jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The argument isnt that there are no legitimate inflows of other stablecoins (or traditional fiat currency) into bitcoin prices. The problem is that Tether is ~80% of inflows [1], and is dubiously backed at best. If 80% of the price support disappears, prices will fall, and legitimate buy side interest from other stablecoins or fiat will almost certainly shrink as well.

[1] https://twitter.com/JacobOracle/status/1346133087877537792/p...
Typo at the bottom: achieved vice acheived.

(Feels petty, but was encouraged by your positive response to the coffee icon recommendation.)

Sending this to my music buddy!
Tell that to FB and Linkedin's valuations.
I originally didn't write "mass public" but ended adding it to somehow convey that currently is already being used for "serious business", no doubt, but it has been far from widespread adoption so far.
We are still a freepascal shop and it works flawlessly. Every now and then someone wants to do a rewrite in something fancy, but we really have nothing to gain. The current codebase is actually quite pretty, compiles fast, and is easy to maintain.

New hires don't need more than a week or two to get the gist of everything. The web frontend has been migrated from perl though. It got the job done, but it wasn't pretty and nobody dared touch it.
I’m seriously confused by the US law system and apparently, also by the Swedish one. At least I found out that in my native Germany “jails” (that’s how it’s translated) don’t exist any longer but apparently did until 1970. Germany has now only prisons, someone who is kept in custody prior to the trial is in exactly the same building as those who are properly in prison.
Miles per gallon of coal?

If you're going to try to come up with an equivalent number, are you going to base it on carbon emissions or on cost to the consumer? Either way, it will be highly variable: gas prices fluctuate relative to electricity prices, and different sources of electricity lead to different emissions per kWh.

At least with gasoline-powered cars, the differences between EPA estimates and real-world consumption are factors under the driver's control. This isn't the case with BS numbers for EVs, so the numbers end up being pretty much useless to the consumer. If the number is not going to be useful to the consumer, then there's no reason to mandate it be on the sticker.
This kind of post is what killed Slashdot. Please don't do it to HN too.
>But I also read elsewhere they only make up 8 percent of the total in the USA and are being phased out.

A fraction of a percent now.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table1_1.html

It's not a sane choice; burning oil for electricity is absurdly expensive.

According to the EPA, it was 20% of NYC's electricity as of 2005:

http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-and-you/how-clean.html
Such is the fickle contradictory nature of some geeks.

Down with advertising! Adblock for all! ooo! a pretty advert for geek fortune telling! Count me in.
I have to think it's all the extra weight in there too?

The shape reminds me very much of the VERY efficient Honda 1990 CRX HF (60mpg)

http://www.engadget.com/photos/chevrolet-volt-dc-test-drive/...

vs.

http://www.google.com/images?q=CR-X+HF
There was a book version of these that I read and loved. Looking forward to getting more like this.
Assuming you're in the US (by your usage of 'cell phone' and 'data plan'), I have no idea. I'm in the UK, and got a Samsung Galaxy S for free on an £20 18mo contract without data.
This is really an obvious non-story. Smart phones came into existence because they became possible with the (currently) relentless march of Moore's Law. That same law and increasing demand is predictably driving down costs. Shock, horror.

As for those bemoaning the demise of feature phones, that too is inevitable. It suits the usage pattern of some. Also cheap phones will live for a long time due to markets in developing countries where price is a more important factor.

Also for those saying the data plans and service costs are a barrier: the US is a mobile backwater (compared to any other OECD nation). Service is woeful, costs are ludicrous... It's simply ridiculous. Being charged for receiving calls? Receiving SMSs?!? Huge data costs. Lack of data Goering (eg a small woeful 100-200mb plan and then an unlimited or 2-5gb plan with a huge step up and nothing in between).

In the US you're paying realistically $60/month minimum (more if you want to tether!). In Australia I'd pay as little as half that for superior coverage and service quality. In Asia it'd probably be even less.

I expect in the developed world dmartphones will outsell feature phones within 3 years.
Yeah, and a geo metro is basically a Ferrari
No. They only changed the group velocity. There are some very interesting comment in a previous submission from another source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8909699 (58 points, 4 days ago, 10 comments)
HPD and HCSD, there's a reason they call Harris County the "hangin' county". Someone at ACLU told me Harris County Sheriffs Dept. has more shooting deaths per violent arrest than any other police force in the country.

Edit: "stack up" heh, fellow major league door kicker?
Because erlang is also built around that concept. Often when a server fails it needs to be brought up by hand and then wait until it can be brought back into rotation (depending on how it's used &c).

Additionally, some applications, like a database often only run on a single host (sure you have hot spares, but fail over is often manual and recovering is defiantly manual).

