skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a pretty big blow.

The ETF has been the talk of the town for the last four years, and it is not unreasonable to think that it has been holding the hand under the price, since to a lot of people it represented the coveted inflow of institutional investment into bitcoin.

With this gone, the immediate outlook for bitcoin is bleak. There is little market adoption to speak of, in fact bitcoin is probably losing market share, as the initial hype and attention grabbing announcements of bitcoin support have died down, and a lot of merchants have decided that the miniscule business it drives is not worth the trouble. Also, the network is straining even under the current load, leading to (much) longer transaction confirmation times and higher fees. The average fee for a bitcoin transaction is now almost one dollar - this rules out a lot of use cases that previously people would have said were ideal for bitcoin.

Which leads me to the even bigger problem: The bitcoin community and ecosystem is in a massive deadlock, between two sides that are equally rabid and antagonistic, and dividing the project down the middle, between the developers and the mining operators. Few outsiders likely know how bad it has become, but visit r/bitcoin and r/btc on reddit if you're curious. This would be concerning in itself for the future of the project, but it also means that right now no major updates can be made to the bitcoin network, because each camp runs a big percentage of the network and block any new initiative from the other side.

All of this makes me very bearish for bitcoin in the medium term. I am very sure that bitcoin has a future, but how long out that is, and how big it is, remains doubtful and could well be influenced negatively by particularly the issue of governance. Satoshi once said something like "in ten years bitcoin is either worth a huge amount or nothing". I'm starting to fear that might not be true - bitcoin could also become a small niche platform for a very limited set of use cases.
Thinking that Israeli politics has anything to do with religion or that the Israeli Arab conflict has any religious basis is a common but a very big mistake people make.
Don't forget the euro a couple years ago reached parity with dollars in a couple months and people like ma that were saving to emigrate got thousands dollars in flames.
I'm half surprised that wasn't in NT4 (prior to 2000 even)... been a major thing that pissed me off in .Net a couple years ago... "why in freaking 2014 is this still a problem?!?!"

Was really happy to see it was finally fixed in .Net and the Anniversary update, and long, long overdue.
Plausible deniability goes a long way toward preventing a mass exodus from one's platform.
You might be surprised.

I've worked in large scale IT and I'm aware of investigations and convictions of people having this shit on corporate devices. For a national chain like BestBuy serving the general public, they probably have an incident weekly.

This article was light in details. Seeing this type of material is traumatizing, and it's important to give employees clear protocols to follow so there's as little question as possible about what to do. I find the compensation for tips potentially troubling, but there isn't much context. There's a lot of smoke in this article, but not a ton of fire regarding specifics.
> Unfortunately for them, the SEC, quite reasonably, requires more than one regulated market to exist for the underlying commodity

From the ruling, it doesn't really seem that was an issue. That Gemini does very little of the US and an utterly miniscule amount ogmthr global bitcoin trade made the surveillance agreement with Gemini insufficient, but a single-but-dominant regulated exchange would probably be sufficient.
This is a non-answer.

>There were capital controls restricting more than 100 euro worth of withdrawals from banks per day.

Yes and bitcoin didn't help this since the ways to get cash for your bitcoin involved international transfers which exposed you to those restrictions.

>Sure it's not helping you if you are buying a coffee but if it's saving parts of your pension that you worked your whole life to earn then it becomes very important.

I'm not sure what this has to do with the question above. Could you expand on it some more?
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I think the trick is that the glass actually doesn't need to bend much. Notice that the caption here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_corrector_plate#/media... describes the plate as being hard to tell apart from a flat disk visually.
I'd be appalled if a third of an exam was "reproduce this proof of this theorem". However, if a third of the exam is "Produce a proof of this theorem" and people don't care about whether the proof is original or reproduced, that seems fine.

Certainly, being able to proof any theorems your rely on is important. But being able to recall how any given theorem was proven in a book isn't important.
You can definitely use too many ternary operators, but I think when used sparingly they can be clear and tasteful. As long as you don't start nesting them or repeating them one after the other you should be fine.
What's a little self-installation of malware between a spy agency and a citizen who has nothing to hide?
> You'd need to force all the unregulated exchanges to close down

No, you'd just need for the regulated exchanges to control a substantial share of the total volume of trade, which could happen by shift in trader preferences, unregulated exchanges becoming regulated, or, yes, unregulated exchanges shutting down.
Because that's how the web used to work, and I've been using it for a while.

But how exactly are you suggesting I browse the web? Not following links unless I recognize the destination and know it to be a reasonable site? That just changes a mental blacklist into a whitelist. And how would I ever discover new reasonable sites?

