skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like most of bitcoin, it's a deceptively complex system made up of suprisingly simple parts.

I'm honestly still skeptical that LN will really take off (it needs the network effect to be useful), but the idea behind it is very elegant and solid.
> There are two general sources of depression: environmental and biochemical.

This is not at all what the field of psychology has identified as the "general sources"
The title of this article on hacker news is "a cryptocurrency news scraper"
Just wait for a USD anchor. They're coming (fairx). That'll make things significantly easier.
Actually they do motor plants support a vast number of JIT subcontractors - only Tesla seems to have gone back to vertical integration.
Keeps getting error now with address lookup. "Oops, something went wrong"
I found that sequel to The Asphalt Jungle a bit less interesting than the original.
FYI: I keep getting "Oops, something went wrong" with any address that I try in chrome and firefox.

Looks really cool though!
> Amazon also provides high wage workers who are taxed on their income

Washington has no income tax.

> who generate economic activity which can also be taxed and used by municipalities to try to solve homelessness.

Unfortunately a lot of the taxes that can be levied in Seattle are fairly regressive, so it's easy to end up in a situation where property taxes are raised to generate funds to solve homelessness. It's easy to imagine inefficiencies or fund diversion such that low priced housing raises in cost faster than the funds given to help homelessness. Even worse would be the situation where those funds only help in the form of food & shelters for homeless people.
Not refuting your point but this could also change for precious metals in the mid/far future: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining#Scarcity

"the relative abundance of asteroidal ore gives asteroid mining the potential to provide nearly unlimited resources, which would essentially eliminate scarcity for those materials"

Apparently with the lack of a strong gravity like Earth's to sink down heavy metals, they are way more accessible in smaller bodies like asteroids (Ceres and Vesta maybe?)
Fun fact: PID controllers are embedded into the wiring of today's brushless hobby motors, the kind used for drones, for example. The last motor I dissected had a tiny little ATMEL 8-bit 1Mhz chip shrinkwrapped into the wires that controls the phase of the magnets that drive the motor, to make sure it matches the spin rate and make sure it doesn't skip or get out of phase. ATMEL published a whitepaper on the PID controller that says it runs the chip at around 10% load, meaning it could handle the PID calculations for 9 motors and still have some spare cycles.

A Raspberry Pi is powerful enough to run hundreds or thousands of PID controllers simultaneously, depending on your sample rate.
Here's what people who don't have depression, constantly think about depression:

I just need X and then I won't be depressed!

That's a NORMAL psychological process (not having something important, feeling negative about it). If obtaining X (career, significant relationship, etc.) does cure your "depression" then you didn't have clinical depression to begin with. You're a human being who was unhappy that their situation in life was crappy.

The litmus test for depression is when, even after obtaining X, your baseline resets to a depressed state as you were before you had X. So while obtaining X might bring some relief, you always return to a baseline happiness that is significantly lower than the average person.
>It was fine when you paranoid dorks were out there scamming each other, please leave the normies alone!!!!!!!!!!!

paranoid dorks are eating the world. Typical for a paradigm shift situation, the old world can only produce gasps of exclamation.
First, very cool! It'd be tempting to get something like this even if I'm not an AirBNB host.

I'm sure one could find loads of strange visual artifacts given this covers the whole world(?), but here's one:

Some of the map styles fail to render sections of the Chicago River and North Branch Channel. See 5500 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625 as an example.

Maybe it's an issue that affects waterways in general.
cough cough Vancouver aka Hollywood north
A friend of mine, born in Iran, emigrated to England and got citizenship. A few years later, he emigrated to the US and got American citizenship. Genuinely curious, I asked him why he came to the US once he had EU citizenship.
His response: "In Europe, you stay where they put you."
Of course, this was 15 years ago. Things can change.
Sure, but if nobody in your country wants to conquer the world then the others will never reap the benefits of someone having conquered a piece of it.
The Digital Nomads Working in Paradise
> What makes you sure convenience will not improve?

Nothing. I was responding to a comment claiming a national ban “will” cause Bitcoin to “grow substantially.” My position on Bitcoin has always been it’s an interesting moonshot being priced as an eventuality.
But isn't increasing the block size limit still just a temporary fix? Wouldn't Bitcoin Cash also be rendered useless as a payment system if it was handling a similar volume of transactions as bitcoin?
So enlighten me. What does psychology have to say about it?
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People feel more connected to the world around them after a psychedelic trip
> If the benefits would split 20 ways, collective bargaining might work.

I'm shocked to not see this objection in the article or elsewhere in the comment section. If the shortlist were final and cooperation could be enforced, collective bargaining would still only work if the top 20 cities all had a similar chance without perks.

