skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or... AMZN, I've Been Here Before

Me too. Ahh the good old days. We'd be coding and day trading back and forth all day. Take turns watching for the Boss to come towards our area, so we could all hide the trading window and get back to coding.

My co-worker dev lost 3K on PETS.COM's stock in 1 day.

I'd gotten in on 100 shares of AMZN Apr 2000 at $57-ish, ate a loss of about 30$ / share in Oct 2000, sold at $28-ish. All I have left now is war stories ...ending very badly lol. The rush of trading on volatility makes it 'not a complete loss' tho.
The 'random' button would interfere with their aggregate viewership tracking and recommendation algorithms. When the viewer appears to select a particular show to watch, you can have reasonable faith in the viewership numbers.

If the platform were to offer a random choice, the fact that the resulting view was not organic would need to be tracked separately. Conversely, you'd want a better way of figuring out whether the viewer was satisfied with the content after all. These problems require nontrivial effort.

Right now, things are much easier. The viewer always makes a choice, ostensibly a conscious choice, and all views factor into aggregate numbers that correlate with show popularity.
Maybe GitLab folks would adjust their calculator accordingly, I think it's a fair practice.
They could even sell a "pseudo DVR" box, with themed channels, scheduled movies, in addition to all the usual streaming features.
Seeing as the market always recovers and then some, you are going to need to make very, very good returns in the downturns to make up for all the list potential on the upside.

In other words, the overall return of the markets over their entire lifetime is positive, not negative.

It would be great to ride the bull and then switch to the bear in a down market. But that would require timing the market.
Probably depends on your usage pattern. When you see Youtube ads on a newly setup machine (pre ad-block install...) or something else which won't have a good tracking profile, it seems a lot like TV ads: soda, cat food, body lotion or deodorants or something of that nature, video games.
Heh, it gets better:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/22/new-technology...

... for some definition of better.
Yeah, PAX will probably work. But IMO it brings questionable value here.

You’ll surely be able to create a PAX-based format that your own tools will be able to backup and restore correctly. But it won’t be compatible, i.e. no other tool will be able to restore or read the data.

BackupRead API returns zero or more streams, each prefixed with a variable-length WIN32_STREAM_ID structure. For normal files without security descriptors, you could just unwrap the content of the BACKUP_DATA stream to the file content inside the TAR and you’re good.

But even if you’ll find a way to store BACKUP_SECURITY_DATA stream in these PAX extended names-values, there’s other stuff to keep somewhere.
Alternative data streams, usually (when written by windows explorer) they’re quite small, dozens of bytes, but nothing prevents them from being gigabytes, I’m not sure PAX will be happy about values that large.
And also there’re sparse files, BackupRead won’t return you these zeroes like ReadFile, it’ll return you a BACKUP_SPARSE_BLOCK stream instead, with just the non-zero portions of the file.

If you won’t bother parsing the backup data and unwrapping the streams, it’ll work for your tool, but your TARs will be incompatible with standard TAR tools which won’t see the content of your backup.
I think this is often a dumb complaint and it shows itself in other contexts sometimes. There's a natural floor to income, it's $0. But there is no ceiling. So naturally if you want to give a sampling of scenarios covering most people, most examples will be high earners (even if there are fewer of those) because how many meaningfully different scenarios are there between $0 and $50k of income?

EDIT:
Another corollary of this explains part of why income inequality increases over time. As markets become more global, the upside for successful enterprises goes up - there are a lot more potential customers. So today someone at the top of their field can have a much higher income than he could in the past, whereas the income floor at $0 is unchanging.
I hadn't ever thought of TMNT as being a parody, at least not in original Eastman and Laird form - I missed most of it, but parts of it were pretty dark, particularly Raphael's character IIRC.

