skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, there is no need for the probe to have been designed for a mission to our star system. It could be that it was a craft meant for something else entirely that left its star system, like our Voyager probes have, and drifted for eons before happening to pass through our star system and be observed.

Of course, that is still less likely than some unusual rock doing the same thing.
Take your pick: https://coingecko.com

While many of these are forks of Bitcoin and use similarly wasteful proof mechanisms, many are also completely new and different. Several different consensus mechanisms are broadly used across these, most of which improve drastically on Bitcoins wasteful Proof of Work (PoW). Some even solve the problem with only very negligible energy footprint, such as the variations on Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT). It's been long-debated whether those alternatives trade safety for energy-savings, but after many years it would appear the reverse is true. The majority of projects that have succumbed to some kind of system-inherent weakness have been PoW protocols being "51% attacked", which is generally not a concern for the alternatives.
"And in my view that was a relatively mild conflict compared to others like Israel and Palestine for example."

Serbs and Croats were massacring each other, mass rape, torture, executions, quasi-genocide. It's far worse than anything in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict at least on that level.
The other nice thing about Safari’s approach is that for common extension functionality it is just a set of rules that are executed. So no malware can be run because extension code isn’t actually reading the dom. Nor does it have access to load remote resources.
the statement is about things being better is in absolute terms where in fact it's just perception, as you said yourself biased due to age. older people may perceive lack of change as better but it doesn't mean it's in fact better.
I have the same problem - paying Google customer, so I'm not allowed to leave ratings or reviews on Google's app store. Support's ignored my requests on this.
Your first sentence can be used by folk who don't share your political stance to support the reverse of your second sentence if, like you, they make assumptions to fit their beliefs.
I may be a cynic, but I believe you are massively overestimating the rationality of decision-making during this pandemic.
Bitcoin has revolutionized the black market economy.
Code inspections is not same as open source.
Bitcoin takes an hour to confirm, there are other cryptocurrencies that take much less time.

Bitcoin also has the fee problem, and more recently Ethereum. Other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin Cash with larger block sizes don't have the same transaction fee problems.

Cryptocurrencies are still relatively new. Most of the problems are being solved and the technologies are improving rapidly.
On the contrary, such linear scaling would be quite exceptional. I'm speaking from experience but you don't need to trust me; I invite you read any book on software engineering management, starting from The Mythical Man-Month by Brooks.
I think the 2 approaches can be segmented based on market appeal. Canva, figma, and some of the other examples being thrown around are products with mass appeal. Also products that I imagine don’t really require much customer service. As it’s expected you figure it out yourself with these products.

The dev focused tools, a la the indie hacker type, are usually after some very niche user. In this case, you should just make the user pay. There’s not many of them anyways and you can likely command a higher prices because you’re essentially solving a problem that would require them to solve (expensive) or just keep status quo in place (eg manual process).

This is how I like to think about freemium anyways. If product has mass appeal, eg bookkeeping, then freemium makes sense. If it’s bespoke compliance software tailored just for veterinary hospitals then everyone pays
You’ll notice that even if they accept Bitcoin as payment, they’ll never price anything in Bitcoin. Nobody does that. They always price it in dollars and accept Bitcoin at the market rate.

When people start pricing things I’m Bitcoin without doing some daily calculation, that’s when you know it’s serious.
In Europe where I live, electricity costs 0.06 euro for generation and then 0.25 on top for transportation to me. So eve if the grid is vast, transport costs are vast as well.
> The "spammer" can only pretend to be 10 million different people because e-mail is free. Paying a tenth of a penny per e-mail has been one of those long-standing impossible anti-spam measures, but walled gardens can implement something like this at their whim.

Maybe. A few problems here:

1. payments come with privacy concerns, unless maybe you're talking about zero-knowledge-based blockchains, but we're a LONG way from such functionality being widespread

2. $0.001/email is actually very reasonable for an attacker; they'd probably gladly pay even up to $1 or more, depending on their exact needs, especially if that comes with an elevated privileges account

3. all of this is easily defeated by fanouts. E.g. if they sign up with bob@gmail.com and then are able to use bob+1@gmail.com, bob+2@gmail.com etc. to sign up for a different service, this defeats the purpose
Doesn't the fact that bitcoin hasn't taken off yet kind of validate the reservations that HN has?

If Dropbox was still at 100 active users 10 years later, would someone be complaining about the dismissive comments HN had at the launch announcement?
Thank you! Appreciate it, very useful!
The unbanked aren't using gold either.
Not GNOME itself, but Gnome Display Manager:

> After the transition from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3, configuring GDM is only possible through systemd as it no longer supports other init systems.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
the platform should accept the criticism, because it doesn't hurt them. they have no feelings.

