skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Let’s throw a wrench in here, will they go after Athene he purposely called his “scam coin” and is claiming everyone knew it was a scam
Just like google banning rehab centers, if an industry is getting destroyed in the news or by government regulators its generally not a good move to allow people to advertise it on your platform.
I hear what you're saying, but am compelled to ask: what intrinsic value does gold have?
No I would argue for a single payer system like Medicare for All.
I am guessing it has something to do with the fake ICO's taking advantage of uneducated users (see Vyral for a great example).

But Facebook has made their entire fortune taking advantage of uneducated users. So maybe they don't want competition?
This should be much more visible. The market is panic selling on effectively old news.
On hot days I like to take my laser temp gun and shoot roads and other things, and I've never seen anything over 140F.
Aside from the better look, it seems like the build quality has made significant advancements too, yeah? (I've yet to sit in a Model 3.) The Model S squeaks and rattles like a 1980s Oldsmobile!
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How long until USDT is delisted from most other exchanges? I wonder which is the larger risk, USDT coming unpegged, or just straight out being delisted from nearly all exchanges?
Based upon momentum I believe the Electron based ecosystem has already won, yes.

The momentum there eclipses... Eclipse, as well as many other closed and open source editors.

If you don't see the Electron ecosystem as a winner today would you say they'll have won if all editors stay at their current momentum of new features and bug fixes?
Do you think the language used will last for 20 years in terms of developer interest?
I get this is a subjective opinion, but I happened to be in a tesla store this past weekend. They had a model x on the floor. The seat color chosen? WHITE. It was filthy and generally looked awful, not from a design perspective but a wear and tear perspective. I would have hoped they put more thought into their showroom than to put a color that amplifies dirt and grime on the seat.
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I have a Samsung tablet that no longer receives updates and it's the only device of this type I've owned for years which operates at exactly the same performance as when I got it. I literally have no reason to upgrade it; all the apps I want work and get updates.

My old iPhone 5 started with iOS 6.0 and went all the way to iOS 10 but got noticeably less performant with each new major update. I'm certainly not arguing those updates were necessarily bad but I think it's worth discussing. Security and bug fixes are tethered with changes designed for much more powerful hardware.
The first ad I saw for Crypto was an ad for Bitmain -- it flashed through my ad blocker enough for me to turn off the blocker to see it. It was Bitmain, advertising a miner back in stock. Clicked it, saw it in stock, then thankfully went back to the fb comments to see someone mention it was a Punycode domain -- was a complete phishing site. There was an 'a' that was actually some other glyph that had a small, nearly pixel-sized dot that made it something other than an 'a'.

I am flabbergasted at why fb would allow punycode domains (especially when the domain listed under the ad was the 'real' domain).
"240/hr is a lot of money, especially outside of the valley."

Nope. It is close to what I just paid a plumber. The plumber wanted $5000 for 16hrs of work to redo my piping ~$300/hr. (The cost materials: plastic PEX was probably $40, small house a one guy job). Remember this is a residential plumber - not a commercial electrician. WHY SO EXPENSIVE? You might ask? Try outsourcing my plumber.
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The assumption has always been that cryptocurrency driven markets would emerge completely decoupled from states and their systems of financial regulation, and so conversion would be neither necessary, nor desired. Everything you could possibly want to buy, legal or illegal, would be payable through the crypto market. Cryptocurrencies were supposed to undermine fiat, or at least render it unnecessary, barring taxes, not cooperate with it.
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Things like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wsj.com. Nothing too surprising, but surprisingly essential to the coherence of the site.
What a weirdly tangential thing to point out given the content of the article. Is it possible to write a post on HN that isn't pointlessly critical of Facebook, or have we dropped the facade of "intelligent discussion" when it comes to things that the hivemind doesn't like?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6XQUciI-Sc - watch it to the end.

How long "people have been doing it" has nothing to do with the quality, it's a fallacy. They can't code if they can't even get the basics like polling or startup / shutdown correctly.
>Right now Apple is several years ahead of other high end phone manufacturers in CPUs

Does Apple even integrate a modem into their SoC's? I find it hard to believe that they can be years ahead of other high end phone SoC's manufactures when they haven't even accomplished that. Additionally, Samsung claims a 2x increase in their new Exynos 9810 SoC [1] which means that it should have single thread performance that is in the ballpark of Apple SoC's.

With a clock speed of up to 2.9GHz, a 3rd generation custom CPU offers higher computing power so that its single-core and multi-core performances are improved around two-fold and 40 percent respectively when compared to its predecessor.

