skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This work is theoretically very interesting, but nowhere does the paper explore what parameter choices would make its use in e.g. bitcoin practical. In particular, would n be close to a million? How large would the problems (f,x) be? How large are the solutions?
Both of these would need to be included in the block header which is currently only 80 bytes long. Any sizes substantially larger than a few KB would make this rather impractical.
What are the best known implementations for these sizes? How many seconds does it take to solve and how many to verify a solution?
In theory, it seems like it would make sense for Reno to grow into a tech hub over the next 10 years. Pros: close to Bay Area, next to Lake Tahoe, no state income tax, huge long-term investments from Apple/Tesla, lower cost of living. Cons: transit options outside of driving between Bay Area/Reno are not great (could be solved by more frequent airline shuttle service)
Your argument is not correct. You shouldn't argue that criminalizing kills, if you are against it you should argue it kills/harms more than regulating. That is harder to prove with the prohibition period data.
Anyone actually using this? I’ve looked at it recently, but not sure how well it works.
In short - ARM licenses its architecture for which you pay a fee.
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> The figure was given in a secret diplomatic cable from then British ambassador to China, Alan Donald.

> Mr Donald's telegram is from 5 June, and he says his source was someone who "was passing on information given him by a close friend who is currently a member of the State Council".

Here we have a telegram by a guy (British Ambassador) who heard from a guy (unknown) who heard from a guy (unknown State Council) facts about the events of the day prior (massacre was on June 4th). Where did the unknown State Council official get his estimates from; were those official or just something he heard and repeated (and when did he get them)? Initial estimates of disasters are often quite wrong; here they were produced in game of telephone in a day or less; and they are not collaborated by any evidence we have now.

I rank the quality of new evidence as low. Rumors repeated in old official telegrams are still rumors. I expected BBC to have reported more critically. Alan Donald is still alive; BBC could have asked him if he received any updates to that first number that he trusted more.

I also have to fault BBC for it's phrasing around Donald's source. At first reading it sounded like Donald's source is an unnamed member of the State Council who is a close friend of the Ambassador. After reading BBC's sentence a carefully however; it sounds like the Donald's source is a person who is a friend of an unnamed member of the State Council. This ambiguous sentence is deceptive.

EDIT: I see vote count moving up and down on this comment making me think it is controversial. If you disagree with my doubts on the veracity of this story, write a comment. Maybe I missed something.
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Informix is a pretty great database. Much like you mentioned with DB2, it can take really varied workloads on the same database and keep on trucking. Just requires some basic indexing, no need to carefully tune to a particular use case.

The best part is how resource light it is. I was using Informix on a dual 200mhz HP K class box until about 8 years ago. HP literally just gave us a RP3440 to get us off it...
As a European who lived in Malaysia for a few years I do agree. Malaysia is terrible trap.

First the amounts of sugar and carbohydrates like white rice is completly devastating. There is very little alternative like fresh fruits or protein in diet.

Milk is pretty bad and not tasty - usually low lactosis milk. There is no real cheese or real, good yoghurt etc. Food is of poor quality mostly - think junk food rather then freshly made and freshly cooked. It is tasty due to spice and sugar but not something you would like eating daily.

But more devastating then the diet is the lifestyle - due to climate mostly. There is very lityle outdoor activity in cities like KL - in this climate jogging, cycling or even walks in the park are out of question for most people.

Malaysia also has sub-par 3rd World city infrastructure - cars rule the cities and the pavements are terrible and dangerous to walk.

On the streets one can see a lot of Malayi people who due to lack of activity and carbohydrates intake are overweight and with symptoms of type II diabetes.

It is quite suprising that not that far North in Thailand - addmitedly better climate - cycling is as popular as in Italy and people exercise much more outdoors and look healthier.

I love Malaysia and they are sweet people there. Just it is a difficult place for me regarding sugar intake and lack of outdoor activity.
I have an Internet buddy in Chicago named Thomas Ptacek. [...] I decided to invite Thomas out to coffee.

At the end of the conversation, Thomas said something which, no exaggeration, changed my life.

Thomas: Some food for thought: If this hadn't been a coffee date, but rather a consulting engagement, I'd be writing you a check right now.

Me: Three hours at $100 an hour or whatever an intermediate programmer is worth would only be $300. Why worry about that?

Thomas: I got at least $15,000 of value out of this conversation.

