skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was with you until you called it the "incremental dollar". We spend 3x more on defense than the nearest competitor[0]—0.6 trillion dollars per year. Given that we only collect $3 trillion per year[1], after debt service we're not really left with that much.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...

[1] https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...
Here in Sweden I have seen the use of unisex bathrooms to become more common, and left-block politicians have argued in favor of unisex bathrooms as being more inclusive towards transgenders. All office buildings I have been in has had unisex bathrooms that consisted of small rooms with a single toilet and sink. No need to separate people if only one person will be in there at a time.
For fintech, v64 has made the case very well.

In another reply, I explained the use case for government is control and tracking via blockchain.

From the consumer perspective, the benefit will be convenience. We have car find that automatically open doors. Automation of the world around us will increase significantly, and instead of having a key fob for each item it will be a single device registered on a blockchain which everything else is registered as well. Permission can be automatically granted by machine to machine communication.

Why not a normal database? Maintenance, trust and universal accessibility.
I am amazed at the losses given the investment advice that I was given all of two days ago from a 'bitcoin bore'. I was told to invest all I could afford in various coins buying one coin so I could then buy the others. I would have lost 30% of my money in the last 24 hours on the coins needed for the other transactions, then in those hot coins I would have lost 45% in 24 hours on one and 44% in 24 hours on the other.

https://coinmarketcap.com/all/views/all/

So said 'bitcoin bore' spent $500 on these coins and shared the advice, there was no warning that these things could depreciate in value given, just put what you can on these coins. So simple!

So from my point of anecdata, that is a wrap, we're toast here, this bubble is truly popping. Sure there will still be people playing musical chairs for a while but I think we are there in terms of the mania reaching the required level of craziness for some sanity to take over. Crypto is not the new cool when everyone knows someone that got scammed.

My friend who gave me the advice has not told me of the losses, that is part of the deception.
Really excited about this. I didn't like how opaque and heavy gRPC is. Also I really wanted support for JSON. Mostly for these reasons, RCP hasn't been implemented in my architecture yet (Just using standard REST)

Twirp is everything I wanted in an RPC framework and I'm looking forward to implementing it ASAP. Thanks Twitch team :)
Samsung Puts the Crunch on Emerging HBM2 Market
"Could be"? Dude, this is why people bought fucking Beanie Babies 20 years ago and held them. Hell, I have 10 in my apartment because my grandfather was buying and trading them in the late 90s. Thank god he traded enough for a profit, he was essentially break even at the end of that bubble. Some people bought them expecting the absurd valuation to continue. See also comic book and baseball card bubbles that started in the 1990s. People held them until they were valueless. Now there's a glut on the market and no one wants the damn things.
but after "recovering", what would have been a mistake is no longer a mistake.
> Many business owners in the 90s looked at computer and internet technology and dismissed it as a fad that would cease to exist in 5 years

Well I've been around this for much longer than the 90's. Since the late 70's actually. I don't remember it that way at all. What I remember was that at the time it was either to expensive or the company (small ones) didn't have the time or resources to stop what they were doing and get a system up and running (say for inventory or shipping). There was not at all (and I was around plenty of small businesses btw) any sense that it wasn't something they needed. Anyone who typed invoices at the time (on a typewritter) and had to look up or remember pricing and/or work with inventory could easily see what a computer could do for them. The only issue was the cost.

With respect to the internet it was seen as unusable and not needed because of the speed primarily. If the speed wasn't fixed by broadband it would not have taken off. If you told people back then 'in 2 years you will have 'always on internet'' they would have thought differently.
In your situation I would not own a car either. Part of the reason I would never live in a big city again.
A Mozilla stack for contacts/calendar like Firefox sync would be amazing.
The guy dedicated a couple of pieces to my professor - a classical singer. What's your point?
Skills are key to growing economic pie more equally: economist Krishna Kumar
I'm a 25 year old with a beater car 5 miles from downtown Seattle. Here are my real numbers:

Parking: For me the bus is around 10 minutes slower each way. I just take that most days.

