skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If computers can reject your job application, your value in the market probably is not worth much. I would work on that.

I am not worried about computers blocking me. Google and Facebook do try to censor my comments with their algorithms. They're pretty easy to get around. I'm more concerned by individuals with political agenda (like for example, here, where I have been shadow-banned by being targeted manually for engaging in "wrongthink": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25624084).
...which means that the optimal strategy is still go ahead with the Oxford-AstraZeneca phase 3 trial DESPITE these disappointing results, because they don't have another vaccine in SA and they really need to reduce hospitalizations and transmissability.

Unfortunately, the vaccine review system is not setup to allow such nuanced approvals.
Who has to google "photoshop"?

Also, Canva seems more like a "Publisher" killer. But Publisher was already dead.
So those evil politicians will do what? Force corporations to indiscriminately ban arbitrary people without possibility of appeal? Oh, wait a minute...
Cryptocurrency in general allows people to be their own bank in a more secure and lightweight way than ever before in history.

Bitcoin is an MVP with immense traction that has inspired hundreds of related innovations which will be worth trillions. It is the most widely accepted cryptocurrency at today’s merchants and exchanges, and likely the most researched and understood.
“Scary Virus Paradox”
The Venn diagram of TSLA, GME and bitcoin owners is nearly a circle.
Without a frontier it's impossible to try anything new, and the only way to resolve a cultural difference is to somehow fight (literally or politically). There are other reasons too, like exposure to novelty and something to focus on other than each others' differences.

There's a reason that sci-fi with space flight is almost always more optimistic than sci-fi without space flight.
Buildpacks IMHO suck for reproducible builds, unless you in all versions, and even then it can be hard to find out what you are really shipping. For serious (large, whatever that means) projects this is a huge problem. Docker/Containers solve this problem nicely. Developers do not have to know all the details about base images. Just build a decent base image for them once, say for JVM if that is would they need.
As others have pointed out, there I no need to use Dockers build files approach, there are plenty of better alternatives out there.
If you have a gsuite account, that might be the reason. This started somewhere in 2018.
Size is so relative. You're thinking in human scale. Who says all life in the universe is the same size as us?
Google Chrome extensions are like this too. Not a coincidence that they've had multiple identical incidents where extensions were sold to malicious third parties or had malware added in.
That really isn't how most grids work. There are large times where prices are now negative because of oversupply of renewables.

Mining by it's nature has energy as its largest input cost, so it chases lower and more efficient sources of energy which are largely renewable energy

Further, good renewable sources are often poorly located for electricity distribution. You have situations where the power wouldn't otherwise be used, so it is being tapped into Bitcoin.

Iceland has a pretty much infinite supply of clean energy with geothermal. They're not interconnected to the grid so previously they would export that energy via aluminum, today they can export it with bitcoin and other processing (colo compute)

Georgia has also become a destination for bitcoin mining and it is largely hydro power

The reports on what bitcoin's proportion of renewable sources vary very widely from ~75%[0] and ~25%[1]

You can debate the methodologies of these estimates all day - but one thing to note is that the worst case estimates take an emissions factor which is average _for an entire country_ - while large scale mining operations (which account for the vast majority of mining) are often colocated in specific cheaper regions, usually around hydro/renewable power

The only X factor is that a lot of energy for bitcoin is sourced corruptly. The Chinese are already some way towards resolving that (they have an incentive to!) and shut down the heavily subsidized dirty mining that was happening[2]

My main takeaway is that the trends points to bitcoin eventually becoming a lot more efficient, and potentially can be used as a regulating mechanism on grids or as a way to export energy from renewable sources that aren't well interconnected

[0] https://coinshares.com/research/bitcoin-mining-network-decem...

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

[2] https://www.coindesk.com/bitmain-ebang-bitcoin-mining-energy...
Build or Die: How the US Should Use Industrial Policy to Compete with China
Respectfully disagree:
presenting an attitude that your time is more important than anything else going on in the entire company.
I learned that at the end of the day the company sees me as a contract and I should see the company the same way. Same goes for other people around, most of them aren't my friends, some of them won't hesitate to waste my time to get their work done. So if I can choose I'd rather work on my own tasks and career and need to prioritize my own time over others.

scheduling daily reminders that appear at the top of my calendar
Makes sense as long as people are respectful, there's some who won't be.

I think it's good to set the bar for my time up higher, otherwise there
's the risk of working on a lot of things that aren't helpful for my own goals.

There is the opposite side too though, when I know that someone on my team would hesitate to ask, I make it clear that they can always shoot me an e-mail and I'll try to find a solution within a timeframe that is reasonable on both sides. If I have the feeling they would still hesitate, I try to reach out to them more proactively to see if there's some action needed (something thats in my private calendar, so it actually doesn't interfere).

