skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. "stocks/bonds/land/etc" are not actual assets backed by anything OTHER than scarcity. Land has value due to scarcity and utility (everyone needs somewhere to live). Stocks have value almost exclusively due to capital appreciation. You don't get anything for owning non-dividend-paying stocks. And owning dividend paying stocks just means money is not being reinvested (notice that Berkshire Hathaway has never paid dividends out).

Bitcoin is EXACTLY like land and stocks, except much, much, much more liquid and useful.
Funny that my house in a block with around 300 other residents is only covered by one ISP, then.
Or you could say it is in price discovery.

How much value do people want to tx in a censorship resistant, non-percentage charging transfer system?

How many tx currently cost more than they would if bitcoin was widely accepted?

How many people want to buy gold but don't want to have third party trust with an organization that holds gold or have to hold it themselves.

If bitcoin exists it's price discovery period then the use cases above give it value.
You can either have regional monopolies or the ground constantly being torn up by companies wanting to lay their own cables, resulting in a clusterfuck for any other construction effort, and there's only so much space in the ground for cables anyways, not to mention that it's not practical for new players to enter the market given the costs of laying cables, putting them at a competitive disadvantage.

Sure, only 21 states codify telecom monopolies into law, but in the rest without those laws, how much more choice is there? Let's not count the states where the government paid for dark fiber which is leased to the corporations to provide service for customers, because that seems to be taking the correct route. If that were to happen in other states, it would necessarily require either (1) taking over the telecom infrastructure and leasing it back to them, or (2) expensive buyouts of the telecom's infrastructure. It seems simpler and cheaper to regulate a monopoly in this case.

EDIT: Correction: the laws in these 21 states don't codify monopolies per se, but they make it impossible for cities to build their own infrastructure on some absurd basis that the cities are anti-competitive with respect to corporations:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qkvn4x/the-21-law...

EDIT2: Ignore any argument I was trying to make, as I may or may not have contradicted myself based on my mental shortcomings with regard to concentration and lack of medication.
I run one of these at home as a server (NAS, Minecraft) to this day. Runs FreeBSD 11.1 very nicely.

I was going to email the author about it but couldn't find her email address anywhere - plenty of account details on the usual walled gardens, but no actual email address.

Sadly this is becoming more common :(
NREL develops “tinted” window capable of producing solar power
The Tools of Espionage Are Going Mainstream
Or maybe not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader

Loose money to attract users/creators who put more money into the system.

I don't see how this would qualify as dumping in any way.
> But that's no justification for putting on masks and beating up random people. Nor is it an excuse for encouraging others to do the same.

The problem is, until those in powers are not afraid that their bodies will literally be dragged through the streets, they have no incentive to not do anything they need to stay in power. And the more authoritarian the rule of those in power is, the greater the desire of those not in power to pay back what they received - which means that the means those in power use to stay in power grow ever more brutal. Not nice, but that's the way it is.

Please also remember the inherent violence in the capitalist system - the richness of the rich is guaranteed by the threat of the police to arrest and the "justice" system to lock you up in case you dare to take something away from the rich.

I personally won't throw bricks at banks but I also will not distance myself from those who feel that this is an appropriate course of action.
If I had 1BTC for everytime someone called Bitcoin a bubble since it's inception I'd be all bubbled out.
All conservatives should speak out against Project Veritas and have it shut down.
In due time. Commercial transactions will occur first, business to business.

Consumer applications (like Coinbase) will emerge to support the local population who can use it via smartphone and not need to understand public/private key encryption etc.

how would you get a meaningful number of people who have never used the Internet

They use the Internet; they just call it by a different name: Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram...

Why would a person with low wealth invest their life savings into a highly volatile, recently developed instrument, when they can just buy jewelry, gold, etc

Gold, jewelry, etc can be stolen or lost.
The idea that democracy already failed and americans are already serving oligarchs is more common than you might think.

