skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very good question! It's robust in the sense that there is a lot of work produced with no downtime, but not very in the sense that most people gets less useful work out of it. Consider the case there most users would like to tumble their coins before each transaction, as was the case with certain markets, preferably a full 16 rounds and how that would affect usability of the system as a whole. This problem affects dark net markets just as well as exchanges.

There are also other real life examples too, of single wayward services that made the blockchain harder to use for everyone, such as the casino which recorded a transaction in the global ledger for all eternity for every dice roll. Those are all priced out now, together with some of the more excessive tumblers, but that solution could be considered crippling the network.

Are there "too big to fail" services within the Bitcoin ecosystem? Matters are complicated further by the fact that the exchange in question foot the bill to their customers, one customer at a time, so the economic impact for them is negligible.

Why "fail", then? Well, it turns out that somebody looked at their hot wallets recently and noted that the mostly inappropriate choices of transactions to make had resulted in a non trivial amount of non-spendable dust collecting. In a bank run situation, that would result in them not being able to fully empty their wallets. The further down we investigate, the more there is to learn.
So, 4 prominent people who attended the party (including one woman who stayed until 5AM), have attached their personal names to statements saying this article's claims are fantastical. Combined with the fact that nearly all the claims are anonymously sourced, I don't see how you could claim it seems reasonably accurate, unless you are experiencing confirmation bias (which is what I think happened here).
Professional means that I use it in the context of my profession. For me, the new touch bar pro is fundamentally better than the old for what I do because I need more battery life but I also don't want to pay a weight or size penalty for it. I get paid to get work done with my computer, so in that context I am a professional.
> How do they define "Broadband"?

There's a footnote in the article which says that the FCC data uses the 2016 redefinition of broadband back down to 10mbps:

> The FCC has two data sets on broadband connections. For our analysis, we used the data specifying connections with at least 10 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream.
Unless the consciously stated desire is an ad-hoc rationalization of the underlying drives.

I agree with you there are also likely strong cultural influences which are unfolding mostly separately from any genetic dynamics.
Vibrating wearables announced at CES is intended to reduce stress in the wearer
He's a human.

Perhaps he is not deserving of sympathy or pity, but his life, and the reasons he is a substance abuser is a cautionary tale.

Perhaps when we talk about the orgy of capitalist conquest that we are collectively part of, we should reflect on the impact on not just the losers -- but the winners to.
I was very plain about spoken about being a complete bastard and motivated by hate. I don't know how I could be any clearer about not being a good person in this instance.

Fortunately, I don't give a damn what strangers on the internet think about me :)

My only regret is not stealing more money from them.
SVD Math and Python
I wish that meditative practices like this were more common in modern-day Western Christianity! You can still see a lot of this type of contemplation in Eastern Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, but not so much in Western Catholicism.

Also, I disagree with the writer that practices like this tend to "distance" yourself from death. I think that ascetics (Christian or not) are extremely, extremely aware of death in a way that average people are not. And I think that to these people, it's not some "immortality standard" which is just a checklist of rules, but a complete and all-consuming lifestyle that gravitates towards a single principle.
> I think the type of conscious decision to have kids discussed in this article may be a socio-cultural phenomenon.

Survival of memes and survival of genes are a little different, but not entirely independent; once you have a concept of the relation of sex to reproduction (which huma societies demonstrably have had for quite a long time, in general, even if there are some primitive exceptions), a community (and it's ideas) is much less likely to becomem influential, or even survivez
, if it doesn't value reproduction unless it's somehow in a symbiotic relation with a community that does; this may be somewhat less true today (an interesting discussion), but in most of human history this would have been a big deal.

Also, that aside, it serves as a rationalozation of the lower level drives discussed earlier, and a social value framework that includes elemenrs that provide rationalizations that enable a feeling of understanding of lower-level drives provides a kind of (strictly speaking, fallacious, but that's not important to it's value in promoting acceptance) validation for the whole framework.
If you are interested in the linguistics of food names, might I recommend: Daniel Jurafsky's The Language of Food[1]

[1] - https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Language_of_Food_A_...
What you outline is the libertarian/neoliberal case for crypto, and while more coherent (and is built into the currency with the whole "fixed total supply" structure) it seems to me no less of a fantasy.

The state can damn well impose capital controls and confiscate accounts. You transfer the money elsewhere continue to use it? The state now has perfect transparency to see that. Did you own any assets in the country you're fleeing? They're confiscated. Does the state you're fleeing to have an extradition treaty with the state you're coming from? To bad. You refuse to hand over the account that has been confiscate? You go to jail until you do.

Just carrying gold seems a better choice if that's your game plan.