So while I get your point, we're not going to throw out everything we have simply because it wasn't built around "let it fail".
They should try getting a more modern browser on there. If I remember correctly, while running my hand-me-down Gateway 2000 with Windows 3.11 in 1998, I managed to get Internet Explorer 3 or 4 installed after I downloaded it at a friend's house.
Yep...ever heard of Coutour? They've arguably got a better product because of their form factor that's less obnoxious to wear. But almost no one has heard of them whereas GoPro, as you point out, is synonymous with this type of video.

But there's another facet to this kind of marketing. Try contrasting videos like this that GoPro puts out for promotional purposes with the kinds of videos that the average person creates with a GoPro. These are fun to watch and full of unique views of cool stuff. The ones that average people create are, for the most part, boring. Yet their market is 99% people who make the boring kind of videos. If their marketing showed the kinds of videos that most people would be creating, no one would buy them. By showing videos like this, they get people inspired enough to think that they can shoot something cool.
I’ve been trying to put The Internet back into the role of Tool, but even that is a challenge because for so many topics the search engines are overrun by SEO hack sites. If the page rank of StackOverflow weren’t so overwhelming I’d probably struggle with work related searches too. Even there, a few times a week I end up in someone’s link farm.
It's a bit higher for devs. As a full stack web dev (woop dee doo) with 10 years exp I'm currently earning 45k€/year.
> but even after they were no longer bound by secrecy they never published anything important

There were a lot of publications; the first one in September 1945 (three month after Goldstein disclosed the Neuman paper) named "Automatic High Speed Computing, A Progress Report on the EDVAC" (see https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10272462...), which was also prior to the patent and yet another reason for its invalidity.

> I have not seen any document from them that could establish credibly how much von Neumann learned from them and how much they have learned from von Neumann.

Having a look at the timeline Neumann was not aware of the project before the ENIAC design was completed.
Maastricht only barely squeaked through to acceptance in France, in a referendum with an even narrower victory margin than the Brexit one. (The UK carefully avoided putting it to any kind of referendum because its government didn't have to.)
It was corstorphine hill in Edinburgh

https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/727/corstorphine_h...

It's quite interesting seeing how many things like this exist
Edge 89.0.774.54 64-bit on Windows 10.

Can't rule out group policy settings fudging something though. I'll try another machine.
that’s what I was looking for, what a information! present here at this website, thank you admin!!
https://www.imessageapp.org/imessage-for-pc/
Looking at both examples, the entire situation is bothersome and, frankly, exhausting. I don't know where people find the energy to fuel all this outrage when there is surely somewhere to meet in the middle. It's difficult to take seriously, and understand the genuine underlying issues, when emotions all around are amplified to the extreme.

Campaigning to have someone arrested on one end and employing totalitarian tactics on the other comes across as absurd to me. It's practically authoritarian in-fighting.

I'm sure there is a real problem that deserves discussion here, but it's difficult to see through the dense fog of anger.

(edit: I did remove an original sentence from this comment about it being a toxic squabble. I decided that was a bit too dismissive, but you'll still see it in all its glory in one of the responses)
I think it's funny that your edit is necessary.
Can we change this to the top of the article instead of the #results? Quite confusing.
Some skills are more accessible to you than others. So a good answer is different for different people. I recommend thinking of 5 or so things that really interest you, and then checking what kinds of opportunities are available for those. I did that exercise a while back, and was surprised to find that there appeared to be a tremendous demand for people with data mining experience using Hadoop. This kind of approach has the further benefit of giving you an idea of what kinds of places might want to hire you when you hone your new skills. It'd be a shame to become skilled in compiler design, for example, and then not have much of an idea of who would want you.
I believe dizm was referring to the header and class interface, not the source. The header is more or less ripped directly from UIKit, with some puzzling additions. What is the point of adding a "vulture" without also adding an "obstacle", for example? It seems like these methods should be private, not exposed in the public header.
No, I've never bothered to learn IPA.
This is pretty interesting. Do you know what the argument was for passing the 17th amendment? What's the downside trade-off?
I actually loved the name, didn't care much about the language itself.
This functionality has been available in my hckrnews extension for a while. It works only for individual item pages, since it tracks (in localstorage) the last comment id for each page. It uses a simple left border to highlight new omments, which I think is a little less intrusive (yet easy to spot) than the screenshot for this extension.

It's available here:

http://hckrnews.com/about.html
DNSSEC and trust anchors will handle that part. It's more of the name collision issue that concerns me.
Well written. When someone signs up for my app, I check out each customer personally and write them a custom email. So immediately the customer feels part of a human-driven product.
The author's misuse is all the more painful for being an econ grad student at my alma mater, GMU. A former professor of mine, Russ Roberts (the man behind the Hayek vs. Keynes Rap video), even used a similar example ("Does Ford have a monopoly over the Taurus? Cars? Means of transportation?") to show how little objective utility the term “monopoly” holds. The more narrowly one defines the market, the more one is likely to “discover” monopolies.
No idea what the Android team's rationale is, but from a security perspective, I'm pretty happy that random applications don't have access to things written to the screen by other applications.

