skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just remember that if one state is allowed to nullify the federal regulation on net neutrality, another state could probably nullify federal environmental regulations (or any other federal regulation).
> Pretty neat way to get a "2 speed" transmission.

It's almost identical to how the two speed "transmission" works on 12 volt Power Wheels toy ride-on vehicles.

In those, there are two motors connected to the rear wheels; one for each wheel. Using a couple of switches on the "shifter", the motors can be connected to the battery in series (high speed) or parallel (low speed).

Also interesting is that by using two separate motors in that manner, you gain a form of "electromechanical" differential (not that it matters much, as the plastic wheels have insane amount of slippage on most surfaces).
Nope doesn't look like that setting is present in 58 on Android. It seems to be still disabled at build time.
the tangent space is the set of edges

vector fields (sections of the tangent bundle) correspond to real-valued functions defined on edges

dimension is always 2 ;)

if you want higher dimension you have to consider higher-dimensional cliques beyond edges (that are 2-cliques): triangles, tetrahedra, and so on. But very often this is not necessary, even when discretizing 3d stuff. For example, for Poisson equation, and the associated classical pde, you only need the laplacian, which acts on functions, regardless of the dimension.
I don't think that suicide (logicaly following from "not propagate its genes further") is an actual objective of depression. It is probably more about forcing an individual to think their problem through - that's what you do when you are depressed, constantly thinking about all the things that went wrong in your life.

Thing is, in primitive, savannah environment all problems were simple enough that they could be solved by just few hours/days of thinking and planning. Nowadays we live in civilized society which poses much bigger challenges, which cannot be easily fixed. That's why depression can extend to weeks/months, and after that time it becomes chronic condition, even when the actual problems that caused it has already gone away.
>Automation is good. Do you want us to ride horses to work?

No, but it's not an uncommon opinion in these parts that riding to work on anything other than a bike is a flaw in our land use.

Regardless of whether or not you agree, both a bike and a car replaced a horse, but they had drastically different effects on society.
> this evolutionary mechanism is thrown for a loop in an existence where survival is assured, and meaning becomes the main spectre psychologically.

Most people who suffer from depression because of environmental factors have no real substantial changes they can make to their life that would resolve the root issue of their depression.

I could "fix" my depression once I had an independent high paying job that let me live anywhere and choose to live in the way I need to live in order to be happy. My episodes are far between now and, again, caused by things I don't have enough control over.

What I'm saying is that we paper over the contradictions of the illusion of self determination peddled to us in rich Western societies by making depression seem like a personal, idiopathic problem.
It’s interesting that “fun” thoughts increased the delay while “sad” thoughts shortened it. This makes complete sense to me... the fun thoughts increased the momentary happiness of the participant, while the sad thoughts decreased it. The impulse to take a short-term reward is driven by a thirst for pleasure in one who is lacking it.

A man lost in the desert will stop at the first oasis he finds. It’s hard to resist something when we’re in dire need of it. This is an important factor in the process of addiction.
I guess: American exceptionalism makes us stronger, working with others (i.e. acknowledging their needs, compromising, diplomacy. etc.) makes us weaker.

Seems fear-based/emotional to me. As opposed to rational, logical.
> If we see a widely traded and daily useful crypto-currency in use for general goods and services, we'll see a deleveraging of the banking system

Based on what? Cryptocurrency markets went from zero to doing practically every financial fraud, scam and deception in the book in a matter of months. Excessive leverage? See Tether. Ponzi scheme? See Bitconnect. Backroom dealing to help the well connected? See Ethereum.

Banks don't lever up, lie about the value of their holdings and borrow short to buy long because they're evil and destructive. They do it because there are massive monetary incentives to do those things. Those same incentives are present in cryptocurrencies. The only difference is the regulators haven't tuned in yet.

