skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all. If there's a need for an actual important and urgent meeting people usually tell me my calendar's really full and if I can move something out of the way, which I then usually do. But nobody has questioned the method itself... yet.
Wouldn't the real way to make money to be a founder/cofounder at the next Google/Facebook/Amazon/whatever? Which I'm guessing would also not require being a great programmer.
The household demand for electricity is non-elastic.
There is some evidence, but nothing very good, much less conclusive.
I do not understand your thought process.

Cars enter the world by being made, not by being sold. They leave the world by being damaged beyond economical repair, not by being bought.

This is not the same as party politics, even though literally every election and referendum I have voted in would’ve resulted in the same winner had I not voted. The political comparison would be voting ex-politicans off X-Factor or Strictly Come Dancing or $COUNTRYs-got-talent etc. (second hand) versus current politicians in elections (new).
Are you basically saying that going from fossil to electric vehicles won’t make a big difference?
There is speculation that Google will ban sideloading in the near future, too. That is, it will extend its Advanced Protection model to mass-market Android. Then, sideloading will only be possible for that tiny minority of nerds like us who know how to use ADB and install an .apk over the command line.
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It's very good for the criminal environment, though. They thrive on Bitcoin. This has to be Musk's ultimate shit move.
> when Tesla and it's investors have to be bailed out for the first time, because it's too big to fail...

That would be a sight to behold. If this happens within our lifetime, then it would be an interesting case study of a fast-track evolution from a healthy company to a stagnant behemoth.
I'm no crypto bull, but I don't think it's obvious at all that Bitcoin (or other crypto) is "literally worthless".
Sure, but Elon was already a multimillionaire. If money is your objective, you do not then put most of that money into a rocket company.
But all those things are hedges against inflation. None of them have a precisely fixed supply like Bitcoin.

Also, institutions buy things for lots of reasons besides hedging inflation. Arguably they're buying Bitcoin for the same reason they buy growth stocks.
The difference is being able to solve crypto puzzles has actual uses whereas the beads are inherently worthless. A better comparison would be if the aliens offered us some shiny space junk.

Any deal involving something that one party doesn't know or understand is probably unethical. It's also questionable whether the aboriginal people understood the implications of trading their land.
I would still recommend checking frequently, my recent old post popped up a year after any such incident.
Ask HN: MyPath landing page roasting (pls give your feedback)
We’ve created a landing page for our product early adopters - https://mypath.ai/
Is it clear for you what is our product made for?
What we can do better?
Any troubles with UX/UI or wording or what else?

Thank you for your feedback and have a good day!
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OTOH, his claims have actually probably made him the most famous Harvard astronomer. I pay little attention to astronomy, and I certainly can't name any other Harvard astronomers.
Anyone know when exactly Tesla accept bitcoin?

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> designed to be unprovable (multiverse, string theory, and similar)

None of those are "designed" to be unprovable, and many make predictions, they just don't currently make predictions within the measurement capabilities of existing instruments or near-future instruments.

Work on them is specifically oriented towards trying to find achievable measurements that they can uniquely predict the results of. They also don't have more mundane secondary explanations ("it looks like a rock and is a rock") because in most cases there just isn't one.
>> Both Free Software and Open Source philosophies had at the core of them user freedoms with regards to software

Observationally, and I am sure OSI would disagree, it seems to be Open Source has it core to be DEVELOPER freedom, not User Freedom.

Open Source is about allowing developers of software access to source code, and be allowed to redistribute their source code with in the developer community, but Open Source has no problems with locking out USER freedom

Where as Free Software is about freedom for USERS which would also include developers.
Maybe the context is different here, but I understand freemium not as having a free trial/demo but as in providing a complete but basic service for free that you expect most people to only ever use (e.g. Gmail and Gdrive vs Google Workspace).
That's not the best example. In retrospect, AOL using its inflated stock to buy Time Warner was genius, probably the best thing AOL management could have done for shareholders.
How do we combat mass global misinformation?
In recent times, it seems that the reaction to cryptocurrencies here has mostly settled into either greatest-thing-since-sliced-bread or this-is-pure-snake-oil camps, with no one really adopting a neutral view, and it's hard for me to say which view is heavily dominant on Hacker News.

Speaking as someone who tends towards the latter camp, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies feel to me a lot more like a solution in search of a problem. It's been around for over a decade, and yet the only financial niches it seems to have occupied is drying up the supplies of GPUs and providing a speculative bubble. Actually using it for end-user transactions seems to have gone down from a peak several years ago, and acting as a settlement layer is a use case that everyone talks about but has never actually come about.
The pyjama-effect: link between working with pyjamas and poor mental health
Makes perfect sense. You have the right to cross-examine the witness, especially when you're being accused of murder.
Depends on the use case. If you want to pay anonymously online then there is Paysafecard for example (available in some countries and for some services).

