skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, ok, well let me lay out my argument for why it has utility.

Your bank and other organizations (Western Union, etc) spend a great deal of their time and money to create and maintain networks that permit them to move money from one place to another on Earth. Your bank probably pays to some network in order to be able to send and receive "wires" of money to and fro. Migrant workers use Western Union and the like to send money from the country they work to their families back home. For this, Western Union and the global banking networks charge fees. The fees charged by bitcoin to relay funds can be significantly lower. Probably not universally so, but I'd say all transactions above a certain dollar amount would be cheaper. They'll probably be as fast or faster than traditional remittances. Bitcoin does this as good or better. Western Union and friends could decide that leveraging the bitcoin network might actually be cheaper than their current network, or they might be forced to realize this by competitive pressure from other bitcoin-based remittance companies.

Ok, so that is one use that is IMO unassailable. The people on this planet is putting money into building retail locations for Western Union, they're paying for the power to keep the lights on at Western Union, and they're paying the salaries of the employees at those retail locations, and the folks who staff the armored cars moving the actual cash from place to place. That's not a waste, right? It's spent by us collectively in order to get that value. And maybe bitcoin's difficulty-scaled PoW is not spending electricity well. But it's useful and that's why people do it.

Now your claim is regarding the value of entropy and I will claim that you cannot get a mechanism with bitcoin's qualities (trustless + equitable distribution) unless you have a PoW. But I will concede that you can have a delegated-trust proof-of-stake coin that has some of bitcoin's qualities without a proof-of-work.
It's not a lack of ability it's a lack of confidence with a side of liability. See:

>which was Amazon’s recommendation.

Customer support and warranty become a massive pain in the ass if you're not a professional. Amazon will fight tooth and nail not to work with a DIYer because when their lock doesn't latch and someone gets killed in a burglary they don't want to be the only first party with money when the lawyers start going up the links in the chain. Obviously the risk is tiny but with a professional installation they can point fingers at the locksmith and hope the lawyers settle for whatever the locksmith's insurance can provide.

Being a DIYer in this day and age is a massive PITA "because liability"
That's the problem. Stockfish has no opening book.

While there is no doubt Stockfish can play stronger with good opening book, keeping a book up to date with engine changes is really a full time job. So Stockfish project does not have any official opening book.

Personally, I think using publicly available Komodo book would have been enough, but obviously Komodo book is tuned for Komodo and everybody would complain about any book problem. In a sense, "no opening book" is the official upstream supported configuration, so it is entirely a defensible choice.
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They haven't raised the price of commuting at all, because the only people that have to pay the toll are solo drivers, and this road was not previously available to solo drivers during rush hour.
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Besides having more time to lose them, the farther back you go, the less they were worth, so there was less reason to be careful with them.
you ever listen to the breaths of someone speaking rather than the tone or content of their speech? it helps to count the i's in someones writing, to see if they're looking but can't really see.

people have children because sex is fun, babies are cute, toddlers are a captive audience, aging is precarious, and legacy is precious. take the fun out of sex with porn, replace babies with pets, develop a captive audience through endless digital information, eliminate the physical risks of aging, allow a permanent legacy on a voluntary basis for every human being.

life is the most precious gift you can give, 1 second of miserable agonizing painful life defeats the infinity of non-existence. this is the wisdom in giving children life. the developed world has gotten soft. but we need that belly fat for the lean winter years to come. 25-30 years from now it will be the people who chose to have 5+ kids in the 2010s that are relevant, not those who bought the forever pill. nature is not a friend technology is an unwilling slave, trust the first or liberate the second and die a fool. human nature is to kill and survive, and technology is concerned with throughput.

what fascinates me about the world is how irrelevant most people are outside of their immediate family. i could fit every person of net worth 100mil+ in a sports stadium. if that's all that matters, we could go on with about 60k people, why are we lugging around 7.5 billion? just convince them to stop having kids and those next 100 years will fly by as the robots fill the gaps. it's like the dried out husk of a chrysalis emerging beautiful from it's final metamorphosis. 7.5 billion shells birthing 60k butterflies.

nah i'm pretty sure having 5+ kids and monitoring their internet access is the right move for virtually every single fertile human being. if you have money? go for 10.
Sure, but this is in the context of a household in which meeting delivery people is inconvenient. I haven't found locksmith service to be more convenient than package delivery, although of course I might not be spending enough on it...
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Like they did in the US therefore capitalism failed it?

(No, I am not talking about current politics but economy.)
Worth keeping in mind when reading this where the interview is being hosted and who the interviewer is.