So the advice I usually give to more junior SWEs, data scientists, researchers (PMs usually know for themselves), it's to respect others and to be mindful, but also don't expect them to respect your time, so it's important to have a strategy for those who don't.
Actually I'm fairly sure it has been done. I personally know of serious plans to do so.
What is the monetary benefit for Tesla when accepting the bitcoin currency ? Is it going to charge more in bitcoin?

Is Tesla using it as an investment thing?
Is it for publicity? What is the benefit?
You're making a lot of assumptions here and basing it on the limited knowledge of a specifies that has failed to make any significant strides into exploring anything other than its own solar system.
Gamers don't care about the tech that's being used, they only care about playing good games. If you're a Stadia user, why wouldn't you want to play Terraria? Because it's not a good use of streaming? But it's an awesome game!
That's a terrible analogy! Bitcoin is a runaway feedback loop where scarcity drives rising price, which drives increasing energy usage. The equilibrium it maintains is the natural profit equilibrium where it makes sense to spend enough energy (money) to "mine" a bitcoin for anything less than the current price. But due to the built in supply decreases, that price rises, so the energy use continually increases, because there's always someone willing to spend $9 to make $10.

It doesn't have a stopping point, or brakes, and at each point, it is in the interest of the frog to raise the temperature of its water by one more degree.

If I was a hostile AI and wanted universe-scale civilization destruction at near zero-cost, I'd send each civilization the bitcoin "thought-bomb." All the AI has to do is share the bitcoin discovery, perhaps anonymously. Once that is done, it puts it in the short term interest of the metaphorical frogs to boil themselves, and speed along the inevitable natural tragedy of the commons outcome.

Right now, bitcoin is like a program with bad big O math, and we are looking at it while x=2 and concluding everything is great.
Who is "they"
Why on earth would anyone want to rely on GCP if Google's executives have constantly been demonstrating that they do not give a shit?

Yes, it is the problem of Google executives, not of "Google". Fish rots from the head. Google has rotten upper management. That's why the middle management runs like drunk frat boys allowing for this kind of behavior downstream.
> 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?

You can’t compare the two so cleanly as to conclude with a simple this is better than that. There’s different effects of different types of pollutions at different altitudes, some unknown. Brake dust, the knock on effects of needing more road due to more miles driven, the infrastructure required to operate an airport, etc.
One can hope that it does.
It is one thing for a normal person to insult somebody, but someone like Elon has a greater responsibility with his platform.

It is also not OK in general to accuse people of being a pedophile! Not sure why that is controversial.

There are lots of examples of important artists, politicians, scientists, etc, who were total jerks and dirtbags. I think it is fine to recognize them for their talents and achievements but also call out their faults too. It isn't mutually exclusive.
Agreed about small devs, but other small devs also have to make countless decisions about which platforms/products to use for their app/platform/website. At the very least, Google should be worried that a good tie-breaker is "Is it a Google platform?".
> They leave the world by being damaged beyond economical repair

Sadly, this is not the case. For most products.
Gold stores value but it hasn’t really appreciated. Whereas the claim for bitcoin is that it will soar in value. Why?

Warren Buffett said it best on gold. It just sits there. Here’s one quote I found. In another he compared buying gold in 1900 vs us stocks.

“ I will say this about gold. If you took all the gold in the world, it would roughly make a cube 67 feet on a side…Now for that same cube of gold, it would be worth at today’s market prices about $7 trillion dollars – that’s probably about a third of the value of all the stocks in the United States…For $7 trillion dollars…you could have all the farmland in the United States, you could have about seven Exxon Mobils, and you could have a trillion dollars of walking-around money…And if you offered me the choice of looking at some 67 foot cube of gold and looking at it all day, and you know me touching it and fondling it occasionally…Call me crazy, but I’ll take the farmland and the Exxon Mobils.” I
This thread isn't about innovation, though? Tesla isn't directing $1.5B towards future applications or research into cryptocurrency; they're making a $1.5B bet that a single specific cryptocurrency will be worth more in the future.
Interesting. Assuming he wants to see the finance industry burn, what might his next step be?
All life in the universe faces the same kinetic energy equations to cross the stars.
it doesn't. People just like to exchange it for real money. There's no real need, everyone just still prices things in USD instead of btc. Once btc has around a $20T market cap, it will be much less volatile.
I suspect it's the air conditioning and equipment cooling of datacenters that's the OP was referring to in regards to bitcoin's footprint, so not entirely unrelated.
Oh, that explains it! Mystery solved, thanks :-)
>BTC miners make significant money from transaction fees which largely offsets these drops

Today's block subsidy is currently 6.25 BTC, and the amount with fees is around 7.2 BTC. That's nowhere close to the pre-halvening about of 12.5 BTC.
But the politicians aren't banning overweight models, only underweight models.