Not sure why it's not an OS level built-in, though.
CSS doesn't take much space. That gives you colors, fonts, and layout.
I agree that in a lot of cases, raising money is the best way to get somewhere. The problem is that sites like Techcrunch often treat raising money not as a means to an end, but as an end in itself.
we believe: it is unethical for government to enforce proprietary software licenses, which prohibit people from sharing with each other

That's a little bit extreme to me.

Overall, the letter is not that convincing. They highlight the fact that with free software, costs go down because you don't need to track how many licenses you are using. True. But on the other hand, you need to track the modifications you make and make sure you follow the redistribution requirements. So honestly, it's a wash: either way, you need to dedicate resources to enforcing the terms of the license.
Digital bandwidth can be expanded indefinitely, whereas most water is so salty that it is undrinkable.
This has been my experience also. I have a friend who is a SVP at a very large company. She lives in one state while managing offices in 6 other states and 3 other countries. This means she is either working out of her house or traveling to the various offices. The only real requirement (and mainly to keep her sanity) is to live near a city with a major airport.
I'm sure we'd all believe you better if you had the following: a short hairdo, a white button up shirt, dark framed glasses, and an abacus.

Seriously though, Richard Feynman's death in 88 seems like a loss for Physics, and everyone really. Hasn't stuff like that happened at NASA since the Apollo program, and hasn't it affected rocket science negatively?
http://www.npr.org/2014/01/22/264528139/long-a-dirty-word-ge...
A bad business took millions of people's dollars and disappeared them — that's not what is supposed to happen.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074756320... ?
Just wondering, do you know how to code? What are your day to day tools as a designer?
Sublime text looks a lot like textmate to me, just darker.
Yes, Tango is cool, but I think everybody on the earth tried to get a kit. :-) I did. So not much luck getting that soon. Just now I'm working on the Leap to control my television. :-)
Wow, I am amazed that worked for you. Maybe cause the kids can entertain each other.

We have a 3 year old and restricting him / telling him that he cannot do something makes makes that his entire focal point.
Hell, he might even be playing by himself or with me but if the Mom disappears even for a cat nap, he has to go interrupt/play with her.

Has caused a huge amount of stress between my wife and I this past year. Thankfully the day care has opened and they are very careful & rigorous.
That is definitely the objective but the reality is that load is not* uniform over the day. So you are paying to keep some number of servers hot (I don't know about spinup/spindown practices in modern datacenters).

I doubt this applies to HPC (the target market for this part) as they either schedule jobs closely or could, I imagine, shut them down. But I'm not in that space either so this is merely conjecture.

* I am sure there are corner cases where the load is uniform, but they are by definition few.
Way the covid-19 waves are returning , looks difficult any time soon. I hope vaccination could help.
I would say so, I have implemented a pwa https://djblue.github.io/portal/ hosted via github pages for people to browse through their data-structures. You can also connect the ui to a live host and send it data directly with tap> (kinda like console.log in js).
I never did try om.next, but to this day Reagent is my favorite way to interact with React. I too was hopeful ClojureScript would become more mainstream. I haven't coded in Clojure in years now because unfortunately I just don't see any companies I did or would work for ever adopting it.
I’d say that everything about this article is the opposite of clickbait. It’s not buzzfeed, it’s a science journal.
And Hollywood is crying all the way to the bank. People can deride those movies all they want, but people (not necessarily the same ones) pay money to watch them. For some reason, those terrible movies engage audiences. And Hollywood has gotten really, really good at knowing how to do that.

Much better movies also get made. A lot of them, in fact. The critics' Top Ten lists are full of them. But they rarely make all that much money, because movies with deep characterization and challenging plots aren't very enjoyable. They're fulfilling, perhaps, in the same way that a job well done is fulfilling. But when you've worked your 40 hours (or more) this week, you may not want any more fulfillment. You want to relax.

There are plenty of movies for everybody, including the ones who want a challenge. You won't hear commercials for them, because they're not going to please everybody. Hollywood has somehow mastered the trick of pleasing, if not everybody, at least a largish majority, and they rake in a ton of cash.
It's good practice to consider the likelihood of attack in your threat model if you care about the expected payoff associated with your security efforts.
I think "you plug a grammar into a generator, and you get back a function that maps character sequences to a syntax tree" can be enough understanding for a lot of use cases. Maybe you're more interested in any of the many other aspects that go into designing and implementing an interpreted language -- type checking, garbage collection, an efficient bytecode format and interpreter for example. But maybe you aren't, in which case I agree that case a hand-written parser might be right up your alley! There's no one size fits all.
If the system resource use were comparable to early and mid 90s applications, too, I'd love it. Always felt too heavy, preferred Gnumeric and similar for personal use when on Linux as a result, when not having to try to inter-op with Microsoft Office. Now prefer Apple's office applications for similar reasons. I suppose (misuse of) Java's probably the main reason for it.
In London, for decades there have been competing services to the black cabs: minicabs. They had to be booked in advance (by phone, but that translates easily to booking by app), and the price had to be agreed in advance.

