skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yeah, I wasn't really responding to your whole thing...

Honestly I wish you hadn't removed your post cause now there isn't any context for understanding all these replies. I'm curious about how close your hypothesis is to mine:

I think the fact that young, white men are finding "solace" in opiods, neo-nazi and other fringe groups (including incels) may share a root cause in being brought up with unrealistic expectations of the world (sense of entitlement) and feelings of failure/disappointment with their current position in a post-recession reality.

I also have no evidence, just an intuition born of reading various things and seeing some people close to me grow up and end up in rehab... no one close to me has died, thankfully.

Anyways, the same intuition leads me to believe you probably made your comment in good faith and if that's true, I hope this community response doesn't discourage you from speaking your mind in the future.

Unpopular speech made in good faith is far better than popular speech in bad faith.
If your net worth is positive, you are richer than the poorest 10% of the US.

[edit] A different source suggests the net worth of the bottom 25% of the US is about zero, so you're even higher!

Also, these numbers are for households, and I wouldn't be surprised if poorer families averaged larger households, so in terms of per-capita wealth it's probably even higher.
This is just Google Docs for IPython notebooks. If you don’t already have a use for IPython notebooks, you likely do not have a use for this.
Still, most value funds aren't losing money over the past 5 months.
Why wouldn't they just pre-mine a bunch of coins and reap benefits that way?
Yes, I figured. I have had a college class on homelesness and I run a homeless blog. The OP already replied and clarified. It is all good.
I'm excited. I don't care if Intel wins. I just want a video card that doesn't suck and works perfectly with linux. Even if I unplug my monitor sometimes... Even if it's a laptop and it switches GPU for different outputs... Even if I want to use the standard xrandr and normal ass linux tools for configuring my monitor.
There are many places around the world called Richmond, and even if we assume it's in the US there are still 16 places called Richmond[1].

I wish people were more specific, particularly when reaching an international audience without an innate understanding of places in the US.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond
No, the economy is NOT NOT NOT NOT a zero-sum game.

http://www.asktheharvardmba.com/2008/05/03/is-global-economi...
I don't have any evidence either way, but it smells like the typical Silicon Valley job sniping that happens here every day.

I'd happily take a Chief Architect role at a company if the paycheck had enough zeros and I was the domain expert for that technology.

Maybe someday I'd actually be able to afford a home in this miserable region...
New Zealand has RealMe (https://www.realme.govt.nz/) which is an opt-in system you can use to identify yourself when interacting with various government departments and other entities.
Why would you throw out a paid for PV system? It's a sunk cost unless you're running out of roof space and need more power. The efficiency only drops some 20% over 20 years.

Also, they can be reasonably recycled...
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2016/06/solar-p...
Look no further than the current political climate of the United States, no matter how noble a society there will always be a segment that will act irrationally out of fear and ignorance. That same segment of a superior alien race could easily act to destroy us.
«A bitcoin transaction wastes as much electricity as it takes to power an American home for a week»

This is false, or at best a deceptive statement.¹ A transaction does not consume energy. It's like saying each bit on a CD-ROM "use fuel" when it's shipped on a mail truck. Miners work on a hash of a block, so the number of transactions in the block is independent of energy use.

For example the transaction rate could double tomorrow, without increasing energy consumption.

[¹] Also, this metric is derived from Digiconomist, which is flawed as it overestimate consumption by a factor of 2: http://blog.zorinaq.com/serious-faults-in-beci/
> I believe most Americans are opposed to a national ID, so SSNs have been used as a (utterly terrible) workaround.

The federal government was never intended to administer services or benefits directly to all US citizens. The US Constitution enumerates a very limited set of federal powers: defense, foreign policy and regulation of interstate commerce, none of which concerns the average citizen day to day. It was intended for state and local governments to directly serve the people in almost all circumstances.

The New Deal was a terrible imposition of big government on the country and we're dealing with the cascade of problems and constitutional issues to this day, SSNs being a very visible example.
Stop spreading lies. An ID isn't about disenfranchisement.
Do you honestly the Brazilian Justice and Congress joined forces to do a coup and used a US TV series to manipulate the people into supporting them?

Really?
Unfortunately "larger doses" in terms of Fentanyl is not that much: https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/29/fentanyl-heroin-photo-fa...
> the first few replies were vaguely insinuating I might somehow be sympathetic to neonazis.

Please stop being so defensive. People dog-piled on you because they thought you said something dumb. They're not being "hateful" or "violent". Those words have meanings, and their meanings are actually directly related to why Reddit banned those subreddits. If you can't tell the difference between me saying "Yo your opinion is dumb and here's why" and "You're black you need to leave" then just wow, you may need to take a step away from the Internet for awhile.

