skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what I'm saying...

The censorship is already there, and the government is hard to pressure. What I'm saying is that blocking VPNs will make more people put pressure on the government. Right now there is very little pressure, so they can get away with it. Can they get away with it if a large percentage of highly educated and well connected people are very strongly opposed to it and can't do their jobs properly?
google cache doesn't do the page justice. most of the value is in its visualizations.
120 M€ [https://www.pv-magazine.de/2017/06/22/ewe-plant-bau-eines-ba...]

750 MWh

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160 € per kWh.

LiIon is currently at ~170€/kWh (200USD). LiIon prices will drop more until 2023 but 160€ is still a very good considering this is a research project.
What terminal emulator is being used in that image?
Someone's welfare, sure. Human welfare in the greater sense, not so much. Arguments about the invisible hand fall apart in the face of regulatory capture
Kiss Me, I'm Vegan
>Bitcoin that literally anyone with a cellphone can own and transact with anyone else with a phone or computer.

I doubt it's actually possible to run a full node on a phone. If you're relying on an exchange then you're not really using any special bitcoin feature. Normal internet banking to a geography that isn't screwed up would work just fine.
> The fact that you can const_cast away

No, you cant. The standard states that "any attempt to modify a const object during its lifetime results in undefined behavior".

If you're intentionally writing code that relies on undefined behavior, you are intentionally writing broken code.
There's an automatic system on Wikipedia now which attempts to rescue dead links by finding the page in the Internet Archive and updating the Wikipedia page accordingly.
I'm 19 and most people I know use Venmo. I'm curious - around what age are your friends? My parents don't know what Venmo is, and I don't think many of their friends (most in the age range of 40-60) do either.
Humans May Have Ventured into Australia 20,000 Years Earlier Than Thought
Gonna throw this out here: http://i1.wp.com/metrocosm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/hi....

Citizens United doesn't seem to be any sort of inflection point. The big jump was during the Bush/Kerry election, ironically the first Presidential cycle during which the 2002 campaign finance law ultimately struck down by Citizens United was in place. Spending actually went down during the Clinton/Trump contest, after the law was struck down, and Trump won despite Clinton spending almost twice as much.
Presumably because he didn't know they were going to find anything. We already know he didn't know about the 30 second thing. If he did, it wouldn't have been a problem, he wouldn't have needed to do the recreation at all.

I'm saying it was possibly illegal but not amoral. There is a difference. Compare to planting drugs to frame someone innocent.
And the bribes do very little to affect who wins or benefit the bribers when they do. Yawn.
As I promised, here's a picture how my Grafana diabetes dashboard looks like:

http://imgur.com/1YPcOrZ

As you can see I dipped down the low alert while walking home, so my watch alerted me early enough so I could eat some candy.
Interesting. I've always viewed it as a slightly clever term connoting the region's heavy reliance on the steel industry in the past and the undeniable economic/demographic decline that followed.

I obviously don't know about Pittsburgh, but it is absolutely not viewed as a perjorative in some other cities typically considered part of the rust belt.
True, but better than the 503 I was receiving.
does the about us page work? or contact us? or press?
I've had good experiences working with Indian developers, Indian recruiters is an entirely different story.
So you can do it in Go in the same sense that you can do it in assembly language.
WarFace
In North America, given a bank account number, you can pull money from it (this is how cheques work over there).

In Europe, given a bank account number, you can put money into it (this is how "giros" work).

This fundamental difference in banking system has caused endless pain for the US and its hyperlocal banking system. Canada overcame this by having a home grown debit card system expand into online payments.
Not very; about 10 hours is spent on that with instructors, plus more time practicing it in the form of whiteboard questions. Which means there was a wide variance from most knowledgable to least.
It should be noted that the dollar amounts are never shown to anybody except the individuals involved in the transaction.

When I scroll through my Venmo feed, all I see is "Mike paid Jen for pizza".
There is some genuinely cool stuff in there. It's nice to see Yahoo is still thinking about and not afraid to change how we build layout.
It's really good for situations where you have large groups of people that all need to informally pay a small amount of money. If you've ever organized an event like this (like say...a college party), you know how annoying it is to chase down crumpled $1 bills from people. Venmo handily solves the problem so I'm sure that's why it caught on among this demo so quickly.
Because the act of getting your own bill is a statement. It's no secret that you're doing it because Ted always adds a lobster tail to his steak. Or that you're doing it because you're going to order a water, no appatizers, and the Ruben because money is tight. Once you're outside of specific circles 'being broke' stops being a shared experience and it affects how people view you.

The only time you might be able to get away with it is because you're going to order the 24oz sirloin and don't want to put that on other people. But that's a statement in a different direction and could come off as elitest or insulting.