From my understanding, this might be called "limousine service" in the USA, although unless you make a special request it will just be a fairly normal car.

Mobile phones and then apps made the border between the two services fuzzier, but they are still separate things.
#tethics
That's incompatible with copyright enforcement and censorship of child porn, etc. Our society won't tolerate a completely open web because of those things.
The 'git-subtree' tool (by the same author as this tool) can import subdirectories.
What pages do you find most useful to pin as an app?
Who want to deal with spending, at minimum, two hours of time to buy and then sell a $40 item, when you can just buy the $40 item and keep it on a shelf.
I only realized XMPP support was ending a month ago, I am not sure how I missed the notification but this just introduces a new way for me to miss messages.
I think the writing is on the wall for XMPP, even Cisco is now working on Project Squared/ Spark and I expect will be killing off their Jabber software (The tone from their collaboration SMEs has become quite negative). Personally I believe WebRTC based technology can provide a much better user experience and more powerful capabilities than XMPP. Further, as a front end to SIP, it could be a great thing for interoperability, especially with PSTN. However, it really looks like it is being used as an excuse to create new walled gardens.
Fortunately some carriers are migrating to IMS and provide softclients for computers, tablets and smart phones (Rogers One Number, and Telus Extend). This is the lowest common denominator, but I can chat with everyone with SMS as well as make phone calls from whatever device I choose. However, although technically possible, multiuser chat and presence is still not available.
So here we are 20 years later, and chat is more fragmented than ever, but at least unlimited SMS is now common. AT&T and Verizon are finally beginning migration to IP peering which opens the way for video calling over the PSTN. I think there is an opportunity for carriers here if they would get their act together. 6+ platforms (Skype, Hangouts, FB Messenger, iMessage, BBM, SMS) really doesn't work for me.
While I got your time, how exactly is RPA different than a UI automation tool like Selenium?
I mean I feel like it was really “hold what you buy until the funds are forced out of all their short positions”, which (and maybe I’m wrong) means that the price would have kept climbing with no sells to bring it down.
There is an idea! Slow-coin, all the hashes have to be calculated by hand and passed by mail. A kind of anonymous distributed sharia scheme. I think I just saved the US postal service. Beat that Kevin Costner.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Postman_(film)
> Par for the course in embedded development.

It may be, but I don't don't see why it must be that way any more than it must be that way on the desktop. At least give me full exposed control over whether and what connections it makes even if the defaults are what they are now!* I can live with that, if there is graceful degradation. Android is not written with the idea that anyone should have that kind of control over their own device.

*I get that Google doesn't owe this to anybody, which leads back to the need for a privacy-first/RYF type of phone HW and SW.
> OTOH, I really wonder what would happen if you tried to train an adversarial neural network to produce pictures that make somebody angry, or horny, or to provoke some other very primitive reaction.

That is, quite literally, the entertainment industry. I'm only half joking, I think the analogy works pretty well. You've you the same actor/critic dynamic that forces ever further refinement and innovation.
> There are cryptocurrencies that work without proof-of-work

And they don't have a fair distribution mechanism. They exist primarily to make their creators rich.
That's exactly how he writes. "Is this fiction, or fact? Or stylized, fictional-sounding fact?"
Austin is the author of x-plane, an FAA certified flight sim. It's the only sim that actually calculates lift and drag available to consumers. MS flight sim is just a joke relying on rubber-band type lookup tables. If there's anyone who can do it, it's Austin.

However, relying on the ipads gps and gyros seems like a poor choice. I wouldn't trust the ipad to have the necessary precision to pull off a landing. If you could interface the ipad with onboard GPS/gyro's then I'm all for it. The ipad has a plenty fast cpu for this sort of thing. But then so does a 286. or a PCjr for that matter.
Tabs are one of those design decisions where everyone else is doing it, so it must be smart. I don't bother with tabs myself, most of my projects are small enough that I can find the files in the file list on the side in TextMate, Eclipse, etc..

I think a smarter solution would be to put recently accessed files in that file list on the side, vertically.
This is quite exciting. Anything is known about the authors or a release schedule? I would love to beta test it.
I've been using WakeMate in beta for a couple months. As an engineer, I love checking the sleep analytics and comparing tags to try to determine factors that affect my sleep.

At first I was dubious that I'd be less groggy when waking up with the device, but now I'm absolutely convinced. I even bring the WakeMate when I travel, to ensure I wake up in a fresher state (which also revealed to me that my sleep quality is better from hotels).