skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mentioning Facebook in the title is just clickbait. I'm willing to hear a scientist talk about disorders and how they related to social media but don't just use a name to get people to click on an article. It really discredits the writer for being deceptive.
The most benign possibility is that he was a drunk guy with a firearm

No, the most benign possibility is that he was an innocent drunk without a firearm. That's not just a possibility, that is in fact what he was.
Sure, LN alone might not be enough to serve the daily transactions of billions of users. Still, it proves how layers built on top of the blockchain can improve the efficiency by several orders of magnitude with some reasonable trade-offs. LN is probably just the first of such layers.

Things like sidechains, cross-chain atomic swaps, various block space usage improvements (eg. Schnorr signatures) are also in the pipeline right now, all of which could further improve throughput.

So while LN may not be the silver bullet, it makes me hopeful that at least from a technical perspective, Bitcoin will be able to scale to become a global currency.
If this is the talk I think it is, there is 30 mins of laywer and then 30 mins of police officer, saying the exact same thing.
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Signing_Party.tx...
> If I had a large holding in Bitcoin now I would be cashing out or I'd be nervous. I'm not saying it won't go higher, I'm saying that at some point its demise is inevitable. Might be quick, might be slow, but it'll happen because Bitcoin is not the technically best solution in this incredibly exciting field. It's not even close.

My guess is that this is less of factor than you think. I don't think that HTML/CSS/JS is the best technical solution for creating websites, and yet that is what all browsers use and there are few signs that that is changing anytime soon.
So you expect publicly funded journalism to bite the hand that feeds it when necessary? How does that work?
You're setting up a complete straw man. Believing in benefits of an international, decentralized currency in no way implies you're against taxation or higher taxes.

Free markets don't exist in a vacuum. Taxes pay for all the institutions that enable free markets -- including but not limited to law, enforcement of contracts, and especially (hopefully) the proper accounting of externalities.
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Did you mean "reasons not to use..."?
China still burns a shit ton of nasty poorly regulated coal. The hydro (and in the near future nuclear) doesn't cover the growing needs of 1.4b people.

Coal is literally like 3/4 of China's electric generation capacity. If Bitcoin is taking up some of the hydro, the slack is gonna come from coal.
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If you give a recommended fee it can go as fast as ever.
I believe most mining operations make use of hydro-electric power, simply because it’s much cheaper than burning off coal.
Or its a balance between the moral imperative to help and the risk of harm to yourself? Maybe the urgency of a stolen baby is more important to you then fairly small risk of accidental self implication?
Last paragraph:

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This is a good comment and touches a lot of concerns I have with the service.

On debugProxy, username and password "sessions" are disabled after 20 minutes of inactivity. This was implemented, in part, to combat the issue of people forgetting they were still connected to the proxy.

Also, I don't want to, nor do I have a enough disk space to store things for long. So body data over 20 minutes old is periodically permanently removed. Header data lasts a bit longer, but is also periodically permanently removed.

This will not prevent users sending private credentials over the proxy, but it's hard to prevent that as you say, so hopefully this mitigates the problem a bit.

Of course you still have to trust the service, for some people that will be totally unacceptable, which is fine.
> It's still early in the game.

Bitcoin is 9 year old tech--that is an eternity in tech. Lightning network has been touted as "the scaling solution" for many of those years and has yet to see any use. And even then, the scaling solution Lightning Network provides is "don't use bitcoin". All the solutions for bitcoins scaling problems boil down to "don't use bitcoin".

So if the only way to scale Bitcoin is to not use it... again... what is the point?
Benchmarks can be slanted by the person doing them, perhaps they want to present themselves in the better light. There are official benchmarks that are supposedly on even ground,see TPCC, TPCE and so on.
The whole point is that it doesn't benefit you, _if you're a potential suspect_ to talk to the police. This shouldn't be a surprise no matter how perfect the justice system is -- it's better to not be involved with it if you can.

I'm not sure why healthcare makes for big government? We already have wildly successful healthcare programs in the US that are government managed and are cheaper than private alternatives. So we should trust the government can provide them because... it does. I wouldn't want the federal government running every pastry shop on the other hand.

I have no idea where concealed carry fits into this.
We were given standardized tests every year growing up, then the PSAT and the SAT at the end of high school. So that amounts to a minimum of 12 tests just from the public school system.
>through the lens of our own 20/20 hindsight

Here's another quote from the article that seems to be a constant feature over the decades:

>PDP is an acronym for “Programmed Data Processor”, as at the time, computers had a reputation of being large, complicated, and expensive machines, and DEC’s venture capitalists would not support them if they built a “computer”

Looks like some VC's have always been more impressed by the slide deck and presentation than the actual potential of the business concept or individuals developing the technology.

