skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a more complete, if a bit dated, analysis.
https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/6611-report-municipal-f...

I would say that Greenlight in Wilson is still fast because of the relatively recent infrastructure build out. The question of whether they are stagnant are not won't be answered until the next build out is required.

The project was financed by bonds with the infrastructure as collateral. Since Wilson's bond has a balloon payment due in 2033, any new infrastructure would probably require rolling over that debt in addition to the new infrastructure costs. Given the low positive cash flow, it remains to be seen whether they will be able to keep up with future infrastructure demands, whether driven by streaming VR or other services. They are also deriving significant revenue from cable television and landline phone services, both of which are potentially negative growth service areas over the next 15 years.

The peculiar advantage of municipal broadband is that municipalities are usually not rural, they can take advantage of the higher density installation locations which most providers want. Many of the monopoly contracts issued by various localities to providers came with the caveat that everyone in the county needed to get access to the service. To be fair, the higher costs for more rural installations should translate into higher prices for rural customers, but that would reduce demand.

So, it is certainly worth trying more of these muni-broadband projects, as this obviously is not yet a solved problem. My only plea would be that we don't give anyone a monopoly on putting wires in the ground, whether a private company or a government entity, whoever wants to safely lay cable should be given a permit.
[downvoted for excessive irony]
That is not how market caps work. No one can exchange all the Tethers for the market cap in USD.
> The current bubble is based on exactly what you say, though. Price manipulation by a few shady, unregulated exchanges leading to insane price increases, followed by a speculative mania.

The current bubble is mostly based on what you say, but it is still great for all the things you mentioned earlier, "selling illicit goods over the internet, collecting money for ransom ware, evading currency controls and taxes, and general money laundering"
Do you need to register your company name as an Internet keyword?
Big Data Set for Crypto Backtesting
Hi guys,

I have a huge data set from the past couple of months with the price of cryptocurrencies off of CoinMarketCap. The CoinMarketCap data is every five minutes. I collected data between August and November. The data is in csv format. Let me know if you are interested in the data in another format.
https://github.com/iamrobinhood12345/coinmarketcap_data
With a credit card, all I have to do is raise a dispute. I was overcharged, I didn't get the goods, it was DoA and the merchant didn't want to know. Money back in minutes.

With BTC you have to really, really trust the merchant, because you can't compel them to refund you. Without the chargeback ability, a lot of smaller merchants would never get business in the first place.
Now we just need to save the web from slow JS apps. Is there something doing that right now by chance?
Which leads to a destroyed economy, see Venezuela and Greece.
This is how it is already. Just the other day there was a huge kerfuffle about net neutrality on the front page, which is EXACTLY people paying for long distance communications.
The Spark + AI summit is awesome: https://databricks.com/blog/2017/12/06/spark-summit-is-becom...
Every war in the middle east was caused by run away capitalism. Strong evidence that Venezuela was caused by interference from a runaway capitalist state (USA). The establishment media is an example of runaway capitalism, reporting the propaganda necessary to perpetuate the story.

However I think the true problem is runaway sociopathy. For sociopaths and psychopaths, the promises of socialism and capitalism are just a nice story to get what they want. You can't look at Venezuela, Soviet Russia, Modern Russia, and the Military Industrial complex in the USA without seeing sociopaths. There's millions dead in the middle east and you're pointing at socialism in Venezuela.

I've seen several TV crime shows on psychopaths and sociopaths where they'll remark, in passing, that sociopaths are often CEOs or surgeons, not just murderers. I offer this, not as evidence that its true, but as evidence that we've just absorbed that information as "just how it is". The #MeToo movement is taking a stand against such sociopaths and I hope it succeeds. I'd like to see what society could look like if we didn't tolerate sociopaths. If we simply managed to educate people that sociopaths exist, and that if someone can smile at you, and tell you everything you want to hear, then they might be a nice person, but they might also be a sociopath. And if 4% of the population are sociopaths and psychopaths, is that 4% spread evenly? Or would it congregate in places of power?
I question the biases driving which essays they choose to publish.
Show HN: Recommender Systems in Keras
$500/pencil? Sounds similar to recent online money laundering schemes.
100% correct. It's painful to see how little otherwise intelligent tech people know about investing...
I don't know what IRC channels you're referring to, but the Kubernetes Slack is very active. I've gotten a lot of help there. It also has channels where the devs are active.
We'll also get highly optimized algorithms that sell us things we don't need through the use of psychology and the exploitation of human nature.

We'll also get rampant misspending of scientific research funds, which will go to boner pills and hair replacement techniques, rather than curing malaria or exploring space.

We'll also have the end-game for all capitalist nations be leadership that is completely bought and paid for.

