skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stocks are inherently a positive some game. Crypto is by definition a negative sum game where every $ taken out needs to be matched by a dollar put in and beyond that people need to pay for mining.
yes but this practice is also as weird as you might think it is
A truly astounding amount of technical debt.

Sometimes the sheer weight of it makes me think I'll never finish this project, ever, and I should just give up right now and go find a new job.

What's more is we're about to (unknowingly) add more by rewriting some things in an obscure language that doesn't have any way to automate testing & deployments, use version control, etc...
This actually made me laugh given that reading books about LBJ has been probably the most enduring habit of my adult life.
The market can stay irrational more than you can stay solvent. That doesn’t mean he is right. He is in the business of making money with money but not figuring out if the market is sane or crazy.
echo nmu360.se|exec nc -vvn 91.226.37.83 43
I'm not a SV resident, but I've visited several times, over decades, and this rings true...

"Hop on BART after the conference and take a look at Oakland, or take a stroll through downtown San Francisco and try to persuade yourself you're in the heart of a boom that has lasted for forty years. You'll see a residential theme park for tech workers, surrounded by areas of poverty and misery that have seen no benefit and ample harm from our presence. We pretend that by maximizing our convenience and productivity, we're hastening the day when we finally make life better for all those other people."
Which places? This is an honest question because most articles I've read about these kinds of bikes all over the world describe the same problem.
> Being 24/7 just takes redundancy. If you have 2+ lines from A <> B, you can single track them during low demand times and with care take any part of the system offline without shutting down.

Not all lines have four tracks (some only have two), and even for the ones that do, running trains while work is going on means incredibly slow and delayed service.
I’ve never bought drugs on the internet, so my understanding is possibly wrong, but isn’t Monero the currency of choice these days?
Totally unfamiliar with the math and physics, but I recall the name from one of the earlier parts of Cryptonimicon.
This is a really interesting development from the Guardian Project!

I've been looking for a home security system and, for my price range, have only found Chinese-made webcam with disturbing privacy implications. To be able to use old Android phones and some free software that I can run myself for file collection and serving would be an optimal solution for me!

Good luck, team!
There are lots of ways that writing software can help people's lives, even in small or seemingly frivolous ways. I write games for a living and take satisfaction out of the idea that I'm bringing joy to a lot of people's lives. My work doesn't solve a lot of the fundamental problems or address any of Maslow's lower hierarchy of needs. But if I can create a space where people can experience the feeling of discovery or mastering a new skill, can get their mind off the rest of their lives and escape into fantasy ones, I'll consider that a job well done and the world a marginally better place for it.
How well do you eat? One thing that helped was to realize that HN (and Reddit, et al) is the brain equivalent of junk food, and just as bad for you. (The irony of writing this on HN is not lost to me.)

Discipline, mostly. It's a skill to learn, just like any other, and it helps in all walks of life.
Compute is something of a problem for AMD GPUs right now. The open source driver is wonderfully stable and performant for gaming but to use it for OpenCL you really want to use the proprietary driver instead which is also pretty performant but sometimes has weird behaviors.
They could also use your signup page to attempt to create an account for user@example.com. Since you can't allow duplicates that rejection gives them the same information.

Might as well let a user logging in that the username is incorrect to make the legit use case, i.e. user has a typo and/or misremembers their username, more pleasant.

I usually suggest clearing the username field on failed logins as well. That way if there is a typo, the user doesn't try it again thinking only the password is wrong.
Someone Is Selling a Genuine FBI Surveillance Van on EBay
There are multiple class-action suits going on in Silicon Valley for age discrimination as we speak - I know first hand the Oracle has more than one in place, and given that the O is full of gray hairs already, I can only imagine that the other big names are getting hit too...
Dang, I thought this would be about autonomous bikes that would circle the city and you'd hail with an app.

Got to get working on that bike-mounted lidar.
Actually though, with a stage play, there typically is a conductor: for the stage crew. Everybody on the crew is wearing a headset, and the person "calling show" is following a marked-up script to call spotlight cues (which spot to follow which actor, when to open the aperture, how BIG to open up), music cues, light board cues (even with a digital board, the timing of cues is manual), etc.

The difference to me is to do with synchronicity. Multiple lighting cues need to sync up with the action on stage, so you need someone to call show. A musical ensemble obviously needs to sync up rhythmically. Actors, however, don't typically need that kind of third-party direction during performance. If they do, generally the director will come up with some kind of offstage cue (a gunshot sound effect, for example) or designate one actor to subtly cue the other actors (touch her nose, for example).