It’s certainly difficult to see how anti-trump people are anti-democracy: the mechanism with which trump won is distinctly NOT democratic.

To some extent, democracy (and a republic to a far greater extent) only works because of fear of violence. This was discussed heavily in the early days of the republic (well, both the us and rome).
It was. Monero and ZCash are taking that role now.
The parent was clearly refering to the early 2017 protests, not those of 1989. It's as if you did not read one of his paragraphs, the one just before what you quoted.
hahahahha. It’s a strange world when 300k+ of current purchasing power is not considered a decent inheritance. What baseline are you using? I would have loved an inheritance like that..
That's not accurate...you can easily get your limits raised by letting them do their KYC/AML checks.

Also, that doesn't stop you from selling bitcoin into USD.
Unexpected words from the devil himself!
I've actually used a destroyInstance method, for testing. But if you do that, first, nobody can hang on to the pointer they get from getInstance, ever, anywhere in the entire code base. And second, the instance has to be a pointer (so that destroyInstance can delete it), and destroyInstance has to NULL the pointer. Then getInstance has to create a new instance if the pointer is NULL.

It can be done, but if anybody ever calls destroyInstance in production code, well, I question their approach...
Most libertarians I know are good people that I'm proud to know. At the same time, it's like they just skipped over the entire history of the late 19th / early 20th century.

We had immensely powerful private entities short-circuiting the avenues of democratic self-government (just like we do now!), and it took TR--a Republican, not a commie--to point the finger and do something about it. Of course, bring any of that up with them and they'll just quote one of their Austrian school bone-readers back at you as though they have just refuted you with pure logic. And even worse, Democrats and Republicans clearly worship at the same altar, just in a quieter way.

It's like people have more faith in questionable econometrics than in any innate sense of justice. Until something shakes the mainstream faith in money-money-money, the situation is going to get much worse before it gets any better.
Personally, WaPo is one, if not the top paper in the country. Their dedication to great journalism is why I subscribe. If you're an Amazon Prime member you get a big discount too.
how would we know that any very-very-well intended action FB would take upon identifying a suicide tendency is going to help prevent and not actually encourage/cause the suicide? How about false positives?
No, clearly investments are not safe. That’s why those disclaimers exist on any investment commercial.

But with laws at least I know that they met a base level of not ‘a cartoon mafia hiding under a table giggling at the idiots buying our scam’.
legislation is basically a declaration of a government's intent to use its monopoly on violence against people doing or not doing certain behavior

But you're talking about corporations which are already state created entities. You've already bargained with the state to create this entity, the purpose of which is to avoid personal liability for losses incurred by the corporation. You got something in that bargain. You gave something up, too.

So you are applying liberatarianism with respect to something which is inherently unlibertarian, the corporation. An example:

If Joe sells BigCorp $1M of widgets and BigCorp fails to pay and goes out of business, Joe is without recourse against BigCorp's owners because it is a corporation. There's a law (any legislation) which prevents him from getting his money.

You can't pick and choose. You're either a libertarian or you're not. Libertarianism doesn't apply to corporations.
ARM64, at least, is moving towards UEFI/ACPI for booting/peripheral support, so ideally a lot of things will "just work" once people are shipping mobos/silicon with it enabled (and they already are).

That said it's unclear what the volume on those parts will be once higher-grade CPUs come out, which will impact pricing/availability. And newer parts are going to be necessary for competitive performance/power. If the only place you can get a 14nm Thunder X2 is some high-end SuperMicro workstation, it'll be somewhat limiting in the end, anyway. (You can buy a Thunder X1 prebuilt desktop on the order of $1500 USD right now, at least.)