> banks are no longer keeping the ledger for society

Banking laws would be updated to regulate Coinbase, Bitfinex, et cetera.
See our Stewardship page[0] for how we determine what goes in EE vs. CE, for now Burndown Charts will stay in EE. As for EBS, feel free to open an issue for it[1] since I couldn't find one :)

[0]: https://about.gitlab.com/stewardship/
[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues
You can't hard fork gold, either. You don't suddenly wind up with two copies of a gold bar because someone decided to Xerox your ledger to start a new one.

The scarcity of Bitcoins is entirely a cultural delusion.
Generally, yes, but at least in organizations you can enforce some style. The problem definitely arises (and often) when you can't write and enforce that standard. Python and Perl definitely have diametrically opposed philosophies on that front.
Madden games have the same problem.
Difficulty falls when block times exceed 10 minutes over the adjustment period. It's happened plenty of times in the history of Bitcoin.
Very few cryptocurrencies are anonymous, Bitcoin is NOT.
OMG do people really think this still?

Now there are anonymous currencies like Monero.
I was thinking more of a temporary depression that is situational dependent.
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Asteroid mining won't be able to significantly affect prices of gold downwell, definitely not until we bootstrap a real industrial presence in space - with the way we do space today, mission costs would eat up any profit you could make on shipping raw material down.
Be a very amusing way to trap a person. They can wave around all they want, but the tractor beam has them stuck, levitating. Maybe if they had a backpack and threw it sideways very hard?
Have you tried the developer edition?
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
Google didn't even make Inbox available on Firefox for months because they didn't care, and when they did, they ended up serving entirely different HTML and JS to FF.

This is the same Google that is still keeping Allo Web and Google Earth a Chrome exclusive, the same one that has paid adware vendors to sneakily install Chrome, etc.

Sure, you can believe that this is jist a coincidence. But that's one unlucky streak of coincidences. In fact, you'd be more likely to win the Powerball ten times in a row than for all this to happen by coincidence.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments here? You've done this a fair bit, and it degrades the quality of the site—both itself and by encouraging others to do the same.

I'm sure you wouldn't litter in a city park. HN is also a park of sorts, so if you'd treat it with the same respect, we'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The problem is there isn't really much of a market for something like that.

These days, the internet gives you access to several billion people. Even a very niche market can translate into a large customer base and a nice, profitable business.
>Since the cashier is paid regardless of whether the item is sold they are not a marginal cost in this context.

They're not a marginal cost but they are mostly a variable cost. Cost accounting is tricky. Most things aren't pure fixed costs or pure variable costs but cashiers are pretty close to the latter.
Depends. If people are morons, you can call them like that and not be an asshole, just honest. Don't know about this case, though ...
Interesting speeds:

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nench.sh v2017.06.01 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
benchmark timestamp: 2018-01-23 20:03:56 UTC
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Processor: Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
CPU cores: 1
Frequency: 2099.998 MHz
RAM: 1.9G
Swap: -
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-112-generic x86_64

Disks:
sda 19.1G HDD

CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
3.249 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
5.604 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
2.970 seconds

ioping: seek rate
min/avg/max/mdev = 32.9 us / 63.2 us / 4.71 ms / 22.5 us
ioping: sequential read speed
generated 22.2 k requests in 5.00 s, 5.42 GiB, 4.44 k iops, 1.08 GiB/s

dd: sequential write speed
1st run: 391.96 MiB/s
2nd run: 311.85 MiB/s
3rd run: 315.67 MiB/s
average: 339.83 MiB/s

IPv4 speedtests
your IPv4: 94.130.181.xxxx

Cachefly CDN: 81.40 MiB/s
Leaseweb (NL): 134.69 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 6.10 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 88.06 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 7.12 MiB/s

IPv6 speedtests
your IPv6: 2a01:4f8:1c0c:xxxx

Leaseweb (NL): 92.31 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 4.22 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 79.54 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 6.79 MiB/s
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We've used the Bitcoin integration since it was in beta (I even got a Stripe t-shirt for pointing out a small bug) but I don't think we've ever received a single Bitcoin payment.

