skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your logic is flawed. You're saying bitcoin's deflationary nature is bad and then proceed to talk about how volatile it is and the bad vibe that it carries BECAUSE it keeps going up in price so the only reason to spend it is for illicit things.

So then here's the controversy of your statement - if bitcoin is a deflationary appreciation-only thing - then maybe it's not as volatile as you claim and is fit to be used in EFT scenarios? Or if it is in fact volatile then maybe it's not all that deflationary in that it's value isn't bound to be going up indefinitely?

Which is it? :)

As a side note - yes, the mechanics of coin mining do make bitcoin "technically" deflationary, but just like any other "thing of value" this doesn't guarantee it's value in the "real world" to be mapped to that deflation 1-to-1. There's a finite supply of gold or oil out there for example - their prices however are bound to fluctuate quite a bit...
When you talk about biblical flat Earthers you are talking about a very small subset of Christians, to claim that all Christians are like them is akin to claiming that all Muslims are like ISIS.

Similarly Zionism is not really a religious view as much as it is a political one. This can most clearly be seen in the fact that orthodox Jews oppose the state of Israel. They correctly interpret the Torah as saying that Jews have had the holy land taken away from them by God and it can only be re-established by God, not by the the act of men. Similarly the Koran says outright that Allah had given the holy land to the Jews, and groups like the Muslim brotherhood and Hamas that seek take Israel are motivated by political, not religious goals.

If anyone is going to create violence and chaos at first contact, it's not religious people but rather politicians that have a stake in a system that exposure to other, more equal or efficient systems may upend and industrialists that have a stake in the technologies that first contact will replace. There are so many other, historically consistent places to look for potential sources of revolt than mere ordinary people (in fact the majority of the human population) who are merely in search of the divine and greater meaning.
It's at most a trade-off (as in e.g. you like to have a drink every now and then, or during some activities, and you do so even though you understand that while doing so, you strengthen your mental models and a kind of addiction).

Few if any substances actually automatically mean throwing one's life in the gutter; the issue of substance abuse is much more complicated (with many external variables that have nothing to do with the substances themselves) – and it may not be relevant to the majority of the population at all.
Penalizing the President (The difference between illegal and unacceptable)
They teach you in school, drugs are bad. Don't do drugs. Just say no. At least where and when I went to school, they went out of their way, above and beyond to ensure this simple message was hammered into every single child.

The image of a drug addict in pop culture -- it's never a pleasant one. They lie, cheat, steal. They're a burden and a trial to their families.

People are warned about what happens when you get addicted to drugs. I simply fail to understand why so many people do drugs in the first place, and I have little sympathy for addicts.

The world is a dangerous place. If you drive your car off the side of a bridge, or you mix the wrong household chemicals, or you stay in a running vehicle in an enclosed garage, or you grab on to a downed powerline, you'll probably die. It's simple cause and effect, and for the most part people understand it and aren't stupid enough to do these things unless they're suicidal.

If you do drugs, you'll probably ruin your life. It's simple cause and effect. For the most part people understand it, but it seems that enormous hordes of people do them anyway. I don't get it, what's the difference?
What do you think of the claims that Rust is set to replace C?
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Agreed. Google images is a surprisingly decent source of visual examples for intuition building/testing, although the signal-noise ratio is a crapshoot.
So far our models remain fairly stable in the ~weeks timeframe. If we needed to train daily or similar I would invest time in something other than a notebook. But, right now, it's easier to have the training steps documented in the notebook that does the actual training than to build a separate system and document it.

Not claiming it's a good way of doing this, but just how it is right now.
Best Buy is in trouble PR wise. Even non-tech people on NextDoor in my area are telling others to avoid Geek Squad for computer repairs due to this.
That doesn't sound right. The etf is pinned to a single exchange (which they complained wasn't liquid enough) and there are thousands of informal unregulated gold markets all around the world.

> and block ability to run smart contracts or any other software on it.

How do you think smart contacts play a role?
Frame this and put it on your wall-

https://i.imgur.com/tct42F0.png
did you disable password authentication (to allow only ssh keys) ? If not, why ?
What I was trying to convey was that unpredictability and and determinism aren't mutually exclusive. The "reliable path taken" could depend on solving the Halting problem, for instance, which we can't do but perhaps our natural laws somehow can.

But even if that's immaterial, it's not clear that determinism has any relevance to free will at all. You, like many others, have simply assumed that the "free" aspect of free will implicitly means "freedom from antecedent causes", but the long debate over free will in philosophy casts this interpretation in serious doubt.
Eehhh, I've been skeptical of Bitcoin in the past because of its volatility, but this is very unusual. It's been rather stable on a week-to-week basis for a long time.
gold is a share of a conversion of energy to dug up earth, and sometimes nasty mercury tailings.
I have an uncommon name spelling and I still get misdirected emails.