As is, some of the cities would obviously be out of the running in a no-perks race, so collective bargaining (even over many iterations with many companies) is a clear loser for them. That undermines the entire proposal. It could be repaired if strong contenders like DC agreed to let weaker contenders offer perks up to parity with the strongest players, but that's vastly less plausible or easy to calculate than "no perks".
It also means that they have trouble acquiring certain types of talent (reputation is free talent advertising).

In addition, having a few world conquerers around helps bring talent and money which is then turned into startups - there are a lot of great companies and non-profits that make SV what it is because some founder or early employee exited with retirement money and decided they wanted to apply their skills to helping society.

Not that's the norm, mind you, or that world-conquerers are amazing. Just, why having the occasional "big vision" around helps out.
Yes, Perl 5 is still fun, but I really like the chaining and FP in Perl 6, much like autobox but native. And native sets, rational number math instead of floating point math, the ability to use huge numbers without BigNum and lots of other awesoneness.
Passing an amendment to the constitution is very hard.
What were you trying to buy?
I find this title unhelpful. Is there something specific I should be aware of in this update?
As a note, in Atlanta, both private and public middle school children take marta often.
2.17 GB!
I have it installed on all desktop machines and had it for so long now, that I keep forgetting about it. Must have edited the post, that's usually how it sneaks into comments ;).
For those interested (namely, me) could you describe your current situation?

* What sort of business entity are you using? What considerations did you make when choosing this entity?

* What is your work like? Are you remote/onsite? Do you have one client or multiple?

* What is your staff like? Are you a lone worker? Do you have coworkers in your business? What did you choose to offload onto others?

* How do you manage taxes, insurance (beyond those covered by your wife), and finances?

* What alternatives have you considered in the event that your wife couldn't cover you?

Mostly interested because this seems like a viable career path (to me) but I would definitely want to consider it with eyes wide open and learn from someone else's successes and failures.
So is it possible to broadcast a transaction saying "they paid me X", or is it limited to broadcasting transactions saying "I paid them X"?
The question is how do you test it?

Do you really think we can transfer the usual edit, compile, run, rinse and repeat workflow to genetic engineering?

From the perspective of the majority it's an acceptable tradeoff to sacrifice a few thousand humans for the benefit of billions. It could even cause less suffering than natural selection.

I still wouldn't want to be one of those pre release versions...
Damn lot's of people are pushing their favorite coin.

Here are some reasons IOTA is a shitcoin and cannot ever replace Bitcoin:

1. No decentralized solution to the double spend problem. The very reason Bitcoin exists IOTA fails at.
2. Dev team is so incompetent they tried to implement their own cryptographic hash function and predictably failed.
3. Mass buzzwords: Quantum proof, ternary(!), Internet of Things, instant transactions, no fees! Everything is perfect!
4. They have no solution to spam. POW is the only cost to transactions but it's extremely low so dedicated computers can outspend everyone else. With the way the tangle works this in practice mean transactions won't be confirmed.
5. Their network doesn't even work properly with users trying or hours to get their transaction accepted by the network.

There are more but I can't be bothered.
This isn't quite right. Engineers are normally more valuable the longer they've worked in a job, because codebases take longer to understand, business domains need familiarizing, etc. Engineers aren't normally a commodity; the best offer you'll get on the open market will normally underestimate your value to your current company by some distance.

Getting a competing offer is still the way to get leverage for better compensation, although the downsides of accepting a counter-offer are fairly well documented.

On the topic further up the thread about profit: engineers are paid based approximately on replacement cost, but profits are created based on market opportunity and scarcity. A company can create an offering that's hard to reproduce (a monopoly) - harder than most individual engineers' skills are to reproduce - and the excess profits are effectively windfall profits until the market corrects and competition sprouts up. Thus a company can charge closer to the value it adds to the customer, rather than closer to its cost base. Ideally an engineer would try to do the same thing: charge based on the value he or she adds, rather than how much he or she can make elsewhere.

And bringing it back around, companies can eventually get a windfall cost saving / profit from long-serving engineers. Because of accumulated knowledge, they can become such a good fit for the company that the company can pay them substantially more than the market rate, but nowhere near how much value they add, simply because they know that they're the only customer: monopsony, the inverse of the monopoly situation. To extract more value in this situation, you need to bring non-monetary aspects to the negotiating table. My preferred one is ownership: not autonomy, but actual capital interest in my output.
Based on the other context from the comment, probably something like "[...] works against them [when they are looking to fundraise from SV VCs]."
I have such a visceral dislike of this. I don't trust algorithms to be fair (see multitudes of examples in Weapons of Math Destruction), or for algorithms to consistently work without interference from malicious actors.

What something should cost should be it's "worth", however two parties entering in a transaction deem that.

