skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll air my recent horror story: my Mac Mini Server 6,2 (2012) has two SSDs I had welded together as a RAID-0 array. I updated from 10.12 Sierra to 10.13 High Sierra without a hitch. On 20 November I for reasons I know bitterly regret I decided to wipe my system and reload from backups... an exercise that usually takes six hours, max. I've run into issue after issue (High Sierra formatting the RAID array as APFS by default and then announcing that is not a bootable configuration, terrible RAID drivers littering my installer log with write errors and thus refusing to restore Time Machine backups onto the array once I reformatted it as JHFS+, and latterly some obscure kernel cache error that precludes booting)... long story short, twelve days after the fatal decision, my system is still not bootable.

And Apple Support is non-existent. Documentation about APFS and RAID is thin on the ground. Phone support told me in no uncertain terms that my Mini's number was not a Server so I could not access Enterprise Support, and of course the consumer level folks do not know anything about RAID (or even multi-drive systems). It's been a total shitstorm.

Never have I been so proximate to just dumping them and telling them to piss off, but I also know I won't, because I am too deeply invested in their integrated ecosystem (macOS, Mac Pro, MacBook, iOS, iPhone, iPad, Apple Music...)... except I am starting to think it might make sense to tell them to piss off integrally and voting with my feet.
I thought they meant that they would ask you to fix their computer.
It's an illusion that American culture (or any culture) has maintained some solid state until immigration or liberal ideology forced change. American culture has always changed from generation to generation, deviating from the norm, it just happened that until recently most of those changes had been implemented by demographic groups which already held power, and therefore tended to reinforce the status of a white, Christian, conservative default.

However, it doesn't necessarily follow that the influence on American culture made by the demographic minority is less legitimate than that of the majority. As immigration to the US has increased and with it the political power of different ethnicities and religions, the locus of American identity has become distributed to reflect that greater complexity.

And that's what's happening - an increase in cultural complexity reflecting an increase in demographic complexity and distribution of political and social power.

Therefore, I submit that it's not possible to attack a culture from within that culture, as a participant of that culture.
So... I totally agree that the transaction fees are much too high. But it doesn't bother me as much as it bothers many people because every time I start getting upset, I remember that VISA's fees are 1.5%, PayPal's fees are 3%; basically everything has transaction fees and the world has not come crashing down on them.
My wallet does support Segwit. The recommended fee was $3 and it took ~15 minutes to confirm.
I like how you carefully catalog the theoretical damage a recent court precedent going the other way would have inflicted, and just as carefully ignore the actual fallout we’ve already seen from it.
"Better" QA, more testers, more developers, etc. won't catch these types of bugs if there isn't a test scenario which triggers the bug in the first place.
By talking about the operations without giving the rigorous backgrounds. Heck, you can do quite a bit with rieman integrals, and for e.g. binomial distributions you just need sums.
Could see this work nicely for testing :) Does make it a bit tricky to reason about code if the execution order is not clear
I didn't know about `bup`! Thanks for the reference! I was reading the README and it indeed looks pretty great. Have you been using it? What's your experience with it?

The ability to recover from a left state seems pretty amazing:

> You can back up directly to a remote bup server, without needing tons of temporary disk space on the computer being backed up. And if your backup is interrupted halfway through, the next run will pick up where you left off.
The huge transfer of wealth into China (where mining has shifted) is also an interesting economic outcome that doesn't get discussed a lot.
"Bitcoin’s current estimated annual electricity consumption stands at 29.05 Terawatt hours"

I just leave that here...
Wait, they'll add it as a currency but not let you withdraw, deposit or pay with it? So it's basically purely for speculation?
I have no details on this particular case. But I’ve been a judge for many agrifoodtech pitch events and in many cases it wasn’t the best company/entrepreneurs that won, rather the judges decided to vote on what had the best feel good story.
So the GGP is actually talking about a different kind of "analog" computer compared to what the article is talking about?
Anyone that says digital tulips at this point sounds hurt that they didn't invest, do some research on Bitcoin Cash, so this time next year you don't look as foolish
Why did you stop reading that sentence at the first comma?
> , a Nobel laureate in economics, said recently that bitcoin "ought to be outlawed” because it’s designed to evade regulation and "doesn’t serve any socially useful function."

A world where if something is not required it is forbidden is not a world that I want any part of Nobel winner or otherwise.
And then I remember that 1.5% on a $20 purchase is 30 cents and am sad again. I'm not going to pay for my $10 game on Steam with BTC, as much as I'd like to, because I don't need a 30% fee.
I think you've reversed cause and effect here. Gold reserves prove that people use it as a store of value, but they're not a necessary condition for something being a store of value.