ARMv7 of course is a different bag of worms; Mali tends to ruin everything. But if you can avoid it, a lot of systems can get by with upstream U-Boot and upstream Linux... You can even get some cheap Asus chromebook laptops that can run libreboot and upstream everything (including WiFi if you buy a dongle.)
sure, sure. i've been hearing it for years, the same bubble talk and questions about it's utility. the same nobodies yelling about tulips and and pyramid schemes. i expect this low effort discourse but it is pathetic to see this unsubstantiated bullshit discussed in any seriousness. unfortunately i expect more stories like his as wall street comes to grips with this technology. i'm sure there will be efforts to undermine and manipulate the market but as long as bitcoin continues to be censorship resistant and decentralized there is not a damn thing anybody can do to stop its spread. every simpleton thinks they have some unique insight on why it will not work while the smart people have been working on improvements to the protocol.
In the future, people will be able to use VR for programming work.

https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula

This is a modern project which is attempting to pull this off in Linux.
If you're a student, it's free for a year too!
That's exactly what "Regulatory Arbitrage" means. The author calls it out explicitly.
When the revolution comes for your head, too, you might have a different view on that, and history has shown that to happen time and time again.
Inspiring motivation for remote workers
What I do is I do the percentage split on money I direct towards investments. So I have X dollars to invest in a month, 25% will go to high-risk, 65% medium, 10% low-risk. Any profits coming from a certain risk section will be reinvested into that same section. If some section really balloons out of control I can perform some rebalancing, but in practice I haven't had to worry about that yet.
It's certainly possible, it has no practical use, it is not backed by any 'buyer of last resort', its value is solely derived from faith that it will keep increasing in value. If the holders of coin lose this faith, nobody will want to buy it, so it would effectively become worthless.
That's not just the tech industry. I've never worked in a place that it doesn't happen. I've uncomfortably watched it in the past but took a hard line when a female coworker's first question to me about my new hire was: "Is she hot?"

I responded rather abruptly and forcefully so that everyone within earshot could hear: "She's quite good at what she does."
You may have heard the classic blues song "She caught the Katy" which opens the Blues Brothers movie. It's about this railroad.

She caught the Katy /
Left me a mule to ride
Yeah it's odd that they include

> Bitcoin allows you to make transactions online when Visa does not.

but conveniently leave out the people that care about that the most. Most criminals can not safely engage with banking systems or money transfer services. Bitcoin functions roughly as both of those. darknet markets are what originally gave bitcoin value, and they are the reason it won't go to zero (unless another cryptocurrency eclipses it)
That's most likely the case. There's even no need for bots or automated ways, the ruling party has a lot of followers which are know to follow orders. Plus, there's been plenty of times when they bought votes and people support.
I know of several homes where more than one Netflix stream is common, then throw in a Twitch/YouTube stream on top of that. Realistically, you don't always see speeds at what you pay for (especially during peak hours). At least I don't. So, I think it makes sense to pad your max speeds a bit.

As far as 20 dial-up modems: I don't see where you get 20 from or even why that comparison matters. We aren't just using geocities and AIM anymore.
I think it will morph into a usable laptop OS as Apple pushes it into that direction.

> But to play the devil's advocate, how is it not sufficiently laptop-ish for you? Because the keyboard is detachable? Because it has a touchscreen?

Lack of a mouse equivalent. Having to move your hands off the keyboard to do anything other than type is a pain in the ass.
>When you're forced to park on the street, you can't get away from this. And the notifications for street cleaning often appear between midnight at 8AM, meaning you can end up late to work or with a $150 ticket if you don't pay rapt attention every day.

I will have to admit that this is not a problem I have to deal with, and am completely unfamiliar with the concept. I imagine it has to do with poor urban planning. I can certainly imagine a situation where you could end up in this situation through no fault of your own. However, the phrase, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me" would seem to apply.
The problem is... conservatives are fundamentally dishonest. They don't mind winning dirty. They deserve no respect at all.
How would I force them to do it?

They would still make money if they kept them it would just be less beneficial than it is now. No long term capital gains as an example.