I got introduced to it by way of Palladium's adoption of the world/setting as an RPG, who expanded the world with a whole bunch of amazing sourcebooks that never went anywhere near the silliness of the later incarnations involving "COWABUNGA DUDE!".
That's simply not true. Every single worker no matter how poor pays a 7.65% federal tax on all of their wages below $127k.
I'm sure they have Referrer metrics, and could add a "from Random" flag.

The UI could even continue doing separate random programs, but allow the watcher to say "Keep Watching this", locking in their choice and making it a "discovered" show.
The hard truth is that OpenGL 3.0 was far too tame when it came to breaking compatibility. Initially, they tried to design something much closer to Vulkan (back in 2008!), but ended up with a far too conservative final specification to make backwards compatibility possible. The disappointment among OpenGL users after the release of the final 3.0 specification was very real.

If you have a good understanding of how GPUs actually work (of which the OpenGL pipeline is just a very crude and simplistic abstraction), you can understand why modern APIs like Vulkan and DX12 are the way they are and also the power they hand to a capable user.

The hardware model underlying the design of OpenGL has aged. The one used for 1.0 and 1.1 is so outdated now that using it runs exactly counter to what the driver needs to do on hardware built within the last 15 years. The story gets a bit better once you get to vertex buffers, but those are not exposed in a way that lets the driver handle them without any guesswork on its part. The same is true for textures and framebuffers. Even that damned global OpenGL state is a quint relic of the past. Modern drivers should get the desired new state all at once instead of piecemeal through a chain of calls that triggers expensive recomputation of the desired actual GPU hardware state at each step.

Instead of clinging to OpenGL 1.x or 2.x for no good reason, you should really switch to a high level drawing library or rendering engine that knows how to pass things properly to an underlying modern API.
Well, it's counter strike we're talking about. They probably started playing it in their teenage years.
The point is that Bitcoin is supposed to be a currency, and nobody is ever going to use a currency that costs you $50 to process every transaction regardless of whether it’s for $50k or 50 cents.
Who is making these 50k transactions?

And for what purpose? Speculation? Day trading?

I really don't care about the wealthly wall street day traders who are throwing around hundreds of thousands of dollars. That "use case" is boring. "investment" is boring.

What I care about is the average person.

Bitcoin was originally supposed to be a peer to peer electronic cash system. As in, you buy things with it. It was not supposed to be a new wall steet.
"what do you think is missing?"

How about someone making $75k/yr. who itemizes deductions, because they live in a high-property-tax state? Or someone making $75k/yr. who has 5 kids and receives an exemption for all of them under the current code?

We could go on all day coming up with scenarios that are missing from tables like these, some which represent winners, some which represent losers (somehow, that table seems to have no losers...). There are bigger issues with the bill. There are a bunch of hidden traps for the middle class that people are just beginning to understand. Already there are concerns about the new provision allowing 529 plans to be used for private elementary schools, and the way that will create incentives that hurt the middle class while benefiting the wealthy. The bill also picks winners and losers by allowing some professions to use pass-through corporations to reduce their income tax burden, but not others (architects and engineers, but not software developers).
I own a television but it's never used as a 'television'. It's a screen with an Xbox connected on which I have Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, and games.
If you're watching it in syndication it's probably either cut or sped up (or both) to squeeze in even more commercials. The intro and credits combined are about a minute on that show as most 30 minute shows are.

I don't complain about the speeding too much as I watch most shows are 1.5x and cut out the commercials so a show with 18 minutes of content takes 12 minutes.
Seems like a problem that could be solved with an addon for Chrome and FF, at least...
I'm pretty sure more than 1% of electrical engineers have worked with SMD - they're tough to avoid these days, unless you are strictly doing microelectronics, or a power engineer bolting things together with bus bars.
> $270k/year can be average more often.