Not to the extent of the above, but for instance, last year I received someone's job offer in Colorado. I did respond to the sender to let them know of the mistake of course.
Articles on HN are routinely flagged for reasons independent of the substance of the article itself. You cannot judge the merit of an article, or even HN's opinion of its merit, from whether it's flagged.
The fact that the entire infrastructure of backblaze exists in a single building is a little worrying.

Are there any plans to expand to other datacenters? What happens if there is a disaster there? Is everything gone? Does backblaze backup it's own data?
The worst rules are the ones that don't let you use non-alphanumeric characters - and these are banking sites!
So is your bank account.
I almost read that as Wink-evil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)
Enormous hordes of people do them and don't get addicted. The addicts are just a tiny fraction of people who do drugs.
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There are too many incentives to plant evidence: compensation, revenge, attention, power, diversion from their own crimes, etc.

The KGB encouraged Soviets to spy and report on one another for kickbacks. People would disappear to gulags over neighborly disputes and other petty things.

If you're going to reward people for hunting witches, expect a witch hunt.
Eye blink technology allows abuse victim to give evidence
Who will own Mars?
It's more general to "ebooks". FWIW, Kindle's make up a plurality of our e-book circulation, but we don't know the ratio of black and white to tablets. Anecdotally, we see a fair amount of Fire Tablets, but that could just be because people using Fire Tablets need more help. The survey I'm referencing (along with some other supporting data) is Pew, so take that for what it's worth.
Nice 404.
A photo of the scene this poem describes:

https://images.rapgenius.com/64983b09fb243b2e65d57134773315d...
>Don't forget to mount your GoPro while boarding!

Man, I wonder if we're going to end up seeing someone's free fall smartphone video someday. Not everyone is going to read this article and be prepared to survive like we now are, so what if they decide to use those couple of minutes falling to try to record a message to their loved ones? The audio would be blown out but I don't see why the camera wouldn't continue working. That would be quite disturbing to watch.
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Seems like it would be a heap overflow though.
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That's absolutely true, but you can serve both. Look at Github- they have Github, which is low cost and self serve, and Github enterprise.
Can you go into more detail on what kinds of market manipulation ploys exist?
I went to Egypt in 2015 its sad that the country is suffering due to instability region. Was sad because for a large part of the country(especially south of Cairo) the soul source of income was tourism which was dwindling.

I also learnt that when the Temple of Luxor was excavated a lot of people were upset because they were evicted from where they lived. Such discoveries can upset people's livelihood. So, I sort of hope they don't find a temple there...:)
>However, in the first second you fall 16 feet. in the next second you fall 38 feet because you where falling at the start of that second. Thus, it takes more energy to increase your speed...

Doesn't make sense. Care to explain? Are you saying it takes less energy to take an object from 0 to 10m/s than it requires to take it from 10m/s to 20m/s?
Aim for the bunny hill instead?
> for the coarser grits (< ~3000)

I love it how you casually throw that out there. For the un-initiated, outside of grinding lenses: grit 3000 is approximately 6 micron particles and very fine indeed but for this purpose (and gem polishing) it is still considered 'coarse'.

The finest polishing grits go to 100,000, ~0.25 u across.
They didn't mention of they used windows or Linux when testing the USB device as. I would expect different results.
I skipped ahead way more often in print because skipping ahead in an ebook is a hassle.
I don't think we can answer this question right now.
Oh, so that's why South Park has been telling us to bring a towel for all these years!
The SEC declining to approve some investment vehicle is not unusual at all. Compare that to the USD, where nothing short of global nuclear war is going to cause a 10-minute 25% swing.
New material raises questions about theoretical models of superconductivity
Fair point. Traffic levels aside, it would be nice if Apple took some cues from Microsoft, especially for macOS (iOS is much further ahead).
I would think regulated means the following: (Note that I don't believe this needs to be done by a government. It could be private.)

1. A governing body that can create rules and regulation for the market.

2. An enforcement body that can enact penalties for rule violations.

The problem I think is not so much the governing agency, it's the enforcement for rule violators. It's one thing to punish Mt. Gox for violating the exchange terms, but what if it's some shady anonymous bitcoin exchange broker in China?
> It's also a terribly boring problem. Regardless on you stance on what free will is, the answer does not mean you are removed from culpability

If you acknowledge culpability in a given set of circumstances, then those culpable acted of their own free will. Choice from free will entails moral culpability, so you can only deny free will by also denying moral culpability.

The fact that it's difficult to define the precise meaning of these terms doesn't make the problem meaningless.
This looks like it would be very interesting to use this as a backup for all of my machines. Does backblaze have an Rsync compatible endpoint?

