skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It certainly is cultural: in Switzerland the rate of recycling is extremely high without and deposit.

To clarify, in my experience what happens in the US is most people recycle bottles at curbside pickup, rather than drive somewhere to get 5 cents per can. In cities homeless tend to go around and collect all of the cans from the curb and redeem them.
Technically speaking, it is the Bureau of Engraving and Printing from the Department of the Treasury creates the one executing the order of creating the physical currency. The Fed helps determining the money supply and distributing the resulting money (please correct me if I am wrong here).

However that's just the physical money. In practice, because of fractional reserve banking, banks create money by being allowed to loan more money than they have in their vaults.
"Saying little" means providing only the absolutely necessary information. If you were in a self-defense situation and your attacker threw his weapon in a bush, you want the police to know that so that they can find it. If there were witnesses who can corraborate your story then you want the police to talk to them before they disappear forever. If you need medical help, you should ask for it.
These evil clauses are called Dewitt Clauses, since the original purpose was to attack DeWitt.

Unfortunately, the law that protects reviewers does not protect people who publish benchmarks in software. These DeWitt clauses should be illegal in the United States on First Amendment grounds, but the problem is that to get software at all you have to agree to the license, and the licenses often have these nasty things. I think these Clauses should be straight up illegal, but very few people have enough money to pursue this in court.
most if not all the technical issues surrounding bitcoin are solved problems (or very close to being solved).
This you may not be aware of, but there have been periods where the fee has remained in excess of over $1 for over 72 hours. A 20 cent fee will not cover you there.

Looking at my transaction history, of my last 10 transactions, all had fees in excess of $1, one as high as $14.

I'm not losing any sleep over it, but I'm also not going to call the fees reasonable.
I think I feel very similarly to you in a lot of ways. How did you get started? How do you see a consulting co-operative working? I'd be interested in hearing about your approach, what's worked and what hasn't, etc.
Guess what? I'm going :) Travelling South America for some years, it is in my roadmap. I live the reality down here, gringo.
Not to worry, nature always wins in the long run.
It is true that significant part of that money comes from investors.

However it is expected to ultimately be self-sustaining and come from you.
My 2 largest complaints are equally valid for Uber and Lyft.

1)if a driver accepts my fare and then tries calling me to weasel my destination out of me so he can choose whether or not to actually pick me up, my choices are to cancel on him, wait until he gives up hope, or use the compeitor. In all three cases, I am denied the option to rate this driver as we never actually took a trip together. It's a shitty experience that allows these drivers to go unpunished.

2)if my driver is driving in an unsafe manner, i am stuck with them until my destination or have to make them pull over somewhere and sit alone in an unsafe location and wait for another ride.

These two items make both services terribly unreliable for those of us who don't live in the big cities. And even then, cancelling on a particular driver or hailing from a competitor usually leaves you with the exact same driver accepting your request over and over. There is no way to block drivers. And even if there was, there is no way for my fellow riders to know they should block these drivers.
Comparing C to machine language
TLDR: Stephen Hsu and I are coming from very different mental models. His mental model asserts that it is very, very important that we keep promoting this elitist intellectual stuff. Note how he has fancy degrees and is important enough to get interviewed, while I remain some big fat nobody, having walked away from my National Merit Scholarship and done the full time homemaker thing for a lot of years, in part because I could not stomach the toxic environment involved in being One Of The Smart Kids (that all the teachers trained everyone else to hate).

I elaborated some on my mental model in this paragraph:

Yet, also, IQ tests are strongly influenced by cultural knowledge, good scores in kids strongly correlate to kids coming from upper middle class families with well educated parents, etc. So I think there is quite a lot of room for saying that if you take any child and feed them excellently well, dote on them, invest a lot of parental and societal time, effort and other resources in them, they will tend to perform better than average, both on IQ tests and in life generally.

Part of what I am arguing is that we make up a measurement that validates that our "best" people -- like well educated, well heeled white males -- are best because they have this innate quality called high IQ and then we channel the "smart kids" from "good homes" into classes that cause them to test well.

The mental model that some kids are inherently more deserving of investment at school because they are smarter and do better than other kids winds up being self-fulfilling prophesy. Sort of like redlining of Black neighborhoods was self-fulfilling prophesy, causing Blacks to remain poor and their neighborhoods to remain not worth investing in by banks.

So, hopefully that clarifies it for you because I already said I am stepping away from this discussion.

Adieu.
I was thinking the same thing. Or the Cavendish banana clones...
They're obliged to, but do they actually?