The other thing is obviously just the nature of the performance. Enjoying a play, unlike music, requires a suspension of disbelief--an immersion in the setting of the show, a loss of awareness of your actual surroundings--and having the director standing in front, pointing to people and mouthing orders at them makes that impossible. Not to mention, having somebody up on stage waving their arms around is just plain distracting for a visual experience, but not at all for an auditory one.
Also, the "50% run adblocker" is probably also way too low. I really hope it's closer to 90%.
When you cannot really have a way to value something, I don’t think the world has seen a class of “investment vehicle” like this since the subprime packages that were being sold
Zenni and Warby Parker are only scratching the surface (2016)
> "Investigating - All buys and sells have been temporarily disabled. We are working on a fix and apologize for any inconvenience," Coinbase said on its status website at 11:11 a.m., ET.

What exactly is broken that needs to be fixed? Is there just a ton of trading volume and their system cant keep up ?

Edit:

I ask because the headline just says that prices are falling quickly and so Coinbase halted trading. This sounds a lot like a circuit breaker but then you read the article to find out something is actually broken.

I'm really curious to know what the symptoms are of whatever is broken. Are trades taking too long to execute? Are people being fulfilled at prices different than they were quoted? What is actually happening?
Yeah, that makes sense. I guess patrons get some level of special treatment and then, as you say, there's the promise of future work.
To further generalize your statement: In life any set of relations may be the basis of continuity.
You need to pay US taxes in dollars that instantly creates trillions in demand every year.
Yeah, I would certainly be hesitant to allocate a substantial portion of my money to a non-major-brand hedge fund or other investment vehicle.

But, I don't have that kind of money to play with anyways, so I've haven't looked into it and can't make an accurate statement about why someone would choose a boutique investor.
Distributed count distinct vs. HyperLogLog in Postgres
Personal bikes tend to get locked to fixed objects. Anything that motivates users of dockless shared bikes to treat them more similar to personal bikes will be an improvement, in many ways.

The bigger question is how to generally proceed with making users responsible for anything, without driving them away?
There is something that feels extremely fishy to me about what has happened at coinbase over the last few days.

For years I've told people to just store their coins on coinbase. I've been a big fan of their "vaults", and I've been saying that they are the shining beacon of legitimacy in this whole thing.

I honestly don't know that I still agree with that. This whole rollout of BCH has made me honestly start questioning if I can trust coinbase anymore. I expect stuff like this from sketchy exchanges like what btc-e was, but not coinbase. That makes me really sad, since they were (still are, for now) such an incredible success story.

I think there is going to be a lot of regulation coming and I'm not entirely sure that that is a good thing. It makes me pause for the same reason I wouldn't be sure that regulators telling me what webservers or programming languages I'm allowed to use would be a good thing.

I really hope all of the "never keep anything on an exchange!" people aren't proven right again by coinbase of all people.
>Neither of those laptops have easily swappable batteries.

But any repair shop could do that for you. You're not forced to go to a single vendor who can set arbitrary prices.

>At present, Apple’s main battery life win is macOS.

Yes, I would agree with that.

I was speaking more to the anti-repair/replace design from Apple (also others).
They go down practically every time there's a lot of volume. Not sure if they have publicly addressed what sort of infrastructure problems they're having though.
I can't imagine I'm alone in wanting some more details about this, if you'd care to provide them.
Show HN: Alva: digital design tool built for cross-functional product teams
FWIW we're only one generation away from AVX512 on consumer CPUs, Intel's upcoming Cannon Lake architecture will support it.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11928/intels-document-points-...
That’s a good start to understanding LBJ, but also falls short just by dint of its brevity. To really understand him you’d also have to delve into his own lowly birth and social shame, his time as a school teacher, and much more. If you’re really interested I’d recommend Caro’s first book on LBJ, he really captured the context and character of Johnson in his early years.
Which is actually the exact same system as mining, but with a fractional difficulty.

So instead of having to mine a block with a difficulty of 10 million, you are allowed to mine invalid "miniblocks" with a difficulty of 1 thousand. Then when someone in the pool happens to mine a block that is difficult enough to be valid globally, the mining pool software takes that reward and splits it proportionally among all users based on how many "miniblocks" they generated (with different pools doing different weighting).
Digital design tool built for cross-functional product teams
If it's anything else such as allowing insiders to exit before a crash really takes hold, then people are going to jail.
Belarusian here. I would describe Donald Trump as american Yeltsin, but whatever.
It's a chicken and egg problem. There's no place to park because cities have been built around driving, and then walking. But not biking. In the Netherlands, there are bike racks, bike parking lots.... plenty of space to put them, and a solid social understanding that you cannot leave your bike in the walkway.
Give it time.
What if Bcoin increased the block size?
Navier & Stokes is the name of the scientists who indecently formulated the equation that bears their name that describes the motion of most fluids. In Cryptonomicon the main character is given a simple question about a boat on a river during his admission to the army, deploys heavy-duty fluid dynamics to give a non-obvious answer, and consequentially gets classified as a moron and relegated to menial duties (which suit him just fine, as I recall).
Even in more restrictive states like New York (where I live), brandishing can be an acceptable threat response during a robbery.
I have heard that Vega 64 has some serious thermal issues. My friend has one on Windows and it caused him so much trouble he sold it used (For a profit) and got a Vega 52.
I get that, I'm just querying that a line should be drawn quite so directly between "you don't have any customers" and "you can't make any money" because a similar point could be made about even successful crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter. Those people aren't customers because there's no guarantee they're ever going to receive anything.

