skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is the reason behind a push for more KYC-like verification on these platforms (e.g. asking for IDs). But this comes at a huge privacy cost for legitimate users.

A way to square this circle is to have rights engage at the point of payment.

A truly pseudonymous account with no monetization (going either way) has little intrinsic value, and less need for KYC-like identification.

On the other hand, an account with some sort of payment history (either giving money in the case of purchases or receiving money in the case of developers/website hosts placing advertising) faces a higher standard. There's a reasonable probability of real economic harm if the account is nuked arbitrarily, and at the same time any money flow is open to theft or money laundering concerns, triggering moral if not legal KYC obligations.

The latter should also help prevent the proliferation of straw bad actors, since providing payment imposes a direct cost, while the KYC rules open up the possibility of more direct action for flagrant breaches of contract / use of the platform for other abuses.

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.
They are just pointing out that the price of aluminum production is largely dominated by electricity costs. Effectively all excess electricity can be used my aluminum producers.
4xx is a client error and 429 indicates that particular client is making too many requests. 5xx is a server error and 503 says the service itself is unavailable irrespective of the client’s actions. In this particular case it’d be unavailable for contractual rather than technical reasons, but it’s still the right status
So, only 1 order of magnitude down.

EDIT: according to a chart here [0], 1 "raw" Bitcoin transaction is equivalent to 400k Visa transactions. That's 5 orders of magnitude. Unless Lightning handles 99.999% of all Bitcoin transactions, the Bitcoin network will be unbelievably wasteful.

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/
Unsurprisingly, the press coverage ruins everything all the time.
I believe MicroStrategy ($MSTR) was the first major company to buy north of $1B BTC and effectively peg its shareprice to BTC.
Cars can be electric too
Oh look. Elon Musk has figured out he has the power to influence currency markets ...
It's more proof of work hate.
If Valve treated game developers like Google does, Steam would have followed the path of Stadia which is failing despite being technically a good product.

That's my personal take on the current situation: despite owning one of the largest digital store, Google sucks at being a publisher. The actual automated ban is mostly inconsequential. Every large publishers have technical issue from time to time. What's unique to Google is that you can't effectively contact anyone to have them sorted out.

If you are an indie dev with a track record and works with Steam, XBLA, Epic or Nintendo, you will be in touch with a company representative.
Tesla should have waited 3 more years until the next halvening.
Yes people in this thread are confusing the two. It reduces overhead because it directly refers to machine registers and the machine stack to pass information between instructions, and directly uses machine jumps, rather than going through a switch and method calls.
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If we're being honest, SpaceX is designed to gobble up government contracts. That's it. That's the whole business model.

If NASA offered contracts exploring the ocean depths then Elon Musk would be sinking Tesla's in submersibles.
That depends how high the BTC bubble price goes.

At a certain point, mining BTC could be the only economically viable activity to do with electricity.
Let's not forget that Biden was in favor of bombing Serbia. China does not believe for one second that the bombing of their embassy in Belgrade was an accident.
I'm not sure it's fair to call a gorilla a "wild animal" when they've been so socialized that they live in a human home, use the light switch and the bathroom, go on walks with the local kids and have deep familial relationships with humans, the only other animals they know. That's not to claim that I have any idea how dangerous or not the situation might have been but "wild" really sounds like the wrong word here. Human culture was all the poor fellow knew, despite not being human.
You get what I'm trying to do here with my recent essay:

https://www.remarkbox.com/remarkbox-is-now-pay-what-you-can....
Why would there be an impeachment unless congress thought DJT was still president?
> however it ends, it will not end well

Can you be more specific?
It is Elon Musk---why would he care about the proles' "environment"
The good news is there are more than enough vectors to choose from.
I think you win. He's already done this with his deliberate attempts to ruin TSLA shorts.

That being said doing this with a public company... if this guy isn't careful he's going to get barred from public markets and forced out of Tesla.
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All EV's are worse for the environment than buying a used Petrol car.
Being Elon Musk is securities fraud.
What 1765 websites revealed about the top Website Builders?
It's true if you don't need to change device. In 3 or 4 years (my usual device lifetime) many non updated apps is no longer supported at newer os version.
But it can be installed if they switch to the US App Store.

It is now banned in mainland China on the internet level anyway. [0]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/08/clubhouse-is-now-blocked-i...
> I think there wasn't a Linux version available, which I guess is why I stopped.

I just came in comments to see is there a Linux build.

Now I know.
How not? Can you point some research in this direction?
I check Facebook maybe once a week at most. I don't really use it anymore but I have a handful of contacts that still use it as their main social networking platform so I use it to see if I've gotten a message from them or if my D&D group wants to get together (hasn't been an issue for about a year, sadly). Sometimes if I'm not expecting anything from them I'll go a month without looking at it.

