skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is essentially the starting plot of The Congress. Not exactly a good movie, but definitely a very interesting one.
Three JavaScript frameworks and a dozen political scandals ago.
https://outline.com/W9FDsZ
It's not much of an argument to say "well, it's not really that rude". Is it generous and gracious to communicate with people despite their rudeness? Sure. But should it an obligation, particularly for an open-source maintainer? Absolutely not.

Nor do I buy the "public forum" argument. You direct your writing to the audience you have (i.e., the person that asked you a question rudely), not an imagined audience that might be reading. "Lock the PR so nobody else can ask the question either, and screw anybody who actually wants to know the answer" is projecting; there's nothing about locking an issue that shuts down all conversations, just the one in the issue that is being discussed (that again, to emphasize, is a rude conversation anyway).
Nothing wrong with rich guys getting richer. There is a huge problem when it's happening because they've corrupted the government to help them at the expense of consumers, and to preserve their monopoly. It's called regulatory capture, and it's the opposite of free market capitalism.
Actually, faces could become a commodity.
Is there any actual evidence of a CIA coup in the US?

Of course there isn't.

But as the OP says, the lack of evidence doesn't mean it won't soon be accepted that it happened (although I suspect this wasn't what they were trying to say).

The "9/11 was a US government conspiracy" (and various versions of that) makes it clear how easy it is to sell conspiracy theories, and that was only 16 years ago.
so did you have a face which was well framed by all 3 of the hats, did you bring in outside help, or did the business fail?
>God I wish at least one person in the whole world could understand what it was like to be me, to be the dumbest person in the smart class all the time.

Isn't that impostor syndrome (something I've read about here like 100 times)?
If it's posted on HN it should be available to read.
This doesn't surprise me. My Facebook feed has three kinds of people on it: family, people I went to grade school and high school with, and security industry people I've met at conferences.

Over the last few months, it's gotten to the point where I can't snark about Bitcoin (to my security industry friends) without getting aggressive pushback from the people I went to grade school with, none of whom are in the technology industry, many of whom are cheerleading their social circles into investing in Bitcoin.

None of them are transacting in Bitcoin (to a first approximation: nobody is transacting in Bitcoin). They're buying for the same reason people bought into Pets.com.

Here's an example:

November 29 at 11:03am: Bitcoin just topped 11k! That's a 77% gain in just the last 30 days. Who wants in??? [21 likes, 19 comments].

This is from a home mortgage loan officer I went to grade school with. The comments are all variants of "Me, I want in."

I don't know what weird threshold we crossed in the middle of this year, but cross it we did.
An interesting article, though even its author admits:

"That’s not to say that everything about the story is wrong; merchants really did engage in a frantic tulip trade, and they paid incredibly high prices for some bulbs. And when a number of buyers announced they couldn’t pay the high price previously agreed upon, the market did fall apart and cause a small crisis--but only because it undermined social expectations."

"In this case it was very difficult to deal with the fact that almost all of your relationships are based on trust, and people said, ‘I don’t care that I said I’m going to buy this thing, I don’t want it anymore and I’m not going to pay for it.’ There was really no mechanism to make people pay because the courts were unwilling to get
involved," Goldgar says.
You still forgot about the bail system, or a law system where everyone with deep enough pockets can sue anyone else for a sum that's impossible to defend for - or civil forfeiture, where law enforcement can take someone's money just like that if they have "reason to believe it was used in conjunction of a crime" and let them have to disprove it. Without money and against the word of two police officers of course.

After which you'll go to a private prison and stay there forever because you're now a bad guy and make lots of profit for the prison company, with 50+% margins on all money going in and nowhere else to go.

It's all an exercise in capitalism running amok.

The US got what they went for: The best government money can buy.
For me it remains amazing and has more of the music I like than Apple, and it's recommendation algorithms blow Apple's out of the water. I guess it depends what music you are into. 3rd party integrations are also miles ahead of Apple Music such as ability to use Amazon Echo and Fire TV as output devices.
> How do you take out a mortgage and spend it on something other than a property?

You already own property and take a loan with the property as security.
It's not the kid in the video, it's not his parents. It's the parents of other kids and those kids that make this a surreal phenomenon.

There's a lot of YouTube junk out there that's seductive and, for some groups, infinitely watchable. Sadly that's where the gold is these days.
Legally, they'd have to refund him for the $1000...
"sapere aude"
This would be a possibly good way to learn we’re not alone in the universe. It’s clearly not staying around and thus not a threat. Just a simple “proof of existence”.