I use Linux on all of my machines, so I couldn't use the personal backup setup that they have.
> Someone could solve this by creating a company to buy lots of bitcoin, and then having an IPO to list that company on a public market. Then pension funds would be allowed to buy it, Jane Doe could buy some in her IRA, etc.

You're repeating yourself. That is more or less what an ETF is.
Tests also describe how a particular code is expected to behave.
The publicity from this, even though it was a negative decision, will be a hugely positive to the price in the medium term. For reference Go look at what happened after the Silk Road take down, or the Chuck Schumer news conference where he told the world he just learned how you could buy drugs for Bitcoin.
But what does the beer it makes taste like?
I think he does a pretty good job of explaining a theory in which that isn't the case - that

a) in order to predict (compute) "you" at at point, you have to actually "run" you at every time-step up until that point; this is specifically analogous to NP-completeness: result verification is identical to result generation; which could be meaningfully rephrased as "there's no shortcut to figuring out what you will do than going out and doing it."

b) There's a gap between non-determinism and randomness.

This reminds me of the basics of Kolmogorov complexity: the number of bytes to transmit a random string is the same as the size of the random string, except instead of "random" you have "non-deterministic". You are a non-random non-deterministic string; there is no shortcut in computing you than actually doing it... with the rest of the universe. (Which may mean there's no way to transmit you, either...?)
We're building https://computes.io to make distributed parallel processing easier.
I love Trello and used it a lot (before we moved on to something different and easier to understand for most people). However, even when it was important to our business and we had around 12 users (I know, still relatively small) using it, we never once felt and pressure to pay for the product.

Trello didn't build a $1B business because they never forced anyone to pay for their product, even when they were extracting significant value from the platform.
> It seems obvious to me that your modern "papers" are what is on your hard drive.

And they are protected in your possession. If you turn over all your papers to a third-party, though, that changes things.

eta We may need more privileged communications, but they are very rare. Creating one is probably a good idea, but this will have to happen legislatively. Geek Squad finding child porn isn't much different from the photo processors of old finding it.
I'm sure it is, but the issue is more complex than that.

How much data is stored on each person? How many hoops does an individual analyst have to jump through, if any, to access that information for an individual? Is it stored in an encrypted or anonymized way so that an analyst can't access the details without approval from management? Are there jobs constantly scanning this dataset and alerting on suspicious patterns, and if so, what is the average false positive rate and does an alert give carte blanche to read all of the data collected about that individual and their connections and connections-to-connections?

I doubt Congress will ever get clear or entirely truthful answers to those questions, let alone the general public.
Hmm, in that case, wouldn't it be reasonable to try to somehow throw this extra object under you so that it breaks the surface tension before your fall?
Lately I tend to think, that talking about “free will“ makes no sense at all. Our consciousness is the product of physical processes. They lead to the decisions we make. That's all there is.

Now if you bring a free will into play, where does it reside? Is it somewhere outside physics? Thats metaphysics then. And out of reach for any understanding anyway so pointless to reason about.

What I could agree on is to see “free will“ as a metaphor for the essence of our existence. The part that we probably never can explain.
It's not minor. If the ETF were approved, billions of dollars would flow into bitcoin through the retirement funds, which now can't. So that +25% was baked in, that was the expectation of the appoval. Lots of people were hoping for it. Oh well.
Does the new genome contain overlapping genes? Natural Yeast have a number of overlapping genes. It would be really neat, since you can make synthetic chromosomes, to compare the effects of making genes overlap. This has implications (various RNA surveillance mechanisms can interfact with pairs of mRNAs that hybridize).
Hmmm I see, I didn't assume people meant that the subsequent updates of the website are intended o be considered derivative works, but for instance by similarity to different editions of a book, I guess this is actually the case?
The government sees the Fourth Amendment as a bug, and they have come up with various ad-hoc patches for it. The applicable "bug fix" here is that you give up your Fourth Amendment rights when you turn your property over to a third party for repair, storage, or safekeeping.
Or an angled snowbank. :D
Sounds great.
Is this approach somehow related to ClusterHQ's?
The irony here is that CME Group - which provides futures and derivatives - is waiting on the sidelines watching if an ETF like this could get approved and sustain a liquid market before providing bitcoin futures.
Flappy bird running on home built BASIC computer
There are not code cleanliness issues. These are all public API functions. Whether any of these bugs can be triggered remotely depends on the application and which API functions it chooses to expose to untrusted data (or how it deals with the results of the multi-precision integer functions). From the limited number of open-source projects that use mbed TLS, it's difficult to gauge how widespread the overall use of these functions is. That said, you are right in saying that it they are not critical in the sense that they are reachable through the library's public-facing TLS state machine.
How much sleep do you get?
Ah, thanks for the explanation. Your memory is certainly much better than mine!
Quest:

Replace 'Free Will' with the most underwhelming term that is for all intents and purposes synonymous for free will in the discussion.
Yeah, you willingly ignored all the incumbents sitting on the sidelines that rely on validation from the regulators.
>The system is set up to create failure and re-offense, although I'm not arguing that it was designed that way...

