skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal opinion about this is that privatization replaced investment in infrastructure. When the companies and congresscritters realized they had all this post-New Deal infrastructure being owned run and operated by the government, they started doing their normal shadyness and tossing kickbacks to their good ol boys, and voila, horribly crippled infrastructure because some rich people wanted even more money.

Of course the excuse is always some variation of "government can't run anything right", "this service costs too much to operate", and "if we sell these assets thats revenue for us!", while ignoring all the nuance and interdependency that factors into infrastructure.

The end result for citizens is lesser quality service at a higher price, almost every time.

This is where corruption leads. Both parties are owned by K-street.
EDIT / UPDATE: Here's the same story covered on Forbes.com

Forbes : Goldman Sachs Caves: Bitcoin Is Money https://outline.com/5R8akm [Clutter, Adware free version]

I still haven't been able to locate the actual bitcoin report that GS sent it's client.
from my limited experience with health care in the US, it seems more like a 3rd world bazaar where you haggle over it.
The thing is, it seems pretty clear-cut to me that the good that Gates has done with his foundation has far exceeded any bad that was done through MS business practices. It's hard for me to take seriously the idea that things like aggressively stifling competing software is the same or larger magnitude as helping millions of people in the developing world with basic things like nutrition, sanitation, and disease prevention. Gates is worshipped because he's currently making a very serious, very earnest, very large positive impact on the developing world, and I have no shame in supporting him.
Totally is. I live on the East Coast in an illegal state and all weed around here is either imported from legal states or grown locally. It's not hard to find grow ops or people who will ship weed here. In a world where mass quantities of drugs are so easily available on the darknet, it seems ridiculous to think the domestic MJ market is primarily run by cartels.
The rates generally are published, via CMS. This whole thing is barking up the wrong tree. The rates are one thing. Coding is the real art. Making sure you captured every RVU, CPT code (do you have any idea how many arterial lines might be started on a patient dying of diffuse intravascular coagulopathy?) How do you capture all that?
If you were Nigerian you'd probably feel anger (or apathy) at the corruption that led you here.
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I wonder what the recording setup was; sensitivity, hardware, etc. I believe a sonic attack is possible, but I'd also like to see similar sonic-attack investigations of architecturally similar buildings in the US.
You had to say “a side note” because it’s technically not the semantics of the page, but thanks for making the comment. We need to call out functionally crappy design, especially when it interferes with good content
So will Nigeria use Microsoft's solution after being "bought" by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? (lol)
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Learn a little about electrical engineering and you can take off your tinfoil hat about everything being "bugged"
> Your definition of “intrinsic value” does not match that of standard economic terminology.

I am well aware of that—because using standard economic terminology in this case, that of ascribing the property of intrinsic value to gold, is dead wrong. It’s both a misuse of language and a confusion of terms. Value is a thing agents ascribe to objects; in economic theory, it is a measured result of social relations. It is not a property of the objects themselves. The physical properties of gold are intrinsic to gold itself. The use and exchange value is created by humanity.

If everyone decides gold has no value tomorrow, it has no value. There’s nothing intrinsic about it.

> Gold has intrinsic value beyond speculation because it can be used for industrial supplies and because it’s a well-liked jewelry item. Extrinsic value contributed by speculation can drive this price away from those anchors, but the anchors exist.

You are describing use values, and each of them are further describing exactly my point. The intrinsic physical properties of gold are found to have use value by acting agents. The value found, discovered, or created on the basis of an object’s properties is not intrinsic to the object itself. It comes from outside.

> Your definition seems vaguely philosophical, but in any case your argument, as posed, is incoherent. Either you’re using the same definition as what others are, in which case your argument is simply incorrect, or you’re using an alternate definition, and your argument ceases to be relevant.

I find the argument that use and exchange values are intrinsic to any object to be far more incoherent. All of economics is rooted in philosophical positions on value, markets, commodities, exchange, and so on. The notion that value is intrinsic to an object is one of the most incoherent foundations to most people’s understanding of economics and value. I am using the same definition—but directly disputing its coherence. It’s fine if we can’t agree that the notion of intrinsic value is a confusion of terms itself, but that doesn’t render incoherent those who point this out.

This whole “gold has intrinsic value” notion is, in my opinion, a sad confusion of the intrinsic theory of value as it has over time trickled into common parlance. When most people go about saying, “Gold has the nifty property of intrinsic value”, that statement far too often suggests or implies value as a property, rather than a measured result (of socioeconomic activity among actors in a market).
That's simple to turn off. At least on my Samsung.
> It was also the year of the Tet offensive, an enormous attack by North Vietnamese forces, and of more than 16,000 American deaths in the Vietnam War, more than in any other year.