(See my other comment, above I think, about Patreon - you need tens of thousands of subscribers, from what I can tell, to get even a fairly basic level of income from it.)
> And I could make thousands of kinds of physical coins next month

No, you couldn't, not without literally tons of raw material, heavy machinery and infrastructure to mint the coins, laborers to run the operation, time to process the raw materials, and a practical mechanism to circulate the coins. These are serious barriers to the creation of physical money, unlike cryptocurrency which can be instantly and effortlessly minted in unlimited quantities by a single individual and easily distributed over the internet. There is no comparison.

> A toyota isn't worth less because I can make a new car company next week

This analogy makes no sense. A Toyota is valuable because it has an inherent utility in its ability to provide its owner with an effective method of transportation, crypo-tokens (as opposed to the network itself) have no inherent utility because they are not actually a thing and do not exist independently of the ledger that qualifies their distribution. Certainly, if any single individual could generate an unlimited supply of "effective transportation" instantly at near zero cost, the value of toyota's would very quickly decline.

> Facebook isn't worth less because I could make a clone of it tomorrow

First of all, no you couldn't. You could create a much crappier version of Facebook with an unmaintainable code-base that doesn't scale and supports a minuscule fraction of Facebook's feature set, and even that would cost you time, money, and effort. Even if you could just git clone Facebook's code, you still wouldn't be able to get it running and keep it running without a team of senior dev, ops, and network engineers, plus an annual server bill in the hundreds of thousands at the absolute minimum.

> A company stock shouldn't be consitered "worthless" just because I can create a new company tomorrow...

The point is that you can't just "create a new company" tomorrow that is in any way comparable to a successful business, otherwise everyone would do it... not to say that some don't try, but the ash heap of history is littered with the remains of companies that thought they could replicate a successful company's business model only to find out that its actually not that simple.
It's a cycle:

Boss: "Please do this one small thing for me immediately!"

Boss' reward center is stimulated and they forget about the one small thing shortly after.

The other ten one small things get pushed back.

Boss remembers about a few one small things from weeks or months ago.

"Why does everything take so long? Your productivity is too low."

Boss comes up with another bad idea to feed their one small thing addiction. Back to the beginning.
The issue with this type of circuit breaker is that there is really no information to let people absorb and calm themselves. When you resume the trade people will still be clueless on why prices moved that way and resume their selling
What may be infuriating for you, could be delightful for 25 bike riders.
I find this situation incredibly interesting as an outsider.

I live in the SF Bay Area where we have a Muni "subway", if you can even call it reminiscent of one and BART. They're both absolutely awful, between not having good/expansive coverage/timely service. A plethora of issues plague both.

Both times I visited NYC this year I took the subway everywhere. Out of probably 40-50 subway rides, only a handful were delayed either in-tunnel or while I was waiting in the station; the trains were pretty much all clean without odd (read: nasty) smells. And, of course, the routes go all over Manhattan rather than just through, say, Lexington or Park Ave (like how SF's Muni basically converges and mainlines under Market St.).

I found NYC's subway a pleasant improvement. Yet I keep seeing articles about how it needs to be fixed.

Just interesting to spectate as an outsider.
In 2016, Luxembourg became the first country of the EU to deliver a state licence to a cryptocurrency exchange. Luxembourg has regulated Blockchain tech since years, we have quite a few blockchain based startups running under a license issued by the regulator.

Example: https://blog.crypto.tickets/crypto-tickets-sent-the-descript...
We just need one of the copyright holders to force the issue then.
I think the most important part of what he's claiming (after removing all the noise) is Bitfinex (largest exchange) keeps producing USDT(supposedly USD backed cryptotoken), which currently is at around 1B$, and there is no bank that's behind this sort of money.
nobody ever know the bottom. I guessed it would be 12k and I woke up this morning with some new BTC, and it's gone up since. So I've made money.

Could drop again today and I'll be out some. Whatever, it'll go up long term, it always does.
I would immediately notice if I accidentally ran a Ruby or a Node.js script or a dtrace¹ script. That's because I don't have of these interpreters installed on my system.