There are other blockchain currencies of course, but I think they all have the same environmental issues.
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> We must have a frontier?

Why?

Who is “we”?
I use Nix to do something similar: https://gitlab.com/kevincox/feed-test/-/blob/8b217add5fc11bb...
assuming that aliens do exist and that they are advanced enough to have invented interstellar space travel, the following possibilities must be true:
a) they can fly between stars but have not yet discovered earth or:
b) they have discovered earth but for some reason have decided not to make themselves known to us.
if a) is true, then we must sit and wait until we are discovered, it seems pointless to try and initiate contact on on our own.
if b) is true then aliens are indeed aware of our existence. who knows why they are still hiding themselves from us... anything is possible. obviously we are powerless to force them to reveal themselves.
and anyway, science has never been based on pointless speculation which is what prof. loebs theory amounts to.
Got bad news for you about modern American political discourse. Just tune into one of the major right-leaning networks sometime, it's rough.

Just one random example of a high profile career lawmaker:

"The senator dismissed House Democrats proposals to boost paid sick leave and bolster safety net programs like unemployment insurance and food stamps as “wage controls and price controls and socialism.”" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Ted-...

"Sen. Ted Cruz took aim Friday at socialism, which he blamed it for killing jobs in liberal cities.

“The blue states with high taxes, high regulation their people are fleeing because they don’t have jobs,” he said while speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland’s National Harbor.

The Texas Republican said socialists effectively threw out thousands of jobs by pushed Amazon out of New York earlier this month." https://apnews.com/article/6d18da8f6b5ffc516bc23af722130a8b

Noted third-world socialist country New York, home to wall street.
Can't bitcoin addresses be blacklisted? [0]
Since mining is laregly controlled by the Chinese these days isn't everyone taking a massive risk of not being able to move their money out?

[0] https://www.coindesk.com/us-treasury-department-blacklists-2...
One that thinks that they will be around and be progressively more integrated in the fabric of society. I think crypto assets and blockchains have the potential to scale societal institutions and trust relationships in a way that was not possible before. Anything that requires consensus and governance can be implemented in a more transparent and trustworthy way on top of crypto asset networks. But some parts of the puzzle are not there yet. Most importantly, we need better ways for people to be able to manage cryptographic keys. Devices like Ledger or Trezor are good but they need to get even better.
This is my biggest “problem” with crypto. I actually think it’s neat in theory, but it’s the disconnect between what they say and what they do that makes my brain itch.

It’s like when a function’s documentation says “returns a tuple with three elements” but looking at the source it only returns a tuple with two elements.

My tech survival skills help me avoid things where what people say is different than what they’re doing. And saying that crypto is about storing value and transactions and smart contracts and then designing it specifically to award speculators is dissonance.

I’ve seen lots of architects and programmers try to back into design decisions with flimsy reasons to just not bother with it.

I’ve been waiting it to shake out as it will be really cool to have digital currency and smart contracts.
Ask HN: Secrets Management for Multi-Cloud. What do you use and why?
Indeed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan_standard

I've been beginning to wonder for a few years now if there's a fatal flaw in the scientific method in that, at some point, giving proper validation to a piece of information or claimed knowledge becomes so resource intensive that it becomes cost prohibitive in time, energy, capital, etc. to validate or invalidate.

In fact, I've been wondering if science itself can get to a point where the body of human knowledge becomes so large that even the typical process of conducting a literature review becomes so costly in some form, you're better off just to do the experiment, study, or whatever. There may be some benefit in this allowing independent consensus of knowledge but you ultimately need some sort if more refined knowledge management system.

The society we live in of self-interest perpetuating disinformation and misinformation for personal interest sort of brings this issue on extreme. If you've ever seen absurd claims and wanted to earnestly validate or show how a claim is off, you've experienced this. You can not only make absurd claims now, you can often provide massive bodies of supposed evidence that are difficult if not impossible to tell what is accurate or inaccurate.

It's not only enough to provide extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims, you need to provide focused evidence or evidence that can be reasonably independently validated.
>Binance has a legal liability problem from their genesis as a law flouting business.

US-law. Not everybody in the world is obligated to abide by US regulations.

>reliability and sound business practices

Sound business practices like charging extortionate fees, literally 5-10x more than the non-US exchanges? It's typical regulatory capture: Americans are forced to pay more because they have fewer options.
It's not anonymous. Very far from it actually.

