skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having a two-tier system (if that's how you want to picture the internet) is still a valid way of scaling, as Satoshi said:

"At that stage, most users should start running client-only software and only the specialist server farms keep running full network nodes, kind of like how the usenet network has consolidated."

You're right that Bitcoin Cash usually has fewer transactions than Bitcoin Core, though, which alleviates scaling pressure. Similarly, now that people are switching to Bitcoin Cash and altcoins, that same scaling solution is working for Bitcoin Core too.

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> any request from a user requires a total of 2 [sequential] round way trips (one for request, one for response)

Please elaborate? This makes no sense to me. Certainly, this is not the case for terrestrial communication (request/response latency is only 2× the one-way latency).
I think they were speaking more generally.

Corp with huge profits pays nothing

Employees with less pay taxes

Yes that’s the rules but the rules are shit and the whole concept ephemeral and vague to the masses; they don’t see it
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Space is really, really big. Also, 3 dimensions are really "big." If you take feasible theoretical material strengths into account, space stays a lot bigger than practical habitats that have gravity.
I think you might find many do. What more surprises me is how few do.

The end result of all this sort of game playing is not going to be pretty.
Oh man, talk about the devil and the deep blue sea. I despise patent trolls, but I’m pretty disgusted at this point, with Fee2Pay Skinner Boxes. The first stifles innovation and abuses the legal system callously for personal gain, the latter rips people off and callously preys on the young, the dumb, and people with an addictive personality,

Very Freddy vs Jason.
while i agree with your post, "The current counterfeit seller, suiningdonghanjiaju Co Ltd (yeah they sound legit), " could be construed as a racist comment
What was the percentage impact on cash compensation between initial offer and outcome? Do you think the company hiring you went outside the range they originally planned, or did you/10x get them to change how they thought about the role/you?
You can't stop discrimination without addressing the long-term systemic effects of pervasive discrimination.
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It's strange that a company sells its customers counterfeit goods, and we still praise them for "good customer service."
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The API/functional-versus-keyword issue is not about declarative versus imperative. Those are mostly independent issues. Therefore, I'm not following you. Perhaps there's a miscommunication.
It’s outright dangerous to buy that type of product from Amazon, even if you buy “ships and sold from amazon” their inventory mixing means you can get counterfeits just as easily.

If selling fake solar eclipse glasses didn’t hit them with the clue bat, I’m not sure what will.
Still useless from the PoV of this argument until you get to the point where you can buy stuff you need directly in crypto without conversion to fiat. We're a long way from that now, and the closest practical workaround (bitcoin to gift cards to stuff) goes away if the government gets hostile.

The government doesn't have to make it impossible for cypherpunks and superhackers to use bitcoin, it just has to scare normal people. That's easily done with a few laws and some gratuitous enforcement, e.g., throw a few thousand people in jail for tax evasion, watch how long it takes for these casual hodlers to liquidate. That's 90% of the battle won, and 90% will probably be enough.
Morals and opinions aren't facts. Your correlation of these works doesn't make sense.
It is abhorrent to hire one of two very similar people, but prefer the black to overcome the huge bias for white people? In an attempt to redress the 100s of years of imbalance?

But it is not abhorrent to treat black people like shit and disclude them from many roles for many years?
This has no information about the qualifications, details of how the service works, or price. At least not on mobile. And the one link (to a form) delivers an error page. Maybe the YouTube video has that info (??)
...and according to that calculator, at 2gs it would take just over 7 years in the ship's frame of reference; at 3gs, slightly less than 5.

If you really want to get things over with quick, 10gs will get you there in well under 2 years. I wonder if that's survivable, if you were under water the whole time with a scuba tank or something?
It's hurting their brand, even if they haven't realised.

I don't want 3 attempts and returns to buy a battery, or charger, or any of the dozens of categories this affects. I don't want to be buying co-mingled inventory on lines I know are prone to counterfeiting.