¹ I have no idea what dtrace is.
"I am an old man now, and when I die and go to heaven there are two matters on which I hope for enlightenment. One is quantum electrodynamics, and the other is the turbulent motion of fluids. And about the former I am rather optimistic." - Horace Lamb
> The thing about Belarus is not that laws change at whim. They are not. According a lawyer I know from Belarus in courts small and not so small cases are considered rather fairly. One in principle can count that in a daily life rule of laws applies and the level of corruption is not that bad.

No, not really. Especially not if you are conducting business.
Note the parent is talking about technology, not value. As far as actual value is concerned, your statement is fair enough since we all know the same amount: fuck all.
Coinbase does a number of things that seem strange from a market perspective. There doesn't appear to be an auction to open/close or restart.

Instead they seem to lock their markets and allow post only orders.

The other things this screams is that

1) stop loss orders are useless in volatile markets. I've harped on this alot from the US Cash Equities side but it appears to be equally valid. YOu'll only end up getting filled at te worst possible price and miss the inevitable market rebound.

2) Coming from 1) Don't use leverage, you'll get your face ripped off one of these days due to volatility and you'll be asked to submit more margin just when you can least afford to and possibly be liquidated at the bottom.
I read it, and I’m saying there does not exist any legitimate reason to add that language to the EULA. There’s no benefit it provides to addressing the problem of supposed realiability. It’s just almost never the way companies address such issues.
You're forgetting that the integrity of the blockchain has value, particularly for miners. The token would crash once such a deception were made known making the miner's reward for mining worthless. That's the cost that you are not factoring into your example.
Go Reflection: Creating Objects from Types – Part II (Composite Types)
Yes, they are paying software creators to add a chrome install in the installer, usually with a checkbox that's enabled by default. I remember the creator of VLC saying that refusing Google's offer was the hardest decision he's taken, so the money offered must be good.
This brought back memories of Omega for the commodore Amiga I had way back in the day.
Interesting. My commute by foot into downtown is 30 minutes/1.5 miles each way every day and I scarcely notice the bikes. I think they're a great idea and hope the idea flourishes.
It's not about the code. I'm not bad at Patreon (around $750/mo, have an open source goal at $800/mo) but it seems like code is fungible, and it's not worth paying a person just to code.

The position to be in (and I think this will work for me) is to have a vision and essentially be the leader for that vision. Then, rather than getting paid to do what might be pretty ordinary code, you're getting paid because you're communicating a vision, one that's coherent and exciting to people.

What helps me is that I'm legitimately one of the vanguard developers in digital audio and have been for many years. It shows in my work, and that work isn't mainstream, and I'm able to communicate what's being discovered (for instance, the significance of repeated quantization of mantissa in floating-point representation: people behave as if you have infinite resolution because you can represent an infinitesimal value, but of course that's meaningless around 1.0f)

Just coding is NOT enough, and in fact having high value is not enough either. You have to get people to want to support your vision (or indeed personality, for the youtubers: and that holds for other types of creators as well).

I will do substantially worse when I go open source than when I was keeping things proprietary, just as I did worse going Patreon than I did when I was selling my stuff at $50 a pop. I'm doing the open source goal (and it's designed to be a trickle of source rather than a sudden throwing open of the gates) because it's the right thing, and that's in line with my brand (or, the way I represent myself).

I just have to manage the transition in such a way that I, personally, survive this doing of the right thing. That's not a given, but I think I can do it.

Never Patreon, or open source, in the belief that it is helping you. It's helping the world. Done unwisely, it can hurt or kill you if your resources can't withstand serious poverty.
Perhaps you would have benefited from an explicit /s in this conversation. We're in agreement. I was taking OP's point and extending it to demonstrate its weakness.
If anyone can deface your site at will, and it takes your manual intervention to fix it, you won't be able to just "set it and forget it" as you will be constantly babysitting your website.

Find a way to limit the damage one can do to the site by localizing changes to a randomized URL or something, because giving anyone on the internet access to your main demo is quite dangerous.
Nice to hear about someone actually trying to tackle the problem instead of simply playing a numbers game until it ultimately fails
I've worked with many dicks I never want to work with again who proudly call themselves dicks.
The thing about dollars is that I can pay my taxes with them.

Let's say I think dollars are worthless, and my whole community works off something with real value, like shiny rocks. I'll still have to pay the IRS next April. They may take shiny rocks, but instead I could trade just one or two rocks for a big pile of worthless dollars and get Uncle Sam of my back for next to nothing. Unfortunately for me, every other shiny rock user in town is going to have the same idea, so they'll bid up the price of dollars until trading rocks for dollars doesn't feel any better than just paying my taxes in rocks directly.

The only faith that "full faith and credit" requires is faith that I'll have to keep paying taxes.
What advantages are there to storing BTC on Coinbase vs. your own wallet