skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The slideshow on that website seems to be missing one on humility
Why do you use the term liberal as opposed to something more general? I think the descriptor 'tax-collecting' might capture some of the reasons why a government might want to ban Bitcoin (if they could).
I'd be interested in knowing how much the decrease in food nutrients can be offset by taking supplements.
Or 200. What makes you think it'll get to 20K? What makes you think it can't get to 200? Within a day?
imagine a man face down on the ground with his hands behind his head and his legs crossed in a narrow hallway. the man is sobbing in terror, and drunk. two cops are pointing assault weapons at the man and screaming at him from 20 feet down the hallway. eventually, they shoot him.
In what way are those infinite unanswerable questions not a bound on understanding?
Software quality is tanking, for one- yesterday the phone crashed during a call. Never happened to me on any phone previously.
As others have pointed out, your understanding is backwards. Mining is heavily centralised already (in China of all places!), and larger block sizes would only exacerbate the mining centralisation, which is probably why the biggest fans of larger blocks are the Chinese miners.
I'm not a lawyer so I don't really have any clue :). But I suspect the defense would be that it's an agreement between two parties: you want to use their shit you agree to use it by their terms. The debate around these things has always been more or less centered on what it meant to agree, i.e. did I agree when I opened the shrinkwrap on a box? But with Oracle licenses there is not much doubt about what it means to agree, there being reams of paper evidence that you agreed, and large checks written to make that agreement concrete.
I would run either a cat or farm animal rescue shelter full time and work on my snail simulation in my spare time.
So don’t talk to the police. Yet the same people promoting that are against concealed carry and the castle doctrine.

So how does one defend themselves and their property if we assume we aren’t supposed to cooperate with police.

It’s a serious question — we are supposed to be opposed to self defense because ostensibly police exist to protect us, but then we aren’t supposed to actually talk to police? How does that work? Taken to a logical extreme, we aren’t even supposed to call the police right?

We are supposed to trust big government with health care but we aren’t supposed to trust government in protecting fundamental rights to life, liberty and property?

This position makes zero logical sense.
I think we're a long way off before reaching that limit. In research fundamental discoveries can take a genius many years of his career, but once it has been discovered the basic theory can often be taught an undergrad within a few months and adjacent discoveries will improve our understand and things easier to explain. Textbooks explaining it in 5 different ways will be written and our tooling improves etc. etc.

You don't have to be fleming to grow penicillium, you don't have to be einstein to calculate relativistic corrections to GPS satellites.

Eventually such diminishing returns might be reached if everything remained the same, but you also have to consider that IQ and lifespans are slowly ticking upwards over the decades and eventually we may be able to build a better researcher.
It is meant to be expensive. The expense is what makes the network secure
It's a matter of the risk you're willing to take. Sometimes refusing to answer a simple question is going to get you arrested. As long as you're willing to risk arrest and expensive lawyers, don't say anything.
Having read TFA as well, seemingly almost nothing. The most highly-rated comment on the article is a good critique of the title.

> I know what capgras/prosopagnosia is, what I wanted to read about was how this relates to Facebook. Not only does it have nothing to do with Facebook (it talks about social media in general), but also does not even begin to tackle the interesting part hinted at by the title. I'm not against two pages of refresher on the psychological or neurological concepts that are going to be used in the rest of a paper, they're even welcome, but if your title is "to understand X understand Y", then I expect at very least two more pages about the relation between X and Y. Or else simply title your article "A historical account of Y".
You may have taken such a test in school without knowing what it was. Raven's Progressive Matrices is a common one that you may remember.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices
The “lispy” aspect of Julia is somewhat disappointing, macros do not fit naturally with the non-lisp syntax of the language.
Alright, this isn’t news. It’s pretty well known you can benchmark Oracle, it’s just always referred to as Database X in the literature (Sometimes MSSQL gets this treatment too)
I’d honestly appreciate some examples of non-indentation syntax. They’re think on the ground.
It's not really an issue of who fails or not. It's an issue of how much dishonesty and trickery you allow in the market.
you can even do console on android with aide. was doing recently. paused while I switched to porting some console stuff to jailbroken iPad. running those over ssh. great nostalgia running nurses Dr Mario in a terminal. pointless, but enjoyable.
You are correct, but does that change the conclusion? The externalities on energy production have never been appropriately priced, and recent political history of the world has convinced me that won't change any time soon.

The only real hope is technological change, for example battery technology being more economic than gas powered vehicles. The current implementation of Bitcoin is a technology that takes us in the other direction.
Why do they shoot him? Did he move abruptly or something? What should I be doing if I find myself in a similar situation?
"I dunno officer, didn't see."

