skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You keep arguing about the market, when the topic was the economy as a whole, as I've pointed out in my last post. A multitude of markets are certainly part of the economy, but they're not "the economy".

And those 12% are certainly terrible (although only 5% were significantly affected, if you read a bit bellow), but I'd say it pales in comparison to what people went through in a year of bad harvest in the past. That people having to skip a few meals is obscene nowadays is a sign of progress.
What if the population of the bar is as wealthy as Gates?

My point is that you can't find 90000 people who are as wealthy as Gates. In fact, you can't find 90000 people whose average wealth comes anywhere close to Gates -- even the Forbes 400 average out at a paltry $6.7B, and you'd need to stock the bar with 83300 people with that level of wealth before Gates would fail to raise the average wealth by $1M.

I think the average wealth among the top 90000 people is around $100M, so you'd need to have around 89900 of them... plus or minus a few thousand depending on how the stock market is doing on any particular day.
If $400K is 'middle' class in CA or NY, how exactly are 'lower' class people expected to live? By roasting pigeons in a fire barrel under a highway underpass?

As someone who went from earning $25K to $85K to $300K, I have near-zero empathy for the tax bills that any American family making above $200K faces... Or any of the owner class that is coming out as the big winner with the new tax bill.

Here's the thing. If you're making $400K in CA or wherever, you're not middle class. You're an upper class worker. You still need to show up to the office to do your 9-5-5, or your 6-9-6, or whatever it is you get paid for. Your interests are not aligned with those of your CEO, or even the CEO of the shitty temp sourcing company down the street, who makes half as much as you do. But you are also not, by any means, middle class.

You can drop out of this rat race in five years of frugal living, and retire far more comfortably then the poor sap filling orders at an Amazon warehouse will after 40 years of back-breaking work.
My experience with Fedora has been either fantastic or terrible. Probably because it's the guinea pig RedHat tests things on before they go into RedHat proper. Non-LTS Ubuntus have been the same story.

RedHat/CentOS are also fairly nice on real hardware, but they seem to be even more conservative than Debian on what they put into the distro and the package manager. That and with the popularity of Ubuntu, just about everyone has a .deb package or even an apt repo for their software. Debian uses the same format.

But I mostly do software development using all of the old, old command line tools, so stability is my priority. With different priorities, one of the other distros may be better.
I got annoyed by this too much a couple years ago, also the fact that they seem to be able to detect most if not all tunnel types and randomly inject packets that will break the connection.
So I proceeded to quickly hack up a simple tunnel based on the surprisingly simple to use tun devices. The protocol was UDP based, didn't support any kind of connection reset, was not encrypting but just masking via xor, and contained some simple but cool tricks (as far as I'm concerned ) to deal with the high packet loss across the gfw you'll experience depending on time of day.
Sure not ideal if you permanently live there or want to spread sensitive information, but all I want is decent browsing experience when accessing "our" internet. I was happy when 720p videos played without buffering on YouTube.
You don't have to explain the Bitcoin forks - most people who click the comments on Bitcoin threads here know what they are

You also don't have to explain the altoins or pump them - most people here know what they are.

These types of comments might work well on reddit but they don't really add anything for the audience here.
> Stick the computer on an exercise bike, set it up so its powered by a dynamo and get the programming, marketing and sales teams to cycle while working.

I liked that Black Mirror episode.
I know about today's price, but these price falls have been observant in BTC price for over a decade now.
Father speaking here - kids are on youtube, being pushed way more commercials than ever before.
paying yourself with borrowed money sounds good to me. as along as its not recourse that is...
>> At this point, there is no way of having a reduction in tax bills that doesn't overwhelming favor the top 50% of earners

>This is completely true.