If he were not being interviewed by Mozilla, I have to wonder if he might have voiced some additional complaints or criticisms.
Jokes aside, almost every startup needs a front-end developer, most often with little domain-specific knowledge. I assume Web Devs at NASA or SpaceX don't have a degree in aerospace engineering. Is there something wrong with that?
I think you captured this notion quite well and I think it's very interesting that for a decentralized system people have immediately given up on that so called benefit because it wasn't as easy to use as a trusted intermediary.

Then the whole angle of "trusted" is complex due to the parties that you are entrusting and the number of issues that they have suffered.

So then you look at banks and say ok, interesting, perhaps I haven't quite noticed the seamless ease of use layer that they provide, that I have undervalued simply because it's been a fact of life for so long it becomes invisible until you deal with the exact opposite.
I watch windows get popped all the time on physical houses. Is it a good idea to build windows into your house?
> If they all said "we need a bus line running more often down Grand Ave", the message would get across.

That kind of activism requires time and energy that those working multiple jobs to feed their kids do not have. Doubly so if there is someone on the other side opposed to expansion of the bus routes (either due to NIMBYism or tax aversion or what-have-you).

That you see blue-collar people at town halls doesn't negate my point that doing so is expensive for them, and relatively more so than for the local well-off NIMBY.
Don't accept new customers if you don't have the capacity to support them
>It's might force people to stay together in unhappy marriages, etc. I see that as a problem.

How many people are held captive in marriages because their spouse is the breadwinner? How many people stay for health insurance, or because they've spent so long raising children that their profession, if they had one to begin with, has passed them by? I shudder to think of how many abusive spouses have yelled, "Where would you even go?"

I think we agree that it's distasteful for financial concerns to put people in danger in unhealthy relationships, but I have a hard time seeing how "Making sure everyone has enough money to live" would make people MORE trapped.
That's a really interesting approach... do they front the money to the user while the deposit is settling?
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"Hello Internet," it's a weird meta-podcast, and I'd just call it "a love letter to the internet." Various science/philosophical topics, but mostly it's just about the new world that the internet has enabled.

Also, they released a vinyl episode, so I don't think I have to say anymore.
Automats predate McDonald's by a considerable time.
I would be interested to know what is the cost of that electricity per bitcoin transacted. Credit card processing fees are a small number of percent, AIUI. Is it comparable?
Is there a use case of Session Manager that about:profiles doesn’t cover?
Hasn’t this and logistsics been the “secret” to a lot of Amazon success?
It is about a million times faster and easier to use a pick gun on a lock than trying to compromise someone's Amazon account.
Given the success with Go and chess, I would guess less than a year.
Why?

I have a used car. if I put $1,000 into repairs for it and get 12 months out of it. I win.

Can I lease or buy an equivalent car for $1000/yr, $83 a month? Usually not.

If I could, how much would the value deprecate in a year? More than $1,000? Most likely

$1,000 into a used car can be the wisest thing. I pretty much drive my cars till I hit 250,000 miles. It takes another $4k to usually go from 200k-250k usually because timing belt, valve cover and expensive routine maintenance comes up. But $4k to drive 50k miles? Totally worth it.
Coinbase isn't a trading platform. But they do own and operate one: gdax.com
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Coinbase is down again. This seems to happen with every BTC price spike now, and since these spikes get more extreme, I guess Coinbase's infrastructure always lags behind.
Possibly. Customer facing service is certainly difficult to automate away. But I believe behind the counter workforce should be relatively simple. It's hard to fathom that the unskilled masses who end up working there can't be automated away.

It's not like we don't already have automated cooking lines. All the precooked foods at stores are from automated cooking lines. Just replicate that in the back of a McDonald's. I don't find that hard to fathom.

Some will say that "Well if McD's could have automated away those jobs already they would have." Market optimization and whatnot. But the market is always optimal from a _human_ perspective. Case-in-point: McD's switching away from their "pink goo" because of the backlash against it. Using pink goo was cheaper, but the uproar threatened demand, so they have to use more expensive alternatives. In the same way that I believe many, many jobs have not been automated away simply because the public backlash would destroy any business that tried.
Native advertising is advertising designed to fit the aesthetic of the medium. It isn't necessarily intended as deception, but easily can be. It's more like if a publication or web site doesn't want the ads they host to be horrible intrusive or ruin the look and feel they have worked so hard on. The side effect is that it looks like it was made by the publisher.
Yep, with commodity developers. Never heard of Contenta before, sure wish it was around at my job where we rolled our own headless Drupal v5.
> 57) Customer Service

58) Recruiting process
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Agree with almost everything you've said, and unfortunately if past experience is anything to go by, they'll crash/go down during the next big price dip.
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Controlled opposition, to be exact
5:23 ... many argue that it might be time to distribute the spoils more evenly to preserve the social peace.