If you are implying that our society is made weaker by the distrust the justice system has earned from common citizens -- I agree!
I think a lot of countries have the ability to hold your silence against you. Thankfully this isn't the case in the US.
if you go back and read the git vs svn flame wars back when it first came out, people said the same thing. it happens every time there is a paradigm shift technology. the reactjs flame wars of 2013/4 were particularly brutal as everyone and their mom felt qualified to comment. the key idea here is that, at scale, immutability is just better, at nearly everything
Ellison is the kind of guy who lands his private jet late at night, knowing he will have to pay fines for night noise, then sues over it.
You bring up a good point about the witness however it's difficult to conceal a rifle, even an air rifle. That doesn't mean he couldn't also have a concealed handgun on his person but that's the case with every police interaction.

As well, was he identified in the witness report as the person with the rifle? Did the police have any specific reason to suspect that the man rounding the corner was the man they were looking for or a specific reason to suspect he might be armed and dangerous?

As I said, the witness report you mentioned is an important aspect of how this situation escalated but I don't believe it exonerates the police officers involved in this murder.
And if Satoshi hadn’t thought “how do I make this hard? I know: spin a computer through SHA2 as fast as possible until it finds a magic hash,” we would be having a much different conversation because Bitcoin and it’s derivatives wouldn’t consume a medium-sized nation state’s worth of electricity.

It was a bad decision. Satoshi fucked up. Please stop justifying it as a community, I beg you. Now we are all paying for that incredibly stupid design, and any criticism is being bearish on cryptocurrency itself.

It’s an important learning experience. Decentralization made a brilliant engineer reach for a brute force hash, and what seemed to be a pedestrian decision while writing a paper now has gigawatt ramifications and a comment section advocating for alterations to world energy policy. Hold the paper another year and come up with something more reasonable and respectful of the world around you; there’s already other currencies attempting proof of work without plugging in a billion hair dryers around the world.

Now the cat’s out of the bag, so to speak, so let’s call it a cat. Bitcoin is one of the most inefficient, wasteful computing systems ever developed. It happens to produce value.
Not yet, its somewhere in our giant pile of things to do. If anyone is interested in helping out on this I can definitely help out and point people in the right direction.
Yes, that was also done for the Apple IIgs, I think.
It was mostly what everybody was using on Reddit and the recommended method of aquiring BTC at the time. Before exchanges, some sort of trust would have been necessary for any BTC <-> $ exchange, and even now, trust is necessary in the exchange itself.

I do believe the technological possibility is baked in BTC for 3-way signing a transaction so that a validation requires 2 sources of signature. You could implement an escrow system this way.
Dude,

It literally stopped accepting transactions.

After 72 hours your transaction is dropped.

Without further notice. Until then you must guess if it was processed or not.
Even if concealed carry and castle doctrine laws didn't exist, you'd still be able to arm yourself against intruders.

What they will teach you in CHL classes is, if you shoot someone, to call the police and say "There was a shooting. Please send police and ambulance" and then hang up. You're not admitting anything, and asking for the ambulance is important because it displays concern for the person shot.
I am not familiar with his books (hopefully others can help), but I wanted to say that to me the issue with techno utopias is their connection with capitalism. Specifically the notion that we will work for money to pay for everything we need.

Admittedly Jaron Lanier is wiser than me in this area, but I still think technology has a huge role to play in making a better world. I feel though that as long as we expect to exploit the position of those beneath us (with respect to social class and wealth) then technology will be used to that aim to create a stratified dystopia where everyone is trapped in a ladder holding down those beneath them while those above them hold them down.
There is no such thing as asking for a lawyer prematurely. Cops are allowed to lie , mislead anyone they want basically. Always make sure someone unaffiliated with law enforcement is around as a witness because they will lie for each other.
Glazing over?
> Good immutable data-structures are important for big programs though.

I'm guessing you mean good in the sense of well-implemented (performant), but I think good in terms of interface is also very important

For instance in my experience & opinion Immutable.JS is not very fun to use regardless of its implementation, because the interface does not feel natural for the language (not that the designers can really be faulted, the user-accessible part of the language simply limits what they can do). I think a similar library for Python would have similar issues (due to Python being very statements-oriented which is antithetical to persistent data structures).
>> Sounds obvious, but I meet with a lot of third party agencies and developers who look like they have never seen anything like requirements from a client!

The first job of a dev is to define the requirements with the clients. But most dev don't know or don't want to do that.
Macro examples are often poor, and my advice is to always favour functions, since then you are working with actual values. For instance, with-open-file should be a higher order function, not a macro as it is in CL.

That leaves a few other uses: macros as compiler extensions for generating fast code (see "Paradigms in Common LISP" for a lovely example of a parser generator). But heed warnings about premature optimisation.