Does this really happen in real life?
Note that unlike most other arbitrage, this isn't foolproof. High volatility can kill it, and price differences on some exchanges only exist due to geographical or technical restrictions (so the price is always a few dollars higher/lower). Definitely a fun experiment, but don't expect it to make you a lot of money.
I am " convinced " it is a per person opinion. The fat for someone looking at a 6 is that it is a 6.. For the person in front,it's a 9. So some people will stress a lot being a freelance ( financially speaking) and other will love the freedom it provide. I am 50 years old and have been a freelance all my life, almost but There was part of my life, my wife would have preferred me having a JOB.
can someone explain this app in laymen's terms? is it an automatic sausage maker? or a slot machine?
@JulienHamilton (author at bottom of page), why would you share this with others? If arbitrage exists, there is not benefit to you allowing others to profit, as it eats into your profit. So what’s the reasoning behind releasing this?
ARM sells many things, that many different customers use.

One is a license run the ARM ISA, so you can design a chip from the ground up. Another is a license to produce a reference implementation of a single processor design. Others peripherals and options exist too.

So, in short, a microprocessor architect might be needed to build an ARM chip, depending on how one was going about it.
It does deliver 1.8 GHz though, but the window in which it can do that shrinks as your battery ages
For some people who pump and dump. And others who basically ride the volatility there’s definitely a method to the madness.
This is a point many forget when talking about China. People bring up Tiananmen Square and the one child policy to talk about how evil China is. And don't get me wrong, to a certain extent both actions were wrong. But the U.S. had its own bloody civil war where the country killed hundreds of thousands of it's former citizens, not to mention the ways in which land was stolen from indigenous people. These violent actions the U.S. took are one of the reasons the country (and even the world) are so wealthy today.
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Off-topic but every time I open their site I am blown away by how fast their pages load. It's an absolute delight to navigate their blog.
There is. Send me an email.
So have Americans. They’ve been tapping those lines for decades.
bullshit. or maybe the Chinese communist would have been overthrown, and they would have had a better government.

all the progress China's made today is because the communist government took their foot off of the necks of the common citizens, and let the citizens work tears and sweats.

Stop using what-ifs to justify monstrocities.
After reading that it sounds like they just haven't been able to reproduce the process of making it, not that it's an alloy that they don't understand the composition of.
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I'm not going to stand here and say China doesn't have a TON of human rights issues. But on what planet can you say "this is the same government that mowed down 10,000 people"?

You might as well say the current government in the US is the "Same government that mowed down innocent college students at Kent State".

It's actually not the same government. Some parts of it are significantly better, some parts of it are significantly worse. Either way, it does the discussion a disservice to call it the same.
It could work in the 90s & early 2000s but now that people are beginning to understand how to price software, it's harder.

Just like how cars in the 50's-60's could be wildly overpriced but today cars are mostly sold in volume. People back then didn't know what cars were worth yet.

A fool and his money are soon parted and people that pay $15k consistently for things they could get for $100 eventually go broke or out of business.

This blog post repeatedly pops up on ycombinator from time to time but doesn't really provide historical context.
But would you become more nihilistic? Start questioning every social construct? Would you become less fearful? Happier? Or more depressed?
Arbitrage:

Person A is selling apples for $5 and buying for $4.50.

Person B is selling apples for $4 and buying for $3.50.

You buy apples from person B and sell to person A. Of course, this is a bit oversimplified- this project uses a few tricks to get around volatility.
I'm looking for hardcore Diplomacy players to fill out the roster of a one-move-a-week, online-only game. Send me an email if you're interested.
Author cites the all too relevant XKCD with regards to "automating things".

Curious to hear if anyone else is making IFTTT work for them on a daily basis. My initial experience with IFTTT was buggy, tasks would fire inconsistently, with no clear way to debug.
Says "terms of service violation", no article. Is there a second source?
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We could play with words all day long with placebo or not. That real pills or some sugar triggered some chemical response in our body, my answer is that our body, fluid, chemical reaction did the work... What triggered the reaction could have had more or less impact but at the end of the day, in both cases, our magnificent body did the work...
Given that we discover new elements[1] from time to time, it's not impossible that we'd discover a new alloy. However, something about this story is fishy and is likely being blown out of proportion.

It's a common trope that there exists a "God of the gaps" where we fill in our lack of understanding with God, ghosts, or aliens. If a door slams in your house, it's seen as a ghost, rather than pressure equalizing between rooms. This feels like an case where we attach our uncertainty to an explanation before we have enough data to form a viable hypothesis.

[1] https://www.lenntech.com/periodic-chart-elements/discovery-y...
"Right now, its only in-house silicon is the Pixel Visual Core imaging chip inside the Pixel 2"

This statement completely ignores the group making the TPU. Google has more hardware expertise than just the consumer electronics folks.
Tinder is, IME, pretty popular for finding sex partners, and much less popular for finding longlasting relationships. This is a good thing, of course - and obviously filled a huge gap in the market - it's just not what OKC et al have traditionally been for.

