skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I may have not been clear, I do think BTC is in a bubble. When my 60 year old parents, who can barely figure out how to use netflix are asking me if they should buy bitcoin, there is a serious problem. Though I do not think it will be as bad as people like OP are predicting. 1000 entities control 40% of the circulation of BTC. They will be much less likely to liquidate in any event. Thus you have some solid stability there I suppose.

On a semi related note, I'm curious to know more about the profile of altcoin holders. In the event of a BTC fallout, would these crash as well? Or will we see a rush to those currencies due to the inevitable difficulty in converting BTC->USD/EUR/etc? I have so many questions...
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> ($1m+ per residence per year)

probably cheaper than maintaining an equivalently sized yacht, and without needing to hire someone competent to maintain your staff, etc.
I want one for games!
>Modern dumps can be very environmentally friendly.

I'd agree with 'less environmentally damaging' but not as you've put it.
As a high school dropout living in the blue collar world after some rough time as a teen on the street, having left home at 15, I'd long forgotten about the potential I once had in grade school. Years later when I decided to go back to school and get a degree, I entered the CS program. Despite great performance I carried the delusion that I was not nearly as smart as everyone else. I was also often the only woman in the class and deep down believed that I was inferior. I had accepted that hard work was my only real tool for success. But I truly loved the material and chose to get a double major in Math. I was pretty isolated from my peers and was completely unaware to what degree I was outperforming them. It wasn't for several years out in the workforce where I actually started to realize I was actually alright in the intelligence department and I wasn't just fooling everyone (although I still have my doubts some days...). Nowadays, I frequently find myself in disbelief of where I am now, what my career is, what I get paid and what my life is like compared to where I was headed many years ago.

My brother on the other hand was treated like a genius from an early age and was never really forced to work hard. Even when he failed, there was reasoning that he was just too gifted and he was bored and never really had to learn how to truly apply himself or grow. My dad gave him a job and eventually gave him his company when he retired that he ran into the ground. He lived with my parents until he was over 30 and now approaching 50 he still struggles with keeping a job.

I think about the two of us and how we were both led astray by our adults thinking they already knew what we were capable of. What you say about your experience being damaging really resonates to me even if I'm coming from the opposite side of things. I feel like I got extremely lucky that my particular set of experiences even if they were tough to live through allowed me to land on my feet.
Thanks for the explanation.

Actually, it wasn't really my intention to start a FOSS debate, because I think there are no two opinions about it if this story would exist without the FOSS philosophy and I just wanted to highlight that.
Past college, living hand-to-mouth is in the USA is largely an issue of financial education and self-control. I was living hand-to-mouth when I met my wife, who made half what I did and had substantial savings. Get housemates instead of keeping a house to yourself. Get roommates instead of a room to yourself. Get rid of your subscriptions. And so on. Sustenance is remarkably cheap unless you're in poor health.

I blame this lack of financial education on our failing high schools and bad parenting. And a stigma against judging others for poor financial choices (I see people in this thread lauding the gifts the charity recipients plan to buy).
> How do you think inequality alleviation is more likely than removing the right to bear arms?

Most of the people committing gun violence in the US are in poverty. They use guns and other weapons to earn money(mostly in drugs and robbery) and to gain control of their lives.

_Most_ people with guns never use them illicitly, because they are never in a position where they feel the need. I want more people in our country to never feel the need, and I feel poverty alleviation would be a fantastic way to do that.
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Upon further investigation, it looks like Woodford repeated it rather than originated it. Also, he was applying it to Hollywood movie plots, and later TV plots.

In Woodford's autobiography he attributes it to H. Allen Smith: https://books.google.com/books?id=AckQU9DPMnwC&pg=PT299&dq=J...
Satan was an angel once. Larry Ellison was just born that way.
research != deep learning

> should make cloud GPU time cheaper and/or more efficient.

No way. These will be not put in data centers of cloud providers. I'm not even sure many regular data centers will have anything like this -- especially if NVIDIA keeps pushing and blackmailing server vendors to stop selling servers packed with GeForce cards if they don't want to loose big [1,2].

[1] https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia-geforce-server
[2] https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20171027PD200.html
A lot of shit is shoveled for profit, yeah.
There is no technical reason, Google has simply decided that they won't support Firefox.
There are apartments in NYC that go for more than that a square foot, but even in the Carlyle they only pay 60-70% of that in maintenance per square foot.
Less impactful than a lot of things, still an obscene waste.
Indeed. But the earth is simultaneously orbiting about the Sun, which changes the apparent length of a day by approximately 3.95 minutes. (I.e., approximately 24 * 60 / 365 minutes).
> Republicans have been very united in opposition to net neutrality

Does it indicate all of them are corrupt? Because only corrupt shills oppose it willingly.
Ask HN: How to get a small team off the ground remotely?
A group of friends and I won a pitch contest at our university and decided we want to pursue the idea and try to start development. However, break just started and I am struggling to decide what the best way to organize the team/get started is, especially considering we are all over the US for the month.
Got Prime, but "This title is not available in your current location"

Heh. Thanks.
Hey buddy. Flawed != bad or net negative.
Bow before J:

(*/ 1000 60 60 24) = */ ^~ 1 2 3 4 5

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Reminds me of this classic track: http://www.metrolyrics.com/g00/underwear-goes-inside-the-pan...