[1]http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/exynos/product...
Don't know, I don't buy gold either.
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Agreed. Thank you for saying so.
edit: is there a way to bold text in an HN comment?
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I believe the same is true in cars and busses. People just don’t like traveling backwards if they have the choice.
That sucks. I hope you bounce back...

I don't understand why it should take days to "update" a system. Now, I now next to nothing about how their current system works but information updated should not take so long.

The insurance industry needs a technological overhaul but I doubt it will happen.
Gold is intrinsically scarce, but I understand where you're going. Perhaps FB has just seen that this category of advertisement is more likely to attract scammers?
Google does the same:

https://twitter.com/Caust1c/status/948680008112816128
Given the obsession with social media and imaginary internet points, I would suggest the narcissism epidemic is at all time high.
If the site is banned, as breitbart.com is, then you should either find another article on the topic, or failing that, email us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can take a look. I'd never rule out making an exception, but would probably want to post a comment in the thread explaining the situation to readers.

As for why breitbart.com is banned, one need look no further than this subthread. Posting from it is bomb-throwing whether you intend to or not, more or less regardless of the content. I suppose I should add that no, this is not because of political bias, it's because of anti-flamewar bias. There are sites with opposite politics which are banned for the same reason.
Fair, but you are forgetting that this is California, so even though we are beginning construction in the 21st century all of the technological gains will be put toward safety and environmentalism, not efficiency or speed; we won't get a "modern conventional HSR (320~350 max speed)". And the the HSR line is not going to be one with "few stops along the way", but with lots of stops, this is further compounded by the reality that in California city centers aren't nearly as easily accessible through public transportation as they are in Europe or Japan. LA was built around cars, and good luck getting anywhere in the valley or even the East Bay without a car.
Hawaii missile alert was no UI blunder
I'm confused. How is hyper-uniformity different from a homogeneous mixture?

What is the difference between a hyper-uniform material, and a material that has had adequate time to mix through diffusion?
Gold is an actual physical thing? Price fluctuates but it doesn't go up 10000% in a year and then crash back down 50% in a month?
Please don't read this to mean I am against crypto, I think the idea behind the blockchain is great, but I can see how FB would want to not facilitate it's many unsuspecting gullible userbase from losing their life savings in crypto and having to answer to congress after the Russia scandal.
You mean Rust? Yes. However (and I didn't get into this in the talk), I actually feel that if I figure out proper async _protocols_ that express rich functionality in neatly composable modules, then that protocol is likely to outlast any given implementation. So if in 10 years somebody figures out a way to make ATS-style dependent types easy to use, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a core written in that.
Sounds like fb is planning to dive into the blockchain world.
U.S. banks’ Venmo alternative, Zelle, moved $75B last year
Needs more physical knobs.
> The exchanges get sued by the Tether bagholders

On what basis? Other than ones that commingle USD and USDT and/or are organizationally associated with Tether (which, I think, is mostly Bitfinex and Bitfinex), I'm not seeing where there is much basis for holding the exchange liable for the collapse in value of a traded asset.
The comment you’re replying to has an example of a universally available option for more room that few people actually take, so I really don’t think your explanation works.
My kernel takes 2 seconds, and the userspace takes about 4, mostly waiting for Xorg to initialize the display (which I could probably improve using a hardcoded xorg config, rather than autodetect). The real killer is BIOS though- my FitPC 3 takes about 7 seconds to POST. However, I power it on when the door opens, rather than when the key turns, and one of these days I'll get it connected to my remote unlock button. The microcontroller is always on and consumes almost no power. I would buy a new PC if I knew for sure that the post time was less, but nobody ever advertises that statistic, and anything based on BIOS/UEFI tends to be abysmally slow.

Meanwhile the display rendering should be within ~50ms of the measurements from the microcontroller, so the tach and other measurements feel really "tight". (the tach is that curved column of horizontal bars on the left)
I think this is what something like express pool is like, but on an adhoc basis: https://www.uber.com/ride/express-pool/
Have your read my comment? :)
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I am looking to do some side work developing google home and Alexa apps after making a few on my own. What is typical for a fee for the development of an identical app for both platforms? This app would be articulating data from many categories of mostly read only Json. Does anyone have experience in this space?

Thanks
Everything published by a scientist in a paper should be science. Everything presented by an artist in an exposition should be art.

Everything published in a newspaper (and presented as news) should be news.

I am much more inclined to consider news a form of entertainment nowadays. And I am not even talking about fake news.
No, horrifying crimes are not movie plots, sorry. Some of the crimes we're talking about are issues virtually everyone on HN seems to care about (for instance: securities and banking fraud) and are already extremely difficult to prosecute without the kinds of evidence we're discussing.
Finally.

