skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more about having enough fiber, chewing and overall time spent eating (which is good both for their intestinal tract and their wellbeing) than about extracting nutrition from grass.
Per the article it says that Chrome is affected as well. What mitigations does the sandboxing of Chrome provide against something like this? I'd assume the remote command execution (RCE) is limited to the sandbox, but what specifically does that limit?

Even if the sandboxed process can't read or write to disk, with the recent Intel CPU issues it would have full access to anything in memory right?
Makes me think of this Dutch family that was in the news back in October:

"Didi Taihuttu, his wife, three kids and their cat bet all they have on bitcoin. The Dutch family of five is in the process of selling pretty much everything they own — from their 2,500-square-foot house, to their shoes – and trading it in for the popular cryptocurrency. They have moved to a campsite in the Netherlands, where they're waiting for bitcoin to really take off."

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/17/this-family-bet-it-all-on-bi...
CryptoCurrency reporting is dire. Take the quotes from the research analyst in this report:

"Bitcoin is in trouble" - with who exactly? Miners? gfx card manufacturers? People forgetting their wallet passwords? Speculators panic selling?

"Price action suggests that bears are clearly in control, with further losses on the cards" - Price action? You mean the numbers on the chart have gone down so maybe they'll go down some more? Who are the bears? Why can't you point to transactions on chain?

"jitters over regulation" - what jitters? wtf is a jitter? Who is jittering? Who are the investors not investing any more?

It's all fluff!
It's a real thing but it can't physically reach some of the places the victims were said to be affected and it's not known to cause many of the specific symptoms suffered by the victims.
> I frequently see people from the US claim that the world improvements will end, because the US is getting worse... But the good news is, the world is in fact getting better, even though the US might not be improving a lot currently.

> If I understand your message correct, you're saying that if for example housing costs in the US doesn't improve, global growth and improvement might slow down?

I believe that if the US doesn't improve, global growth would slow, yes. In the US, our "economy" is growing because globalization has lowered operating costs while spreading wealth to poorer nations. This is the absolutely largest reason that global poverty has declined. However, because the US has such a high quality of life, our lower class cannot compete.

I believe that if this trend continues, the US will reach a tipping point where people revolt. Because the US is the largest economy in the world, globalization would slow down or reverse for a bit, reversing the positive global trend.

I'm not saying that the world wouldn't adapt and overcome. The world doesn't need the US in the long-term. But it would be rough for a while.

If you disagree, I would love to know why.
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Bitcoin isn't really attempting to fulfill the currency use-case anymore. It's pretty much sticking with digital gold. Likewise with Ethereum, the currency is primarily used to run the protocol. Low price volatility is not a pressing design goal for either system.

For a token that does have the levers and knobs, check out the Dai whitepaper: https://makerdao.com/whitepaper/DaiDec17WP.pdf
I'm not an expert, but I'm still up 20,000% in USD. Once I start making a loss, I'll listen to what you have to say.
The most was probably about twenty five minutes, but I was pushing it -- I wasn't in a hurry and I wanted to see how low I could go on the fees.
Well, for now I can easily do it automatically and check which network I'm on before using data-intensive apps, so I get the best of the two worlds.

I'm just interested on whether it is easy to see as well on an iPhone X.
Bullshit. If the genpop had any idea just how advanced the EMF weaponry the blackbudget type of orgs had they would shit bricks.

One more thing I guarantee I'll be saying "told you so" in 5-10 years when something on it leaks, just like the NSA spying before Snowden, and many other things.

Mass hysteria is real (muh Russians via shareblue, for example) but I really don't think this is one of those cases.