The workflow is too jarring (copy and paste a Bitcoin address to make a payment elsewhere, then come back).

Additionally, refunds are tricky: everything's immediately converted to fiat, so the customer needs to know they won't (or are extremely unlikely to) get the same amount of Bitcoin back.

Obviously these issues are true independent of current fee and transaction time story.
> The original point being disputed was that SU and Soviet people "never achieved much"

But they didn't achieve much in reality. That's why they have to copy most of their technologies from other countries during all their 70 years.
There's an element of luck involved in absolutely everything.

Not specifically to you but this conversation is highly interesting because it demonstrates the two different attitudes - one from the person you were replying to and one from pretty much everyone else.

In software engineering it is the attitude of people who come up with a solution to their problem as compared to the attitude of the people who are complaining that the solution is not general enough and therefore should not be considered a solution.
Certainly do! Some of the oldest and most creative of the MUDs are still in operation, and still being continually updated. One still-running DIKUmud that is still in operation and is absolutely amazing in regards to the ~25 years of constant evolution is Duris Mud. If you have any interest in MUDs or MUD programming its definitely worth checking out.

http://www.durismud.com/ or telnet to mud.durismud.com 7777
Propaganda Due is only a good place to start if you want want to start with a group unrecognized by any other Masonic group in the world.
> I completely disagree with the “race to the bottom” framing of the idea that cities shouldn’t compete to provide the best services for the commercial enterprises which reside there.

Part of the problem here is the people negotiating don't really have much skin in the game. It's easy to negotiate with other people's money. There's virtually no recourse for their poor decisions. See: suburbia.

> At the 50-75 year timeframe we are talking about at least hundreds of billions of dollars of economic value, if not trillions

We're projecting what a theoretical second campus of a 23 year old company will be 50 and 75 years out? Please. Did we learn nothing from the nearly homogeneous business cities like Detroit and "coal country" today? Cities built around one industry or one company will fail.

> Of course city governments should be working hard to bring this kind of value creation and massive economic engine to their constituents

Amazon developed out of an existing city. Cities should invest their efforts to nurture their own businesses that one day may grow and provide jobs. Importing an existing business is a rather short-sighted proposition akin to a get rich quick scheme.

> Personally I think the cities that only have tax incentives to offer will not come out the winner. Amazon cares a lot more about the surrounding infrastructure and ecosystem than a short term $1 Billion.

Agreed. Amazon is going to go where they're going to go. Cities should stop clamoring over themselves to give bigger tax breaks to one of the biggest businesses on the planet.
Bitcoin (BTC) chain stakeholders (miners, etc.) have chosen to make the current level of transaction throughput be expensive and relatively slow. But there is no such binary tradeoff between "does scale" and "doesn't scale". It is a spectrum. It would be (technologically) trivial for bitcoin to support its current transaction rate with cheap, fast transactions - but the community has opted not to. There are alternative coins that have decided that cheap and fast transactions are important now - not at some undefined future time as will be satisfied by a working, adopted lightning network implementation.

You are free to prefer one choice over the other, but I think it would be more accurate to say that regular on-chain bitcoin doesn't scale the way you want it to.
It was not a serious suggestion. Sorry HN. I suppose you could get in trouble for misusing city resources? Assuming that didn't actually have any violations.
Yes there’s definitely value in Bitcoins hash power and underlying technology. But the code is open source and easy to copy. There’s a team behind it that is definitely worth something for Bitcoin but they could certainly work on any blockchain (especially if it’s a Bitcoin fork).

I think forks are definitely the biggest concern for Bitcoin. I think most longterm holders arent realizing how big of a threat it is.

Bitcoin Cash is still around and can probably stay around for a long time reusing Cores work. Other forks will be less friendly and won’t preserve Bitcoins transaction history.
Bitcoin wallets have to be stored on something. Maybe there’s an untapped market for really sturdy and massive hardware wallets.
Extortion, Police Raids and Secrecy: Inside the Venezuelan Bitcoin Mining World
As I replied in another comment, where's the barter in your examples? I see gifts. If there is barter, yes, one must pay tax, or it's unethical.