People doing low effort apps can only just whinge when the floor shifts under them. i have no sympathy - they just need to adapt and improve, and create new value to sell.
Why? The risk to their reputation & livelihood for a false positive should temper that.
> You could self host your own email

You can. I might be able to (there’s a lot of crap around spam filtering and SPF that I’d have to fight with).

My mother, father, sister, cousins, nieces and nephews? Not a chance in hell.
PayPal accepts cryptocurrencies now, so I don't think it's fair to say you can't buy anything with it. Also there are decentralized marketplaces like OpenBazaar, which are still pretty new too.
You don't have to mine to make a transaction with gold.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's what SA does; the health minister kind of signaled that it may be resumed. I'm sure they're at least considering it. Normal approval processes for vaccines are getting modified all over the place, nowadays.
Yeah. For a moment I found this interesting but then I remembered that KDE Plasma has perfect integration with all of the streaming services I use through my browser. It seems to just work without any additional software. You can even control media from an Android phone if you have the KDE Connect app installed.
I run a personal web server from my home. I have found Digital Ocean IP addresses as a frequent source of stupid web server hack attempts (e.g. trying to hack wordpress - I don't run wordpress). I sent complaints to their abuse department to no effect, so I now block all the Digital Ocean netblocks that show up in my logs.

My conclusion is that Digital Ocean doesn't care if their tenants run hacks and scams.

FWIW, I rarely get scans from AWS. When I do, I report it - I get a response email logging the complaint and a day or two later I get a follow-up email closing the ticket and saying "it's been taken care of."
Somebody should tell Elon about NANO if he is serious about the environment and wants a real digital money system
Well indeed, that's how it seems to me too, so I'm wondering why Bitcoin isn't even more fiat than fiat.
There is more to the switch from ICE to electric than pure CO2 output, air quality in population centers is a big part of it too. Particulates from vehicles are a health epidemic, and whilst not all of it comes from the tailpipe it's certainly a not insignificant amount.

I don't disagree that heavy industry is going to be the more important problem to solve, but unfortunately I have few levers at my disposal to influence that. It's going to take treaties, taxes, regulation and sanctions to figure that mess out. Because I have zero faith in that actually occurring, I think the real solution is going to be in remediation technologies. Consumerism isn't going away, especially with fresh faces entering the developed world, eager to take up any slack the west gives.
Bitcoin mining is also helping to end gas flaring in the US. Instead of just burning fuel, use it to run a mining farm https://www.crusoeenergy.com/news-and-media/2019/12/8/bloomb...
Iceland definitely has surplus energy. There's been ideas to lay a cables to mainland Europe to export it since it's going to waste at the moment.
What about ALSA or OSS applications?
Thanks. It didn’t seem very focussed. One of the major thesis is that all currencies follow four steps to adoption as a medium of exchange. For this they cite Jevons’ and his discussion of gold. And indeed, Jevons said gold followed those four steps.

But I looked at the source text and saw Jevons said gold was an exception to the rule in that it developed as a currency late in the cycle.

“ The use of esteemed articles as a store or medium for conveying value may in some cases precede their employment as currency.”

The author has made a basic error in their major thesis. And they still haven’t shown why bitcoin needs to have a sky high value.

The other half of the essay is describing ratings for different types of currencies. But this is description, not argument for why it must rise in value.
In other news, the Loch Ness Monster must be an alien too. Because it's hard to explain. Likewise Stonehenge was made by aliens, and the Utah Monolith.
Energy transports costs are non-negligible. In fact, in Europe I pay more for the grid transfer (~0.25/kwh) than generation (0.06/kwh).
I'd buy that except the major media outlets are the corporate power.
I think Loeb's meta-argument is that the peer-review process is tilted towards discounting arguments that include the possibility of extraterrestrial life. You can't really have discussions about how the peer-review process should work within the peer-review process. And moreover, since society at large is providing the resources for our science, they should have some visibility and input into how those resources are spent. I say this as a scientist who generally thinks (at least my field's) peer review works pretty well, so to be clear I'm not saying this to discount expert opinion.

You can feel free to disagree with Loeb's points, but I dislike the characterization that some part of this process is "invalid" (bullying) or that communicating with the public is similarly invalid because it "steps around peer review". Even your comments disagreeing with Loeb's approach are part of the process by which science and society make progress, I just happen to disagree with them in this case.
Are forensic labs often get blind tested? If there is a bias for guilty cases then it should turn out in those blind tests. Source code is a red herring here, there should be independent evaluations of forensic laboratories/methodologies/etc... regardless of software source code availability. Maybe these checks are already in place, I genuinely don't know.
Bitcoin has definitely done that but more importantly it has revolutionized the Shadow Economy - which is a lot larger than most people realize.
Interesting take. I haven't used either Sketch or Figma that extensively for quite a while, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

It was my feeling that Figma lacked some of the finess in terms of finer vector drawing and advanced features that Illustrator or Sketch provided but was "good enough" in 99% of use-cases that it didn't realistically matter to their target customers. There are some parallels to the Google Docs X Word relationship I think.

