skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Exactly! Moral facts cannot be determined by empirical observation.

I didn't say that at all. Moral facts can be (can only be) found by empirical observation. The observation of what PEOPLE ACTUALLY DO. Anything else is academic masturbation. Sure, you can ask people and take their answers with a grain of salt, but you'll be running around in tautological circle diving morals from ancient books or poetic 'truths'.
Well, it may not make things better from a moral perspective, but it does make things better from a value-of-tether perspective.
Hopefully a wake up call.. but probably won't be.
If Tether is a "scam" backed by nothing, why would other Cryptocurrencies be more valid?

It's just software.
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Is this honestly a question? Murdoch disdain for Google is well known.
Actually, no. This is how stuff happens in the grown-up world where companies can't just drop everything because one product has problems.

Sure, Elon Musk likes to sail close to the wind, but if this were any other car manufacturer, nobody would bat an eyelid.
Don't forget Salazar and Franco in Portugal and Spain, respectively.
The case against share buybacks
That's quite a leap in reasoning. How did you come to that conclusion?
Once the door is open, what stops the "buyer" from just grabbing everything of value? It appears to be like a hotel MiniBar concept but with no way to check inventory after a customer departs, resulting in shrinkage.

Another risk is that even an honest buyer can get blamed/charge for subsequent theft.
For real though...when will we stop using crypto to refer to cryptocurrencies? Crypto is short for one thing and it's cryptography.
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Not sure I understand your concerns. If you have DirectX there then you will have the same GPU rendering.

If that's about CPU rasterizers then Direct2D/WARP and Skia rasterizers are pretty good.

Problem is that if you have two monitors of the same size but one of "standard" 96ppi and another is, say, Retina grade (300+ ppi) then GPU rendering is the only reasonable option. Number of pixels to rasterize is 9 times more in Retina case. We do not have CPU performance increased 9 times...
Alacritty is slower than Terminal.app..[1] perhaps placebo effects were/are in play?

[1]https://danluu.com/term-latency/
Were you referring to FedEx, or just pointing out the riskiness?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/fred-smith-blackja...
> Crypto is short for one thing and it's cryptography.

Says who?
The notation is very simple: you write tensor expressions with indices, and repeated indices are implicitly summed over. For example, matrix multiply:

A_ij = B_ik C_kj

Differentiating this with respect to variable l:

∂_l A_ij = ∂_l (B_ik C_kj) = (∂_l B_ik) C_kj + B_ik (∂_l C_kj)

By writing out indices you can just use the rules for scalar derivatives.
Final vindication of Lamarck.
Question; when I learned Vector Calculus back in college, I used Marsden & Tromba as our text book where they equate the derivative of a function from R^n->R^m with the Jacobian. Is matrix calculus the same thing, just a slightly different notation?
if the editor is slow its certnly not due to core. but most likely that its parsing 10k files for intellisense. even the most naive implementation of a text editor will be fast.
You should try the Takeshi Covacs books by Richard Morgan. There is a TV show coming out in two days (good timing here) based on the first book (Altered Carbon). It'll probably be a mess since the book has quite some violence. But the thoughts above are played out in a interesting and entertaining way. All three books play in the same universe with the "same" main character but are not a trilogy.
Bay Area family’s quest to create a backyard container home
The headline isn’t a very good summary of the article, or the basic idea expressed therein. The author proposes the use of a tontine, an investment trust arrangement dating back to the 1600’s. A tontine, correctly administered, won’t go bankrupt. A tontine can be implemented using a blockchain.

That’s as far as the article goes is showing how blockchains can prevent pension failures.
So it sounds like one could summarize the distribution as being random, but constrained by a cost function which locally maximizes entropy, i.e. reduces clumping.
>investors who still buy Amazon stock even though he pretty much reinvests all the profits.

But you see, that's the way the game is played. Why siphon down cash and get it double taxed to pay it out as dividends when investors can sell shares as the price rises.

This avoids corporate tax and income tax on dividends. You are effectively saving 40% or more by doing it this way.

Investors aren't holding out for the day there are finally profits. They are riding their tax preferred profits all the way to the sky as we speak.
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Atomic uses rpm-ostree, which looks similar to Omaha from a client perspective (update, roll back to previous version): http://www.projectatomic.io/docs/os-updates/
"Information economy" does sound silly.

Is Apple part of the "information economy"? Is Google? Is Tesla?

I'm asking, I'm not suggesting one way or another.

To answer my own questions though Apple would seem to be in the smart phone business (and of course the internet is the reason we have smart phones).

And Google would seem to be in the advertising business (among others). Their ads do play on the internet though.

So, I don't know — information economy? Internet economy? Internet-related economy?
I think it's more due to the fact that most ICOs are fraudulent.
The pattern is Jeffrey Friedl's, from his book Mastering Regular Expressions.