I've been kicking facebook out of my life by accident simply by the virtue of it becoming less and less useful for me.
Care to elaborate more?

You mention the podcast, but not why it has made you think of it as a set of red flags.
Except of course that if you never sell it, its value has magically dropped all the way to zero, which is even lower than the value you would have gotten from selling it.
>who is sometimes misunderstood ("funding secured", "pedo guy", "Autopilot").

Did I misunderstand when I thought he was a liar in two out of three of those cases?
A list of adopters (many of which are hosting providers) is here: https://github.com/buildpacks/community/blob/main/ADOPTERS.m...
I always understood that there is only a limited number of transactions in each block. So higher transaction number = higher block number needed and therefore likely higher competition and higher transaction cost.

This means that more blocks needed = more miners motivated to mine.

Does the higher number of 'failed' mining not also increase with the number of miners?

And proof of work increases with each block does that not imply higher energy cost per mined block?
> and share so many common aspects between them

For each original/exciting/intriguing story, whether it arose from a dream, hallucination, psychological trauma, deliberate invention, misinterpretation of natural (or artificial) phenomena, or whatever, there are hundreds of copycats as people (consciously or not) seek their own moment of fame. Of course they share lots of common aspects.

> They're here, and have been visiting us for hundreds of thousands of years

You can believe that if you like, of course, but I don't see a shred of credible evidence to support it.
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A worst habit as in that is counter-productive!
TeslaCharts has been flatly and inarguably wrong about 100 times by now, especially around things they declare “impossible according to the laws of physics.”

To me it sounds like a person with an obsession trying to scour the internet for anything potentially bad, and it’s just sad.

Elon’s flaws are pretty transparent. You don’t have to dig for them that hard.
You could be right, but I strongly believe that's too early and that there's more to come.

This and the markets' reaction are absolutely part of the left side of a hype-mania bubble that will have some event(s) like that but your guess is as good as mine
Please do not leave comments like this without _some_ elaboration. Linking to a one hour long podcast is not sufficient, especially without so much as a timestamp.
Not very reliable. The most reliable broker is... Having a few accounts at different brokers that you could use - e.g. Coinbase, Kraken, Binance, etc.
Nobody is building a dam because of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is what's done when there is egress electricity (which there always is, somewhere).
Both companies were unlikely to succeed (and nearly failed).
To me that is a strong indicator that profit is not the primary objective.
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I mean, he spells it out, but it is doing 1/1000 the value.

And if you make that comparison, how much energy is being used to run Fedwire? A few kilowatts maybe?
Mine is updating software as soon as they are available.
They won't for the same reason currencies are not on the gold standard anymore. You can't print bitcoin and that actually is NOT a good thing. Unless you like falling into a great depression like event.
HN was one of the first sites on the crypto bandwagon in the early 2010s. I can't speak for everyone but it seems like a lot of us turned against PoW when the amount of energy waste became clear.
One thing that I'm curious about. Where and when did it come from?

(A) Assuming sub-light travel, (B) no energy/mass-intensive interstellar major course corrections, (C) planetary origin... shouldn't we be able to work out where and when it was last in the vicinity of a viable source?

And at the distances (and therefore timescales) we're talking about, we might also hit low-metallicity systems... which would make intelligent, space-faring life less likely.

(Not impossible, but getting around convenient chemistry at a civilization-scale seems unlikely)
Highly likely a used petrol car will be bought by someone even if not by you personally, so not a fair assessment.

A fair assessment would be a new BEV versus a new petrol versus a new diesel versus a new hybrid.
Interesting comment!

Note that there are cryptographers out there working on blockchains that are quantum resistant: David Chaum for example and its "xx" blockchain (which is still in beta but already has a few hundreds nodes running).
Regulation != socialism

Welfare != socialism
How do "used Petrol cars" start out their life?
Could you describe a couple of red flags?
I don't think that Elon Musk bought bitcoin personally, but of course I could have missed it. Do you have a source for this claim?
What is being discussed here is not "I lost the password", is "Google disabled my account because they have reasons". In the latter case, you could have the right password and the account would still not work.

> surely I am protected from this, right?

Nope. Google can disable you account at any time, without telling you why, and without giving you any appeal process whatsoever. No free-gmail user is in any way protected against this. People paying for Google Suite accounts are ever-so-slightly more likely to receive some support if anything happens, but that's it.

> The disruption it would cause to me is enormous.

