skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a small faction of the Bitcoin community working exceptionally hard to prevent any block size increase. I find their motives really baffling. They had some legitimate arguments a few years ago when discussion of this issue first started but those have all since been superseded by improvements in the protocol like xthin.

They now resort to distasteful tactics by running anyone out of town that even so much as suggests a block size increase. They are also working overtime to censor any comments that challenge their world view on the /r/bitcoin sub reddit which is why you see such hostile comments mentioned by the OP in response to users asking about slow transactions. /r/bitcoin is now just an echo chamber where yes men regurgitate the agenda of a select few. Eeveyone else is shadow banned.

edit: anyone that doubts this go make a comment in /r/bitcoin that contains the word "censorship" then view the page in incognito mode. The comment is immediately hidden by the automoderator. It really is nuts.

Article about the history of censorship in /r/bitcoin
https://medium.com/@johnblocke/a-brief-and-incomplete-histor...
Some activities besides literal speech are considered expressive enough to qualify for First Amendment protection (e.g. flag burning, tearing up draft cards), but throwing rocks probably wouldn't qualify.
Rediscovery of Soroban [pdf]
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This article completely misrepresents why introducing false facts is effective.

Repetition, in itself, does not persuade anyone of anything. Repetition, as others have noted, simply makes the thing being repeated easier to remember. The true "persuasion" -- i.e., the misinterpreting of the false fact as true -- occurs because we forget the /source/ of a statement quicker than we forget the /content/.

So, for example, if you happen from your friend Joe (whom you know to be a compulsive liar) that "Priuses are actually less environmentally friendly than Hummers, because manufacturing the batteries for Priuses actually releases more greenhouse gases than a Hummer releases over its average lifespan," you'll likely remember that statement for far longer than you remember that it came from Joe, the compulsive liar. And if you find yourself in an argument with a pretentious Prius driver two years down the road and you search your memory banks for relevant facts to throw in his face, you may well pull out the "Prius battery" statement, without ever remembering that it is almost certainly bunk. You have, in essence, adopted a false belief due to having an imperfect/poorly configured memory.

To take it a step further: If you then make the "Prius battery" statement to the Prius driver, presenting it as fact, you have repeated it (thus making it more firmly entrenched in your mind) and you have replaced the (previously empty) "Spoken By" metadata field with one that now reads "Me [trust score: 100%]." Speaking the false fact is not necessary to make the false-belief-adoption effect appear, but if you do happen to speak the false fact, it only serves to strengthen the effect and further entrench the false fact.

This effect, of course, only works with facts that are not absurd or plainly wrong on your face. If you hear 2+2=5, you don't need to remember the source to know that's wrong. But there's a whole class of facts out there that exist in a gray area -- where they are wholly falsifiable on their face, and would require some serious digging to validate/disprove -- where this effect can lead to serious confusion. To the extent the repetitive blasting of falsehoods works, it works because of this and this alone. Wired here is doing us (and the fools who paid for the "HeadOn" advertising campaign) a disservice by implying otherwise.
Because the right to peaceably assemble is also expressly enumerated as an activity protected by the First Amendment.
Sendmail.
For some reason, I can't load that file at this exact moment...

I admit to "eyeballing" the video in estimating the time spent; however, I think it is a good exercise to do, as you realize (for any fruit/veg harvest) how much is done and how quickly.

The argument about "we won't be able to afford fruits/veggies" seems quite "off".
Is this still in service? It looks like it's not. But who knows. Can someone who can read the text clarify? Thanks!
The problem here is that science isn't the only paradigm or even the most relevant paradigm with which to interpret these experiences. That is not to say that scientific method cannot be applied, but there is little in the way of frameworks and tools for exploring altered states of consciousness and subjective experience. There isn't anything even close to a consensus on the nature of consciousness or whether it even exists, let alone the specific phenomena experienced subjectively by consciousness, so trying to cram them into inadequate scientific models will not bring about much insight. This is all addition to the fact that science has really only tackled the capture of knowledge about the objective world, that being the shared world between humans, but is not the best tool for approaching the subjective individual experience. Philosophy and metaphysics are better suited to this, as science says nothing about the "reality" of something.
Houston is growing outward WAY faster than it is growing upward.

Of course, Houston is not helped by having weather not terribly conducive to walking year round.
That's called hypocrisy in my town.
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Any term in contract that is contradictory to law is null and void. That's been in contract law since forever.