People with little money consume everything they have already, they have no choice, no retirements no nothing.
> Apple's mistake has been to focus upon only profitable consumer product lines,

Yeah, what idiots.
PG said downvoting for disagreement was fine. Like it or not, that's the way the community runs and the way culture is - optimized for quality and cultural reinforcement, not freedom of speech.

Most of the time petty downvotes get balanced out or just sit at -1 anyway, it doesn't matter.
I have a counterexample - CMU's 15-112 bans laptops. The professor for it for the previous 8 years, David Kosbie, is one of the most highly regarded professors in the university.

His primary rationale for it is the "externalized cost" effect described in the article, which I can attest is quite true in my experience teaching.

When you look out at a sea of faces, you can see where the laptops are because of the reactions of people around them -- eyes keep flicking involuntarily to the interesting stuff happening on the screen, and then they peel themselves back to the lecture. It amounts to a long sequence of micro-distractions that have a pretty pronounced effect on learning. Humans are very attuned to things like motion, flickering, and changes in their field of view, and those are very present when browsing the web or reading facebook on your laptop in class. Second, laptop screens are backlit, which means that they may be the brightest object in someone's field of view in the class.

Zoning out on a kindle or printed newspaper has much less of an effect on the people around you. I don't care if someone ignores my class -- that's their choice. I used to not ban laptops, but I've become convinced that it's worth it for the other students.

Also, think about the numbers. It's very possible to have a lecture that's very engaging for about 95% of the class (which is a pretty impressive rate all-told). But the remaining 5% have about 10 students each in a field behind them that can see their laptop screen, so a very small number of students goofing off on laptops can have a disproportionate effect on the class.
Hi, author here. A liquidity crunch is not the same thing as a fall in Bitcoin's price. A liquidity crunch implies that the people who provide the dollars to this market (banks, I'm informed) cease doing so because they don't have confidence that the money they lend to provide USD liquidity to fiat on/offramps will be able to be repaid by their counterparties during whatever the maturity period is of the facility. As a result, companies like those on/offramps run out of dollars, and Bitcoin cannot be shifted through those platforms for any price.

This happened to the London interbank lending market during the week of 15 September 2008, when LIBOR jumped to 8% and the banks simply stopped providing loans to each other. The reason? Because they weren't sure the assets their counterparties (other banks) were sitting on were worth anything (resi mortgages) and they didn't want to find themselves an unsecured creditor.

Mortgages during the subprime crisis didn't fall in price so much as they were impossible to price. This made the credit risk of bank borrowers impossible to price. So funding headed for the doors.

Change up the parties a bit and the banks --> offramps, mortgages ---> Bitcoin, and liquidity --> fiat, as in 2008.

There is simply no way that, as Bitcoin goes parabolic, the on/offramps are prepared to handle a change in the weather which results in a huge influx of withdrawals unless their own bank balances rise significantly. My informed supposition is that most such entities should have high-cost liquidity facilities with commercial banks that can step in and address some of that withdrawal demand.

As then, a liquidity shock (availability of dollars) could break the system without needing a precipitous drop in the market price of Bitcoin.
Are there any places that publish data about what cryptocurrencies darknet markets are using? I'm interested in the overall trends, but not enough to do my own research.
WebAssembly Will Finally Let You Run High-Performance Apps in Your Browser
I think you are making a mistake by only looking at cryptos as "coins". There are businesses being run on and around cryptocurrencies and the cryptoeconomics of the blockchain are intended to ensure the perpetuation of the network.

As long as there is value in maintaining public blockchains, their tokens (BTC, BCH, ETH, etc) will hold monetary value.
In theory that's correct, but in practice banks re-sell loans all the time by packaging them as bonds. So total outstanding home loans has been decoupled from that equation.

Further, the velocity of money is important which reduce the multiplier in practice.

