skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My opinion is that this drop is going to strengthen cryptocurrencies/tokens as a whole. There are a number of things that have happened leading to this drop since the high the first week in Jan. Some of the most recent:

- Tether auditor quits/is fired.

- It is revealed that Tether may have manufactured $1B worth of Tether, which it sold for Bitcoin on Bitfinex, leading to much of the gain in Bitcoin.

- SEC investigating several recent ICOs, they were nothing but scams.

- China is restricting access to non-Chinese exchanges.

- Similar restrictions in Korea.

- Stripe drops support for Bitcoin. [edit]

- Bitcoin settlement times and transaction fees are skyrocketing.

- Credit card companies no longer letting you buy cryptocurrencies.

And those are just off the top of my head.

Businesses and governments are still trying to figure this all out. Once they do, cryptocurrencies will come out stronger because they've negotiated this and have answers for these questions, or the weak ones have died off because of it.

Much like the SCO lawsuit being good for Linux. For a white it was a lot of drama and fear, but in the end Linux came out stronger because it had been through it.

IMHO.
This appears to be an interesting comparison. Microsoft Cloud includes Office 365 subscriptions.. Which can have some 'cloud' components, but also gets installed on your PC. Likewise, I have never heard of someone running a startup out of salesforce.com, or Oracle.com. I would guess they are cloud based offerings of their software stacks.

I guess 'cloud' can be said about all of them, but as a tech, I would consider true 'cloud' to be full Infrastructure as a Service.. not just applications as a service.
I can't dispute the statement if it happens to be vacuously true https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuous_truth

It's true people can assign value. It's not necessarily true that they will.
Apple announced support for PCI in 1993 with their original PPC road map. The first gen of PPC Macs were Nubus for backwards compatibility but the second gen in 1995 were PCI. Apple allowed third party Mac clone makers to make hybrid Nubus/PPC Macs.

The first generation iPod was FireWire not USB and always had a proprietary file system for actually adding music and forced you to use either iTunes or MusicMatch (Windows) to add music.

Apple is no different than Googke or Microsoft. They use open source when it suits them but none of the major companies outsource their Crown Jewels.

But even if you go back to 1984, all of the other computer makers that made non generic clones are out of business except for Apple. So that's still 35+ years of Apple going thier own way.
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Cheers, I'll have to look more at that. It's neat the source is available too!
Right now we have high prices. We're also in the boomer retirement period, of 2014-2023 or so. I wonder what it's going to take to cause boomers to get skittish and panic sell their portfolio. In 2008, they still had time. Now it's a bit different.
I found it akward when running docker "standalone". However after I learned about k8s, all the things started to make sense.
So my advice is, start using it. If it doesn't click at least try to use it in k8s, if you still can't grasp it you probably do not need it.
You really don't want a used mining rig GPU, but yes, the prices will go down overall as the market gets flooded with used GPUs.
These are total BS numbers, speaking as someone in the business. IBM is guilty of a lot of financial engineering (far more than any of the technological sort) grouping a diverse pool of unrelated "income" as "cloud".

Cloudwashing is not the same as market share.

P.S. It wouldn't surprise me if the author/PR flack was/is retained by IBM.
Cigarettes are valuable, they’re just harmful as well. There are also legitimate medical uses of cigarettes for schizophrenics and perhaps others. It’s a dubious product at best, and a really poor choice for most, but some people enjoy smoking. Nuclear bombs are harmful and destructive, but hey do have a use regardless of any consensus regarding their imagined value.