This does not come from principles. It sounds like a stickup.
Anybody have tips on balancing all the cofactors? You need other things to absorb & use the vitamin D. Some kind of multivitamin that focused only on D and its cofactors might be handy, without going whole-hog to the "everything" multivitamin popular today.
If you want to see a solid critique of practical challenges facing UBI that most proponents do not really address, I highly recommend this piece:

https://medium.com/@simon.sarris/after-universal-basic-incom...
The dynamic toll pricing, based on utilization, on this roadway is very nearly an auction.
WSJ allows FB clicks to bypass the paywall. Is there really a difference if this user navigated to FB, typed the article name in the search box and clicked on the result?
I was around 15 nmol/L (I think). 20 was the minimum. I checked a few months after starting my new regime, and it had gone up to about 50. I then tried backing down to 4000 IU a day and it fell back to around 40, so I went back to 10000, and I haven't checked since then, but I do know my antibody counts are down.
This brings to mind last year's AI-generated festive tune: https://vimeo.com/192711856
GNUstep.
This supposed problem of higher wages would also be an argument against raising the minimum wage, and yet many people are in favor of that because they think low wages are the problem.

If UBI does indeed raise wages at the low end, it's because people have more options in life and made their own choices. Seems like a good thing, no?

More generally, inflation is usually a bad thing, except in the labor market where it's a good thing. If wages go up and the overall price level doesn't go up as much, that means people are earning more without their expenses going up as much.
Are you taking it with food? I think it dissolves in fat, so you might want to take it with some oil for better absorption.
What is the correct conversion? Quest, one of the dominant lab providers in the US, reports in ng/mL and I'm not sure how to interpret my result in nmol/L.
> The company promises deliveries are only made by Amazon employees it thinks are trustworthy.

Amazon doesn't have employees delivering packages. They are all contractors, and often contractors hired by contractors. The concerning thing about this is that it literally means Amazon may have only learned the name of the person who is accessing your home 30 minutes before they are inside it.
It's gossip. There is no precise gossip protocol. I've just mentioned one approach. It's not difficult to modify it such that each node gets one message multiple times, to ensure everyone will see the changes. Centrally configuration management systems like Zookeeper/etcd,... will also suffer from the same problem: message propagation takes time. Even with floating IP, a couple of requests may fail until routing tables converge. So there is no atomic configuration switch in either case anyway. The argument was if floating IP is easier than pure software approach to deploy, which is not the case. both of them are equally challenging. One of them requires experienced network engineers, the other one requires experienced distributed system designer. In case of failure the effort to switch from failed node is zero in both approaches.
And in Asia they sell skin-whitening lotions.
Check out the ratio of gold price to Dow Jones index for last 100 years:

http://www.macrotrends.net/1378/dow-to-gold-ratio-100-year-h...

In 1917 it was about 5, now it's about 15. So threefold increase in a century.

Plus the Dow pays around 2% dividend per year which is 7-fold increase in a century.

So US stocks outperformed gold by 21 times between 1917 and 2017.

Looking at the chart, there are very few long-term periods when gold has outperformed US stocks.
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The USDA partnered with industry to develop a process for increasing Vitamin D levels in mushrooms by simply exposing them to ultraviolet light.

Monterey Mushrooms has a video showing how this step was added to the packaging process:

http://www.montereymushrooms.com/nutrition/mushrooms-with-vi...
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Yeah, I don't know how getting a locksmith is easier than literally screwing a plate in, but I don't know how rich people think.
The #Bitcoin pizza is worth $141,685,600 today
See Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software), it says pronunciation is 'cute'.
Yes, Hashimoto's. All auto-immune diseases are linked. If you have one, you have a higher chance of having another. This doesn't mean you will have the other, just that the number of people with T1D among hashimoto's patients is higher than the number of people with T1D among the general public, and vice versa.
When a window gets broken, you at least know someone was (or still is) there.
Not when you consider that half of all companies are Chinese companies.

For comparison:
USA: ~30m
China: ~80m
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I have no stake for or against Uber in any manner. I just call spades what they are.

> I don't really think I'm going to convince you that maybe Uber is doing what they've planned on doing all along

Conversely, I don't understand how you can argue I'm unconvinceable despite not providing anything to really be convinced by except vague allusions to some sort of secret plan that's working perfectly.
If (for whatever reason) you truly believe that what your employer is selling requires customers to be naive and gullible, then being paid in cash and willing to deal with some job volatility isn't sufficient, you also need a lack of ethics to work at one.
Today is a big day. html5lib finally has a normal versioning scheme.
> If it can be proven that it will always be called, the compiler is free to assume that the program will never be run, and optimize the whole program down to nothing.

