skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hard fork the NY agreement mentions was a protocol upgrade that was scheduled for 11/16/2017. The Segwit upgrade took hold, but the second "2mb hard fork" part proved very contentious, and was later cancelled/suspended citing lack of community support. (That fork was frequently called B2X or S2X).

There is some argument about who all actually signed on to the NY agreement - whether they represented the community at large, or just a smaller non-binding group. The contentiousness was overtly regarding the "2mb" increase's long-term consequences, but IMO it may have also been because adopting it would have essentially kicked out the existing software development group, replacing with a smaller less experienced group.

If the hard fork had happened, the NY agreement asserted it would have simply upgraded the BTC protocol; rather than create a new coin. Agreeing exchanges would have had to go along with the protocol upgrade. But concensus never formed, particularly among exchanges & businesses that didn't sign the NYA.

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Bitcoin Cash / BCH was a separate coin that forked off of BTC around the same time as the NYA, but wasn't part of the NYA. It increased the block size (the "2mb" bit), but explicitly rejects segregated witness and some related changes. It's kinda odd it happened, because those involved in BCH were leaders in the NY agreement itself; so BCH be seen as an early repudiation of the NY agreement by it's own champions.
I forgot to mention that you only need to set up for very small-scale production, almost maker-scale, so not a whole lot of land is required. With automation, any outage will create a steady trickle of usable goods. The DC's I work with run generators once a month to test (and generally, most engines don't like sitting still all the time). Certainly sufficient for use by nearby residents, so co-generation would benefit third parties if not the DC itself.
We're ignoring this for now because once we can prove a realtime synchronised searchable inventory MVP, you can solve the shipping problem separately. It's also a separate problem on the logistics front as you don't have a central warehouse. Thinking about it, it's an extreme subset of the same problem i.e. effectively infinite distributed warehouses.
Title should be 'A Universe in One Line of Code with PRINT' because 10 is just the line number.

Line numbers are used in console BASIC to reference and edit a line, it normally doesn't have a screen editor.
No. Mass doesn't "determine" the speed of time (a lovely phrase, BTW). It is the observer's motion through space that does that. However, for an observer to move through time at a speed faster than 0 it has to move through space at a speed slower than c, and to do that it needs to have mass. A massless particle can only transfer energy if it moves at the speed of light. Massless particles moving slower than the speed of light cannot transfer energy, and so cannot be detected experimentally, and so do not exist.
“Islamic” is probably the wrong level to group them. I would be surprised if many people in Daesh are cool with their own terrorists killing lots of Daesh supporters no matter how many Shia Muslims they kill without losing sleep.
I drink almost exclusively decaf these days and wonder if any potential health benefits shown in these studies are still being imparted. From what I have been able to tell, the answer is “probably”.
China's the only country with mass numbers of people mostly with good (great?) genes and land comparable to the USA. Also the only country like that, remotely, that doesn't have religion and can make even extremely basic science questions and observations. At this point the only thing I'm doing is deciding how wordy/not wordy I'm going to be to symbolize the appropriate level of wtf, or something.
I love this, it's brilliant and solves most of the inventory concerns. If anyone knows of the business development team I'd be interested in the challenges they faced trying to scale this out.
More reasons why just listening and believing is never a great idea.

I found the section on communication devices to be especially damning.
Thank you for inventing the netbook and showing the ODMs how to make low cost PC notebooks.

Any idea where to get a CLI-from-boot notebook for teaching kids programming and encouraging a hacker ethic?
I don't know if that's universally true. Some of my best work has been under tyrants. I think as long as we have shared expectations and the "tyrant" genuinely believes in the success of the project, I do not think you should always avoid working with them. Life priorities always change and obviously you should be careful of burnout, but if you have the bandwidth to work on a project with them in your life, I don't think you should avoid it just because.
Historically Japan came from China, there is no Japan without China. I'm resorting to super basic literal academic history to communicate here. I'd say that's pretty wtf.
Thanks ... this is useful info. I was thinking I'll park the cash in a low-cost market tracking fund. I think markets are overvalued now but better to do this now than waste another decade :/
It's only down 1k. You want to buy now? It's like catching a falling knife.
I have my phone set to "Do Not Disturb" and it allows me to define that only starred contacts or regular contacts are allowed to get through. Given that most people I know rarely ever call I think it's a sane enough config setting. I have an Android Phone, more specifically an LG G5. No app required in my case, it's just hidden in the settings.
To be fair, the receptors are VERY time dependent too. Take a stare at the top bar for ~20 seconds and then move your eyes down just a bit. You'll see an echo image of the opposite color (colorblindness depending). This shows that even a 'little' time spent saturating the retina will effect the later images.