This guy asked for a "lawyer dog", which apparently is not a thing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/11/02...

Or will asking for a lawyer work for me, since I'm not ethnically diverse?
A mugger doesn't steal from me, if I hand my wallet to him, right?

Analogously to how this is theft because of the threat of violence, so it can be argued that it is also theft/extortion due to the threat of leaving you and your family homeless and starving if you don't take my offer right now.
.... and one day I had the crazy idea to make a database on top of it: https://github.com/ioquatix/relaxo because the underlying immutable data structure makes this quite feasible.
> "I find that voices from the extreme ends of the spectrum can be informative"

Yes absolutely. I'm drawn to people with strong opinions, if they appear to be formed in good faith, and especially if they differ from mine. Best way to learn and stay plastic.
The problem is shoehorning the internet into a regulatory scheme devised in the 1930s for telephone service that was modified pre-modern internet (in 1996). The regulatory scheme was designed to regulate Southern Bell, a telecommunication service, who used to dial into an "information service" like CompuServe, without harshly regulating CompuServe.

But broadband ISPs sort of operate as both and neither. You can call them either an information service or a telecommunication service depending on how you view them. But there are problems with both labels.

Which led the FCC labeling cable broadband an info service and DSL a telecommunication service. That ruined the DSL market in the USA until the FCC decided to label all ISPs as information services.

In 2015, the FCC switched back to telecommunication service because they lacked the power to apply net neutrality to an info service.

Really, we need a new regulatory scheme, but good luck getting that through congress.
Even though the bills are not finalized I think people would like to have an idea of what changes they may be facing, and it also benefits people who like to get informed before debating the issue with others.
I watched the entire video; I think they are talking about how to act during an interrogation, not in a setting like in your example.
(I rephrased the last message)

If you want to escape a contract, you need to go to court and make a case that the contract should be nullified.

If you want to cancel a part of a contract, you need to go to court and make a case that a part of the contract should be nullified.

They are 2 completely different things. The clause is irrelevant, it's not gonna change your future strategy.
I have two questions:

1) Is this wallet going to have any spendable money in it one second after creation, or do you have to wait for the network to process your transaction like everyone else?

2) How often is it useful to create a wallet in one second?
Alright, we've gone with the subtitle which doesn't mention Facebook.
Ok.

We'll just ignore the issues associated with increasing full-node storage requirements even faster than they're already increasing. And lower transaction fees lead to lower block rewards which lowers mining profitability. Both of these things result in more centralization.

While we're at it we'll forget the post-fork difficulty adjustment faisco brought to us by the Bitcoin cash devs. We'll just trust their competancy and good will.

Also we won't think about the legitimate off-chain solutions for transaction rate scaling, or how the side-chain concept dates back to early Satoshi emails.

There are better alt coins for cheap and fast transactions. Besides, recommending something based entirely on those two factors is a massive oversimplification.
this. it's like calling Twitter/Facebook a failure when they were scaling up to meet demand.

So many people are trying to use Bitcoin that it is overloaded (Coinbase is the #1 app in the AppStore btw) - what a great problem to have!
I'm confident you will improve that rate if you move #1 to #3. It's a form of the halo effect, where we over-weight the beginning of a sentence, paragraph, document, etc.
Do you know of anyone who has done this? I'd love to buy them coffee!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit#Botanic_fruit_and_culina....
Duplicating other points, to some extent:

1. You can reduce your working hours. E.g. you can negotiate a 4-day workweek. This means more time to do what you want.

2. You can pursue early retirement. Reducing your spending gives you more in the bank, and eventually you can not work. In the short term it improves your negotiating position.

3. You can find a job pursuing a goal you care about. E.g. work for a non-profit, or a government agency, or a company where you care about the outcomes separate from making money.

4. You can start a business not based on a Great Idea, but based on research. More likely to succeed, too (https://stackingthebricks.com/ has a bunch of useful advice).

You can also pursue some or all of these at the same time.

Self-promotion: I've written a book about how you can reach a sane workweek, whatever that means to you. You can read about and get a free excerpt here: https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/.
> Edit: I'm told this proprietary database vendor dislikes users publishing benchmark results comparing their software to F/OSS databases. I'd argue that this is more of an anecdote than a benchmark; but just in case I edited the comment to remove the vendor and product name from the parts that talk about performance.

