skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment packs a surprising number of misunderstandings into a single short sentence.

China outlawed crypto mining early last year, resulting in a two-thirds drop in the hashrate within a month. Even then, the order of magnitude was wrong for it to be "the best way of exporting coal," which by the way China is a large net importer of; https://ccaf.io/cbeci/index estimates the whole Bitcoin network at 14 GW, but China's electrical production averages 850 GW, and overall energy consumption is some 4500 GW, 2500 of which is still coal.

So, at best, China could only have been exporting about 1% of its coal consumption in the form of Bitcoin (though in fact much of its Bitcoin mining was renewables-powered), and now it has mostly stopped doing even that.
I think you do not have basic notions of economy and what you just said is just propaganda.

There's no two kinds of humans - from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. The doctors will get free healthcare too, if they need it. Trying to put market value on medical care is inhumane and prioritizes an economic system over human life.

I'm not sure why you're talking about rich people here, but because you brought it up - the accumulation of capital is what's truly exploitative.

Value doesn't come from speculative markets, but from the sum of labor put into it. Rich people realized that if they use some of their capital to provide the means of production, they can skim off surplus value from the workers putting in the labor.

In other words, even though they don't do anything productive to create the value, they still take value that others created. That is exploitation.
Yes, because at one point in time that was an innovation. You said it yourself.
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Interesingly, none of the specific claims referenced in the decision have to do with clock synchronization, they all focus on the act of grouping speakers in some way and controlling them together.
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Some quantitative changes become qualitative in enabling completely different behaviors. Few people had phones, they were tied to a physical location. Now we do video calls between people in different countries while driving.

You can ask your phone what's the molecular mass of methane. Or ask it to identify a song that's playing in the restaurant.
I've been using Gitea for a while now, and have had no issues. I self-host it for personal projects, and also use it at work. I would absolutely recommend it.
> that has, for a big group of people, every single cent you ever made, who payed it, and when

Even capital gains?
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While I'm open to discussion that things just might more complicated than the standard narrative (basically: "disproportionate shootings of unarmed blacks versus those of whites is explained entirely by racial bias on the part of the police") -- this guy's line of thinking veers straight off into the deep end of spurious, unchecked reasoning. For example:

While it may be difficult to pin down an exact number, what’s clear is that thousands of black people have been murdered as a result of BLM’s falsehoods villainizing the police, and the resultant anti-police sentiment that makes police even more wary of confronting criminal suspects

The thing is, even you want to lend 100 percent credence to the so-called Minneapolis Effect (and not everyone does) -- this isn't what it says. Cassell's argument was based solely on the diversion of police resources, period. It did not attribute the 2021 homicide spike to "BLM falsehoods", "villainization of police", or "anti-police sentiment".

It's just spurious and off-kilter what he's saying (in addition to being inflammatory). On that point, and in a whole bunch of other places in his screed (which I'd rather not dissect right now).

Not that that explains his firing, though. The reason for that is pretty clear:

Receiving no support from HR, I raised the issue with my colleagues and senior leadership over email, for which I was fired.

That is, for expressly violating HR's request not to discuss this (alleged) harassment over company communication channels.
i'd say getting rid of first impressions is really hard and maybe better off finding a new job in next 6 months
Exactly. If they were talking about video, you’re gonna have to wait another generation are two for commodity hardware. But just showing an image? The Altair was certainly capable.
Well one thing about going to a poor communist country is you still notice that a lot of people are doing regular people things like sending their children to school or dance lessons, having weddings, playing music, dancing, and drinking alcohol. The corollary to random consumer goods being in constant shortages is that other things are much more “affordable” than they’d be in a market economy.

Cuba is not really in abject poverty so much as they have a command-control economy (so some things are subsidized to be much cheaper than in our economic system, and others aren’t) that is pretty corrupt. They are definitely not a rich country on average or at p50, just not in abject poverty. According to some sources I found on Google their nominal/PPP GDP is actually pretty middling, which is likely due to what I mentioned about a lot of high-standard-of-living services being available despite low availability of goods.

The shortages of things are definitely bad. But the lack of variety in consumer goods really isn’t, and is probably what the parent comment was pointing out. There are not a million different things to buy as seen on TV/Instagram, but that in itself doesn’t appear to have a huge impact on life.
Sidenote: Title was too long for HN, did the best I could.
> So why hasn't there been any new POS coins? If the complexity is in maintaining the history, new coins wouldn't have that problem.

There are dozens of new networks launched over the last two years, they are all PoS.

> Even outside of any hypothetical technical complexity, a system that explicitly pushes all the power to those with the most money seems antithetical to the point.

