jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Too big to fail" - and that's how you increase the supply of BTC without actually doing so I think.

As long as an entity (such as the government) prints money and takes the hit on the spread people will see contracts of BTC as equivalent as BTC w.r.t value. Its basically banking, but since fiat is still the prime currency of legal settlement (not BTC) no one will think its possible to "run the bank" as that entity in the event of a run will pay the difference. BTC is not actually required to settle anything by most countries laws, so actually delivery of BTC isn't guaranteed. This does undermine actual BTC especially if actual BTC is harder to spend - the pseduo-BTC would then have more utility.

In other words BTC could be the same as fiat potentially in the longer term. It will be more transparent of course since it it easier to take delivery of than say gold (or cash but less so), but as long as they don't give you that option in your product that's fine. Even cash is like this with withdrawal limits, and other laws. If fiat was only valued by the actual cash in the economy it would be worth a lot more than it is now btw.
I had heard about DFV but not Roaring Kitty.
> Similar, you might notice, to how Scott Alexander Sorkin is better known by his two first names.

To be clear, it no longer matters as much, since he went to a lot of effort to minimize damage.
If they required 100% collateral, why did that mean Robinhood stopped trades? Why couldn't they allow trades with 100% settled funds?
Assterisks for the pudes- D*pFuckingV*lue works.
Do they have a prepublished volatility-collateral chart that applies for this and all similar scenarios or was this an adhoc rule change made arbitrarily this one time? Can you show another volatile time where similar action was taken?
This essay is leaning very hard on the fact that there are 5% the number of warheads today as there were at the peak of the cold war. Nuclear weapons are exactly as destructive as we think; the sum total of the nuclear arsenal is far smaller than when many of us formed our impressions.
The app is just launching, and it's a side hustle. Everything right now can run on a free tier, and I'm fairly certain I can support a _very_ sizeable amount of users for < $100 of operating overhead, which is cash I'd totally be willing to spare if I had thousands of users enjoying the app.

But, if I get there, the plan would be to explore charging something reasonable for a plus tier which would offer more formatting options, more pictures per post, and a couple other things, for something nominal like $3 of a month. That could help cover the overhead, and maybe would result in some cash on the side.
Do you have a document showing the results of the Flotilla tests ... how beanstalkd compares with RabbitMQ for example?
So what you're saying is that we actually seem to have learned from our mistakes?
> > and they shave their heads.

> I think this a harmful trend too

But you shave your head!!
This is really cool, but I feel like the industry is missing something like ATX for laptops.

That's what I really want. And hell, come out with a mini-ATX for laptops if you're concerned dimensions won't end up competitive.
Apple burns almost all of their space savings on making the machine thinner, to the point of absurdity.

Apple is content to push everything into dongles (which you have to carry around anyway) to get it thinner. The point at which I can't have a wired RJ45 ethernet port is already ridiculous - that is not a thick connector. Same with fullsize USB ports.

Battery life there are hard limits as well: nobody is making a laptop with more then 100Wh, because that's the limit that you can carry onto an aircraft.
Hello, glad you're here but I'd urge you to remember that while a minority at HN is highly knowledgeable and technical, hn is an hive-mind opinionated niche and hope that you'd make decisions that widen your reach among general populace so that your firm survives to make money and eventually more such laptops. (Also, hopefully your laptop will play with linux as well as Lenovo's at some point in future).
That’s nonsense. Only miners can create new Bitcoin. What Coinbase could do is to issue a financial derivative backed by Bitcoin e.g. a “Coinbase Penny” representing a 1/1000th of Bitcoins. And then could go on issue more of those pennies than actually backed by Bitcoins. But it wouldn’t be cryptocurrency if it wouldn’t run on a blockchain. Of course, the “Coinbase Penny” could collapse if we people stopped trusting Coinbase. Bitcoin wouldn’t notice like the gold price does not care whether a single US dollar is still backed by 24.057 grams of silver like it originally did.
I appreciate this attitude. What do you do to know if you have an impact instead of analytics?
> rooting for their own society to collapse just to have another reason to use Bitcoin.

I view the main value of Bitcoin (or gold, especially paper gold) is as a gamble or hedge against currencies collapsing, in a situation which leaves Bitcoin (or gold) relatively unaffected.

Without doing the formal calculation, I'd guess that Kelly criterion will suggest that an average person with an average risk profile should hedge 0 on this basis (exactly what the vast majority of people have done).

If you've invested more than that, it becomes in your personal interest that currencies collapse in precisely that way.
I agree that "real" experiences are awesome and sometimes people spend a bit too much time in front of their computer or staring at their phone....

But the vitriol of the grandparent-comment seems uncalled for. Computers/phones/etc are not some sort of evil presence that infect everything they touch, and apps like this can have their place too. In the right context, they might do a lot of good.