So I think of Amazon as 2nd rate - (because of this). So do many of my friends who have been affected by this as it's become far from rare.
My mileage apparently varies, because I've been shopping heavily on Amazon for years and have never had a counterfeit item show up on my doorstep.
Jordan Peterson is that you?
The NHS does that because there’s already a massive problem with too high demand and too little supply. Making health care “free” distorts incentives — so they have to come up with clever ways to implement barriers to care: waiting lists, attempts at convincing people of self care, etc. Does that NHS website provide a prescription to Tamiflu as well? Does the website know our medical history?

If people paid directly for visits, there’s a built in incentive to reserve doctor visits for when they are actually necessary, rather than the British system of “free” (provided you can jump through enough hoops to actually earn an appointment.)

Using the NHS as a model of “good” health care is laughable. What’s “good” about the NHS is that it’s “free.” It isn’t actually good when it comes to access to care or advanced treatments. Compare cancer death rates of the UK vs the US, for example. The French system where you actually have to pay some money for appointments is far better — you don’t have to wait weeks to visit a GP: I can get pediatrician appointments generally same day. That is literally impossible in the UK. I also am not getting referred to a “website” to solve my kids’ illnesses — I am not an idiot, I know how to google. I am not going to waste my time going to a doctor unless I actually feel that the doctor can provide some value.

Want to better allocate a scarce resource? Make people pay a price that reflects the available supply instead of making it “free” but with convoluted access models.
Counterfeit products [1] and scams [2] are persistent problems on Amazon. It's very unfair to the legitimate merchants who are trying to compete without screwing over customers. They've been yelling at Amazon for YEARS to do something about this. Presumably Amazon decided that making it harder to sign up as a third-party seller would hurt their metrics more than it would help customers.

[1] https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/amazon-counterfeits-no-starch...

[2] https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/amazon-fraud-scam-sellers.htm...
While it's clearly not genuinely discriminatory to filter people based on math skills, this is something that gets pushed internally at some companies by the people they hire to improve their diversity. They see that the people they "want to hire" can't pass some standard so they call it discriminatory. It's an easy way for them to show "success".
That you know of.
Nice post. You should post some plotter stuff on Twitter. ;)
I designed a hardware product but haven't brought it to market because even if it is successful, Chinese manufacturers will reverse engineer it and then have a cheaper clone on the market within weeks, long before I can recoup even the cost of manufacturing, let alone make a profit. And since I can't afford to pursue legal action, it seems pointless to manufacture the product, and everybody loses. I wonder how much innovation is stifled this way.
I know an Indian guy with a Spanish name. Not sure if he recently decided to be trans as well ;-) I guess YMMV.
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I didn't have the visual issues so it was enjoyable for me to read.

My spaced repetition system requires that I copy ideas I want to recall. I'm sharing my summary of the main ideas in case they help you.

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# Learning by Building Connection

New ideas have to connect with what’s already there — they cannot be stored, as if in a filing cabinet.

Throwing facts at people doesn’t work. You have to:
* connect ideas to other ideas and everyday things

* understand an idea in multiple ways (e.g. words, visuals, etc.)

* once you make connections, you have to maintain them

* you don’t need to unlearn connections to make room for new ones

# Maintaining what you learned

Recalling is better for retention than re-reading. Spacing effect shows that we forget things quickly the first time we see it, but if you exert effort to recall things spaced over increasing intervals of time, you retain a lot more than if you were cramming.

# Learning through deep connections

You have to process ideas on a deep level to make them stick. A great way to learn something at a deeper level is to explain it to someone.
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> a trial group of (iirc) something like 40k employees

Oh boy.
IRIX, like all SRV4, has a perfectly adequate package manager.

In the SGI case it is called "inst"
I think it could be CONSTRUED as a racist comment, but the person thinking of it that way would be really stretching, in my opinion.

1. All of these counterfeit items are coming from China.

2. The legit seller is ElevationLab, which "suiningdonghanjiaju Co Ltd" is not.

3. "suiningdonghanjiaju Co Ltd" is a Chinese name.

4. "suiningdonghanjiaju Co Ltd" is a very customer-unfriendly name -- not something you'd see from a big foreign-facing Chinese company.

So all in all, it doesn't seem racist at all to point out that this company name seems illegitimate.