What can you do with a Bitcoin when no one wants to buy it from you? Try smoking it? A better analogy to Btc using cigarettes would be collecting the heat from burning cigarettes and trying to sell that.
Keep in mind that OT relies on a centralized server where as CRDTs do not.
Was 35 I think. They temporary halted inverse derivatives like SVXY.
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From my reading of the docs, Automerge will arbitrarily pick a "winning" document in the case of a conflict, but guarantees that the same winner will be chosen if the merge were to occur, for instance, in a different order:

// Pretend doc1 and doc2 are already Automerge objects
let doc1 = { x: 1 }
let doc2 = { x: 2 }

// x will be either 1 or 2 (arbitrarily chosen), but
// res1 will always == res2 regardless of choice
let res1 = Automerge.merge(doc1, doc2)
let res2 = Automerge.merge(doc2, doc1)

res1 == res2 // true

However, there may be cases where you want to manually resolve conflicts, and if that is the case, the `_conflicts` property is there so that you can undo whatever merge occurred automatically and set the "winner" yourself.
Certainly there are overlaps in what you accomplish with both technologies, and the push/pull analogy isn't necessarily the best analogy to explain the distinction, but it's the best one I currently have.

Async Iterators/Generators are seen as "pull" because your "main thread" has to actively consume it (you `for await` results), whereas with Rx Stream/Observables your "main thread" passively subscribes to updates.

It probably still seems like a semantic distinction at that, especially as you can relatively easily convert between them. However, a lot of the big differences come down to how each technology deals with A) pressure (lots of items/events), and B) scheduling "intermediate" work (iterables do more work on the "main thread"; streams/observables are better at/have more tools for chunking work on a scheduler/thread pool outside of the "main thread").

Which is also why JS isn't exactly the best language to discuss the differences between async iterators and streams/iterables, because a lot of those biggest differences/distinctions aren't very important in mostly-single-threaded browser JS, which is its most common problem domain.
Most of these areas were only “a part of the Russian empire” because Russia had previously invaded them. You seem to have completely forgotten the Partitions of Poland, the numerous uprisings in the 19th Century, and the defeat of the Soviet Army by Poland following WWI, which thus curtailed Soviet expansion. Clearly the Poles did not want to be a part of the Russian empire. The same story is essentially true to a varying degree for most other cultures in the area.
DROP TABLE; noemit
I want reasonably priced GPUs for machine learning, so I'm hoping GPU miners will flood the market to liquidate their assets (most can probably get back their much of their sunken costs if they sell now) rather than risk mining it when the price looks like it could go even lower.
Not a crash, but the gains of January have just been wiped out in the few days of February trading.
A few years ago, I had an employer come up with the idea of a web application firewall that involved routing all of the customer's traffic through our network. I don't think I've ever been as horrified to be in Ops as I was that day. Thankfully it never came to pass; the architecture was changed. The idea of being in a role where all we could do is make the end user experience worse was fairly terrifying. (Leaving aside the possible benefits of caching of cloudflare-style caching, of course).
The article says in addition to this one agency it will still be investigated by the FTC and is being investigated by EVERY state's Attorney Gerneral in the country. They are far from getting away unscathed.

It's also not clear what actions the consumer protection agency may still pursue. This article only mentions that they held off on doing an on the ground investigation of how they do data storage. Still plenty of options available to them without that...
This is a Forbes "contributor" article, meaning it's got no more vetting by Forbes editors than my post here. Basically Forbes contributors are people who like making up clickbait.

I'm surprised he didn't include Apple's services revenues as "cloud computing" (after all, it includes iCloud!), so he could declare it the winner!
The flip side being that people are more likely to update if their computer sounds like it's going to "melt down" than if it's vulnerable to a "cache side channel attack".
> - Square drops support for Bitcoin.

You're thinking of Stripe. Square is announcing their plans to use Bitcoin in their cash app.
It is acceptable to put all your eggs in one basket if the basket has been engineered to preserve the eggs through a variety of catastrophes.

