skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have lived through the dotcom and there are massive parallels. Throughout the 90s everybody was talking about why they would need the Internet when they have tv and newspapers. Then from '98 to 2000 hyper and hysteria kicked in. Ridiculous funding happened and businesses really started doing irrational things because they thought they'd have their lunch eaten. Everybody new the dotcom bubble was going to pop and it did over the course of 6-12 months.

Calling bitcoin a scam or ponzi scheme is really not fair, it dismisses the underlying utility of blockchain. Look at the tech of Ripple, their performance characteristics are aiming at the VISA and AMEX of this world. Bitcoin is turning into the reserve currency of crypto-coins, there are lots of alternatives which better serve day to day transactions.

The real point I am trying to make is that right now it feels like we're in HTML 2.0 days and bitcoin is Netscape Navigator. New finance companies are going to spring up over the next few years, in about 5 years they'll start eating into traditional banks. Those banks and institutions will start panic buying. Nobody will know who the next Google/Facebook of the finance industry will be and thats the risk right now.

Regarding the price change, you have to be careful. It's not a fiat coin backed by a government, so it's value is purely based on what the guy next to you will pay for one coin. On that basis bitcoin is very risky because it's value to you is $16,000 but your car mechanic thinks it's worth $0.
I don't see how asteroid mining can be viable economically. You still need an enormous quantity of petrol to send things in space and judging by the rarefaction of said petrol its price is bound to increase a lot.
Before I'm willing to condemn this I'd want to know a lot more about how it was actually used. Was it used as a weapon or simply as an available bullhorn or announcement/PA system? I don't recall any press at the time about serious crowd control problems or the "weapon" use of LRADs, and a quick bit of searching now also doesn't show anything like that.

Even the article notes "military grade versions that can send voice communications up to 5.5 miles away, and slightly less powerful versions like the LRAD 500X or 300X which are what police departments generally use." A less powerful system that can send voice communications sounds an awful lot like a PA system to me. Given the described use "to assist in instructing the crowd flows on continuing to flow away from the entrances of the stations" that also sounds like a PA system.

This sounds like a lot of sensationalism on something pretty mundane.
But of course there are large scale industrial customers that do transact directly in the wholesale market and not through a retailer, and of course they were paid to use the electricity.

Then it is up to you and your retailer if you have a fixed rate or a rate that adjusts with the market prices if you are able to utilize the cheap electricity.
I'm the reverse - I want to manage the location and organization of my images 100% manually. I have a good work-flow of copying RAW files to

~/Images/$year/$location/$event/raw

Exported JPGs go to "$event/jpg" and it makes it easy to find. I've never used darktable, instead I use rawtherapee which allows me to work with images in my own preferred locations without wanting to "import" or "copy" to some internal database.
The underlying "business" = technology of bitcoin DOES NOT HAVE VALUE.
The blockchain is good in theory, not in practice.
Smart contracts?? look behind the buzz and please tell me what business uses it? If I have to make a shipment of goods somewhere, what company does do you think will pay in advance ..cause you know.. we have a smart contract that releases the funds when the merchandise arrives at the destination..I don't know what you do for a living, but for sure you are not in business, as 'prepaid' contracts are not how the world works..
As escrow service, it does work, I'll give that to you, but when you consider how many ETH contracts were hacked just this year. .. I would rather pay the fee to an offline escrow than risk losing everything to North Korean hackers....
"Alexa, what's the weather?" It proceeds to tell me the weather for a state over.

"Alexa, set my location to XXXXX." It can't do that.

Actually getting correct location details requires downloading a separate smart phone application and digging through its menus to figure out how to set the location for each individual Alexa device.
Oh wow, you're right. The model has gotten even more cognitively expensive.

This somewhat widens my ray of hope.
This sounds a bit extreme:
>I need to be 100% sure that I will get a return on my time invested when it comes to searching or asking for information
Doesn't the efficient market theory ensure that any outsized future returns are already reflected in the price?
If you fix it in hardware you wouldn't have to rewrite everything in a different language. That sounds like a pretty good solution to me.
Actually, literate programming can help with this, as it forces you to write what you mean to do (and then you can compare that to what you're actually doing in the code).

Literate programming is not "natural language" programming...
Why China’s dog-meat market has expanded
Hey have you got any contact details? Love to have a chat about serving video
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No, you can't. I spent 22 years as a operations nuclear plant supervisor and I can tell you this can't be done. Two to four mw/min power increase, depending on several factors, is the norm. Power follows steam demand is an old saw in the industry. You slowly open the turbine valves and dilute the coolant in the reactor to keep things in balance. Control rods are kept fully withdrawn at all times at power.
I think a lot of the pathology comes from having rootless multinational corporations that are largely unaccountable to neither man nor government.