Aside from th fact that "average more often" doesnt make sense (do you mean more common?), its still not excusable because the data is so easily available. The county with the highest median household income isnt even half that (Loudoun County, VA at $115k), and Santa Clara county, home of most of "Silicon Valley" and a place many Americans would probably think as a home of a lot of high income families is 14th on the list at ~$91k/year [0]. A slightly older, longer list doesnt even put San Francisco in the top 100 counties.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_countie...
Can the component machines be run as VMs on fewer / one physical machine? It would make for a better QubesOS then.
Pardon my very limited knowledge about those things, but one thing I wonder and find fascinating about bitcoin is this : I understand that a very limited number of people, probably the initial developers, hold a very hight percentage of available bitcoin. (disregard the rest in case i'm even completely mistaken in that assumption...)
Those people have an asset with an incredibly high face value. Of course, the market is probably far too shallow for them to cash out even a small part of this face value.

The question is this : for those people, assuming or not that they can coordinate, what is the optimal strategy? I'm thinking something like draw regularly, in order to build a war chest to "defend" the cryptocurrency against too violent crashes, such sustaining the confidence of the public. In a way controlling and fine tuning the influx of external money coming in from fools wanting in on the pyramid effect.

Is it realistic to think such strategy could be feasible, and if so, for how much time those people could/would want to sustain it?
PBS makes great content with zero ads, aside from a five second blurb about "our sponsors and viewers like you" between shows. They also broadcast over antenna, so you don't even need a cable subscription to watch it (and conveniently, if you only have antenna, you're spared from all the garbage and only get PBS + local news).
How do you know as a buyer/seller that you're not dealing with someone from the NDA? Isn't it possible that accounts get seized?
Snowden's Android app for physical security
To be fair, the commercials are the best part of watching The Big Bang Theory. Much better to spend a few minutes imagining how cool I would be if I just owned Product X rather than see a nerd minstrel show with an annoying laugh track.
I told a few wealthy people I know to put 10% of their investments on Apple in 2003.

When I talk to them now, I said why'd you ask for a stock tip if you weren't willing to follow through?

Sadly, I put my money into my own startup. Got about 15-20x return on my investment. You live and learn :-)
Money laundering is not the glorious vision that Satoshi sold to me or the world. I really don't care about that use case. If THAT is all that bitcoin is good for, then I hope it dies.

I got into bitcoin because I believed in a peer to peer electronic cash system.
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It's important to remember that the percentage of time devoted to commercials has been increasing over time.

1950s: 13%
Pre-cable: 18%
Pre-web: 22%
Pre-Youtube: 24%
Now: 30%

As alternative forms of media have become available, the value per viewer hour has decreased, so the total amount of time devoted to commercials has increased.
They love reading. Going to the library to return and find new books to read is one of their favorite activities.
By (at least) one definition, the price action alone qualifies Bitcoin as a bubble:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-chance-of-a-bitcoin-cr...

To that I would add a question: what's the fundamental value of Bitcoin? If you can't come up with a sensible way to calculate that, you have a price unmoored from fundamentals, which is characteristic of bubbles.
OK, fair enough. I had gotten some of the prior posts jumbled in my head, I guess. Still, we live under a market economy, which does not maximize for "a stable environment in which to raise one's children," although in aggregate it has made our society wealthy.
CDC/HHS did not actually ban any words
The odds may be off, but the argument is still the same. If it weren't for the risk of accidentally shooting one-self, it is only rational to carry a gun in an environment where you do not know whether it is safe. So it is really hard to reach the social optimum ((almost) no guns) in this case, because each individual is incentivised to carry one everywhere.

While a little bit constructed, there are some parallels here.
American Express is getting rid of signatures for credit card purchases
I don't know about kids cartoons, but I just watched the original Star Trek episodes from the late 60's and they are 50 minutes each (for a 1 hour time slot) so that's 10 minutes of commercials. Hour long episodes are now about 40 to 41 minutes in length, so the number of commercials has doubled since then.
No argument with that. It’s good that the residents of New York are holding their representatives to account. It’s also simultaneously true that wild hyperbole about NYC not having adequate transit to support HQ2 is just that.