Use an ad blocker? That feels like escalating a arms race, and I'd like to avoid that if at all possible. (I currently use Disconnect, which is only a tracking blocker, not an ad blocker, although some sites seem to think it is.)
People that don't understand VXX talking about VXX is one of the funniest things on the entire Internet. For some good laughs, take a look at the comments section on this post: https://sixfigureinvesting.com/2013/04/how-does-vxx-work/

A choice quote from elsewhere on the Internet: "Write call spreads, collect $$$ when they expire... this worthless stock is a goldmine!"

I have no words.
You have a very different experience with VS than I have... right now, I'm waiting half an hour, so I can check out a branch from vsts, so I can wait another 6-8 minutes to build my solution, etc... it's painfully slow... VS Code, edit, next...

I've only seen VS Code run slow if you're running on 2gb of ram, or have hundreds of competing plugins installed, and even then. VS Code is way better than VS proper from my own subjective experience.
Actually Microsoft had their own LLVM first. :)

It was called Project Phoenix, developed at MSR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(compiler_framework)
Well, perhaps it was a bit much to say I'm sad.

But while the piece was engaging, it wasn't informative, which is precisely my complaint.
> he lost even though it landed on the correct color.

On a later spin than the one he bet on. Which, you know, happens in roulette all the time.
> This is the same committee that approved VXX and UVXX

All of the popular volatility ETFs/ETNs are traded according to SEC regulation.

> which have lost 99.999% of their value

Did you read the prospectus? Leverage isn't free. This is by design.
It's 283.514° Fahrenheit in Roorkee? :P
flip flopping for profit
That free will is basically the series of singular inevitable outputs of a computation (the "me-the-person-in-the-universe" computation) that are not compressible/reducible (they have to be run to come to the output).

That seems a bit like goalpost shifting to me. What is the common usage of the term free will? I argue it is sitting in a restaurant and being able to order either steak or fish and that this decisions in neither deterministic, i.e. the choice is not a function of the state of the universe prior to the decision, nor random, i.e. the choice is not independent of the state of the universe prior to the decision.

I also argue that there is no third option and one could just define the second option as the negation of the first. This obviously renders this definition of free will inconsistent and leaves us with the choice between determinism and randomness as defined above. Of course only unless someone can point out why this definition does not capture the common usage of the term free will or that there is an error in the definition of or the relation between the two options.

Note that this way of phrasing it avoids the problem of talking about a probability distribution which might be problematic because we might be unable to repeat the experiment or have to deal with other complicating factors like the probability distribution itself being a function of the state of the universe prior to the decision.

What you are suggesting is obviously not how I think the term free will is ordinarily used and how it should therefore be defined. Your definition would clearly fall into my definition of no free will and only additionally demand that there is no efficient procedure to evaluate the function determining the decision so that we are unable to predict decisions at least in practice.

This is certainly not an unacceptable definition and I can not tell whether I would say there is free will or not under that definition. How hard would evaluating the function have to be in order to call it free will? Just really impractical because it would require measuring the state of billions of billions of particles with very high accuracy? Or actually impossible due to something like the uncertainty principle or the no-cloning theorem?

But anyway, I argue that this definition, even if it might be useful, does not match what the term free will is usually supposed to mean.
Nomad dev here. I'd love to hear unbiased answers to your question, but here are my biased thoughts. :)

> Can anyone elaborate on what that immaturity consists of at the moment?

We're pre-1.0 for a reason. While you're right we leverage Consul for discovery and health checks and Vault for secrets, there are still quite a few gaps we plan to fill before hitting 1.0. We need a plugin infrastructure to support volume and network plugins. There's still resource constraints to be added (eg gpus) or improved upon (eg storage accounting). I'd personally love to get secure mTLS bootstrapping via Vault to be as painless as our server discovery via Consul. Lots to do, so expect regular improvements as we move toward 1.0.

tl;dr - The immaturity and pre-1.0 version are due to missing features, not instability or lots-of-breaking-changes.
Don't project your misunderstandings onto me. I argued for the merit of speculation as a scientific endeavor, not for assuming Star Wars is true.
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Appears to have been based on this tutorial: https://pythonspot.com/personal-assistant-jarvis-in-python/
(We've used Azure for 3 years or so, AWS for longer).

Azure's USP is basically the deep integration into the MS ecosystem at all points. Azure is relentlessly promoted to every MS technical professional through all of the learning channels (and MS developer outreach is the best), Azure is integrated into the excellent developer experience of .NET and Visual Studio, hosted SQL Server on Azure is really nice (doubly so because it avoid the licensing quagmire), Azure with PowerShell is a fantastic CLI experience, etc. etc. Lots of reasons to love Azure if you are an MS specialist.

If you are outside the MS ecosystem, then you aren't getting much of that. For you, Azure is a less mature AWS with less support by and for your ecosystem. The situation with hosted MySQL on Azure is one example, but it is a two-way street: Microsoft loves it's own stack more, and folks outside the MS ecosystem love Azure less, partly because AWS is already the established default.