Edit-yes I’m aware the odds are surely small that it’s something like that. But just the same it wouldn’t be a bad way to learn of “others”.
Pretty much the same kinds of things that happened before.
they should just relaunch justin.tv and move the IRL section to there. The big problem that the gamer streamers have is the IRL streamers are flooding twitch with users that are not the gaming streamers audience
They have a physical monopoly in this case with access to the wires. A startup can't just roll out their own network everywhere, even with unlimited capital, due to the legal rights needed to lay that cable. You also can't choose to not use them anymore as they have become an integral part of society. Many things you used to do in person can only be done on the internet now. At this point there is no functional difference between paying protection money to a gang or paying the ISPs. Your business will be trashed, your own personal livelihood can be destroyed due to lack of internet access, and the government will back up the isp if you fight it in any way.

That is why it's bad that all this does is make the rich richer.
I wonder how much of that money comes from YouTube and how much comes from the toy companies.
Also, many subsidies in the US are in the form of price supports, and paying farmers to not farm. These are designed to increase costs to consumers, because the free market was allegedly too successful in reducing the price of food.

Check out the great American pig slaughter during the Depression:

https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/crops_17.html
What is it about porn that makes you feel depressed? I've heard that opinion before, but I just can't relate, despite being one of those people raised on abundant internet porn. It has been a very clear net positive for me. I'm in a successful long-term relationship.

Are single-player games tearing society apart? Is a deck of cards wasted on solitaire? Must all bicycles be tandem?
The big difference is that ISIS descends from Al-Qaida's Iraqi franchise, which picked up a lot of professionalism from demobilized Iraqi Army officers. ISIS was expelled/quit AQ when it started moving in from Iraq and muscling in on Nusra's turf, but they do have common origins.
The amount of space used by he ZIL on a SLOG is very modest. Typically less than a gigabyte. So a SSD used as a SLOG will be practically empty it's entire life. The reason one would use a large capacity SSD for this purpose is to take advantage of the large SSD's higher iops and greater wear leveling.
Parity Blog: On Classes of Stuck Ether and Potential Solutions
Interesting that everyone seems to be in consensus that this is a bubble. If you're so sure, why not short it? That's free money you're leaving on the table.
> The power consumption to process those transactions has gotten similarly insane

What's involved in processing a transaction?
I studied for a few years with the Open University, first in maths and then a specialism which allowed me to change careers. It was fabulous, the course materials were great, the tutors helpful and available. My Wife used it to gain entry to full-time study and gained her degree. I followed on with professional study in my field with an expensive professional study provider and the materials sucked, the support was terrible and I stalled. My wife found full-time study at a real uni never came close in terms of materials. When I started OU people in the UK on modest incomes got it for free, since 'The Cuts' this is not true and it is a shame, as it changed my life.
My mother solved the TV problem easily: don't have a TV in the house. Of course cellphones are now TVs, so that's a bit harder. But -- and I know I'll get down votes for writing this -- you as a parent are supposed to be in control. If I cried over something dumb like this, I'd absolutely be having a painfully intimate moment with a ruler, belt or hand. I say this as a 27 year old: these days parents are afraid to physically discipline their kids, and then wonder what's wrong with their kids.
You can get a stainless steel french press. Typically they are vacuum insulated as well, which is nice.
citing what long-term studies exactly?
> The truth is a UBI has never really been tested out in the world

Huh? Yes it has. There still isn't nearly enough data, but there have already been multiple pilots studying various basic income schemes, with encouraging results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_pilots
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i have to think the sheer aesthetic opulence of the original hamburger stands[1] helped :)

[1]: https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/nintchdb...
I haven't been able to read the article due to the paywall.

This is about incentive. You buy toys and books for kids and they are monetized, aren't they?

My friend and I work on a "life hacks" YT channel together because we can take our minds off of work on the weekend as we be creative with new hacks and editing videos. We don't think we will generate revenue, but we do hope one day we will because props do cost money.

We have a friend who's a full time mother. Like us, She started a YT channel to share with people how to make new toys as an interest. It took one video to go viral and now she has over 50K subscribers and she makes decent income.
When people start saying the rules of economics don't apply this time, that's usually a good sign of a bubble.
A sex toy is by definition not a type of toy (yes, that’s possible). I’m literally just using the dictionary.
Why would you ever want to use an immutable public blockchain for such a transaction? Bitcoin is perhaps the most traceable currency in the world.

This is something I just don't understand about Bitcoin's value proposition.

> what's my other option?

I hear Oriental rug import businesses are popular.

> the challenge would probably be finding an exchange that would let you cash out that kind of money.

Even if, I hear the IRS is requesting transaction records from the major exchanges.
Why are they discouraged to run Homebrew?
Thank you. I will bookmark this site. But can the mods consider automatically rewrite the url to outline please?
The Nazis before and during WWII were fastidious about documentating the backgrounds, political affiliations, and connections of pretty much everyone they could, but especially their perceived foes. They were assisted in this by tabulating equipment provided by IBM. So they probably had more complete records of this sort of thing than anyone else at the time.
> When everyone is invested in bitcoin going up, it will keep increasing.