I’m making the pretty boring argument that we shouldn’t get carried away.
I haven't watched cable since ~2009 and no longer subscribe. Not only are the shows just bad, but the image quality is terrible. If ISPs drag down the streaming video services then I hope Netflix returns to a robust DVD distribution model. IF not then I'll just buy DVD box sets before I support extortion.
This. Is. Awesome. Also, horribly frightening, if you've ever worked in old fabs, they had some extraordinarily toxic stuff. My brain is torn in two trying to figure out if I should cheer or shriek in fright. It reminds me of the story of the kid who made a nuclear reactor.
I find just the opposite to be disconcerting. Back in the day, Some procedural cop show was talking about "FacePlace" as a stand in for Facebook.

Then again it sticks out like a sore thumb to me when shows you IP addresses that can't be valid....
And again a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13190601
I work in an HPC lab (computational chemistry) and we have a hand-coded AVX-512 codepath. I can't give any specifics (because I don't know them) but I know there is a non-trivial speedup versus the standard codepath (or AVX2).

However, GPUs blow it out of the water for much a lower price since we only need FP32. I think the main reason we invested time adding supports is for the Xeon Phi cards. I guess is could be worthwhile for some FP64 pipelines from a cost/performance perspective.
Monasteries had gatehouses, which were an intermediary room between the outside world and the fenced inside.

Also, submarines.
Draining the swamp of unnecessary bureaucrats. The EPA sometimes causes more harm to the environment. I'm okay with the the thinning of this agency.
I think probably the single most intuitive way of implementing a Bayesian model for a programmer is ABC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximate_Bayesian_computati... because it is generative and inherently algorithmic. I wonder if there is a good tutorial way of starting with ABC and developing into MCMC and other more efficient methods? It's easy to transition from simple Monte Carlo methods to ABC rejection sampling, but I'm not sure how to link up ABC and MCMC (in part because I don't grok MCMC myself well enough to explain it).
General shittiness of such work
Antirez blogged about this in detail [1] when HyperLogLog was added to Redis.

[1] http://antirez.com/news/75
I think Bitcoin is a bubble in the same way that gold is a bubble.
97% of American Households own a television.
Which is down from 98.9% since last year, and is the first decline in 20 years, according to the article.
All these apps give the government more control, that is why their use is encouraged.

Bitcoin "as app" (once or if it works) will be more like cash payments, privacy wise. That is were I see the main advantage. I find it spooky what Visa and Mastercard now about all of us... at least about me.
> Why do you think it "costs nothing" to create a successful crypto-token?

Because "success" for a crypto-token requires near zero effort from the entity deploying the ledger, all that is necessary is to rebrand forked code and pump enough hype into it so that people start buying it. The billion dollar ICO phenomenon is a concrete example of exactly what I'm referring to and that's just one blockchain with a second layer of abstraction on top. If Donald Trump forked litecoin tomorrow and told all his followers to buy the best cryptocurrency ever and that bitcoin was a fake-news token supported by the Obamas, Trump-Coin would be within the top 5 crypto-tokens literally over night.

> I can create a business with a hundred dollars and a trip to the local government building

And if Trump went on TV and pumped that business every day for a year, it would be a certain failure because a "business" is not a clerical detail that you can effortlessly replicate by filing paperwork with the government, it's an organization that embodies the implementation of a concrete business process, it requires that the business owner actually do something.

> the network, the users, the trust, the amount of hardware and software written for it, the number of implementations, the amount of acceptance at vendors, the number of reputable exchanges, and the amount of decentralization

Right... but there is nothing marrying any of that to any specific implementation of a compatible blockchain, this was particularly apparent with the BTC vs BCH fork where companies didn't even know whether or not they should recognize the new ledger that was instantly created out of thin air... but ultimately they decided they would recognize it and suddenly there is "double" the total amount of bitcoin that existed previously. These kind of things can't happen with a business because you can't instantly fork a functioning business with 5 minutes and a PR.
Star Trek. I mean, for certain values of "astonishingly".
A simple guide to CRISPR, one of the biggest science stories of the decade
didnt mean to imply that you or someone else didnt. just that lots of people are deluding themselves in to thinking that they are tech scions who know something special about "blockchain technology" and are profiting off bitcoin because of this. and that is not to say that the tech is not interesting, or without some interesting applications. just that there seem to be a crop of idiots who are acting like they did more than just get temporarily lucky.
If this article interested you, you might like https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoinobituaries/.