This is why I'm slowly moving away from it (and everything Google, really). The service is extremely reliable, it raised the bar for email services and web UI, what they've done to spam is fantastic, but the possibility of losing such a key account and not have any recourse is now too terrifying to contemplate.
That was my plan a while ago, just delete all my posts and undo everything I can.

Doing this manually is an unpleasant undertaking riddled from start to finish with dark patterns that can only be described as malicious and petty.

I did not use a tool and did not even have many posts or likes and I was still unable to remove everything after 3 (!) runs. And even then I had to ask others for help to confirm whether something was truly gone because what Facebook showed me and what it showed others differed. Because of those tactics employed by Facebook I'm still unsure whether I got everything...

God I wish I never created an account, I certainly do not miss its usage even a bit but it feels like such a stain on my digital life.
I think you’re being downvoted because you’re rejecting reality, ie. The literal topic being talked about that literally happened to a person.
And yet you label Bitcoin as the problem instead of resolving the actual problem of subsidized fossil fuel.
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> I don't accept that we're bound by the definitions in that law when we're discussing potential new policy

Here's a recent Assault Weapons Ban by Diane Feinstein, 2020, not the result of political lobbying.

It takes your statement to heart. Do you see any holes in this one being effective? I do.

>the result of intensive lobbying by groups like the NRA and represents a capitulation from the original position of gun reformers

Every bill will be the result of lobbying and ideas from competing groups, and will result in compromise. That's not such a bad thing. Not every American wants either extreme that political parties can concoct.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/66
> This is the right a private property owner (say the owner of a bar) has to kick you out.

Not exactly?

It's certainly not criminal law. Proof beyond reasonable doubt has no place here.

But it's also not exactly the relationship between a host and guest, where the guest has no rights save what the host grants. Website terms of service purport to be contracts, so there is a contractual rather than ex gratia basis for the relationship.

So, begin interpreting website terms of service as contracts of adhesion, and read in a duty for website operators to enforce those terms fairly, with a reasonable basis (on the balance of probabilities) for harmful decisions.

This isn't the current law, of course, but it's not hard to imagine the law reaching that place from here.
This is fairly easy to do on firefox if you use the "temporary containers" extension.
In a chicken egg.
Then can Etherium 2.0 get some love?
A 75% discount? I'd bet less, in the 20-30% range.
Honest expert opinions on big contemporary questions are almost always “nobody knows” or “depends on assumptions” or “the data is inconclusive” or “the studies may be flawed”, or “its really complicated, but you may begin to understand with a lifetime of effort”, or “the question you are asking is more emotional than factual, and I can’t answer it for you”.

Interviewer: “Do we need UBI because AI is taking our jobs?”

Expert: “I don’t understand the question.”

Elite: “Yes/no. Be afraid/joyful. Vote Kang/Kodos.”
Well it would still be better, because it's at least documented what kind of activity will lead into that.
That doesn't change anything in energy usage, and shows how you fundamentally don't understand how it works.
> Also .org falls under US influence, which may not have worked out so well had you been making this decision in Ukraine a decade ago

Ahhh, hadn't realised that. Though I'd suspect .com and .net would be in the same position as .org in that respect.
That's only the case if the Bitcoin price is low. Each block gives the miner a certain amount of Bitcoin, so it's only profitable to mine Bitcoin if the cost of the energy used to mine that block is lower than the price of the Bitcoin the miner received. The higher the price of Bitcoin, the higher can the cost of the energy be before it's no longer profitable.
It's not proprietary, 3-clause BSD licensed. It's part of the chromium project. I use it on OpenBSD.
Hmm. But don't you still have to evaluate the solutions whether you have a free trial or not? It's not like a product without a free trial is magically going to work for you; you still have to test it out, correct? (Or do I misunderstand?)

If that is the case, then anything which makes it easier to evaluate will make it easier to purchase. If you have to choose between a free trial and spending $500 for a month to evaluate, won't you pick the free trial, even if you are spending $800 of your time to evaluate?

The context I'm coming from is that my current employer has a full featured, forever free offering aimed squarely at developers: an auth/user management system (link in bio if you are curious). The paid offerings have better support and premium features.

Our thesis is that for a focused developer tool (rather than a tool that can be used by non technical users, which are many of the examples in the original post) you need to lower the barrier to entry. Integrating with an auth system is more of a commitment than picking a different tool to create images or manage an email list. It's like picking a database.

I think the original article did a great job of talking about where freemium works (big market, virality, etc), but didn't cover all the places where freemium works, in particular dev tools.
I am surprised they didn't do a ICO on Ethereum or something like that.

