skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If prices drop, miners may get priced out of mining if they don't have free electricity. Just like what happened when BTC was mined with CPUs and later GPUs and later ASICs people just stopped mining or using that method. Bitcoin is self adjusting, the only thing that doesn't adjust is the supply which is why some people found value in mining BTC when it was basically worthless.

I don't see how a dropping price has any bearing on a 51% attack.

All IMHO
The answer is that no one knows for sure, but you’ll be able to see when by looking at this graph, which is an estimate of the global Bitcoin hash rate: http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-lin-10k.png
Borderline thread necro here but...

> "Have you considered that our long lead times on inventory means we increase our holding costs?"

What's frustrating about this is now we also have to understand the business overall, and that's kind of the problem in the first place: nobody has the patience to explain it.

So in addition to coming up to speed on whatever tech stack they have, we're going to have to find someone who understands and is capable of explaining the (sometimes completely foreign to us) business side of things and come up to speed on that too. That's a lot of ramp up time, especially when nobody wants to hand out raises and you're better off finding a new gig roughly every other year anyway.

I'm currently working somewhere with people that are great at explaining the business, and are willing to discuss at length the intricacies of how anything works at any time. The tech stack is abysmal, but being able to easily understand the business makes it worth dealing with the dumpster fire of a LoB app. I'd take it over the previous job, where we had greenfield project, bleeding edge tech, and money, but nobody could tell me how the hell the business worked...
This reminds me of the old Paul Lukas magazine Beer Frame - The Journal of Inconspicuous Consumption. Some of his writing made it to the web and on Core77.com.

http://www.core77.com/inconspicuous/
Ever see "Phantom of the Floppera"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmoDLyiQYKw
Better than being sold to corporations. But holy shit, that's brazen. I hope I'll survive without Linkedin for some more time.
> Even 50 years ago, chicken was considered an 'occasional' meat.

I remember going to my great-grandparents' house with KFC, because, to them (born circa 1900) fried chicken was food you ate on special occasions.

Which makes perfect sense: Frying anything is messy work (I know from personal experience aerosolized grease stings) and if chicken is expensive on top of that, fried chicken would be doubly uncommon for the average person, especially if they grew up poor, as my great-grandparents did.
The Engadget article is confusing. Information from their websites are much better.

According to their website,

>Pay just $10/GB for the data you use until you reach 6 GB.
After that, data is free for the rest of the month.
(https://fi.google.com/about/plan/)
Google then throttles you after 15GB.

Where as on T-Mobile
>On all T-Mobile plans, during congestion, the small fraction of customers using >50GB/mo. may notice reduced speeds until next bill cycle due to data prioritization.
(https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans)

Why would I ever switch to Google Fi for $60 a month when I can get unlimited data for $40 a month through T-Mobile?
That's a fine attitude to have in the FOSS world and arguably correct from a philosophical point of view.

Practically it's a complete non-starter though. The reality is the majority of my games don't work on Linux and frankly I have better things to do than mail campaigns about cross platform.

So gamers will stay with windows via pure inertia & it'll continue to be a self-reinforcing cycle.
Bill Protection on Project Fi: data when you need it, and savings when you don’t
That money was never coming back otherwise. So no, you couldn't reasonably write that. You'd have to enter an alternate reality where US corporations like Apple voluntarily paid the backwards, high US global profit tax.
I'm a big fan of the classic TrackMan from Logitech.