As other people mention, the retina does a LOT of pre-processing before any 'signal' gets sent. The very first synapse from the receptor is heavily modified by horizontal and bipolar cells in a time-dependent reactive manner. The 'images' we 'see' are nothing like what the retina 'sees'. People with cataracts will commonly have very advanced occlusions before thinking there may be a problem, due to the incredible amount of processing the retina itself does. They really cannot 'see' that they cannot 'see'.

So, trying to reduce vision to a color mapping is just so ... computational. Biology is not like that all the time. It's not a 'map' like with sound and hearing (where tonotopy is semi-conserved throughout brain processing). With vision, things are used as 'information' almost instantly, but for certain by the end of the LGN into V1. You can't really backtrack the data through the system once it hit V1, it self-modifies the memristance of the synapses too quickly to chase the action potentials again. So thinking of things as 'red' isn't what the brain wants to do, it's not matrix algebra. It's 'grandmother' and 'tiger' and 'that-look-in-her-eye'.
Ask HN: What's the current state of affective computing?
I would suggest that with the current rise of AI/ML startups, people would be working on artificial emotional intelligence.
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Now launched: https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/11/12/space-station-cargo-sh...
RISC-V is just a green card describing an ISA, is not even a design. It is as open as OpenPOWER but way less mature.
I remember learning that from this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5FEj9U-CJM
Unless I misread this it sounds like the assignment is on 2 day chunks rather than some unique user ID. Just doing this at impression rather than user level makes me question the applicability of the results, but really interesting read nonetheless.
Most of the records you hear on the radio are physically impossible. The timing is tighter than any human drummer is capable of, the intonation is more precise than any human singer. Every performance has been endlessly massaged using advanced DSP tools; a lot of what you hear is entirely synthetic, with no basis in real musical performance. We're so inured to these superhuman recordings that we've come to expect them.
> fantastically counterintuitive ways your eye fools you without you even noticing

It does not have to be "fooling" when if fact it's just part of the processing pipeline.

> The fact that colors influence colors around them means that
there are far more than 256^3 viewable colors: the spatial axis is like a fourth channel.

No it's not: it may as well be that the function applied to the perceived colours, while takes neighbours as an input - still outputs the same 256^3 colours.
or just straight DOM:

javascript:for(i=4051;i--;)document.write(i%~80?'&#'+(9585+new Date%i%2):'<p style=margin:-.5em>')
This site's JS made me very sad.

A lot of points in this post are about appeasing toxic behavior and working with difficult bosses. Why? Appeasing toxicity only increases toxicity.
Yeah, kind of a Firebase + Bootstrap which are respectively Shoutem CMS and Shoutem UI.
On the other hand the technical quality of the discorse tends to be really low. Things are priased, encouraged, and even rewarded monetarily when they have gaping vulnerabilities or incentive systems that weren't even halfway thought through.

It's a big circle jerk that ends up promoting broken technology. Yes, great to be away from the politics, but no, not a good place to learn cryptocurrency design.
The opening line of the article is:

"10 PRINT[1] is a new book which explores the magical power of a single line of code."

[1] https://www.amazon.com/10-PRINT-CHR-205-5-RND-ebook/dp/B00C9...
Note to OP: you just got several hundred dollars in quality advice from a very experienced source. Talk about lucky!
“Be a high functioning sociopath” seems like it might save time...

Edit: It might also offend, but it's hard to contextualize the behavior of humanity’s apex predators without resorting to models of/like sociopathy. If you have a better model to offer which preserves their humanity in some way, and just paints them as incredibly ideological, deluded, etc, I'd be open to that.
The distinction between feet and seconds is just as real as the distinction between distance and time, and is much more real than the distinction between feet and meters. Look at the parent's literal words and pretend you did not already know what's going on.

