skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I believe the merge has already started, and we are a few years in. Our phones control us and tell us what to do when; social media feeds determine how we feel; search engines decide what we think.

Wishful thinking.

And you can't just go appealing to complexity, either. Economies are too complex for any actor to understand; we haven't lost our individuation.
Attackers come in all shapes and sizes. If the NSA comes after you, you’re toast, but there’s a lot of high level organized crime out there as well.
Build a financial exchange with Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, and Redis. What could go wrong?

https://engineering.coinbase.com/november-29th-december-1st-...
The solution is Patreonpoints. Sell vouchers and let supporters allocate those vouchers, lock the exchange rate to the currency used to purchase the vouchers and build the service fee into that exchange rate.
Amazon is my store of last resort. I prefer to support local businesses even when they charge more.
Does this allow signing requests with AWS Sig's + session tokens like postman?
Bank runs are bad when there isn't a full reserve. Coinbase should carry a full reserve.

Fractional reserve banking is a prisoner's dilemma, we all marginally benefit from the status quo of credit/debit/interest, but in a crisis, the first people to pull out win, and everyone else loses.
I’m sure this app requires root privileges. I hope people aren’t downloading binary blobs from an Internet forum and then running them as root...

Totally not saying that’s the case here.

But honestly I’m surprised we don’t see more malware targeting developers. After all, we are the most likely to run arbitrary code on our computers. And a lot of us have valuable private keys (e.g. build systems) in our keychain.
Even if it was 1:1, actually charging the payment processing fee for the payment processed would be fine. The person with one pledge for $1 to one creator would be charged $1.38. The person with one pledge for $100 to one creator would be charged $103.80. The person with 100 pledges for $1 to 100 creators would be charged $103.80. Fine. With the rules they're putting into place, the person with 100 pledges for $1 to 100 creators will be charged $138.00 - with the other $37 going to Patreon. Not cool.
Are you in the universe where no Bitcoin got stolen, ever? Because I surely am not.
Transacting with bitcoin requires mining. Mining is what validates blocks of transactions. Mining does create coins, but that's sort of a side-effect. Eventually the mining reward will go away, but the energy costs of transacting will remain.
My brother the doctor doesn't call it diabesity for nothing.
Patreon would only need to bill you once, not sure why they need to add processing fees to each pledge?
That’s why your use case matters. If we are going down this path of thinking with no context, your application should not be a GUI application at all. But if you want easier future porting to iOS, that’s different than if you want easier future porting to xbox, and different again if you want it to run on ChromeOS.

QT is awesome, don’t hear me wrong. But if your target platform is distros running gnome, it might not even be the right choice for a native Linux desktop app. And again, none of this cross-platform compatibility discussion necessarily makes it a better choice than Xamarin stuff.

I’m just saying, it’s not “the” option. It’s just a very good choice.
Wouldn't that drive the remainder of players to find cheaper and cheaper energy, proving the authors point? Since getting cheaper power means you can hold out that much longer than everyone else since you make that much more profit.
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they had to drink shakes, basically. that's the only way to get that level of control.
I'm having a hard time figuring what this about. Could you assist?
Elixir is part of their great performance! Their engineering blog is really interesting and full of neat information scaling Elixir (which is really hard to find since Elixir scales for a VERY long time).
This doesn't account for SALT deductions it seems, which is a huge reason why instead of my bill going down by 10% or so, it goes up about 5%.
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-168/

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-274/

These were both in Illumos found by the person you are replying to.
The piece reads like "Boy, it sure is strange that all humans now work in silicon valley venture capital!"

It's just silicon valley bubble platitudes top to bottom. He needs to take a breather somewhere on the other 99% of the planet.
> I'm fairly sure this is tied to anti-money laundering rules (but would be happy to be corrected). Basically, if Patreon bundled patron payments and then paid them out to creators, it could be construed as transaction laundering.

I doubt this. If I buy 10 1 euro iPhone apps in a day, Apple will charge me $10, in one transaction, then eventually pay out a euro less their fees to each developer. I don't really see why this would be different.
Soylent.
If you want to use Amazon Key (what this article is about) then I think the only lock you can use is this specific one. Any other keyless lock system won't work from Amazon deliveries like this (at least as far as I can tell)
If most papers have dozens of citations, shouldn't each paper on average be cited dozens of times? Obviously with massive skew.
Maybe I'm just daft, but this tool is a bit confusing at first because I didn't realize it wasn't comparing the difference between itemizing now and taking the standard deduction under the new plan (and there isn't a way to do that without manually crunching the numbers). Or better said, it doesn't pick your best deduction under each plan like you would if you were actually filing taxes.
We should be mainly concerned with the unit of capability rather than of intelligence (for which there is no widely accepted standard measurement for non-human beings [1]) As we know, there are tasks that a less intelligent being can never accomplish no matter how much time and other resources it has.