Their recent release is wireless, BUT it comes with a rechargeable battery via USB. And they also provide you with a USB receiver. Furthermore, the scrollwheel is really good quality unlike their previous offerings. I like it.

https://www.logitech.com/product/mx-ergo-wireless-trackball-...
This solution spends a lot of time and energy on what not to do but I find it easier to focus on what I do want to do. Like, what are some goals that I could work towards instead of wasting that time on social media and browsing the web randomly? I ended up with things that don’t require a lot of concentration but have a good payoff, like exercising everyday, making home made meals, and running errands with the car music off. These accomplish something and take time but are low energy and let me process things.
What is a more interesting question for me, is what will happen to bitcoin when mining (almost) stops.
ECMAScript: A general purpose, cross-platform programming language [pdf]
Many (most?) of them are not even good on Desktop. Agree to the other comments that the basic Wordpress is very good optimized but who uses only basic Wordpress?
Just adding for others who might not have been aware otherwise:

> A `.formatter.exs` file can also be defined for customizing input files and the formatter itself

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/master/lib/mix/li...
Nice, thanks for the article. Care to share what the template looks like in terms of HTML?

Thanks!
Is Evolutionary Science Due for a Major Overhaul?
That would take more work to pay more taxes. Apple did work (setting up a subsidiary) to avoid paying taxes.
> So there's the history, on to the modern day question: why is it so hard to find a trackball that isn't wireless? I don't think Logitech makes one anymore.

Googling “wired trackball” finds quite a few available from a wide variety of sellers and manufacturers, and Logitech clearly thinks they still have them.

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/trackman-marble
7 is a perfect distance - what sort of roads? Id tend towards a commuting road bike with panniers, and mudguards/fenders.
On one hand, global shipping has made this a golden age of food. On the other, we're living through a food apocalypse, where local ingredients, styles, and recipes are being obliterated by processed ingredients, factory food, and fast food.

In Minneapolis, there's a chef who calls himself the "Sioux Chef", who is dedicated to preserving pre-colonial Native American foods. A big part of this is the ingredients... no flour, no cooking oil, no refined sugar, no beef or pork, etc. The "frybread" that we think of as "Indian food" today is totally a product of conquest... when the only ingredients available were flour, cooking oil, and cheap ground beef.

I hate to even imagine what's happening to the Kentucky bbq tradition I grew up on.
On a desktop, we compile 30-60 megabytes of WebAssembly code per second. That’s faster than the network delivers the packets.

Funny enough, on my workstation it seems to compile something more like 60-80 MiB/s, to keep up with my network which was recently upgraded to gigabit.

Very impressive stuff, I hope workstation CPUs can keep pace with networks.
I would say that Java is the only similar platform in terms of API stability. Even Java had some breaking changes, but they were relatively minor and relatively early (e.g. assert). Before .NET core, C# was a bit of a mess, I remember switching an app to PCL and it broke damn near everything. That was only four years ago.
What a waste.
Which make me think what would happen if the oil was taxed with the expected environmental impact cost.
Immigrant-friendly policies make most whites feel welcomed, too
Wouldn't onion juice essentially just yield the same flavor result as onion powder + water?
This is a logical but too theoretical argument.

Counter-arguments:
1. Mining equipment is a sunk cost usually, so many will keep mining. Inotherwords, its easy to continue operations as normal versus trying to sell off all the equipment (at a loss?) Also, cloud mining contracts are locked in for a year or two, most cannot be cancelled, so mining continues regardless.

2. The difficulty may not actually decrease that much to have a huge impact on the profitability. It really depends on the magnitude of the mining drop-off.
I agree about the pissing contest, Just to document the issue: the same way that my sarcasm touched a nerve in you, the comment "Does anyone else even have a desire" can be read as belittling and condescending. But I rather laugh at it with a sarcasm.

I have never been a follower of what the community says. Half of the time figureheads make bold statements based on an economic agenda more than a technical one. If JQuery is an antipattern... don't know, don't care, what I do know is that is light enough, and provide a simple, compatibility layer across browsers. That is good enough for me.
and addressing model interpretibility?
Yeah, and I've been seeing bulgogi marinade in mainstream Bay Area supermarkets. I use it for everything. Which reminds me that I need to call my grandparents...
Is it a cultural problem, or is it culture?

Is there a minimum empirical success rate you would be comfortable setting for a procedure that could significantly extend a patients life?