Sigh...half a century later the Tet offensive is called "an enormous attack by North Vietnamese forces".

How about an enormous attack by "South" Vietnamese forces, like the National Liberation Front? Who took over the American embassy in Saigon, the "North Vietnamese forces"? It was a local NLF C-10 Sapper batallion. The North Vietnamese attack had its main thrust toward the Vietnamese border, the ARVN's I Corps Tactical Zone. Further south it mostly aided the NLF (and local populace) uprising.

The Tet Offensive was costly to the NLF - after years of fighting the French, the Americans, and their Vietnamese collaborators, the NLF was somewhat worn down, and the Tet Offensive was kind of its last hurrah. From 1968 on, the resistance in southern Vietnam became more dependent on North Vietnamese aid.

Insofar as "North" and "South" Vietnam, these themselves are created entities. In 1940, Vietnam was under the control of the Vichy French, who were somewhat hostile to the US. Then it fell to Japanese control. In March 1945, the Vichy French were completely ousted. The OSS was arming and supporting Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh, people like Archimedes Patti.

At the end of 1945, the French wanted to take colonial control of Vietnam again (Ho Chi Minh had declared independence with a very pro-US speech and policy, seemingly approved by local American government officials). The French did not have the manpower to take over Vietnam though and asked the English for help, as French/English interests were not 100% US-aligned (see Suez crisis). The English did not have the manpower either so they sent Nepali Gurkhas to take back Vietnam. Many events took place in the next weeks and months, I can't go into it all here, including the British rearming the Japanese to fight against the Vietnamese.

So years of guerilla warfare ensue between the Vietnamese and French colonialists, ending in the 1954 Geneva conference. There, a promise for elections is made. Also pledged is reunification. The US is not a party to the conference.

Eisenhower says in his memoirs he could not allow elections as Ho Chi Minh would have won. So the US starts a policy against the promised elections and reunification. Like the Japanese, French and English, the US at some point invades southern Vietnam. It begins a war against the mostly southern NLF resistance, which includes not just communists but Buddhist monks, Vietnamese nationalists etc., all of these comprise the NLF. Of course, on the long war from 1954 to 1975, including things like the Phoenix Program where the CIA went around south Vietnam murdering school teachers, newspaper columnists and anyone seen as being against US forces being in Vietnam. By 1972 the US began pulling out, and was ousted in 1975. By then the southern resistance forces had been decimated (along with millions killed in the south) and the "northern" forces had become more prominent.
The GP was a ranty ideological and unsubstantive comment, and so not good for HN. But replying to that with a personal attack is considerably worse.

You've unfortunately posted quite a lot of comments that break the HN guidelines. We ban accounts that do that, so would you please read the rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site to heart when commenting here?
As a professional resume editor, I am still forced to rely on MS Word since headhunters and often internal HR require it. If you use a more "sophisticated" toolset like Latex and have the liberty, try to send your resume in pdf since I see way too many MS Word resumes with formatting all screwed up. You can't be sure what app/version the reader will be using.

Working on an R-Markdown/Latex combo, this can work great for individuals (check github for examples) but hard to quickly switch for larger volumes of client work since nearly everyone has a different background and so the sections need to be tweaked.

Was a real bummer json resume as a standard didn't take off particularly due to the non-rendering of MS Word versions. PDF was also an issue.

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For now the technical aspects of cryptos are simply not all that important. We're still in the incubation phase where crptos are being used as assets instead of currencies. And at this point all that matters is public perception and security, which go hand in hand. And I think the lack of any individuals behind Bitcoin also greatly benefits it. The team behind Ethereum, for contrast, somewhat belies the notion of decentralization - even moreso after they chose to unilaterally roll back "their" ledger.

The next phase begins when 'regular' people are engaging in at least occasional direct exchanges of currency using private wallets to purchase goods/services. That would highlight the technical issues with Bitcoin, but even then I suspect Bitcoin will remain the top dog as a store of value and we'll collectively choose a runner up for rapid exchange/verification. It might not even be an independent coin itself, but a strap-on tech that helps protect against double spend, even if with a sub-100% accuracy in exchange for speed. The idea there being that it would primarily be used to mostly validate small-value transactions, with an inherently reduced double spend incentive, whereas big value transactions could go through the main coin.
Even though a container starts "damn fast" in Docker, you're still adding significant latency to each call of your function if it requires a new container.

