skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really, unless you count the period that blocks weren't full when you could even send transactions without a fee.

Fees today are about 100 sat/b, a multiple of that in times of congestion and lower in the weekends. You never have to pay 1000 sat/b, but you are of course free to subsidize miners however you want. This is roughly the same the fees were in 2013, only that those satoshis of yours are worth so much more USD now.

That isn't the whole truth, and those spikes in fees come more often now and spike higher, but the minimum fee to get into a block averaged over a year isn't that much worse now than in 2013.

That probably isn't very helpful if you need to transact in times of congestion, or make low value transactions, but it's important to know that netiher 1 nor 1000 sat/b has been reality for some time now, and that you should never talk about fees in USD because that doesn't describe how it works.

Another common mistake is to include the value of the transaction when describing fees which misleads people into thinking fees are a percentage of the value transacted which is not the case.
I wounder how it would effects the earning of those taxis drivers? Can switching to electric cab increase their income?

It will be really great too see their income (Not just financially) increased by switching to electric vehicles. Because that could give people stronger motive do to this kind of switch than government subsidy.

A taxis company in our city renewed their cabs recently, unfortunately they picked rather old cheap tech cabs that burning petrol + natural gas. If Shenzhen's taxis companies and drivers can receive benefits from such, everybody will eventually follow the trend.
Or, you know, buying a new phone instead of buying a new battery, and all the waste that entails. Do we suddenly not care about the environment now?
I’m not trying to imply blocking ads means you don’t want to support the creator.

But if the creator only offers ads as a method of payment and you consume their content while blocking their ads, regardless of what you want to do, you aren’t paying them for their content.

At that point your options are to continue consuming the content (and preferably not post comments vilifying the content creator driven to using ads like the original comment I responded to above does, which I take exception to) or to not consume the content, signaling to the content creator that something isn’t working about their ad-based model.
Styling React with CSS
Yeah, it's easy to get things done fast when you can completely ignore the collective intellectual property rights and trademarks of whole countries, and steal designs and manufacture counterfeit goods wholesale!
Why a ‘paperless world’ still hasn’t happened
Samsung have been shipping OLED wrap-around-screens under the "Edge" branding since at least early 2015. Phones without front physical hardware buttons have been around even longer (e.g. Google Nexus).
Not really, AFIAK. You can check https://openreview.net/ though.

Most Arxiv papers from Google/FB/OpenAI get a pretty good review on Twitter and /r/MachineLearning.

Some Arxiv papers say "under review for NIPS (or whatever)".
And with that comment we are back at the root of the problem. Apple is the one to evaluate what is and what is not important to the user. And many people who are currently upset think they had their priorities wrong.

We can argue all day long what is and what really isn't important. The fact is they decided it isn't and the backlash showed quite strongly that it was wrong.
Connect(); 2017: SmartHotel360 Demo Apps and Architecture – Visual Studio
But how will such a criminal make Coca cola trust that it's him and not his impostor asking for money? And how will he make Coca cola trust that he will actually stop doing it?
Browser Benchmark – Safari 11 vs. Chrome 63 vs. Firefox 57 (Quantum)
Way too negative.

I have been using uBlock Origin for years and it's one of those things that just works. Turning it off in those rare moments it needs to be off is a bleak reminder of the state of the internet. Why would I want to go through the hassle of managing all of this work by myself?

A massive THANK YOU to the individuals behind uBlock - You literally make the internet tolerable for me.
I can find the 4GB version in my European country (regular shops, not imported stuff).
I think you may have missed my point (which in turn implies I didn't explain it well ;) ).

What I meant was: if you're building a system for your own use (including things like ML platforms and SaaS sites) why pick a target platform that is known hostile?
Flattr is the closest to what I'm aiming at. Some minor scheme differences, quite distinct implementation. One thing I can do differently is to interoperate smoothly with paywalls without revealing user identity.
“Robotics” on that list isn’t what it seems...
>Japan also has a much different outlook on blue collar jobs, and (from studying the culture and spending ~3 months there) people seem to take genuine pride in their job regardless of what it is.

The west seems like the weird culture here. The middle class looks down on people who make our coffees in Starbucks, drive the buses and man the trains but realistically they're the ones everybody would miss if they all suddenly didn't turn up to work on Monday morning.
Beijing and Shenzhen are already considered “SV” of China. HK? Far from it. The governement has very little push and clues to make HK a SV.
They seem to be using the levels at age 11 as a baseline.
> "And you haven't supported the assertion that coal-powered EVs emit less CO2, and it contradicts what I've generally heard elsewhere."

https://www.autoblog.com/2011/10/14/how-gas-cars-use-more-el...