Or, worse to worst, I think there's a case for "vintage stores" if dynamic pricing goes live at brick/mortar stores--come one, come all, pay the same.
I'm not really sure how they could negotiate together. They could cooperate somewhat but if a city looks like they weren't going to get the HQ it would be in their best interest to leave their collective bargaining pact and try to undercut it to get the HQ.
You would need every state to have the same income and sales tax then.
Scaling is not a binary. Being "practical at scale" depends on what scale you're talking about. Some things scale better than others; sometimes you can make a change that allows for better scaling. Sometimes something may not scale very well, but may scale well enough for a specific task.

Bitcoin has made a number of decisions to limit how well it can scale. Other systems, despite having the same basic underpinning, have made different decisions, and can scale better.
Weiner's legislation is pretty concise. Check out one of his latest housing bills for instance - https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
FWIW that is the goal of the Lightning Network on Bitcoin: https://lightning.network/
Ask HN: How is you health?
Hi guys,

for me IT is one of most interesting and important field for now and definitely in future. It require a lot of knowledge, studying, problem solving skill, patience and intelligence. IT jobs are one of most well paid jobs today. Still, it`s very specific job because most of time you communicate with computer and nobody exactly know, what it can do to humans and human body.

So my question is simple. How is your health? Do you recognize in you or some of your friends or co-wokers any issues in your body, that are related to computer usage? It doesn't have to be only physical like excessive weight, neck pain or bad posture, it can also relate to your brain like depression, headache, eye sensitivity, mood swing, communication skill, sleep or any other you can think of and it`s probably related to computer usage. I appreciate every answer to get little bit more insight into this.

Thanks
Martin
Imagine you build an AirBnb like solution limited to Switzerland market. AirBnb will eventually come and eat your lunch.

In today's globalized world - if you are not one of the bigger players and do not have moat (govt contract, some other kind of exclusivity) - other bigger players will come after you.
There are no "hard questions" about this. These devices will be abused by, at a minimum, nation states. It's not a question of "if" or "how" (or likely not even a question of "when" since we won't hear about it unless there's a "leak".)
Great example of failing, but this one isn't. I was worried tbh when I saw the detector go up in my neighborhood (the pole detectors used to only be gunshot mics in high crime neighborhoods, which mine is not!). I did some inquiring and realized it is a university project to make the city better via anonymous data. The idea is absolutely fantastic. What they ultimately do with said data is how we see if this experiment fails or not. So far, it seems to be pretty useful.
I see nothing wrong in collecting data from the services that have a clear commercial intent: search, email, maps,captcha,chrome,android etc.

But I would have problems if Google where to log (and keep) queries to 8.8.8.8 or utilize that data in any way.
But it is not accepted. You have people in every cryptocurrency thread reminding people that www.cryptoisnotcryptocurrency.com
I don't think you understand — homelessness can be seen as an indirect effect of Amazon's presence, based on property values, not whether or not they employ the homeless.

Should they be responsible for this indirect effect? Well, that's the issue at root of a lot of externalities companies produce, like environmental pollution.

I'm certainly sympathetic to the idea that the government should step in and support the homeless, in return for Amazon's tax dollars. But that requires reserving a lot of new housing development for low-income renters, which makes housing more expensive for Amazon's employees, so they have an incentive to discourage doing anything about the homeless.

It's a great example of how market forces can fail a community, actually.
Yeah, sure, what's your point?

I worry about getting screwed over by any of a dozen vendors, including but not limited to our payment processor. I also worry about getting scammed, about losing all our money due to a bug, about costly human errors, and about getting priced out of the market by competitors who take shortcuts I'm not willing to.

On balance, we feel that the benefits of sitting behind a payment processor outweigh the drawbacks. Our trust isn't absolute, but we feel the risk of trusting a third party is smaller than the risk we would have to incur by not trusting a third party.
This requirement is incompatible with the actor model. Use channels (Go, Rust) if this is what you want. The lines of communication between actors are untyped because real life networks are untyped. When you receive a packet over the network you always have to look at it before you use it. Typed channels are fine for single machine use, but untyped is necessary for distributed computation.
> I find it ironic when whites complain ... they have been receiving affirmative action for hundreds of years.

There is a part in the article explaining how "they" who benefited from Jim Crow are not necessarily the same people as "they" who complain about being discriminated against. Not necessarily even descendants thereof.

Instead, you often get ironic situations like Jewish people who barely escaped Nazism while the rest of their families died in concentration camps, only to get yelled at for being white and allegedly benefiting from Jim Crow.
Yeh, it's only like probably 5 cents for the paper and maybe what, 10 cents for ink. This guy shouldn't charge more than a quarter for this!
I always wonder why so many people don't respond to critical comments in the way that rbres has here.

It's such a great opportunity to show what your company is all about and win over skeptics.

Nice work rbres!