I love the careful logically falacious setup in the article though, very masterful. When you finally get to the meat of the claim, by a man who is selling books on hysteria (nail-hammer problem) he already discredits himself via the statement: “It is physically impossible to have brain damage caused by an acoustical device." Well that's just not correct. What else is he obviously not correct on? Has he seen the evidence from StateDep and CIA? Nope, so he's making claims without seeing all the evidence. Then immediately the article transitions from their baseless claim on this particular incident to saying "oh but even if it's hysteria it can still have real effects ala placebo". See how subtlely they pass over the problems of their own claim and manipulate the reader? And then to see the author is also the author of a "everything is a syndrome" book is just icing on the cake.

Especially funny they mention the Taos hum... if only ya'll had any idea what that really was... HN isn't ready for such a truth bomb though. (I'll give you a hint. DUMBs)
"Bitcoin" doesn't really "attempt" anything.

I attempt to use Bitcoin as a currency, but that doesn't mean you have to.
Is this new feature specific to vanilla JS classes? I've been using autocomplete for Typescript classes in VS Code for as far back as I can remember.
quote from the article: "The world is registering important progress, but it also faces mortal threats."
Welcome to the world of public financial analysis. No one wants to publish real research because they can sell it or use it instead, so almost by definition, any analysis found on the internet or given to journalists is useless fluff.
> "Steven Pinker, the Harvard psychology professor, explores the gains in a terrific book due out next month, “Enlightenment Now,” in which he recounts the progress across a broad array of metrics, from health to wars, the environment to happiness, equal rights to quality of life."

No one is going to agree on assigning value to each category, but peace, health, and quality of life (despite the threat and effects of global warming) are on an upward trend.
The development of no small part of English common law was the result of a multi-century cat and mouse game between wealthy landowners that wanted to keep their property in the family "forever" and everyone else that didn't want to have the dead hand of the past control substantial portions of the country's productive assets. Two groups in particular that didn't like to see assets locked away were dissolute heirs and their creditors.
I take it you haven't read much financial reporting.
As someone who searches these threads for words like "compiler" to have an overview of what compiler-related jobs are out there, I almost missed this. Others might miss it too, I suggest you add "compilers" and maybe "interpreters" to make it easier to find.
Surviving a vocoder is harder, but generally if you crank down the bitrate enough, it will probably work.
> The tech is interesting and the ideals of a currency not aligned with a government or big bank are nice but cryptocurrencies have no real value.

If it's interesting, and the ideals are nice, how does it have no value?
or the species collapse, ocean acidification, disappearing coral reefs or ocean gyres full of plastic
They approached it with more caution than many people did.

But they're almost 40. They aren't so young that losing their life savings will have no impact.

I don't write any of this to criticize them. And I realize they could still see a positive ROI on the money they've spent. For me, their story sort of humanizes the whole thing. It's easy to look at this as just a bunch of abstract people losing money.

We'll see how it all works out. Between the time I wrote my first post and the time I'm writing this one, the price of Bitcoin has jumped from 7600 to 8300. Too volatile for me, but I'm sure someone, somewhere is having fun.
any explanation why the price is so closely coupled?
A number of things prevents from moving to different countries. Immigration laws for that other country, language barriers, the fact the your professionality/education won't be valued in another country, the fact that you may not even have the money to move in the first place...
Around the turn of the century when PSK31 data modulation was new to ham radio operators, it was a very standard demo at club meetings or whatever to fire up two laptops using mic/speakers instead of radios and talk a couple feet which was considered impressive because most other modulation methods are wider band and will not work well.

The relevance to your question, is hams being hams, they gotta experiment, turn of the century laptop hardware often had codecs that operated up to 96 KHz or whatever, but speakers usually cut off somewhere around the high level of human hearing, so operating at 10 KHz worked and might be silent to old people with partial hearing loss, but you could forget about 25 KHz even if the signal looked great on an oscilloscope because the speakers and mics were not broadband enough. Very few customers care about audio quality in frequency bands they can't hear.

The same hardware hooked up to a simple I/Q software defined radio works fine up to the limits imposed by Nyquist and the claimed hardware sample rate, so its obviously limited by mic/speaker not the A/D converters.