$ time docker run alpine:3.6 sh -c exit
docker run alpine:3.6 sh -c exit 0.02s user 0.02s system 3% cpu 1.191 total
$ time sh -c exit
sh -c exit 0.00s user 0.01s system 94% cpu 0.007 total

Then add to that the cost of loading your function's code into memory. For an interpreted language, that is probably going to take a while as the runtime does a bunch of system calls and parses text files. Even for a compiled, statically-linked language like Go, the executable (a random binary I picked was 50MB) needs to be copied into RAM.

For this reason, Lambda tries to keep your containers/function-wrapper-applications booted up in RAM: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/container-reuse-in-lamb...
Yeah I can see how that would be a bit confusing.

I guess if you were using it in the real world you would hopefully have an idea of where in the world your target was and if your phone autocorrected to a plural you should still get there.

I would assume the option to show variations could be turned off when using the apis so it would depend on the use case as to whether this behaviour was desired or not and then utilised.
"If your work is not hard, you’re not doing great work." - that sums up German mentality :D
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I don't know where everyone has gone, because I'm not an obsessive Facebooker. But gentrification means the economy is doing well. It sucks if you're the one displaced. But the jobless rate is very low, and incomes are rising here. Not everyone can ride this wave, but that's capitalism in America. Yes we create more people living in cars. If we want to fix that, maybe build more housing and do UBI?

I understand the impulse to say everything is terrible, because it frequently is. But that doesn't mean it's not improving. The new challenges created are not larger than our successes in California.
I suspect it is just focusing on an example. So, to that, apologies if I am over diluting the conversation. Rereading my first post, I should have been clearer that I can agree with the point. Just don't know if auth is the domain I would pick, since it isn't a persisted thing, but a vouched one.

Similarly, anywhere you are doing idempotent guarantees, strong consistency is vital. Same for customer interaction. Reads following writes that a user made should almost certainly strive for strong consistency. If only to avoid confused customers.

Writes the system makes, though? Expect those to just fail in ways that will leave things inconsistent and constantly check for them.
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I suspect this might be a case of “it is worse in my specific use case, but better for the overall user base”.
>We need to move on to something more modern like Ethereum, Stellar Lumens, etc.

All other chains will face the same cost-of-scaling problem as Bitcoin as they grow. No one has yet developed a public consensus mechanism proven to provide the same security as PoW with the requisite order of magnitude higher scalability and lower costs. Unless some technological breakthroughs are made on that subject, they'll all hit the same wall as their usage grows.
I think I am missing the relevance here, or not getting your point, could you clarify please? Possible I'm missing the obvious reference.

As a side note, I find that articles arguments troubling for several reasons that appear to be glossed over, but in interest of not derailing onto a different comment, I'll wait for what aspect you are specifically referring to in this case.
You are describing use values that are found in the intrinsic physical properties of gold by human agents. Their societies then assent to recognizing those use values. That value is not intrinsic to gold itself—it is not one of gold’s properties.

Thinking “gold is valuable” is a shorthand for this recognition of use and exchange values on the basis of gold’s intrinsic physical properties. But the value found in those properties is not a property of gold itself.
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An interesting Wired article [0] considered a hybrid cause:

> "Possibly [...] inaudible infra- and ultrasound could be synergistic with an ototoxin just as industrial factory noise can be."

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/us-diplomats-sonic-attack-ototox...
Anecdote from my own running training: when I get impatient, I get injured.

There is this idea that if you can just get this hard workout done even though you're not fully recovered, you will get closer to your goal. You hear the siren song to be patient, skip the workout or make it an easy day, but choose to push hard anyway. And so instead of missing one good training day, you have to spend 4 weeks or more off of running.

And so everyday I have to remind myself to be patient, be consistent, and be honest with myself.
> A more troubling use of the data, not mentioned in the discussion so far, would be query driven usage

To be clear, this would not be possible on iOS, because the data is stored locally on the device (They had access to it). Health data cannot be remotely queried.
> Well, we could hypothesize light is conscious and is making globally-optimal calculations, or we could just observe that if you work through the wave equations on what waves do when encountering a speed change, that's what happens

"Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong."

- H L Mencken
Funny that both top level comments about current got down-voted, while a fifth-level comment about electrical current go up-voted.

Seriously, as someone going surfing tomorrow morning, current was my first though on this. And rips. The catching the rip will save more time than any of this.
Ironically this sort of "links section" probably dropped out of favour in large part because you could find those pages easily through Google, which knew which ones were good because they were linked in a lot of peoples' links sections...
According to the whitepaper (on page 18) it cost $70m to run Telegram just for 2017 and a total of $171m since 2014. Pavel Durov had a net worth of about $300m when he left VK in 2014 and as far as I know he's the only source of funding for Telegram. This seems like one way to change that and hopefully ensure financial stability, if it works out. I'm not sure it will though, which is unfortunate as I quite like Telegram.