Edit: I understand the down votes but you can't deny that this isn't something that Elon wouldn't do. If anyone would, it would be him.
Cryptos are purely a speculation vessel, they don't fix many of the problems they claim to fix and add tons of problems over other currencies

I'm fine with cryptos as long as they're not pitched as something they're not
I did likewise. I’d mostly stopped posting a few years ago and simply commented sometimes on others’ posts. But whereas Facebook used to be fun and a place where one’s friends and family shared about their lives, which had genuine and unique utility, it has become instead a platform where people share links/news. And not a good one. I don’t care about what outrage outlet a high school classmate reads or the hot take of a Boomer relative; Facebook has become a real world paper clip AI, churning out “engagement” by appealing to our baser psychological habits and offering each user little actual value.

I still find myself typing “fb” in a browser bar sometimes as I’m surfing and bored, but I don’t miss it; I’m spending more time reading NYT, WaPo, the New Yorker, The Atlantic, and researching topics of my own interest.
given the amount of regulatory gates you must pass through to purchase a car (license, registration etc), I doubt that criminals are going to use Bitcoin payments for criminal services to purchase a car.

They are far more likely to convert to fiat currency and then purchase the car.
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Also possible that if you buy the used petrol car then the someone else who would have bought it will buy a new one instead, ultimately stimulating the production of more new petrol cars.
Is an optimist one that thinks it will stay around, or one that thinks it will go away?
"PoS will be proven to be more efficient in almost every way"

We've already known PoS is more efficient for like a decade haven't we? When will it become real and actually start to supplant Bitcoin, 2030? It's a very interesting theoretical point but I don't see how it's relevant when we're talking about the environmental impact Bitcoin has been having for years while Tesla is dumping money into it.
What happened after we purposely leaked AWS keys to a public GitHub repo
What’s the real difference between a layer on top of BTC (effectively a new currency backed by BTC) and an existing currency backed by traditional things like gold and international treaties?
> I always understood that there is only a limited number of transactions in each block.

Correct.

> So higher transaction number = higher block number needed

No. The rate blocks are made is fixed (on average), and that limits the total transaction capacity of the whole network. That's why people are working on things like the Lightning Network as a way to add more transactions.

Other efforts to either have more blocks per hour or more transactions per block have (mostly) failed.
Yep, he's already the richest guy on the planet and it apparently isn't enough, he has to plunder the crypto market. He is too big and influential to tweet and talk about crypto while also trading in it- he automatically will move the market with every utterance.

He should be busy enough that he can stick to his knitting on executing with SpaceX and Tesla that he doesn't have time for this kind of stuff that will get him into real trouble with the government at some point.
I am curious why it has never been claimed. At least ESP seems to be very well documented from a scientific perspective.
To be fair, as Matt "Money Stuff" Levine likes to say, everything is securities fraud.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...
Or this is going to be one of those events that everyone tries to sweep under the carpet when Tesla and it's investors have to be bailed out for the first time, because it's too big to fail...
further, if one has the opportunity to talk to people working in a forensic psychology unit, they might discover the presence of the "wild animal" in the human and that all of us are still a lot closer to that wild animal than we like to admit.
> Want to be treated like a person? You have to pay for that.

Andrew Spinks, the author of the linked tweet, was a business partner of Google's. That didn't save him.
Oh yes! OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has been really excellent. It’s very polished and quite an easy thing to set up.
It's not new, and it's been through at least one hype cycle. HN likes novelty and dislikes last year's hype. It loves this year's hype though.
> We could design cryptocurrency systems that deliberately focus on using excess renewables

Could we? I thought Ethereum still had a pretty big digital/physical gap. In that there was no way to digitally ensure a physical truth (barring third party attestation).
What is it about the esp32 which means it can't do long range wifi? Someone here is getting 10km which seems pretty long range to me:
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/11/esp32-wifi-hits-10km-with-a-...
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Lots of countries are already putting Bitcoin in their pension fund, but keeping it secret. Microstrategy's institutional interview series had some interesting insider information about it without naming the countries themselves.
Google closed one of their first party Stadia game development studios. They haven't decided to cancel Stadia as a whole yet, at least not publicly.
The second one too:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.secuso.pri...
> if you squeeze one of these check-valve kinds properly, the airflow is just as good as with a free-flow one

That hasn't been my experience, and if you look at one closely you can see that it can't be the case. The size of the opening is substantially smaller even at maximum expansion, and the path for the air is less direct.
Ads within the app are fine, and I don't think many people who download a free app expect to have zero ads unless it says it.

THIS app, however, displayed ads outside of the application when the phone was unlocked. It's not the same thing, and it's not ok.
Yup, they have a dedicated page on their website explaining the decisions and other resources which are worth a read.

https://www.microstrategy.com/en/bitcoin