However, I haven't heard that case that much (and never as explicitly as you put it here).
We can easily be running our own internet. I recenlty discovered CJDNS[1] (protocol for encrypted p2p address allocation and routing for mesh networks, so essentially OSI layer 3) and project Hyperboria[2] (a community of local WiFi initiatives) while exploring scuttlebutt[3]. Confirmed my suspicions that we could probably be getting waaay better internet connectivity at way lower prices.

Decentralized tech is going to be the future. Now if we can only figure out how to not get squashed down by the powers that be.

[1] https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns

[2] https://hyperboria.net/

[3] p2p social network https://scuttlebutt.nz
I've definitely had older sales-type people text me using emojis. It's very "hey fellow kids" and I'm 32. The business in discussion are often multi-million contracts. I would never use texts in the first place with vendors outside of "running late"-type communications.
This article sounds almost childish.

Spotify (the app) is Spotify's (company) product.

Music is the musician's product.

Spotify's (the company) product (the app) is a music delivery system.

People who have a Spotify (the app) account are Spotify's users.

People who listen to music are the artist's listeners.

Someone signed in to Spotify but who never played anything is a user but not a listener.

Someone listening to a song being played on Spotify but without a spotify user account is a listener but not a user.

Going to a meeting and being pedantic about such details shows nothing but your own lack of understanding. And to be honest, a complete lack of maturity as well.
Yes, and marijuana laws are just like slavery, child labor, and littering.

It's ironic because you mention slavery while not understanding the war on drugs is crucial to the health of modern slavery, and drug laws are just as much a human rights issue as slavery laws.
It was Intel’s anti-competitive and illegal actions that prevented AMD from owning the market during the several year period when Opteron was not only the best CPU but the only 64-bit x86 CPU.

Unfortunately the legal process was far too slow and the penalties were a pittance compared to the profits.

It benefits all of us to have a competitive market for x86 CPUs.
Anecdotally, spanked children grow up to be kinkier adults
Yeah, recruitment is such a good market for it, it's super important to improve user experience using AI.
Meditation on the American Loser
I was thinking something similar. Maybe I can pass a userspace closure into the kernel? Maybe I don't need the memory manager to be as beefy? Maybe the API can be fully reactive (idk if this is good or not).
The world will be overcrowded, yes.

But the world is not, and will not be, overcrowded with the kind of people who are on Hacker News. Birth rates in basically all advanced countries are under replacement, and it's even worse for the subset of high-IQ people who we need to build and run the future. This is an objective fact.
>Only the people who really want to and can support their offspring properly should do it.

It shouldn't be possible to get a full time job and not be able to support kids. If it was possible in the 60s it should be possible now. GDP has gone up 400% since then and the dependency ratio only went up 15%.
So if I'm reading this right, there are three data sources here:

1) US Census, which is based on surveying households "do you have broadband, Y/N"

2) FCC data, which is based on ISPs self-reporting (In a footnote the article says they're using Pai's new slower definition of broadband, 10Mbps, not the 2015 definition of 25Mbps.)

3) ASU/Iowa, which depends on a derived variable in commercially-purchased data which "denotes interest in ‘high tech’ products and/or services [including] personal computers and internet service providers" as a proxy for broadband ownership

...and the first two roughly match each other, while the third doesn't. The academics claim the company that sold them the data told them it was a reasonable proxy for broadband, the company says they didn't say that.
Code comments, identifier names and e.g. log messages are different matter.

There was (is still?) a project to translate all the German comments in Open/Libre Office into English, a legacy of the German company that originally wrote it.
> What I don’t love is how little musicians get paid for all that streaming. It’s not fair––not even close. What’s more, middle-class music makers are the ones who are hit hardest, whose businesses are threatened, and whose families are put at risk.

I question this. I know Taylor Swift and Jay-Z hate Spotify, but I know some of my favorite indie bands love it -- going so far as to release their new music on Spotify before anywhere else. For small, independent artists the ease of distribution and massive exposure well outweigh the lack of royalties. I think it's classic a long-tail distribution and the people exploiting the head are the ones complaining the loudest.
> clearly not what the Unicode Consortium intended, and borderline against the specification.

While I think the change was a bit silly so this this hyperbolic and unfounded statement.

The specification merely states "pistol" and uses a silhouette of a gun as it's reference. Even if you argue that the reference is clearly an automatic pistol (reasonable) the specification in fact specifically states "The shapes of the reference glyphs used in these code charts are not prescriptive. Considerable variation is to be expected in actual fonts."