What power do PoS stakers have? They select the order of transactions. That's it. The goal is to distribute this role across enough people so that they cannot collude to censor a transaction. That's essentially the only goal.
It's ok if you started programming at 8 or at 38. You can still get out. Run
They have dollar-bill-sniffing dogs on the ferryboat to Montevideo, so being able to cross any border rather than one specific border is a pretty big win. But actually, lots of Venezuelan refugees right here in Argentina buy Bitcoin to send to their families back in Venezuela, or the families of other Venezuelan refugees who pay them, and all the black-market currency changers are trying to get into Bitcoin now. A lot of them are still confused about the difference between Bitcoin, Tether, and Binance, though.
Where did I say that was an innovation?

And if it was an innovation at some point in time, I insist it was the year stereo was invented and the concept was just as invalid as a patent as it is today. Of course you expect the volume of your Left and Right channel to be controlled by the same volume knob.

This patent is like a car manufacturer patenting the idea of controlling all your direction with a single steering wheel, and all the other manufacturers are forced to implement individual steering wheels for each tire. It's just absurd.
If more people simply said "no", that wouldn't work for companies. Even so, I doubt that employers can afford to be that picky. If they could, everyone would be getting minimum wage. Everyone getting above minimum wage obviously has leverage.
I got my position 2 months ago. I went through 4 interview stages. I was external to the org before I was hired. So yes I would pass an interview, because I did.
I doubt you'll see any significant long term reduction in homelessness or poverty with such a program because there's little to no evidence that indicates that biology is a major cause. Some of the strongest predictors of homeless rates in US cities are availability of low income housing and of mental health care [1].

There is some evidence that homelessness & poverty increases the likelihood that the next generation is homeless/poor but that would be a secondary factor. The moral & political cost of a forced sterilization program is indescribably immense in the West and would need to promise similarly immense outcomes which are nowhere to be seen.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/800641
Forget truffles -- I want someone to grow some matsutake mushrooms which are just about as legendary/rare as truffles, so I can finally taste some and see what all the hype is about.
The point is that they aren't forced to provide sick leave unless the person works more than a certain amount of hours. If the person is desperate enough (and a LOT of people are), the "smart" choice is to never get a diagnosis and continue working.
How could such a simple and obvious concept be patented?
see also: Josh Wardle's talk on "Why April Fools' Day sucks and what we did about it at Reddit" – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXzfvYoFQFo
So, a link to his post[1] on this would give goatse, I presume from the image currently there?

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/01/mozilla-blinked/
If communism was a real thing, it would have worked as predicted. It did not happen.

I think one of the worst contributions of marxism (as in incorrect) is the theory of objective value (translating from spanish, I hope I am doing it right), which basically says how much you are being stolen. In fact, there is no such thing as objective value and this is very easy to demonstrate in the experience of any of us. It is just absurd.

Yet there are people that still seem to believe it but I do not think they really think it is correct. This theory is the foundation of how much the employer steals to the worker. And that sets up a very conflictive mindset instead of a cooperative one. I believe more in cooperation. I do not deny an employer and an employee, both parts always want more. But both win together.
There are degrees to how, and much is still unknown. As you point out, much of the unknown how relates to propagation and symbiotic bonding to the host trees and soil biology.
How to get a grad-level job in your 40s
Our grads in our firm earn 140k and aren't expected to know much, they leave after a year or two. Basically I'd like to break into a new company and role and I'd be better than any grad and stick around. I dont need a formal grad program, I dont mind getting a pay cut, I just want to start again. Is it really impossible?
> holding crypto starts become so closely associated with directly causing climate change

If that happens, I will be 100% sure what's in peoples heads!
Wow! I didn’t expect so many replies and for sure I learned a few extra things about interviews, especially after reading all your comments and different perspectives on the hiring process. I’m sure there are different ways of doing things in US and EU (where I am) and especially between big companies, startups and smaller ones. Thank you all for the valuable comments ;-)
Capitalism is heavy handed government intervention to favor a particular class and model of ownership.

That's where the name comes from, in fact.

Why it takes a significant deviation from that base to permit alternative forms to operate on a level playing field should be obvious.
The use of consumerism as a euphemism for capitalism is a (alleged) historical fact.

From what I read, consumerism did not have the negative connotation mid-century, whereas capitalism did.

I don't know how it happened, but seemingly "consumerism" acquired a similarly negative connotation, which is a Sisyphean cycle with euphemisms.

As I understand it, "capitalism" was an invention of the writers of the Communist Manifesto, while ironically "communism" was not. When a concept is developed purely for oppositional purposes, it can and often does attract people to defend it.