Quigley once wrote that minting corporations with unlimited lifetimes and unlimited scopes of operation--from a historical perspective--is a completely new mistake.

The Intercept had this story a while back where Kerr-McGee was caught dumping creosote into the ground for decades, then the EPA goes and prosecutes the lab owner who blew the whistle. Kerr-McGee gets a fine. Lab owner who blew the whistle gets house arrest.

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/25/did-the-epa-prosecute-an...
NB: Troy Hunt largely dismisses this disclosure as old and existing passwords, 99.6% included in his own HaveIBeenPwned collection, based on a sampling of 1,000 entries.
What exactly is the phenomenal technology?

Most people on HN understand the Blockchain can be described as a p2p distributed database. It has great use cases, like asset registries, but im still waiting for the killer applications.

Personally, I've only used cryptocurrency for buying drugs on darknet matkets. We were the people actually using btc. Until the transaction fees got crazy and people moved toward better coins.
I think it behooves all techies to reread and really think about the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace every now and then:

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
> I've decided I need to quit.

OK fair enough. But ... have you tried various options first within your current job? Have you asked for an extended holiday? Could you change your commute so you cycle in at least part way? A four day week? Have you looked at your schedule and tried to add more exercise? Are you sleeping 8 hours? Have you asked for a sabbatical? (ARM for example will give you a paid three month sabbatical every four years.) I say this because you said at one point you loved the work. You might just need to shake things up a bit.

If you really decided to move on then lots of good advice here already...
Path dependence? US went a bit too far in the "individual liberty" direction, and it now can't get out of the mess. In principle, things could be fixed, but good luck getting enough lawyer mass on this.
Calculus was required in pretty much all of the freshmen classes. There was no possibility of deferring that in order to learn calculus - it should have been done before the fall. Remedial classes were not offered.

As far as I recall, I was the only freshman who did not know calculus. I can only infer from that that I did not get the message, or ignored it. I certainly received no useful guidance from high school.
SciHub has operated at a set of IPs for most or all of its existence, certainly the past several years so far as I'm aware.

So long as you resolve it by hostname at those IPs, by whatever means, you'll be able to reach it there. If the IPs themselves are accessible.

If Telegram works for you, great. Meantime, if some school or research organisation that cannot afford to pay Western prices for academic content cares to set up their own networking infrastructure to provide access similar to the methods I've suggested, also great.
What you'd really want to do is develop a working zero (natural) gravity solar-furnace process that works.

It'd probably involve some kind of centrifuge design... but I wouldn't rule out just making something screaming hot and then suddenly introducing kinetic energy.

Then there are two main options...

A) Make a crude re-entry shield out of the waste products + some of those other resources you're not keen on harvesting for the primary use of sending to earth, and you put a nice candy core in the middle. Aim the landing trajectory at some shallow ocean.

B) Taking things UP in to orbit is expensive. Taking them back down is probably less so, though our current vehicles aren't based on completing that task so they'd need to changed to handle cargo both ways.

Option C could also be fun... if we ever get space elevators working things could go a lot like in science fiction. (The orbital elevators and start of a planetary ring from Gundam 00 jumps to mind as a reference; 3001 also had the idea much earlier but in less detail)
Battery based on aluminium theoretically can have much better capacity than lithium both per volume and per weight. But it is much harder to make batteries from it. Still there were a progress of making non-rechargeable fuel cells based on aluminium. As aluminium is safer to handle even compared with gasoline, loading/unloading few bars of it from a car should not be a problem.
I wish I could say, "it's true, and knowing it means knowing the truth. Don't let our political sensibilities blind us." However the agenda-driven work you're talking about is very real so instead I'll say this:

>estimated impact of parental income is greatly dimin-
ished once parental education and the individual’s IQ are controlled for.

It sounds to me like the study is showing that the impact of parents is split between knowledge transfer (nurture) and gene transfer (nature). This might actually be one of the least questionable ideas ever published.

Finally, heritability studies don't mean much new for motivating students: all of these IQ and parental wealth indicators show up well before "inventing" in the form of small victories like good grades that we've already learned to associate with adulthood success.
There is a Decentralized AI Summit[0] happening in San Francisco in Feb that currently has a call for presenters. You should reach out and show off your work there.

[0] http://decentralized-ai.com/
As an aside, is there a name for this purposeful perspective of strict literalism?

I say "purposeful" because -- while you're obviously knowledgeable about the subject matter -- it can't have failed to occur to you that this approach cannot succeed outside of a very structured context.