[E.g. I love various simple "sounds of rain" apps on my phone -- they can reallllly help me concentrate when I'm trying to study in a cafe and the background noise is somehow putting me off. It's like a blanket of calm...]
I'm very sorry about your father. My father was just diagnosed with cancer (literally today). Obviously what you wrote is not sound advice for all kinds of cancers. I have two close family relatives who were cured of two different kinds of cancers (yes "cured", as in they lived for a decade plus after being cured and one died from other causes and the other is still alive). There are also people who are cured through these poisons, even of late stage deadly cancers like stage iv pancreatic:
http://www.pancan.org/section_stories/story_details.php?id=1...

Ultimately how you choose to treat cancer depends on the stage, type of tumor, and the advice of your doctors. With that said, there are people who beat even the deadliest cancers, and that very small chance, is one worth thinking about.
great idea. however, the water stream in the video is moving too fast to be relaxing. any way to slow it down?
The problem is that these particular college students are too far left, its that the ones who are being extremely leftist are also trying to silence everyone else and remove the intellectual environments from universities. It's not about which side their on, it's about the end result they're trying to achieve. Leftist college students in the past weren't trying to silence and terminate professors for expressing a viewpoint contrary to theirs, unless there was some kind of legitimate attack with it.
FWIW, I learned the vi cursor keystrokes playing rogue in 1982. I also learned C studying the source, while staring at lines like
while (j++=i++);
which was a pretty strange construct to a Pascal programmer.
Or maybe it's that comments:
a) load fast
b) are always text
c) don't include ads or videos
d) are somewhat uniformly formatted and relatively easy to parse
e) often include enough of a summary to make a quick decision about a link

There are usually lots of valuable features contained in comments that are quick/easy to use.
Yes, many times when I want to get the "real story" I just read the comments.

This is particularly true for me for news related stories not so much blog posts. For news stories many times there is a backstory, and I feel like 7/10 times someone here on HN has a friend of a friend who knows the "real deal."
I've played a massive amount of Crawl. I already knew vim, but you get a lot of repetition with those keys for sure.
They also bleed taxpayer money each time a traveler orders a hamburger:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/us/politics/amtrak-lost-83...
Sure, .blend files are basically useless outside of Blender, and that's why there's an export command that lets you export what you made into other format like .X3D (xml based) for example or even Wavefront .obj file.
I found this well worth reading. Note the section "Ideas and code are still fair game", which points out that eliminating bad behavior from a community does not prevent project maintainers and leaders from taking good code and complaining about bad code, as long as they don't tear down people in the process. Frequently, when this issue comes up in the Open Source community, it produces flippant responses about how behaving better would prevent telling people their code or even their core idea is broken.
At risk of a Sapir Whorf debate, there is newer research that suggests your polemical statement isn't accurate[1], let alone a vast body of Postmodernist and Postcolonial theory[2].

Being an emergent / adaptive organism, we are taught and learn models and metrics, and in turn project those outward upon the world.

Not shocking that the models and metrics form the scaffolding for thought as expressed in language.

“Does Language Shape Thought?: Mandarin and English Speakers' Conceptions of Time”

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010028501...
[2] Which, also likely not a coincidence, calls into question the veracity of narrative structure, and instead frames narrative as an ideological tool and construct.
A lot of this is really wonderful advice, though I disagree somewhat on one point.

The good stuff first - I completely agree that a developer should look at a maintenance project as a learning opportunity. I was lucky enough to get a lot of researchy, green field projects early in my career. But I grew a lot as a developer when I started maintaining, adapting, and modifying an existing code base. My only real caveat here is that it should be a relevant project, ideally an open source project. You'll be introduced to a lot of different developers, and you'll get a really good sense of how to work collaboratively with a lot of different people. There is a huge difference between a project that says "there's an existing open source app - it's reasonably well written, but it needs work and updating, and we need some new features" and "here's stan's old pile of crap, keep it running." The first can be a huge learning experience and great for building a network and career. This is the sort of experience that gets you to a point where you may be able to get new programming jobs without 3 references and several hours at the whiteboard showing how to find a cycle in a linked list. A lot of people know you because they have worked with you, and they know your code because, well, they've reviewed your code and you've reviewed theirs. It really is a way to rise above some of the unpleasantness of our industry.