I think there are plenty of ways to go about restructuring taxes that make this false. Any jiggering you do with the lower brackets for lowering their rate can be equally compensated by the top brackets starting a few thousand dollars earlier.
I am not an economist (minor in undergrad, but whatever), but intuitively this sounds like a fair action to take. I'm exactly in the class of Americans who will be capital owners (and I have a leg up, I work in tech, we're the only people who turn labor into capital with such a miniscule overhead), I'm pretty okay with paying my way.
Discussion from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11747598

From 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3220746
How is keeping data local a good idea? Given how often there is a major breach reported, everything points to this being the opposite -- there aren't enough security specialists to go around for every company. Why not take advantage of the work done by the major cloud providers or SaaS companies instead of redoing everything in house all the time. It's like people want to actually solve the same problems over and over for eternity.
Looking for real data, though.
The article doesn't assume that. Those were the results of the study, and it's specific to Iran.
One thing that is certain is that there are more commercials now. If you watch an episode of The Big Bang Theory sans commercials, you will notice that it is only 17 minutes long! And that includes the 60 second intro. So 13 minutes of commercials for 16 minutes of actual content. No chance I'll be going back to regular TV.
Are there any better home security cameras that record short clips on motion detection that don't have a monthly cloud-storage fee? Or should I just stick with Blink?
I'm curious, how did you come up with $1k?
Frasier
Didn't ads start out as integrated with content? A combination of government intervention and advertisers themselves transitioned from sponsoring a specific program with heavily integrated content (live-reads) to more polished, structured, fungible advertising of the 30-second spot.

I wouldn't be surprised if it evolves again. You already see podcasts going from sponsored live-reads to injecting ads per-download. For better or worse, this allows lower-volume (local and more targeted?) ads instead of large companies who are one of a handful of sponsors for the whole show.
not just youtube, but all those free to play games too.
> That and the fact that there are still very few places accepting it.

This is one thing I don’t get. In countries like China and India (to name the two countries I know about) mobile payment apps are ubiquitous. You go in to a shop, scan a QR code, and boom your payment is done. This is what crytocurrencies promised, but instead more closed apps came to fill the market. What happened?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't know of any current SIMD hardware that supports more than 64 bits of precision. An exception would be the x87 FPU (88 bits), but you can't do SIMD with that, so I don't think anybody interested in high-preformance linalg routines uses it.
Alternatively it might make them less tolerant and therefore less susceptible. I'm wondering the same about my kids, as we cut the cord several years ago.
I never got that feeling about Factorio (though I don't do EE), but I did with SpaceChem
One nit: I like listening to tutorials at more than 1x playback speed, and I was overjoyed that you added the feature but it’s not persisted between videos which is a bit annoying. But other than that This product is amazing!
To be fair, 60 is a lot more than 40. There are many top athletes in other sports at 40 but very few at 60.
> Crypto is by definition a negative sum game

Zero sum. Also, stocks have an underlying asset. There really is none with cryptos.
The Walking Dead had a longtime product placement deal with Hyundai. Although it was much ridiculed, much of the point of product placement is to cause positive associations to be made between the product and the setting.

Many people may not have thought of a Hyundai as a rough-and-tumble kind of car, but seeing it in such a setting normalizes that association ever so subtly, not unlike why repetition is an effective strategy to commit something to memory.
A Program for Monetary Reform
Manage Google Kubernetes Engine from Cloud Console Dashboard, Now GA
There are 2 shows everyone seems to be talking about:
Netflix and Bitcoin.

I need to tell my wife to record them on the VDR.
Yes, it doesn't. Also isn't not what I wrote about.
Offline support is the core reason for Service Workers and using the offline capabilities is literally a prerequisite for handling any other events from additional specs.

Offline caching support is the most common use.
Good for the founders but bad for YC, since they miss out on moonshots if they aren't
optimizing for moonshots (which make up 90% of their valuation) no?
US tax law heavily favors owning instead of renting. Mortgage interest can be deducted from your income before you pay taxes, so early on in the loan when your payment is mostly interest you are effectively getting a ~30% discount on your mortgage payment.
> and decide to implement a rule much of the network opposes

And they'll immediately be blacklisted from the network..

Do people realize you can store the entire bitcoin chain for less than the cost of one transaction? The centralization narrative doesn't hold up.
I wish I could inject the following in the Netflix html through a proxy at home..