(Discussion of whether our conversation was within or without that context omitted, though it might have been the only important discussion possible)

Is this a subcategory of the formal language / langsec efforts? Just standard standards-writing practice? Something else?
For those interested in going deeper, MIT has 'The Film Experience' online and available for download from the Internet Archive [2].

edit: I should also give a shout out to The Story of Film: An Odyssey -- which is an excellent long-form timeline that connects some of the most important films of all time. Definitely worth a watch.

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-011-the-film-expe...

[2] https://archive.org/details/MIT21L.011F13

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Film:_An_Odyssey
This is why the imperialists countries like USA, Britain, France etc are going to foment war in countries like Congo where people live like animals and work for peanuts to dig out cobalt:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4764208/Child-miners...

Let's make a million dollars no matter who dies. It aggravates me that I don't see any comments here relating to what is happening in Congo and all the multinationals supported by the all good US/Britain/France etc. Why do you think the arena of war is being shifted to Africa? Are you ready to wake up? Or do you care about what is happening as long as you have a new toy/mobile to play?
I'm currently looking into how JJB could be used for simple scheduled jobs. But isn't the setup described in the article basically the same what you can do with Jenkinsfile?
Hard to tell how significant that news is since Amazon doesn't list any Google Home product.

And with Google Home Mini priced at $29, it's easy to speculate that it sold quite a few as well.
I don't think you're thinking about this properly. There's no safety net for someone who wants to quit being amish. They are free to leave, but they do not have the capacity to fend for themselves outside of the cult.

I think the larger problem is that you don't have a definition of freedom. You throw the word around like it has formal implications, but I challenge you to present one example of "freedom" that does not end up being oppression to someone else.
Swissquote has launched an exchange tradeable certificate
India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this year
No seriously. My current self would be slapping my past self in the back of the head saying “you idiot, do you have any idea what kind of bullet you dodged?!”
> You can't tell me any rhetoric coming from our last presidents has much of anything to do with what really matters in the world

Without delving into the subjective can of worms that underpins "what really matters in the world", none of what you said refutes the fact that it is still rational to make choices since those choices have consequences that matter to citizens. There are other things going on in the world besides whatever it is you believe "really matters", but you're free to abstain from the political process until the time comes when nations stop fighting wars.
Thank you for the reply but sadly there is another issue.

Similarly to you, I was educated in North America where ironically integrals were not part of the curriculum, but when I arrived in Europe I had to take 3 entrance exams: English (the exam is very awkward for the native speakers, you get 2 questions: what is your name and why are you hear after they notice that you do not have an accent), math (their curriculum with the missing content I did not have) and German.

As I understand, if a local does not have a matura in the required fields, they have to take similar examinations which should prepare them.

I think you had a very nice professor though.
Can't you still send any amount for $5 on Bitcoin?
Possibly ad-hoc way finding, and reference points when lost, to help detect if you're going in circles, or if a change of direction is necessary.

If there are N number of confusing junctions, it would require the same number of markings as a unique mnemonic device to register the steps to escape the confusing area, and jog one's memory of how directions were negotiated the last time.
This is exciting!!! All the random criticism from this post will be entirely worth it if your son ends up smiling even once while trying to navigate Mr Circle. Let me know!
Any engineer knows that nothing is perfectly efficient.
I was thinking of the same thing before reading the article, but most of the symbols don't appear to be similar to the ones the EU people talk about. I'm surprised and disappointed about this.
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Well, if it's known that a greater safety net encourages innovation, that could be used to shape economic policy.
Do you have a more... reputable source than the daily mail?
I disagree it even looks elegant. Short? Yes. Better than Perl? Sure, but even Perl fans wouldn’t call it a pretty language.
Maybe, but the point is right - "fake news" isn't a new thing, it's just a new name for "only slightly more bullshit than what's on national newspapers and television".
Or optimise usage for less annoying, privacy invasive services. Which was always the solution.
At 0.76% management fee and an average return over 5 years of 8.09%, you're better off just investing in an index ETF.

Their own comparison shows the index matching or beating the Lithium ETF in every metric.

* LIT since inception: 38.48%

* Index over same period: 45.82%

You also have zero diversification with a resource ETF. If you really want to buy into only Lithium then I won't try to talk you out of it.

But maybe consider Vanguard Growth ETF (VUG), the average return over 5 years is 14.4%, or nearly double that of LIT. [1]

[1] https://institutional.vanguard.com/iippdf/pdfs/FS967R.pdf
I agree here. Blender is professional grade - it can be replace its commercial counterparts if the industry decides so. On the other hand you can't pretend this is the same situation with Gimp.
> Of course there were. There was music, so someone had to compose it.

