skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for posting those infographics; they answer some lingering questions that have lain unanswered for years. I still see one problem, though, which is that the few on-chain transactions that are required (such as topping up a channel) will be far more expensive than in those other blockchains. Like $20 vs. 20 cents. So there are plenty of scenarios where LN fees will still be higher overall.
Interested to hear your process for this. I remember a DIY book scanner some years ago but OCR etc have progressed a lot in the 5 years or so since I last read about that. Do you have some kind of dedicated scanner? Just photos? What do you use for processing.

I’d love to do this for the bookshelf of reference books that I still occasionally reach out to but are taking up a ton of space.
V8 and JavaScriptCore were written entirely independently; there was little influence between the two. V8 started as an empty codebase, not a fork of JSC.
After 2 hours I gave up and held down the power button for 5 seconds to force poweroff. Next reboot, I get a boot chime, but still a black screen. Force power off. Cold boot again and zap PRAM, still black screen. This update has fucked my mac over, or it's one hell of a coincidental hardware fail

It really pisses me off when Apple buries firmware updates into system software updates. I have no idea if this update contained a firmware update, and whether this problem I'm having now might be a failed firmware update? But I'm pissed off. If Apple wants to prevent me from installing OS updates until I have a firmware update applied, they can do that, but this total lack of disclosure what is being done, and therefore what failed, is really really fucking annoying.
how long was the length they put in, in 9 hours?

Such an awful article.... its missing so much useful and relevant information
I have also been in Bitcoin since early 2011. I once thought as you did until I realized that the most important part of Bitcoin is censorship resistance. It's not about storing your latte payment on the immutable ledger forever.

> Bitcoin now can't even be used as a payment system

What about the part where the blocks are full of tons of payments?

The fork drama proved the most important part of Bitcoin: it's immutability even in the face of great pressure to change.

If the Bitcoin Cash blocks get full, then we'll see how things go. Until then, there is no comparison.
Oh HN, how is this the top comment on this fantastic blog post about the huge lifestyle drawbacks from living in SV?

>> 2. Behind Silicon Valley on best technology and product building practices by at least 2 years.

This was clearly written in earnest, but works better as a satirical joke about the inward-facing nature of bay area tech. Please explain what "best technology and product building practices" means here, and how you can quantify that over time. What were the best practices of early 2016 which are just now being implemented in Zurich-base startups?
As FireBeyond noted, the system you’re defending takes more of your money: not only are U.S. medical costs substantially higher – on average! It’s even worse for independent buyers — but the layers of inefficiency designed into the system mean that the outcomes are worse.

The other side of this is considering what happens if you get sick: should we just let you die and bill your next of kin for the cleanup costs? If you’re not that heartless, all of the alternatives cost more than helping people get medical care. I’d much prefer to pay a little more so people can get treated rather than pay for them to be disabled and out of the workforce, or to spare their families the crippling cost of trying to effectively be an insurance pool with a single-digit number of members.
Oh the free t-shirts. I've managed to acquire enough free t-shirts from work that I can wear a different one every day and not have to do laundry for 2 weeks.
I always find this logic a little troublesome; there are certainly many more Python jobs than Rust, but there are also many more Python programmers than Rust programmers. Wouldn't it make sense to optimize for the best ratio of available jobs to qualified applicants rather than just the largest number of available jobs? (I'm not saying that the ratio is better for Rust, just that the metric itself being used seems flawed).

Of course, there are also reasons to learn a programming language beyond job listings; GP might work on things that don't require a specific language, be looking for a language for dude projects, or just want to learn a language for fun.
I think it only registers input every 5 or so frames anyway :O
That reminds me of playing C&C: Red Alert on a 486/66, I though it was a deliberate strat game.

That was until I installed it on my dad's Pentium 200, the speed increased 3x and I realized it was a completely different beast.
Still none in lite messenger. At least so far.
The post says 85volts 10amps, that's 850watts. Which is around 1.2 horse power. With 4 of these it made at best 5hp. I'm not sure why the post says each motor made 16hp. Something is not right
The "readability of Python" meme always strikes me as an appeal to mediocre programmers who can't be bothered to learn a full-featured language. It's like trying to avoid musical notation in the teaching of musicians for fear it'll get too complicated for the poor student. Can you imagine a civil engineer being spared the discipline of physics and maths? In which other professional discipline does one expect the language to be dumbed down to the size of the student's brain instead of requiring the student to raise his/her game to gain mastery of the subject?
I agree with this, and i hope this is how hard forks are taxed. It makes sense to me.
> So, no, in my experience, the ACA did not decouple the affordability of a health plan from one's employer -- it made it worse.