>> Mental Health General's Statutory Warning <<<

>> Binge watching is injurious to kids health <<<
This is the guy who gave me the incentive to buy a SEM off of govt. surplus for my lab.

Very nice to see that the ieee is finally writing about his PCB fab setup!
I wonder why Netflix doesn't add a "random content" button. That's one of the appeals of TV versus Netflix that could be replicated very easily.

Something more akin to changing channels like "random cartoon" or "random comedy" would remove one last obstacle in the way of converting cable subscribers.
It's like watching someone come down from a high. Technically they are doing just that. They get pretty intense, very demanding, can't handle the calmness and relatively (to the stupid show they just watched) quiet environment. And they know it too. Both my kids express that finishing watching shows on the iPad doesn't make them feel good. They're very aware of it. Now that it's nice out they would rather skip it altogether and go on a hike early in the morning, so I don't mind so much when they do opt for an iPad kind of morning once in a while.
Super cool!

He should work with a lab like SNF/ANFF to make more advanced devices, you should be able to get access to one of the Raith E-beam machines for an acceptable price.
Phosphene gas to dope P-type Silicon is also extremely deadly. People have died changing empty tanks of Phosphene gas.
Definitely a bubble.

Blockchain (aka programmable trust) is for sure a huge deal.

Think about the dot-com bubble. Nobody knows who is Amazon.com and who is Pets.com yet.

If you want to understand more the original whitepaper is suprisingly approachable, and a really good place to start: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Bot and Human Hybrid: The New Era of Customer Support
Alteryx data breach exposed 123M American households' information
The basic idea is that for each element X in your data, you compute a function f(X) which is equal to the number of leading zeros in a bitstring generated by hashing X. Then you take the maximum of this value across all elements in the dataset (which can be efficiently done on distributed or streaming datasets).

For any given value of X, the probability that its hash contains N leading zeros is proportional to 1/2^N. We're taking the maximum, so if any one of the values has N leading zeros, then max(f(X)) >= N.

If the number of distinct values observed is significantly greater than 2^N, it's very likely that at least one of them has N leading zeros. Conversely, if the number of distinct values is much less than 2^N, it's relatively unlikely. So the expected value of max(f(X)) is proportional to log(distinct values), with a constant factor that can be derived.

This is the basic "probabilistic counting" algorithm of Flajolet and Martin (1985). Its major flaw is that it produces an estimate with very high variance; it only takes a single unusual bitstring to throw the result way off. You can get a much more reliable result by partitioning the input into a bunch of subsets (by slicing off a few bits of the hash function) and keeping a separate counter for each subset, then averaging all the results at the end. This improvement, plus a few other optimizations, gives you HyperLogLog.
The bit about being permissionless is kind of unclear.

"This seems to work well: the SSB network thrives off of being a group of kind, respectful folks who don't push to each other's master branch. :)"

Will this hold if the community expands to 10x or 100x the size? Surely conflicts of interest will arise, or just plain assholery/trolling.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but the poor don't pay much (income) taxes on the first place--cutting them to get to those sorts of numbers may be a negative income tax rate. As I understand it, the problem is pretty dumb to have: the imbalance is such that, without significant improvements and expansions of governmental services, there's no money to extract.

We have a hand-to-mouth debt peasantry in this country. It's stark once you start digging into the numbers.
yea and AMZN was 110 in December 1999, an equivalent drop for BTC would be to roughly $1000. I've been a crypto bull for a long time, but I sold everything 2 weeks ago. I sold a little early, but better to add that addition to my house than lose 95%
Not that hard. Assuming you are storing it in cold storage:

1) Send to GDAX
2) Sell on GDAX
3) Withdraw to Bank
GitHub Game Off winners announced (200+ fun and open source games)
$1.58 million in 2012 for the house.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/ct-biz-h...
Yes, yes it is. I’m astounded your conflate broadcaster cable TV ads with the stuff we see on, say, YouTube. They seem very different to me
Sure, but that's another way of saying the same thing. Because by "no realistic option" GP means, in effect, "no option that middle class people would stand for".