That's something worth learning as well.

Anyway, anybody want a used VAX 4000-200? Available for pick up in Houston this week.

If so, post PM info here along with what you would like to do with it.

I'll check this thread in a few days to see if there is any interest.

Also, an HP1000 in a full rolling rack the size of a refrigerator.
So, the situation in the video goes like this: (1) police had reason to believe that the man was armed and (2) man made a movement that was looking like he was reaching for a firearm.

Now, what police should do in a situation which combines data points (1) and (2)?
Urgency can change the moral imperative if the situation. When police "just wanna talk", there isn't urgency, so they can wait a bit longer for legal council to arrive, or provide immunity.
Well, that's not accurate either. Miners sort transactions by fee and fill up a 1MB block.

Use https://estimatefee.com/. Not paying enough to win the fee auction is not the same as no transactions getting through at all. You seem a bit misinformed to be using the "Dude" prologue.
It's not nearly that bad, because it makes more sense to compare these numbers to gold. Gold is economically similar, since most of its value comes from speculation on the notion that it is deflationary.

If we assume that 85% of total global gold production comes from primary gold mining only, then the 88 million oz (Moz) produced in 2016 consumed the energy value of an estimated 123.2 million barrels of oil equivalent versus 6.6 million barrels of oil equivalent for all Bitcoin production.

https://srsroccoreport.com/bitcoin-vs-gold-which-ones-a-bubb...

The speculative power of gold comes from a kind of "Proof of Work" very much like Bitcoin, by a different mechanism (with different economic properties, of course).

If Bitcoin partially replaces gold (in market cap), and we don't find alternatives for Proof-Of-Work, it seems reasonable to assume that it will also partially replace gold's energy consumption as well.
As a counter-point... why should we take your word on this over the word of the lawyer(s) in the talk. "Under no circumstances" pretty clearly includes the ones you've given.
Mine is on never and the other option is “while using the app”. I have no recollection of choosing the setting either.
In my mind that question is reframed as, "how much do you look our for others vs. yourself?"
Verify the firearm and attempt a non-lethal solution.
Couldn't bitcoin blocks be 100 times larger? What's the drawback of huge blocks?
You’re not supposed to talk to police without the advice of a lawyer. Especially not after you’ve been detained or asked to come down to the station.

You should absolutely trust the police to try to find a suspect to prosecute because that is their job, as currently widely understood.

Also, small clarification: policing in the US has nothing to do with big government generally; there are thousands of police departments and each one is independent of all the others. Maybe the FBI counts as ‘big fovernment’, but they certainly aren’t your everyday police officers.
It's as noted above: put an opening brace after the "where", "let", "do" and "of" keywords[0], put semi-colons between (or after both work) "statements" in a given "scope" e.g. declarations (in let and where blocks), clauses (in case/of blocks) and actual statements (in do blocks)

module Main where {
main = do {
let {
a :: Int; a = 8;
b :: Int; b = 3;
};
let { c = a `quot` b } in print c;
}}

You can also format it all on one line, it'll work just fine:

module Main where { main = do {let {a :: Int; a = 8; b :: Int; b = 3;}; let { c = a `quot` b }; print c}}

[0] basically every keyword which opens a non-expression "body", a brace after `case` or `in` is a compilation error as they can only contain a single expression
No, not because of Bitcoin's value.
Somebody who feels compelled to sell their Bitcoins because the technology is not ready has probably not acquired any in the first place.

Whatever technology replaces Bitcoin is likely something you can buy with Bitcoin. That's why people rush to buy something which obviously isn't "ready" (but maybe "good enough"). It's speculative, but do not think that people who invested a lot in this didn't think this through at least as much as you have.
I think the google guys did the same, no? Not that it makes the behavior better or normalizes it, but just that he's not the single exception.
"Who Owns the Future?" is IMHO very much worth a read, as it points out some of the issues we face as a society dealing with the the big social-data-silos in terms of 'us' being the product for sale, what that means, and maybe how to combat it.
I'll believe any of that will work when people don't cite Satoshi's holy insight as a reason why the block size shouldn't increase.
I don't believe in IQ, I believe in concentration.
The problem of "making patrons pay up front" is one that is profoundly interesting to a certain vocal segment of Patreon's customers: creators who are using Patreon to create a paywall for their work.

As a creator who's been supporting herself via Patreon for a while, I'd like to give Patreon the benefit of the doubt and assume that they do not, in fact have any hidden motives involving "making lots more money" and/or "running afoul of financial regulations". It's worth noting that "paywall-as-a-service" is not the problem Patreon ever set out to solve; they've always been about figuring out how to aggregate micropayments to support creators who are giving stuff away for free.