I'm guessing the units should've been 'KW' rather than 'KWh' but the general point is, you have to take into account the energy used to take the oil from the ground and transform it into petrol/diesel ready to be used in cars. In other words, all of the energy used in drilling, refining and transporting should count towards the total energy used.
ETH: Stealing Funds and Zero Fee Transactions
I kind of miss network traffic diagrams; just mentioning its connecting over Gbit isn't enough for me. Is there 200 mbit sql traffic going back/forth, or just 8 mbit?
Maybe work is for work?

There was an article a few months ago about how dress codes and standardization at IBM lead to better work and social relationships. Everyone followed the same work and dress code. It relived the stress of culture differences (race, religion, vulnerabilities, ect.) by focusing on the job at hand. They became friends because they didn't have to worry about social issues while at work.

Also back to the original article you posted, finding out that someone has a condition like epilepsy may prevent them from advancing in their career. You don't want to put too much stress on them because you never know when they could have a seizure. Even if they've been stable for years.
Feature and Cost to Build a Movers and Packers Mobile App
>he founded and sold MtGox

Are you serious? Sold MtGox? That's how you remember him? He was steering that particular ship when it hit an iceberg.
> There are ways to be quite secure even allowing JS execution.

;)
AMP versions of some websites are better

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/27/thousands-of-major-sites-a...
Is it called a disease, or a disability? Since IQ is mentioned, it was my understanding that one speaks of "intellectual disability" when someone has difficulty living independently due to impaired intelligence. They don't have a "disease".
Please stop with those "Best of AI papers".

This isn't how science work, this isn't how anything works
Meanwhile, when poverty numbers are both a mark of shame for a country and fail to keep pace with the inflation of either consumer goods or housing?

We have a growing population of homeless folks too "rich" for public assistance. A lot of them already have jobs: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/09/18/nyregion/in-new-york-h...
And it has only gotten worse since that was published.

The Hoovervilles that showed up before the great depression are back: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/05/america-home...

Dude, you have to either be drowning in kids or make nothing to fall under the official poverty line. But what catches people's eyes is the rise of those officially falling below that line. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/15/america-extr...
Crypto-Forecast Firm Made a List of Stocks Using Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies
I wouldn't criticise the competition for copying, when there's plenty of copying on Apple's part.
I don't know why you call it negative, I call it realistic.

It's like putting all _caught_ pedofiles in a jail, and then saying children can roam the streets free and in safety...
I have a HP Stream 11 with Xubuntu. Works well for my needs.
Perhaps the would-be theives might notice someone going through a lot of different addresses. Better to just use Monero and keep the single address for tips as no one would be able to see the address balance without a viewkey.
I think the outrage is justified, for one particular reason: none of this would have happened if Apple hadn't devolved the feature: user-replaceable batteries.

It is Apples' arrogance that painted them into this corner, and nothing less.
With respect, I believe it should be the TPC-B benchmark, not TCP-B.

It is from the “Transaction Processing Performance Council”, correct? At least, that’s what they call themselves at tpc.org.

Otherwise, interesting results that I think need further examination.
Siema – Lightweight and simple carousel in pure JavaScript
Openreview is only for iclr, so you'll be missing a lot of papers.

To the above poster, in ML journals aren't the main means of publication. You want to look at conferences like ICLR, NIPS, CVPR, etc.
Exactly, but without having to manage an entire fortress. I would sit and read the civilization and artifact backgrounds, the histories, the forgotten beasts, but it's just not built for that.

It would also be nice if it didn't feel so random, like masterwork obsidian battleaxes that menace with spikes of orthoclase. Or 6 armed bat winged llamas that spit bile.

Rimworld tries to tackle the story part, but ends up being too dramatic instead.

There was a game called Firan MUX, which did an excellent job of generating families and backgrounds for each character and I would spend hours on that.
I did mean plastic for tampons. I simply quoted it from a quick google search for plastic replacements.
"Block by default" is a usability nightmare.
You mean like HQ trivia's sponsored questions?
What's your problem with these lists?

I don't think making these lists is necessarily incompatible with the peer review process. Orals or spotlight presentations at conferences are effectively "best of" lists anyways.
But he doesn't just "like the product", he attempts to criticise the competition for copying.
> ptt networks less infrastructure heavy

That's often walkie talkies, no? Those are pretty handy in first responder situations.

Nation wide networks used in Netherlands:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2000_(network)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Trunked_Radio#cite...

P2000 is basically to receive a text. The C2000/TTR is encrypted, meant for Policy/Ambulance/Fire departments and apparently used by many countries in the world. It'll work
even when other networks are down. Apparently fully used since 2007.

I'm a first responder for my building, it used to be that the C2000 system (simply stated: "professional walkie walkies") would be difficult to use in my building (couldn't go through concrete). We'd lend them our walkie talkies (they work much better as we have a support transmitter within the building). Over the last few years they seem to have improved C2000, nowadays they don't need ours for most areas.