For example, let's suppose that I made a deal with Porche to buy the first car off their assembly line each year. I take it and store it away as an investment. Is there an existing reserve of 2018 Porches? No, I have the first one. Does anybody else do this? Doesn't matter. It's still a good store of value as long as people keep wanting 2018 Porches.

People could use steel as a store of value; it's just an inconvenient commodity to deal with because the value per gram is so low. You need to store a lot of it. But rarer metals will do fine.
do you mean society is what's wrong with Bitcoin?
The only thing I don't see covered in other comments is that writing and public speaking are skills. At first, they're really hard - you'll spend a month or more making a good 30m speech, or writing a high quality but short blog post. However, after years of writing high quality blog posts, it only takes 4 hours. That hour-long speech in front of your peers takes only 10, spread across a few weeks.

More, high quality talks given at conferences tend to be talks that have been given at a few different conferences, allowing those speakers to take advantage of the long tail of even 80+ hours of effort over a few years.

Think of your programming work. When you first started, how long did it take to create a correct CRUD app. How long does it take you now? The same will apply to your speaking and writing skills, once you build them.
How much time and money would it cost you to send a gold bar to the other side of the world? Many people misunderstand the true value proposition of Bitcoin, which is to replace something like ACH (and use second layer payment processors for day to day purchases which are aggregated before reaching the blockchain, just like we do with dollars...)
No, they certainly get the point. They just don't like it for political reasons. The downvotes are political, not because they don't understand the issues.
Is there a FPGA equivalent for these analog chips? I'm guessing no but that would be handy to have field programmable analog computers.
Somewhere between ios9 and 10.3 on an iphone6 things got noticably slower e.g. pauses lasting multiple seconds while doing things like scrolling. I suspected the filesystem update, but could be anything.

Apple are forward looking in development - meaning they don't seem to be doing much regression testing for things like performance with last years model - or if they are, they don't care.

I'm not letting ios11 anywhere near my phone based on the usability impact I've seen on others, which leaves me open to old security vulnerabilities. Microsoft security patch old operating system versions - its kinda ironic how the 2 companies have switched places.
The 4$-10$ fee being mentioned is a flat flee when transferring between wallets.

When you are trading on an exchange, there could very well be nothing happening in the background. It's instead a process that's just flipping some bits for who owns what in their own database.
I didn't say Bitcoin isn't good for anything. I said it isn't good for the thing I wish it would be good for.
Lightning network has been "around the corner" for as long as I remember...

And even if it reduced people's needs to one bitcoin transaction per month (say, to deposit their paycheck), it would still reach full capacity with just 8 million users.
Going mainstream isn't a problem in itself. The problem is that most "mainstream" usages of bitcoin are just using it as a way to get fiat money. For example, the price is currently shooting up because people think it's going to give them a lot of fiat money when they sell it later. If everyone used bitcoin to directly buy and sell things, it would be fine for it to be mainstream. The transaction fees would also be much lower, because there wouldn't be the fee to convert it to fiat money.
Notable feature: no Python 2 support!
Ah, the obligatory ad hominem.
Who fucked it up so hard?
And he definitely wouldn’t have started a rocket company.
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I hope so, I did send ETH yesterday with minimal fees and instant confirmation, but no stores accept ETH as payment.
Officially you're correct. But from the start the people working on it had planned/designed it to go further.
I agree with most of your points, but...

> Even if the generated code is clean today regarding UB, you cannot ensure that a new C compiler version won't be introducing such issues.

This is not correct. Undefined behaviour is specified in the standard, and a good compiler-to-C will always generate UB-free code.
APFS, although not buggy per se, also has its disadvantages:

'macOS High Sierra APFS Performance is Inferior to HFS on Apple’s Fastest SSD: all cost, no benefit, at least not yet.'

https://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2017/20171124_2015-macO...
I'm not saying going mainstream is the problem, I'm saying it didn't go mainstream enough. I agree with you, it would have been great if we could use BTC to buy and sell stuff instead of just speculate.
I've re-read your comment a few times and am no longer sure how to parse it. At first read it very much sounds like you are defending several backward institutions which you term "American culture" (I would not), as opposed to an impartial observation.

(Your use of words like "under attack", "our", and "danger", and negative examples of multiculturalism really make it sound like you wish women stayed at home and everyone was Christian.)
I think this piece of advice is extremely relevant for those selling B2B software/products which comes in bigger 'chunks' than your labor which can be sold by the hour.