But in this instance, the single stock is a holding company that is already diversified across several industries. Anything that would negatively impact Berkshire Hathaway to a greater extent than the market as a whole is likely to be the product of intentional malice. As it is now, it's akin to an extremely actively managed mutual fund, in that they generally have at least one seat on the board--or at least VIP seats at the shareholder meeting--for anything they invest in.
It depends on what you mean by things you are most afraid of. I think these fears can be broken into two classes, one being phobias (fear of heights, public speaking etc) which are more "irrational" fears, and the other being events that provoke anxiety stemming from fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) which are very rational fears. The former are not really necessary to deal with unless they negatively impact your quality of life (and they mostly just get solved through desensitization via repeat exposure anyway); the latter are absolutely worth dealing with proactively and logically.

Fundamentally, people are afraid of events associated with FUD because they perceive that dealing with them will yield emotional trauma, failure, negative social outcomes, or all of the above. Frequently this is based on past negative outcomes in trying to deal with these problems or watching others fail in trying to deal with these problems, so a defense mechanism gets built up which tries to avoid the context all together via anxiety, procrastination, or denial.

In my experience, almost all of my fears associated with FUD have significantly negatively affected my quality of life, and contrary to my emotional reactions and assumptions, I have dramatically improved my quality of life by tackling them. These would include fears surrounding starting a business; career changes; sexual desires; dating and relationships; acknowledging health problems; conflict at work; and acknowledging psych defects, biases, and inefficient models of thinking.

The way I tend to approach these problems is by logically deconstructing the problem into it's component parts without emotion, finding best practice ways of tackling each component, and trying to implement that methodology as to give me the highest probability for success. I also find it helpful to enlist close friends for emotional support and to see how they have dealt with similar problems in the past. While I stumbled frequently with this technique and did indeed experience short term unhappiness, in the long term I was able to successfully deal with most of my major problems which made me substantially happier.
Well, you've got both today :) BTC hit a daily low of 6600 at about the same time that the Dow bottomed out.
I once heard it described as "the market is on sale right now".
It becomes clearer every day now: When Trump said "I will drain the swamp", he was simply not aware that he is the swamp that will be drained shortly and once and for all.
Hydropower is renewable, but it's not very scalable (once you've dammed up your biggest rivers, that's it, you're done; hydro has been capped in the US for decades because of this). Hydropower is also quite ecologically damaging, though in the local sense rather than the global greenhouse gas sense.
Oh, my bad. The bold text on top says they "seemed to offer no resistance this time," which made it sound like they could have. I should have read on and seen your quote.
“Hello World” Spotted on United Airlines Login Site
If you're an employee trying to purchase flights, you go to https://login.ual.com/oamsso-bin/login.pl?contextType=external&username=string&password=secure_string&challenge_url=https%3A%2F%2Flogin.ual.com%2Foamsso-bin%2Flogin.pl&request_id=-8483851944568476286&authn_try_count=0&locale=en_US&resource_url=https%253A%252F%252Fflyingtogether.ual.com%252F

But if you backspace out all of the nonsense: https://login.ual.com/

Hello World!
Take things in context, i.e. when faced with jumping off the airplane with or without parachute, you definitely want to choose the safer option.

When people talk about choosing the harder path, it's normally around finding your weakness and fix it, or at least be able to admit and be comfortable with your shortcomings. Having too many insecurities make you mentally weak.

There is also greater sense of accomplishment after succeeding something hard.

On more practical side, every now and then, life presents you an easy choice and a hard choice, like starting a new venture versus staying at a comfortable job; cutting down on expenses to stay focused on school versus work more hours on a menial job for better material comfort; follow others versus taking charge. The harder choices normally have better rewards.

Again, take things in context, use your critical thinking to understand your choices, don't just apply advises blindly.
I haven't looked at the numbers released by Microsoft, but I'd bet that the MS numbers include software licensing revenue and since Amazon just provides infrastructure, they have no software revenue... So when you launch a SQL/Server instance in AWS, that's "cloud revenue" for Microsoft.
True for the ones that were listed there. It's unfortunate that the networks that are getting the most pub weren't built with anonymity and plausible deniability in mind.
> That being said; When I'm in the car driving, using the navigation package is much more seamless than doing it on the phone. My Mercedes is all voice controlled and works very well. Press button on steering wheel -> say "Enter destination" -> say "123 main st city ville" -> Route mapped. There's a few more steps to do this on mobile, so I prefer to use the car's navigation system.