Sadly, the fact that this change completely breaks the original micropayments-aggregation model makes this hard to do. And their continued insistence that this change is all about "giving creators more money" makes me trust them less and less.
It isn't that new coins can't be created, a coin may be worth e.g. $100 and it costs $101 in electricity to create another one so nobody does until the demand for coins increases.

But the amount of work required to validate a transaction need not be as much as it takes to create a coin, and people will continue to be willing to pay someone 5c to do 4c worth of computation to validate their transaction.
In hindsight, I think the only way he could have survived would have been to not move at all. The trigger-happy lunatic was going to shoot him the instant he made any "unexpected" motion, which was inevitable given the confusing and contradictory orders being shouted at him.
20 entire transactions per second? Amazing! Who has ever heard of software that could do 20 things in a second?
I was not aware VPNs are immune to traffic shaping. Thanks for solving the Net Neutrality issue.
I wish you could turn off auto update for just one app on iOS.
>Decentralization made a brilliant engineer reach for a brute force hash

This isn't about SHA-256. This about the concept of Proof of Work. This applies to every coin based on Proof of Work out there.

What I'm saying is that the entire concept of Proof of work is dependent on people 'wasting' energy to prevent an attacker from taking over the network. It has to be so expensive that someone can't just spend a million dollars and be able to take over the network.

I think of it has a bank spending a couple million on a secure safe to prevent breaking in. What you're saying is "Banks are spending lots of money on safes, and that's bad". Safes' value is nothing unless an attacker tries to get in. The bitcoin network's mining seems worthless until someone tries to take over the network.

This is a very new thing, but I'm surprised HN is still struggling to understand. Every news outlet parroting the same thing as if the bitcoin community is stupid is what gets me the most. I'm almost beginning to think there's a PR campaign going on against bitcoin.

I'm all for the environment. So let's get rid of the wasteful safes, cameras, lasers and guards protecting pieces of paper. Let's get rid of cash counters, counterfeit currency detectors, cashiers at banks who take money to deposit all day long. I assure you, that'll result in less wastage of resources.

>there’s already other currencies attempting proof of work without plugging in a billion hair dryers around the world.

Take a different proof of work algorithm. The same thing will happen. People will buy and build computers to do the same thing. The resource consumption is a factor of the value of the coin, not the PoW algorithm. The power consumption might vary a little depending on the exact algorithm, but the net total of resource spent will be similar. Take some time to understand this.

There are better alternatives people are really trying to come up with. Proof of Stake, Proof of Space, etc. But the thing is, no one is sure about their validity. Ethereum has been talking about Proof of Stake for a long time now, but there still isn't a sure schedule.

This isn't great, but it is the best we have. If you have a better idea, I'm all ears.
In some ways the universe is aware of itself in the form of consciousness, if you believe its real of course.
(edit: congress forbid review gag clauses last year)

I've pointed this:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/congress-passes-...

out to my employer's lawyers, who responded with "well, yes, but we'd still get sued, by Oracle, so... no."
Is that really a fare comparison? I mean Visa and Mastercard use the global banking infrastructure to complete its transactions. I cant open a Visa or Mastercard account but I can generate a wallet in one second and use it instantly.
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Amazon, Apple, Google, Intuit and PayPal are lobbying for national regulation of money transmitters to solve that problem. They have a lobbying front, "Financial Innovation Now", for this.[1] What they want reads like a giveaway to the "payday loan" business, though. They want federal preemption of state usury laws.

[1] https://financialinnovationnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/0...
The question is: When police are holding you at gunpoint, and yelling inconsistent commands at you, and tell you to shut up when you ask for clarification, what are you supposed to do to survive the encounter? Answer: IT doesn't matter. The police are so hyped up, even laying on the ground unconscious can get you killed: 1: Alabama police officers beat an unconscious man who was ejected after a car crash. 2: 3-5 police officers piled up on a skinny kid that can't breathe, let alone move, and still one of them pulls out a gun and shoots him in the head like it's just another Tuesday. 3: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/... (Source Reddit, right now)
docker pull sath89/oracle-12c?

In sane countries licenses don't have magic powers. I'm allowed to publish a benchmark no matter what Oracle things.
Do you know how to enter thin spaces on Mac OS? What’s the Unicode value?
I strongly urge you to dig out your old Oric and get Blakes7 running on it, you won't believe how great it is .. these machines still get a lot of love, so I hope I'll see you out there on oric.org and/or forums.defence-force.org if you get the druthers .. Cheers and happy hacking!
You could knowingly publish incorrect, fictional, or fabricated results. When they sue, you won’t have violated any license. But at least oracle will look terrible.
I'm part of a lot of communities, and clearly HN is one of the rare where I am, more often than not, answered in comments by people more intelligent than me. So even if I'd consider myself an average Joe, it seems a good sign that HN has quite a lot of intelligent people. At least more than average.
Ask HN: What makes a good online community?
I'm interested in what makes a good online community. Is it the community software with rules and reputation and gamification? Is it the moderators that help enforce the rules? Is it something else? I'm especially interested in examples, why you think they're good, and how long you've been involved.
Indeed... there are many more selective:
http://miyaguchi.4sigma.org/BloodyHistory/history.html

Some might wonder what relevance this soap-opera-ish tale has to the stated goals of the high-IQ societies. I would argue that in order to understand what these societies are about, one should understand their history, including the very human motivations that drove their foundings.