This topic comes up repeatedly on HN. If HN had a wiki this meme would be a strange attractor for the HN community.
Best time is when real asset value is higher than market valuation (cheap) - like when people rush to sell houses at any price to get out of loan spiral.

Now, what is the real value of BTC?
You are right, there is good application for this tool in education or people who want to quickly test something new. Shadertoy is great and I like it. It is at the right level of abstraction that I need for my current CG knowledge. I can imagine that there are many people who find Live CV very useful and then move downwards.
Huh? It seems to me that the OP is using the example of race correlating with zip code as another example of how data can be misused and misinterpreted, e.g. feeding a dataset that has zip code and income could still lead to an AI making a model not much different than if the data had race in it.
Probably a few things:

1) Largest mining operations are mining multiple currencies

2) The initial "whales" of ethereum were BTC early adopters diversifying holdings

In general it seems the price of BTC is almost always a proxy for the rest of crypto, most likely because any crypto portfolio has a significant amount of BTC in it.
Lets just hope this is one piece of Formula 1 technology that doesn't trickle down into road cars.
Not caring about money doesn't necessarily mean you are willing to pay more taxes than you are legally required to, especially a subjective amount that others deem 'reasonable'.
Schadenfreude is the joy of losers.
Stripe was just getting big as I left for a job in edtech so I never had a chance to work with it. Excuse my ignorance but does it require you to send your card info to the vendors server rather than directly to stripe? If that’s the case you are still wide open to basically every form of bad handling.

Just because a vendor doesn’t NEED to store your CC doesn’t mean they’re not out of sheer ignorance or incompetence.
A music professor at CU Boulder accompanies silent films at the Chautauqua event hall every summer. It's a wonder to behold the duration, speed, and exceptional timing to bring together a multiple reel silent film.

https://www.denverpost.com/2012/07/06/denver-pianist-hank-tr...

https://www.chautauqua.com/events/film/
You don’t have to use all the JS widgets; you can integrate with forms more directly if you want.
The hype, the bubble, the pop to me all look like it did back in 2013-2014. That took a full year to eventually bottom out. Obviously there is way more money in the markets now and things have matured somewhat, but it's not unreasonable to assume it will take a while for the dust to settle on this one.
Yes, I think most early Bitcoin supporters would agree that things were much better when transaction fees were low and confirmation times were fast. Bitcoin is worthless if the underlying utility is broken.

It's unfortunate that the community wasn't organized enough to come a consensus on "scaling" ...

It was only a few months ago that it appeared as though the possibilities were endless. We had excellent "long-term" solutions in development (Segwit and Lightning) AND a good "short-term" fix ready to go (Blocksize increase).

As an early adopter I feel betrayed, that we were forced to choose a side, that politics trumped usability. It's toxic. Self-limiting, and difficult to "buy" into at this point.
It's a bit like all time highs in the markets, not that surprising really.
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The US Media is total shit from top to bottom. They are not in the business of being objective or reporting events dispassionately. They serve their corporate and institutional masters or are mere infotainment noise.
FDA reviewing animal studies in wake of monkey deaths
And overpaying taxes will be always considered bad management. I don't think he and IKEA top management would ever want that.
so, unless coinbase reports some record breaking cash-outs , this is probably price manipulation , right ?
Clever. I just hope it gets updated when Bitcoin reaches a new high again. This would look pretty silly if it were based on the $1300 high a few years ago.
There are a lot of cryptocurrencies that don't need mining.
I would like to talk to insiders to figure out how I could help them.

When you contact people, ask for an informational interview. This is described in the book What color is your parachute?

If possible, don't cold call. Find ways to establish some contacts. Find events to attend or other means to start making social connections. It will go vastly better if you can say "So and so gave me your name." or "We met at X event. I was wondering if I could have a few minutes if your time to learn a little more about X."
This might be beating a dead horse, but what's the difference between Bitcoin and gold then?

