skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I replied to most of this in a side-thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15795996

But I'd like to elaborate a bit here. UBI is not identical to NIT because the difference is marketing, not math. Most of the electorate's basis for evaluating a given policy is not to perform a mathematical comparison of two systems and checking whether they yield the same results. How something is done is as important in politics as what gets done.

Which is why, as I've pointed out, BI isn't like NIT at all. The difference is how the idea is going to get sold to the public, not what each taxpayer is going to end up contributing to the system as a function of their income.
Calculating a P/E on transaction fees seems silly because frees on a crypto currency aren't related to the amount of value moved they are related to the number of bytes of space your transaction takes which in a simple transaction is most effected by the number of source and destination addresses used in the transaction.

A better way to calculate this fake P/E ratio would be to look at the total USD volume of Bitcoin transactions and take 2% of that as the "earnings" logic being that if a coin were a credit card like company their earnings would be 2% of thier transaction volume. Still a bit of a contrived metric but at least related to the economic activity taking place.
The chance of a Bitcoin crash is greater than 80%
How We Built Failover Architecture for a Taxi Service
Agreed. I'm completely open to marriage but haven't found the right person yet.
> Clearly there’s no price that bitcoin holders will sell at so they’re clearly exiting the USD ecosystem.

I reckon there would be a lot of sellers if the price went to $1000.
I can totally agree. There's no way to go on the same server a few times a week and form friendships. Now you have to in many games specifically add someone as a friend and wait for them to confirm it, if you ever want to see that person again. But that's not organic and that's not how friendships develop. I can't make friends on Overwatch, for example. I wish more people would talk about how this has been totally stripped from online games nowadays. People don't even bother talking during matches, mostly because as you mention they are so short.
From your site, "Two closest airports: At 370m apart are the Horsching International Airport and Linz Aiports in Austria."

From Wikipedia, "Linz Airport, also known as Blue Danube Airport Linz and formerly Hörsching Airport"

Are you sure they aren't one and the same?
>> >Anyone can copy Facebook's model, or even its code, or one of the many other social networks out there. There is absolutely nothing provable about facebook as a good social network.

That's a false analogy. You can rewrite it that way if you like, but it doesn't actually show anything.

The OP claimed that "one can provable show it’s a good store of wealth."

That's more akin to saying that facebook will provably continue to be the top social network. You can't prove that, and much like with cryptocurrencies it depends on what else comes along, how facebook continues to perform and whether people lose interest in the whole area of social networking (or cryptocurrency).

BTC has been around a few years. Saying "It has scarcity therefore I can prove it's a good store of wealth" is bollocks, sorry. Lots of things have scarcity.
> Was the collapse of the German Deutsche Mark...

I think you may have this backwards. Your example currencies all tanked against USD. BTC is appreciating, heavily, against USD.

> so they’re clearly exiting the USD ecosystem

Sorry, are you suggesting that there's currently a run on USD? Because I'm pretty sure there isn't.

What you have here is pretty standard speculation in the price of BTC. I don't think you can read a lot more into it.

> Because bitcoin is measurable scarcity one can provable show it’s a good store of wealth

One can't, provably, do anything of the sort. It might prove to be a good store of wealth but neither its scarcity nor its current price gymnastics are indicators one way or the other.
Experience has a productivity curve.
Lucid is a functional programming language from the '80s that took a very different approach. All variables are infinite streams of values. It is a grandfather of sorts of reactive programming. Although the book title claims it's a dataflow language, the original Lucid is more a type of reduction-strategy functional language with a twist (viz. they call it Eduction).

The authors later refined the idea with Multidimensional Lucid, which replaces a slew of special forms (e.g. next, fby) and better deals with complex nested iterations, essentially by introducing a eval-at-context operator (context being a vector of dimension values). The Multidimensional Programming (https://books.google.be/books/about/Multidimensional_Program...) book starts with the example of transposing a matrix without touching its values.

Here's the Lucid wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_(programming_language)

The relatively ancient pLucid implementation can be found here: https://code.google.com/archive/p/plucid/

The original book's PDF can be found on various sites, such as Bret Victor's http://worrydream.com/refs/Wadge%20-%20Lucid,%20the%20Datafl...
In Spitalfields. The noise is unbearable. We moved out of an office and back to dedicated desks because it's actually much quieter in there than in the office spaces, where the walls let people who are on the phone think they can talk as loud as they like - despite the fact the walls offer no sound insulation. In the dedicated desks area people are usually much more courteous, leaving the room to take phone calls.