But in some sense, I feel like it doesn't really exist due to its origin. It amounts to the status quo, plus a word that lets people feel like they are opposing (or supporting) some one or thing rather than fog.
Not really interested in joining, but I definitely agree that some technologies get forgotten despite their merits.

Greg Young of the "event sourcing" crowd pointed out that RSS is natural way for event subscribers such as read model projections to subscribe to append-only event logs. Makes sense, but wouldn't have thought of it myself.

I think one reason this happens is that some technologies are less visible to the general public. RSS is not completely invisible, because a lot of browsers show an RSS icon when you visit a page that includes RSS feeds, but it's still subtle. Another example of a less visible technology would be the Semantic Web. A web page that you visit might be marked up semantically using RDFa or microdata, but the visitor could never know it unless they are looking for it.
Maybe, but they don't have really free markets either. In this regard, North Korea is more of an absolutist monarchy than any previously known form of socialism.
> We think we are being kind but it's the kindness of talking someone into jumping off a cliff instead of trying to climb back down.
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> If you want your family members to have the best chance of coming home, tell them that you are not ready for them to go and that you still need them.

This omits important context.

Many of these people are suffering, and will continue to suffer as long as they live. Dementia, cancer, stroke, COPD, intubation. Even though "you still need them", keeping them alive through the miracle of modern medicine may be the wrong thing to do.

I hope, when I'm ready to go, that my family follows my wishes and does not push invasive and ultimately futile interventions on me.
Edit: actually I'm not sure if that's true, are there reliable sources that we could rely on?

Obviously I stand by the rest of my statement (even if X is better than Y, that doesn't mean that we should oppose proposals to improve X)
> Mozilla is wasting their time by marketing to that crowd. Scraping the bottom of the barrel is a bad look.

Beggars can't be choosers.
> It's not unusual in a lot of industries for companies to not continue to interview someone who doesn't let them decide everything about the process.

To put this into perspective, some companies and agencies do group interviews, where there are a few dozen applicants for a role in a large room that are whittled down and told to go home if they don't fit some criteria. Then whoever is left is hired. There's no room for negotiation, literally or figuratively.
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> a technology that enables users to consume contents from distributed authors with a client they prefer, with the default option of not having an algorithmic sort order that serves only the content platform

Yeah that last part's the problem. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. RSS doesn't have a viable business case. Average users need a reason to invest themselves in it, and business owners need to see that it generates its own source of revenue [greater than whatever else they've got going on]. Even if you have answers for both of those things, you have to show people it for them to accept it ("show me the money")
Its called “making an example”. The Cuban people mostly suffer for their government’s alignment with the Soviets and deciding to put Nukes 90 miles from Miami.

We dont care that they are communists. We deal with all kinds of fucked up regimes around the world but the key difference is none of them have ever dared challenge us militarily with Nukes right off our border.

Cuba is basically perpetually fucked as punishment for that decision and its done as a warning to anyone else that might get in bed nearby with one of our existential enemies (Russia, China).
I don't have comparisons between the two but I'm a sourcehut early adopter paying at the $100/yr level and I'm more than satisfied for my personal projects.

Drew's head is in the right place and nowadays that matters to me for service providers more than anything.
In my country the pensions are a poncy system. I will not participate of that as much as possible. I will not even ask for it. I am saving myself.
So this is the male version of the trophy spouse stereotype. Focuses on lifting and courting, has an education just to check off a box, writes pseudointellectual drivel to pass the time.

Just as likely to be replaced by a fresher model in a few years.
It’s certainly a great way to bootstrap a substack, I’ll give him that.
Sure, but the point is that the thing that is ‘severe’ isn’t ‘autism’. An autistic person can be severely disabled, but the disability is itself a trait they only some autistic people have, so it doesn’t make sense to call the disability ‘autism’.
It's not fair to say it's one-sided. CA banned state-employee travel to 1/3 of America for states that differ in their views.

This just isn't a path toward finding common ground. https://www.npr.org/2021/06/29/1011253354/california-bans-st...

Some republicans definitely seem to have ramped things up but actions like this on the democratic side are nearly as concerning.
Do you have anything to back up your point?

Prices and the financial market all boil down to communication systems. Inflation alone is extremely costly and keeps the poor poorer all around the world. I won't get into the carnage of how bankers live and their consequences to society.

Blockchain is costly to run, but I'd day it's way, WAY cheaper than what we have today.

There's the extreme example of Argentina and many others. Even the U.S. is starting to see the burden of this system.