Edit: I read your comment wrong and removed part of mine to make sense. We're basically in agreement.
That is a very, very limited scope for Google/Facebook. Almost to the point of me suspecting you are strawmanning it. In fact, google/facebook is so endemic to our infrastructure that you can literally delete you google account. Get it scrubbed from the internet, they will still track you. Identify you. And show you ads. If you try to block their services, some pages stop functioning. It is on the verge of impossible to escape them
I wish Elon would know more about NANO if he truly cares about the environment and wanting to push forward a realistic digital money
I just gave up the last time my google account died. There's really little value in it at this point if you're not publishing apps and I would never build a business on one of their platforms for this reason anyway.
privacy, online safety, no false positives

Pick two.

Different companies do different trade-offs. The optimal solution depends on how the internet community weighs each individual axis
You say that as if these were mistakes or unfortunate culminations of circumstance. The man committed fraud and sent innocent, grieving parents to prison by proxy. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that to be 0.00% and punish those harshly who exceed that metric.
I think one theory is that it’s a huge “light sail” (hence the size). Just what I heard; no idea if this has any merit.
Other countries are plowing cash into homegrown tech. Should the US follow?
Because the more money you have, the more money you make. That's why polkadot nominated proof of stake, which splits the rewards across validators equally to ensure even returns across the dot.
There is so little emphasis in production software development in bioinformatics and biostatistics. Despite a lot of groups open sourcing their code it's is nearly unusable and not reproducible due to hard coding, ignoring edge cases, and dumping the majority of the code on a single giant R or python function.
Yes sure, I should have elaborated more. From the top of my head:

* Tesla's net profit doesn't come from selling cars to consumers but from selling tax credits to other companies [1].

* Tesla is quite aggressive and creative in its non-GAAP accounting, famously 20% of quarterly profits are accounts receivable.

* Elon is not a founder of Tesla, but sued the founders to be able to call himself one.

* No competitor working on autonomous driving thinks that Tesla will get there, yet Elon promises that robotaxis are just around the corner for several years now.

* Elon was one of the first prominent Covid deniers, then had to turn around and promised to deliver ventilators, none of which were delivered.

* When customers came in for warranty repairs, Tesla had them sign an NDA that the repair was goodwill, therefore not having to report numbers on warranty repairs to NHTSA and being able to use different accounting methods.

* During factory visits with journalists, no worker is allowed to speak with visitors or vice versa.

* Quality assurance in the Fremont factory is sub-par, assembly is done in a tent outside of the factory, even Elon himself says don't buy cars during end of quarter production ramps.

* Tesla is facing several hundred litigation lawsuits each year.

* Tesla is the company with the most OSHA violations in the US, and, according to whistleblowers, in emergency situations workers are sent back to work or taxis are called instead of ambulances so that no accidents have to be reported.

* As the CEO of a billion dollar company, Elon personally likes to "take revenge" on whistle-blowers, journalists and critics.

This is just from the top of my head, there are a lot more red flags here (each one being a massive rabbit hole).

For the record, I think EVs are a net win, Tesla/Musk have done a great job promoting EVs, Tesla cars do offer a great experience, I have no stock position on TSLA etc.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/31/investing/tesla-profitabi...

/Edit plainsite has a good report here: https://www.plainsite.org/realitycheck/tsla.pdf
My S21 Ultra has a QR scanner built in, but no barcode. Are the old ones still used for such purposes? I've only seen QR codes used for eg contact tracing.
WhatsApp vs. Signal vs. Telegram
Cryptocurrency allows users to send, receive, or immigrate with money - without an inbuilt requirement to open accounts or disclose private information to third parties.

Gold cannot be memorized nor can its total amount in existence, in the universe, be known. It does, however, work without electricity.
No? Plex Pass has a lifetime plan (happy user of it here), not a "lifetime paid trial" plan.
Elon Musk's Tesla buys $1.5bn of Bitcoin causing currency to spike
> You know what would be revolutionary? Getting rid of currency altogether.

What would be the point, going back to trading?

You are missing the point, if you keep a good scarce versus another abundant, overtime the scarce good will gain value. It's basic economics. Bitcoin is revolutionary because of the blockchain, but it's not its fault that it's gaining value, it's people over-hyping it every 4 years due to the halvening plus indiscriminate fiat money printing policy.
And why did you choose Google Docs over LibreOffice or OpenOffice or something else also free? Not because the product was better?
On the other hand, you can tell your boss/team leader/other manager:

> these constant meetings are killing my productivity

Let them decide that the meetings are worth killing productivity.
I know what the word "discount" means.