However, if your taking this seriously yes you need a curve which is why I said 100 years, but only listed 90 years worth of changes.
How is this not a political and off-topic submission ?
A path to immigration and citizenship for citizens of African countries is only easier than for those of Indian or Chinese origin -- much shorter EB-2/EB-3 waiting times, higher chance of winning the DV lottery, etc.
YCSB P99 Latencies: YugaByte vs. Apache Cassandra
that argument makes no sense to me personally. For example, if I rented a warehouse, filled up that warehouse with iphones and hired workers to systematically destroy those iphones with hammers, there would be a cost to that activity. but it wouldn't a price floor on anything. The thing itself has to have value, the cost of the thing is not a price floor
The ring is just an indicator of coordination. Coordiniation of what is left up to the humans.
None, actually. If you know the material, feel free to skip my lectures.

The material I teach is generally considered "hard". Most students need my help to point out "This is the main path. Learn this. Let's go over this multiple times in different ways until you see the commonality. That stuff is auxiliary--ignore that for now. Once you have the main idea down, that stuff is just a little bit of extra work."

Every class is different. One class will get an idea very quickly while another will struggle--so my job is to tweak things for that in lectures. In addition, sometimes a class will have a huge gap that you will have to back up and fill.

Even with STEM subjects, teaching has a lot of art to it.
FWIW, maybe I am just on the leading edge of the "changing", but I am specifically excited about WebRTC for video broadcasting due to not only how devices now have hardware support for HEVC but also for the lower latency and lower barrier to entry afforded by WebRTC. WebRTC is a protocol with a widely deployed implementation that is already tied to people's cameras, not a use case, and has absolutely no ties to video conferencing.
Centralization is the real issue here. If people were sending emails to each other, this could not have happened.

Some would perhaps end up in spam, but if you're receiving the "same" message from multiple people, the information itself would eventually came through.
Wow I had no idea! 6 months free -- that is a great deal
Of those four results, the first one is explaining why they don't want author names in titles, the second one explains why they like minimal design, the third one was a false positive on "attention-grabbing Unicode glyphs," and finally the fourth one actually talks about the topic at hand. Why not just link to that one?

The fourth one places a lot of emphasis on the specific implications of "tl;dr" as opposed to other terms like "summary." Given such precision, I'd say the macroexpansion of "tl;dr" would be "too long; didn't read" since that's what it actually stands for.

I'm persuaded that "tl;dr" is best avoided. I'm not persuaded that my comment would or should fall under this guideline.
What do you mean with heterogenous computing? Isn't that supposed to mean CPUs combining different types of cores like the Cell with SPUs or AMD APU with GPU? G5 was just a PPC implementation without any "sidekicks".
The only thing lacking is that it is not the Coca-Cola or Google or McDonalds.

Bitcoin has the brand position in peoples heads. For most, cryptocurrency and Bitcoin are the same thing. You "google" it, you don't "search the web".
Net neutrality prevents ISPs from blocking upstart competitors. If we want competition, we need net neutrality.
Are you familiar with: https://woebot.io/

It acts as a cognitive behavioral therapy tool.
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You can also run them on Azure Notebooks which is basically a free hosted jupyter notebook service for anyone to use:

https://notebooks.azure.com/smortaz/libraries/norvig-pytudes

basically 1) click the link 2) click clone 3) sign in (any gmail, msft id), then go to the notebooks directly and run them. You can also click Terminal for shell prompt.

The sign-in is required since you can edit the notebooks, store/modify data etc.
Assessing the Tradeoffs of NVM-Express Storage at Scale
Wow. Far from discrediting WaPo it actually strengthened the validity of the accusers.

I wonder if this sort of pen-testing could be done more regularly across the industry (by non-shady organizations).
OP said: “Nobody forgot that. (the 1989 protest)”.

Thus the implication seems quite clear - rise up and murder a leader if you want to be heard (then and now).
"Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

This phenomenon is at least new to me. As bonus points, it's a nice example of an attempt at social "hacking".