If the author had MADE UP a "Chinese-sounding name" like "nihaobaobaomao," then yeah, I could follow an argument pointing out that statement as being reasonably construed as racist. But in the context of talking about Chinese companies producing cheap knock-offs, I don't see a problem with naming the company and pointing out that the name itself does not sound like a legit company at all.
Pretty cool project and it's super cool you used Glitch to host it and share it.
I know this is not popular, but honestly how do you stop discrimination against women and others? It is easy to say “stop doing this,” but does that happen?
Bush 2 tried this in 2002 and lifted it in 2003 because the unintended consequences were worse. Obama also tried targeted tariffs, they were lifted. This just a way to tax specific vertical industries and reward others, picking and choosing winners. And taxes are ultimately paid by American consumers.

Also, most steel imports come from Canada, Mexico and Brazil, not China.

In a normal administration, this would get lifted when the retaliation begins and it becomes clear the only way to win is not to play. But...
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> I know it's not them making the mistake

It is absolutely Amazon making this mistake. They are responsible for their supply chain, and customers have higher expectations of them then they do of a flea market.
> Once workers have surpassed their deductibles, they pay an average $24 copay for a primary care office visit, $37 for a specialty care office visit,

Note that, as stated in the article you linked, the percentage of plans with deductibles has gone up significantly (67%). So your average is really a veiled figure - many people won't come close to spending as much as their deductible on healthcare in a year to ever actually pay those prices.
Tell that to the white and asian males who get rejected on the basis of their race and gender despite having worked their entire lives to be the most qualified and technically adept candidate.

I'm pretty sure impostor syndrome is a problem they would love to have.

Instead they got the entire course of their careers (and lives) stepped on by bigoted racists and sexists.

I know your comment has to be the top one because it turns this whole thing back into more sympathy for women and minorities, but this is literally an article about white and asian males being overtly discriminated against on the basis of race and gender. Can some of the conversation be about that?
(former Uber engineer)

Data lived in many databases across the company. Vertica, hive, schemaless, Cassandra, etc. The value in a column might refer to an id in an entirely different system. When you have (tens of?) thousands of tables owned by hundreds of teams, documentation is neither homogeneous nor centralized.
Bud Beer, Kisses, Apple Macs Caught Up in Aluminum Tariff Plan
This is happening because Trump and his supporters want to get the US back to the 50's when the country was a huge exporter.

The problem is the 50's were an aberration. That's because all the other major industrial powers had been devastated or at least impoverished by WWII. But they rebuilt, and new industrial powers like China arose, and so we got back to the normal state of affairs of lots of competition.
But wouldn't having a lot of consumer mindshare contribute to their cloud infrastructure being more attractive? People choose names they recognize.
Pythonist feedback required for a python package(prodict)
I created the Prodict(https://github.com/ramazanpolat/prodict) in an effort to stop repeating myself.
Since I am relatively new to Python(3 months), I need some feedback about the project to make it better.
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I should, but I'm frankly too lazy to get it done! I've really enjoyed browsing your post history — awesome work!
How to Convert Keynote to PDF on MacOS Sierra?
Really glad to see this here. I have seen so many stories about small companies being destroyed by a large company that they feel they must close a deal with.

I would love to see a lot more articles about the pitfalls of a new company investing too much in landing a big client and all that can go wrong with it. I regularly see questions on HN where a small company is basically under the thumb of a larger one and asking for advice on how to be even more of a doormat. They imagine they can't say no. They imagine if they are sufficiently cooperative they will finally have it made in the shade. The reality is they are often well on their way to going from frying pan to fire.

I think this is a huge, huge pitfall that small companies face. There needs to be a great deal more education, not only about the fact that this is a serious problem, but also about how to cope more effectively with large clients while you are still a small fry. So many new companies feel thrilled and flattered when a large company takes interest in them when they really ought to be much more concerned about the ways this can go badly for them.

There is an African saying: When elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled. Far too many small companies fail to recognize that behemoth companies are threatening to trample them under foot. It is the business version of "winning the lottery."
What's the hardware product? It's not like the counterfeit version will take over your product that fast and you'll always be able to keep a local market.