Before you judge, ask yourself how you would spend the $15.
The best way to think about it is like gold. The gold standard didn't mean that everyone was doing day to day trading in gold. While you could carry around physical gold (and coins did contain precious metals), gold-backed notes were a big part of the equation.

If Bitcoin became a major currency, you'd have banks that pay you interest for your deposits and then issue you notes (not necessarily physical). They would pay for your interest and make their profit by lending out a portion of deposits.
hopefully you will never see the the salesperson charging into the engineer meeting yelling "I promised the customer 6 months ago that we would ship this feature in 3 months, where the hell is it" at a sea of faces that had clearly never heard of any such thing.
This entire thread is a disaster (which is why I flagged the story, it was low quality political bait). My account is old enough that I'm not violating the rules when I say HN is turning into reddit.
You know, if the us federal government can’t get its stuff together, why not? It’s not a bad thing.
Says the guy who submitted a link to "Duck Penises Grow Bigger Among Rivals"
Oracle has been in the death throes for decades. There's loads of money on keeping the existing Oracle shops hostage for decades of betting the farm on Oracle-specific tech.

Unless you won the Powerball and want to live on Ramen for the rest of your life, don't do this.
But can you take said boat to Antarctica?
You’re right - war and oppression are tools used by Capitalists to secure and grow their wealth.

Japan, South Korea, and side swathes of Europe are wealthy because of their positions as client states in the American Capitalist Imperium.
How about not buying stuff with poor packaging. Sure, sometimes we don’t have a choice, but many times we do. Often it’s as simple as preparing food at home versus getting take out. I’d prefer laws to mandate recycleable packaging. Problem solved. Petrochemical industry will be ticked.
> someday they'll pay for it

I'm not holding my breath though. Maybe my grandchildren will live to see Oracle bought as a Kickstarter project started by Postgres devs.
Even if they are not all bought, it's unlikely that none of the Democrats have been bought.

I'm not saying the two parties are even. Both are influenced by money, one probably significantly more than the other. But combined, it's probably more than 50%.
How do we know this really is "Cards Against Humanity," and not just some prankster's domain?
Hi! Thanks for responding!

I'll admit I was dismissive in my attempt at brevity so thank you for challenging me.

I didn't intend to shut down discussion. I was countering the flood of commentary around what I perceived as issues ancillary to the actual topic.

On the topic of scalability, I might been too dismissive, but I'd rather focus on the positivity of the topic as a whole, lamoon its impact, even if localized, and then secondarily bring up the topic of scalability.

I was intentionally stark because I recognize HN as being highly volatile. Top-level commentary often controls the conversation and I'd rather validate the topic than waste nuance in pessimistic challenges.
Since Amazon owns both CreateSpace and KDP, it does seem inevitable that they will eventually merge them under the KDP umbrella. Although there is no fixed timeline, the launch of KDP Paperback brings this one step closer. I like CreateSpace, so I hope it persists as long as possible.
https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G201952960
Works in much of Europe. In Germany, every store that sells glass has to take it back. You see bottle machines at all the Aldis with scanners. It's mostly automated, and you can tell how old a beer bottle is by how deep the rings are (where the machine rolls it around to scan it).
Coinbase (YC S12) is hiring senior software engineers in SF, NY and London
https://www.coinbase.com/careers

We're actively looking for MongoDB and Redis experts.

Additionally, we're looking for people especially excited about payment systems/microservices, ethereum smart contracts/tokens and cryptocurrency infrastructure (e.g. our hot/cold storage and private key infrastructure for both bitcoin and ethereum), machine learning and security.

Here are two recent engineering post mortems to see what types of problems we are trying to solve:

https://engineering.coinbase.com/november-29th-december-1st-...

https://engineering.coinbase.com/december-6th-7th-post-morte...

Our stack:
• Ruby
• Node.js
• React.js
• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB
• CoreOS
• Docker
• Kinesis
• ELK
• AWS

Engineering blog
https://engineering.coinbase.com/
There just isn't any evidence Tolstoy ever said or wrote that. Nor would it make sense for someone who wrote Anna Karenina. You should read the link in my last reply. And/or Anna Karenina.
You may be right about things eventually changing, but I think it'll be due to post-scarcity due to technological progress, not because people will rise up.