And as clear as the source could be made, I feel the fact that so many people have just copied and pasted it means that any understanding is lost, and they're just praying and hoping, because a regex of that size is actually difficult for them to comprehend.
> In colonial countries the whites had the power, so even if what you say is true, it's a relatively small component to the power structure of the culture.

I'm not making a commentary on the power structure of national level society, I'm making a commentary on the way mixed race people are often treated by various subcultures within that society.

> Your construction didn't seem to consider that a new racial group might form.

I think you have mistaken the word “often” in my post for the phrase “without exception”. Trust me, had I meant the latter, I would not have said the former.
They are probably holding Tether reserves in BTC, in a way gambling with the storage moeny. Figure that 2 billion dollars in sitting money generates very little interest, in comparison to 2 billion dollars in btc that might jump 10% in one week.

This bet however, inflates the price of btc alone, since its like someone selling a btc doesnt take any btc from the market (as a btc is traded for another btc concealed). This double spend increases demand for btc, and on paper makes tether rich.

However, if BTC drops below the cost of acquiring it, the fund becomes insolvent, and as it can't sell anything to recoup it can only spiral down.

Thats one theory anyway.
IMO you're totally off. ICOs and the ad market are pretty tangential.
Can we not link paywalls?
“How to not compete with Amazon”
One fine-print clarification about Tether 1:1 peg
Tether claims and believes that their tokens are backed 1:1 by US Dollars. However, this claim has a catch.

Tether + BitFinex have been running a new business model since they lost their bank accounts. B&T agreements with affiliated exchanges are something along the lines of "Here are $100 mill worth of Tethers, now please hold $100 mill cash in your account for us".

When affiliate X transfers Tethers to affiliate Y, Tether instructs Y to pay X directly. When a Bitfinex customer wants to withdraw funds, they match-make customers to do the same kind of transfers.

This model of leaving funds under control of affiliates is what caused problems for Friedman LLP auditors in completing their audit.

Also potentially US Regulators can consider this business model a Hawala model.

Sources:

https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/the-bitfinex-dilemma-blow-up-now-or-try-a-hail-mary-to-retain-in-business-10b9d989359f

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62cvxPIDBGY
Rupert Murdoch can have well documented dislike for Google without his dislike intrinsically kneecapping the Wall Street Journal’s journalistic integrity. The comment I replied to criticizes the article we’re discussing categorically by origin, instead of specifically on merits.

Murdoch’s agenda can be a thesis statement for why the WSJ has poor journalistic integrity with respect to Google, but it doesn't demonstrate that failing on its own, nor is merely calling out that someone in a position of power has an agenda a well-reasoned thesis.

Basically, it’s not contributing anything more interesting to the discussion, and is just going to attract other comments or upvotes that agree. That’s not insightful discussion, it’s just ingroup commiseration.
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Oh...well, thanks. That is slightly less exciting, but still probably worth looking into.
> If people use Bitcoin and believe it has value, it _gives_ it value and credibility

Unless what is driving up the price is speculation.

I mean, do most of these new-to-bitcoin users actually "use" Bitcoin? Purchase with it? Or are they holding, waiting to dump?
Why was "Expanding its Kubernetes and Containers Leadership" removed from the title here when it is part of the original article title?
Actually, I would argue that what you did was more difficult, emotionally, than what goes on in government.

You had a personal relationship with those people and you were put into a position where you had to, in a way, harm them. I would argue that most people in politics don't have anywhere near that level of personal connection with the people they affect which makes it much easier to rationalize and justify.
Two points that always put a dent on "surveillance in the name of safety"

1. Make all the camera feeds accessible to the public. Afterall, shouldn't more eyes help a place be safe?

2. Install cameras around Police HQs. Don't they want to be safe too?

Of course those who advocate surveillance in the same of safety are also the first ones to ensure they are never on camera themselves...
> Do you think more and more people are selling BTC for USDT for a "short term"

Could very well be. BTC is on a general downward trend, almost as low now as it was in November. If people think that seeing 18k again in the next couple of months is likely, then why not?
Blockchain consultant sounds like a fun job, though probably the only advice I'd be able to give as one would be that same quote over and over.
Hawaii emergency chief resigns, officer fired over false missile alert
> > Emacs and vim are native apps.

> In the most common case, both of these editors use the cross-platform "VT-100 UI Toolkit" (e.g. ansi escape codes in your terminal emulator), regardless of platform.