And here's more or less the same article from 2013 when price was $84: https://whistlinginthewind.org/2013/04/12/the-bitcoin-bubble...

"So what now for bitcoin? It will crash and disappear like Pets.com, Leheman Brothers and Anglo Irish Bank, existing only in the memories of economists."

"There have been some slight recoveries which have given hope to bitcoinites. They cling to the hope that this is only a correction and that bitcoin will bounce back stronger than ever. They fail to realise that all crashes include a slight recovery followed by another crash."

I'm not saying the author is necessarily wrong, just highlighting the fact that no one knows what the hell they're talking about or what's going to happen.
How the baby boomers – not millennials – screwed America
The macro would only be used to generate k for convenience. It could be all implemented in straight, macro-less C++98 in O(minutes).

My point was just that you can implement almost whatever you want (even without macros, they'll just expand the design space).
Hmm, the article has no substance besides speculation from external scientists based on the wording of the release. Not worth reading.
Brendon Eich is working on "Brave Browser", which aims to use Ethereum to enable an ideal relationship between consumers, content producers, and advertisers.
>" then after seeing the transaction fee and time, it was 'well it's a store of value'"

Whats the connection between the transaction fee and time and the "store of value" justification. I didn't follow that.
You're confusing communism with transition socialism.
A more layman version:

- Each value generates a sequence of coin flips

- Count the number of consecutive heads until you hit your first tail

- Take the longest streak amongst all your values, call it n

- Report 2^n as your estimate

This works because if you only have a few people flipping, you won't get a lot of long streaks.

But if you had lets say 1024 flippers, you expect to see one person flip 10 consecutive heads.

Coins flips here are just the bits generated by hashing the value so each coin flip sequence will be the same for each value.
The thing is, if I won the lottery or something, so I had a truly massive amount of money, I would start thinking about the risks of just putting it in one broker, with one index ETF. You can always imagine another point of failure, and if you get carried away avoiding risk (or conversely simplifying your finances), "congratulations, you just played yourself".
The stats on their site (https://lenovo-silversnipers.com/) seem off, e.g., BirDie has 82 hours of play time and 199 kills. That's averaging ~25 mins between kills! Surely, they're not _that_ bad.
Didn't Hasbro and Tomy create Transformers explicitly as a marketing/ sales vehicle?
Coinomi
I've had this argument before, but basically, with $400K a year, you can afford two cars and a 2000 sq ft house with good schools, and maybe a nice vacation.

So yeah, you're not hurting, but you're not wealthy enough to retire and maintain that lifestyle.

Sure, you could "live frugally" and retire after a few years, but you'd literally have to live in a tent and then retire somewhere that isn't California. That might be ok for some, but for others it isn't.

I don't know how people making less than $200K a year live here comfortably. I mean I do know, because I know people like that. They live in a house that they inherited from their parents, they don't do anything out of the house, and they live near bad schools with high crime.
Yeah, I think a lot of things that are stressful about work go away when you aren't afraid of the consequences of fucking up. It turns out that you can be both extremely productive and quite relaxed at work if you don't care about getting fired.
The idea of LN is to reduce the demand for on chain transactions. If this happens, transaction fees will go down and opening a channel will not cost $50.

Fundamentally, Bitcoin needs some form of off-chain transaction. It is just not feasible to record every transaction in a permanent public ledger (let alone one that needs to be synced quickly enough to allow for ~10 minute block times)
it's representative of a whole class of impulse or semi-impulse buys of fresh-made custom items in a store.