That doesn't really sound like they were forced to do anything.
European Commission launches first ever bug bounty
Link isn't loading for me––also on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/TheWozWonderbook
High yield dividend ETF if you are risk averse or if you want to gamble then a cryptocurrency
And have the limited partners pull their funds and/or file lawsuits because you backed out if one of the few out of the park financial successes your fund had?
Your greater disagreement with Hsu seems to be clouding your view on narrow point that you actually agree with him on.
> You can download them directly to your desktop after you sign up

So, just like Scribd then.
The Intel Management Engine IS the vulnerability.

Read this like: We are patching our backdoor so no one but us and our undisclosed friends can own you whenever we want.
We wanted something that had well used backing and primitives (cryptography.io) and something that could prototype cryptosystems. As it stands, there isn't much in the Python universe here for this unless you're willing to dabble with C as well.

I built this so we could build something for production and prototype rapidly with the same toolset.
Got mine pretty close.
I would say that is likely the wrong question. Investment is a matter of giving up money in the expectation it will return value. If the morality or ethics of a company are so utterly repulsive that this question should be raised the investor has to ask if they can throw their investment money away. Most people are not willing to throw money away even if disgusted.
Evidently, repeated incidents of rape are OK with these investors. But on the other hand, their hands may be tied; once you have invested how do you then back out? Your investment bought you X shares in the company, so the only way out is to find another investor to take them off your hands, and this is an illiquid market.
I think Google and Yahoo, etc, have swung and missed a few times, too.

You don't want them to be dependent on a competitor... neither do I, but with "antimonopoly" (really market power, bundling and patent misuse) laws having not been properly enforced for decades, those few companies still alive to bid, are the only "market." Given the almost zero marginal cost of reproduction of software, it's been a perfect storm. Please give Mozilla credit for being one of the rare counterforces.

SpaceX has been able to snag lots of government contracts designed to increase competition, true. Similar government contracts to build public internet infrastructure under a BSD license haven't been offered, but they might be a great idea - however such proposals aren't part of the political scene right now. If you want that, by all means push for it politically. That makes more sense to me than punishing the messenger (that search monopoly is a problem), i.e. Mozilla.
> (a) an argument helping my thesis by showing that you can program functional languages quite well by using mutable recourses

You can implement a functional language with mutable resources, and you can implement a functional data structure like git with mutable resources. How does it help your thesis that git isn't a functional data structure?

> (b) the biggest users of what you write there are also the biggest enemies of the status quo you describe. Functional programmers really hate that computers are so unlike what they love.

Whatever, something that is purely functional all the way down to the wires is impossible.

Any definition of "functional" the rejects every single functional language is an objectively failed definition. A usable definition will go ahead and permit the git data structure to be called functional.
Hm. I was going to say that I'm doubtful that the consumer review protection law applies here. But reading through both the law and oracle's license agreement, I'm not so sure anymore:
law:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/45b
oracle's license agreement:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/licenses/standard-license-...

While the consumer review protection law concerns individuals not companies (check the "form contract" definition), the license agreement seems to explicitly allow for individuals ("or as an individual"). There might be further license agreements after the download, but for that I'd agree to the terms of the license...

IANAL.
Volunteers helping isn't new at all.

What's new or what's worse, is a huge "human needs" bureaucracy which fails entirely to actually meet those human needs despite soaking up a lot of money.

It varies in scale. Here in Santa Rosa, first responders actually did a good job in dealing with the fire. But in the post-fire situation, the effective emergency that those who lost their homes have at best a small chance to rebuild their lives isn't being dealt with - but then again it's just a more extreme symptom of the housing crisis, which isn't being dealt with 'cause that housing crisis is also a solution to the "how to we maintain financial markets" question.

But there you have a private-public complex everywhere that's taking up a lot of resources without giving backing enough or sometimes anything.
What does "pull their investment" mean, though? Uber has burned through most of their cash, and the assets they have are mostly unsellable (name recognition, relationships with partners, workers with experience, etc). When you buy a lottery ticket, there's nothing to gain from ripping it apart before the numbers are called.
2017 Knuth's Christmas Tree Lecture
Owner of a business here... I'm 6 years into owning my own business and things have grown year over year for the company and we are doing quite well. In theory, the democratization of the workplace is a nice idea, and I initially tried to build my business around this idea. But over my time running things, I've realized that hierarchy is necessary, especially when things start to scale up. One of the biggest things I've come to realize is that most people take comfort in structure: what time to arrive and what time they can leave, specific directions on how to do their job and what exactly their job is (or isn't), when they will be paid, etc. As things begin to scale up in a business, it's necessary to create specific roles and specialized work for things to operate efficiently, and while a healthily functioning company relies on everyone doing their job well and working together, every role in the company does not carry equal weight, either because of the skillset or knowledge base required to perform a given task or because of the network and social abilities of a given person might open more doors for the business. People also go through different stages in their personal lives where they might be more or less invested in the work they're doing, and when you're an employee you have the luxury of checking out every once in awhile. For better or worse, good owners are married to their businesses and don't have that luxury.

