skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speculating on a commodity is making an estimate of future demand, and buying now, which has multiple perfectly reasonable benefits:

1. Takes some of the commodity off the market, saving it for the later spike in demand.

2. Promotes more aggressive investment now to hopefully provide more supply later.

Those benefits offer grounding for the speculation. You can do some calculations to see how well those things might pay off, and make a bid based on that imperfect information.

I don't see how that applies very well to any pure "store of value" like a cryptocurrency. How big the spike in demand will be has no bound on the error.

Maybe when cryptocurrencies become a medium of exchange it would make more sense.
The Ziron microkernel is based on Little Kernel[1]. One of the main authors of Fuchsia was the developer of LK.

[1]https://github.com/littlekernel/lk/wiki/Introduction
More like we must help our starving fellow citizens.

Note: It's easy to counter ridiculous arguments, and derail an entire conversation in the process.
Thought, I could answer both of you here. I'm an engineer and reasonably well read, but I didn't bother to read the bitcoin white paper or understand ethereum smart contracts until recently and it took me some time.

So a finance person not understanding technology without any asset backing it is understandable and so they are not bullish about Cryptocurrencies. Everyone knows the crypto market is crazy, it's difficult to comprehend. But few of the top coins will survive in some or the other form.

Also, everyone in finance not agree on the idea it's a bubble. Goldman is starting a trading desk[1] in 2018 for cryptocurrencies, I will just wait until more traditional financial institutions join.

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-21/goldman-i...
A.I. Has Arrived in Investing, Humans Are Still Dominating
> As a Canadian, I find that difficult to believe.

As someone who lived in Canada for 10 years, I can understand that. The blindness Canadians have to the severe problems in their own healthcare system is amazing. Take a look at the massive problems in autism care in Canada. Let me put it this way, it was cheaper (free), faster, and superior in every way in the US as opposed to Canada, where it was far more expensive, years in waiting times, and in the end got no autism assistance. To be fair, this was back in 2011 when we finally left, but having kept an eye on the system (what with having family there still), it hasn't really improved.
Moved to the US from Canada. Have lived in ~5 different states over a decade.

The US is a wonderful place to live. Yes, the US does have unique problems that other countries don't, but overall, I would still choose to live her over most other countries (having visited a ton of them).
Pretty much. They’ll take money wherever they can predictably get it. They’re not deep into crypto for the same reason they’re not deep into horse racing.
I don't think it really matters how it's being painted. If it's true/fact (and we are here discussing it), then it's a problem that needs solving, period. Let's not devolve this into "but you did it first so I can do it too" detractions that won't help prevent biological consequences for the rest of society.
> Its basic microeconomics....!

Ah, that explains it. You know just enough to be dangerous.
I'm not bullish on bitcoin, but that guy literally said that blockchain has no value and bitcoin is a scam. I get that finance guys don't really know what computers are but there are some really neat things happening with blockchain. I personally really like blockchain/ipfs. It's neat and there's a lot happening in that space.
Thank you all for your responses, that's definitely reassuring though there seems to be a common theme to avoiding poverty cause it's hard to get back on your feet. Well, that's probably true everywhere so...

By the way, when I was talking about going bankrupt I meant despite having health insurance but often you see cases where the insurance only covers accidents that happened 'while on a red or green bus going no more that 30mph at night, full moon required'. Reductio ad absurdum obviously but I think you know what I mean (probably yet another stereotype I have about US).
It matters.

Suppose there is congestion, and that if the sender(s) don't slow down, it will just get worse. Well, they don't find out about the congestion if the receivers lie (and congestion is asymmetric, so that the ACKs get through just fine).

That's not good.