Where did I say the cop was gaining financially? Why does that even matter?

Now you could say our whole system of taxation is unjust and thus skirting it is unethical. That's fine, but has nothing to do with get-out-of-jail-free cards, since, as you point out, the cop is not gaining financially.

The examples you gave are ultimately poor analogies because not only are the laws potentially broken different (taxation vs. speeding), but the officer is explicitly in a position of enforcing the law, making that scenario a conflict-of-interest.

A better analogy would be a government worker awarding a contract to a friend. Such an act is widely considered unethical, even if the friend charges the same and performs the same as another contract applicant. It's unethical, and a conflict of interest, because the worker is using their position of power for quid-pro-quo (a social benefit for the worker).

Of course, none of the above paragraph is true for a private corporation; it is beholden only to itself and can choose whatever chum it wants for contract work. Likewise, I could see an ethical argument in favor of a cop who pays from their own pocket the tickets of family members. Just not one who flouts his duty as a government officer for quid-pro-quo gains.
In the years we've used the Bitcoin integration, we've never seen a single Bitcoin payment. Next iteration of our customer portal wouldn't have featured it, even if Stripe hadn't pulled support.
I agree. It takes about 10 min to warm up the house, no problem.

Remote access is so I can turn it down remotely because I forgot to when I left :-)
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To clarify: Just for discussion purposes, not actually recommending this course of action.
I think automation has clearly been a net good over the past 200 years. I agree that it does have a cost, and perhaps the compound interest (environmentally) will come due very soon. But it's hard for me to see that it's neutral, given how much better our standard of living is compared to pre-industrial revolution.

Perhaps you meant to say that automation also has negatives? In which case, I apologize if I sounded harsh here -- I find I have a strong emotional reaction to arguments about complex things that don't support nuance.
This is also a key piece to understanding why developer salaries can be so high. Revenues can grow much faster than costs, which makes the high salaries economically possible.
I did as an undergrad, but I had to petition to take the class because it was considered graduate-level.
House prices going up is only a good thing when you are selling your house. Otherwise, it's just a larger tax payment the owner endures. I know several people that lost their house because values went up in the neighborhood, but their salaries did not increase to match the new monthly tax allotment requirements.
For this to work, you first have to get yourself into the mindset than when you are working, you're kicking ass. I'm having a lot of problems with this.
It uses a distributed public ledger, not bitcoin.
I'm currently working on two submissions for the Linux Audio Conference which is going to take place in Berlin this year. It's a smaller conference, but it's a pretty neat niche.
But this isn't how it works. Political leverage increases with income, and people who don't have to work to survive realized long ago that it's much more efficient to lobby for tax decreases than it is to "generate economic activity".

Our current top tax rate is ~40%, less than half of what it was under Eisenhower, and the owning class continues to push for tax breaks under the guise of trickle-down economics.

Please stop broadcasting propaganda on their behalf.
Yes, those engines (and ISS parts) were specifically ordered by US to keep Soviet rocket production busy and to avoid their migration to North Korea or Iran.
Yeah, that’s pretty much my feeling too. Maybe one day crypto currencies will be useful for making purchases, but they certainly aren’t today, and I think it’s decenty likely they’re never used much in that capacity.

If you just want to hold an asset, are they really worthwhile over physical assets? There are arguments both ways, but my gut feeling is no.

I think the vast, vast majority of the reason for their rise in price is a combination of “the price is going up, I gotta get in now!”, and manipulation by large, unscrupulous investors. Basically, a tulip mania/pyramid scheme type phenomenon. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong, but I don’t see any really value/utility, and expect an absolutely massive collapse.