Pay for what you order lessens this awkwardness.
There will be even less pressure once those highly educated get censored too.
Yup, and it's still looking true about Bitcoin. See: next Tuesday.
Don't humans kill your bandwidth too? In fact a properly written bot would use less bandwidth as it doesn't care about CSS or images.

My solution would solve the issue in a fair way by having a "reasonable usage" limit applied to everyone, bot or not. This also means it can't be defeated by someone paying humans to do the dirty work to bypass bot restrictions.
Bank transfer. No fees, fast enough (at least inside a country next business day, I think internationally it's allowed to be a bit slower?), if you want to do it mobile there are enough banks that have apps.
I get paid to eat food
Here you describe a good reason why people need USD - indeed another currency or asset class cannot be used to pay US taxes. But its not clear to me why this means valuing currencies on future expectations is a fallacy? It just means that US taxpayers will need US dollars at tax payment time.
If the US and other national governments collapsed then every cryptocurrency would become worthless (Gas Town isn't going to accept your "money") or less than worthless (Thunderdome is going to eliminate you because your mining rig wastes valuable electricity).
From the standpoint of international competition, the Great Firewall isn't such a bad thing. Wasn't it Sun Tzu himself who said, "When your enemy is making a mistake, don't interfere?"

But research (ideally) benefits us all, so we'd be making a mistake of our own to adopt such a provincial attitude. The Chinese scientific community is not our "enemy." It's a shame the Great Firewall can't be worked around as easily as sci-hub worked around Elsevier and other artificial roadblocks to scientific communication.
They can withhold features that people want by refusing to code them, which is what one of the controversies is about.
No? What use would that have?

Even if it were useful, you can already feel your heart beat if you are concentrating on it. Even if you lacked this ability you can feel, at least, changes in your heart rate. Even if you couldn't do either of those things you could just wear a heart rate monitor, they are cheap and readily available and have no side effects.
I'm more curious about congressional runs than the presidential ones. The presidential run is too big and quirky to ever be truly controlled by money alone. But with hundreds of congressional campaigns up for grabs, that seems like a tractable problem to solve with cash.

Also, at this point most of the money can be spent outside the campaigns entirely. Robert Mercer can just run his simulations and use bots and paid posters to move public opinion around. He doesn't need to work directly with the campaign at all.
I think we're talking on a different level here. I'm rather thinking about the performance from an ops perspective. If you write highly specific code that runs close to the processor, of course predictability improves. But if you write a web application, possibly running in a virtualised environment, using remote databases and other network services, good look predicting performance to the end user. Even talking about tight loops, you simply can't predict if it will go and stay in the processor cache in layered, multi-tenant situations like that.

There is little correlation between theory and practice of a complex system when it comes to performance and reliability. For example, big-O notation tells you very little about the myriads of wonderful ways systems and networks can crash and burn. Disks never failed in my university classes. The more you know about the difference between a perfect theoretical system and the harsh randomness of a real one, the foresight of experience, the better a programmer you are, and this is not generally knowledge that comes from formal education.

In short, to be a better programmer, you need to know the difference between the best case ideal scenario and what is actually going to happen, usually when you least expect it...
And since I can't edit my other comment, I'll add that if you can find any payment processor that can do transfers for less than that, I'd like to see it. I don't work for Patreon but I am a Patron and I'm pretty happy with it and the creators I support seem to be too.
Which ORMs don't?
I use Go quite a lot, and I agree with their "irrational arguments". It seems quite dishonest to pretend that anyone who doesn't use Go because they found it too restrictive to be "wasting their time with irrational stances". It's also quite close-minded.

You're right that most Go developers aren't going to go out of their way to write a 5-page dissertation about how generics would help solve a problem they worked around, but that's not a justification for not including generics. The fact you have to write orders of magnitude more code in order to work around a lack of generics is ridiculous, and I find it frustrating every time I have to do it. Will I eventually crack and write a series of blog posts that just rant about every single fucking problem I have with Go? Maybe. But it seems quite unreasonable to only want reviews which effectively must be of the form of a coherent rant.
Where does this happen? If they want their money, they will split it and do what they have to do.
Kanna Kamui Set in the Pool – Kobayashi-San Chi No Maid Dragon
"Separate checks, please."
I would be absolutely shocked if this happens. Less than 1% of China's population speaks English beyond learning for business purposes. Making learning English illegal would be impossible to enforce, you would have to build additional infrastructure on the internet just to specifically block english courses. What you are suggesting is actually more complex.
DOIs are "suppose" to help solve this problem.

I've often encountered a sort of "reverse link rot" where a cited article is in another language or obscure journal or reference material that was never digitized and is inaccessible.
vi's initial release date is from 1976. Maybe you could ask someone who used it back then whatever happened to terminal apps being streams of text? :)

This is an interesting idea; a React-like layer to something like ncurses could be super useful and encourage more command line apps. Doing this in JS seems like a waste though...
The BTC reddit community is the worst! I no longer go there for any BTC related conversations. Zero decorum, literal insults and intolerance towards on-boarders are some of the reasons I'm personally disgruntled.
> It seems pretty warped to suggest that I made his/her point by indicating that the cited statistics were off by a factor of 2 -- and not in the direction that favors their argument.