What you're definitely wrong about is that the current status quo benefits a select few. It's not equally distributed (although neither would socialism be), but almost everyone on earth today is much better off today than they would have been without capitalism, liberalism, etc.

But I'm tired of providing examples of why, especially when the alternative being offered is a theoretical utopia that's basically a more extreme version of some of the most cruel and deadly regimes earth has ever known.
That's a pretty big point.
Since I'm in farm country in North Dakota, I agree and I can say it is no accident Ford sells a truck that lists out near $100,000.
Cool, can you please tell me more about your facebook feed, bro?
> There's a drive towards smallness (as in, lower food requirements) which has probably made simplicity a lot less bad than otherwise.

The problem is that evolution only leads to the bare minimum required to gain an advantage.
You are being really childish and confrontational about this, and I'm not clear why.
Looks like you need to indent that code

(1..5).map{|n| n**n}.reduce(:*) == 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000

Or if we're golfing

(1..5).reduce{|t,n|t*n**n}
Well we pay ~40% tax on our salary, I expect government use this money wisely and take care of things like that so I don't have to waste time after a long day of work and rinsing food containers before throwing them in recycling bin.
Where did you see that?

I’ve been involved in a few disasters, including in places with strong unions. Never saw that happen.
That works pretty well. The only catch is that you have to mandate the deposit on all bottles, not just glass ones. Otherwise it's cheaper to just sell everything in plastics. Some countries do it. It might work for phones/laptops too. Small deposit, most of the used stuff ends up delivered to the place of your choice. Like the shopping trolley system.

^If you already have big publicly accessible bottle recycle places, these will the raided.
Watch this prediction.

https://us.teamblind.com/article/update-from-block---btc-fut...
Thinking about hardware support
The word day is ambiguous, but calling it 24 hours is not perfect either. A 24 hour period can include leap seconds, meaning it can be one second longer or shorter than 24 * 60 * 60 seconds.

(At least that's how ISO8601 defines time periods: 11pm-12am is a one hour period even if leap seconds cause the last minute to have 59 or 61 seconds)
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Weirdly, the non-electric Smart Car can actually fit some big people, but it does suffer a bit in the gas mileage department.

I am enjoying driving a hybrid for the weight distribution the batteries provide. It does help winter driving to have some balance in weight on the back wheels.
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Of the vegetables in the supermarket, the ecological / organic have the most packaging. I find it ironic that if I want to use reusable bags to buy greens, I am pretty much forced to go non-organic.
When people go on about climate change, it bothers me because the fact of if climate change is man accelerated or not is totally irrelevant. CO2 is the least of our pollution problems, when you look at planned obsolescence, cellphones more powerful than 2000s laptops that are designed to only have a 2~4 year lifecycle, the prevalence of electric cards which all take barrels of oil to produce, the total and complete lack of real rail systems in the US, which use a fraction of the power consumption of cars (a system America use to have and is now gone), etc etc etc

Climate change is irrelevant because if people simply consumed less and demanded products that last longer, we'd reduce carbon emissions as well as other forms of pollution. The real inconvenient truth is that overall consumption needs to go down. It means smaller factories, less industry growth, higher paying factory jobs and a total change in our fundamental value systems ... so really it's never going to change until after the next global collapse .. not that 2008 bullshit, I mean a real one.
I have no idea what you think this is supposed to prove. People with a weird brain condition have weird results on brain tests?

>Does IQ measure general competence or does it measure something else?

It's an Intelligence Quotient. It measures intelligence. No one said anything about "general competence", whatever that even means. I imagine intelligence is an important part of "general competence" though.
Solutions which require universal virtue are usually doomed.
The fact is that most Americans pay virtually no federal income tax,

This is not really true. Especially when you also look at payroll taxes which are, for all intents and purposes, income taxes.

When I...made the median income level for the state I was living in at the time, I still paid no tax (outside of SALT) and got a return larger than what I paid in.

This is highly unlikely to be true. I'm sure you remember it this way but without supporting data it is very hard to believe.
quantum computer and robotics
The director was motivated to keep the depth to which he was defrauding Medicaid and criminally abusing helpless people.
Seems like a plot device for the next Diehard movie - international terrorists hijack a cruise ship full of billionaires, and only Bruce Willis can save them.
It still does in Germany, The Netherlands and many other countries in the EU. The glass scanners are automated. You put everything in, it scans the barcodes and gives you a ticket you can use to pay for groceries.
they might rinse. they still wouldn't separate correctly.
The only solutions you need to come up with are things that closely resemble the answers to questions in the book I mentioned.
Are there places in the world where this "opinion" isn't considered the way the world works? Is vigilantism during a disaster frowned upon in other parts of the world? Because I'd think self-regulation under times of stress would be a good thing.
I think that entire category of quotes is handily won by Pat Conroy:

"My mother, southern to the bone, once told me, "All southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.'"