I almost never route a destination while driving so this workflow seems odd to me. When I need directions I know it before I even get in the car and most of the time I have an email or text message with the address so it's literally 1-click to open maps. In addition to that it's just as easy to say "hey Siri" or "ok Google" and ask for directions as it is to press a button.

Also the voice recognition in my Nissan is somewhere between mud and potato.
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No they are not.
In this article, they talk about encoded blur.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/Mask/

About halfway down the page you can see the out-of-focus point source looks identical to the coded aperture.

While not lensless photography, this seems like a good starting point for those interested in these techniques, especially if I can load the PSF into ImageJ.
That's implied but the context is shaky. What if, as the comment says, the format string did change from the original spec?
Electricity is reasonably fungible. Hydro power is cheaper locally because you lose energy in transmission, but if they where not using it that energy would be shipped out and replace peaking power.
I completely agree.

Microsoft and this article try very hard to fuzz the meaning of "cloud computing" to make their numbers look prettier. If we start counting Office 365, than Gmail should also be counted, as is Amazon Prime related products (Cloud Drive, for example). Why stop there? Isn't the whole Google search on "the cloud"? Isn't the whole Amazon retail shopping on "the cloud"?

Counting only AWS and GCP against "Microsoft cloud" and salesforce is more financial marketing than anything else.
Will the difficulty adjust downward again?
We've already seen something similar before: when Apple "modernized" many of the their Cocoa Touch APIs to work better with Swift.
I'd far rather my car be useful without my phone. I've switched phone platforms back and forth a number of times, and my car works as it's supposed to. The technology in phones is cheap, and it's trivial to integrate it into cars, there's no reason to go looking to Apple or Google here.

Car companies do need to get with the times on software updates being free. If they don't want to spring for embedded 4G, it's likely using your phone as a hotspot or even connecting to your home wireless when you're nearby to get updates is pretty reasonable.
Yes, I used Plex for a couple of years, but it was not really "standalone" ... I had to have a media server (my Mac Mini) running constantly. I looked into Kodi on the AppleTV but it was not trivial to install.

Overall it was easier to just purchase an Android TV device (Nvidia Shield).

I too find that Netflix, a few niche players and the odd movie rental from Google Play covers virtually all of my needs, but there's always something that comes up (someone brings some USB stick over or whatever) which Apple TV doesn't support.

It's odd that Google can develop a TV platform that supports all file formats easily, multiple players etc. and with Apple you still have to jump through hoops to play a file ...
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One could argue Bob provided a valuable service by calculating some hard to calculate sums which could then be used by others securely.
They still need a better overall algorithm. I often find myself in an imagined battle with the daily mix list clicking no to every song it suggests in an attempt to train it away from the endless stream of top 50 pop trash. Once it just stopped playing completely, I decided to take that as a minor moral victory.
It's the Cathy Newman school of conversation.
"Take down" feels bit dramatic; ultimately CF discontinuing service leaves the sites to same position that they would be without CF in the first place. The operators are still free to continue running the site as they see fit, just not with CFs service. Sure, there is a (short) interruption for the site as the operators need to reconfigure systems, but I feel like that is fairly minor issue in the scale of things.
Is there a torrent of this so I could help host?
> I suspect this is due to traders taking their yearly profits

Thought that happened in December, not February. A short year for traders this year, I guess.

(unintentional pun)
The Amazon IoT button quickstart guide is a tutorial for making the button send an email to an address of your choice, so arguably this already exists.
Picking distinct numbers at random: benchmarking a brilliant algorithm
Crypto and taxes: What you need to know?
Earl Woods wasn't swinging the club for Tiger.