If WeWork wants to do one thing to improve their spaces, sound engineering is it. Figure out how to make the offices sound-proof, install sound absorbing soft furnishing or even carpet (currently everything is a hard surface, so sound absorption is basically zero).
>> It is only worth something because other people say it is worth something

That is actually the very definition of most currencies currently in use [1]. Money is actually just a promise that someone will provide you goods or services in exchange for it sometime in the future, it has no intrinsic worth. Also, paper money isn't tied to anything [2] either, let alone the "digital" money we have in the banks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock
I'd be excited about Flutter if it wasn't using a language that I would only ever use to write Flutter apps and literally nothing else, ever.
For the Casper update of Ethereum with proof of stake, this may turn into a useful metric. You can use your ETH to participate in the PoS lottery and thus earn ETH (a kind of dividend).
Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense. Neat stuff.

Btw there is proprietary/coprighted unity shader code cut and pasted into this, someobe even copied the original comments from the unity shaders. For example search for "DecodeLightmapRGBM" in the below source code, which is from the demo - that code and others are copied:

https://gist.github.com/bhouston/1c3c6835ca9766571f07ad0126d...

Here is some unity source code to compare against: https://gist.github.com/nicloay/8d2ae254a77de58bb42b9009b4cf...
also the fact that 99% of bitcoin's value is tied up in financial speculation rather than real world use cases, and the remaining 1% is drug dealing.
My only resentment toward Bitcoin is that if I had gotten in early enough there could have been some easy money to be made, but only because I believe in the Greater Fools theory, not because I actually believe in Bitcoin as a currency.
I may be biased since I've been working with Xamarin since 2013, but I fail to see how Flutter could be a better choice than Xamarin:

- the language is a niche compared to C# (which translates in "it's harder to hire devs")

- it's less mature (both the framework and the language)

- most importantly, Flutter uses its own set of controls that look like the native ones, while Xamarin uses the platform's native controls.

Can someone please fill in what are the advantages of Flutter?
Nothing imho, but still it's not good enough and they add sugar. Probably more and more because people get used to the sweetness of it.
You get interoperability with trustless trading tools like EtherDelta and 0x, and ERC20-compatible wallets like MEW and Jibrel.
> like direct connection between two VPN-connected hosts when on the same LAN

If they are on the same LAN then they should be able to see each other through the local interface.

If connections between them using local addresses are going through the VPN then you have a routing issue - even with the OpenVPN interface set as your default gateway the gateway for the local subnet should still be the local, presumably physical, network interface.

If you are using VPN provided addresses (or public addresses) for the connections then that is the issue. It shouldn't be the VPN's job to say "I think this should be routed locally instead".

If you are using non-local local addresses, i.e. if you have two subnets on your physical network are talking between them, then you need to set the gateways for those subnets appropriately. The VPN will see them as separate networks (they are addressing-wise) and again it is not its job to decide routing apart from for its own virtual network.
The burden of proof is on the side saying "this time is different", the four most dangerous words in investing.

Of course we will have to wait and see yet again, because "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

Same song different drummer.
I'd love to know how far away from the next crash people think we are.

And where they think is a safe place to put money when that happens.
Does anyone have some experience with Flutter?

Have checked out some apps from Google Play and it seems slick.
Yes, you do have to be willing to spend thousands of hours to become that kind of game programmer.
The high transaction fees and long transaction delays are turning into a reason why people are starting to question bitcoin.
It's interesting that 130k connections/core is limiting to you. Care to share some more details? Are those websocket connections? If yes what do you use as your backend? Something custom?
Peter Norvig's Review on Amazon for Python-How to Program
> In any event, f here is a function, not a computation. If for some reason you want to actually use a computation

Yes, absolutely I want to use a computation! The point is that I want to understand how TLA+ can abstract over computations.
Dot-com bubble lost $1.7 trillion when it popped. All cryptocurrencies combined are like $300 billion, and they will definitely not go to zero if/when it pops.
You remember that there were other social networks before facebook dominated everything, right? Network effect now is no guarantor of the future.
> Yet we state in job requirements "5 years experience with ____" with a sweeping generalization for everyone that has worked with ____ 5 years.

I'd be happy to hire somebody with five years of experience. However I might get somebody with ten times six months of experience instead. Not the same thing.

My point is: somebody who has worked on a thing so big that it took five years, and watched its growing pains and observed it take detours and outright wrong paths has learned a great deal, and I'd be eager to have them on my team.

Somebody who spent the last five years banging out lots of cookie-cutter two-month projects doesn't bring that experience at all.

> So why are many companies grouping applicants by years of experience, and not by quality?

This is a reasonable question. If somebody has long experience, this is a quality, in my experience. But, as I explained above, plain counting years gives no valuable information.

> The only forward answer that I have gotten was "because it's easy, and a measure (but not THE measure)". I don't find this answer satisfactory.

Neither do I.

As an aside (which some might object to), I feel myself growing sympathetic to reverse-ageism: I'd prefer to only have people older than 30 years on my team. To put it most bluntly: somebody that old will very likely have been egregiously wrong before, will have failed spectacularly before. It has been my experience that this makes people better engineers, and better teammates.