Now for my disagreement. "Do this job because you love it." I'd be ok if we added the phrase "as the thing you do for money." I don't think you need to love programming so much that you'd do it even if you suddenly had 10 mil in your bank account. That may be an unrealistic standard.
Actually Shakespeare also pulled many of his themes from other writers very much closer to him in history (and he was criticized for it in his time actually), but as it remains those writers i.e. Christopher Marlowe are not well known and Shakespeare is (but it is essential to this that merely reusing-retelling-retheming of classical aspects is not enough for this, many others besides Shakespeare did this in those days, as many films, and tv-series do it now).
Well, his actual letter doesn't mention the phrase "API," so reading such a request into it seems like a stretch: http://blogs.blackberry.com/2015/01/blackberry-net-neutralit...
> Neural networks are unsuccessful because they are not detecting anything. They're just making statistical correlations that happen to be right for the specific set of training data they have received. There's no robustness whatsoever. Artificial gullibility.

This is what the brain does, too. All inductive reasoning comes down to statistical correlations. The human brain has NEVER had "robustness".
I do pretty much everything you do, except I do have a few applications explicitly in the dock (Chrome, a Gmail SSB, Terminal, and iTunes). The reason being I often use the dock to switch between applications, and it helps for them to always in the same location. And no matter what I'm doing, these applications are always open.
Maybe he's one of those persons that, you know, are just happy to be happy.

Their happiness might be thought of as the result of this pseudo code :

happiness = abs(happiness)

while (!implode)

happiness = happiness * 1.1
Having to factory reset every 2-3 days sounds really terrible. You should just get another phone (or go over to the "dark side" of "everything-just-works" iPhones :P).
The author is mixing together several problems here.

1) Amazon bundling a video service with their free shipping program.

2) Amazon's proprietary software locking in you into whatever platforms that are in their business interests.

3) Panasonic's proprietary TV platform that people can't be bothered to develop for.

4) Digital Restrictions Management that prevents one from downloading a movie via Amazon Prime and playing it in any other video player on any other platform.

This is just the usual awful situation when you rely on proprietary software. Stop using Amazon Prime to watch videos. Write to them about the problems you have. I recently wrote to Audible because their ebooks come with DRM and cannot be played on GNU/Linux using Free Software.
This is incredible! Such an amazing asset for thinking. I wish we had tools like this when we were kids. Reminds me of a TEDtalk by a math teacher, Dan Meyer: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover

He describes how we tend to remove all of the interesting stuff about actually solving problems- formulating questions, figuring out what framework to use, etc- and we just give people really boring questions.

> "I encourage math teachers I talk to to use multimedia, because it brings the real world into your classroom in high resolution and full color; to encourage student intuition for that level playing field; to ask the shortest question you possibly can and let those more specific questions come out in conversation; to let students build the problem, because Einstein said so; and to finally, in total, just be less helpful, because the textbook is helping you in all the wrong ways: It's buying you out of your obligation, for patient problem solving and math reasoning, to be less helpful."
The last one isn't comparable to the others. The original Facebook made by that other guy Aaron Greenspan arguably was just someone doing something because it was useful. Zuckerberg and co. made what is today's Facebook specifically to gain profit and power.

But your point is well-made otherwise. The answer to "why?" for uBlock and others is "because people care enough to do it."
CDC says it's still rising.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/case...
Well. He did when he used a fake account to arrange an outside deal.
Quite possibly the most brilliant way of increasing their browser share that I've seen in a long time. Well played, Google's marketing dept.
A couple of really good books I'd recommend (for the intel 8086) would be the "The 8086 Project book" and the radio shack "Understanding Digital Computers".

Those books are a great start to this kind of hobby.
What does she do on the Apple website? I've never thought of that as a 'destination' site on the web, but maybe I'm missing something. Movie trailers?
MySpace.

I read somewhere that a few years ago, their staff were walking around wearing t-shirts emblazoned with "Your Mom has a Facebook Page". The article was about how they were trying to position themselves as a more youthful, 'alternative' social network.

Don't think it really worked, though there's certainly still a lot of bands on there. Besides, if some upstart did recast themselves as young and hip and Facebook as old and fuddy-duddy, Facebook could reframe themselves as classic and sophisticated (similar to the changing brands of Pepsi and Coca-Cola).
Shouldn't the credit go to the soldier who leaked the documents (I am ashame don't even know his name). He is the one who is going to spend his life in prison.
I believe it was FedEx which does something like this. For 2 day delivery they stick the package in a storage room for a day, then put it into the normal 1 day delivery system. Which costs them more than 1 day delivery, but lets them sell to a broader market.
Until our species gets rather better at quantifying the effect of communication mediums' on cognition I take issue with Mr. Katz's assertion. The semantic meaning of Erlang and prolog code is such that ideas can be expressed rapidly, in my experience. Besides, taste in syntax is like taste in tea: you might prefer a light cup of Earl Grey, I might like mine over-brewed and bitter. Prolog's syntax--and by extension Erlang's--is an acquired taste, perhaps; I like them both.