And it's easy to attribute!

http://www.patconroy.com/articles_aba-85.php
Yea, it's pretty insane. Six of the 13 recipients in the comments referenced medical bills as a primary concern in their life that the $1,000 will help ease.

America has truly failed these people.
This is absolutely horrendous:

> Postmodern computer science holds that no requirements can be both complete and consistent: you have to pick one.

This makes no sense whatsoever. It's up to people to make up their minds about what they want. If they can't, then maybe they don't deserve to be written programs for?

> Formal analysis can be used to show the absence of bugs, but never to show the correctness of the specification.

If the specification is wrong, that's the business analyst's problem. The programmer may work under the assumption that the specification is correct.

> Programs can exhibit “faults in construction” that would be forbidden by a modernist approach.

wat
Does Shuji Nakamura give lectures on your boat?
OpenBSD support list [0] at the moment:

> The current target platforms are Rockchip RK3399, Allwinner A64/H5, Raspberry Pi 3 and Opteron A1100.

That's a good list, it may cover a number of "Maker"-oriented single-board computers that are fun to play with.

Note that most of the Raspberry Pi chip is its Broadcom Videocore IV graphics processor, which is not supported by the OpenBSD OS. You would have to hook up a screen to the GPIO pins, I think, rather than getting display out of the HDMI port. There are lots of LCD display "hats" on the market.

(I am typing this on my iPad, which is an iOS device, which is a descendent of BSD.)

[0]: https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html
Actually there are plenty of policy mechanisms to improve nutrition. First repeal subsidy programs for corn and sugar, in particular remove the U.S. import tariffs that create a market for high fructose corn syrup. Next end food stamp coverage for junk food and sugar drinks. Further, allow insurers, medicaid, etc surcharge for the obese-- make them pay for the extra costs they are imposing on the system. Consider taxes on sugar drinks. Finally improve school lunch nutrition.
The rules for air movement and and such are very simple, but no one can predict the weather more than a week ahead of time.
I’m unable to confirm, but based on Maloney’s committee memberships, this appears to be introduced in the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Here is the membership list for those who would like to to lobby the appropriate representatives:

https://transportation.house.gov/about/membership.htm
And even if it didn't, the assumption that HeLa cells are actually identical anymore is a bold one.
That’s a 2016 article and it’s called "Why Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository".
> I didn't intend to shut down discussion. I was countering the flood of commentary around what I perceived as issues ancillary to the actual topic.

I interpreted GPs comment as an indictment of NH's policy of banning political news items, not as blaming you for shutting down the current discussion.
Is it mandated..?

Actually, it's an emergent phenomenon!
Wealth concentration is a problem but poor countries are not poor because some rich Westerners 'have a lot of power'.

Nice sentiment though, and that counts for something.
Higher educational attainment is associated with a reduced risk of Alzheimer’s
It helped at least 100 people.
There is a cultural difference, but not insulting isn't the key thing. The key thing is that in the US qualifications aren't sacred. You may be dismissed if you share your opinion and you have little experience; however, if you share facts and results, those will be (generally/ideally) judged on their own merits, not on yours. So instead of shut up and sit down, it's put up or shut up.

You can see this in school culture: is the goal of school to get the stamp at the end, and you might get some knowledge in the process; or is it to get knowledge and you might get a stamp at the end.

You can see it in interviews: do you hire someone with ten years experience, or do you hire someone who can solve your whiteboard problems.

This culture of results mattering more than experience may come from the US history of being very spread out with a lot of people moving around. If some out of town person comes in looking for work and says they've been doing something for 10 years, it may or may not be true -- you ask them to show you how they can do whatever it is, and decide based on that; the truth of the background doesn't really matter.

This doesn't hold true completely. It's harder to get a programming job without a degree, but it's not impossible. It is impossible (or darn near) to get a job as a medical surgeon without an appropriate degree and supervised training, though.
I wonder what do the bots commit in the monorepo. It is something that has been making me curious for a while.
Good Google Talk video about it too.
...bad idea. Here (ireland), we said that too. They said, fine then we'll privatize garbage. Now they don't collect the garbage anymore, but private companies make us sort the garbage into expensive bags that you buy from the garbage companies. They're even stricter on the sorting. Just do your best and say nuttin!
Usually paid and volunteer firefighters don’t mix well.

Typically you have first responders, and a network of mutual aid for broad scope disasters. During a major disaster, state level emergency management, state police or other get involved.

The level of competence and resources varies between states when it comes time for escalation.
And sometimes you hit a mine, how like sometimes in physics you die from accidental radioactive poisoning :)
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