The law always trumps contracts.
European Scientific Journal Concludes 9/11 Was a Controlled Demolition
Testimonials like that do tempt me a little, though I'm conservative about drugs.
On the other hand, HTML I wrote by hand in some terrible Windows text editor in 1997 still renders fine. It's kind of a mixed bag.
HOT NEWS: Sunset Bungalow Light on Fire Burned by Lightning Strike
Thanks for pointing that out. It doesn't appear that this was clarified until a couple of hours after I posted my comment, but it's definitely a relief and the wise course of action.
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Identifying and attacking saddle point problems in high-dimensional optimization [pdf]
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If Eric was serious about this he would have targeted this post at chinese miners who are stalling on activating segwit (which is a 2x blocksize increase and the foundation for instant & nearly free txs via the Lightning Network).
Because land is an asset, there is no getting around that.
Not at all!

I'd argue it's extremely clear that if there could be only one allowed copy, it'd be with the Internet archive (and failing that Wikipedia? It's not even the same ballpark, but I think that's second).

I've just come around to the "more copies are better" standpoint, especially for different needs.
>Knuth did proudly use TeX to print dinner menu

That's hilarious. Any sources on that?

That man is incredible.
There is/was Factor.io, but I'm not sure its still active.
I purchased a Dell laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed on it. It's been a painful experience. The hardware is what I wanted, but Ubuntu is a constant problem. There are constant errors popping up alerts about various issues. Fully utilizing my keyboard is an issue (super key is not usable at the moment). But the biggest issue currently is not being able to use an external monitor with it because of DPI issues. The resolution of my laptop is 4k, but the monitors I want to attach don't have the same high DPI. This means the resolution gets all wanky bewteen the two, making it problematic to use.

I remember setting up a 3-head system back in the day custom coding my own XFree86 Config file by hand. That was about 15 years ago. Frankly, it doesn't feel like things have improved much. And I have less desire to hand code things that, frankly, should be sorted out by now for a desktop OS.
That's really baffling, I perceived quite the opposite.
EX-Man Utd Stars Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville to Open Cafe Football in Singapore
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Most people are for larger blocks.

But since last fall the real problem is few high profile reactionaries (and of course miners) working against SegWit adoption.

Had SegWit been voted in we would already be discussing larger block size. Instead, there is nothing going on.

I predict the larger block reactionaries will fold next month once they realize they need to vote for SegWit if they want to be taken seriously.
Erm, targeted at? You mean he would have, what, written it in Chinese?

Note he said most businesses are looking for Segwit activation + a hard fork blocksize increase (ours included). The "Chinese miners" have expressed that desire as well. Segwit is stalling because it's not what the market is asking for.
Oracle DBAs are super easy to retrain to PostgreSQL because the two systems are quite similar and Postgres is catching up on features it has been missing.
I appreciate your concern for the quality of HN! but I don't think this is fair. The user was expressing delight at an unexpected observation, which seems perfectly in keeping with intellectual curiosity.

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The World's Most Dangerous Journey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nv5QWTZyDw
Cisco forecast: By 2021, India to have 1,300M mobile-connected devices
> Better at what?

Style support for documents. LibreOffice doesn't have complete style support. This is the one thing right now keeping me from even considering it.
Appreciate the pragmatic, user-focused view. There's rarely empathy for new users in this space, and it's refreshing.
The 100 Most Expensive Keywords on Google
No - since the metric used in the article is in terms of licensing-$, not a technical reason.

> "SQL Server Enterprise Edition goes for about $7,000 per CPU core – not per processor, but per core. A two-socket, 6-core-each server rings up at around $84k – and that’s just the licensing costs, not the hardware costs. You can buy a heck of a lot of application servers (even ones with 256GB or more of memory) for $84k.

> Consume all of the query results as fast as possible into memory in your app, and then sort."

BUT - if you are using Postgres, you might be able to use BRIN indexes as a cheap index to speed up this kind of operation, without needing a full B-tree type index.
Some are - they are absolutely everywhere in all cities I've lived in or visited, and yet I couldn't tell you the names of more than a couple. Do people really know the names of a significant portion of them?
Ah yes, it's because of the `unsafe`.

> why does it need `unsafe`?

slice::from_raw_parts_mut is an unsafe function because it lets you conjure a slice from thin air; there's no checking of it at all.