OKC tends to attract people who don't fit into other platforms, and are looking for longlasting relationships. There's even plugins to help with finding interesting people/avoiding red flags within certain subcommunities - trans people, poly people, and kinksters all use it to a large degree.
One can offer stability within a democratic framework.

To say that the wholesale slaughter of protesters was necessary to deliver market reform is simply absurd.
Looks like all their server-side stuff is coming from Heroku.
I will tell you that any working piece of code that allows someone to make money, is not public. Use this if you want to inevitably lose money.
Pretty annoying, though, that they hijack users' familiarity with the red dot to deliver the useless notification that "You are not logged in on this device".
While it definitely sounds a bit forced to me too, but we are talking about nerds talking (ha!) here.

Have you ever heard yourself and your tech colleagues talk? :P
Sure, once I can get a subscription that covers what is actually linked here and not just one article.

Anyway I thought hn had a no paywall rule.
Leaving Tiananmen Square aside - since nobody can disagree it was a terrible, indefensible crime - can you explain further how you think China is threatening democracy and freedom "worldwide"?

They're certainly a threat in Hong Kong, where they have a degree of control and influence, but how and where else?

While they lay claim to Taiwan, what harm do you think they are going to cause to South Korea and why would they even think of something as insane as enabling North Korea to strike Tokyo or Los Angeles (or anywhere else) with nuclear weapons?
There's a serious problem with our own (US) culture's ability to think clearly about the problem posed by Chinese authoritarianism in the 21st century. I would attribute the problem to our tendency for centrism, both-sideism, and probably to the just-world hypothesis.

People are tempted to bury it in a larger narrative of global complexity, thinking that treating it like a trick question is evidence of sophistication. But what if it's not a trick question?
It exists, but this specific piece of software doesn't have great exchange support (at least when I last checked). So the method works (somewhat, not 100% foolproof) - but not with the linked software.
> and their growth curve seems to agree

It's natural but probably wrong to assume that a product's success means it's getting nearly everything right. I agree with the original point: they've hit upon a really exciting concept in getting everyone around the world together at certain times to play a game, but the specific game is not very good.

I think you could even plug in traditional TV game show formats (something more like Jeopardy, for example) and do quite well. That would keep much more of the initial audience around for the whole game, and watching the inevitable forthcoming ads that will be required for the company to make any money from this growth.
No. The market is too efficient now, the information too commoditized.

In order to charge that much as a consultant you would have to have a very particular set of skills, skills that you acquired over a very long career.
I don't see why I would even use a middle man service honestly.
There is absolutely no good reason for anyone to use MongoDB ever, its just such an amazingly rotten database that its astounding how much hype it generated.
I don't claim to be an expert on any of this, but it's pretty clear that China is unwilling to deny trade with North Korea, effectively propping up the Kim regime. Kim is engaging in increasingly dangerous provocations (admittedly provoked by the fact that the United States is still fighting the Korean War).
Franco "Bifo" Beradi published a crushing critique of this, also in Mute.

http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/proliferating-fut...
Globalization is going to happen thanks to technology. But we get to decide what terms it happens on. Recollecting these sorts of events can be opportunities for asserting jingoistic sense of superiority. Or it can be an opportunity for encouraging and shaming everyone towards a just, humanist moral framework.

My family comes from Bangladesh. In the 1970s, Bangladesh declared independence from Pakistan, and enshrined principles like secularism into its constitution. But in the 1990s, Islam was made the official religion, women were forced to don head coverings, etc. Today, Islamists are killing journalists who espouse the same secularist principles the country was founded on. As a Bangladeshi-American, I want Americans to criticize these things! It pains me when (often well-intentioned, but misguided) people apologize for and accommodate these things. It's a slap in the face of people in Bangladesh who are fighting for a more just society.

That is not to say I don't want Americans to feel shame for the bad things America did. But, at least on the east coast, at least, I grew up hearing about all the evils of slavery and the genocide of indigenous people. We can try to help the world move forward without forgetting that we also have things in our history for which we need to feel shame. I think Americans broadly recognize that.
Better not do anything with computers then. China is completely integrated in global supply chains, what you want is probably impossible at this point without giving up whole swathes of industry
While it wasn't released in 2017 , I think rust has a lot of promise. Mozilla used it to vastly improve firefox.

Six months ago I would have said golang, but IMO Google is subject to constantly increasing scrutiny and their business practices are leading to developers becoming more wary of adopting their technology products.

Rust, on the other hand, might be able to capitalize on Firefox quantum's generally positive reception. Fearless concurrency and ownership make rust a great toolset to take advantage of the increasingly parallel workloads of big-data. Also, it is a compiled language so it will avoid the bias against "scripting languages" which is present in certain circles.