Does that happen when the compiler assumes you'll never take branches that lead to UB, and then finds a path through your branches that more or less does nothing? Or can it happen even if you're not branching at all?

Also, say my program is

int main() {
printf("hello world\n");
do_some_UB();
}

Is the compiler really allowed to produce a program that doesn't print?
I can't figure out whether to upvote this to expose this person, or downvote it to avoid giving this person exposure.

It never ceases to amaze me just how many fools are out there just waiting to fall for something like this. It's terrifying. Instagram douche meets cult leader has got to be the worst personality combo I've ever seen in my life.

On another note, this stuff makes scientologists sound completely reasonable and sane by comparison.
I found that with the default theme on MacOs that you want to make the tabbar transparent and non-clickable. Otherwise it munges the titlebar.
If your customers have to be naive and gullible for the company to succeed (even if it's for the very short term) didn't that used to be called a 'scam'? Not sure I'm imagining or if it's real but cynicism is strong recently. I get the idealism around startups got a bit overblown but there's got to be some people who still want to work on something that 'makes the world a better place' even if it's in a small way.
Well, there's GNUstep... I'd be interested in knowing if anyone has used it recently and how complete it is.
Then there was no such thing as capitalism as every country plans its budget and every big company has at least a five year plan and mid term strategy.

Capitalism does not harness innovation at all, because at some critical mass such capitalist notions like patents, royalties and exclusive contracts get involved to freeze the market and boost the big existing players at the cost of incumbents who are actually innovative.

What you cannot sell gets neglected too.

The market and agora gets converted into an authoritarian oligarchy. (Nonetheless capitalist.)
If you wear a reflective vest and carry a barcode scanner and just walk into a house nobody will ask questions and you know you'll be able to unlock the door and get in before you even knock on the door. Way less risk than any sort of forced entry.
A few years ago decided I want to be part time photographer. Bought bunch of gear mostly to look the part, then I realized I didn’t enjoy taking photos for clients or especially at events. Sold everything a year later, lost about $1,000. Though don’t regret it as I got some decent photos and some interesting experiences from it.
Imagine that you created a tool that had all security features enabled. The usability of it would be incredibly low and barrier of entry so high that rarely anyone would use your tool. The idea behind allowing "open access" is to allow for a new user to learn the most important aspect of your tool by realizing what problems it solves.

Of course, from a security standpoint, people will still make mistakes like this, but the onus is NOT on the tool developers. They make it configurable for a reason.
Agreed. I bought an old volvo for $2000 about 7 years ago. I'd say I average about $1000 in repairs every year. I'd call that a great investment.
Throughout November I got several emails a week advising me to invest in Bitcoin and now I even see adverts for Bitcoin on the websites of newspapers. At this point it's obvious it's a bubble. What's not obvious is whether the bubble will burst violently or the true value of Bitcoin will softly catch up with its price.
You could start with the Republican’s 1.5 trillion dollar tax break for the wealthy, and also the defense budget as the other commenter mentioned.
Does anyone know what a "dharma battle" would consist of?
One con of being in a Tropical country is that you don't have to worry about your Vitamin D intake. The sun roasts you every year in the pre Monsoon heat.
Why would their costs go up?
Why aren't they a market-priced good?

It's a market with a fixed supply, but other markets like that work just fine. For example, the USA has a fixed amount of land, and that is sold at a market, and has settled on mostly reasonable rates.
Also the image/video stuff and the browser, all the stuff that's /so/ insanely annoying to make cross platform works without a hitch.
Ability to code in one of the languages used for the Bitcoin or Ethereum reference implementations: C++, Rust, Go...
That is not a strong counter-argument. Causing damage is not inherent to getting unauthorized entry into a house. A skilled lock-picker can open many locks without destroying them.
It started out as a political issue (KDE being dependent on Qt, and Qt not being GPL at the time). The history is here:
https://www.kde.org/community/history/qtissue.php

I've always preferred KDE to GNOME because I feel it is higher quality desktop environment, but I will be the first to acknowledge KDE mucked up around KDE 4 and even today there are weird glitches in the vastly improved KDE5. That said, I still run Kubuntu because I feel it continues to be better than Ubuntu (GNOME), and I can live with the little annoyances.
Is there a really need for this type of product? With the choice of either collecting your parcel from a delivery office or the multitude of delivery lockers that are popping up everywhere is this a problem that needs solving? Perhaps someone could help me to understand if there are particular scenarios where this would be beneficial to allow this form of parcel delivery.
Given the lack of developers in general I can't imagine this being an issue. Besides, most of the work at "blockchain companies" is just your old boring engineering.