The various problems with the C2000 system are explained in Dutch (!) at https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/C2000#Problemen.
Before I joined the ML team at my company I too had no clue. Now, it is what we talk about 30% of the time :)
Is Magic Leap One going to change the AR industry in 2018?
How can a bunch of no fee transaction attempts cause a $20 market price? It seems like the block would need to be full of transactions with high fees.
I thinks we need to remember the context of this conversation, I’m not against blocking tracking and not wanting to be tracked. I’m just against blocking ads then saying it’s taking the moral high ground and vilifying content creators who offer ads. I’m not even against blocking ads period, so long as we’re accepting the fact that it’s for personal benefit and definitely not “sticking it to the man”

The problem is we don’t have a protocol for signaling that they want to track you before you load the content and its tracking.

So you get the content, the tracking code, and detection for anti-ad/tracking plugins.

If they detect anti-ad plugins they say “We did give you the content, but we see you don’t have the form of payment we want so please don’t view it”

At that point, to me, neither side has done anything wrong. Would it be preferable if they could give you the “please don’t view it” message upfront? Definitely. But instead they let you opt out.

Once you decide to modify the paywall away and view the content you still haven’t done anything wrong but you’re saying “I want to view content paid for by showing people ads that was also designed to drive ad engagement but I don’t deserve to have to view ads so I’ll ignore your paywall since it’s my computer and you let me have the content” ... which is fine. And also won’t solve the actual underlying problem. Instead we just get an arms race of ad-block vs anti-ad-block (which anti will lose) and content creators hoping ad-blocking doesn’t reach critical mass.

The alternative is to turn down the content by going away. That sends the message that you won’t support the model. Bonus points if you pay someone willing to take your money in exchange for not tracking you since the most effective way to disrupt the market right now is to fund those trying to break out of the current model.
I can highly recommend the book - Why We Sleep - mentioned at the top of the video. It goes into quite some depth on the reasons for and mechanics of sleep in a way I found approachable for someone with only a layman's understanding of chemistry:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501144316
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/science/human-fossils-mor...

June 2017 news by NY Times.

They did not even change the photo I think.
The weak spot of Cryptos is in the exchanges. Getting your money in or out of crypto is a reall hassle, and a risky undertaking. I still had some money at Exmo, moved them to Ether to send them to Kraken (and in my own wallet eventually). However the ethereum transaction is still in "Verifying status". Normally I always keep my cryptos in cold storages, but you cant want you want to exchange them for cash.

I also tried to get my Euros out of Exmo, but verification is already taking more than a week. My trust is gone in them. And thats the whole point. Exchanges are still based on trust, thats not what decentralized cryptos are about. It only works if everybody works on the blockchain only.
I haven't upgraded yet, but it sounds like KeePassHelper can do something similar - I have it listed as "try this replacement" for when I do eventually upgrade: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keepasshelper...

Seems to require some setup though, and stores passwords outside of Firefox?
Incorrect

I had the same problem with a user-replaceable phone battery

It took me a while to realize it was the battery to blame. Yes, replacing it was easier, but you need to identify the problem first
Or alternatively, rewrite incoming traffic with iptables, https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-port-redirection-with-ip...
Sorry, what I meant with "recursive" was doing the recursion myself, instead of handing it off to a server like Google's DNS server. If I follow the replies starting from root server one by one, am I likely to hit some limit?
Can’t help thinking of the sopranos, where a few mobsters were “employed” on construction sites.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r-ECvI5rD40
> How would you explain that without CP symmetry violation?

My preferred explanation is that areas dominated by matter and anti-matter got pushed away far apart by the energy of annihilation between them, universe is much larger than observable universe and our galaxy, neighbouring galaxies, possibly even whole observable universe belongs to region that was dominated by matter that is now separated from anti-matter dominated ones with sufficiently large and empty void.

I don't exactly buy the idea that all of the matter was at the beginning in one geometrical point, and exactly uniform. Background radiation is not exactly uniform so imho not all places in space had exactly the same amounts of matter and anti-matter either.
My god it's like all the comments on this post are Apple shills.

"If you don't accept this you're a wacky conspiracy theorist"

Fuck me. That's right out of the handbook mate.

The problem that's been complained about for years is decreased performance on upgrade, and no decent downgrade path.

Where were the legions of complaints about random shutdowns that prompted such severe throttling?

People accepting this explanation blindly have never worked for a large company in a PR storm. They don't suddenly start telling the whole truth, especially if the truth was as benign as they state this is. If it's such a non issue, why not mention it in release notes?

Because it was hidden, because this is bullshit.
> If you don’t consent why view their content?