I could list papercuts and issues that I have had with Azure itself, but in each case I'm pretty sure or certain that AWS has had equivalent issues earlier in it's life, so it feels a bit unfair to do that.
Can you point to someone who said one hour ago that the ETF is good for bitcoin, and is now saying that the ETF is bad for bitcoin?
> and make completely new genes that can make artificial drugs like LSD?

How do you mean? Lysergic acid is a naturally occurring biogenic substance.
Basically I agree, but I think you can put it more simply: this is how we learn. 5 years into your career is a really short time. I know that people feel like they should be (or are) at the peak of their powers 5 years in, but that's kind of delusional.

Running a big successful project should not be your goal (IMHO) that early on. I've got a couple of very long projects under my belt (none really successful), but I've learned dramatically more from my hundreds (or thousands) of aborted projects than I have from those ones that I stuck with for 5-7 years.

Give yourself permission to play. It's important. If you have a long term, successful project, you will not have much time for play any more.
This is an incredibly interesting observation. I wonder if this has shown in other non-BTC graphs as well
I am a manager. Wanna know why other departments have advantages and yours doesn't? Because they are more important. Truth hurts, I know but bear with me. You've been programming for 20 years and not moved into management. That is a big huge red flag right there. It means you just like coding and don't care about the business. Business always comes first. For you it seems it doesn't. So it's only natural that you don't deserve the same respect as people who think, correctly, that cutting cost and improving profits is the only thing that matters. If you care about the business and care about making a much larger impact, go into management. Don't be a code monkey for life. We already have enough of those.
While technically nothing changed, the SEC approving an ETF directly tied to bitcoin would have changed how Bitcoin is perceived by a lot of people.

> Nothing about the currency actually changed.

You can say this about about everything: "while nothing about the pound changed, brexit caused the price to go down."
Nope, but a) I have a good idea of what it involves and b) I have little to lose and much to gain.
Sounds like they are the same as in the states.
Potentially NSFW / terrifying videos:

Multiple gopros record an in-air collision of skydiving planes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p6hqMnsLFY&list=FLR2K9vyQEB...

Tangled chute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciIjdvNo65s

I can't find it but I've seen two more videos of people who have survived near freefall after parachuting accidents. One became a paraplegic IIRC.
N.B.: This is not Mark Zuckerberg's Jarvis.
It has to be both for trading to take place, but either on its own could overwhelm an insufficiently robust platform.
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How can you know an investigation will be fruitless until it is conducted? If Alice trusts Bob, but Eve doesn't, what do we do? Would the investigation into Bob be fruitless or not? Isn't that what the Federal Bureau of Investigation is for? To investigate all claims of impropriety equally and fairly? We accept the false negatives because the cost of giving the benefit of the doubt blindly is a dangerous proposition.
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How ironic you should choose the EmDrive, which has been thoroughly busted[1] in much the same way as Water Seer et al, as your example.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCAqDA8IfR4
VS Code started with atom shell (now electron), and a JS based editor that was being worked on for VisualStudio online... combined they were pretty compelling, and at the time so much faster than say Atom or Brackets... It's been my editor of choice since first trying it and only better with each regular release. The entire thing is opensource.

Completely open source, rich plugin/extension community. Pretty much has become the editor of choice if you're working on node or go... more than decent with other platforms, and as a general editor. There are extensions to improve workflows, but all optional extensions.

I have git history, git lense, eslint, docker, c# (works for .net core), go, jest, npm, npm intellisense, yandex-translate (makes vscode worthwhile by itself), and a couple others.

I don't think I can go back... having the treeview, git integration, integrated console, it's all just way awesome to say the least.
I'm sure you mean less reticent?
I had this happen in sparring, over ten year of training martial arts and that happened only ever once, but man it was awesome.
I think of Rake/Rails as dev tools that are executables. In the post, I mentioned passenger because that was using Rubygems as a distribution mechanism and then they stopped doing that. I don't know if it's a hard / fast rule or even who would enforce that rule ... I was just mentioning that maybe it's an anti-pattern?
I think we may be miscommunicating; a lot of these words mean different things to different people. Designing a good and minimal "interface" for a class or module, in the sense of how it exposes its functionality to the rest of the world, is absolutely important, yes.

Deciding that mentioning classes anywhere in a signature is Evil, and that everything must implement a separately-defined interface in the Java/C# sense, is IMHO not at all useful. Not because it's "expensive" - it just takes an already-designed class API and copypastes it into an interface - but it's pure busywork. More code (which some people treat as a plus), harder to understand (because now there's always extra ambiguity at a call site as to which implementation is being called), adds nothing. This type of thinking - taking a useful tool or rule of thumb and turning it into dogma - seems far more prevalent in Java-land than in any other language I've worked in; I've never really understood why.
Yes, this is marketing.
How would you know if it's cp?
So what are the expected benefits of a bitcoin ETF?