And for how long do the Chinese people will work for pennies of a dollar to keep the American dream while the U.S. print fictitious money at will?

Talk about sustainability, but how sustainable this is? I don't think this system will evolve to something decent. Something new has got to rise and replace it.
"Doing nothing is not an option" is a very dangerous principle. Doing nothing is always an option worth considering and something that needs to be realistically compared about the proposed alternatives. The cure can easily be worse than the disease, and we have many historical examples of well-intended changes turning out more horrible than the problems they tried to fix. Quite often it happens that you are in (at least) a local optimum, and every change will be immediately worse in the short-term; and if you don't have a good reason to presume how exactly you'll get to an actually better scenario then simply "doing something" for the sake of doing something is outright evil and destructive and having good ill-informed intent is not a sufficient justification for harming people with the attempt to fix something. As the Hippocratic oath says, "first, do no harm" - it also isn't an absolute principle, you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, but at the very least you have a very strong ethical responsibility to be sure that the outcome is really worth the harm.

The current system has many drawbacks, but it can easily be much worse, and most (all?) attempts of "tear everything down and rebuild" will be much worse at least for a non-trivial time - and there needs to be a very good, reliable argument the expected long-term result is really going to work in order to justify that certain harm in the face of uncertainty that there's going to be any improvement and quite some evidence that the long-term result often is not only not better, but clearly worse. "Doing nothing is not an option" is not an ethical justification if your "doing" harms someone, and making random radical changes to status quo without properly evaluating the realistically expected consequences (without wishful thinking and unrealistically optimistic assumptions) is simply irresponsible and unethical even if the current system has severe flaws.
From the comments:

> I already spend a lot of free time watching YouTube drywalling

This observation is not entirely wrong..
It’s the company and supervisor’s job to manage the success of that team, if someone leaving with standard notice of 2-3 weeks creates such a problem, that’s on management. a good supervisor should be proactively ensuring that key individuals are “fulfilled” in the role and/or be backfilling the role.

The employee has no duty to their co-workers/team above good manners/civility and faithfully working towards a handoff.
One of the responsibilities of your manager is to deal with a lot of this stuff for you. It can be nerve-wrecking as a new grad, but one of the things I would do in your shoes is have a 1-on-1 meeting with your manager as soon as possible and explain what you have said here: what was said in the meeting, what you felt was fair / unfair criticism, that you plan to learn from what was fair, but that you're concerned about the unfair perception they may have of you. Get their advice. Ask them to help do some damage control of your reputation if that's necessary.
Is this still up-to-date?
You mention Poland and the different notice period. I think this has a significance. If the minimum notice - if you can time it that way - is a full month and on average it's closer to 1.5-2 months, that is quite different from the United States, where there's only a 2 week notice period in your contract and (AFAIK) none by law.

Those are two very different environments. With a usual 2 week notice period and the possibility to basically say "I'm not coming in tomorrow" and nobody can do anything about it things are quite different.

I have never told anyone that I was leaving until I had the other contract signed and they suspected nothing. I still never left on bad terms and gave the required notice. I found that more than a month of notice is actually much easier in this regard but if the employer puts a 2 week notice period in the contract - such that they only have to give 2 weeks - then I am under no obligation to do differently. If they want more notice, put it in the contract and stick to it themselves as well. That's how it was at my jobs in Europe. I had more than a month both ways and of course I gave that notice gladly as I would have received the same the other way around.
I agree with all that (though I don't really necessarily associate any of that with computer vision, perhaps it's my physics bias).

Having good state estimation, kinematic, and dynamics models of real world objects is something that is very mature in controlled environments, but not very mature in other environments.
Here, let me copy from the article so you can read it here:

"The Illinois Department of Public Health said in mid-August, a man in his 80s woke to find a bat on his neck. The bat was captured and tested positive for rabies. While health officials told the man he needed to start post-exposure rabies treatment, he declined."

Woke to find a bat on his neck.

Those "I didn't know" cases do exist. This is not one of them.
Thank you! This seems like a huge pain in the ass.
> I suspect the fact that Autism reduces a person's ability to relate emotionally and socially to themselves and others

This is not a fact. It’s a now discredited stereotype.
Sounds like collusion to keep wages below market value to me.
Something I've realized lately is that I like programming, but I hate programming on a team. (Before you say it: I'm good at working on a team, I get along well with my teammates, and my managers only have good things to say about me and my work.) It doesn't matter how good the team is, the software development process seems to suck all the joy out of programming. At least for me.

I'm hoping that I can either retire early, so that I still have time to enjoy programming on my own terms, or can somehow pivot to being a solo dev (which comes with its own pitfalls, of course).