I brought up Neo-Nazis and the Alt-Right because they were the main ones affected by the Reddit bans and your comment did not do enough to distance whatever you were talking about from them. Also, the Alt-Right had a large overlap with the subreddits you do seem to be talking about.

If you want to have a conversation about such a thing, I'm happy to engage over private message. But you bringing it up was so tangental, so unrelated, and so odd that I could not resist calling you out on it.

But again, it was just so out of place in a discussion where people are talking about the opioid crisis. The argument you're trying to make is horribly tangental and out of place.

To be especially frank: people are reacting to you so negatively because your comments are completely unrelated and showed an intense desire to discuss the subreddit bans. When we called you out on this, you got extraordinarily defensive and realized the conversation wasn't going to go your way. So you backed down. Welcome to intellectual discourse. If you don't feel confident defending your opinions in such a space...well maybe they're not opinions that you can defend very well.
Another reason to be so proud of one of my city's best breweries, Modern Times. Totally employee owned and growing like gangbusters. I admire Jacob and the whole team there for being the Fugazi of beer.
I think your own post curtailed any chance of intellectual conversation, and you're taking it out on other posters.

And you've posted you figured it would go like this.

Take the hint you are giving yourself: best re-consider what it is you're about to post, given your past experiences.
The computer isn't off; the NIC is still on and it can wake the rest of the system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN
Doesn't look like they were integrated into the wheels, though.

Also, I take a slight issue with calling a vehicle that cost over half a million and sold less than 100 units a "production" car. :P
The reason the capacity benefits from Segwit haven't fully appeared yet is because people haven't switched to using it yet. The 2X fork required everyone to switch to it at once via software that wasn't exactly well tested or thoroughly reviewed. That's why it failed.
Redistribution is done via tax rather than confiscating stock. The popular idea is some kind of wealth tax. Often goes hand in hand with UBI.
It would be incredibly interesting to see who opened short positions shortly before this announcement.

I'd be willing to bet at least a few of the names at the bottom of that message are among them.
Out of curiosity, what doesn’t AWS comply with? I was under the impression they were certified for almost every use case involving PII.
> Historically it was just cut with OTCs or detritus, which was a problem that could be solved in most cases by simply doing more.

Well, until you get a more pure batch and you try to do the same amount you do with the dilute batch.
Cryptojacking craze that drains your CPU now done by 2,500 sites – Ars Technica
Most Ph.D. students receive a tuition waiver that's considered part of their compensation.

Example, my Ph.D. was paid for primarily through an NSF grant that my advisor was awarded. An engineering Ph.D. student at my university costs the P.I. a bit more than $100k per year -- $25k stipend for living expenses, $40k for tuition, and the rest goes to travel and university overhead.

I paid federal and state income tax on the $25k (not FICA), and the $40k for tuition was reported as tax-exempt income on my W2. Remove the tax exempt status on that tuition money, and my taxable income more than doubles without any increase in my ability to pay. It looks like the effective tax rate would be ~45% of the stipend, and that's not counting FICA or state tax burden [1].

Who is going to do a Ph.D. in the US if this change is enacted? This would seriously damage the workforce development pipeline.

Edit: I didn't realize the difference in the standard deduction, which isn't accounted for in the ADP estimate. It still works out to about 32% effective tax rate, which is still a significant addition to the opportunity cost of a 5-year Ph.D.

[0]: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/11/07/grad-students...

[1]: https://www.adp.com/tools-and-resources/calculators-and-tool...
It appears this is Richmond, VA.
Digital certificates sound like a terrible idea.

I would prefer a smart token/card with a PIN on it.

And the government should not do anything stupid like try to put a GPS on it "for security purposes", which even if it was technically a good feature for that and not just another backdoor through which intelligence agencies can spy on everyone, it would kill the whole idea immediately.
The whiskey consolidation isn't really comparable. Most of the holding companies are just that, and have gone out of their way to not disturb the quality distilleries keep. They can even be keen to spend on improving it. Whiskey is a luxury market in that regard.

That has not been the case with brewery consolidation, which has mostly aimed to cheapen production. The reactions from enthusiasts reflects that.
Studies have also shown that social psychology is a morass of irreproducible results, so without links to detailed descriptions of their methodologies and hostile verifications, it's reasonable to be skeptical of these claims.
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Richmond, VA is the biggest and most important Richmond. Anyone who has heard of Richmond, VA will likely assume that is the Richmond being referenced. Anyone who hasn't heard of Richmond, VA gains no additional understanding from knowing which state it's in.
In something as volatile as crypto, ethereum's 3.3% shift is not worth the risk.
Chronic pain escalation, sure, but also: kids.