I'm still learning and I consciously try to value the input of each employee and make myself openly available for criticism when it's called for. I also realize that the temptation is there to siphon off marginal profits into my own check, but I think that's short sighted if you have good employees who do "own" their job and are growth minded. Investing in those types will only pay dividends. There's a balance to be had, and it sounds like the OP needs to find a company where he feels better respected and supported. Maybe pay is a component of that, but communication and a healthy culture are also pieces of the puzzle.
The Python reference implementation is what we have as far as public information on the schema. We're working on getting a paper drafted up and published quickly, though.
Ask HN: How to deal with recurring layoffs affecting your career?
I realized that I have a recurring problem in my career as a programmer, which is that I almost always get laid off from my jobs without time to prepare for it. And then I am constantly picking up the pieces in life as I return to job searches and spending my bank account, as I do not have a solid plan B to back myself up.

Since graduating, I've always been going back and forth between working as a contractor for small-ish companies (and also low paying at that) for about a year or two, and applying for jobs for another year or two. And going back to being broke in the process. There's no way for me to manage a stable career or lifestyle like this.

I understand that layoffs happen even in the largest of companies. But I just wish I could stop spinning my wheels for so long.

So how do I get myself out of this vicious cycle? Recruiters aren't working out very well for me, and I do not have friends or colleagues that can refer me to suitable jobs. I don't want to play the long game anymore. Going though 4 job layoffs over the span of about 10 years tends to form this attitude, I guess.

Some more details about me: Chicago resident, mid 30s male, most experience is in web development, from agencies and consulting work to a few early startups. I apply to companies big or small, but incidentally the only offers I get are low-pay contract jobs from small companies.
It's Wired. Tangential anecdotes, the wilder the better, are their existence.
I've not heard that quote before, it sums things up nicely. Most of our problems are political/social.

The phrase "wise guy" is even an insult.
We're not talking about the end-times here. Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and wildfires are routine events with hundreds to thousands of prior examples. It's not at all unreasonable to expect organizations that are chartered to deal with them to be pretty good at it by now.

"Will there be an organized response to a disaster?" is right up there with "Do murders get routinely and professionally investigated?" in terms of whether or not we are living in a civilization.

Aiming no higher than reimbursing the ad-hoc vigilante efforts is such a dark worldview.
That feels to me a little like someone telling me "We both agree that this person is currently a slave, so let's not allow your heartfelt belief that slavery is immoral interfere with our use of this slave. Moving on."

And I imagine I will regret saying that, but I can't see letting that stand and saying nothing.
IQ != intelligence

again...

IQ != intelligence

Reading through the comments I feel this needs to be expounded on. IQ is a barely useful metric in predicting achievement or success.

IMO thought structures and habits of thinking can be much more applicable in reality than a high IQ, leading to higher "intelligence" despite low IQ. See: Richard Feynman, idiosyncratic thinking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr8sVailoLw)
Sigh. Increasing the block size to 2MB nor 8MB for that matter will not make a centralized coin.

Segwit (besides being a crappy implementation) is by far not enough scaling.

That you blame Jihan and Roger is typical stupid propaganda which doesn't belong here.
On the topic of female gender & the Odyssey, here's a thesis 'Inhuman and Heroic Women: Femininity in the Odyssey and the Arthurian Vulgate' which includes reference to the original Greek text https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/4157
While I agree STRONGLY, I just tested after seeing your comment and it led me to try the Reader mode in FF which worked perfectly and thus allows full zooming of this site.
They aren't a charity. Either they are making money from the ride, or they are using your choice of uber as a way to attract more investment.
That's a very bad marketing advice. In case someone finds out what you've done, it's a red cross mark on your brand.
Bah, it's no more useless than the comment it was replying to.
Is it expected? It probably was, when the money was first invested. Now their expectations are irrelevant.

In my area, there's already another competitor (Cabify), plus taxis, who are not significantly more expensive. Uber doesn't have a chance of raising their prices to cover that.

I'm hoping they last just enough for another competitor to appear, and that they'll crash and burn afterwards.
Arthur C. Clarke's law - sufficiently advanced technology appears to be magic (and therefore easy.) So just wave that magic wand faster, darn it :)
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