Ever since newspapers, the social contract has been that they serve content and I become a reader they can sell advertising space for me to look at. They can't suddenly change that contract and expect everyone to automatically agree.
I'm not trying to diminish the suffering/risks/etc of a million people, but that is about one-third of one percent of the US population so I think woolvalley's comment is pretty on point.
No. Hongkong now has no chance for that role, and compared with mainland companies there are not much successful Hongkong companies.
Yes, that is the collateral damage inflicted by participating at the current ad model far to long. However, for sites who really want to change, this isn't a real problem. First of all, if you don't serve ads via "ad networks" but as part of your hostet content, I don't think the ads are getting blocked by default. Also, if a site with true content and regular readers has a proper ad model, they can just ask their readers to whitelist their site. If you don't just ask because you don't want to get your ads blocked, but at the same time can tell your readers why this won't be a problem for them, I think many would whitelist the site - if whitelisting is needed at all.
They cannot change the terms of existing insurance contracts. The increased prices will show up on new contracts - either renewal or entirely new properties.

That said, as the article notes:

> There is some skepticism that reinsurance prices can rise enough in the coming year to offset the decline over the last decade. Any changes may also take some time to flow through the industry. In Florida, one state tested by this year’s events, many insurers won’t renew their reinsurance policies until June.
One-Touch to Inbox Zero
I know it's weird, but I love hear these audios while I'm coding and working!
More importantly "110 of the 111 brains of former NFL players examined had CTE". So how stupid can you be?

In a healthy society this sport would be forbidden by law.
It might be realistic to whitelist egress on a production server, but certainly not at my mother’s house.
I'm from Iowa. Pretty much every city with at least 50k people has gang activity. There are parts of Podunk, Iowa that you simply do not drive through, unless you're buying crack.
iPhone's battery deteriorates to a point of not being able to sustain ideal usage after mere 1-1.5 years. That is a very bad case as per mobile phone standards. $1000 for 18 months averages to about $56 a month after which your phone will start deteriorating to a point of being not usable anymore.

Not acceptable no matter how valid their argument is.
If Ukraine was attacked by Russia, why Ukraine's legitimate president is hiding in Russia then?
Bitcoin is going to drop to $300-600 within the next year:

* There are only a limited number of coins out there so people are going to stop mining for them as he near that limit. You can see that now with fewer people buying ASIC and similar FPGA modules.

* The transaction fees are getting be as great as the cost of a pizza transaction

* Lost coins - There are millions of wallets out there with people exploring BitCoin that has just been lost. Its a lot easier to lose your wallet hash then your physical wallet.

Do I think block-chain will take over? Yes and then it will crash spectacularly. I honestly look for the markets to take off over teh hype and then die death crashing into a universal central system.

Look for more slow downs with chat-bots, games, and video services, onion routers piggy backing on the service. Then there purposely bad transactions in DOS terrorism to destroy confidence in issued currency. Eventually this will force the 'new banks' take us back a world centralized bank with sharded nodes that a UN like structure will control.
There's simply no excuse for not tracking spending. With software, every $1 box of nails should be tracked. Everything else is fraud, that the NYC DA seems to be willingly ignoring. Once again, no consequences for bad behavior. Almost every single issue here boils down to no consequences for harmful behavior or horrific consequences for normal behavior. It will be interesting to see if we ever implement a justice system to fix these problems or just keep pretending like whatever the fuck we're doing now is working.
Very fascinating and inspiring read!

I run a small browser-based MMORPG and I've seen a lot of interesting metagames play out in the game economy.

One thing I thought of while reading this is the effect of scarcity. I specifically remember one time when a stupid bug made the world a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

My game has a political aspect where one player is the ruling king, giving them a few unique abilities such as setting taxes. It’s a powerful position and players are constantly fighting for the throne. The way this works is that the king hires NPC guards to defend and protect the throne. The more guards, the more expensive and time-consuming it is to dethrone the king. The downside is that the upkeep to staff a full kingsguard is equally expensive. This has naturally made it so that only the wealthiest players can actually afford to sit on the throne and the easiest way to accumulate wealth is to run a shop.

The economy is centered around resources and mining. Normally the mines are replenished from time to time but the bug broke this mechanic. The first thing to deplete was the noble metals such as gold and silver, the same metals that the wealthiest merchants made their fortune from. With prices going through the roof a class division was created between players who had accumulated metals before the bug and players who hadn’t.

The problem is that without good gear you have no chance of coup d'etat. Even if you had a gold armor and sword you need a constant influx of new gold in order to repair them when fighting the guards. Even bronze became a rare commodity.

In effect, what happened is that the kingdom became a dictatorship. The king could set maximum taxes without any consequences. Normally such action would start a riot, have all players get their pitchforks and create a rebellion but without good weapons this was impossible.

I finally got around to fix the bug once normal iron started to run out as well and new players were restricted to useless wood gear, barely enough to kill rodents. I lost a lot of players but it was a really interesting social and economic experiment.