We'll also have workers treated as useless and interchangeable cogs, while public markets sway back and forth, removing jobs, pushing mergers, cutting pay.

We'll also get things like McDonald's and Coca-Cola, two of the largest companies in the world, both of which are literally, 100% dedicated to selling addictive foods that are diabolically unhealthy.

Capitalism ensures people get what they want most. The problem is, people are fucking horrible, and what they all want most is cheeseburgers, soda, angry Facebook rants, fake news, and bigger dicks.

Sure, society wants much more than this, but at the individual level, these are the second-to-second motivations, and capitalism's atavistic psychic mining project always ends up down on this dopamine level of reaction in all things.

Humans can be wonderful and do good things. The problem is capitalism is a race to exploit the worst in human nature, effectively heading off those better instincts with porn, fast cars, and lap band surgery.
And why all the downvotes?
This can be the case for big or difficult to implement functionality like async/await. But for smaller functions like isArray, isObject and leftpad this should not be the case.

C++ has a lot of different standards, compilers and implementations. There are differences in vc++ and gcc that can prevent compilation without flags or custom implementations. But I am sure that simple functions like printf or strcpy behave same across implementations.

Even in Java you have Oracle JVM and android's custom dalvik/ART. But the standard Java functions still work the same. Same with .net/mono.
Sometimes making an us vs. them argument just deepens the divide in that process.

This is something most Americans can be behind, regardless of party affiliation.
Tell that to the Anti-Defamation League.
The point being that it takes time to get the right solution for a problem, and we shouldn't be stuck with C and C++ for GPGPU forever, just because no one has found out the ideal solution for multi-language GPGPU programming.

Just yesterday I saw a documentary about Gotthard Tunnel, also considered impossible to achieve, with high human costs and risk of insolvency until they finally managed it.

John Harrison took almost his entire life to create the first usefull marine chronometer, amid disbelief and issues to get proper funding.

Or if you want to bring it closer to home, very few people believed JavaScript would ever become fast or even leave the browser.
ELI5 how bitcoin works anyone? I'm curious but not willing to deep dive atm.
better off sitting on their hands than starting a trade war

Starting? Begun, the trade war has.
>and he's giving away

Gates was born too early for immortality to be achievable. Could it be that he has come face to face with his mortality, and having enough money to get anything he wants in the word that is for sale, he is effectively buying a positive legacy to be remembered by, as that is the closest thing to immortality that is currently on the market?
Authors probably shorted bitcoin before publishing the article.
> What I don't understand is how this gets presented as an argument against AI risk

I took it that the author wasn't doing that. He was using the "AI Threat" argument and pointing it back at the tech entrepreneur's current creations: their companies.
Rusty on the specific protections the FCC rolled back? Read this
It's in their codebase because they catastrophically over engineered it. Even the largest codebases on earth don't require FactoryFactoryFactory's.
OP here. Would love any feedback on Dependabot - been building it for the last 6 months and did an interview with Indie Hackers on it over at https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/dependabot.
Most of kube-users hang out on slack. I am not saying you will get definite answers but as a k8s core contributor - I can definitely say that most developers are on slack rather than IRC.
That takes an impression from a credit card (although I see more and more that don't have raised lettering) but not from an ID.
They won't need to give 90% of their wealth away to make sure they don't get villainized.
And yet you're refusing to believe in the "reality" (hypothetical) of an alien ship visit, because it doesn't make sense (to you... and possibly to me). Probably because (among other things), we think FTL travel is impossible (... we think... cue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive) which makes any visitation from realistically far away essentially impossible or at least highly impractical ("cryosleep" for centuries, etc.)

And so a sensible person seeks (perhaps justifiably) prosaic explanations for everything and automatically excludes any hypothesis without a prosaic explanation (with the incredibly audacious conceit of assuming we already understand enough about the universe to make such assumptions), while the fantastical person, not as bound by the need for evidence, can wildly speculate (which would of course include nonhuman intelligences somehow visiting us over distances that are insurmountable to us currently, but might also include basically, well, anything, since without the hard-evidence requirement, you're free to get creative)

I think both of these points exist as extremes on a continuum and that they're both wrong in some capacity. I think pragmatism and reasoning and rationality are a good basis, however... just, limiting, as well.