Personally, I think the best solution is to push large medical groups to mandate professional development on palliative care in their oncology departments. Start with the nurse practitioners.
> But these days we have an entire front-end ecosystem of controllers, components, events, models, callbacks etc. with many of the above including numerous life-cycle states and actions themselves.

Can you be more specific? Because to me this looks like essential complexity that's going to exist somewhere, regardless of what's on the client and what's on the server.
I understand all that. I have been writing compilers for more than 10 years, including the compiler of Scala.js. I am not criticizing wasm nor its benefits.

What I profoundly dislike is that such good articles about wasm, written by excellent technical people, all silently ignore that. I am absolutely certain that the authors know all about it, but they don't mention that to their audience, which, for the majority, doesn't know. Therefore, that very silence (not just glossing over, but actual silence) brings misinformation to the masses.
People have, in fact, been getting mad when it appears they may have been doing this because people are weird like that. (Though I don't think there's enough market depth for that particular Tether-related arbitrage to be profitable, unlike some of the other options.)
Factually, corporations do not have a legal obligation to their shareholders to maximize their profits. That's a myth and a very absurd one at that. If it were true, Salesforce couldn't operate its various corporate charity programs as one example.

You could have researched that one pretty easily:

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

https://medium.com/bull-market/there-is-no-effective-fiducia...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/harold-meyerson-the-...

https://www.quora.com/Taxes-To-what-extent-are-U-S-companies...
"Before the industrialisation of the paper production the most common fibre source was recycled fibres from used textiles, called rags."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paper#Fiber_sources
Small deviation - write a native linux or mac app (instead of targeting Windows for the initial app)... mostly because I feel like developing on those platforms is so much more enjoyable.
I find it fascinating that a tax plan proposed by a President reviled throughout the Valley is the one thing that finally convinced Apple to repatriate much of its overseas cash and invest it here in the US. They of course give no credit to him in this press release, but the proof is in the pudding. Of the many heavy handed ideas and efforts made by the previous administration to convince Apple to do this, exactly 0 of them worked.

Only time will tell whether the recent reduction in corporate tax rates will have a long-term net positive effect, but this move by Apple alone seems like a good sign that it will. If other US corporations follow suit with repatriation, the American economy will experience unprecedented corporate reinvestment.
So is this actually a bad thing, or are all of the skeptical/negative comments just due to the fact that it's yet another example of the new tax bill having immediate, positive, real effects on the US economy?
That's incredible, thanks. Can't wait to dump Comcast.
I wouldn't even call what you get from those programs knowledge. Knowledge implies understanding of the subject material, which I've never seen from the "A+ certified" crowd in my entire career.
It's an age old remedy for an upset stomach caused by salmonella due to it's anti bacterial properties. If you have the courage to drink it of course.
>>But for instance, you could also have private blockchains where the incentive for running a node is access to that blockchain's data.

That's not a decentralized blockchain. It's the decentralized consensus that is novel. Without decentralization, it's just an append only database.
Lots of my work is under very restrictive NDAs, so not much public, all though heavily used internally by my clients.
For people with serverless experience, how much of an issue is secrets management for you? I'm the founder of EnvKey[1], which is a saas/'serverless' secrets and config management solution that aims to be extremely simple to integrate and work with.

I have the idea that it could be particularly helpful in a serverless context, since I would imagine that configuration sprawl becomes an issue pretty quickly. That said, it's not an approach I have a lot of personal experience with, so I would love to hear thoughts on whether it's really a good fit!

1 - https:///www.envkey.com
Unless you're a special snowflake and you know your market, how much of a salary negotiating is there? I ask for X which I believe is in the middle of the range, I work with 7-8 recruiting companies and they send me jobs offering X. I don't believe I've ever been that much off the mark from my market value.

Especially since I was always looking for a job with the next job in my mind it was always some combination of pay and new skills I could learn.