Home parking: Free on-street parking

Gas: $40/month * 12 = $480

Registration: $200 (May be a bit higher now with ST3)

Insurance: $700

Maintenance: $1000 sounds about right

For around $2380 / year. Well worth it for the freedom it gives me imo.
It's one HTTP request per call, but requests usually flow over a persistent connection in HTTP 1.1 - it's certainly not re-opening a connection for every request.

TCP reconnection and stuff like that is at a lower level than Twirp. When you make a client of a Twirp service, the constructor accepts a http.Client which it'll use to send the requests. http.Client has a "Transport" field which is responsible for opening connections, that sort of thing. The Go standard library's defaults are pretty good, but you can tune it as you like.
Taxi's are usually exempt, Uber will provide a car seat for a surcharge of $10 in some locations, not sure about Lyft.
Alta vista was replaced with Google. AOL was replaced with Facebook. My point was that corporations won -- I think that'll still be true in 50 years. Sorry to burst your cyberpunk dreams of a crypto-revolution.
I actually have in my plan to include a section like that, not quite there yet though. But in general legal challenges are less of a problem than you might think - most of the legal challenges you hear about with running an ISP come from things like who owns/is allowed to use conduit, right of way for trenching new lines, those kinds of things. With wireless you sidestep all of that.

75mbps is what we feel like we can reasonably achieve across our entire user base. Most of our customers are up to double that.
Even that is pretty weak... Comcast offers 1000 down for 80 dollars a month in my area (MD in DC metro). I would expect a city to do just as well...
In January 2017, Bitcoin dropped from 1176$ to 755$ (35%). Today, it's still 10 times higher than last year.
I don't think there's a real correlation there either. I spend a decent amount of time playing DiRT Rally in VR, and it really hasn't changed my day to day driving because the two situations are just so different.

In game, I'm the only one on the road, I'm pushing the car to its handling limits, and I'm taking risks because I know I won't actually get hurt.

In real life, I'm not pushing the car anywhere near its handling limits, and my main concern is keeping track of everything I share the road with: pedestrians, bikes, motorcycles, traffic lights, road signs, and most of all other cars.

Maybe if I'm driving through snow and have traction problems, the in-game reflexes I've built up around counter-steering and shifting the car's weight might kick in? But that's such a corner case.
> Everyone is being played.

How do we know that you're not also playing us, just from the opposite side?
Sure. Subject to the other reasons you may want your own vehicle. But the discussion was about not having a driver's license. I fully agree that, for a lot of people, using some combination of rentals, Zipcar, and ride hail services makes a lot of sense.
Huh? BTC is a bubble because your friend told you it would go up and it didn't?
And, most people can't: most places, only ~half the year will be cold enough to have snow/ice.
Thanks, yes, the article doesn't use that word specifically. I quoted the parent comment. The article, and especially the headline, does use somewhat misleading language (as both @tunesmith's comment and the very top comment here is pointing out, among others) that is trying to imply that the brains of these two types of musicians is fundamentally different, e.g., "their brains started to replan the actions faster than classical pianists" and "their brains showed stronger awareness of the fingering". The language is implying a rewiring, and objectifying the brains of different musicians as being static and responsible for the difference, rather than talking about the plasticity of the human brain and the learned differences between wildly different tasks.
We tried grpc-gateway a little bit. But mostly, we wrote Twirp as a gRPC alternative because it was hard to work with ELBs.
Can they not index bigrams or trigrams, then chain together index hits? E.g. "It never rains in december" would hit on "It never rains", "never rains in", and "rains in december". Any result that hits on all of the indexes is not guaranteed to hit on the entire phrase but it would be a good candidate for the top result. The longer the phrase, the more likely a candidate hitting all necessary index phrases would match the exact phrase. This would at least put a limit on how large the indexes need to get.