This function is used because it's the most straightforward way of accomplishing the task.
GitHub's navbar is now black for authenticated users
First Photos of Magic Leap Augmented Reality Prototype Leaked
Based on what? Can you name a single dev that expresses support for bigger blocks that hasn't been systematically ridiculed and excluded from Bitcoin Core development by the small block crowd? It isn't even possible to get an accurate perception of Bitcoin Unlimited support from reading the traditional Bitcoin discussion forums like /r/bitcoin because there is ZERO tolerance for discussion of bigger blocks unless it in a negative context.
I'll be contacting you as well!
Can you expound on why? I'm interested in hearing both sides of this.
It's called picking your battles in mine. Any proposal to rename the university itself is likely to run into more opposition than a proposal to rename a building.
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The New York Times says that Raymond Smullyan is dead? I'm not sure I believe it.

If I asked CNN whether Fox News would answer "da" if asked whether Smullyan is dead, would they answer "ja"?
I'm not really sure I agree with that analogy. My primary problem with it stems from the fact that current policies don't exist independently of previous policies.

I agree that on a scale of badness, Trump certainly seems worse to me than Obama.

But in your analogy it isn't so much that Trump took a car from zero to 110 in a 60 zone. The car he got in was already speeding thanks to the policies of the Obama administration, and prior administrations. I don't think pointing this out is necessarily excusing it through false equivalence.

So while I agree that it's important to tell the difference in scale, I think it's equally important to realize that in most cases these policies don't come about out of thin air, they are built and extended from prior policies.
Yes, and note that IBM do a lot of Oracle support.
Also, [2013]. Lots of things have changed in the DB market over the past 4 years!
"One, property taxes didn't go down materially in my jurisdiction despite housing prices dropping precipitously"

the housing crisis happened and cities were broke.

"Two, schools have already been hit hard with horrible admin teams and the rise of open-enrollment."

has nothing to do with the fact that schools would be hurt by falling tax revenue.

"Three, jobs don't have as much of an affect on home prices as they once did."

even if true, doesnt change the fact they are still linked. san francisco would become a whole lot affordable if the tech industry closed doors tomorrow. however, those wanting to go to san francisco for a job but couldnt afford the housing would find themselves with a less compelling need to go to san francisco.

i agree boomers messed up things quite a bit, but that has little to do with the fact that falling house prices have been proven to be bad for nearly everyone.
It will be interesting to see how this settles out legally. In the mean time, don't share your phone number with bots.
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Segwit is not a 2x block size increase. That is marketing spin that Blockstream started spreading to try and fool people into supporting their agenda w/o having to compromise and raise the block size. Segwit does _not_ increase the block size in the sense that people are discussing and in some cases it might even make the transaction throughput much worse than the current system.

The whole reason people want bigger blocks is for higher transaction throughput on-chain. Segwit doesn't deliver that.

https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5f507l/core_is_the_...
How we design cities is indeed important. As such it is important to focus on design performance and to get the history right when that is used for reference.

Car and tire companies did not plot to shut down the streetcars. Streetcars were disliked by their patrons and wore out. In many ways the failure to rebuilt the streetcar system when it reached end of life is similar to the problems with our bridges deteriorating faster than they can be rebuilt. All transportation systems need to be embraced by customers and to be efficient enough to be rebuilt as necessary.

It is important to understand that what happened with streetcars does not change any of the basic points made in this piece.
I have an Ubuntu dev box for GPGPU computing, the UI sometimes completely freezes. Maybe it's NVIDIA's drivers. I've also noticed that some software that has automatic updates doesn't automatically update by default (Chrome? Firefox? I can't remember right now).

In 2014, dual monitors didn't work by default and I had to find some command to put in my startup scripts. Maybe this is better now, but that wasn't that long ago.

Package managers seem to be trying to straddle the world of library management for C/++ development and app stores at the same time, doing a subpar job at both IMO.

I get the impression that needing to fiddle with the system is seen as normal in Linux-land, when it's really not.
People pay money for porn?
Very good read! I was also puzzled at why diplomats who have little travel issues were first to get the passports.

I live in South Africa, and with the ruling party and president seeing their eyes on potentially making the former AU chair our next potential president; I've been quite critical of her capabilities.

I have largely thought of the AU passport as Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's vanity project. There's lots of structural issues which you mention, that make the practicality of the passport difficult, and than none have been dealt with says a lot.

My opinion is that ECOWAS have done better in managing their region than the AU has in intervening. The recent Gambian situation being a good example. I can't talk much about SADC as we have Swaziland and Zimbabwe that are violating human rights with SA and other members not intervening much.

Your solution of adopting ECOWAS and/or other frameworks is more feasible.
Where do I go to learn C++?
I'm very interested in learning C++. I know it's hard... but I'm determined to do it. Anyone have any useful websites I should start with?
Congrats on making your first app!