Let's say you buy BTC on some exchange platform and then you buy something illegal with it from some FBI honeypot. FBI can trace where you get those bitcoins and then they can go to the exchange platform with a warrant (probably they don't need it nowadays) to extract your real identity.
I think this article is an example of attribution error. To conclude that it is a free model that has caused Canva, Figma, or Notion to take the lead is missing on multiple fronts. To me, the more likely conclusion about these products is that they were better products, and that they created fundamentally different user interactions.

I can't remember where I read it, but I read a great article that argued that Google Docs was successfully not because it duplicated Microsoft Word (many had tried and failed with this approach), but because it focused on how work had changed and the need for collaboration.

Canva is very, very successful, but I don't think that's at Adobe's expense. By any measure, Adobe is probably one of the best examples of a company shifting to SaaS:
https://producthabits.com/adobe-95-billion-saas-company/. Also, regardless of whether they offered their products in a SaaS model (Adobe introduced them in 2012 I believe), there was still free trial.

Maybe a better explanation is that Canva tapped into a different audience - people that needed to produce graphics but did not have design capabilities.

On Figma, it seems to me to be a better online collaboration design tool than what has been offered by other companies. The author seems to forget that companies like InDesign existed at the same time, offered a collaborative tool, and had a similar freeium offer.

I won't belabor the point - freeium might have helped these companies succeed, but I think it is a big leap to say freeium = unicorn killer.
Because you’re comparing the energy consumption of this one thing to the total energy consumption of $x million households along with all the country’s local industry to say that Bitcoin isn’t worth that cost compared to an alternative that requires trusted parties but uses orders of magnitude less energy.
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Bitcoin miners use surplus energy in remote places with lots of thermal or hydroelectric power. Remote China and Iceland. This electricity often can't be put to any other use anyway. The price of energy is probably enough to ensure this.

Besides, the cost of maintaining Bitcoin has to be compared with holding up a fiat currency empire like the US. This requires lots of military, suppression of democracy and generally violence. Seen through that lense it might be quite cheap.
> Our biggest environmental footprints as individuals are heating and cooling. Having an electric car is nothing compared to it.

Isn't Tesla aiming to electrify everything and then use clean energy as the source of the electricity? At the moment running heating or cooling should be clean as long as the energy is coming from a renewable source, right?

> Take one intercontinental flight and again, having a fossil fuel car for a year does not exceed the emissions of that flight.

For the entire flight, right? I would be curious how much driving one seat on a flight equates to. I presume flying is at least better than driving on a per-mile basis?
Why coding is a women’s thing?
The catch is that having a Google Account is free. Whether or not you made Play Store purchases isn't relevant to the people who handle accounts or (for example) automated gmail bans. And as it happens, if the gmail team decides to ban you, it cascades to the services where you spent money.
Missing the point. Bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency to grab attention and normalize the idea of public permissionless public blockchains in the public's and government's mind. Upon this foundation laid by bitcoin, other coins that use proof-of-stake can gradually take over some or most of its market share.

The alternative to your narrative is that this is promoting permissionless cryptocurrency that is hard for the government to print and manipulate, not necessarily Bitcoin per se.

Additionally, if proof-of-stake coins and DeFi can take over some of the manual paperwork done by banks, it would amount to energy savings.

Right now bitcoin is the leader and everybody knows what it is. Compared to other coins, it has a more mature ecosystem to support the needs of a corporate treasury. Companies choosing bitcoin now doesn't mean a proof-of-stake coin cannot take over the mantle later. You can consider bitcoin to be the first coin that lands on a beachhead in the disruption of traditional finance.
OK, so interpret my question as asking for an explanation of the figure of speech!

It's a little bit surprising to get such pushback on a genuine question when there are substances you could describe as "electricity you can put on the back of a truck" such as hydrogen canisters and various forms of battery!
I've been looking for an npm package that makes char-by-char diffs for small chunks of text like this, for a CLI script that generates HTML reports. Is there one in particular that you used?
I don’t care about the energy issue.
See actual sources of most of bitcoins energy. (Nat gas, thermal, etc that would be otherwise wasted.)
Bitcoin has done shit for the environment or for reneweable energy.

I would love to see a real example where you would proof me wrong.

Nonetheless, bitcoin itself is not necssary and it doesn't solve a problem.

People trust currencies. I trust currencies.

Bitcoin also has to have a trust system and right now it is connected to currencies. It is not decoupled. The only thing bitcoin is, its irradical and its basically gambling.
“You should have been blind by now” – An interview with a sight-losing dev
I have my doubts about Tesla, but overwhelming evidence still points towards SpaceX being true to its word Mars venture.
HN doesn’t understand cryptos
Not really, Terraria has already been ported to all systems, including Android.

the amount of people using Stadia that don't have access to a device that could play terraria is likely very small.
“Hey there, you love the rich getting richer and a perpetual level of Uber rich controlling the financial system that is unbreakable? Then you’re going to love proof of stake.”
Stadia hasn't gotten a dollar from me, and won't. I absolutely think it'll be gone by then, but that's not the same thing as "has already decided to cancel".
It's not like there aren't more efficient crypto currencies now. We have Etherium.
Absolutely. In the large scale of things optimizing already efficient fossil fuel machines does not bring much savings compared to optimizing heating and cooling and buildings that are using that.