If gold loses its value, then it's just a heavy rock. They both take time, money, and resources to mine but neither of them have any intrinsic value.
I recently discovered that quite a bit of Ghana is covered in Street View. I feel it provides the most authentic armchair-compatible peek available, at this part of the world that differs so much from my own.
I thought of applying for the Internship but then cancelled my plan after looking at the email address. It shouts "spammy" from start to end.
The Breakneck Rise of China’s Colossus of Electric-Car Batteries
Or winners who got out before the losers.
If you want a more nuanced look at bitcoin fees, take a look at the mempool [0]. That way you can see for yourself fees that will probably clear in 1 block, 1 day, etc.

[0] dedi.jochen-hoenicke.de/queue
Much like arguing against climate change because it's cold outside.
I found reading the Art of Computer programming books wasn't that bad. If you ignore the quantative analysis for the algorithms and just look into the algorithms themselves then there are a lot of gems in here that you just don't find anywhere else. If you want to learn how to prove the algorithm runtime then there is obviously a lot more to the books, but for finding other algorithms and data structures it is a great tome of options and its organised in a way to just dip into when you have a particular problem.

Don't ignore the books on the assumption its too hard as that wasn't my experience of them.
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Better not to catch a falling knife. I wouldn't even consider a buy in until it hits some kind of floor and stays there for a while.
I'm working on making them more compact. Thanks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_period#History
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My nephew works for the largest financial firm in the world. He says they wrote off bitcoin long ago (as if they ever seriously considered it).
Like most things in life, timing matters.
I should have been more precise in my language.

It’s legal to rent out a room for less than 30 days in NY if the owner/tenant is also occupying the place.
6.824: Distributed Systems: Spring 2018
My dislike of Perl comes from personal experience in using it. I don't think one can have valid strong opinions of a language without having used extensively.

I feel like some programming languages, no matter the structure of the application, feels unstructured and write-only in nature. To me, Perl is one of such languages. Python has a similar effect, but I feel like it is more controllable as long as the project is kept within a sensible length.

So while that abomination was primarily the fault of the designer, I do think that Perl invites this behavior one way or another.

(I gave up entirely on reading that disaster of a build script, and instead instrumented system() so that I could trace the calls to various tools and infer the logic myself.)
Sorry do not understand. What does this mean?
market manipulators just pushed the course up over 10% in 20 minutes. Forgive my English: this is coco-banana.
Bought at $6. So none yet ;)
Way better than 1917, and much, much better than 1918. History is pretty horrible.
I'm interested as to whether they did deep code analysis or just added the (not strictly correct, but not terrible) assumption that `this` refers to an instance of the class you're defining. Unfortunately this article is light on links to original source material.
Steve Underwood has a FAX softmodem called spandsp[1]. Dude knows a lot about but signal processing which is a topic way beyond my wizardry level.

Many years ago I've used it successfully for a FAX server made with Asterisk and cheap telephony cards. Since a FAX is just a TIFF file encoded over sound I think this may be useful for someone that wants to transfer a binary blob over sound.

[1] https://www.soft-switch.org/spandsp-modules.html
And if you spend $10k at last ATH you'd still sit with more than $50k profit. This is such a pointless site made only to reel in some ad revenue.
Increasing teen suicide rate, skyrocketing expenses going towards mental health resources ...
Using log charts is appropriate for data that spans multiple orders of magnitude. I don't know why you complain about distortion, unless you think the data itself is wrong?
>"herd those cats"

I'll do it.
I am curious how much of this is PR. They are getting a lot of political pressure.
They're trying to snark about Slate's notorious tendency to write contrarian pieces as bids for attention --- those pieces are called "Slate pitches". But they've missed the mark; it's not "contrarian" to report that something didn't happen, especially when most sources agree.
No, the fictional character cared about money:

'I bought that building for 800 grand, and sold it for a few year later for --------. I thought that was all the money in them world. Now it's a day's pay.'