I daresay that the single most common way to deploy emacs is as an X11 editor, followed by a macOS editor, followed by a vt100 console editor. Emacs is a fully GUI programme, and has been for decades at this point.
The shallowness of Google Translate
tldr: the only chance you've got to beat Amazon when building a consumer brand is selling a premium product to a specific niche
DJB: http://cr.yp.to/
If a lot of people are buying USDT with BTC, it means they don't have confidence in BTC going further up and want out in order to wait for the price drop, so that they can buy in later , assuming the price will drop as expected by them. If they had a way to short BTC/USD, they would simply do that instead.
As the FT reports (https://app.newsoveraudio.com/article/3324) isn't this much the same as the Healthcare Transformation Alliance in which IBM, Shell and Verizon (to name a few) are members of?

>> http://www.htahealth.com/
Is there evidence of that?
I wonder how much of Tesla’s problems are because of Musk’s ADD: You have SpaceX, The Boaring Company, Solar City, Tesla Betteries, multiple electric car lines, and now a truck and semi, HyperLoop, OpenAI, and probably a dozen more projects we don’t yet know about. Any one of these would be incredibly hard for any uber genius and time on any one of these is time away from something else. To what degree can you do it all and helicopter in to run the company?
i think these business models already exist.

you can find them in community startups that use decentralized technologies and semantic content to empower individuals to cooperate directly, create initiatives between parties without central authorities in control.

the technologies just need to mature further, gain more traction.. and applications need to be created outside of the academic sphere (especially true for semantic web apps).

i'd like to see true decentralized application frameworks that are semantic and truly decentralized.

solid (https://github.com/solid/solid ) is a great project for the semantic web, and so is http://ld-r.org/

then you also have ipfs.org, datproject.org, scuttlebot.io, mastodon
social

but the semantic web projects are too content-oriented and the others are either file-exchange or (limited) social web interpretations.

afaik no truly decentralized messaging / application framework exists yet (though i have to investigate solid more thoroughly still)
Prime IS a saas service. It's called fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) and they will warehouse and ship your products whether you sold them on your own site, eBay, or Amazon marketplace.
Red Hat acquired Ansible, now CoreOS. They seem to be really gunning for the DevOps marketplace.
> Their assets equal liabilities

This is irrelevant, though. You can commit fraud without losing any money - Martin Shkreli was famously convicted of fraud a few months ago even though the victims all came out ahead.

In the USDT -> BTC -> USD trip, there is a point, namely the BTC part, where more USDT has been issued than USD has been accepted. If they claim USDT is backed by USD, but there were points where that was not true, they have committed fraud, regardless of whether they were lucky enough to come out ahead.
is there an alternative to locksmith? the "automatic" update (https://coreos.com/os/docs/latest/update-strategies.html) and/or https://github.com/coreos/container-linux-update-operator?

basically on coreos I don't need to run "rpm-ostree" to have an updated system. it is actually updated automatically.
???

This is improbable for two reasons:

1. There is no reason why a user buying into an ICO should be correlated with it being on facebook.

2. If a user gets scammed by an ICO that should in no way affect if/how they use services that are free to them, facebook included.
> I didn't say that at all. Moral facts can be (can only be) found by empirical observation. The observation of what PEOPLE ACTUALLY DO.

That renders the “moral” part meaningless. What is moral is what people ought to do, irrespective of what they actually do. Now, you can argue that morality is a null concept, and thus “morsl facts” is necessarily an empty set (and if you start with a premise of strict materialism, this conclusion is inevitable; there is only “is”, no “ought”), but you can't coherently argue that moral facts both exist and can be determined by empirical observation of behavior.
> The corruption/abuse item is not part of the research, which is why I separated that as "I suspect"

My main point was that the theory was labeled as something you suspect, but the evidence you listed to back up that theory sounded like it was being presented as fact. You've provided resources to back up the claim, at least to some degree (as you note), which is what I was looking for, so thanks. :)

> You could, and I'd actually be interested to see any research on the topic because I've not thought about that one but it does match our general experiences about exposure and tolerance to social differences.

I don't have any, but I also would be interested to see it. I was using it as an example of something that sounded true and that I suspected was true that I had no real evidence of, and thus should be hesitant to assert as true. Unfortunately, by its nature that makes it interesting to a certain type of person, so it ends up teasing us. :/
> prosperity owing to the destruction of the rest of the newly industrialized world
prosperity owing to the destruction of the rest of the newly industrialized world.
I get that you are implying the prosperity came from competitive advantages. But it is hard to believe that the destruction of most of the world did in fact power the 50's and 60's growth.

There are several competing theories, and even taking international competitiveness into account, bankrupting your clients isn't a good way to grow.
It's not a bad idea but they got blockchain mixed up in it. Would have been better if they had just built a low cost subscription service with some embedding in the image a crawler and the weight of a corporate lawyer for enforcement. That's a service that a one person pro photog may be willing to pay for.
I don't think so. Docker Inc seems to want to take this as far as they can on their own, and I haven't seen anything to indicate a deviation from their stated and implied goal of becoming an entrenched brand of enterprise platform. I don't think they've done much in the way of positioning themselves to be bought, though I'm sure some of the bigger players would like to buy them. I'm interested in this kind of discussion, though, and would like to hear all about why I may not be right.
It's somewhat equvalent but more complicated and more expensive (Transaction costs at each step). It also has one huge downside, which accounts for why you wouldn't do it.