I've come to realize that the concept of gateway drugs is bullshit. Kids are going to try whatever they have available. If heroin suddenly enters the scene, then heroin is what they're going to try. Same thing for meth.

Also, it's a different sort of high. When you want to get drunk, you drink. When you want to feel stupid, you smoke weed. But when you just want to feel like everything is beautiful and nothing is wrong, you try opiates (or amphetamines).
Violence doesn't have much to do with inequality. They might be weakly correlated, but you'd have to go far beyond that to establish causality.
CNN spreads propaganda to U.S. On Facebook, CNN earns awards as fairness and freedom fighters.
Sure, in name only. Laphroaig for example was purchased by Jim Bean (I think, or the company that owns Jim bean). The only real change was that they started using Jim Bean barells as part of their maturing process, which I have to say adds a nice flavour.

It's not as if they decided to scrap 300 years of tradition and start spewing out cheap brew under different names because their corporate overlords decreed it.

I'm not sure about the handful number, have you got a source for this? I visited Islay recently and there are at least 7 or 8 independent distillers there.

Yeah, a lot do use the consolidated maltings, but that's because there is not a discernable loss in quality. Malting by hand takes ages and ages. Islay distillers still use local peat though.
What is proposed here is not proof of stake. Proof of stake relies on either random selection (lottery) or wealth/age of investment(equity). This is a new beast.
That's why Asian beer taste so crisp!

German purity laws are great but too narrow, there's good beer made from rice
Yeah, people think they're too good to have a problem with this stuff, but there's a real physical damage going on that is not something that one can shake off.

I lost a relative to drug abuse. I think one of the reasons they got into it was she they were very intolerant to boredom and just scoffed at everything. Nothing was serious, everything got a do over.
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While you're right, and I dont think you ought to be downvoted, governments evolve.
The wealth is in the form of stock. If they hold the stock, and they're not selling it, where does the tax come in? They would have to sell the stock in order to pay the tax, paying capital gains tax in the process? Bezos doesn't have $95 billion sitting in a savings account.

Let's pretend it's land instead of stock. If I own a parcel of land with $10 million, but don't have much cash, and the government wants to tax me 10% of my wealth, where do I get the money to pay the tax? I'm forced to sell off part of the land? What, every year? Until I don't own anything anymore?
I poured my blood, sweat and life savings into my restaurant. It ruined my life.
The craft beer market has been dead to me for a long time.

That's not to say that there aren't still a number of very good beers and breweries out there that I enjoy, but to say that the market is saturated. It's clear that many newer breweries spend more time on their label designs than they do on their beers, and trying to find the good ones has become tiring.. so I stick to what I know these days.
There's a lot of downtime for travelers, so shops are a good way for airports to make money, and for travelers to relieve boredom. The airports aren't big because of the shops, they're big because the planes and tarmacs need tons of space.
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It's also worth noting that you can smoke heroin, which probably requires a significantly lower mental barrier to cross.

And once you're in the throes of addiction from smoking it, I'm guessing injection seems less and less objectionable.
Nothing at all will come of this. There is practically zero chance of ever detecting a signal from the one or two other intelligent species that might be in our galaxy.

But your comment sounds like you are concerned about broadcasting. The chinese (like SETI) are just listening. Of course, we're all broadcasting all the time but, so what? What do we have to fear from being heard?
That's exactly where their inspiration came from, they even invited Liu Cixin to visit the facility.
Well, I can try to lay it out more formally:

We can divide up the task of running a physical simulation into the part where the state is computed, and the part where the results are made visible to us in a way we understand.

We can also divide computation up into the same two pieces: the actual solving of the problem, and then the task of reading symbols off the Turing tape. Usually, we set up our definitions so that a program isn't thought to "solve" a problem unless the reading-the-answer part is trivial.

Now, for a person living inside a simulation, the reading-the-answer part would become insignificant. Why do they care if we can see in to their universe?

So, if all we want is to make a world for simulated people to live in, why not stuff all of the computational complexity into the reading-the-answer part, and then not do it? They would be perfectly happy with a jumbled-up, uninterpretable state in our world, because they would be living on the inside where it made sense.

So, if that is convincing, then allow me to pitch my universe simulating computer:

Launch two photons into space. The distance between them is the state of the simulation. If you want to look in to the state, you have to solve an incredibly hard exponential problem to map the distance to a certain corresponding wavefunction that you could make sense out of.

However, the inhabitants wouldn't care about whether or not you interpreted their state. So, as far as the simulated are concerned, two photons flying apart do make a simulation!

In my opinion the easiest way to make this reductio-ad-absurdum go away is to reject the idea that the simulated is real.
Tencent is pretty good to companies they take in so this is probably great for Snap.