Now, let's do an interview with you on http://techzinglive.com because it sounds like you have a great story!

Send email to podcast[at]techzinglive.com if you're up for it ;)

p.s Thanks skrebbel for digging into that.
The sheer number of vulnerabilities that this patch fixes?
old slogan for new times - we're the block in the blockchain.
Lol, I have an RSS crawler ( self created) that has a button with post to hn, that links to the submitting.

I just opened it on new tabs on my phone and pressed submit.

I was wondering if it was a bit too much though.
Not that I can recall.

As I said, I would be interested in her actual explanation of blockchain. Her comments suggest she has no plans to give that.
Litecoin failed to gain the network effect which is so crucial for a currency. It never had a roadmap other than copying what Bitcoin did. It's not even a cheap coin to use compared to the alternatives.

There's no reason to use Litecoin over Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum or Monero at this point.
With DDG you should be able to use !bangs.

example: "!g my google query"
Children born by c-section far more likely to be obese
A friend of mine uses them and he says they increased his revenue by 40%!
> As I recall, Obamacare didn't do much

Do you have any actual experience purchasing health insurance before ACA, and later through an ACA exchange? I am not sure what exactly you are "recalling." I purchased health insurance for me and my wife through Covered California last year and found the process quick, the comparisons easy to make, and the pricing clear and reasonable. I have not purchased health insurance myself before the ACA, but from what I was told the options for independent contractors were few and expensive, and were difficult to find.
Those darknet markets are only used to buy illegal things, or circumvent currency controls.

I understand using a darknet to buy heroin and assassinations, but why on earth would I want to use a darknet market to buy a car? To pay my rent?
Evolutionary psychology reminds me of religious sermons. The axiomatic assumption is that everything happens for a purpose and the cause is always evolution (or God) [1], and so, if something happens it must have a purpose. All that's needed is to interpret reality to uncover it. If something good happens it's because the purpose is to reward us, and if bad something happens, it's because the purpose is to teach us. Or something. Religion, of course, is far superior, because it doesn't pretend to be science.

[1]: Nothing we know about biology in general and evolution in particular entails that assumption (except in specific circumstances where the mechanism is understood, but if the mechanism is understood the interpretation is unnecessary), hence it's axiomatic.
Year, make, and model of the car would be a good proxy. If not for job title, then for propensity to spend on luxury items.
Yeah plus the Y-combinators of this world won't want to throw cash at a 10-1 chance of making a few million, when they can do the same on a 100-1 chance of making a few billion.
2010 strongly echoes in my head: https://github.com/jed/fab
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> What future does an asset have if people don't actually buy stuff with it?

People don't buy stuff with gold, but it's been a viable store of value for a long time.

That being said, the burden of proof to show that Bitcoin is going to be a viable store of value is simply enormous. Further, gold has a number of characteristics that make it fairly unique; nobody is running around saying "gold is great, but have you considered tantalum?". If you want to put a bunch of precious metal in a vault, gold is clearly a good default choice. Whereas Bitcoin is anything but unique now, and is not an obvious default choice.
It's not gold. Gold has a long history of being a stable store of value. I could buy gold now and sit back and not worry that the price was about to fall through the floor. Owning bitcoin is not the same. At any moment it could tank. If all the investors suddenly got interested in Pokémon cards they would be just as useful as a store of value.
Facebook buys Boston software company that authenticates IDs: source
Counter-counter-transactions sound like textbook example of overengineering.

Bitcoin's only advantage at this point is its price, which will go away as soon as there is a crash. Then we can scrap Bitcoin, LN, and all the baggage and start with a clean 3rd generation crypto slate.
Fundamentally it's lack of time due to having to work 2+ gigs likely while juggling child care or elder care. People with money can pay people to do things for them, freeing up time. Even if they do it themselves, they likely have a more comfortable life so it's easier to devote an evening or a weekend to figuring out complicated medical/legal/financial scenarios.
Apocalypse movies ignore science in favor of more simple monsters
Isn't this the same city that taxes Netflix and other streaming services?
LOL Toronto is vying for this nickname too. I cannot know why Amazon decided against it for the shortlist, but I suspect that cost of living and housing situation that is even worse than Toronto and lack of the geographic diversity played the role.
have something on that box that lots of the ISPs customers use so that it lets the ISP serve the content easily and for free to their clients
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The real question I have is what prospecting looks like, as that is typically the most difficult part of the process. In my experience, many BigCos like contracting through temp staffing agencies.

Are there reliable sources of contract work? I have yet to find any, though I admittedly haven't been looking the hardest.
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No, if they operate in the state then they are part of the state's jurisdiction. All terrestrial internet services would have to have some presence in the state otherwise they wouldn't be able to provide internet access. Multi-state entities have to follow the laws and regulations of each place they have a presence, not just federal laws.