If we use brain size as a rough proxy, ours is only three times as large as a chimp's but our capabilities for creation and destruction are vastly greater both in degree and range.

[1] IQ indicates the location in the distribution of intelligence within human population and it is flawed in many ways. The concept does not really apply to other beings.
I definitely like the idea of providing some good, clear writeups about "You have a company--now what?".

There's some care needed—we're a bookkeeping firm, so we can't give accounting/tax/legal advice, but there's a lot we can do to help (and we can always connect you with e.g. a tax prep firm we know and trust for the stuff we can't do ourselves.)
No, it isn't. DJB is an easy one. I won't name others, but I know, and know of, many.
Bank runs are bad when there isn't a full reserve. Coinbase says it has 100% reserves.

Bank runs are how fraudulent exchanges are caught: Bitcoin is self-auditing, and either you have it or you don't, there aren't IOUs or paper receipts.

Fractional reserve banking is a prisoner's dilemma, we all marginally benefit from the status quo of credit/debit/interest, but in a crisis, the first people to pull out win, and everyone else loses.
Ask HN: What is the long term outlook on Bitcoin right now?
I have seen many negative observations on HN through the years. I am curious if some think it will crash soon or keep growing. Is it overhyped and destined to fail or is it sustainable and promising?
You joke, but there's some definite advantages to that strategy. From my point of view:

* I'm a software engineer. I'm already highly-paid, so the marginal hedonic impact of a nice party is relatively small compared to its monetary cost.

* I'm nerdy, and prefer quiet, small, get-togethers centered around an activity, compared to large, loud, alcohol-fueled parties.

* Holiday parties are often in the evening, requiring me to schedule time for a work activity in typical non-work time. Community Service is often most reasonably performed in the day, making it an alternative activity during the workday.

* As a highly-paid engineer, I'm aware of differences in luck and circumstance that led to my current good fortune - giving back to the community has a relatively notable hedonic impact.

* As a software engineer, most of my work is non-tangible and abstract - I basically talk to a non-person, all day. Many types of community service involve physical labor, repairing or constructing a physical thing/place. This taps in to some core desire of humans, and thus also has notable hedonic impact.

* Community Service is good PR, for both the company and employee. Holiday parties risk negative PR, either for drunken scandals, visions of gilded-age excess, or both.

* The money that _could_ be spent on alcohol, catering, venue, DJs, and apparently modeling talent, I'd rather see spent on more direct benefits for employees - snacks, educational materials/career development, or just plain raises.

So, yeah, I would definitely consider the perks of working for a company that advertised that it did _not_ host large holiday parties, spent the budget elsewhere, and organized community service events.
I went on a medically-supervised, very low calorie and low carb (keto) diet after being diagnosed with diabetes. A few months and about 50lbs in, I had no signs of insulin resistance whatsoever, my A1C was down to completely normal values, and I was able to discontinue my medication entirely. That diagnosis, as hard as it was to hear, was one of the absolute best things to ever happen to me.
The energy is used to secure the network. The marginal cost per transaction is 0. Scaling solutions will improve the energy used per transaction.
yeah I didn't know that part, just the more specific one.
Ugh... I find it disgusting...
I think in the previous post that was on HN about this they were interviewing a lady that said she was eating some powder that "had all the nutrients", which sounds like something similar to Soylent.
Stockfish doesn’t have an opening book. Chess engines are good enough now where they play sound openings without any need for direct human input.
>Re: P != NP, I would say that question assumes a certain architecture, so while it might hold for Turing machines, the real question is is a HyperTuring/Turing machine really all there is?

No, P and NP are defined by an architecture, there's nothing to assume about it. E.g., P is defined as "problems solvable in polynomial time on a deterministic Turing machine".
The difference in transaction volumes is striking. The US financial industry alone does millions of transactions per second, whereas Bitcoin manages about 3.
> Now factor in all the costs of moving bills to and from ATMs, banks, and businesses and see how the numbers stack up.

That's unfair. A more reasonable comparison is with credit card transactions. Several European countries are positioned to go cashless you know.

> While we're at it, factor in the cost of robberies where the robbers take cash, as Bitcoin eliminates those costs as well.

That's a really stupid argument to make, but while you're at it, factor in the cost of Bitcoin robberies of people getting hacked, more and more every day. There's even a story around of a guy robbed at gunpoint.