I've been intentionally clicking ICO ads so that I get targeted for more ICO ads. It's been interesting.

- Many of them have the most buttery smooth introduction video that was just so compelling to stare at.

- Many has business lines like, "The total market for car loans / social media advertisement / game currency is N trillion...

- The "team" page for them are mostly Russian / Eastern European. Some of them have links to LinkedIn. I looked at their (I believe fake) profiles too. (I don't know why would anybody use their real identity to pull such a thing).

- Some ads are in Korean (understandable, I speak Korean and cryptocurrency is hot over there), some ads are in Chinese including their landing page. Do they expect people to land on those pages and drop money without reading anything?
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The USD is no longer backed by gold and you could say it also has no intrinsic value.
It's even weirder in the US historically, where you could literally change from black to white and back by hopping state borders.
Tieing insurance to employers is yet another way to limit class mobility. Want to start a company? Better be young, healthy, and lucky.

It's also a huge reason people don't want transparent health records, even in the cases where it would help automate discovery and prevention of disease.

I don't think state-based healthcare is the correct abstraction either. It involves dealing with a central organization that is too big to fail. What happens when they screw something up? What do corrupt regulations look like when lives are at stake?
> She doesn't seem to really consider herself as Native American as she considers herself Spanish, though, despite them being essentially statistically the same.

My self-image is much more based in my cultural roots than my ethnic ones. Genetically, I'm 25% Jewish, but it's not a part of my identity on any significant level and doesn't impact my day-to-day life at all, except when I'm walking around during Sukkot.
Umm... that is exactly how an parliamentary democracy works. The parliament can enact any law. Yes, many such systems contain laws that overrule all other laws and are often harder to change. These are often called constitutions. But I can't recall any constitution that could not be changed.
No, you can convert USDT directly to USD. However, Bitfinex can only wire you that USD to a Taiwanese bank account. I can't verify that they actually will wire it, but this is what they claim. And I assume if they were refusing to make these wires to people who had Taiwanese bank accounts, people would be pointing it out.
MPEG LA has a CRISPR patent pool in the works
Even if you do that, if the other person mesages you using your imessage contact instead of your phone contact, Apple will eat it instead of returning an undeliverable status.

It's such a fucking scam.
I usually dump them into Google Keep and then forget about them.
The most impactful thing would be price transparency. In no other industry do you agree to purchase something without knowledge of the cost.
Just looking at the last 6 months of press releases, I can't find a big bank anywhere.

https://www.sec.gov/news/pressreleases

Then there was that time back in 2008 when all these banks crashed our economy and a single guy was prosecuted and went to jail. 1 guy.

But in the last month I can remember at least 3 press releases from the SEC about crypto concerns and investigations.
Not sure if you are trolling or what. By that logic Jews were rightfully sent to the death camps because they were enemies of the state.
Mixed race people in the US are considered less 'privileged' only to white people, who find any race of people less privileged (as a whole, not on a case-by-case basis). But to minorities, people who are half white are seen as more privileged, especially in the black community.
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Firstly, why would you give an alert if everyone is going to die and there's nothing anyone can do? The reason for the alert is that most people (~98%) will be outside the fatal blast of a N. Korean Nuke assuming that it even hits it's target, which I'm not sure the likelihood of anyway. You need the all clear for the surviving 98% (or 100% of people on a miss or false alarm) who will be continuing to get things together after the attack.

If the US is going to exchange nukes with China or Russia, they could decide to wipe out Hawai'i. But N. Korea has like, what 5-6 nukes? They're not known to be accurate either.

Except for Honolulu Hawai'i is mostly composed of small population centers separated by miles of ocean or valley walls. If N. Korea decided that Hawai'i really had to go, I'd guess they could use their arsenal to kill/injure max: 6 missiles * 20k casualties = 100k casualties total, which would still leave 1.1million people to hear an all clear.
Both gold mining and coin mining are environmentally dirty industries, but at least gold can used for useful things like conductors, reflectors, and jewelry. The only thing you can fashion out of bitcoins is entropy.
If consumers bought a product that uses a rechargeable battery that they expected to work the same after one charge as it did after 1000 charges, then they have never used a device with a battery.

I don't expect the battery in my car to work as well as it did when it was new. If old enough the car won't even start.
The money isn't wasted if it gives you joy when you most need it.
Yup, and some insurance companies are convincing people to connect a cell phone fob to their OBD-II in exchange for lower insurance rates. In exchange, they have access to your cars computer, GPS coordinates, basically anything you do, they track. That also puts your CANBUS on their network.
Has anybody here on HN been able to go $ANYTHING -> USD on Bitfinex?