I'm sure these same politicians have medical advisors, who advised them against using b.m.i. and also pointed out what I said here.
They are further monetising their biggest asset: Musk's ability talk Twitter followers into anything, including now buying crypto assets.
Musk went from Tony Stark to Lex Luther in about 12 months.
unfortunately, the technical illiteracy of much of the US judiciary has made this effective.
Has anyone here tried using WireGuard as a VPN for selfhosting? It is built into the Linux kernel (starting in 5.4?) and has lots of tutorials. Thinking of using it for my next project.
Given that the virus is shown to infect other animals, there is no opportunity to limit mutations, let alone eradication.

Natural reservoirs of covid-19 means we'll all need boosters yearly for the rest of our lives.
Bubbles and Easy Money: Quality, Not Quantity
Yes, these are a lot of valid reasons. My point is that the GP did NOT threatmodel, and instead claimed a vague "I want HTTPS".

HTTPS is so easy to do now (and, hey, the manifesto page offers an https version indeed, it's just not HSTS enabled) that there're few reasons not to use it.

But still: you should threat model.
We can't possibly know, but the point is there are a bunch of free services and bans generally cascade. If Google provides an explanation we can conclusively answer this, but as is anyone using Google services is probably getting some of it for free.
On the contrary, he’s pointing out how even a meme currency has significantly better features than Bitcoin.

It’s weird to me to buy that much Bitcoin, but accepting it as payment makes sense as a lot of tech savvy types may hold a lot of Bitcoin and want to buy a Tesla.

It may make sense as a sort of digital inflation hedge. Inflation is a reasonable fear when the economy is still supply constrained and is getting a bunch of stimulus (stimulus which I support FWIW).

EDIT: But generally speaking, financialization can crowd out more productive uses of time and resources, and I often considered Tesla an exception to that where they’re building and investing in physical, useful things. I hope they get back to building out charging stations (with solar), factories, maybe even lithium mining, etc. Financial stuff should be done to facilitate trade and physical investment. When it goes beyond that it can be a net drain on the economy.
Invest 1.5B, post news "ElOn MuSk SaId BiTCoIn GoOd", sell for 3B.
Agreed, a super interesting book. From the Mamluk Sultanate to oil wars influencing WWII...
Can you prove I'm not God?
What I’ve been slowly doing over the years is proxying all accounts behind addresses at my domain (that then forward to my gmail, natch).

So at least I could redirect my accounts to a new address if worst happens.

I’ve been trying to switch off gmail for a while but spam filtering is really hard for me.
If you think this is a bubble, you should think that this is the very beginning, not the peak.
Why would you want to though? It takes at least an hour to confirm (~6 blocks) without a third-party and the fees are getting super high (costs around $13.50 / 30624 satoshis per transaction to get reasonable transfer times). So unless you're transferring a large amount, you're better off using a third party that can just hold all the money and flip a bit in their database saying the money is moved.
Books that Shaped the 1980s
What? Most nations are only hundred years old or so. Gold has retained its value because it's a tangible asset. Unlike bitcoin that becomes worthless without internet and network of miners. Even fiat currencies, thousand or more years old, retain some of their value as historical artefacts.
Kind of makes me wonder: if the argument is that the code is too complex to review and understand, does that mean the company is not doing code reviews themselves?
Does ethereum in some way depend on bitcoin?

I could see there being some crypto use case I haven’t understood yet. But I don’t understand why bitcoin specifically needs to rise in value. It seems like a rent based system rewarding the original owners. And that would only work if other systems depended on bitcoin.
I can't prove you're not an alien infiltrator either, but I'm not about to write a book about it.
We use Bazel’s rules_docker as well, and I would caution someone evaluating it with a note from out experience.

What Bazel does well (and as well as Bazel fits your use-case) Bazel does extremely well and is a reproducible joy to use.

But if you stray off that path even a tiny bit, you’re often in for a surprisingly inexplicable, unavoidable, far-reaching pain.

For example, rules_docker is amazing at laying down files in a known base image. Everything is timestamped to the 1970 unix epoch, for reproducibility, but hey, it’s a bit-perfect reproduction.

Need to run one teensy executable to do even the smallest thing that’s trivial with a Dockerfile? Bazel mist create the image transfer it to a docker daemon, run the command, transfer it back... your 1 kb change just took 5 minutes and 36 gb of data being tarred, gzipped, and flung around (hopefully-the-local) network.

It may not be a dealbreaker, and you may not care, but be forewarned that these little surprises creep up fairly ofen from unexpected quarters!
You are forgetting animal hosts. Numerous other species also transmit.
There exists energy where it's not economically viable to put on a grid, or really do anything with. Many mine Bitcoin with this energy. Even in the United States. The cost of transporting it is more then the energy is worth.
Human Nature. Power corrupts.
True. But you can’t really buy anything with it.