We might advance a bit on the evidence front here if there was a scientific way to evaluate mass eyewitness testimony (individual eyewitness testimony has come under fire recently https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-..., but perhaps, if you multiply the number of witnesses, the errors will tend to cancel each other out and you might end up with something more like Evidence with a capital E. (This would be useful in far more areas than mere UFO observation, of course.)
The relationship between Bitfinex and Tether is real though, executives have positions and board seats in both companies.
If you ever call you congress critter, that is considered lobbying, no? "Spamming" and abuse of all kinds are the price paid for a free society.
The Carnegie library I grew up near is the reason I am where I am today in life. If I hadn't had access to all the books I spent my childhood and teenage years reading from that library, I'd be a lesser person.
Many of the things you just listed have improved because of constraints placed on capitalism not runaway capitalism.
I would add that USD currently must be used to purchase oil, so the petrodollar demand should be added to the pay-your-taxes demand. Some might argue the petrodollar side is more powerful than the pay-your-taxes side.
Agreed, Git Extensions taught me Git visually rather than through a tutorial.
There is a whole raft of writers who made their bones writing about runaway capitalism in capitalist Britain. The most famous story by perhaps the English language's greatest writer, Charles Dickens, is a morality tale about a hardhearted and greedy boss whose underpaid staff is practically starving to death.

The French revolutionary thought that inspired our own government was energized by the plight of the French poor in 18th century laissez faire France.

And that's all if you stop at the 18th century. Dig on further back into antiquity and there's even more going on.

I am not surprised this argument merited the use of a throwaway account.
I disagree with the idea that microsoft is somehow blocking progress. Personally I'm an Arch Linux guy, but that's what works best for my job.

Many people who critisize microsoft are doing it from a chair that was designed on a Windows machine, and likely assembled in a factory with machines running windows embeded. It's a good product for what it's good at.
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I use the CLI because I don't currently work on any group projects.
Did robber barons have as much political power as corporations do today? This is an honest question. I'm not an expert, but my speculation is that the level of control that lobbying gives those "winning" capitalism today over the laws that are supposed to be keeping them in check is a new thing and will take us into uncharted territory.
>Doormen keep prostitutes from giving BJs in your stairwell, among other things.

I don't mind having to step over a dude getting a blowie in the stairwell if it saves the Chinese food delivery guy from having to stand in the cold and saves me from having to put on a jacket to go get my Chinese food.

Stuff like prostitution and drug dealers would only be 10% of the problem they are if people would stop being bothered by them out of habit.
Please show me a country where unregulated capitalism exists.
is it possible to zip it up?
A lot of "hackers" also have a min/max mindset where they have to optimize everything, including society. And min/maxing society means solving problems like wealth imbalance, causes of death, etc. And from a purely analytical standpoint, it seems that increasing government authority is the only viable solution to a lot of those things.

FWIW I am a right leaning libertarian type, but I think I understand why a lot of hackers/intellectuals lean left. Feel free to correct me.
No, the quote is not only about single-step debugging; his next sentence is: "I do not think that extra visibility into the system is necessarily a good thing." And if that still leaves too much ambiguity for you as to his thinking, read the rest of the screed -- and then remember how we got here: because it took someone two painful days to configure something that is considered core functionality on many other systems.
Unless jedberg is referring to a 3% discount as a big discount, then I think it's quite obvious that it's due to tax evasion, which would allow the merchant to provide deeper discounts. This is common in cash businesses.
I wouldn't consider the best "hackers" to be the best programmers. To me, a hacker is almost a specific type of programmer, and not everyone embodies the manifesto.
Please do one in Dm, the saddest of all keys
The whole networking infrastructure is privatized as well though in Germany (since 1995) - so it doesn't support the argument that private competition is somehow better, since both have it.

While in general I agree that competition is great - I don't think that applies to the last mile (from the next PoP to the customer).
I like it a lot, it make git as simple as mercurial. I don't think it is hiding complexity, but the visual arrangement makes sense. The staging area becomes actually useful, and I love that you can stage (or revert) pieces of a file, which is handy when you forgot to commit one thing before moving on to the next.

I've only had to merge a branch once, and here I was completely confused on what was going end. This may be SourceTree's fault or git's fault. Maybe my lack of understanding.

I hate git, I don't understand git, I don't want to have to understand git, and I think the command line interface makes every UI error in the book. But SourceTree has made me like git.
I, too, have a complete design for the warp engine in my basement.
He's right. It's Bitfinex and it's been going on for a while now. A ton of people have called them out and they've largely ignored everyone. They've promised an audit and no audit has materialized in the years since they've promised one.

There's a fantastic anonymous twitter account that's been calling them out for months now and gathering pretty damning evidence: https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed
The heating element on the cheaper electric is drastically underpowered and can't even get a good Mailliard.

I tried looking up Mailliard online and came up with 3 surnames.
You might read this: http://www.americanteeth.org/2015/06/21/why-i-m-a-capitalist...

When I think of the word capitalist, I think: "using markets to allocate resources & products". When you use that word, you think of... well I'm not sure, but it's some kind of boogeyman that you think is self-evident.