Now, one way to deal with this is to lie but only for a bit. After a while of not receiving anything, the receiver should stop sending ACKs and the sender should notice the congestion. That might help. But the underlying problem is real: lying ACks -> failure to detect congestion -> worse congestion.
QUIC demonstrates a better approach: encrypt everything, limiting the ability for middleboxes to make assumptions about behaviour.
I hadn't heard of Truffle Ruby before now — it looks pretty awesome. My experience with ruby has so far been limited, but as much as I've used it, I don't really see any downsides to the language except speed (for web applications, anyway).
"Using the “what goes into it” valuing method, the value captured by each Bitcoin would be the cost of the mining hardware and the energy used before the number is guessed correctly."

the biggest factor is energy cost and because of this it's a big energy arbitrage.
Yes, the receive side would need to have a plan to interpret the data.

One way to do this is to use a format where you can resync. For example, have special values that only occur in certain positions. You look for one of those values and can then enter a known state.

Another possibility is to be selective about what you will allow to be discarded. Suppose you have a framing structure so that you send a byte count followed by a blob of data (like video or audio data). Then you can use these anticipatory acks to express that you can live without that blob. For example, if your protocol says "and now here's 123456 bytes of video data", you can ack with a sequence number that reflects having received those 123456 bytes but no more. Obviously, this limits your ability to skip ahead and may not be as useful.
Aesthetically I agree that I don't like the word "invest" applied to crypto-currencies but I think it's a subjective judgement. People can invest in the work of a young artist, and I don't have a problem with the word "invest" in that case, so where can we draw the line?
Except it's not dynamic typing; everything that goes into the output image is type checked.

> A type error that doesn't execute doesn't really exist either.

Nope; that depends on what you mean by "doesn't execute".

Provably doesn't execute? As in: it is removable, dead code?

Or: doesn't execute because it's not covered by a test case? So that it could execute if a suitable input is found?

A template-generated type that is not instantiated doesn't execute because it doesn't exist. It's not in the image. There is no possible input to the program which can exercise it.

The code is basically not written. There is no need to diagnose bugs in code that isn't written.

Making users derive template arguments from a specific type is just stupidly "blubby". That C++ has typeless template parameters is one of the few sane things about the way it supports generic programming.

> With typechecking before instantiating, I find out about it as soon as I write it.

With type checking, that same user who would have run into a problem with the "typeless template" will simply find your template useless, and roll their own. In other words, same situation as before. The type error will still be there.

If you have a template that is intennded with foo-like arguments, and the user uses them with a bar-like object, that's going to be diagnosed one way or another.

If the generic arguments are weak, it will show up as some constraint violation when the template-generate code uses the the bar-like thing as if it were foo-like.

If the generic arguments are strong, the user instead gets an error that the bar-like thing is not a suitable argument to the template, which expects a foo-like.

It's the same either way; it's all static checking at the same static time and it doesn't change the circumstances under which errors occur. It just changes the amount of discipline needed to use the generic, and the accuracy/granularity of the diagnostic ("this thing is not a foo" versus "this thing here coming from a template parameter can't be used in this way in this piece of template generated code").

It's easier for the user to adjust the bar object to make it sufficiently foo-like for a given template, than to make it completely conform to the foo type.
> That's why you see Canadians making the trek down for treatment when they can't get it (or at least the quality they want) in Canada.

We did that for our children's autism. It was faster, better, and cheaper than anything Canada offered, which is monstrously bad.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3568965

Gangrene can be treated in part by using a hyperbaric chamber to increase oxygen content of the body. Presumably, if our tissues were all oxygenated, gangrene would never happen.
> reasonable rich person standard

If what you say is true, his standard for living as a rich person seems exceptionally reasonable to me.
IANAL, but Crispin Glover sued the creators of Back to the Future II for using a mold his face as George McFly without permission [1]. While he starred in the first film, the second film used a mold of his face since he ended up not joining the project.

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How do u serve high resolution video on the blockchain
> The opaqueness with which care is paid means that consumers receiving care have little incentive to shop around for prices, quality, value, etc., which means providers can basically charge whatever they think the gov't (through medicare/medicaid) will pay and a percentage above medicare/medicaid for everyone else. Of course, if you are uninsured or go out of network (i.e. your insurance company has no contract with the provider you saw), then you're going to be asked to pay ridiculous retail prices that very few people actually ever pay.