Which means you need to cash out to fiat $$$. And then you need 3rd party authorisation while jumping through all the KYC hoops.
For uBlock Origin in medium mode (on Firefox), you need to allow all for harpers.org and netdna-ssl.com.
UceProtect have operated this way for a very long time. It upsets a lot of people that are on shared networks like DO. Unfortunately the best you can do is move your commercial email to a paid system such as an email marketing company that deals with email campaigns. An alternate option would be to wait for the block to time out, but that can be weeks assuming the spammers on DO have been stopped. The payment UceProtect accepts is to bypass the timers. It is akin to paying bail, but you should not do it unless you know the spammers have been stopped. The bigger VPS providers such as Amazon and Azure have their own email services you can use. The smaller VPS providers get abused a lot and it takes too long for their teams to respond to the UCE complaints. This is why their AS numbers, CIDR blocks and smaller netblocks get blocked by UceProtect, SpamCop and other RBL/RSL's frequently.
> It is possible to drop Google and Facebook.

Its also possible to live without electricity and running water. This disproportionate power model doesn't work there because some people implemented regulations on them. I am beginning to suspect we need similar laws for this.
I'm late to reply, but in Austria the postal service happens to offer multiple services similar to this.

You can rent a "post box" for letters or packages. You pay a monthly fee and get a post box number. You provide your post box number instead of the address, and then you can pick up your mail from the post office.

They also have a forwarding service. Same thing but they deliver it to your home.

Also, many online stores let you deliver directly to a post office or even to self service pick up stations.

So there are ways to shop online without providing your address. But these services are not used very much. I guess most people don't care as much about the secrecy of their address.
I have a Nexus 5, and I can confirm the flashlight is available in the system tray icon. This is true for all Google phones since at least Nexus 4. It is my understanding that AOSP as well as Google's Android implementation has always exposed access to the flashlight hardware (although somebody mentioned this not being the case with Nexus One).
"broke the camels back" -- it sounds like this was some binary event, like "once he did this, I discounted everything he done as ruined by his behaviour.
On the Internet, it's a literal attack on your machine (slows the page down, incurs extra bandwidth, and can inject malware). :D

TV commercials back in tha day didn't have any of that, although nowadays they can play ultrasonic sounds that apps on your phone listen for to facilitate analytic tracking.[0]

0: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/beware-of-ads-th...
All global companies with cash reserves "Maximize returns on Cash" via currency and other investments and hedges.
It is on the main developer's f-droid repo: https://github.com/Ch4t4r/Nebulo#f-droid
But then ... https://twitter.com/Cleroth/status/1348036873885806596
> "You think humans are intelligent and have conciousness - but how do you know that another person has that?"

That was more the point of the “Chinese room” thought experiment.

I always understood the Turing test to be the ultimate form of “When computers can do <thing>, they can be considered to be truly intelligent.” to put an end to all other such definitions which had been previously put forward as possibile criteria for machine intelligence.
Skilled tradesmen are self-employed, and work as contractors to their clients.

Software developers who work as independent contractors generally own their own equipment and software (in Australia that's actually one of the legal criteria for determining whether someone is a contractor or an employee for taxation purposes).

Whereas employees generally use company-supplied hardware and software, which is to the employer's benefit as they have full control over it.

But that's really by the by; whoever is procuring software to be used for commercial purposes, it is reasonable to expect they would purchase commercial licenses to help fund the development of their tools.
I think keeping the earth livable outranks living on a distant, hostile, desert planet. Mars is a close second, I'll give you that
The moment we discovered that numerous other species are transmitting the illness - made yearly shot inevitable.
> Why are Google afraid to release a free non-harmful version of those popular apps.

They already did; these have both been built-in for years. The flashlight was added in Android 5.0 (https://www.androidauthority.com/android-5-0-lollipop-offici... I'm having a harder time figuring out when the barcode scanner was added, but my phone does it automatically in the camera app now.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
> Forensic labs and companies are expert witnesses with black box processes and the incentive to protect the authority of their profession.

I imagine they're also incentivised to favour a result indicating guilt.
The difference was or/& ;)
> It's the same in France and I think most of EU as the highest french court ruled that forced arbitration was against EU law.

For consumers or businesses? Not being nitpicky here: I am not familiar with the French ruling, so I would genuinely want to know - as regulations tend to differ (businesses, even single sole trader ones, do not enjoy consumer protections). Not really relevant for the Terraria dev as it is his personal account that is banned, from the sound of it - but important.
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I didn't say donate to charities, I said start one. You even cite an example - Bill Gates doesn't just hand out money, he's involved in organizations with specific mandates, and there's an organization with him and his wife's name on it that does stuff.

If Elon wants to change the world there are many options at his disposal other than buying the title "founder" of a for-profit electric company he didn't found
Graeme I've got the perfect article for you [1].

[1]: https://vijayboyapati.medium.com/the-bullish-case-for-bitcoi...

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