There's always Wire, I suppose. As long as they stay afloat.
Was there toilet paper in the picture? :P
> Are all prime numbers smaller then this one also known?

No, and they will never all be known.

There are approximately n/log(n) primes less than n. In this case n is 2^77232917 - 1. n/log(n) is approximately 8.6 x 10^2317930.

If you gave every person on Earth a million million processors [1], running at 1000 GHz each, that could find a prime each clock cycle, and each person used a time machine to send their processors back to when the dinosaurs went extinct so they by now they have all been running 65 million years...we'd have found about 1.4 x 10^49 primes.

Heck, if every particle in the universe was somehow made to computer, each of which could produce a new prime in the time it takes light to travel the Planck length (the smallest meaningful length possible in the universe), and they had all been doing this since the beginning of the universe, they would have discovered by now about 10^147 primes.

That's a mere 0.000...00012 percent of the way there, where I've skipped more than 23000000 zeros.
I wonder if the Canadians and the Americans frequented the same places in their off hours.
You are supposed to store a physical paper with some secret codes that gives you access, but you are always on an three day trip when you need to do these resets.
Yes, they are fucking over someone else, by padding their bill, and hoping their insurance pays for it - which is why most of us are paying $2000+ /month, if we have an employer-provided plan. (keeps the real costs concealed from the people who are paying).
I assumed it was a matter of the dog desiring to go on a straight line directly towards the ball, and knowing that getting as close as possible by land will use less energy-

but as he proceeds along land, his desire to head directly towards the ball increases due to anticipation, until eventually the force of anticipation grows larger than the resistance to excess effort.

I bet as a puppy, he went in a straight line and ignored exertion, and as an elderly dog he'll minimize swimming time/effort, and as a middle-aged dog he's splitting the difference.
But you would be splitting limited supplies among more people, right?

Was the church only meant as a shelter for the blast, and not an actual fallout shelter?
It's a lot easier to be optimistic about a product you actually care about in some way.
You've misunderstood the possibilities -- it's not just "store everything" or "trust someone else". You can download all of the headers but none of the data (resulting in a 27M ETH blockchain today), and then download the full blocks that you need on-demand when you want to query transactions, with no loss of safety. (If someone lied about the block contents, they'd fail to match its header hash.) This is what happens in Ethereum's "light" sync mode:

https://github.com/zsfelfoldi/go-ethereum/wiki/Light-Ethereu...
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As a sysadmin you can pry the ba(sh) scripts out of my cold dead hands. I'm not a dev, I'm not really a programmer, I'm the one who has to support all the crazy shit you devs are throwing at the wall to see what sticks. Bash is how I get shit done.

I'm just tired of bash getting bashed everytime someone mentions shell scripting, based on what mostly seems to be bandwagon reasoning. Of course if you are writing more than $arbitrarycomplexity drop into perl, etc, but there is so much that can be done quickly, easily, and readably even for a non-programmer like myself that I think there are many benefits to using shell scripts that get far too often ignored.

Also, a perfect example of a great bash script that's over 2k loc, and I've got plenty more were that came from: https://github.com/centminmod/centminmod/blob/master/centmin...
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The dev's of GBAemu had access to a full devkit and documentation from nintendo, which is pretty rare for emulator developers these days. They usually have to wait for them to trickle out on the secondary market.
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I think he meant that when Japan gave that loan, they took a significant risk (loan could very well default) in order to help fight polio. Other countries did nothing. Yet now Japan looks like the bad guy.
This comment now comes up with the quotes search term, so your blog post will likely be indexed again in the next few days. If you submit a sitemap to google search console[1] you'll be able to see which pages have/n't been indexed. I'm not sure how else you can easily track indexing.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
All an eye does is give optical data to the brain. It's the brain that "decides" to interpret it a particular way. So it's interesting that the brain decides similar qualities (symmetry for instance) are more "interesting".
I think a serious conversation that needs to be had is that there a lot of tech companies that can produce a useful service. Twitter, Telegram, Snapchat etc come time to mind, but they will never generate a profit like a traditional business.

Does that mean that these services should not exist? Or does it mean there needs to be a non traditional way of financing to where creators can build the product and then have a reasonable way of "being done".

Something like Twitter reached a point where it didn't really need more features. How could it sustain itself without constantly growing and paying profits to shareholders?

I don't know the answer to this, but it's certainly something that needs to be discussed, because the unfortunate truth is that there are many good services that don't make money