Further, if they retain copies of the full text in their database they could do a filtered scan of the documents that hit on all subphrases to guarantee exact match. I could see that having too much of a performance impact at scale though.

In any case the dumbing down of Google search over the last few years is immensely frustrating to me.
Really? When?
And as the Asia market of retail investors cashes out to spend money on their families for Lunar New Year.
There are winter tires for bicycles?
Usually you can't put snow tires on a rental and you often can't get snow tires either.
I always took Zelda, Peach et al as the MacGuffin [1]. Saving them etc is the "goal", but is actually unimportant to the game. As far as I'm concerned, Super Mario World, my favorite platformer, would stay my favorite if Bowser had stolen Mario's favorite pipe wrench. The idea of romantic/sexual release after getting the TriForce was very far from my mind.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin
Anna Assistant for Google Chrome
Bitcoin falls below $10000, Ether below $1000
Cancer research will soon allow us to modify DNA in people in a very selective manner, using If-then-else logic.

When this technology is available, attackers will be able to perform biological exploits targeting individuals, families, ethnic groups or entire species.

Many examples are given of some conditions that are controlled by genetics and why an attacker would want to deploy them. Animal right activists making everybody allergic to meat, radical islamists rendering women unable to expose their skin to sunlight, a state ruining an enemy by inducing learning disabilities in children, an activist embarrassing his political opponent by giving him a fishy smell, etc.

Attacks can be immediate, delayed like a time bomb or even target the germ line.

One recurring recommendation is to keep your genome secret unless you have a medical reason.
Buy used. Makes the bulk of the depreciation someone else's problem.
Welcome to investing?
(Disclaimer: I play jazz saxophone...)

I think part of the reason classical saxophone is reviled is because the "correct" tone for saxophones in a classical setting is kind of bad (with apologies to my old saxophone professor). In classical music you are expected to play with a particular tone that sounds kind of harsh and honky to me. In jazz, on the other hand, having a unique and identifiable tone - especially on saxophone - is extremely important. At least, it used to be. Compare the sounds of Ben Webster [1] (breathy, rich vibrato, almost cello-like sound in the upper register, as around 2:32 in the linked video), John Coltrane [2] (harder-edged, brighter, more pure), Stan Getz [3] (light, airy, "pretty").

But yes, you have to work at it. Unlike, say, guitar, where you just pluck the string and that's that ;)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meNK2rnXDFg

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je2tpX6Z-QA

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBWr_cjBDhU
Assuming you have proper gear, it's much nicer than walking in 100+ degree weather
Think about how much money you could be making on the cost of living arbitrage if you commute 3 hours one way from nowhere to your high paid SF software job. But of course adding time to your daily commute, spent in a car particularly, is a great way to trade off a little bit of money gained from expenses pushed into externalities against general happiness.
Bitcoin less than $10k
Going phishing?
Here's my morning sea change: I receive payments from my boss, client, friend, whatever - instantly - and I never talk to a payment processor again. I never open a banking app again. Hell, maybe I never even think about money again and it all just happens transparently for some of us.

I know that's not what crypto currency currently is, but that's what I personally want it to be. I could care less about its' fluctuation in respect to fiat.
They still pre-emptively ban numbers, for instance if they represent something illegal: "Any image file or an executable program can be regarded as simply a very large binary number. In certain jurisdictions, there are images that are illegal to possess, due to obscenity or secrecy/classified status, so the corresponding numbers could be illegal."