For instance in gaming, Tencent bought majority stakes in Riot Game, minority stakes in Epic games who are doing amazing things for the Unreal Engine, Rovio a top mobile publisher (Angry Birds) and a bit of Activision/Blizzard. So far all of those companies benefitted from the partnership.
Intel is all in on becoming a "data company", with the recent design wins in self driving cars & the AMD deal I'm confident that they will come out of the AI HW race in strong shape. This move just reaffirms that.
Yeah, what is your point?
Neither was I.

For many years Netflix actually mailed DVDs (physical goods) to your home.
I had a birthday party at an aladdin's castle!
Taxes are not a punitive fee. Apple is paying for the public infrastructure and services used in the US. Military, police, fire protection. Health services. Roads. Foreign diplomacy. Legislative access. Executive function. Judicial expertise. All of which they reap a disproportionate reward from.

You could just as well argue that anything Apple sells should be free on account of them wanting more sales, not less. And the goal of government is not to maximize corporate income. For that matter, companies don't really have a right to make more money, only to participate in a fair economy.
If you accept it is not a zero sum game this is in no way equivalent to suggesting the strongest should have their way on how the cake is cut.

Regressive shares do not make a larger total all by themselves, in fact at some point there are very negative returns to the total when the wealthiest get a bigger share.
Mining rewards will be gone in a couple of years, then all that's left are fees to pay for mining - meaning, for securing the blockchain.

Higher energy costs mean higher transaction fees, which mean a disincentive to transact, and vice versa. The end state of bitcoin is a hash rate which corresponds to how much people are willing to pay for transactions. It may be a lot lower than it is today.
How many million lines of mainframe COBOL would need to be updated if the SSN were to go away?
Yep, can't disagree with that right now... still just trying to help. Cheers!
His comment is referencing an excellent trilogy by Cixin Liu, although it’s true that also related to broadcasting.

Massive spoilers of the second and first books: https://books.google.com/books?id=ThKrDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT163&lpg=...

https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/18127/dark-fo...
Why would any aliens have any intentions toward us? Why should they care at all? The only resources we have on earth that aren't more easily acquired in space are sitcoms and reality shows.
They could sell some of the stock to pay for that the same way their employees do when their stock grants mature couldn't they?
It's definitely on our short list of problems to solve, but unfortunately the solution takes a bit more than traditional feature development.
You might be better off going outside, and advocating for better mental health services instead of trying to create a strawman about how shutting web forums kills people.

Anyone that gets on drugs b/c their forum is shutoff/blocked has deeper addiction problems. And sitting on Reddit all day being angry isn't helping. It's just avoiding the underlying problem.
Given that the GOP constantly disparages and insults them and their members, I can completely see why they wouldn't want to support GOP candidates.
GDP is (hopefully) creation of value per unit time, so as others point out, comparing it with the notional value of a currency at a point in time is not sensible. It's like comparing watts versus KWh, or your annual income with your bank balance. But there's a bigger mistake here.

The point of the economy is to create value for humans. There is plenty of non-value-creating activity that can be denominated in dollar terms, but that doesn't make it actually valuable. For example, this season's hurricanes will cause something like $200bn in economic activity. But that doesn't mean we should have more hurricanes. [1] People bet at least tens of billions annually on sports, but getting people to double or triple that doesn't actually make anybody richer. Similarly, Bitcoin is only a true economic positive to the extent that it actually creates new value for humans.

If Bill Gates went on a Bitcoin buying spree, he could easily drive the nominal market cap way up. But we'd have no more economic value in the world. If Bitcoin enthusiasts got bored and turned off all the servers, we'd have little less economic value in the world. That's because most Bitcoin use is not economically productive. Most of it is, like gambling, just moving existing economic value around between people.

I go on at length like this because it's vital that startup people understand the difference between creating value and just shuffling who controls existing value. Only the former is sustainable.

[1] To think otherwise is the broken window fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
not sure what measure of net worth you're referring to but if it means assets minus debt, I suspect a lot of poor people don't have any debt (ability to be in debt itself can be an indication of wealth :))...
So instead of just using energy we'll be wasting physical resources on making hard drives? Doesn't sound eco-friendly to me. It does sound like a good way to drive up costs for the NSA to store everyone's data. That's a really clever way to fight mass surveillance.
In Minneapolis there are too many microbreweries. I say this because more than half of them produce tooth looseningly bad beer. Or the beer actually makes me feel ill after I drink it. I've all but stopped drinking beer completely.

Having said that, the bigger microbreweries now resemble AIB so closely they're not really microbreweries anymore. They have become what they were reacting to.