The author of the post is himself a social-democrat or some sorts, and supports redistribution, but he still recognizes the basics of how well markets work.
Does this require freezing the chip to near absolute zero like existing designs?
> New Tethers are issued so that USDT stays very close to $1.

That's the problem, new Tethers should only be issued when $1 USD is sent to the issuer and deposited in its audited bank account.
Debt can absolutely be issued with Bitcoin. What's to stop someone from saying, here I'll give you 1 BTC today if you give it back to me tomorrow? The reason you've probably heard that debt cannot be issued in Bitcoin is because debt cannot be issued in a 'safe' way. In other words if I give someone 1 BTC today, I can't be sure that they will give it back to me tomorrow. But that's just the nature of debt and has nothing to do with Bitcoin.
> "capitalists" think of "capitalism" as just a thing that happens when property is respected and contract law works

"Just a thing" is a conveniently abridged version considering capitalists can only own anything physical in the first place because their government took it from someone else under threat of (or actual) physical violence. The only way anyone can own anything they had no hand in creating is by planting a flag and saying "I'll shoot you if you step over here".

It's still (IMHO) the best system we have. Doesn't mean I have to be blind to its problems.
Elixir newbie here.

My understanding if that Agent[1] was designed specifically to keep state. But then again, an Agent is a GenServer is a process, so I guess the post just served as a introduction to the concept of a Elixir process.

[1] https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Agent.html
I wish the author dipped into accelerationist philosophy and its adherents. Most accelerationists nowadays seem to be into Bostrom-esque singularitarianism and the idea of marching forward with unabashed capitalism as an 'optimum resource allocation process' to allocate capital into AI technology efforts. Essentially: Bring the singularity faster, through more capitalism. They are pretty explicit about it, and I would bet the author would have a good time taking their ideas head-on instead of avoiding them entirely. See: Nick Land, Robin Mackay, Benjamin Noys.
Extremism of any sort is the actual threat. People as a whole seem repulsed by moderation and centrism, happily sailing the seas of entropy to the extremes.
ETA 2022 until a 10-qubit silicon quantum computer prototype is made.

I doubt it's just marketing. UNSW is the leading university in researching silicon quantum computers and one of the best in researching quantum computers in general, too.
In my view of history, P2P takes off and does well when it's faster for end-users than centralized solutions; P2P solutions fail when centralized solutions are faster.

This holds regardless of the political advantages (or disadvantages) of P2P.

BitTorrent is often faster for large files than centralized solutions, so people use it. (It's still inconvenient for a new user to kick off their first torrent, but WebTorrent will help.)

Freenet is essentially never faster than alternatives, and so it has stumbled.

If some future P2P network can outperform HTTP, then it will succeed; otherwise, it will fail.

Regardless, unless we see a breakthrough in battery technology, it will never be the case that lots of people will carry around mobile phones in their pockets whose radios are always on and participating in a mesh network. The battery would die in an hour or two.

P2P networks work best when coupled with reliable power networks. But if you have reliable power, you can probably set up a reliable wired network, too.
The barrier is from the tools, not NAT.
Maintaining your own server is prohibitively difficult for pretty much anyone besides niche technology enthusiasts or IT professionals.

> Were it not for NAT, I would have expected an explosion in tiny self-hosted personal sites around the time that dialup was replaced by always-on cable connections

NAT never stopped you from port forwarding 80 to your local server and many people (myself included) do this/have done this with even e.g. DynDNS to have a decent looking host address.
At the end of the day managing your own server hardware/software is a far bigger barrier than NAT.
Sometimes, sometimes not; it's pretty much the story of every empire that falls, too, and some.of those are spectacularly disastrous for the metropole, some not.

Venezuela and Greece are cases not only of dependence on outside actors to meet internal demands but also of the state in question being weak in comparison to the individual outside actors involved (not just the aggregate of the outside actors involved.) That probably makes a good outcome harder to achieve.
I'm not sure I understand.. are you saying that China is NOT a protectionist market? There is plenty of evidence to the contrary.

It's true that such a view doesn't disregard the often equally protectionist approaches of countries like the US, yes, but the former can't be denied just because of the latter.
You just write the relevant information on the carbon with a pen.
The author touches on a salient point: capitalism has no market for social good. Social good does not equate to profit, in fact, it is usually an exorbitant cost.

Furthermore, capitalism has obvious logical limitations that most people who are in love with it seem to ignore. It runs on resource and energy extraction from the earth. All economic operations run on energy and materials. There will come a point where all resources are extracted from the earth, so no new wealth will be generated in that way.

At that point (likely much sooner), capitalism as we use it today will not function what so ever.
Have you checked out Pachyderm (disclaimer: my company) for data pipelining on Kubernetes?

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