People who haven't met with failure yet make me suspicious.

Now get off my lawn.
Set about:config?filter=devtools.debugger.new-debugger-frontend to false, then reopen the debugger and expand the right pane, the Events tab should be there: https://i.imgur.com/GLGrc7y.png.
Do not blindly follow any recommendation on the Internet, please! Measure, measure and measure again!

It's also important to measure in your actual use-case, and not just with benchmarks that seem "close enough"; I know it sounds odd, but I've seen others adjust settings and then prove that it worked with a benchmark that they claim is "representative", when in reality they didn't actually improve anything because that "representative benchmark" differed from the real use case in precisely the way that would not respond to the adjustment.

Blindly following "best practices" is bad enough, but "proving" that the changes work with crucially-different benchmarks is worse; and when it's some expensive consultant doing such things, I think it may even approach fraud.
Yup. Bitcoin transactions have stagnated for the last year or so.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-btc-eth-bc...
Thank you for your calculations. Great stuff!
KDE 4 was the biggest disappointment I had in the Linux world. It became usable to me a few years later.

KDE 5 is fine, doing a few changes like disabling plasma volume and starting KMix at startup instead. Still have to use pavucontrol occasionally, though.

Yesterday I discovered you can switch the menu style (right click -> alternatives) to a more classic type (like KDE 3, plus favorites), or to a full screen win8 type (for tablets).
Gold has close to no use cases (80%+ is store of wealth) and seems to be doing fine at an $8tn global market cap.

Of the potential 21m Bitcoin in existence, 4m are assumed to have been permanently lose. 16m have been mined. That leaves 1m coins left to be acquired in the future.
> We proposed a kind of DRM non-aggression pact, through which W3C members would promise that they'd only sue people under laws like DMCA 1201 if there was some other law that had been broken. So if someone violates your copyright, or incites someone to violate your copyright, or interferes with your contracts with your users, or misappropriates your trade secrets, or counterfeits your trademarks, or does anything else that violates your legal rights, you can throw the book at them.

With that system, what would stop someone from selling software that can be used to infringe copyright. As long as they don't do so themselves or "incite" anyone else to do so (perhaps promoting a legitimate use like pre-buffering), could they be sued?
> I’ve already started to learn Dart and create some test apps

Doesn't sound like the author actually has much experience with the product? And the JS hate seems a bit silly. Sure, JS and its ecosystem has its frustrations but it also has a ton of momentum and a wide, deep hiring pool. The solution isn't to learn a new language (never even heard of anyone using dart).

Will be tough to beat React-Native IMO, especially once it settles down a bit.
Little Workshop has done neat stuff, none of it rocket science, but all of it very polished. My favorite is http://www.playkeepout.com/

Sadly they never seem to open source anything? It'd be nice to see how such polished stuff is organized
>Gender equality is still a big problem in Europe

Men and women are equal under the law (in most or all European states) when it comes to labour.

Gender inequality in Europe is largely caused by individual choices. This is best demonstrated by the fact that in poorer countries of eastern Europe, women are much more represented in STEM as it's a good way out of poverty, while richer countries (such as Scandinavian) where women have more choice, the interest gap for STEM is much more skewed in favor of men.

It should also be noted that in countries where a company cannot fire you for going part time at work, it is women who overwhelmingly take advantage of this.

Also, equating the inequality of women in the middle east with Europe in any way is ridiculous.
It's noteworthy that this is an ERC20 compliant token. A pretty significant market of tokens is developing around the ERC20 standard, which should generate significant returns to scale (a high level of compatibility between applications supporting individual tokens means less duplication of work and more complementary development).
A comment is not always atomic. We should be able to agree/disagree with the subset of a comment.
FD: I am an Infrastructure Guy.

Honestly I care a lot less about ME on servers because at the end of the day, if I see a server misbehaving (sending packets on the wire where it shouldn't) that's going to be a big red flag. Not to mention, egress traffic is indeed filtered. Could they compromise how my applications run? probably. Is there a need to do that? Maybe. Would I see it? certainly.

the concern of ME is for my laptop which many wifi access points have "direct" line access to, it stores all the secrets of my server environment, and even if encrypted a persistent backdoor in ring -1 of my CPU is going to compromise those thousands of servers and in exactly the way I can't defend against.
I should add that I also want to use the most standardized desktop environment I can find. Which these days seems to be Win10, macOS, Ubuntu, and maybe a KDE based one?

My argument is the same as what Linus points out in this rant (5:33): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmHRSeA2c8&feature=youtu.be...