It leaves macros for novel binding strategies. List comprehensions, do-notation, destructuring-bind, pattern matching, CL's LOOP and macros that anonymously bind a pronoun like "it".

I have no shame in using macros for really succinct control structures where delaying evaluation with a lambda would just look gross (see "or" and "and" macros), but maybe that's just a cry for lazy evaluation :P
I'm really surprised Apple is still releasing MacBook Pros with gpu switching after all these years. They've always had serious problems and I figure they would stop selling them or make the major changes needed to resolve the issue.

Thankfully, I haven't owned one, but I hear so much. Which sucks, because there are more and more nvidia-specific things I'd like to do on a mac laptop.
Todd,

prerender is almost what I have been looking for a while! I am now having a great weekend!

I want to scrape a JSON object within a script tag in an AJAX heavy webpage - if prerender removes all script tags, does that mean I can't use prerender for my project?

Is there a way to tell prerender not to remove certain scripts?

PS: I intend to use prerender to replace scrapy-splash middleware.
Does your team have any plans to build a scrapy middleware?
I suppose you could also go at it from the angle that it's an anti-competitive practice and no license should be able to restrict you from publishing truthful benchmarks.
For a company that loves minimalism so much, you've hit it right on the money WRT management.

The TouchBar, while interesting, is the perfect example of this. I'd love to have had it along with the physical buttons - there's plenty of room. Alone, though, it is pretty weird.

I assume that the real problem is that Apple's managers do email and web browsing, and that's it. They probably don't spend enough time in pro apps or trying to be productive to understand that a window manager built in, or physical keys or an improvement to their native text editor would be helpful.
I can't bring myself to watch it either, but from other descriptions: the police order the man to crawl towards them (while simultaneously yelling at him to put his hands in the air). As he's crawling along the floor, his pants start sliding off. When he reaches down to pull up his pants, the police kill him.
> If proof of stake proves itself to actually work, Bitcoin will adopt it.

I wouldn't hold my breath for that. Bitcoin still is having a holy war about increasing the blocksize.

One side effect of this whole deal is it shows that it is incredibly hard, if not possible, to change a decentralized system. By its very design, it will be all but impossible to make any breaking changes to bitcoin at this point.

> Lightning network further reduces the number of onchain transactions necessary.

Besides being complete vaporware, I do love how the solution to Bitcoin's scaling problems is to not use it...
Jep, that's why you just invest in bitcoin if you want to make money
I was under impression that "no benchmark clauses" is many ToS and license terms. Are there any enterprise software which allows that?
How would they get the software legally?

Oracle would probably sue them for piracy or something. If you bought it, they would probably say you violated the agreement and no longer have a valid license.

Not saying it's right, but since it's commercial software, they can probably play some tricks. It's one of among many reasons to use commerical software where possible.
> In Haskell let bindings are immutable.

Haskell has mutable refs. That's what Git branches are.
this may be true but there is a perverse incentive for lawyers to offer opinions that are both easily defensible and generate billable lawyer time
I would advise not asking for timelines at all, actually. Instead, ask roughly what all they will have to do. How many tasks will it need. Do they need new datastructures, or is it modifying an existing one? Same for logical components. Modification, or addition? In either case, what are they modifying and what are they adding to?

If as the manager, you don't know enough about the codebase to get a sense of "last X development efforts on component Y took about Z weeks of effort", then it is your job to get to know the components better.

Note that doesn't mean building up the expertise to be able to do the changes yourself. Just that it should not be completely greek to you.
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This was my understanding as well. Since the location of miners is probably economically decided they probably go to places with cheap power and that is usually hydroelectric. They could go to Washington state but as you say China is cheaper.
Because they don't believe in their own product, but hope that their salespeople convince you otherwise.
This is a fascinating article in terms of the effect of CO2 on plants... but I have a tremendously hard time believing it's affected diets in the first world.

The level of carbs and nutrients in your diet would seem to determined by your dietary choices by an overwhelmingly larger degree. Are you eating french fries or kale?

Does it really matter if my zucchini is slightly less nutritious when I could just eat broccoli rabe instead? Or that my green beans have a trace of carbs when I'm eating a potato on the side? In supermarkets today we've never had greater choice or variety, especially in winter, at least if you're willing to pay for it -- but even in terms of paying for it, food today is the cheapest it's ever been.
This is a good article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15253127
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Apologies then as perhaps I've misworded there. I was trying to say that his presence extends to twitter and that it is at least significant/worthy of attention.
The limit to scientific understanding could maybe be described as this:

You're looking for explanations in the format P(x1,x2,x3...)->R where P is a "function" (the modeling of your theory), x1, x2 etc are measurable factors and R is a result

Now, you can't measure all the factors, but you can have a good set of them that explains a result closely.