'Enough money to have a girl like Darien?"

'Enough money to not waste time.'

He was a greedy bastard---like every guy whom I saw make it big financially. He didn't have an enabling rich father though? He was a community college boy.

I graduated college, and went into graduate school. I had a lot of stress, and not much support, nor a life outside of school. I used to do homework with Wall Street, and Platoon playing in the background.

I liked those movies because they portrayed the duality of life perfectly, or so I thought back then.

I ended up having a nervous breakdown, and rarely watch either movie, but really identified with Sheen's characters in both movies.
I forked this repo on github: https://github.com/codelucas/flask_reddit

Updated it ot Python3 and added a number of new features.
Is it possible to stay in business without being bit evil?
I've launched 5 companies, all profitable (200K-20M ARR). Now, I am creating a new product where we can possible do 200M ARR. Now, I am noticing a pattern that in past success, that there is a bit of evil luck. My question, is that is there any company which does no evil, not even a tiny bit?
1 Bitcoin Equals 7540.01 US Dollar
Pretty much all the top 20-30 coins dropped by 20-40 percent this morning
Good for you and your nephew
> The tech is interesting and the ideals of a currency not aligned with a government or big bank are nice but cryptocurrencies have no real value.

If the network participants obtain an utility there is value. One example that I commented several times here in HN: I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and when foreign customers paid us via a wire transfer the inefficient big banks (that exist almost everywhere) calculate an exchange rate that is not very fair. Doing the same transfer by Bitcoin and converting it (100% legally) to our local currency gives us a better rate which means more profits for our company. Other examples exist but at the core what is happening is that there are financial innovations that the regulatory framework is killing and can be leveraged with these technologies. Sure, there are a lot of scammers right there but this is another topic.
>It's turned out to become a standard for mobile developers due to the concurrent and async nature of the platform.

A "standard for mobile developers"? Not that I can see.
You were smart and lucky to buy in early. Most people did not and are already wiped out.
I don't believe there is a need to completely abandon IPv4; at least for small internal networks it is probably easier -at the moment- to quickly set it up as IPv4. A properly configured IPv6 network, however, should be equally easy to use. If DDNS is working correctly then there is not even a need to remember IPs. The problem arises from poor support in consumer equipment. At least for most mid-range routers I get the impression that IPv6 support is hacked together as an afterthought rather than be considered from the original implementation of the firmware. So you get something that mostly works but it's not 100% there. It's getting better but we are not there yet.
I suppose the ultimate conclusion of globalisation is a levelling out of living standards around the world. Whether this means Western nations becoming less well off is an interesting question.

I'm not sure the US is as important as you think now, there is an inertia in developing nations that might slow but is probably quite hard to stop.
Just looking at the pictures of Lebanon's shores after a regular storm https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/world/middleeast/trash-le..., the amount of garbage is shocking, even after seeing tons of pictures of garbage.

Maybe nature destroyed affects me more than others, but they're pictures of regular, ordinary life these days. People didn't hunt for them.

For those who remember the 1970s "Crying Indian" public service announcement, the chart in this article https://www.inc.com/joshua-spodek/remember-single-tear-anti-... shows its place in the context of global plastic production.

When past generations considered garbage levels a crying shame, the global amount plastic produced ever looks something like what we produce in a week today.

That's just plastic. There's also CO2, mercury, etc, plus depletion of topsoil, fish, rain forests, species diversity...

I should add my point isn't to bring people down first thing in the morning but to call to action to reduce our consumption. We can act on these things.
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iPhone unit sales declined YoY and Apple reduced Q2 guidance by 10% below consensus.

Shares are down from a high of $180 and pre-hours this morning flat. So consistent with what analyst were saying.

It was not about Q1 but about Q2 guidance.
Switching from FB to Instagram. What a progress :)