Also, the concept of "numbers yet to be found" is philosophically questionable.
How to make a purse out of old umbrella
To be fair, if you chose gRPC for performance, but then end up using JSON for most of your traffic, perhaps you picked the wrong tool.
اسرائيل تكشف تفاصيل نهاية غزة – شبكة اف ام توداى
Who said anything about illegal? Merely monetised. You'll be able to find the videos at www.lookwhohadsexinthebackofataxi.xxx.[1]

1: This does not reflect the views of any previous, current, or future employers, or indeed of myself when I'm being serious.
Unprecedented Android spyware designed to listen in at selected places
To be fair, it is a VERY hard problem. 'Most' airplanes are designed in a laminar flow situation. Meaning that turbulence is just left out. This makes the calculations much easier, as you can set boundary conditions. In super-sonic conditions, the air is no-longer in-compressible, so the boundary conditions change and you have to add more variables to the equations. In hyper-sonic flow, the air itself is now a variable, as the molecules are split and recombine along the wing in ways we have not yet even empirically measured. This ads a complexity to the equations that is very large and the 'educated guess' of those chemistries on the wing becomes very important.
My MacBook Pro died just after the Air came out, so I went with that. Used it as my primary machine until 2016 when I got a proper desktop. But I still carry it with me everywhere. The battery only lasts two hours now, but it's enough.
Same here. Park on the street free outside my house and work pays for parking (East SF bay area), although I bike pretty much every day anyways. Basically $100/yr for insurance, car is old and crap so maybe $100 for depreciation now, amortizing the cost over the age (10 years) would be a bit more but that doesn't matter anymore, maybe $1000 for maintenance. Gas for trips. Cost is pretty similiar to yours.
The suicide prevention hotline is pinned to the top of cryptocurrency subreddits because the price of bitcoin is where it was at the beginning of last month. Think about that for a minute.

When we really have a bear market people are going to lose their minds.
Facebook's head of people on retaining top talent
In some cases yes you are buying an upstream connection from Comcast/AT&T/Centurylink/etc. I actually have a note about that specifically on the site, as it happens! (https://startyourownisp.com/posts/fiber-provider/#overview second paragraph)

Things to note - you're not buying a regular residential or even a business line, you're (usually) buying a dedicated Internet Access line and dealing with an entirely different group for sales/support. It does seem kind of strange at first but I think the reality is that the raw bandwidth isn't one of the main costs for those companies, it's the support/last mile build&maintenance etc that's expensive to them - so if you're willing to give them some money and take that part off their hands they don't seem to mind.

Also - there are plenty of other companies selling fiber that don't also sell residential Internet products, so you're not always buying from them.
You didn't get scammed, just like if you bought stock and it tanked you didn't get scammed. You will only make a loss upon selling the coins you purchased, it is possible they regain their value over time. Sure your bitcoin bore didn't tell you it could go down as fast as it goes up, but that's on him for not telling you and you for not investigating before investing.
Which news specifically, are fake news? How is anyone being played? If cryptocurrencies indeed are underpriced right now you can get in right now and make 50%+ when it goes up again.

Maybe, just maybe, enough people are starting to look down and see that they've run off a cliff and no longer have ground under their feet. These are assets built on the promise of potential future use.

Blockchain will live, but ArbitraryCoin? Who knows.
Nah, I want to change my email font and differentiate myself to all the other plebs at work.
Why is there so much money in advertising if media doesn't condition people?

Violent media establishes the first part of James 1:14-15 descent into sin and death:

14 But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.

15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

Sure, we have self control. But, you combine media priming + chemically reduced inhibition, and you get violence, rape, etc. That's why the Taliban would get all drugged up before facing almost certain death attacking a US base in Afghanistan. Perhaps also why these mass killers in the US have mental conditions, which reduced their natural inhibition against acting out their fantasies.
Time to buy. Down from what price since January? Cryptocurrency is a long term play from a software and financial engineering vantage. It also continues to irritate the hell out of banks (bank accounts are being closed and restricted from exchange transfers, including coinbase) and general investors. It's not liquid enough yet, creates no need for middle men and Bitcoin itself is now being manipulated by futures contracts based on supply being increased artificially.
What part of this comment seemed like a useful contribution to HN? If you knew anything about The Awl and didn't like it, that criticism would be useful: you'd be telling us things about it that we potentially didn't know or hadn't thought about. If you didn't know about The Awl, went and looked at it, and had something interesting to say about what you learned: that too would be interesting. But to know nothing about it, look at a couple headlines, and report back your discontent? What was the point in that? To provide a nucleation side for more lowbrow dismissal?
Just like with dot com burst, it doesnt mean someone will turn the lights off forever. Just like the internet eventually got mainstream and websites are being bought and sold for billions these days, same way BitCoin will never be at 0,001 cent with nobody touch it with a long stick.
The mental model of a bunch of hard little atoms flying around, colliding, rebounding, etc is actually NOT the desired, precise, foundation for understanding how gases behave.