When I say "what do you mean by 'I'm discounting'?", is "What do you mean when you say that I'm regarding a possibility as being unworthy of consideration?" What possibility are you referring to that I'm regarding as being unworthy of consideration?
While there have been cases of technicians guilty of systemic fudging of data, that is a tiny exception to the vast majority of honest technicians with self-respect.
Yeah, I haven't seen a lot of discussion of this, but cats, hamsters, guinea pigs, and mink is a lot of other mammal species already proven to be able to pass it on. I think we will never live in a covid-19 free world again, it will be like measles; always in circulation, but hopefully we get effective vaccines against it.
Just the opposite. Bitcoin seems to depend upon a stable computing network and legal authorities who can punish those who hack bitcoin.

If such networks collapsed how could most people keep bitcoin secure? Or run the computing power to power the network?

With gold, money and other valuables you can carry them with you and hide them.
To build off this a little more, another pattern I see pretty often is for people to pilot things on personal projects and then, when they come on board a team, suggest their favored personal toolkits at work. Simply creating the familiarity with the tool can help enormously in this case, even if it would probably take a couple of years or more to really pay dividends.

I've found this to especially be the case with new hires who are fresh out of college or graduate school. They have experience setting up platforms for the group projects they do in school and they can often work pretty well for a small team if implemented with intention.

It's not actually so different from Adobe's strategy of somewhat turning a blind-eye to piracy from college students knowing that when they graduate into being design professionals they'll have business expenses they're willing to splurge with.
The USD remains the choice of the cartels and professional money launderers.

After all, pro crooks do not want to leave an eternal trace of their transactions on a public ledger on the internet.
Maybe it's a cultural thing but I've never seen a company require a leetcode score and I don't think I would ever apply to such a company.

It seems weird to me.
I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that U.S. courts have found that suing is a right that can't be waived by contract. Certainly an agreement to enter arbitration can be introduced as evidence against you in a a lawsuit, but any decent lawyer should be able to prevent an arbitration agreement from getting your lawsuit thrown out.
> People really think the guy is financially desperate to cash in with a kookie book?

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

— Anaïs Nin
Not per-say, though it certainly affords it the same level of scrutiny.

Which may well be a win as open source already has that.

However, even open source has bugs that pass scrutiny as many CVE's can attest, so whilst a code review may find nothing wrong, that in itself could be used by a lawyer to create reasonable doubt, if the lawyer is good.
Yeah, that's one of those "defenses" that feels like a confession.
Bamboolib (Free Edition) – An extendable Pandas GUI that exports Python code
I'm still forming an opinion on cryptocurrency.

You mention that decentralization is a very important step that we should try to take as a society. If that's the case, then why isn't Bitcoin (or PeerCoin etc etc) a step function revolution?
Yes that was my point. People say BTC is the new gold, but....gold isn’t that gold as a long run investment. It merely holds value, it doesn’t do anything.
This makes me think of the (most likely apocryphal) story of the hiring manager faced with a huge stack of resumes.

He divides the stack in half, and tosses the top half in the trash. "We don't want to hire those people. They're terribly unlucky."
Maybe they should use more AI to hire CEOs and upper management from a very large pool. We might get positively surprised.

(Or not, in which case I'd be surprised.)
Why should that come to light if the process is opaque? Most defendants don't have the resources to challenge that.

And if it comes to light, acknowledge a one-time error and carry on.
In the US, it would have better fit the definition of lobbying if Frontex had gone the elected representatives and pushed them for business. Having webinars and inviting potential government customers is sounds more like what Frontex is doing, and regardless of the ramifications, it's considered standard practice for government sales in US.
That's definitely not true. Some politicians have worked very hard and have expended significant political capital on campaign finance reform.

Setting an impossible standard and then decrying anybody who doesn't meet it is more about you than the system. Politics is the art of the possible.
not the same thing but

https://www.vertexshaderart.com/art/vsfaoEsuvT3yZrCRB
AFAIK, photos and birthday are not allowed in US to prevent such discrimination so how would they do it then?
> the only purpose of buying them was to bet that they'll go up.

Which seems a good bet, when the government is increasing the fiat money supply by 40% per year [1].

[1] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4392716-in-october-money-su...
I'm hoping they don't and Google just dies.
What Is the Value of a Tree?
I seems like there are no repercussions for sending an innocent person to prison. I don't know if that's true, but it definitely seems like it.
Some government decisions are indirectly forbidden from using black box "algorithms" because they are obligated by law to explain (on demand) the steps that the algorithm took to reach its decision. Maybe something like this should also apply to some private companies ?