Which statistic did I cite that was off by a factor of 2? Your figure of $70,628 is 4% higher than the google search result featured snippet for "median household income massachusetts" of $67,846, but even using your figure, my saying that $100K is "1.5x the state median household income" isn't anywhere near wrong by a factor of 2.

1.5 x $70,628 is $105,942. My claim is at the very most wrong by less than 6%, not the 100% you seem to be claiming.
There are some info/studies about it linked here that show it's fairly high: https://perma.cc/#landing-problem

Perma.cc was created by the Harvard Law School Library specifically to try to solve that issue, since so many citation links were becoming useless.
A few friends and I had dinner together every Wednesday at Tied House. I made a website to split the bill and track debt, so that every week whoever owed the most money to everyone paid the bill. The levels of debt stayed pretty low.

https://github.com/AustinWise/DinnerKillPoints/

The heart of the system is a bill splitter:

https://github.com/AustinWise/DinnerKillPoints/blob/db54eec9...

And some simple graph algorithms to analyze the debt-graph and render the results with GraphViz:

https://github.com/AustinWise/DinnerKillPoints/blob/db54eec9...
I think the point is that hackers and cybersecurity researchers, or lawyers and other lawyers, cancel each other out. To take yet another example, countries pay lots of money to maintain nuclear arsenals that will never be used because their adversaries also have nuclear arsenals. If all nuclear arsenals disappeared, the only real difference to any country would be that they would be spending less money.

So yes, your statement about the police is correct. But if there were neither criminals nor police, the situation would be the same as with criminals and police, only less expensive. I believe this is why they call it zero-sum.

I don't see how taxation will solve the criminals/police problem, but it's fairly clear for legal services.
Hmm. So there's a polynomial-time method for verifying that you've found the shortest path in TSP, but not for finding it in the first place?
Not every one of my email-addresses is used in a business-context.
Splitting the check used to be a ridiculous exercise of handing the wait staff a deck of plastic with instructions like '20 more on the blue card'. So now one person can bear the costs and charge everyone at the end of the evening. This is marginally better, ideally you could just 'venmo' the venue directly but this would upset the mediocrity of US banking infra and the card monopolies.
> Can they get away with it if a large percentage of highly educated and well connected people are very strongly opposed to it and can't do their jobs properly?

Well, Mao certainly could during the cultural revolution.
Rise of the Rent Seeker: How the Subscription Economy Hurts Us
That's a really good article.
Actually, it means a lot of things, depending on the context and language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_(disambiguation)
The cap on mining is actually a good example of an inflexible technical solution for a problem that is better solved through flexible governance. There are several problems with it:

Inflation can be a good thing. It can be used to combat deflation, and the absence of inflation can lead to stagnation via the paradox of thrift. There are certain central bank policies that encourage inflation and are known to work pretty well, including QE, which was demonized by a lot of people but has now been proven an effective aid in the recovery from the 2008 crash.

The bitcoin approach focuses on the money supply only, but there are other factors to inflation. There is general agreement among economists that the money supply is the key driver of inflation in the long term, but in the short term, other factors can be involved.

Inflation is possible with a static supply of money, because the amount of money in circulation (versus the amount of money in savings accounts or bonds, or otherwise locked up) can change.

Inflation can also happen even with a static supply of money and no changes in the amount of money in circulation. An example is an oil price shock, caused by an embargo: oil is an input into many manufacturing processes, as well as people's cars, so a general increase in the prices of goods and services can be expected.

So, the bitcoin approach takes away some valuable monetary policy tools and it doesn't actually prevent inflation in the short term. People shouldn't believe that their bitcoins are protected from inflation.
Looks like hyper.
Ha, such a non-issue to us petty bean counting Germans, we always split the bill and it's only a problem like once a year with particularly stubborn wait staff.

Yes, maybe I'm generalizing a bit too much, but you're usually asked if the bill will be split if you're obviously looking like a couple. I'm leaning towards preferring that way. I've no problems buying friends a beer or two, but a) I don't want to be overthinking what I am gonna eat and drink if the bill will be split evenly (like in other countries) and b) sometimes there's really people I don't want to subsidize (e.g. coworkers instead of friends).
I'm sorry, I think your analysis of the cause of the power disparity is wrong. It's not due to numbers.

It's because power disparity is inherent in hierarchical organizations. The CEO is just one person, but their position at the apex of the hierarchy gives them power over everyone else in the organization. Power disparity is baked into the hierarchy—it's not a hierarchy without it.