Hence the question is, are there phenomena for which you can measure all the x's that give a good prediction for your result? (or even having good proxies for the x's) And that's not even going into the problem of establishing the theory in the first place

In physics you can repeat experiments multiple times, few experiments are unethical and you can have very exact measurements.

Now compare this with medicine. Also compare the difference between general predictions for a whole population to doing precise predictions for one specific individual. How many x's do you thing would affect risk of cancer/risk of cardiac disease or just the risk of a weird mutation that changes risks slightly (and that medicine hasn't even heard about it)

There's your limit
No, Caddy never did that. Caddy never stopped serving a site that it started serving. Only by shutting down the server (or sending the appropriate signal) would it stop serving the site.
GP means that you can't subtract the energy cost of lawyers, courts, or whatever fraud detection/resolution mechanism as GGP suggests, because in order for Bitcoin to really replace current transaction systems it will have to handle conflict resolution too.
Although it might be harder to tax, since regular banks are mandated to do a lot of the reporting leg work for the tax collectors, is it really different than taxing other commodities like gold. If we can admit its not really a practical currency.
> In fairness (I'm personally not a Bitcoin supporter) from the outside, it seemed more like the problem is no one can agree on who should be pushing changes and innovation: Core Dev or the coalition of miners?

If you step back and look at any kind of "libertarian" driven project this becomes a problem. When everybody who makes something inherently distrusts authority or having anybody "in charge", you can never really build anything big. I'd say bitcoin provides good evidence that to make any big change in a system the buck always has to stop with some individual.

With nobody in charge, you'll just drift around at the same local maximum--sometimes going up a bit, sometimes going down a bit, but never moving to an even larger but different source of value.

I dunno... just a thought....
I use CLion, I intentionally edited the Java VM settings to allow it to consume more memory.

It takes forever to analyse symbols for WebKit otherwise. WebKit is too massive to handle with the default memory limits.
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Several years ago I was in need of something to do, the only problem being how to find volunteer opportunities besides mindless spaghetti-on-the-wall searches. Luckily enough I found volunteermatch.org and within a month I was in action and with a website I could return to for finding more.

After I started, I experienced similar results as stated in the article.
As far as I know, it is very easily enforceable and quite common for enterprise software.

In certain countries that is even illegal to publish "benchmarks" like this one. I remember that there was a law like that in Germany - not sure whether it has changed with EU.
There is a direct comparison, it’s called TPCC TPCD TPCE TPCR family of benchmarks. Each company tries to make themselves look good with those, but they have to follow the rules.
Just post them anonymously. I think if there was enough public shaming against blocking benchmarking, companies would give up on this, just like shaping for sexual harrasment finally accumulated enough weight to knock out harvey weinstein.
I hadn't heard of this, but it's true: www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Judge-clears-Ellison-for-landing-at-night-2909426.php
we don't have those problems in the UK where Estate Agents are not regulated and fixed fees ala purple bricks are getting popular
^^ this, using spec at run time in your actual application logic
You can find other references from both local and international media, even video recordings, if you think the links I posted aren't deserving of your attention.
This is mostly a problem in biology. Biology doesn't have parsimony. There's no evolutionary drive towards simplicity. Biology is a collection of evolved patches. It can have much higher complexity that it would seem to need.

Yet human DNA is only about 4GB. That's big, but not so big as to be beyond analysis. Without computer assistance, getting a handle on it would be hopeless, but we're past that point and making steady progress.

(How complicated is physics? Things looked good in the era of Maxwell's equations, but it's become much messier since. In physics, much is out of reach of experiment due to being either too small (superstrings, if they exist) or too big (where's the missing mass and the antimatter? That's not an understanding problem. That's lack of experimental evidence.)
I posted a related Ask HN about the community’s hacker resolutions in general. Your resolution would fit well there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15883606
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That’s really interesting! Were these banks private enterprises? I assume people voluntarily deposited commodities in exchange for a common medium of exchange.

The problem arises when depositors can’t redeem their medium of exchange for the commodities they originally deposited, or something of equivalent value.

By the way, I’m convinced Bitcoin will not function without credit instruments, just like was the case with gold. I’d argue there’s a huge difference between redeemable and irredeemable credit instruments, though. The latter being an artifact of government regulation.
> creation of new coins.

If your crypto-coin starts life with all the coins instantly sprung into existence, that means everybody gets to buy their coins from you--the founder. There is a name for this--it is a pre-mine scam. All you do is mine most of the coins yourself, then go pimp your coin so it gets some buyers, and sell them all off for a sweet profit.