I'm well aware of the practical value and conceptual clarity of natural units. They are just not being explained well in this thread. "What the teacher really meant was..." is not a good defense when the student doesn't understand.
> he wonders if telephones are a tool used by the national health service to cut costs

that just lowered my opinion of him. first he mentions there is an online service, but for some reason he can't be bothered to obtain the user id required to use it. similarly with his bank, he can't use facebook messenger to communicate with them (and why on earth would he want to) and mentions their other digital banking services for online access, but again refuses to use them. the report of millions of people with 'telephone phobia' is misrepresenting things - there are not 4.5 million people with a mental condition that causes them fear and anxiety when confronted by a telephone, there are that many people who don't like phones, the same as there are that many people who don't like spiders. and the idea that the NHS might be trying to save money by providing a telephone service staffed 24/7 is just so ludicrous it's hard to know how to respond. the author obviously has mental health issues regarding social interactions, and should seek help for that issue rather than trying to replace the telephone.
x86 can still do this. It has STOS (read next byte/word), LODS (memset), and MOVS (memcpy).
How a Glass Terrarium Changed the World
I imagine the worst advertising is where it feels both unfeelingly-impersonal yet also spyingly-specific.
It takes creativity to carve junior-level tasks out of a real backlog. But it can be done. You just need to have buy-in from your manager. They hired the junior not expecting them to be productive right away. What they usually don't realize is that they need the seniors to spend time mentoring them in order for them to ever be productive. If they can't allow time for that then it's just not a good place for juniors.
It's not a framework, the UI library has React Native components that help you build your app. You can use their Builder to integrate the CMS, but that's another thing.
When you have Visual Snow you see it all the time.
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fastball - Who says [murder] is wrong?

explainplease - Most people who aren't murderers, and a few who are. Are you saying that murder is not wrong?

I'm sorry if I took your response of "many people think this" as a serious response. You are not giving me much else to work with, I'm afraid. You have also failed to answer any of my subsequent questions about murder and killing. And if you can't answer my questions about murder, which apparently is such an easy moral issue for you, then how can you possibly think you have a handle on the nuance of taxation?
That's actually a bad situation for bch. Because of the EDA, their block reward ends up being equal in USD to the bitcoin block reward, regardless of their own price.

Basically, every 12 hours the difficulty resets and then they get 2 weeks worth of mining + inflation in just a few days (at lower prices, just a few hours).

That's not a good thing for you if you hold bch.
Am I mistaken in thinking that if you're an owner or executive of a company that employees in the vicinity of half a million people, the specifics of how lower management operates is legitimately not your business? With an organization that large, anyone would have to delegate that responsibility to others.
TrustZone is not DRM nor a management engine like Intel's ME. It is just a reference design in order to implement some sort of sandbox and security zone in the SoC.

ARM doesn't mandate how TrustZone is used, it just provides the technology. If SoC designers use it to force DRM into their products, it's not really ARM's fault.

Also, just to make it clear, it is not ARM's fault if ARM based SoCs lack proper documentation.
>Your assessment is flawed. Because income taxes are generally progressive, you will have a lower rate applied to a portion of your income and higher rates towards the top end.

My assessment takes all of that into account. I live in one of the higher income tax states, and one of the lower sales tax rates. I have real numbers I can work with.

I pay over $6K/year in state income tax, and my income is nowhere near $150K.

Do the math: At a 10% sales tax, how much do I need to spend to match that? If I take all of my annual spending per year, a 10% sales tax would be less than $6K. And keep in mind we don't pay sales tax for housing and services. At 10%, my sales tax would likely be under $3K. Perhaps even under $2K.

>But you would pay the full sales tax on all your purchase, leading to a similar net effect.

Not true in many states. In one state I lived in the sales tax on groceries was 1%, and over 6% on everything else, for example. I believe I encountered a state with 0% sales tax on groceries, but high on everything else.
Would you pay $1 a month to not see ads and not have your data be sent to third party companies?
Well that was a waste of three minutes. Felt as if I was reading a child's "10 awesome things about my favoritest CEO" homework assignment.

I expected at least a little insight. Building your own crane (how long does that take?!) as opposed to paying somebody a modest sum to help you move heavy objects is not a good lesson.
Stick with building the app yourself only relying on their UI component collection which is free.
Possibly the most efficient and progressive tax is a land value tax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
Same program in Lobster (a Python-alike statically typed language with built-in graphics): https://github.com/aardappel/lobster/blob/master/lobster/sam...
Sure but I don't think anyone here is talking about general intelligence. You don't need general intelligence to replace a lot of ex. job functions. Ironically some of the lowest paid (cleaning) does require close to GI. But many other areas are quite far and are increasingly replacing human intellect. That is a big deal no matter how you look at it.
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I'm not sure I'd be comfortable calling myself "senior" in job titles, but I often end up saying:

> I know this is a "do what I say not do what I do" situation, but please X because we've had problems with Y.
A successful SQL injection probe that does not intentionally or otherwise result in data modification would be unusual, beyond the simple 1 == 1 methods.

The DREs don't seem to have been a target, though the physical and OPSEC vectors are quite well known at this point.