So, as much as I disagree with the change (the intent was... well meaning if, I think, misguided) it is not only not "against the specification" - it's directly in line with guidance of the specification.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with being inspired by Jesus, the problem is only when people disregard all other inspiration other than the "main one" they have chosen. Christian teaching is good in a lot of ways, but it's also completely lacking in other ways.

People should be inspired and take the best from Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, the Hindu gods, ancient philosophers, modern philosophers, self-helpers and all other sources they can find. When people believe they have found the truth they are destined to never find it, because they stop looking.

Truth is never found, it is a never-ending and eternal process of discovery that should last until death. A lot of people stop living way before they die.
I find this particular stuff fascinating.

In spanish you have 3 distinct meals, 'desayuno' 'almuerzo' and 'cena' mapping strictly to a moment of the day, more or less 'breakfast' 'lunch' and 'dinner', with the option of a merienda (roughly 'tea' but usually just sweet food like cookies or some such) between lunch and dinner. Each of this happens on a specific moment of the day (morning, noon, the optional afternoon thing and well into nighttime).

Are there other languages/dialects where the word maps the importance of the meal instead of the actual time it is consumed?
If anyone has looked at web frameworks in Rust, they'll have noticed one known as Rocket (http://rocket.rs). The Rocket project is authored by none other than Sergio Benitez, who is teaching Stanford CS140e.
But no inbuilt explicit desire for it.
I'm afraid I disagree. An OS course needs to at least cover virtual memory, processes and filesystems. Doesn't look like "Baking Pi" does.
Arguably they did I mean complaining about a beard when the guy is 50.
There are more parents willing to adopt than children available for adoption. While there are some children still awaiting immediate adoption right now, many of these children have very very specialized needs which (I'd guess) most people would not be able to handle because they do not have the right training.
> I don't understand why people make such a great deal out of it.

All we know is our existence. Death is the end of existence as we know it. Other than that, no worries I guess.
> I see all these dudes, who after having kids, love kids. I thought that might happen to me, but no, the thought of having another kid makes my skin crawl.

I have a 20-month-old. Honestly, for the first ~14 months of my son's life I felt... responsible for him, but any "love" was more of an abstract, theoretical thing than a real personal affinity. Babies -- my son, anyway -- under that age are just a black hole of time and attention that require everything from you and give nothing back.

But over the last six months or so, our relationship and my feelings have changed a great deal. On a practical level, he's able to entertain himself for longer periods of time without requiring my input. But more importantly, he's starting to understand and discover principles about the world. Seeing that process of discovery is incredibly fulfilling, and I can honestly say I love my son and enjoy spending time with him and engaging in that learning process, in a way I didn't during the first year.

His growing emotional repertoire is especially gratifying to see. We went out to see Christmas lights over the holidays, and as we passed one house with a particularly luminous display he pointed to it and exclaimed "WOOWW" with eyes full of awe and wonder. Rediscovering the beauty of the world through the eyes of a child is a sort of joy I've never before experienced.
Because it is a childish rant about someone being uselessly pedantic for the sake of being pedantic and confrontational.

I guess that's too low even for HuffPost!
I believe he would laugh and say he doesn't have time to be traumatized. He's 86 and still going strong, always working on something, the man is like a shark (certain species of sharks die if they stop swimming) and doesn't look traumatized at all. Our generation though, we are a lot less stoic. Times change.
A lot of record labels are part owners. That's how they are "getting away with it". Musicians are the only ones getting screwed by spotify.

http://www.swedishwire.com/jobs/680-record-labels-part-owner...
That’s what we pay them for. And there’s no reason why waze or maps couldn’t use landmarks for navigation.
The product, besides co-opting the artists' music, is playing a centralized kingmaker, from whom artists or their labels can purchase influence. Now it's starting to go beyond music though.

I've begun to notice politics creeping in to their "overview" page as well and do not like this one bit. Music (like sports, before ESPN) was/is a form of escapism and putting a 'support DACA' themed playlist on the front page damages the brand, unless they dynamically start to offer playlists targeted to your personal political beliefs, a terrible idea and one that is incompatible with Spotify's publically progressive culture.
The US should be very worried about the drone attacks on Russia's bases in Syria
The prequalification walls stuff is bullshit and should be illegal. Twice now I've moved to a recently constructed place where it was impossible to get any information on offerings or prices before completion - and putting in neighbor's addresses is an infuriating process of trying to find one who has ISP A instead of B repeatedly until I don't get a "this address already has service please login" message.

So help me God I will get involved in local government if for no other reason that to advocate for municipal broadband and requiring fiber be laid for all new construction.
It seems this sort of debate goes on continuously with ideologues.