Although I agree that depending on your circles (college anyone?) 98th %ile isn't much of a stretch. Further, not having a 2% one-sided outlier in your 30-60 person uncorrelated sample set ranges from 45-70%... but you're not likely to know it, and they're not likely to be Mensa members. Wanting to be a member, may be a bigger indicator for the disorders question.
There's not a lot you can do.
What are you saying "not really" to? I wasn't claiming that lisp didn't allow you to use hardware.

Rather, I was claiming that most of the hallmarks of functional code in today's programs wasn't possible in older hardware. Specifically, many of the "functional data structures" that people are growing to love nowadays were decidedly not possible on so little memory.
easy. the kid was pinned down, face down, from the very start of the video.

officer 1 advances to cuff, officer 2 covers. so fucking simple.
So you maintain that Duterte has not bragged about committing extrajudicial killings?
This isn't limited to commercial software. Until its recent relicensing, GPL FreeRTOS had this turd:

Clause 2:

FreeRTOS may not be used for any competitive or comparative purpose, including
the publication of any form of run time or compile time metric, without the
express permission of Real Time Engineers Ltd. (this is the norm within the
industry and is intended to ensure information accuracy).
People don't realise how natural a reaction this is also, if your pants are coming off it's muscle memory to grab them.
The problem is the frame of reference of "subjective." For example, few would question whether or not coat color on cats is an explainable phenomenon, although it varies. So, why isn't qualia similar? Subjective experience is a property of a biological system, so it would seem that the claim that subjective experience is not scientifically explainable at some level would be a claim that biology is not explainable.

I agree with your sentiment at some level, in that I think the explainability of certain things is at least open to question, or should be questioned, but I think the subjective/objective distinction is misleading or misguided because from some frame of reference, subjective is objective.

The bigger issue maybe, that the article touches on, is the problem of emergence.

One definition of emergence is basically that the complexity at one scale of analysis becomes so extreme that you have to move to another scale of analysis. I.e., emergence is associated with unavoidable information loss, where what is random at one scale is nonrandom at another, but predicting from one scale to another is impossible. It's kind of a measurement horizon, to borrow a cosmological metaphor: your measurements at one scale become so complex to model as a system at some point that you have to simply remeasure at a different scale.

I think this is a more immediate pressing problem with science, that there may be some kind of information-theoretic limits to explainability across scale in complex systems. It's something that the reductionistic push kind of misses: just because something is physically reducible, and logically necessary, it's not necessarily informatically reducible, and logically knowable a priori (to borrow from the philosopher Kripke).
Is that true? Or is that just what people want to see?

Avg age at my company (Series A funded, 50-ish people) is >30. Founders started at 35 & 36. Now they’re not-quite-40 and 40. Your sample size may vary.
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> And worse, its energy consumption is not a function of its transaction volume, but of its price in fiat.

It's also a function of time, dropping in half every ~4 years. (Rounding transaction fees to zero)

Which isn't to argue against proof of stake, just to clarify the current situation.
Wow, I'm shocked at how religious these people are about their ideas. There's a lot of statements that many in this video make that have no serious evidence behind them, beyond their own experimental analysis.

When I was younger, I watched an interview with Richard Feynman where he described how exceptionally difficult it is to truly know something. I wish more people took that approach when it comes to their own workplaces.
> what is the big deal about syspatch?

It's not revolutionary, just very convenient. It's automatic, and I think M:Tier offers a similar service.[0]

> How is this different from […] apt or yum?

It's a "utility for security and reliability binary updates to the base system."[1] Syspatch is only for base system, not ported packages.

[0]: https://stable.mtier.org/
[1]: https://www.openbsd.org/61.html
[2]: Package Management https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html
Which government? The Philippine government?
False, since 2013, when the Supreme Court held that remaining silent wasn't sufficient to invoke your right to remain silent.

"suspect did not sufficiently invoke the right to remain silent when he stubbornly refused to talk:"

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc...
Regardless of the legality, I reserve the right to an opinion on the matter. I consider it cowardly to shoot an unarmed man, violent or not.
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