I'm not commenting on the information operations or the loose and ambiguous langauge that has been used to describe these events.
Something I think the article misses to point out are the cliques that form with the groups who appear to execute well under the tyrant vs the groups who are sabotaged. The colleagues who feel sabotaged become resentful and then make it harder for things to get done. Then depending on the office culture, this can spiral into a toxic mess where everyone goes behind everyone's back to get stuff done and then no one gets anything done.
Academic journal publishing is headed for a day of reckoning
Yeah, well. I grew up in the countryside. Recently spent some months back there. Connected with some people from kindergarten and primary school. I learned 6 people from back then died driving their car too fast when about 18~20.

Edit: I also remember two kids burn down the house of one of their parents, playing with matches. I hope they are resourceful now because that one put the parents in a very difficult position.
yes, all the time, but more in low-light, that's normal - vision is noisy
The UI component collection is free, their CMS is paid. https://new.shoutem.com/pricing/
Because this doesn't differ from a mobile web browsing experience - content aggregated from the Web.
I find it interesting that while wages were very low when compared to today, the price of objects are not so different when priced in silver.

Using a bit of googling it looks like a £ in the 1300's was, as the name states, a pound of silver. The exact amount of silver varied a bit over time but this comes out to be about 350g of silver or ~$200.

So a War Horse at £80 is $16,000
Axe: 5d = 5(200/240) = $4
Cow: 10s = 10/20200 = $100
Dozen eggs = 1/2*(200/240) = $0.4

Not too far off. Could be just a historical accident, but with the value of silver holding up over the centuries, I can see where the goldbugs might get their obsession with metals.
Good. Working as intended. They could use some slowing and shaking.

> calling into question [..] its very value to national security

Its what now?
I frequently experience a variant of this where they don't even know who I am.

Me: Hello!

Caller: Am I talking to an individual or a company?

Me: You should know who you're calling.

My answer really throws a wrench into their flowchart, they don't even know which product/service to try to sell me.
Which is a good argument for off-chain scaling (i.e. Segwit). As it is miners have way too much power and their incentives are not aligned with the holders of the currency. Off chain scaling massively reduces their ability to hold the network hostage: value can still be transferred even if transactions slow to a crawl.
Ride Austin is a 100% non-profit that allows drivers to keep 100% of the fare. It had several months to develop free from the influence of Lyft and Uber after they left Austin.

My driver on Friday said he went from Ride Austin to Lyft because he gets more rides from Lyft.

Perhaps someone else can further comment on why Ride Austin isn't winning.
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I can see I'm getting downvoted here, and I may have been a bit harsh, but it still seems like people are saying the equivalent of 'I got started in my career by breaking into abandoned buildings, impersonating security guards to get access to people's private offices, and stealing office supplies when I was younger' but the end result still doesn't justify the initial actions or crimes.
> This article is useless without

> udnerstanding prices is the whole point of the article

Says you! What can you learn from such an article? A list of prices of goods can give you something of a picture of life at the time, by considering the relative cost of things.

How expensive was University? Consider it relative the cost of feeding oneself. How was wealth concentrated in population centers? Consider the difference in prices in London vs. elsewhere. You can ask the same sorts of questions about marriage, funerals, travel.
The algal growth on the side of the boat points to a sudden drop in weight.

I think someone hired these morons to smuggle a load of gold bars and something else went wrong.
Really love your language ;)

Sensationalism maybe?
it's not a race guys
Per-user level doesn't capture the effects I am interested in. Imagine you click on a website and the banner ad makes you subconciously less happy and so you don't submit it to HN for thousands of other users to read; how would randomizing on you and thousands of others' user IDs help? There's no way to link your user ID's randomization to the subsequent visits (or non-visits) of thousands of other people; it just averages everything out to 0 ('500 visitors were exposed to ads, 500 were not; conclusion: ???'), when in fact the real answer is something like '-1000 hits because user yellow_postit was exposed to ads and didn't like them'.

But if you did it on a per-day or per-week or per-month basis, then you could see effects like that: "on ad-free weeks, there are twice as many submissions to Reddit which drives +100 hits per day" etc. Then you don't need to try to track each individual user's activities or reshares - whatever the effects are, they'll show up at the population level.
I’ve met a couple people who quit Amazon in under a month. One saw a poster that said, “work harder, smarter, or faster. But you can’t pick just two”

Like Microsoft, the cultural foundation is masochistic bullshit. They’ll never unwind that. And if that’s the only way to be rich then I’ll settle for successful and call it a day.