It doesn't have to be. The system random walks through all sorts of configurations. All we need to end up like this is no incentive to fix these problems when they occur. In fact, we find a mild incentive to not fix it. In time, all of the poisonous sludge the system produces runs down and collects in these crevices.

What's most odious to us casual onlookers is that there are so many in the system that simply shrug at the human pain as they collect the spoils. "I'm just doing my job" is really no different than "I just did it for the money."
A long time ago I tried to use a throw in a ternary expression in C++ (e.g. "return is_good ? value : throw;") and it caused an internal compiler error! Really cool to see that it's now a feature of C#.
.NET Native is new to me. It looks like it helps CIL languages to perform better. I'm not sure what it does to C/C++. I can't tell what the grand strategy is, but I guess they are catching up to Apple in some ways. It's amazing what Microsoft's resources allows them to do. Apple uses LLVM, and, of course, they would not be Microsoft if they adopted LLVM. Microsoft writes their own LLVM from scratch.

I think it's good to have additional implementations, even if they are rather insular about it.
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Yes, I have used it to make websites and landing pages.
I'll like soon to begin with freeCodeCamp
In a way that makes sense, when things are bad. You can sell bugs, but you can't test nothing ("first write a test that fails" notwithstanding).
Why Bitly went down (for some users)
A physicist, an engineer, and a mathematician are in a hypothetical theater when the stage curtains catch fire.

The physicist makes some measurements as to the volume of curtain, available air flow, chemical properties of the curtain, flow rate and thermal capacity of the water hose and water, formulating a precise equation for how much water is necessary to put the fire out when starting at a given time, and precisely puts the fire out.

The engineer makes a few quick estimates as the the volume of fuel and air, uses that to estimate the amount of water needed, doubles it, and puts the fire out (with safety factor 2).

The mathematician looks at the fire, looks at the fire hose, states: "The problem is solvable", and exits stage left.
Where it falls down is if the debugger tries to load more than 3GB of symbols. Guaranteed crash every single time. You can manually limit the symbols it loads - but that doesn't apply to other parts like the profiler which will still crash deterministically.
What's stopping him from doing a similar thing by selling deep OOTM options off of money he borrows on his margin account at any other broker?
It matters, because the US retirement funds (401k, IRA) can't invest into some other country's ETFs, correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm not a sculptor but I'm pretty sure those legs never carried that massive head. In fact I can tell by the pixels etc. etc.

Wikipedia has a different story, where he was inspired by the news of the imminent arrival of this (without seeing it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias#/media/File:Statue_...
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That's easy: everyone.

The only distinction is who's explicitly targeted and who isn't. In other words, who analysts have actually examined or otherwise examine on an ongoing basis.
Here in the USA, you have to kick them out. If you don't, your house can be taken via civil asset forfeiture laws. Landlords also have to kick out renters. Kick them out ASAP or risk the loss of your property. You can't even let them loiter outside.
Yev from Backblaze here -> Yes we do plan on expanding to more datacenters, and we do have emergency plans in place, though we do choose our datacenters carefully to make sure that we avoid any natural-disaster prone areas. As for backing up our own data - we certainly do make backups of our core info/necessary data. As for the user data that we store, that's backed up across the storage pods in a vault as discussed in that post. We do not replicate customer data across multiple datacenters. At our price-point, that's just not feasible.
Interesting read, and makes a good general point. I have trouble with the aspect that it seems to insinuate that only one side is making, what appear to be, claims sans-evidence which instigate investigations which may prove to be wasteful and fruitless.

Unlike the example provided, the one sure casualty of all that's happening is transparency. The political obfuscation cloud spins faster than a hurricane. Thus each side will become more entrenched in their beliefs on the matter.
Yev from Backblaze here -> We do have some B2 integrators that have RSYNC capabilities. Take a look at B2 Fuse -> https://github.com/sondree/b2_fuse
Yev from Backblaze here -> Great to hear, glad you're enjoying it! Hopefully you won't need to use support too much :D
Nice but HSLa would be a nice addition. I think we really should encourage the use of this format now that it is supported.

The ability to shift saturation and brightness without impacting hue is really useful once it saves your butt a couple times.
Ehhh, I call BS. If for some reason all of a cities property records were lost, they would rebuild them via community testimony and consensus at worst case. Which clearly demonstrates it works in the opposite direction of what you are implying. Also property ownership tends to have inherit utility, something bit coin does not.
Didn't realize AMZN paid that well. Every ex-amazoner I know left because Amazon was a lot lower than industry. As soon as they could jump ship, they did.