Statements like

> Spotify doesn't make anything

and

> Your product is music

are flat wrong. Spotify, the company, makes Spotify, the music distribution service. Music is their deliverable.

Of course it's true that Spotify would be nowhere if musicians weren't making music, just as it's true that musician's would be nowhere if instrument-makers didn't make instruments.

Spotify, the product, is a mechanism that allows for (perhaps too) user-friendly music consumption. Artists, through whatever means, enter into music arrangements that allows Spotify to be able to do so. The relationship may or may not be predatory. Salaries at Spotify may or may not be inflated. Regardless, those are valid critiques -- but assertions that Spotify doesn't make anything, or doesn't know what their product even is are wrong, and reveal an inability to understand that different parts of an ecosystem make up the whole thing.
Its quite common for family owned firms to break up in this way most don't go beyond 3 generations.
I would think they have the scale at this point to do it. It simply may be very expensive and difficult to lure the musicians away from their existing label infrastructure. If it's not done right, it ends in disaster for the artist and they'll get frozen out by the labels in the future.

Cartels always play very dirty when you threaten their business. And the existing position that makes them a cartel (or quasi-cartel), enables them to do that far better than your typical corporation or commercial entity.
When HDMI was new one of the things that went around gamer circles was the fact that it was possible to do video capture on a second computer by daisy chaining them together. That way your game isn't compromised (as much, you probably still have higher latency) by trying to capture video.

I don't know if any modern video cards can still do that, but it might be good for these guys to look into it.
As our kids have grown up we have found our parents becoming more dependent on us, we are getting squeezed from both sides.
What's fascist is to forbid people from having children based on arbitrary criteria, which is just one obvious but wrong way to address an otherwise reasonable idea, that not everyone is fit for parenting. It doesn't mean the idea itself should be discarded. Here's another solution that doesn't trample on anyone's freedom: better informing people about the costs and benefits of parenthood. That would go a long way to prevent people from having children without the means to raise them.
I'd always understood the T to come from the Taxa (Alfandegaria) imposed upon the blocks the Portuguese imported to Europe and sold to the rest of Europe.

Cha (Portuguese) because the Portuguese were not only the first Europeans to reach China by boat, but Japan and India as well, so they used the rightful Asian terms for it, having no other. (back when the Dutch were still pirates hoping to catch a laden Portuguese caravella. FWIW.)
> But they can't just literally increase the number of Bitcoin by a factor of 5 [1] in order to give trillions of dollars to people who have demonstrated their incompetence at handling that money.

Sure you can. It's code, why wouldn't you be able to change it?

There is no reason that cryptocurrency has to be inherently deflationary, rewards can easily be issued at a constant rate or any other rate. You are mixing up Bitcoin, the libertarian implementation, with the abstract cryptocurrency in general. This is an implementation detail.

In fact, there is actually already a rather storied history of centralized interventions to bail out failing institutions. See: the DAO hack and the subsequent rollback...

Could Vitalik just as easily have said "JP Morgan now has +5 million Eth?" Absolutely.

Nobody else necessarily needs to accept that version of the blockchain (see: Ethereum Classic) but there is a network effect here: if everyone else agrees to accept that version of history then sucks to be you, everyone wants to deal with Eth not PaulCoins. And people tend not to be willing to accept calamity when offered an alternative. Ethereum Classic is the version of history which best upholds those high-minded libertarian ideals, but it's also the version of history where a single attacker has 15% of all the ether.
Not really, because the options exist at different tiers.

There are not so many options where I live, none in practice.

Anyway, those tiers are, after all, commercial options. Is the cost for providers really different? If there isn't a substantial difference, then the upsell theory stands.

If people doesn't want upload, why do they throttle it? It would be a nice selling point: you offer a plus that looks nice and costs you nothing.

Access to symmetric speeds is unlikely to increase P2P usage, because those aren't the main blockers.

That's backwards. What they're supposedly doing is discouraging usage. There is more usage than wanted (no matter if it's not common) so measures are put in place to shrink it even more.

The measure does not affect most users so they can get away with it: "only those few freeloaders want more".

Edit -> also consider this: upload limitation in P2P isn't obviously negative. You still can download at max speed so you could think the limitation as a bad thing for others. You need to think for a while to understand why it's also bad for you.
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Any parents here see a benefit in raising children on their productivity in a weird way?

Some very talented tech people I follow had kids early and it worked out well for them!
I guess the proper response to this in context of the conversation on moral imperative to reproduce, would be, "So what? Why should I care? Either I want kids or I don't, and that's the end of it for me. And since society isn't going to make anyone reproduce, go fuck off."
Personally I believe that bringing a consciousness to this world without the subject's consent is morally corrupt.