The expected benefit is that the Winklevoss twins can now cash-out the $11m+ of Bitcoins [1] on the backs of public sucke-... I mean investors.

There's not really any other immediate purpose for this ETF other than that, they've been working to build trust (a currency's only source of value) in Bitcoin for years now in order to add value to their own holdings; they will likely continue to resubmit the proposal [2] until they figure out a way to weasel things through. An ETF would be the ultimate stamp of trust and approval -- having the US gov't essentially validate Bitcoin via SEC approval means that $11m could easily turn into half a billion or more.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/11/09...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/03/10/sec-reject...
Why wouldn't automakers just license self-driving technology from the big players?
I don't see how a lecture would improve things over a book (assuming you still can't ask questions), though it does of course depend on the book. I'd just pick up Pinter's 'Abstract Algebra'—lots of good concrete examples, one of most readable math texts (in any subject) I've come across.

Edit: also, there's a Dover edition you can get for < $15.
I meant receptive! Thank you (edited my original comment).
I'm a software engineer working in the precision optical fabrication and metrology industry since the late 80's. I've written a lot of software advancing the art in interferometry and computer controlled optical fabrication. It's always a thrill to visit optical shops all over the world and see my software still running on machines I helped build 20 years ago. I really have appreciated the opportunity to build software of enduring value, and to work on the enabling technologies for fab and test of microlithographic, aerospace, medical, research, and photographic optics.
I'll stick with drugs thanks, sounds much safer
I really dislike writing comments like this one and I almost never do, but... this is terrible. It's an amateur project at best that's just a big if/else loop[1] with some very poorly coded[2][3][4] implementations of things.

I get that it might be a cool learning exercise, but if you're in the terminal already what is the value of typing "what time is it" instead of 'date' or "search for a string in file" instead of 'grep'?

1. https://github.com/sukeesh/Jarvis/blob/master/main.py#L20-L8...

2. https://github.com/sukeesh/Jarvis/blob/master/evaluator.py#L...

3. https://github.com/sukeesh/Jarvis/blob/master/picshow.py#L12

4. https://github.com/sukeesh/Jarvis/blob/master/todo.py#L38-L7...
Usually in many simple hosting setups (where W3TC is common) the reloading of nginx is left to a cron job at some set interval.

Other plugins like iThemes Security will populate the nginx.conf with banned IP and the such, so it can update on a fairly regular basis.
that's an absurd thing to say. can you provide a citation of a parent's house being seized because their child was arrested for drug possession?
Yes, testing is a skill, no, developers (at least none I know) are not frustrated because they lack the skill.

Testing is (usually) debugging without understanding the code behind the application one is testing. Software developers really, really understand that working on a black box is much less productive for someone knowledgeable than code reviews.

What frustrates me about "testing" is the TDD-idiocy of writing a million unit tests - tests that verify only that a specific code unit works. Real "testing" is executing functional tests: User clicks "Signup", we have a new record in the users table, the subscription total changes and the admin/moderator/community manager can immediately see the change in the admin-UI. A good test will catch as many violations of the expectations as possible while minimizing the effort/code required to perform the test. A good test maximizes meaningful output while keeping the required effort minimal.

But, what am I talking.. the whole post is just a prelude to the post scriptum: "Watch our video!!!!!"
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Only a tiny percentage of users wants to use the "click through to original" feature. Sharing is a major use case that strongly benefits publisher. In the end one has to make trade offs what to make prominent in a UI.
Add beforeunload event handler to prevent accidentally closing the window mid game.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/beforeun...
Posse comitatus act for the 21st century.

"And the meek shall inherit the earth"
Lysergic acid diethylmide isn't.
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Very true. If your business model is to be the smartest guy in the room, you have a problem, because there's always a smarter guy.
So buy the 5th edition. One of the perks of being able to self learn is that these sorts of revenue models don't impact you :-)

Edit: I've used Gallian. Not sure what's in the 7th edition but the 5th is perfectly good.
You can be forced to give up the keys to your hard drive.

Few examples:

https://www.cnet.com/news/doj-we-can-force-you-to-decrypt-th...
https://www.cnet.com/news/judge-americans-can-be-forced-to-d...
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120124/17260917532/judge...
I don't think anybody knows for sure how this technology will reach the public, but after Ford and GM each committed around $1 billion to develop the technology in-house and own it, it seems like they want to have total integration into their cars and own the technology. If your goal is selling cars, and you have the best self-driving technology, that might mean you sell more cars and make more money. Of course they have other ways of making money with the technology, such as taxis and trucks.
Haha, I actually did a search on the page for "chuck". Well done!