Unions are a way to balance the power of the employee group against the management hierarchy. Unfortunately unions are also subject to the corruption that accompanies power.
Hello all, OP here! I have taken inspiration for a fair bit of content in this article from comments made around the subject here on HN, so please do let me know if I got it right, or if I did not and why.
Well, on the upside, it is at least written by a man, not a woman, which makes it less cringe-worthy. On the downside, god, what a fucktard, horrible way to handle this issue.
"They were bought for $80 million."

AFAIK that's not public info. How'd you find out about this?
What books can I read to improve my writing?
In the past, my writing has been good enough to get the job done for classes. However, I would like to learn to write in a way that is enjoyable to read. I know that the usual advice is to read and write more often, but I was hoping that HN would have some book suggestions to improve my prose.
I do this too. I use my credit card for everything but my SO only uses it for big/online purchases so I love splitting things with her. Double the cash back!
I can do bank transfers from my bank, but I feel awkward saying, "hey, can I get your routing and account number?" Even if I didn't feel awkward, with Venmo and Square Cash, I have all the information I need if either we're FB friends or have their email address.
It’s hardly elegant to use or reason about though.

Solid and proven and robust, yes.

Different things however.
Show HN: Can you pronounce programming language names correctly?
Seattle is at a higher latitude.
I got my landlord onto Venmo to pay utilities. She wanted a check slipped under her door. That wasn't happening. Now she just requests the amount every month and all I have to do is tap "Pay".
The easier way is to install their own CA in all internal-network devices, proxy/MitM all TLS traffic, and effectively block TLS traffic that does not trust/use their internal CA. (Easier way to guarantee all applications are "in compliance".) They can use TLS 1.3 in this model.

So yes, agreed, enterprises could deal with TLS 1.3, but they'd rather the rest of the world use worse crypto instead.

They'd always rather do nothing to upgrade/fix their systems. They can't help it - it seems less risky and costly, and it's their job to make an attempt to save that risk and cost. So you need to treat them like a natural phenomenon.
Don't weight and bodyfat% have high correlation to lifespan? You can get a good enough scale for both for pretty cheap.

Fitbits and such also measure resting heart rate for cheap. As far as I've heard, that correlates well to lifespan as well.
>> The growth of “zero-sum” activities may, however, be even more
important. Look around the economy, and it’s striking how much high-talent
manpower is devoted to activities that cannot possibly increase human
welfare, but entail competition for the available economic pie. Such
activities have become ubiquitous: legal services, policing, and prisons;
cybercrime and the army of experts defending organizations against it;
financial regulators trying to stop mis-selling and the growing ranks of
compliance officers employed in response; the huge resources devoted to US
election campaigns; real-estate services that facilitate the exchange of
already-existing assets; and much financial trading.

>> Much design, branding, and advertising activity is also essentially zero-sum.

That's a remarkably short-sighted view of economic activity.

A functioning legal system is critical for the operation of an economy. Without one, markets don't work and neither do various sophisticated financial services we enjoy (insurance, loans, mortgages, etc).

Financial fraud, regulation & policing are the cost of having a dynamic and sophisticated financial system. It's had a tremendously positive impact on our societies and individual lives, which we're almost completely oblivious of.

Ditto every other item in his list.

If you think that some popular, ubiquitous sort of human activity creates no genuine value to individuals or the society, you probably haven't thought about it long enough.
It's very likely this will all lighten up after the National Congress in the Fall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_National_Congress_of_the_...
What's the point of this article... the VPN block was fake news anyway.
The man whose intestines twinkled like stars
I'll state just once more, in order to be absolutely clear that I harbour no ill intent: I have no reason to doubt, having been told, that the author can be regarded an authority on the matter. I'm simply saying that, approaching it fresh, it's not obviously the case, and other commenters' disregard should not be treated as that for a household name.
> (e.g. making a currency with a fixed amount basically ensures it can never be used to write long term counteracts in).

Bitcoin is digital gold. The idea that is should be used as currency only seems plausible to the biggest proponents of a return to gold standards.

But for everyone who believe in inflationary currency, bitcoin is still a viable value store, which definitely can be used for all sorts of contracts.
Maybe. My bet is that economic activity wouldn't cease in the absence of nation-states, but rather some other institution(s) would arise that currently perform the function of nation-states: physical security, dispute resolution, identity symbolism, monetary authority, etc. Cryptocurrencies have the advantage of already existing here, but there's certainly the possibility that it could be some yet-to-be-invented institution.
It's too broad a question to give a definitive answer to. It depends on the context.

If you want to generalize, follow the 80/20 rule - 20% of the effort results in 80% of the benefit. Think like a business owner. Identify what the one or two key metrics are and come up with ways to efficiently ship ideas to test to improve them. Write code that is easy to test. Add high value tests. Avoid perfectionism.
I think the Harvard link is down due to traffic.