I still don't follow your reasoning. You seem to be saying that any health insurance is too expensive for you to afford, so the ACA doesn't work? As you saw from COBRA, health insurance is expensive, and your compensation package from full-time employment obscures that expense, because typically your employer asks you to pay only part of the expense from your salary. You have to figure the real cost of health insurance into your rates as an independent contractor. The ACA made it easier to shop for health insurance as an independent.

I was in a similar situation to yours - when I was laid off last year, I ended up picking a plan from Covered California that was $80 less expensive per month than the offered COBRA plan, with significantly lower out of pocket costs ($0 vs $9,000 deductible, for starters), in a much more highly rated provider network. So the plan that I was getting from my employer was a lot worse than what I chose to buy through ACA. This would be more apparent if your employer paid out the cost of all of your benefits in your salary and then had you pay the full cost of insurance (which is essentially what happens when you are an independent contractor).
"Fees are good!" from an account named "fpgaminer" is a bit on the nose, don't you think?
Until I can perform runtime define_method calls and dynamically construct classes, it doesn't matter what Crystal does. It's fundamentally antithetical to my needs. (JavaScript isn't, but JavaScript is kind of clunky.)

I have Kotlin, C#, C++, and Rust if I need static typing. Ruby is for when I don't.
Wow! that's some serious customization to your emacs config and well documented too. impressive.
"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art."
I can also imagine walking through 1.5 miles of Phoenix sprawl is dreadfully boring, compared to somewhere like San Francisco or Berkeley.
> The entire debate about a particular prize being nothing more than a stunt is a debate that doesn't fit well on HN

The article compares the Ansari X Prize [1], which Scaled Composites won, to the Orteig Prize [2], which Charles Lindbergh won. It's a statement on the efficiency of prizes, generally, in fostering technological change. Not a complaint abut a specific prize.

The evidence the author collects, across multiple articles and many decades show prize money is better spent on other things. The "inspire others" and "get NASA a larger budget" or "more VC funding" bits don't happen, or don't happen as effectively as if those goals had been directly pursued, e.g. paying for PR, lobbying or actually making the VC investments.

The optimizations made to win the prize rarely translate into broader success. The resulting disappointment(s) and inevitable hype-cycle end can end up doing more damage in the long run.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansari_X_Prize

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orteig_Prize
Look these are long discussions. Here's the one we had 3 years ago. You even chimed in. No one said they were toys. Should we just stay at home? You didn't think so 3 years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8540279

Are Turing_Machine and JoeAltmaier still around?
I discovered that if you connected a long wire to the phono inputs on an amplifier, you'd pick up the local AM stations.
Practice Fusion sold for $100m after a $1.5b valuation
>Yet, I constantly hear Canadian workers complain about how they are unfairly compensated compared to

You have to look at total compensation.

We don't go bankrupt in Canada from medical bills.
There's a thing called manure bag which you hang from the saddle and over the horses rump to catch manure on the fly.

Image search the internet for horse manure bag for various examples.

Other problems mitigated by horses as a means of transport include, but are not limited to, the relative rarity of high speed collisions. Although, falling off a horse can be quite traumatic.
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I flagged this because the entire story is summed up in the title. Very low effort article, nothing to discuss. Typical Daily Mail garbage.
This idea of intrinsic artistic value has been already turned over and ripped apart, over 100 years ago - Marcel Duchamp, Dadaism et al. There are people for whom nostalgia is extremely valuable.

If it has no value to you, fine. You are free to critique, but calling someone else's work a 'fucking joke' is not exactly highbrow commentary. On the other hand, I'm sure as a real artist the author won't mind your comments at all.
This doesn't take into account the planning, or the cost of construction.
I'm no chip designer, but maybe a 'small' speculation cache which allows quick moving to the real caches might be better just in terms of less cache needs. If there's not enough space then you can't speculate farther, and that's that.

Of course, that'd probably need more complex logic to manage this new cache, which makes things more difficult. Then again, not sure how two caches interacts with potential speculation across multiple branches (does Intel even do that?)
"The Arkansas-based company reported strong growth online, with e-commerce sales soaring 50 percent in the fiscal third quarter, a year after it acquired Jet.com. That's a slower pace than in the prior period when digital sales were up 60 percent."

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/16/wmt-q3-earnings-2017.html
if your interests tend toward machine learning, you may run into calculus again. in particular, if you keep going past the "train a neural network" phase (for which very basic calculus is fine) to the optimization problems that are under the hood of most ML algorithms, you wind up in the land of functional analysis.
Has it ever been used against reverse engineering in the wild? Its lack of compiler features (it's based on lcc IIRC) and the sheer slowness of any operation makes it quite unsuitable for production usage.
That 1978 FTC data is fascinating! Thanks!
just out of curiosity, what drives you so strongly with themes of "lacking empathy" and "evil"?
If what you said were true, there'd be no routers which claimed to support DD-WRT out of the box as a marketing point.