I haven't seen anybody anywhere claim they've gotten USD out of Bitfinex...
it's a variable name for a polymorphic function, taylor series, euler formular, etc. depending on context. This is a significant difference to singular types, but being a variable name to an abstract concept is in principle no different to typesetting x. This goes neatly with "everything is an objectreference" and might be more of a programmer's perspective.
Then why not just ban Shitcoin scams?
A more interesting approach would be to use persistent data structures. While possibly slower for some operations, undo is more efficient and there are really interesting opportunities for concurrency. See:

https://github.com/arximboldi/ewig/blob/master/README.md
Would you really, really please not take HN threads on generic ideological tangents? They are invariably train wrecks, and the trains here wreck easily.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Isn't speed limit 55mph? And doesn't this gives some wiggle room for goodyear - after all the tire was operated outside of the conditions.
Any decent track pump can easily get to an order of magnitude higher. I routinely pump bike tires to 125 psi. Back to the point, tires are the most important piece of kit in regards to driving/riding handling quality, and usually one of the most underestimated. I wish people in general paid more attention to the state and quality of their tires.
There are a ton of industrial uses for gold:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Other_applications

Spacecraft shielding is my favorite
>That's because Apple highly customizes and optimizes their core designs, while Qualcom and Samsung use largely vanila ARM reference designs with maybe a few tweaks

Here's the Anandtech article on the "few" tweaks Samsung has made to its 6 wide decode custom M3 cores in the upcoming Exynos 9810.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12361/samsung-exynos-m3-archi...
Google claims that it operates the buying side as a standalone business that needs to be profitable so it doesn’t overbid. I don’t buy that claim for a second, and I don’t think the EU will either.
> there's no room in a just society for a "basic service" which does not provide the best possible care.

Unfortunately health care is still a finite resource, and you can't give everyone the best care. You either give some the best care and everyone else good care, or you give everyone pretty good care, but no one gets the best care.

Each has its merits, but my personal feeling is if no one gets "the best care", then we as a society will forget how to give such care, and medical innovation will become stagnant.

There is a reason that the health systems with at least some private participation (USA, France, Germany) also have the most innovation. We need a balance so there can still be a motive for innovation.
>Exchanges don't actually hold the things they're trading.

Bitfinex has a few billion in publicly known cold wallets.
Mice can inherit learned sensitivity to a smell (2013)
I am sure real, legitimate ICOs must exist, but I have yet to find one. Can anyone point to one that they strongly believe is legitimate?
Government provision does NOT stop the private sector from providing options. It is not an either government OR private. But both. Your example does not exist anywhere, nor is it what it is being advocated.

To be realistic your example would be as follows: what if the US provided a grocery store that provided the basic necessities, free at the point of provistion and paid for by common taxation. People are free to buy the nice wine from the private provider next door BUT if you fall on hard times and you need to put food on the table, the rest of your fellow citizens help pay to make sure you, your partner, and your children have food to eat, and retain a semblance of human dignity, until you can get back on your feet and pay taxes that provide for someone else who needs help.
Terrorists? Try 12 year old angst filled kids that get bullied in school and/or at home. How many 10 to 17 year old angst filled kids have access to the internet?
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You're banned because you've serially abused HN and broken the site guidelines many times. If you don't want to be banned on HN, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
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Facebook does ban cash for gold schemes. No one advertises selling gold regularly so it's not an issue.
I think it’s fair enough to say that, from the perspective of community momentum and extension momentum, they’ve “won”, sure. It’s also fair to say that in many cases a user’s text editor doesn’t need quite that breadth of extensibility and/or feature-richness, and that winning that war (or battle) isn’t really all that important to at least some subset of users.

That’s where Xi fits. It’s saying “these things we don’t get from other editors are important”. Users are free to decide which feature or attributes are most important to them. At the end of the day, users win!
I think it's a question of intent here. You're BELIEVING Apple when they say they only did it to help customers. You can't say FOR SURE that their intent wasn't to drive upgrades. I, for one, think their intent was (at least partially) to drive upgrades, but without proof, we'll never know.
I was going to write that we should simply do away with nation narratives. Be a proud member of your nation and become a fascist, be angry at those who abused their power and you’ll blame all your problems on external forces, stripping you of all agency.

But all of history is nation narratives! In Mexico the US stole Texas, in the US Texas wanted independence from Mexico to join the union.

I’m not sure if there can be anything resembling objective history, but I think Jodorowsky’s assertion that seeking identity in our nationality is misguided. We are certainly products of our culture, but confusing our culture with our country will only cause more atrocities.
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