The more popular it gets, the bigger as a target it becomes ;-)
You may benefit from a bit of life coaching. I have a friend who specializes in this. You've created something awesome but just need to fix a few things in your life. Happy to make a referral if you're interested. E-mail is in my profile.
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> a bit overkill

They also said the same about Xen, that a special purpose microkernel was a better choice than Linux as a hypervisor...
So you use it while you know it is reserved for something else?
For me, the private ones call you if you had provided your number. In other cases you get a slip in the postbox to schedule an appointment. If you miss again, you have to go to a post pick up centre. For DHL, if you miss this as well it gets sent to some DHL sorting centre which is quite far away.
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The same is true of all electronic payment systems, fiat included. Bitcoin adds nothing to the equation.
The Woman Engineering Uber’s Driverless Trucks
Most engines don’t have opening books any more and haven’t for years.
Unfortunately raising money isn’t a proxy for profitability. In many cases it’s the opposite. It could be seen as a proxy for potential, but potential alone doesn’t pay the bills.

This fee feels a lot like the fee a merchant would be charged for a credit card transaction, so in essence Patreon is passing on their fees.

I wonder why they don’t have a structure akin to micro transactions, where there is no fixed fee but a slightly higher variable fee. I’d guess most of their transactions are probably small enough.
So basically he recreated something that already existed because Firefox broke their userspace and he was forced to. The fact that Mozilla advertises this as progress is just weird.

Perhaps I'm just grumpy that I upgraded Firefox and my favorite extensions broke. There was no warning, they just broke because Firefox broke their API. And I mean I get it, I actually wrote a rather complicated plugin for Firefox using WebCrypto.

https://github.com/smutt/HOBA

But that doesn't mean I'm not peeved that after a seemingly innocuous upgrade most of my installed plugins broke.
> If they are tech companies and engineers are the primary value drivers, and only 16% of CS grads are female, what kind of rock will they find balanced workforce?

I'd be happy if I found a company that was that balanced, instead of more like 1-2%...
you know during medieval times and the victorian age there were guilds and they constrained the number of new apprentices yearly in order to bolster their own salaries (and egos). if my salary goes down by 50% but twice as many people get access to a middle class lifestyle then so be it.
> If someone wants to fund a creator, they will, and the extra couple of bucks isn't going to discourage that.

An awful lot of patreon users give a dollar or two a month to a bunch of creators. It won't just be an extra couple of bucks for them; it'll be an extra 30% or so.
3D printed objects that can connect to WiFi without electronics
I don't know if it's a solved problem. It's very hard to get people to fast. It's even harder to get people to maintain a healthy lifestyle and body weight after going into remission.
Sure. Altman even points that out, to a less-fleshed-out degree (emphasis mine):

> More important than that, unless we destroy ourselves first, superhuman AI is going to happen, genetic enhancement is going to happen, and brain-machine interfaces are going to happen.

I think it's a really good point. As long as the laws of physics don't prevent something, and we can't find a clever workaround, progress tends to march on forward. Really the only thing that could stop that is some sort of earth-wide cataclysm, whether it's natural or human-made.

I think you overestimate a lot of those human-made things, though. The countries of the world are very interconnected these days, to be sure, but I'm optimistic that religion, dictators, etc. can't stamp out all progress; I believe there will always be places in the world where this kind of progress is at least tolerated, if not actively embraced and encouraged.
Boeing: We are going to beat SpaceX to Mars
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Bootstrapping Inclusion: Education and Effecting Behavioral Change
Well, I did say

>less commonly found

rather than less common. Impossible to know with 100% certainty what's literally less common.

If I had to guess, I'd guess FreeBSD had less bugs in general, just because the surface is generally smaller, and the system is more homogeneous.
Amazon Locker on the porch is one solution, but as others have pointed out it won't work for everyone and it's also not scalable for all deliveries the way some other general solutions for delivery people might be.

What they have now is, I think, a choice some people might still make given the trade-off: is Amazon more likely to abuse the key you give them? or are your packages more likely to get stolen off the porch? I've lived in neighborhoods where that cost-benefit would make total sense.
Well, small problem with that - words have meanings. They were a customer, in that they were giving Patreon money. Now they are not a customer. It's not that they were never a customer, because they were giving Patreon money. And now they're not.
... is not designed for an 850 calorie diet.
I just cancelled all my pledges. This is absurd.

The whole point of Patreon was to bundle small charges to avoid these fees, and to hopefully make support more reliable/consistent for creators. If they're going to fail outright on the former pledge, then I want nothing to do with them.

I strongly urge others to cancel pledges, as this is the strongest feedback we can provide. There are many ways to support creators.
It would be better if this referenced the LERG instead of what is effectively a regex. Then you would know if the number has actually been allocated (and a whole host of other information).
The cool underground artists that made the bay what it is can't afford the bay anymore
It was the Co-Operative Society in the UK that joint funded the Manchester Ship Canal, first national UK distribution service, first to promote Fairtrade goods. They were the UKs largest grocery retailer by far.