The market for people who want to control their thermostat directly is exactly the same. And the best part? The manufacturer can support that AND have their 3rd-party cloud shebang going on, these are not mutually exclusive.
Are we really going to trust an article from the Daily Mail now? Not that I've read the article, I refuse to visit their site out of principle.
In a word; Microsoft.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-tightens-email-privac...
Because doing it that way would be a public relations disaster, and likely destabilize the company.

The way they do it is by layoffs and planned attrition to return to growth. I'm sure everyone has seen a stock price jump when large scale layoffs are announced.
It's not bad, once you stop concentrating on it. Since I'm working at home it's so quiet that it's immediately noticeable once I try to hear it, sometimes I can make my ears get close to that popping feeling of major altitude change.
> Yet, I constantly hear Canadian workers complain about how they are unfairly compensated compared to Americans, where unionization has practically disappeared, doing the same job.

Sure you're comparing like for like? For people on the high end like software devs you can definitely get paid more in the US, but in most of the developed world no one serving fries is crying out for US wages. It's the latter that are more likely to be unionized.
I've felt that semi-manic state you're referencing when I haven't been sleeping. Several nights lately I've been in bed awake until 5:00 or so when I doze off (only to get up at 6 for work). In these situations, I've felt great considering my lack of sleep. In the long run, lack of sleep (for me) results in depression.

I'm probably not normal. I take three antidepressants and an anxiolytic.
Here’s the original English-language source... no more information than the Mail article, unfortunately

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-01/23/c_136918319.htm
I think the problem is that the numerator and denominator in reduced form can easily get pretty big, even if the magnitude of the number itself isn't all that big. E.g. in the rational number

1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + ... + 1/24,

the denominator already can't fit in a 32-bit int.
Already happening in Canada.
> Should we just stay at home?

The legacy of Scaled Composite's air launch approach, aerodynamic re-entry, and piloted design--all fair decisions for a quick daredevil run to space--cost Virgin Galactic and its investors hundreds of millions of dollars. Their delays, overruns and mistake, in turn, made life difficult for SpaceX, Blue Origin, Sierra, and a handful of other space start-ups. Customers, Congress and investors now had a well-publicized promise, and failure to deliver, in mind.
> a piece with a slight curve so the middle

Sounds like an ideal job for a 3d printer. You can program in the thickness, height, and amount of flex, and as long as you print it with the vertical axis vertical the "grain" of the print will make sure it flexes instead of breaking.

(Personally, I just use a hole punch and zip ties when I make books, though.)
> it was the legalization of homebrewing that was the gateway into the innovation.

I'm with you on this part. It's hard to imagine the boom happening while tinkering was outright illegal! Also, surely the 58 year gap (1920-1978) caused some generational loss of knowledge. The homebrewers of the 80s and 90s must have started from scratch in many ways.

> without the three-tier system the little amount of innovation in brewing couldn't overthrow the total amount needed to also take over distribution and retail.

Watch "Beer Wars" and you'll see craft brewers with promising products struggling to get shelf space. The problems started for them even before the shelves: they needed to get into existing distributor's trucks, and by this stage of the three-tier game, tier 3 (breweries) had captured tier 2 (distributors). Why exactly would you let an upstart competitor onto "your" truck?

What's surprising to me is that craft brewers found a way! They succeeded not because of the three-tier system, as this article posits, but in spite of it. I'd love to hear how.

PS. You cite an article by the Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione. In "Beer Wars" he recounts the story of how he started an illegal brewery in Rhode Island, then (because the state was small enough and he knew someone who knew someone) managed to get a law passed to legalize brewing.
Just wondering what sort of Mapbox account you're using for this? I previously enquired about doing something similar with Mapbox, and was told if you intend to use the images commercially for printing you'd be capped at 2,000 prints and it'd cost you up to $5k annually.
If Python's identation-based scope is so obvious why does the language have to resort to "global" and "nonlocal" all over the place? Python is a crippled language hiding behind a veil of readability.
“Why don't senior engineers apply?” Career page about ping-pong but not parenta
There has to be some kind of Bitcoin faucet, as euphemism for the clap, joke here.
For some reason the bottom quintile doesn't seem to make use of offshore tax shelters quite as much, as the top quintile.