Not to mention the enormous amounts of energy used in manufacturing/heavy industry. China's Top 5 emitting industries have nothing to do with transportation of individuals or farming for food, unlike some parts of the world.
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> It's not about whether you or I buy a used petrol car over a new EV; it's about whether you & I buy a used petrol car over a new EV.

Was something supposed to be different there?
oof!
That's not really what "speculative" means in this context. Fiat currency isn't speculative because companies hold it for the purpose of using it. No matter what dollars are based on, Tesla has to hold some in order to pay the bills. "Speculative" means that Tesla has no current plans to actually use their Bitcoin holdings; the only purpose of buying them was to bet that they'll go up.
Actually in the SEC filing they state that they already changed their financial policy to be able to buy alternative assets. It's interesting that the media didn't pick it up, as MSTR did the same.thing first.
> I've still set that student up to go forth and play zero sum games until they're out of debt, which is the kind of thing I'm wishing for a way to avoid.

You feel that society investing in education is a zero sum game?
> claims that this breakthrough could allow around 700 sites across the country to play host to their high-intensity hydro projects, which in theory could create a total of 7GW of energy storage to help the UK use more renewable electricity

I did a back of the napkin calculation on this, assuming the article meant 7 GWh. That'd require roughly 4 pools per installation (assuming 50m x 20m x 2m for one). However the article is constantly mixing up energy and power.

I think it has debunked many times that gravity storage may solve our energy storage needs. Gravity is just to weak for that. You literally would need to move mountains for that.
> "These ideas that came to explain specific properties of 'Oumuamua always involve something that we have never seen before," said Loeb.

"If that's the direction we are taking, then why not contemplate an artificial origin?"

This reasoning seems strange to me. We discover new things in nature all the time. Why would we consider an artificial origin, when we're constantly revising our knowledge of the natural world?
I believe the Lightning Network[0] is designed to alleviate this (at least for small payments).

I'm not sure how much it gets though (but do people even buy/sell BTC for actual products?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network
Is that flight footprint averaged over the number of passengers?
>In March 2020, Musk predicted that there would be "close to zero new cases in US too by end of April."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#COVID-19
Tweeting for the single purpose of bringing the price up of cryptocurrency
Plex Pass is like this.
Democrats 1860: whites should keep blacks from living amongst them.
Democrats 2021: blacks should keeps whites from moving to their neighborhood. They are still segragating us.
This article and the Sun article linked within it are extremely similar, I wonder why
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Bitcoin is economically set up such that its energy consumption will follow its price. With the price at the level it is now, the energy consumption is that of a medium-sized country.

An entire country's worth of energy is getting burned to run a network capable of a whooping TWO transactions a second.

Now that Tesla has bought these coins, they have so far driven the price up by another 10%. This will eventually be matched by an increase in carbon emissions of 10% of a medium-sized country.

This will most likely completely obliterate all of the carbon reductions that Tesla has managed to achieve so far.

Bitcoin, as it exists today, is a massive ongoing ecological disaster and probably a crime against humanity. And Tesla is now making it worse.
Surely it's more credible that activity in the secondary market stimulates the primary market, than that it doesn't.
Adjusted for your own seat, assuming a full plane. You can read about the calculation in the linked book.

http://www.withouthotair.com/c5/page_35.shtml
As best I can immediately tell, the cost to incorporate in Nicaragua is $0 and ~30 days application period, with no residency requirement, and 0 tax on global income/profits.

A (low) bar to residency which leads to being eligible to apply for citizenship after a several years' commitment (also being highly dependent on any political change during those years) is not what I would call an "easy" process.
If you're going to switch email providers to something like Fastmail, be smart about it and register a custom domain, and pay a little extra to hook it up to your new account (unless Fastmail lets you do it for free).

Just get a domain like `Smith.com` and then use the email `John@Smith.com`. Then it doesn't matter if you're using Gmail, Fastmail, Protonmail, etc. You can switch to a different company whenever you want (to get the best rate, avoid abusive terms, bad service, etc) without having to update your business cards, websites, online accounts, etc.

You'll still need to have a way to back up your old messages though.
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I never used facebook and I am all OK.
This is a thing even without humblebrag.

That traits for fitness are heritable? That is "a thing"? Hmmm, you might be onto something here.