The better foundation is quantum mechanics. An example of a macroscopically visible difference between these foundations are the van der Waals forces.
Mass is only part of the equation. If you move a golf cart at 45mph it's still going to do damage if it hits someone. We have to reduce speed as well and that means it takes longer to get to your destination. There are solutions there (mixed use/high density residential?) but it's not as simple as "smaller cars".

The 1000kg vehicle protects the 80kg person from harm because the 80kg person is not designed to go 100kph.
What should you be able to buy and sell?
25$/month, assuming 35mpg and $2.75/gallon, is 320mi/month, that's a lot of trips to the grocery store or a trip to go skiing/vacation for a weekend. Might not be cheaper than rentals but depending on your situation it can be much more convenient and not much more expensive.
I would argue that Bitcoin is the coin, not a national cryptocoin. Russia world not trust a US coin, the US would not want to use a Chinese coin, etc. Bitcoin is effectively neutral territory but is effectively controlled through centralized mining operations that can certainly be collectively monopolized by the largest sovereign nations. It would be the modern version of mutually assured destruction.

Bitcoin is already a reserve currency in crypto thanks to longevity and stability of the protocol. Another may become the primary transactional currency and there may well be national variants for local trade, but reserve is effectively established.
They probably don't have any money to pay for the driving license and car expenses either
> In other words, the perception of dissonance isn't musical, it's cultural.

Very well said.

As my prof for music ethnology said: There's no agreement on intervals in the world except for a prime being a prime.
I can’t seem to find a 4K HDR dumb TV anywhere.

A computer monitor won’t work either due to no IR Remote.

There are TVs with Roku software...
Why are there currently 2 projects aiming to run C# code in WebAssembly? I mean this one and coreRT?
Good question. Off the top of my head: 1) much better wireless performance, higher modulation at lower receive signal levels. 2) easier channel planning - you use the same channels across all your towers and the core figures it all out. 3) you can potentially get roaming agreements with carriers (I don't know of anyone who has successfully done this but apparently it's feasible)

Big disadvantage is cost - you have to run a core which is very expensive ($100k+) Or you can use BaiCells and they'll rent you use of their core for fairly cheap.
We had to stick to layer 4/TCP via an ELB (as opposed to an ALB).
What’s also different is few individuals/entities in South Korea and elsewhere are responsible for driving the value upstream. Anything that is manipulated does not last long. As somebody wise (Buffet) once said this will have a bad ending.
Speculation. Investing is something different entirely, just like the lottery is different than owning a chunk of a business.
This is their junky Windows Store mail app, right? I'm an Outlook jockey, so it's been a while since I've tried to use that - primarily because it wasn't all that usable.

I've been guilty of it in the past, but you gotta love some good armchair programming (from the OP):

> In my estimate Microsoft, it’s just a matter of changing about six variables in the code and adding some text strings!
I don't think generally people want to have JSON accepted to use in their production workloads. More for development, testing, that kind of thing. Being able to just curl your service makes a huge difference.
The Man from Earth Sequel ‘Pirated’ on the Pirate Bay – By Its Creators
I've found a solution which I presume is the one you have in mind, though it's worth noting that it doesn't work in Firefox at the moment.

Feel free to add a link with your answer later on, just in case you came up with something different.