Don't know enough about Mozart to know if his father actually wrote and played 90% of his works.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by 2 keys. Is it two key/value pairs or hierarchal 2 keys per value?

If it is 2 keys per value, you can simply `unite()` the key columns.

If it is two sets of key/values you simply spread twice.

`df %>% spread(key1, val1) %>% spread(key2, val2)`

tidy og dplyr are very much about composing things, so you do have to think a bit outside of the box of "which function" to use and rather "which functions" to use.
AWS KMS
I took a teaching position on a whim and I was deathly afraid of public speaking. The first 3 classes or so I just about had a panic attack before each class. However by the end of the semester everything was running smooth and I'm no longer afraid of public speaking in any context.

Overcoming irrational fears is a huge part of personal development.
But could you get an article about it in the new yorker, or get financing? It might be a largely purposeless, technically primitive product, but it provides something for management to buy, and numbers to put in reports.
This is true, thank you. I seem to conflate SimCity and the Civ games, for some reason, they seem to occupy a lot of the same spaces in my head.

That said, the fact that you can always pause at any time and there's never much time pressure to respond quickly to events does mean that the low framerate doesn't have much impact on the gameplay.
Hardly unique to Trump in the grand scheme and longer term view.

The only reason we know this was because of a change in plans but we never hear about the thousands of other times where it never gets even close to that for other serious abuses by politically connected organizations and individuals.

The article also mentions the FTC and 50 states are still investigating Equifax so its not like they have been given a pass yet. Nor has the consumer protection agency given them a pass yet either, this article only said they chose not to pursue one particular investigation option planned by a previous admin, not that they have abandoned the whole investigation.
most sources seem to be paywalled.. I am not an expert on this subject.

http://psycnet.apa.org/buy/1992-08554-001

thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/familyfacts/briefs/FF_Brief_43.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSo5gzJ1M1s
Dim light may make us dumber
We're going to see this kind of thing happening more and more as Cloudflare receives takedown requests from every copyright association. By taking down websites, it signaled to the industry that Cloudflare was a viable place to go to if they wanted things to be removed from the Internet. Cloudflare dug this hole for themselves, and it's going to be very hard for them to go back to the "dumb pipe" status they enjoyed before.
It's grim to see how unprepared websites are for sudden activity like this. I'm having a tough time logging in to my accounts.
I use "sweetie" all the time because I live in a house with 3 girls and no guys. It's a tough habit to break when I go to work.
Last time MS tried not to cannibalize their own market, they failed to show up for the Internet in the 1990s Netscape/Google era. If they are cannibalizing their own market now, it means they have learned how to stay afloat as times change.

That's important, especially if you assume that Cloud is where future growth lies, and on-prem installed software/hardware is not.

In all this, "Revenue" is a silly word, since in the Cloud world, you've got comingled hardware rentals and software licensing, which have very different profit margins.
In my Tesla, I usually forget I can ask it to navigate somewhere for me, and instead ask my phone. Part of this is even in the Tesla, Android still does a better job. Part of this is the Tesla is just harder to make do the job.

Unless I'm going long distance and need to route through superchargers, or know what my charge will be at the destination. Then the integration with the car is critical.
VISA and Mastercard reclassify Bitcoin as a currency
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I believe the phrase ``reinventing the wheel'' emphasizes the difficulty of optimizing something that is fundamental, widely used, and has been tackled by armies of engineers.
I'll explain my counterexample further.

I work at an office of a large tech company. I've worked in this office for almost 10 years at this point, and was here as we acquired 3/4 of the building (we shared with 3 other tenants when I started, and now are renting the entire building). We did some massive renovations when the previous tenants left, and I was in-office during the buildout. There are cameras at some entrances. There are cameras in the lab. There are not cameras anywhere in the main office areas.

I'm part of "anyone", and so are my several hundred coworkers here, and the hundreds that have worked here in the past.