Tragedy of the commons. Even if I "want" the price of bitcoin to go up, any dollar I invest in Bitcoin will only increase the value that I actually capture by an infinitesimal amount.
I went out 3 times completely and went in with the starting amount ( 3% of my savings, so not much). The last rebuy was lower, i think the bubble will almost pop ( banks are investing, they will let it drop when they want). I truelly regret people going all-in, once it collapses. They won't get their money out because of time-outs on the exchanges.

If I lose the current amount, i won't care and every time it goes to high, so I would care. I just go out. I don't need to stress about it and I don't have FOMO, because I have some.

Also, I set/adjust my limit orders every 3-4 days and hope one hits.
That summary understates it.

> That’s not to say that everything about the story is wrong; merchants really did engage in a frantic tulip trade, and they paid incredibly high prices for some bulbs. And when a number of buyers announced they couldn’t pay the high price previously agreed upon, the market did fall apart and cause a small crisis—but only because it undermined social expectations.

The tulip craze was real, it just didn't cause society to crumble.
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For training:

Illegally grabbing thousands of hours of music to train a commercial model hardly qualifies as fair use. Any company you build upon that would be tainted.

For sustaining:

In addition, you'll need to keep an updated catalog of music to identify new songs against, and most uses of a service like shazam are to find names of songs people aren't familiar with, so that catalog needs to be very fresh.

That means you'll have to grab some sort of feed, and engage in large scale music piracy for commercial gain or have access to a library of songs from many disparate music providers, such as ascap.

Background noise:

there are literally hundreds of different background noise environments you need to train against. Dozens of common microphone configurations. Clipping, variations.

It's very much a problem where a proof of concept is neat but doesn't really get you anywhere.
Those 16 millions of guys might want to buy a book that I will eventually write.
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I totally agree. How does this relate to the FCC chairman? Like Trump, his public statements are lies. Debating about lies is fruitless. We need to focus on on the task at hand: removing Trump and his gang from power as quickly as possible.
Absolutely, yes. It's preferrable to trying to debug inexplicable glitches in the prototype that the compiler could have caught. And with incremental builds, compilation should be pretty lightweight anyway.
I don't see that overlap in the social graph implies a high enough chance of discovery. Wouldn't discovery require that members from each group are actually involved in the same financial transaction (in a way such that people are paying attention to who's involved)? It may well be possible to keep that rare enough for long enough that people try it, and are sufficiently successful to be a problem.

(This is certainly not confidence that it wont work, just lack of confidence that it will, pending further reading/experimentation/analysis...)
I am not suggesting getting rid of email. I am suggesting that it is COBOL, a legacy system not a direction in which to grow communications. Maintain it, sure.

Hopefully, the percentage of members who only use email is shrinking due to attrition and the organization attracting younger members.
I have yet to hear of anyone outside of tech bring up Bitcoin. We might be at 1927, but I don't think we're at 1929. Either way, I stupidly got out of almost all of my Bitcoin between $200 and $1000.
"6 year old's parents make $11M posting videos of their child on youtube" doesn't have the same clickbait value, though.

It's kind of sad that this clickbait is already sitting the the top of HN.
Social media is fueling this pyramid scheme. #fakenews was bad, now we have #headsinthesand. Don't rain on people's parade, the will be shooting the messengers.
"The price of Bitcoin is solid, there's a mathematically guaranteed finite supply" - 2017

"The price of land is solid, they aren't making more of it" - 2007
It probably isn't, but isn't that awful, too? One thing I have noticed over the last ten years is how much quieter it is in my home than my parents' house when I was growing up. Not people, but advertising. I actively notice (and reject) advertisements when I'm exposed to them today because I've largely built my habits around things that are not trying to sell things to me.

Bathing children in constant upsells and advertising seems like a really bad idea to me.
Another variation of clickbait titles.

"And then it ruined/destroyed my life/career"

2 years ago it was

- "And you will not believe what happened next"

- "<certain speciality/authority> hate them"
How do things like director expenses work? If I setup a company that rents me a house, a company car, and caters all my meals, I don’t need to pay any taxes?
Also, I'm not saying it's impossible or not worth doing (obviously, it's possible and worth doing), just that a few minutes of thinking and hacker news comments are going to hardly touch the breadth of difficulties required to get this to work even somewhat reliably.
Just creating the next generation of pornographically obsessed males who will suffer from ED.

murica!
What is curious is that it seems like there's a growing consensus with everyone with a real clue about it that this is a bubble, while the price keeps rising anyway.