If my market value got to out of whack with my salary I start interviewing again.
At least here in Canada, sellers are legally obligated to remit sales taxes, even if they do not explicitly collect them. The buyer does not need to do anything.

I made this mistake when I first starting selling online, which stung. Setting up a tax ID in Canada was very easy. Now that I am selling in the US, I am just beginning to explore the issue, and it is notably less easy.

So if you "get away" with not paying sales tax online, it is likely that the sales tax was simply baked into the price.
Good luck finding any men's clothing if you wear size small or even medium. It seems to be 99% L and XL. Same holds true even for stores like TJ Maxx.
Hi Matt :)

Yeah, doesn't Bitcoin use BerkeleyDB underneath or something? Superficially it's immutable (when just API'ing to the blockchain) but underneath it's backed by BerkeleyDB I believe, which is your everyday mutable sql store
Yeah, who knows what entities may arise to support crypto currencies. Perhaps, multiple governments, conglomerates, or cooperatives may participate in stabilizing a crypto currency.

Instead of a central bank, a currency may develop a "decentralized central bank" whereby those independent entities take uncoordinated actions to keep a shared currency stable.

It's hard to say at this point. We've really only been thinking about this problem for a short while.
I'm guessing they are also counting suppliers for their infrastructure. So they are counting it when they buy 2x4s for a corporate office from a US wood supplier.
> ...your performance has a massive impact on the life of another person.

Not really. There are bad people who had wonderful parents and great people who had bad parents or no parents at all.

Child is separate new fresh human being, getting to human level from the level of vegetable over 18+-3 years.

The fact that it got some half of your genes doesn't make you special and if you don't let it die or get malnourished and give it chance at some positive human interaction and variety of fairly safe objects to tamper with it'll be fine and won't be much better off even if you tried you hardest.
> he has these sort of dreamlike fantasies about what a food is supposed to taste like, and pursues recipes based on this imagination

I find this to be a good approach to software development as well.
This doesn't quite make sense - the decision/cost to bring the money 'into the US' depends on a variety of factors.

I am not a domain expert, but the availability of cheap credit must have been a principal consideration, as well as the knowledge that a potential Republican president would offer an effective repatriation holiday.

In short, there are many conceivable situations in which it might make sense to pay such a tax - we're just not in one of those at the moment.

I won't address your last assertion, not having data, but I've read in many publications that the effective corporate tax rates in the US are far lower than rates in other countries.
Kensington [1] still makes wired trackballs. Of course they also make wireless variants.

[1]https://www.kensington.com/us/us/4493/trackballs
Is it me or terms like 'dumping' is only ever used in one direction and when the US exports heavily subsidized agricultural products, it's just plain old free market trade.
What makes you think Apple spends more time on marketing than product development?

Anybody could make their product better by diverting all their marketing budget into product development. It's not a particularly good business strategy, though.
I get where you're coming from, but, there's a difference between not wanting to do a particular thing that your client wants you to do, and doing something different from what a client wants you to do.

A better analogy would be going to a prostitute and insisting on a condom, but then the prostitute pokes some holes in it and becomes pregnant "because you seemed lonely so I thought a child might be best for you". That would be a case of requesting one service (protected sex not resulting in pregnancy) but getting an undesirable one (unprotected sex resulting in pregnancy) solely because the service professional disagreed with "what's in the best interest of the client in the view of the [prostitute]". Which, to put it mildly, is not what you paid for. :-)

If a hired professional disagrees with a course of action that a customer has explicitly requested, the appropriate action is to decline to enter into a professional services arrangement, or break an existing one. Not just go ahead with whatever you wanted to do anyway because you think its better.
Haiti's fate is a textbook example of Realpolitik at work, where the economic might of world powers was used to punish a breakaway state that won its freedom through military rebellion to disincentivize other colonies from doing the same. The message was simple: there are other ways we can make you miserable; and it worked to great effect. Once the stage was set, it was difficult for Haiti to climb out of the hole on its own, so it became trapped in a cycle of poverty and misery and the resulting power squabbles, which were occasionally compounded by outside interference, or terrible luck.