If you build a transportation infrastructure that's good enough for middle class people to rely on then middle class people will come to rely on it, and if you don't then they won't.
Ask HN: Would you live differently if you had proof you were in a simulation?
Some of the most memorable/useful/wonderful:

Fleck - Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact

Hacking - The Social Construction of What?

Felsner - Geometric Graphs and Arrangements

xkcd volume 0

Tommy Wonder - The Books of Wonder

Elisabeth Lloyd - Science, Politics and Evolution

..and, it's embarrassing to admit it on here :-) but I didn't read Refactoring or Clean Code or Kent Beck until 2017. Better late than never.
Most people think he is unreliable as a source of market prediction, because he has been absolutely horrible at it, which is somehow his main occupation.
Oh great another random os that will get as much traction as beos.

Maybe don’t reinvent the wheel and just make a contribution to the Linux OS project instead ??
Coin Demo – Cryptocurrency Demo
They were probably referring to the fees that exchanges charge.
And another one with flat series namespace, with no dimensions whatsoever.

Though props for writing it in C instead of Rust-du-jour.
Cue the "I don't even own a TV crowd"....

97% of American Households own a television.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/business/media/03televisi...

Then right behind them the "I don't subscribe to cable crowd and I don't understand why people do"

75% of households still have cable or satellite.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/24/a-stunning-number-of-ameri...

And I'm one of the 25% that don't subscribe to cable but I refuse to call myself a "cord cutter" because my entertainment still comes across a cord - it's just not coax.
VL - Extend AVX512 to operate on only 256-bit and 128-bits at a time. (vector length extension)

DQ - Extend AVX512 to Longs, Long Longs. (double word and quadword extension)

BW - Extend AVX512 to Bytes, Shorts. (byte and word extension)
I don't necessarily find it convincing that the benefit from living in society to an individual is capped, but on the other hand, I don't find it convincing that the benefit from some individual to society is capped either.

We may consider perhaps one can only truly earn $1M. But, what if someone has an idea that benefits a billion people to the value of a dollar each? You may not think, for instance, that Facebook in particular qualifies, but the point is, it seems to me possible in principle. Or, what if someone invents something that saves a million lives? You can't put a dollar amount on that, maybe, but surely it's worth more than $1M, because courts put that much value on just one life frequently.

All in all, the existing situation, where taxes are a percentage of what you make kind of makes sense to me. It is consistent with believing that living in society is a multiplier.
Yes, but we also have to consider that today's 60 year olds didn't grow up with the same types of video games (if at all), and video games didn't have the same profile that they do now. The 40ish players in the FGC - they all grew up with the genre of the game they play.

I would not be surprised if the 20-something pros in stuff like FPS games would still be quite good at them when they hit 60-- provided of course, that 1) life doesn't get in the way, 2) that they still playing the games regularly, and 3) that the genre even still exists at that point.
Get ready for a wave of Bitcoin forks
We're talking <10% difference on one particular toy example exclusively on arrays at least ¼MiB large.

Given how similar the code produced is from both compilers (literally just movapd-mulpd-addpd), the only relevant difference seems to be usage of prefetching, which C compilers don't do much because the common wisdom is that it hurts in most scenarios.
Out of curiosity what is the state of the art today for extracting text or other data from scanned documents (forms, legal docs, receipts, etc) ?
Since DOS 2.0, IIRC.
yeah, that was my first thought too. pbs only would be much better: free, not tailored for binge watching, and the cartoons actually end at some point-- on the regular pbs channel at least.
From your links, gold/plat has a ~15% clock speed hit when using ymm muls, then another ~20% hit when going to zmm muls.

So for 512-bit wide to not slow things down on Intel's chips, you need ~30% runtime of all cores to already be in AVX.
To all of those wondering if this article compares Bitcoin to the .com bubble or Tulip bulbs, it's the .com bubble this time. Saved you a click.
Is that all that different from what it was before? My recollection of 80s sitcoms & children's programs is that they had 3 commercials of 3 minutes apiece, plus a 3 minute break between programs. That's 12 minutes.