I think there’s just enough “maybe it’ll be the new gold! Maybe it’ll be the new USD!” to fuel the hype, but mostly I think it’s only going up because it’s going up, which is really the strongest indicator of truly terrible bubble.
Payment processing and banking in the United States is woefully behind the rest of the world. Globally, the system is complex, obtuse, and fragmented enough to result in a shanty town of technological solutions that are just lipstick on a pig.

The hope here is that the introduction of blockchains and cryptocurrencies into public discourse, and public excitement regarding a digital mechanism to store and receive value might be the kick in the pants that the banks need to roll-out better banking tools and systems. Furthermore, the first bank to run a publicly auditable ledger which can be validated externally will set a precedent for transparency.

I'm not sure what the future of cryptocurrencies will be (though I'm bullish), but those would be huge wins for society.
The official response — I asked — isthat by downloading dev or nightly you "automatically opt-in" into telemetry, because no one would download these "if they didn't want to help developing Firefox".

I've simply replaced all URLs in abou:config with https://example.invalid/, that makes sure telemetry is off.
> What future does an asset have if people don't actually buy stuff with it?

Does gold have a future? Nobody buys anything with gold.

Also, the Bitcoin blocks are full. Somebody is using it for something.
This article brings back some great memories from the glory days of dial-up BBSs in the 80s and early 90s. It also brings back some not-so-great memories of insanely high phone bills when you got massively surcharged for dialing outside of your immediate area, let alone your county or state.
The catch is that the difficulty adjustment only happens every ~2k blocks. If a mass exodus of mining capacity happens really quickly, it could leave the network stranded. But if they leave at a reasonable pace, it will ramp down. That’s why I said “hopefully” before.
there is no 'reason' as to why physicians are paid what they are paid. It's simply supply and demand. A typical physician has to care for 5000 patients a year (that is the size of a full panel, btw) and gets 150k a year. Do the math - 20 patients a day, 5 days a week for 50 weeks a year is 5000 new visits. BTW, phone calls are not billable hourz. Oh, and I forgot 'emergencies' like aunt jemima who has severe burning when she pees, etc and needs to be seen ASAP or else she's going to the ER. Now add in the follow ups and emergencies and you're up to 35 patients a day. If you work for 8 hours (no lunch or breaks) that's 4 patients an hour. But wait, you have to enter patient info into an emr while you're supposed to be talking to the patient. Maybe you need to sip some water and go to the bathroom too. So that's 10 min a patient. for 150k a year.

Instead, most MDs are looking to become 'boutique' docs. Each patient pays $2k a year for as much primary care as he/she wants. The boutique doc limits his panel to 500 patients. He makes 6x the money for 1/10 the work. now the doctor can spend an hour with each patient and treat him like a human being instead of a slab of meat. And cut the expensive insurance middleman out of the picture.

So right, who needs the stress and bs that comes with a corporate existence. Why should the people who do the work (programmers and coders in your case perhaps) support the wasted busy work of people who are corporate drones and never actually interface with customers/patients/clients/aka the people who pay the money.
There is no federal regulation on net neutrality. They REMOVED the regulation a few months ago. You can't nullify nothing.
I know right, it's like those JFK conspiracy theorists, I mean, what do people think, there's a yearly vote by high officials to knock off a President?
Nevermind collective bargaining; company-specific incentives should be illegal.
In France, on the seashore, this is called "the path of the customs officers" [1]

[1] https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentier_littoral
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This is now my favorite scientific paper headline, beating out the previous champion, "How Many Birds Are There?"

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1018341530497
Masons can barely organize a pancake breakfast, much less a conspiracy to commit murder.

Source: I am a Mason in Illinois.
When you switch tabs, the same server you selected should remain selected.
Another option for understanding Taleb is to take a rigorous course on stochastic processes. Afterwards, everything he says will make perfect sense.
Ask HN: Transfer files from Mac to Android
What a question to ask in 2018, but can someone recommend good ways to get files from Mac to an Android phone? (Via USB or Wifi. Sync would be a plus.)

The official Android file transfer app doesn’t work on my computer.