I don't surf, but it presents the information nicely :)

Here are a few tips:

1. Consider putting the 'details' on the results page (instead of giving them their own page). There is definitely enough space, and it might help your users understand how you made your recommendation.

2. When sites ask for location permissions on the first page load, a lot of users automatically click 'Deny'. One way you might fix this is to wait for the user to come to you, by using a link under the search bar, like this:

___________________
I want to surf in | San Francisco |
-------------------
Use my current location

3. In the short term (before you do bigger changes like reorganizing the search bar, if you choose to), "Where you want to surf" should read "Where do you want to surf"

4. Consider hiding the subscription box until after your user has successfully gotten a recommendation.

Good luck!
Meet Aisha Bakari a brave volunteer fighting againts boko haram
A spammer used that exact defense before, that it's not spam, because they used legal means to obtain the email addresses.

A slashdot poster once compared that to (if I can add some embellishment) saying that "I have a valid driver's license and comply with local laws, therefore I can park on your lawn."

https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157986&cid=13234763
This article completely ignores the block reward -- the real cost per transaction is more like $7 [0]. The blocksize really needs to change too, last time I did a bitcoin transaction, every recent block was 95%+ full. Its an arbitrary limit, but its contentious and political to change. It really made me want to avoid Bitcoin in the future.

[0]https://blockchain.info/charts/cost-per-transaction
Mark's a very busy guy at JPL (I'm a former JPLer myself). Making science happen on Mars and whatnot.

zlib is super stable and that's largely its biggest benefit as opposed to when it was originally released in the 90s. Back then, biggest benefit was that it was not impeded by patents or licensing, and, it was faster (in general purpose use) than any other compressors while providing the highest level of compression (in general purpose use). Nowadays bzip2 and lzma (and others) can provide better compression.

However, there's lots of choice in compressors (especially open sourced compressors).

My favorite for symmetric compression/decompression speed is LZ4 [0] and overall decompression speed over compression ratio. Decompression speed approaches memory copy speed! You can use it for compressing your Linux kernel [1], your ZFS file system [2], and your Linux zram driver [3]. lzo, miniz [4], QuickLZ, LZF, Snappy are also quite speedy in different ways.

For compression ratio, it's lzham [5] that is most impressive. But pigz may be more your style. Others may choose brotli, zstd, or others still.

[0] https://github.com/lz4/lz4

[1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI4NjM

[2] http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/Features#lz4_compression

[3] https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.15#head-52af9ef123b7c0792b...

[4] https://github.com/richgel999/miniz

[5] https://github.com/richgel999/lzham_codec
Yale Renames Calhoun College to Honor Grace Hopper
This is nice to know! Still, unless the formatting is fixed (by distilling to PDF), there is no way to deal with the under and overflows that arise from an aggressive (and hence decent looking type setter).
So, what's the long game with Fukushima? This has been going on for so long and it's concerning that seemingly very little progress has been made.

Edit: added "seemingly"... as I can say for certain the degree of progress that has been made.
I like that it has a full size lathe (how common is that for subs?).

Well and a swimming pool, seltzer water dispenser and the 1980 Soviet sub arcade. I remember that was my favorite arcade game too.
The main fault I've heard with the PyQT licence is that the project has to pay a for a commercial licence from day 0 - companies would like to be able to prototype with the gpl version and start paying when they are close to release.
Not sure if these are meant to be accurate, complete summaries of the dystopias presented in each author's works, but if they are, these are woefully lacking.

Key distinguishing features of Orwell's dystopia, for example, have been left out, such as utter lack of privacy; induced hatred of [fictional] common enemy; etc.

Similarly, for Huxley, they left out state control of reproduction; cultivation of distinct/discrete social classes via genetic engineering and conditioning; elimination of meaningful interpersonal relationships via promotion of promiscuity and the demonizing of any non-surface-level interactions; etc.

I'm sure there are more but these are just the first few that come to mind.
Business Architecture by Human Intelligence
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I'm pretty sure this was a sarcastic shitcomment. People who have a basic idea of how finance works understand that decentralized financial products lead to market making.
I can't wait until home ownership becomes a relic of the past.

We need some way of replacing the customization that is possible when you own. Rentals tend to be fairly generic.
> If someone copies a paragraph of my novel and claims fair use, I won't get very far on the amount-and-substantiality front by saying "but they basically took all of the part that they copied".

It's more like they copied the whole table of contents and rewrote your novel in their own words with all the headings copied verbatim. Good luck with claiming fair use on that.