Actually, I can test this...I've got some old My Little Pony episodes lying around on a hard disk. They're 9 minutes apiece. IIRC they ran 2 to a timeslot, so that's 18 minutes of show per 30 minute timeslot, and 12 minutes of commercials.
Didn't Frasier have a laugh track? I can't watch anything with a laugh track.
How do they go with reading? Seems like a balance between stimulation and calm.
This! Has any coin shown any value outside of speculation yet? Ethereum seemed to have a lot of promise with "smart contracts" but has it provided any value to anyone yet?
I think these games seem like fun (despite being similar to _work_) as they are free of consequences... the player can mess up and walk away without it impacting their daily life, that likely takes a lot of stress away from the activity.
Merchant adoption for bitcoin cash is increasing very quickly.

You can indeed pay for things with bitcoin cash, and as soon at bitpay adds it to their platform (Which they are working on and will do so very soon), the merchant adoption rate will actually be higher than the bitcoin adoption rate.

And all of this was done in only a couple months.
> Wiring your house for video is not crazy at all.

What's the benefit of wiring your house for video?

And who gets to watch what feed?

At what age should parents stop watching their kids' bedroom?

If there are no cameras in the bedrooms / restrooms that leaves only the corridors and maybe the main living room? But a lot of things can happen in a living room that should not be watchable by anyone who has admin access.
Maybe Bitcoin was created by an A.I. to teach us all a lesson...
Many social scientists are adopting Bayesian methods. However, they don't always have much of a background in college math. These kinds of guides afford them the intuition necessary to begin implementing related methods in their research.
Your Guide to a High Risk Pregnancy
But why would someone pay $50 for a $5 transaction? A criminal perhaps to stay under the radar. A sensible person would go for the cash option and pay $5 for $5.

If on the other hand someone was to launder money ;) then still the fee is tooo large to launder petty cash (pay 55 dirty to get 5 clean). An efficient money laundering rate is anything north of 50% (100 dirty --> 50-70 clean).
Because property rights exist to allow the owners of intellectual property a wide ability to legally control the (re)distribution, ownership, and/or licensing of their creation.
More time away from screens and engaging with reality, is surely a good thing. But while they are focused on screens (hardly avoidable quite yet) the less corporate propaganda that gets installed onto developing brains the better.
I found out that most doctor's advice is so sane and blunt nobody listens to it. You need something more clickbaitish and with a catchy name like paleofit, restcharging or standoori
BBC America is part of Sling's core package - $20 a month. It's also on Direct TV Now and Playststion Vue.
The kits with multicolored bricks and no instructions are healthy. Everything else LEGO puts out are just action figures.

Source: grew up with both Bionicles and the multicolored bricks. Bionicles sat put together on a shelf while I reconfigured the bricks every day.
Flatpak: yes, it's about making that. But to make an app for a distribution where I don't know the environment, you need some kind of common denominator for the environment. So flatpack does some of that, and freedesktop does some more.

The needed outcome is for freedesktop to have an application distrubution story - which is effectively the same as if flatpak had a larged application interoperability idea. The fact that this is two separate efforts highlights the problem - you need everything to be a coherent whole.

A combination of a larger and more modern desktop api compliance effort PLUS an app distribution effort like for example flatpak, would be perfect.
E.g. "here is how you build an app for linux desktop v5". You include the right headers linux_desktop_sound.h, linux_desktop_dpi_notifications.h, linux_desktop_dpi_scaling_events.h (etc.). I know in the end an API on top just makes you have N+1 apis - but that's the reason this whole thing needs more dictator/ivory tower. It shouldnt' be be called "freedesktop-flatpack", or "somenewname" it should be called "linux desktop apps v1.0". This is probably the hardest part: getting the politics together. For desktop to succeed you need to have an ivory tower somewhere, in the middle of the bazaar.