The gist is that while you (as the average B2B startup) can estimate how valuable your product is to your average customer, you will most likely vastly underestimate the cost of replacement for such a system. In other words, if your sales pitch goes well and they like the product but think to themselves "How much would it cost us to build this ourselves?" you will underestimate this cost from the outside. This is because the cost of replacement is a reasonably good proxy for a price ceiling and by being aware of it you can get a much higher average selling price.
This is the third project that I've known with this name. The other two are an emacs incremental completion plugin:

https://emacs-helm.github.io/helm/

and a haskell functionally reactive game engine:

http://helm-engine.org/
Segwit to Segwit? Because it’s less than a buck for me since beginning of november.
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What you're saying doesn't make any sense. There is no point doing this.
The Nobel prize in Economics isn't a real Alfred Nobel prize as set aside in his 1985 will, either... So you're not the only one :).
Same. And even if I wanted to have a kid with them it's not going to be for some ludicrous reason like maintaining the population of whites in the US.
Your analogy would work if grizzly bears turned into panda bears by living among them.

Culture is not fixed at birth. People both adopt the surrounding culture and change it.
I meant between exchange wallet and mine. Don't have to trust me. Look it up:
https://blockchain.info/tx/21c79cdba9c5a61d4e342ed946de4c47d...

That is $6.5 fee for 12 different outputs. So around $0.5 per transaction.
All of us, I guess, by not using it enough for everyday transactions. Although it's a chicken and egg problem, and the fact that it's so different from traditional banking that it's hard to explain to people how it works doesn't help.
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Nor for RAID drives, whatever the substrate... except that by virtue of my participation in the beta programme, my Mac's RAID-0 array was converted before they decided to change track, and now after I wiped my system to restart anew I have literally no way of getting my system back to the initial state it was in.
You can say the same replacing "gender" with "profession" and "men" with "computer people".

You can say the same replacing "gender" with "age" and "men" with "young people".

You can probably do the same with multiple other grouping criteria.
Ben Spector here; both Michael and I are planning to attend college, but we'll see in ~five years! :)
I'd argue that certain other cryptocurrencies have "touched" the mainstream - however briefly. Not detracting from your point, though. Bitcoin is definitely the most "mainstream" cryptocurrency.
The Core developers who refuse to raise the blocksize despite the completely lack of evidence against the smallest increase (1MB -> 2MB).

Some even celebrated when the blocks became full and the fees started to increase...
I think it is valid to take exploitability into the equation.
Wow, I remember being curious about Django a year ago.
Now it's at 2.0 ! It already felt overwhelming then, but now even more so.

I can't wait to check it out more.

On a sidenote, I feel bad for the developers who have to migrate to Django 2.0.
Hopefully it's not too much work, I know a codebase review and full update can't be fun with the business managers and customers at your throat.
I would really recommend using duplicity[1]. It supports gpg, incremental backups and more.

[1] http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
Their costs is already in the hundreds of million of dollars. They could hang on to all videos with no issue whatsoever. That's financially easily doable within their budget, and that's technically easily doable because google storage will take any amount of TB thrown at it.

The only fair assumption is that they store all videos. Remember that they are an ad business.

If it's too annoying, the wise decision would be to cut storage to only 1 month, or store only 1% of randomly selected videos. It will never be to stop storing videos.
Searching 750 GB/s second (2015)
Not that this will explain the large gap entirely, but aren't women generally more risk adverse?
It seems to me like you're only taking into account half of the argument (the other half being that it's designed to evade regulation).
Also family courts that punish providers in case of a divorce. Better play it safe and single.
I am about to switch away from my Mac Mini Server:

It gets way to hot, more and more features are no longer available through Server.app, and Spotlight on MacOS Server has never been great (at least not better than on an up-to-date Synology NAS these days). Each update was a reason for bad sleep …

Since all the software we were using as local installations moved to SaaS, only file storage and Resilio Sync are left – band oth can be done with a NAS or cloud services like Google Team Drive / Google Drive File Stream. The latter has great reliability and many useful compliance features.
Hmm, I haven't heard of any cryptocurrencies accepted for payment on standard, automated checkout flows. Stripe accepts BTC, though.
Do you know what the estimated annual electricity consumption of VISA as a corporation is? What about the Treasury portion of the US government, let alone all the other parts.

I'll just leave that there :).
Oh come on.

Go to Systems Prefs > App Store and tell us what your preferences are set to.

Apple has screwed up big time lately, but "hur-dur, muh mac is doing what it's supposed to do an I'm MAD bout that" isn't part of the problem.
I got an international payment recently via bitcoin and the fee was under £2 on the sender side. If it had gone through my bank It would've costed me £7 to receive and way more on the other end to send.