You'd be flooding the market Tethers nobody is asking for, which risks crashing the value of Tethers. They could buy back the tethers for dollars to stablize the price, but that would make the whole transaction useless.

There is also volitity risk. In a falling market they might lose money.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16267363
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It's not uncommon for investigative subpoenas to be under seal. But to be fair I have no idea how these particular agencies operate.
Serious question, how is Bitcoin fundamentally different from gold? Based on a "tether to reality", gold is massively overvalued if you consider its industrial or practical utility.

Furthermore, gold is heavy and thus impractical to use in day to day transactions, just like Bitcoin.

There are altcoins, but then there are also alt-metals (granted a lot fewer of them) such as silver, platinum, palladium, etc.

The way I see it, bitcoin is just like gold except you can also trade it online.
This is what index notation is good for, and I encourage everyone to learn it. Jacobians are dx_a/dx_b, two indices, and clearly b belongs to the derivative. Whether it's rows or columns is an implementation detail of how you're storing these numbers.

Index notation also seems natural for programming: an element A[i,j] or a slice Z[3,4,:] are precisely this.
This would be a pretty interesting move actually. Something like Brave's BAT comes to mind.
Congratulations Alex & co for a great exit. I think the price is great considering that it is pretty much impossible to survive as an independent company in the infra space.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16265015
I agree. If your Matrix calculus involves more complicated use of derivative operators you can't treat it like linear algebra anymore. Better to break it down into something like tensor notation first and back to matrices at the end. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del. Specifically I was always confused by the material derivative of a vector field when presented as either Matrix or vector calculus. If you represent it in tensor notation ( or explicitly break it out as operations on basis vectors ) it works out nicely.
What's the matter with Oklahoma?

Many things no doubt, but this one is a big one:

> Because of a referendum passed in 1992, any bill that seeks to raise taxes must be approved by three-quarters of the legislature.
My experience is generally the opposite - software is usually complex because people lack the skills, time and/or inclination to make it less so. The problems themselves are generally simple.

The world is chock full of developers who want to reinvent the scroll bar, badly, in JavaScript and seriously, genuinely believe this is both a good idea and a wise use of their company's precious development time and money.

It often looks akin to a bunch of civil engineers building a large rail bridge with no up-front design by making short-sighted decisions every two weeks as to which bit to add next, eventually sticking enough random bits of steel on to get a bicycle safely over it, before declaring it "finished".
I agree. I just feel like elaborating on my understanding of this.

And, as in art, success requires a mix of past combined with strategic changes to what is understood of the current contextual state, which is dependent on individual conscience for accuracy, or enlightenment. Societies do not have a conscience beyond the sum of individuals who influence it’s character. Once they become influential, they establish behaviors that resemble ‘lack of conscience’ as a norm. Although individuals acknowledge the narcissistic norms, gaining influence requires conformity with them. It takes a keen and educated bunch to break the trend, hence an Enlightenment.
> In that sense, it's sort of like gold. Unlike gold, Bitcoin doesn't have millennia of heritage grandfathering in an informal consensus [1].

Yep. Exactly. Bitcoin doesn't have the history of other currencies and assets, by the simple fact that it has only existed for about ten years. Something that can't be changed because we don't have time machines to go back thousands of years and tell everyone how to build computers and create cryptocurrencies.

So instead of people saying that Bitcoin is inherently worthless all the time, maybe we can just agree that it's going to take a lot longer than ten years and a lot of swings both up and down in the price before we start creating enough of a "heritage" to come to an informal consensus on how much they are worth.

A lot of people come across as "This is something new and I don't want to spend any effort trying to understand it. Worthless! Everyone putting money into it are nothing but tulip heads!" and it'd be more annoying if my paying attention to it and taking small risks with it didn't just help me turn a small amount of USD into a downpayment on a house in 12 months, something I most likely wouldn't have been able to do putting that money literally anywhere else.
What happens when you combine these cameras with facial recognition technology?

Sure, these are public places, but does that justify the intrusiveness of a police force, or other government organization, tracking your every public movement? This is the definition of a surveillance state. What happens when you piss off the wrong person with access to this data? What happens when your business interest conflicts with those of someone with access to this data? What if you want to run for office, and you've been caught doing something legal, but socially unacceptable?

It's already happening in China[1]. No thank you. This is means of population subversion and control. I'd much rather risk being the victim of an illegal crime.

1.https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-all-seeing-surveillance-sta...
Hawaii employee who sent alert 'claimed to believe threat' was real
Carbon dating can only be used on carbon-based life and its residues, not on the building materials.