Today they are still 6th but with 4million members.
Thanks! I meant as in - I'm an expat from a foreign country living in the US... :)
Mozilla is still working on an actual API for hiding tabs, so presumably this should be possible in a few versions from now.
I am a product manager for Intel's Clear Containers and am also working in this community with Kata. We are still under development and merging Intel Clear Containers (CC) and Hyper.sh runV. Our 1.0 release is scheduled for March timeframe, at which point we plan to have a migration path for customers using runv or CC. We launched this week so that we can build our community and continue to merge the code in the open!
Newspapers have always included ads even if you pay; not sure why anyone would expect “on the internet” to change that.
The article you've linked to does not address the situation being described.
Even if they find cheaper energy, they will still spend $27 million on it a day. They will just consume more electricity.
tl;dr: Amazon wants to be the Facebook of your home. Decide who and on what terms can access your data. Physical data. Trusted Amazon partners will have an advantage. Others will be excluded.

Actually I think this is not as bad as Facebook, because it's much less abstract and average Joes can wrap their head around it, and I think benefits are not as seductive as in FB's case. So I expect Amazon Key to fail.
Most money in the world exists only in digital form, so I don't think bitcoin has any benefit in this regard.
As someone who has several extended family members with type 2 diabetes, I'd love to read a write up of the clinical trials supporting this.
> Because with the latter way, advertisers also get censorship power over content providers.

But they’ve always had that over ad-sponsored content. That’s what makes it ad-sponsored, that they choose who to pay and thus can pull funds for any reason.

Again, why should YT be different than other mediums with ad sponsored content?
Too much sugar (check the label). More like Ketochow (protein shake, vitamins, heavy whipping cream). Each of my servings is ~500 calories. Shed three pounds per week eating it 3 meals a day, no exercise.

I miss the pancake batter taste of Soylent, don’t miss being fat.
Fair warning that this is an Electron app. (Downvotes incoming!)
This is fine. (I mean gender issues aside).

Because they are on 'roller skates' they are differentiated, and basically identifiable as 'hosts/hostesses'.

There's nothing wrong with hiring hosts for a party.

It's when they are mixed-in as guests it's cheezball.
It's actually worse.

1/3rd of Americans (over 100 million people) have, or are well on their way to having, Type 2 Diabetes. This is one o the largest cash cows of Big Pharma.

They don't want to fix it, their bottom line depends on this never being fixed, and they will do anything in their power to make sure it is never fixed.
There's a keto version called keto chow. There are recipes online as well as pre-mixed packages to buy. I don't know that the study used this exactly, but it's the same idea.
Why is someone as big as Patreon paying 2.9% + 35 cents? Even stripe should be able to do better than that?
Bitcoin is designed to produce a block every 10 minutes. The difficulty will scale back down if a bunch of miners dropped offline.
Oh, I thought you meant EU expats in the US.
Thank you! Slipped by my addictive refresh of What’s New!
He means to whichever neighbor the delivery person found first.
My lab shows anything over 30 ng/ml as "optimal" (looks like 30 to 100 on the chart). My values the past 2 years have been in the mid 50's.
No, "to a neighbor" is correct. Although the delivery guy will not make a dedicated effort to find an available neighbor because of time constraints. I suppose that when they deposit the package with a neighbor, it's because the neighbor received a package themselves, so they could ask them to take your package as well while signing off on their package. Most of the time, when you cannot receive your package personally, you'll get a card telling you to pick it up at a branch office of the postal services (which usually means some small unrelated shop like a drugstore).
Why you should invest in IOTA today
If someone wants to break into your home they're going to break in through a window/back door, etc. They aren't going to go through the hassle of spoofing your number and generating an entry code when they can wrap their hand in a sweatshirt and punch some glass.
Yea considering the alternative is package theft from "someone" whose face my security camera might get a snap of, and then my only option is to go to the cops with a grainy picture and a timestamp, I'll go with the "Amazon, who is placing a great deal of their reputation on the line by allowing contractors in the house."
This is really cool, surprised at some of the output. Grant is really that high?

You should try this for admirals !
What does a "medically supervised" diet entail? You visit the doctor on a frequent basis and do it under their guidance?

Does this exist for non-diabetic patients? I recently had weight gain for the first time of my life after reaching 30yrs of age and always being underweight. I've been meaning to look into some diet-based approaches that would be supported by science, but Googling it has always been a deluge of pseudo-science.
Yes, lets rank those who were instrumental in killing others, give us all something to aspire to.