So I do get the criticism about high fees when paying for a coffee, but maybe that's not the ideal use case for bitcoin. It could've been cheaper with another cryptocurrency but it's a tolerable enough percentage at the moment compared to another widely used solution for international transfers.
> If bitcoin really takes over the world, it's going to look like a bunch of dudes printed themselves a fortune and then convinced the rest of the world to buy it from them.

Well, yeah, that's exactly their fantasy too.
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AFPS has serious performance issues:

https://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2017/20171124_2015-macO...
I agree that LTE/HD is incremental. It's probably fair to say that ubiquitous mobile smartphones are something more. (Initial mobile communications less so. When I had a feature phone I often didn't even carry it with me although certainly some people probably found them more transformational.)
You can convert those disks, they don’t do it automatically though. Diskutility has a convert option.
Economics isn't a real science either ...
Oh look. Not a word about what the bill contains, just gossipy reporting on the strife of getting it passed. I'm not surprised.
I don't think many middle income and lower folks are in skyscrapers. A lot of buildings in China cap out at six stories, which is cheaper (no elevators needed!)

Also, earthquake protection makes SF based buildings more expensive to build, especially as they grow tall.
This is probably your best bet if you're just going to build a nice CRUD frontend for a business app, possibly with an API (via DRF). I am doing this right now on a project as it's the shortest path to a win. The API however is written in Java 8 / vertx.
Hmm, good point, the recipient may not have been Segwit, I didn't notice. Hopefully Segwit transactions are cheaper, as you say, that would be very good news to me.
Is the number of transactions anywhere near comparable?
So the proposed solution for scaling bitcoin is to avoid use of the blockchain whenever possible.
But why would anyone spend days downloading the blockchain, significantly increase their data management and opsec responsibilities and cede their usual consumer rights in order to have the same transaction fees as Paypal?

The only reason I can think of is in order to evade various kinds of regulation, but presumably that won't last forever.
It often is, especially if the tarball is compressed (especially if you use anything but Zstandard) or on a network store rather than fast local ssd. Typically a rule of thumb is a hard drive with a spindle may five around 100mb/sec throughput, so that is likely the bigger bottleneck, followed by cpu if using slower compression algorithms.

Zstandard at a high compression level gives a good tradeoff of decompression speed vs underlying physical throughput, be it network or spindle.

Even so, yes, the sequential nature of tar is not great for this reason.

Squashfs files, which can be used on Linux and Mac (using fuse for OS X), are a very good alternative for archIves, though without some of the features described in the linked article.
My computer is not running the new OS since it cannot be upgraded currently. We are upgrading every other Mac (originally for fear of not having the latest security), but cannot do upgrades on a configuration sold by Apple. Their filesystem transition which was accompanied by a down grade of Disk Utility is not painless.
Only due to the hills and the older homes. Berkeley is an urban area, full stop.

It just doesn’t want to acknowledge that due to NIMBYs
It may have started out as one, but now its a city proper with city issues. It's no longer a remote suburb. Probably not since the bridge was built across the bay.
You could also compare it to how much Google consume.

And you should realize the mining electricity usage is in no way related to scaling Bitcoin.
That you're being censored for simply pointing out a very simple truth goes to show how utterly toxic our industry has become.
I’d posit that a simple crud app would take an order of magnitude less time with Rails. I’ve been a Django developer since 0.96 and have built dozens of apps with it. After transitioning to Rails, it’s hard to justify the use unless you’re in an evironment that absolutely must use Python.
A great, though non-free, backup tool that supports incremental encrypted backups is Arq[0].

Arq supports painless back ups to multiple cloud storage providers, with budget enforcements, etc.

[0] https://www.arqbackup.com
I don't mean to deny this, but to say that they know all there is to know and will never get better... I don't think so.
This is great, than you! And yes, I'm pretty much doing this now. I live with musicians who hustle very hard. I'm a musician too. I'm familiar with the life. I'm very happy and fulfilled in so many ways, just exhausted.

I think one of my best bets right now is to lean hard into teaching, especially piano teaching. I have one committed student and a few more excited but broke students who take lessons from time to time. Is very rewarding and there is lots of mutual respect.
Is MacOS considered “B team” internally? Curious
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This is nothing new and we aren’t the first generation to challenge things like basic family structure. I’d argue they were even more so “under attack” in the 60’s. I think your interpretation is a tad hyperbolic at best. Nearly all of my friends either are or are married to working mothers with children with healthy and stable family lives.