We're already past the point where bitcoin could have any value as a currency, as the higher and higher transaction fees ensure the only remaining users are traders. I mean I can hardly see anyone using bitcoin today as anything but a store of value for speculative reasons. Any real users (which treat it as a currency) should have already left for cheaper currencies. It's going to fall, and fall hard, and it will be painful. When it will crash, it's going to take similar protocols (who can use the same setups / hardware / asics) down with it as miners try to reuse their hardware on more effective currency.
Source is right there in the article, linked where the claim is made.
At that time, I wonder if there was any technology actually identifiying the song, or if it was a big mechanical turk sort of operation.
At least where I live you would get cops called on you for spanking your kid. Lots of people are against it and view it as child abuse, so even if you view it as acceptable society will punish you for carrying out the corporal punishment.
Child labor laws seem to be relevant here.
This is absolutely right, but we live in a neutered society. Parents are absolutely worried about having the cops called on them if they strike their children, even in a an appropriate disciplinary manner. Also we've had years of experts telling us not to discipline our children. Result, unruly children who become unruly adults.
This type of unrestrained capitalism creates monopolies that become unbreakable.

When the cost of entry is so high that laying cables is prohibitively expensive, it's almost impossible to compete with large cable companies to break their hold. Look at how much Google has struggled to roll out Fiber, due to all the complicated laws surrounding where and how you can lay these lines down in cities.

By forcing ISP's to maintain the fast lane, you could ensure that they would compete on fair terms, rather than just squeeze money from other corporations.
Sure, but you can say the same about every YouTube channel, and every other enterprise ever. The highlight is that the 6-year-old is the face and "brand" of the operation.
WebAssembly only uses the same web APIs as javascript, has generally been implemented using code already used for supporting javascript, and was designed from the ground up for this use inside the web sandbox, as opposed to Java which was designed in the same way as most language runtimes based around unsandboxed access to a system and then had a security layer grafted onto it.
Rebalancing is the concept you're looking for. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rebalancing.asp

As for your strategy, if it really keeps doubling, and you only take out 10-20% per doubling, you'll end up with 90% of your net worth in bitcoin, which seems unreasonable. But that comes down to a question: even if you give it high odds that it will continue to go up, if you're not certain of it, then you should probably want to accept some risk of losing future gains to avoid some risk of losing what you have.

If you are certain it will go up...you have bad judgment.
Either all major video game consoles are toys, or none of them are. And since they are designed for all age groups, I wouldn’t call them toys, because that unnecessarily associates them with children.
Watching the world drift further and further towards moral prudery is so disheartening, especially when so much social progress was made on this front during the 60s and 70s. Society is so cyclical :/
In addition to the tasty beverage, $4.00 at Starbucks buys you a nice caffeine buzz, a warm place to sit, a relatively reliable restroom experience, and guilt-free wifi for the foreseeable future. The people who don't take advantage of that are subsidizing the people who do.
Breath of the Wild is the the most different game in the Zelda line ever made. It completely broke with established Zelda tropes and "tradition", the most since Skyward Sword in 2011 when they publicly assumed their wish to break new ground and not fall into nostalgia baiting. So I think it is quite a bit unfair to say Nintendo is simply cashing in on nostalgia, or that 99c App Store games are often better in quality than the almost universally acclaimed Zelda titles.

Also, Lego wasn't exactly on the brink of failure when Knudstorp stepped in, and actually what they did to improve their profitability was precisely go back to the origins and hire people with knowledge and understanding of Lego culture.
Title II is a double edged sword, IMO.

Yes, it keeps NN agreements fair, but it also prevents expansion.

However, the ISP's are not to be trusted. They are not benevolent, and have already tried to mess up the internet for everyone.

I hope that the follow up to this is congressional rules (that are not so easily repealed) about broadband and how it must reach X amount of speed by Y date.
I share your concerns. The consequences of porn consumption are real. Google "your brain on porn".

I now see frequent posts on /r/relationships about porn problems on various level.
Um, forgive my ignorance, but... what's the significance of December 15th?
[citation needed] Can you point to an analysis or news article that shows it's to force customers to upgrade?
"Kipple Field Notes" is a series of five short essays. The BoingBoing post was quoting the second essay, Brickworks.

1. The Things We Carry (thanks to Qworg)

https://web.archive.org/web/20171211174656/http://www.hillar...

2. Brickworks

https://web.archive.org/web/20171211211354/http://www.hillar...

3. A Sea of Commodities

https://web.archive.org/web/20171211214132/http://www.hillar...

4. Shoreline Commemorative

[no mirror]

5. A Taxonomy of Kibble

[no mirror]

Unfortunately the Wayback Machine did not archive the last two in time. Someone can try reaching out to the author on Twitter (@hillarypredko) and see if Hillary would like to repost these essays.
"Bitcoin is Tulip Mania" is the Tulip Mania of 2017.
> I just hope we don't accidentally cause a regression with women in gaming by accidentally enforcing a dress code that mostly impacts women.

See the recent Naomi Wu controversy.