I want life to be easy for app developers, having to target a gazillion different Linux based platforms kind of sucks.
Transaction fees are about $5-7 USD right now, which for transactions over $200 makes it cheaper than using a credit card, and definitely cheaper than a wire.
Like people holding gold in the period when gold does not appreciate are left holding worthless chunks of metal?
Thanks for the gems. It's been awhile since I've been to the HP Museum page. The Circuit Solver example is pretty cool, but that is a lot of keystrokes haha:

http://www.hpmuseum.org/software/41/41elcirc.htm
Your reply gives me the impression that you are not up to date with Reinforcement Learning. If you did, you would know that the author really understands this domain and was not merely tautological.

"Specialized at being human" - this is a deep intuition. We are reinforcement learning agents that are pre-programed with a certain number of reward responses. We learn from rewards to keep ourselves alive, to find food, company and make babies. It's all a self reinforcing loop, where intelligence has the role of keeping the body alive, and the body has the role of expressing that intelligence. We're really specialized in keeping human bodies alive and making more human bodies, in our present environment.

The author puts a hard limit on intelligence because intelligence is limited by the complexity of the problems it needs to solve (assuming it has sufficient abilities). So the environment is the bottleneck. In that case, an AGI would be like an intelligent human, a little bit better than the rest, not millions of times better.
While the author has every right to hold those opinions, he doesn't seem to be an anthropologist, sociologist or historian, as his entire analysis is completely devoid of context and the desire to understand. Value systems, while also a result of arbitrary progress, mostly arise to fit the conditions of the society that creates them. A face-to-face society is very different from a strangers' society. Europe in the middle ages was not much different from those cultures the author derides. Part of the reason why some cultures still maintain face-to-face values is because Europe, largely due to chance, progressed technologically before other cultures (after learning algebra from the Arabs), and travel and communication technologies are what create a strangers' society with its own, very different values. Then, Europe harmfully interfered with the progress of other societies.

Also, it is a little funny to call other culture's value "toxic" and your own "superior", considering that the European culture of rationality has been the deadly, violent and exploitative (of both people and nature) to a far larger scale than any other.
> For every incompetent investor who comes on board, you'll have a great investor who'll trust you.

Incompetence is blind trust. A good investor actually cares about the performance of the companies in which they invest - and that includes its ability to realistically project and meet those projections. A CEO who promises the moon on a stick and delivers little is not doing his job well. I am a fan of Elon, but you can't take a whole heap of money and then complain that people are interested.

As people have said, you can avoid this obligation to your shareholders by not having any.
I still have a G5 for some specific software, and it has amazing power management. Nothing at the time even came close. It would put itself to sleep without fuss, and wake instantly and seamlessly. It certainly used less power than my newer linux x64 box over the course of a day.
Why Microsoft dropped its Delve app for Windows 10
Not exactly, if your country economy collapse you still live in your country and are onboard with your fellow citizen to start anew.

If bitcoin collapse you are totally on you own while your neighbors that never invested in bitcoin remain totally unharmed by this virtual event.
Eh, nope. That's not how it works.

Holding 1 USD will give you 1 USD after 1 year.

Holding 1 Bitcoin will give you 1 Bitcoin after 1 year.

You are confusing the unit you are holding with the value "vs" another unit. That depends on the market and the external factors (like inflation, interest rates, etc...)

But holding 1 Unit will always give you 1 Unit of whatever you are holding.
> Monopolies are not illegal

No, they aren't. But can you think of any examples of a company that built a monopoly and refrained from exploiting it to the detriment of the market and consumers in the long term?
> Because it is a useless resource. It is only worth something because other people say it is worth something

So, like art?
Indeed. If you can't really measure the difference, then I'd say setting it either way probably doesn't matter anyway.
Ouch. That's one of the most painful and hard to diagnose disorders, I remember watching an educational video on it.
I agree. As a Linux user I always just assume they are the same as Windows.
How about the "E" in non dividend stocks? How does owning 1% of Amazon entitle me to 1% of their earnings?
You're getting 2 (or X) virtual cores - which means absolutely nothing and can vary from minute to mintue / hour to hour - Linode was even giving 8 virtual cores with the cheapest plan 2/3 years ago. Virtual cores on Linode/DO/Vultr are shared/contended, basically undefined in terms of lower bound performance - you are at the mercy of other tenants - and there's a lot more tenants in the building too (where number of tenants is exponentially more than physical cores), so I maintain if your CPU bound and horizontal scaling these are poor choices. The cost of provisioning high performance networking is very real, Linode/DO/Vultr don't expect 98% of their customers to use anything close to 1TB and this nicely fit with the idea that they are poor choice for horizontal scaling - hence why AWS Lightsail isn't a threat to main cloud offerings. If you're just getting start and no where near the limit of single node then fine, I even use Linode for a few clients myself "Bandwidth:
39GB Used, 13961GB Remaining, 14000GB Quota ".