I never find this argument compelling, for two reasons:

1. Things are similar in this regard in other OECD countries, yet the US has prices wildly out of proportion with them.

2. Normal people do not have the expertise to know whether they need medical care. That's why they go to the doctor. Making them pay more out-of-pocket simply leads to them foregoing necessary care. Furthermore, if you're bleeding out and need immediate medical attention you're not exactly in any position to "shop around."
Because it's an easy indicator of someone who has no idea what they're doing in OS development. Choosing the wrong tool for the job is meaningful. Have you ever looked through Chromium's C++ codebase? The same people are working on this and it tells us that they haven't learned their lesson (or they want to tightly integrate Chrome with Fuschia, which is also a foreboding sign).

Edit: I should clarify that I think C is the only rational choice and that Rust is ill suited to osdev as well. I'm only talking about C++ here.
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Economic success is why you're not dying of some random disease in a cave and instead typing on a computer that is a part of a worldwide network.

Without economics you can't pay for all the fancy stuff!
I posted this article, and I purchase from Amazon often. I'm not blissful, nor unaware. But it's sort of all-or-none, right? Like the workers in these towns who either work for Amazon (or its contractors), or don't work at all, I can't order anything from Amazon at all without aiding this system.

What I mean is, there isn't some sort of ethical slow-lane when I go to checkout on amazon.com, right? There _is_ slow, free (non-prime) shipping, but anecdotally, that's not serviced via a separate pipeline anymore. I don't _mind_ waiting 5-8 days, I don't _complain_ about the shipping delays. But choosing free shipping also isn't any sort of boon to social justice.

I could certainly just stop shopping from amazon.com, and buy locally (though still from big box stores, often, since that's locally the only options left). But I don't harbor illusions that my conscientious abstention will register on Bezos' balance sheets.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure there's a fix. Certainly not an obvious one, nor easy. As the article discusses, cities _need_ the business, at least for the initial few years. And people _need_ jobs. Structurally, though, what are we as simultaneously consumers, citizens (voters), and people in the workforce going to do? The article discusses attempts to unionize. It discusses cities' attempts to lure Amazon business. It discusses what hard-working people with families do, and think, about the situation on the ground. It even gives responses from Amazon PR. The solutions are subtle, hard to enact, and slow to take effect.
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I don't disagree with you, I just dislike when the term "investment" is narrowed so as to preclude high risk speculation. Even university endowments and pension funds have speculative investments.
What I'd like to know is which types of diets either inhibit/promote the growth of these bad bacteria. The types of bacteria in your gut being linked to parents or young age, might just be a symptom of learning your diet from your parents.
Our comments do have an uncanny restating of the same thing, all within 60 seconds of each other. I'm not terribly surprised, as parent has an uncomfortable "chem-trails" vibe to it. What ELSE is the currency market hiding from us?
I wonder how did they implement Power BI? Surely by implementing it, they must've realized that a robust set of fairly low level interoperable APIs is essential for working with data. EF is often too slow, that's why Dapper et al are used instead.
The only reason why Medicare works is because private insurance subsidizes it. Costs are lower because the federal gov't say "I will pay you $X, even if it costs you $X+$1,000".
But sometimes if the party is really good you puke.
That's not how it works.

The degree of volatility has nothing to do with whether it's an investment or not.

The fair evaluation is what the market decides just like any other exchange out there.

Bitcoin might very well fail but financial schemes are also investments.
Most players make closer to the league minimum ($500k) for just 2-3 years. After taxes that’s about $500-750k. Even if you’re smart about your money, you’re saving maybe $350-500k. That’s not “never work again” money.
All of these points ignore the fact that the main source of the issue is the repeated, small blows to the head. Larger blows have a higher tendency to be noticed and treated. Smaller, continuous blows happen dozens of times a game for a lineman.
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Thanks! It's really only a problem if it's a repeated pattern. It happens to me too, and most others.
Archaeologists have characterized various layers, the depth and thickness will vary.

