: Not that I mind but why was my submission, posted and on the front page before this one marked as a dupe and this one boosted?
Tesla stashes $1.5B in Bitcoin, to accept as payment for cars soon
GCP is the only Google service where I regularly, easily, got humans to take up my problem.

Once including waking up people in Mountain View on weekend.
> It's painfully clear at this point that we need a consumer "bill of rights" to protect us from these giant tech companies.

Google is a private company who offers free internet services in exchange for your privacy being violated. They have no customer service because you are not a customer as customers pay. You have no rights on their platform because again, you are not a paying customer. And you agreed to their terms of service when you signed up. They don't owe you anything at that pont.

So stop expecting "paying customer" treatment from a shady adware dealer who gives you "free" "integrated platform" stuff to get you hooked. That's an old drug dealer tactic anyway.

Want to be treated like a person? You have to pay for that. Otherwise stop whining about the tyranny of "free" platforms such as google, twitter, facebook, etc.

The only thing the government should do is fund PSA's to warn people of the rights and privacy hazards of free internet platforms.
presently, this could be a great way to save a lot of money on a Tesla. You buy BTC...it rises...you buy a car with no cap gains paid on the increased BTC value. Compare that to holding a stock like AAPL...you have to take a big tax hit to convert it to USD to buy the car. In high-tax States where Teslas are very popular, this is a nontrivial amount
OVH’s UI is awesome for the domain settings compared to all the providers I’ve seen (1and1, GoDaddy, Aws, DigitalOcean). Even at DO what has a fantastic UI, the settings of a domain are complicated.
s/allowed/amused/
100% this. I work at a merchant that accepts Bitcoin for payment, and 90+% of our volume comes in over lightning (a layer 2 solution built on top of Bitcoin).
That sounds more like an advantage of a template compiler, not a template interpreter?