As to why Haiti is still poor, the reason is even more sinister. Haiti has the highest number of operating NGOs per capita, yet remains rather dysfunctional in every way. This state of affairs has been criticized from several perspectives [1][2][3]. For the most of the last 40 years, the international community has been allowing Haiti's own government and Haiti's own people very little voice and control over funding of how aid is distributed, distrusting the underpowered government as corrupt, and the people as helpless. But if international and private-sector governance results in such underwhelming outcomes too, perhaps it's time to let the people of the state take a larger role in their own destiny, instead of being treated as an untrustworthy group with no agency.

[1] https://nacla.org/news/ngos-and-business-poverty-haiti
[2] https://www.npr.org/2011/01/13/132884795/the-nation-how-ngos...
[3] https://newint.org/features/2012/01/01/haiti-money-ngo-un
C# and Swift are in that boat (VS and Xcode) but they’re doing alright, because they’re the main blessed languages for their platforms. JS is the only blessed language of web front ends. So yeah I don’t think IDE lock-in is a concern for JS but it definitely makes me happier as a developer to have deep integration that makes my job easier.
Doesn't 4000 hours rule out massive channels like SlowMoGuys?

EDIT: 4000? That's 70 hours per week.
I originally put WASM in the title, not sure what happened.
^H jokes probably have a larger audience than +++NO CARRIER jokes.
All the comments seem to be sketpical or negative. I think it's funny if you go back right before tax reform passed and look at all the comments on articles here on HN almost all were blasting tax
reform. Saying it won't work, it does not help the economy, does not create jobs, and repatriation only leads to stock buybacks and executive bonuses.

So far we've seen company after company giving substantial bonuses to all employees, announcing expansions, repatriating large amounts of capital from overseas back to America.

Funny the nerative always seems to stay negative even though facts say otherwise.
plus all those sketchy stuffed animals, when they run out of oily rags and newspaper!
They're building domestic datacenters, not iPhone factories.
Yeah. They started doing this in 2015

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/80074/what-is-th...

Don't even get me started on them removing the ability to search your own group(s).

After they did that, I drastically stopped using the service.
> Do you think for something to be a JIT it must only compile code immediately before it's used?

I mean, that's more or less what the name "just-in-time compiler" implies. I'm aware that the name is not necessarily a precise definition, but I'm not sure how far the definition stretches. Does JIT have a precise agreed-upon definition, or is it somewhat more vaguely defined?
Non-admin user in High Sierra can approve a kernel module to be loaded
For those interested in some of the thought-process of defguard check out Chris Peele's gist of his development process:

https://gist.github.com/christhekeele/76c3e37cb9082274f52f79...

While not the final spec per his PR, a really good look at the internals nonetheless.
The machine learning model can also be as wrong as the doctors at predictions. What happens then? Surely not a headline of "Stanford death model is worthless" right?

Even worse if treatments are forgone or triaged based on output on some incomplete model. Older people already have trouble getting access to life saving surgeries due to mortality statistics. (And no doctor wants to have a dead patient on table, liabilities notwithstanding.)
I stopped using StinkedIn a couple of years ago and don't regret it at all. You might do the same.
What makes it inaccessible? Are GPUs prohibitively expensive? Are pretrained models unavailable? Is the software source code closed off?
I was under the impression from the article that it was people from rural counties that wanted to split. Because they've got Orange County on this map, and they're most unhappy with existing state politics.
That's possible; a kind of second-level cache. That assumes the compilation is reproducible, though.
I anybody creates jobs it's the people who buy stuff and create demand. Then someone will meet that demand and potentially hire someone. I don't think Apple "creates" jobs. It hires people for certain needs that have been created by the market. If they don't fill the need somebody else will do in a market economy.