So a layer there might just consist of evidence of some particular activity that one settlement engaged in that earlier and later ones did not.
I mean, you're right that people get less medical care if their out-of-pocket costs are higher. The problem is they're really poor at judging for themselves whether procedures are necessary and so they end up sacrificing their health or sometimes outright dying because they didn't get care they needed. "Skin in the game" is one of those zombie ideas that just don't die.
Well now they know and can make the decision, how many of them have stopped playing?
I can imagine that there are a few developers, and perhaps managers, at Apple who absolutely love the promise of WebAssembly... and they are constantly being accosted by their colleagues who recognize that the success of WebAssembly is a knife right at the heart of the App Store's current revenue model. After all, why pay Apple a cut when you can have a native-performance web app that has its own in-app purchases? And of course, the developers fight back with the idea that iOS at a platform can't fall behind if the rest of the industry is moving towards WebAssembly, but that's by its very nature a long-term vs. short-term argument.

So one can imagine that these heroic devs might attempt to get a better fix into a high-priority patch release - perhaps they even implemented and tested it in whatever passes for 20% time at Apple - and all it takes is one person up the chain to veto its inclusion in favor of a "just kill it to be safe" fix. It's incredibly easy to justify that "kill" in a scare-easy time such as post-Spectre, with everyone's eyes on major platforms, and nobody's going to expend that political capital. And eventually the fix lands in the next minor release, 11.3, at a time when doing so doesn't require those developers to overplay their hand. WebAssembly retreats from battle to fight another day. And the sun rises in the morning.
yes, having 0 nutrition would mean that i could not have possibly survived. and if you want to be in the group that thinks eating indigestible cardboard is a possibility because 'there wasnt enough data', have at it.

you do realize, you dont need a ton of data in everything to draw conclusions.
Investing in financial schemes is investing by the very definition of the word.
Except that no energy is retained or sold. It’s energy consumption, like running a printing press for dollar bills in your basement.
Flat UI Elements Lack Clickability Clues and Cause Confusion
I agree, let's all stop fighting about what is and what isn't bubble and just look at the tech and potential.

Here are a few use cases I'm excited for:

* SONM / Golem as an entryway to fog computing.

* IOTA / WTC / VEN as entryways for exchanging value and information in an IOT infrastructure.

* NANO for exchanging value without deteriorating the original principal through fees.

* ETH / NULS / ECC - Tokenization to represent distributions of hard to divide securities. The doors are open to invest in startups, offices, applications and ideas without having to get approval on what you want to support.

* BTC / ETH as trading pairs. This acts as a new stock market that doesn't close. One where trades can even be private (on a DEX such as cryptobridge or barterdex).

Yes there are massive scams and there is questionable value in the 'store of value' use case BTC is currently defending. Every new idea is bound to have growing pains.

The larger implications is that software engineers now have the power and tools to create distributed shared systems that interact with the population at large in new and yet unforeseen ways.

It won't happen overnight but saying there is no value in what is currently there is purposefully misleading.

(edit) bad phrasing
That seems easy enough to work around. Send two acks, one for what you really received and one for what you are pretending you've received.

If the data has been sent but lost, the sender will accept the aggressive ack. If it hasn't been sent yet, it will accept the less aggressive ack.

For that matter, if you have some way of knowing the expected transmission rate (even approximately as long as you can resync to reality), you can blindly send a stream of periodic acks with steadily increasing sequence numbers.
Are you concerned about the overhead of EF? Porting old code? If you want db-specific features, you could always call a stored proc.

EF code first is very pleasant to develop with, and when starting a new project in .NET Core, I'd always prefer that.