Tea time!
One was given access then 300 people were arrested for their civil disobedience (loud chanting, refusal to leave). Fox reported it as "[there to] protest Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court and put pressure on the handful of undecided senators". I've seen no indication people carried weapons, pushed through barricades, or threatened anyone.
“Statements that are false” are an entirely different ballpark of discussion than “statement that incite violence”. Likely, some of the statements that incited these crowds weren’t even false statements at all, but imperative directions (be strong, go to capital) or predictions that turned out to be completely true. (Going to be wild!)
Maybe? The nice thing about mRNA vaccines is that the formula can be adjusted very rapidly (weeks). I feel like if there was a way to tweak the formula fast enough, we could react as fast as the different viral strains mutate. We would need to change the regulatory framework though. Having to do 3 phases of clinical trial involving tens of thousands of participants makes it hard to adapt fast enough.
As in, snowbirds go south for the winter, return for the holiday period, and fly back down.
As was said: "Twitter is within the letter of the law."

I don't think anyone's saying they don't have the legal right to do what they're doing. But there's such a thing as moral right, and the existence of fairness doctrine and right of reply shows that a moral right to fair access and representation is not a niche view.
Erdogan will turn it into a mosque too.
It would seem not all car manufacturers are so strict...[1]. Some have no issues to use tape and some hardware store components in a pinch to keep production running. Theres no way they put that through crash testing...

[1]: https://www.carscoops.com/2020/09/the-tesla-model-y-has-biza...
Looks good, Is there something like this for Amazon Prime Video?
I imagine they'r referring to the video of a helicopter shooting someone in Iraq who turned out to be holding a camera rather than a rocket launcher, which Wikileaks released under the title 'Collateral murder.'

If you ask me the real war crime is that the administration we had at the time went to war in Iraq in the first place, based on an apparent mixture of personal animus between Presidents Bush & Hussein and an alarmingly thin piece of social engineering by an Iraqi criminal/defector known as 'Curveball' who wanted to (at best) destabilize the Saddam Hussein regime or (at worst, but quite understandably) evade prison in Iraq. This entirely optional conflict led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, or by some counts >1 million, while (IMHO) significantly prolonging the war in Afghanistan by turning that theater into a sideshow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curveball_(informant)

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB234/index.htm

I don't think Manning's information releases revealed very much about the war in Iraq other than to shed light on this particular helicopter incident which I think falls rather short of being a war crime, although I do think it was worth bringing to public attention.

On the other hand, I see no public benefit whatsoever in teh release of all the State Department cables, and as far as I can make out Manning took them and Assange released them just because they were classified by default. When their full contents became available because of carelessness with the crypto key outcome was some diplomatic red faces but there sure wasn't any big reveal of criminal activity.
Thanks for your thorough response!
If I'm honest: I mostly want high speed rail because it's badass :-) I've been on HSR in France, Japan and China and always feel like I'm in the future.
That's why I made sure to document that. I have some clients that have an even higher disparity between their peaks and valleys that makes cloud hosting very viable. Auction type sites are a great example. As the time to an auction ending approaches zero everyone starts mashing refresh, but if nothing is going on the activity is almost zero.

I just wanted to clarify it isn't a one-size-fits-all.
Sorry about that, I wiped the subsection with these stats. They're probably dead wrong and no one can actually find the primary source.
According to the page:
33 percent of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
57 percent of new books are not read to completion.[7][8]

So you're more likely to read a book if you graduate high school, but don't graduate from college than if you do graduate from college?

Also, 80% of families didn't read or buy a book in the last year? Almost all of my friends and family members are avid readers. Does this mean that my friends and family members are the only people in north America keeping the literature industry alive? Seems unlikely.
oh wow, blue steel SEO, completely fresh and improved, with 200% more white hat magic unicorns.....

sorry, but the article just resells old seo principles with new buzz words. i love seo, i dispise seos and their tabloids.
especially since you can create surveys on Google Docs for free.
Also, I think you should be explicit about using tracking (Google Analytics).
It would be pretty ironic, but maybe it would kick Microsoft to do something similar. If they already have fancy buses to shuttle all their workers around, why don't they lay a nice fiber network to give them all fast internet (and allow more reliable working from home).
My guess: the odometry markers not only measure distance, they also provide traction. They're stronger for basically the same reasons I-beams are strong. The shape of the cross-section is extremely durable through certain types of stresses. In the case of the wheels, they're stronger against punctures and bending depending on the direction of the torque.
Well I would argue that "engineers" are professionals eve if the liberal arts grads would have a fit. Certainly My co workers at Bt and in the scientific civil service consider themselves as such

And Upper class quite often go for a shabby look and can actually be quite poor
Did you create an interpreter for the language before you started on the compiler? I think it's not much overhead and you can run tests with it to make sure you get all the lexing and parsing done correctly. Then you just replace the evaluation with code generation and BAM! you've got a compiler.