Not really, especially not someone who is a "composer".
I am deeply against censorship, consider myself a libertarian and wouldn't personally work for Facebook. I deeply sympathise with this manifesto. But I'm also a consequentialist and I believe the Vietnamese are overall better served with a censored Facebook/Youtube than no Facebook/Youtube at all. I also don't believe that getting 100% of techies on our side is a realistic strategy.
Pre-nups can get thrown out of courts if a court decides it was signed under "duress". E.g. less than 6 months before the marriage.
I was in your position aged 40 and didn't do anything about it. I ended up divorced, broke and ill. So, my point is - can you afford not to do something about it?

I would scale down, perhaps downsize if you can, and save more, before that is forced on you anyway. It gives you more options. Talk to your wife so she is fully appraised of how you feel (there are mixed views on this though - that's mine).

So, you then have another problem - you take time out, what to do then? Well, it seems you have a value conflict with the industry you are in. It should not be too hard to transition into a new industry in software.

By the way, if you are feeling like you want to transition out of the software industry you might start trying other things on the side just to see what you like doing.

You might feel old at 41, but when you are 55 like me you will look back and say - God I was young then even though I felt OLD! :)
Wanting to optimize my path through school, I asked some senior people if that programming languages course based on Scheme was useful. I was informed that it's a toy language based on Lisp for teaching. I correctly assumed that this is something other than the real Lisp, a legendary language which can't be a toy. It being a university for grown up children and all, I didn't want to have anything to do with toys. The course was a prerequisite for a senior level compiler course, but I talked the prof into letting me skip the prerequisite and go straight to that compiler course.

Man, I sure dodged a bullet there. Some decade later, I got into Lisp in a big way (the real one); the rest is history.
How did they do it
>However that means you're also subject to no encryption or business related traffic.

how does that work? isn't all wifi traffic encrypted by something between devices and AP?

(I skimmed your link and did a find for encry on it but saw nothing.)
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I imagine that platinum will be the most important metal mined from asteroids and returned to Earth. Thick platinum shielding should hold up well on atmospheric entry.
Thats not true. There are two versions of Lightroom, the cloud one and Lightroom Classic. The Classic is the continuation of the regular desktop version and from what I understand its not going anywhere. Adobe cannot afford to take the desktop version away from photographers cause unlike photoshop there is good (or even better) competitors (e.g. Capture One is chewing up Lightroom's market share being faster and according to a lot of photographers gives better results).
These countries all have at least 10x the population density of the US. I'm not sure about healthcare, but the rest of your list gets cheaper as population density increases.
Would agree with this. Also agree 3 months is the minimum should be thinking of for a sabbatical.

There's a good book on this topic called Play It Away by Charlie Hoehn.
Yes, sliders are really a pain. However from my experience it's much more convenient to move sliders with keyboard arrows (hover a mouse over slider and use the arrows). it still sucks, but sucks less :)
That’s a breathtaking over simplification of their relationship.

It’s a very complex and mildly antagonistic relationship while, yes, also having strong cultural and political influence.

Your characterization is incredibly broad however and - taken as written - quite inaccurate
I'm aware of PRISM, though I misremembered that Amazon was involved too.

Still, I'd argue they are absent because they store little of the things the NSA cared for at the time, reference slide 3:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#/...

Amazon at the time didn't have widely used social media, personal photo or video storage, person to person chat, email, etc. The basic info input by people was already collected via all the other companies. What does the NSA really gain from the Amazon dataset at the time?

I bet if Alexa was out and the NSA wanted data from these devices, however they got the rest to agree would have applied to Amazon. I'm inclined to believe it was pretty unavoidable extortion. That said, I hope that Apple / Google / Amazon can temper assistant always on recording by not doing it, let alone sending to a server. If they don't have the data it's hard to turn over when extorted.

Still, I concede my NSA standard looks to be failed by Google. That said, Google or Alexa, they have it all anyways, and I don't believe for a second that if the government decides to use these types of devices to collect voice data that they all won't take the same stance, whatever it may be. At that point, I'll be unplugging whatever one I have any serious conversations. Heck, I already do that to be safe now.

I'd still point to the industry breadth of Amazon as a concern. Though, these posts illustrate pretty well that privacy is a lost cause for most cases, or at least one technologically agnostic within our current major choices. Noted in case the Alexa / Amazon ecosystem improves.
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those are both ridiculously more unlikely than any kind of self-caused extinction

a gamma ray burst probably won't happen even once in our entire galaxy
[EDIT] to save you some time, the average spent on car-related stuff in the US per year is about $9,000. Average hourly wage, 26.55 or so. Call it 50 working weeks a year, 5 days a week. Looking at about 1.35 hrs per day paying for car crap

That "car crap" is also the ability to head into the mountains or to the coast or the lake at the weekend... while cyclists, so smug during the week, are left begging for a lift. Like children being taken to after-school activities.
Everybody is focused on North Korea, but I find much more worrying 2 nuclear power that regularly kill each other soldiers as standard operating procedure !