Personally, I have started toying around with rust and have found the results to be quite positive.
"Information arbitrage" will become more important with crypto: "Contagious Speculation and a Cure for Cancer: A Non-Event that Made Stock Prices Soar," with Tomer Regev, Journal of Finance, February 2001, Vol. 56, No.1, pp. 387-396.

https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/ghuberman/research.htm...
Well it seems straightforward to me. Efficient.
I'd be worried about them doing to RISC-V what they did to Android: buy it, make it popular, add proprietary opcodes that substantially improve performance, get all major RISC-V chips in production using those opcodes, slowly change the spec and ecosystem over time to make the original open source project completely obsolete.

:(
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Some things are not cut-and-dry. Some are. Something like abolitionism has been justified by history as mere common sense, and an absolutely necessary component of a humane society.

I'm curious how China currently views Sun Yat-sen's "Three Principles of the People"[0], one of which is Democracy. Does his philosophy attract any attention today?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Principles_of_the_People
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https://mdnotes.co/

Hello everyone, I'm making my first real open source project i'd love to get some feedback on how can i improve it. Basically is firebase real time note taking app (nothing new or exciting) but it's helping me to learn a lot of new things.

This is the Github url https://github.com/raerpo/mdnotes if someone wants to give it a star ;)
None of the people involved in the decision to use violence against the Tiananmen square protesters are still in power. Who is it exactly that we should never forgive forever? And where are we going to find the energy to hold this grudge along with all the other unforgivable acts throughout history given that we're already so poor, exhausted, distracted and confused?
LD50 is 150-200mg per kg, so 480mg from 6 cans of redbull shouldn't be a serious risk.
I think this shows the underlying naivety in American optimism in Chinese markets.

Their sole purpose is to learn, take as much as they can possibly get away, turn around and create entire industries overnight by creating a domestic bubble shielding it from foreign competition.

It's similar to how South Korea propped up it's economy in the 70s, by imposing high tariffs on imports and restricting consumer choice to only domestically produced imitations by a state bankrolled conglomerate. At one point I believe Samsung even sold pirated copies of SNES games according to allegations in a 90s magazine. Japanese consoles were harder to get than PC, hence the proliferation of broadband internet leading to other side effects (actually Son Masayoshi advised the Korean administration back in the late 90s to go broadband early as possible).

I'd say that we are likely to hear more "honeymoon" stories from Sam, just like the thousands of like minded hopefuls that came to China and have left empty handed.

....but prove us all wrong by being the first American to make his billions and be allowed to keep it under the nose of Communist Party of China.
It is the same government. Those in power at the time chose who would succeed them, and so on to this day.
As a budding freelancer, I will try to have a talk about the value I bring instead of rate per hour. My point is while it might not happen that a business owner tells you how much value he got out of you, you now know that's what he thinks and charge accordingly.
Not me (but also curious to hear!).

I tried it but never understood the value they provide for users with basic programming and scripting knowledge.

I either use the API directly, or, if not available or I only need some quick and dirty solution, resort to web browser automation tools like Kantu.
Do you know this from first hand experience? I used to know a guy who made around $5000 a day. His main skill seemed to be that he had the ability to talk to CEOs in their own language. Once you are on that level a $50000 consulting engagement is not much money.
> Or there would be protests daily in western capitals about the sheer unimaginable scale of destruction, devastation and millions of families destroyed and lives lost in the middle east starting from Iraq to Libya and now Syria done purely to further geo-political and financial interests.

My parents and wife were born in Syria. I lived and studied there for 5 years, and spent some time in then-liberated Eastern Aleppo in 2013.

I, and most Syrians I know, despise Obama not because he said Assad should step down; we despise him for not following through, or at least getting out of the way and letting regional players help Syrians get rid of Assad, and kick out Iran's sectarian militias.

Western powers are responsible for a lot of horror and misery around the world. But unlike Iraq in 2003, Libya and Syria in 2011 experienced genuine popular uprisings. Most of the death and destruction was caused not by the West, but by Gaddafi and Assad.

Despite what Noam Chomsky seems to believe, the West is not the source of all evil in the world.
This post seems to discount his experience over eight years. $X0,000 seems to suggest it's on the lower end, so that's like a 3x salary bump. I would hope over eight years of work you'd get better at your job... So, what's the real impact of switching to per week billing? My guess is that this post is overselling it.
A couple hundred comments, some from patio11 himself, in 2012:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4805091
They do mention a cause in the article: "...due to a mix of rising seas and sinking land caused in part by oil and gas extraction". I don't know anything about this topic, but I'd wager that since your explanation is boring and the one chosen by Bloomberg is vague, politically charged, and hedged, that you're more likely to be correct.
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A relevant side note: If you're getting into consulting, here are my suggestions for writing a good Statement of Work https://kirubakaran.com/blog/consulting-sow/
Do you have those skills?