To those who have much, more will be given...
This is fantastic! One feature request would be to reduce the size of the "You are here" circle; it's covering many blocks surrounding my place and I'd love to make it smaller, more of a pin so it's clear what block you're on.
MIT Scientists runs Artificial Synapse to power computer chip
What you’re saying makes no sense and is in no way shape or form accurate.
Expanding stories that require me to Google search the title are shit.
Love Craft Beer, hate the Gout.
I always thought Dogfish Head was the most well known company doing super hop forward beers and they're on the east coast.
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Very neat. Do your maintain this by hand or generate it with something? (Unrelated but computer program is 'program' even in British spelling).
Sure, people can get creative. The difference is that gigsters have no alternative to being creative. But chatting up riders is part of Lyft driver's work because they must maintain high ratings. To put it another way, being a content writer or social influencer is entirely orthogonal to driving a car or delivering groceries or walking dogs on demand. A person can be a content writer or social influencer while having a regular job with benefits and coworkers and an expanding professional network...and most people would be better off career-wise in such circumstances.

I mean in the story, it is the lawyer in the back seat making some rain. It isn't the driver getting hired at the law firm or even getting a lead on a better job. The driver just avoided some of the costs of doing business that they might otherwise have payed. Not that that's nothing, but it's not career enhancing.
You probably should've checked https://www.google.fi/search?q=bitcoin+destroyed+my+business before posting that, considering there's twice as many results as the other two combined. Not to mention things like entire exchanges evaporating...
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There are dozens of "X Prizes". The idea goes back hundreds of years.

https://longitudeprize.org/about-us/history

I think you'd have a really hard time raising the money to pay for lobbying to get more research.
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Housing, but at the other end of the spectrum: http://davidhertzfaia.com/747-wing-house/
> if said laws cannot be enforced

Sorry, what? ICOs and other scammy behaviors _are entirely public_. A company visible to the public comes along and starts selling "coins"/"securities". How exactly is it that this can't be regulated? Just because it's crypto doesn't make it unregulatable, these are people in the real world doing bad things--not some opaque UUID in a digital ledger somewhere.

And let's suppose someone came up with a way of selling these coins anonymously online in a secure way. Guess what! Nobody would buy them, because why would you buy securities from an anonymous online source that could just as easily be a 13 year old writing the modern remake of the 1994 hit film _Blank Check_?

That's inherently the issue here. It's not a matter of sending money/value/currency/whatever anonymously. These are companies that are coming out in front of the public in the real world, talking a big crypto game, then disappearing into the void with millions of real dollars. Or perhaps not disappearing, and providing no value to the people that bought into the scheme (contrary to the advertising they used). Or any number of other things that the SEC would have something to say about.

Just because it's "crypto" doesn't mean that its intersection with the real world is free from scrutiny and the rules of the governments of our real world.
Wikipedia - Irrational Exuberance

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_exuberance
In my good moods, I'm very chatty, annoyingly chatty to some people, I like risks of the physical kind (bungee jumping/skydiving) but "social risks" are my bane, I've become very careful about being too open when meeting new people, needing time to open up until I open up "too much" for some.

As a kid, I was pretty much constantly very social, lively and chatty, without any of these apathetic down phases. I kinda trained myself into these due to negative social feedback to my "liveliness". By now I feel somewhat guilty/out of character when I'm "too happy", as I fear I might annoy my social surroundings.

I like doing new things, up to a point where I dread any routine, but at the same time, I notice how not having routine makes me anxious. It feels like a trade-off between "stable but uncreative routine" and "creative/volatile let's try everything".

As you might notice: I'm a bit all over the place, which doesn't make a diagnosis very easy, especially once it starts factoring in my, rather unconventional, upbringing in two different languages across three different countries.
Even being right, you can still be a jerk.

Though being wrong and a jerk is definitely worse in a sense, personally I think that attitudes that qualify you as being a jerk only marginally help you in being honest.

The basic idea is that even if someone is a moron, calling them a moron isn't really.... doing much. Very little information, and a lot of rudeness. Telling them that their patch isn't mergable has more info and less raw rudeness IMO
In the City of Vancouver there are five breweries in my somewhat industrial neighbourhood. In another nearby somewhat industrial neighbourhood there are another five. There several others scattered about in the nearby satellite municipalities.

A decade ago if you walked into a Vancouver liquor store that specialized in craft beer you'd find it mostly full of Seattle and Portland craft beers. Now you'd find the stock overwhelmingly dominated by high quality beer made within Metro Vancouver city limits.

We don't find it at all odd to find independent mom n' pop restaurants in every neighbourhood of every town, and I believe in the long term we'll find that every town of reasonable size will have a few mom n' pop breweries that largely serve the local populace.
Cool, you should integrate with levelframes.com to offer people framed versions too!
How late at runtime do these dynamic definitions need to be possible? Just at startup or also after the program has been running for a while?

I occasionally wonder whether it might be possible to accommodate more dynamic language features with a compiler that treats them like a macro system that is expanded statically, such that no actual dynamicism is necessary at runtime.