skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Environmental regulations are a great example because large parts of the US population are in communities tied to industries that were eventually saddled with environmental regulations. Many of those people believe that the regulations are part of why their industries declined. For them, the environmental regulations are not highly defensible.

Similarly in tech, many of the people arguing against regulations are economically incentivized to minimize the regulations. FB knew exactly what they were doing, third party developers at the time sounded the alarm [1] about how FB's API structure guaranteed that abuse would happen. What we're seeing now is the digital equivalent of BP Deepwater, where people warned about the safety before the incident and no one cared.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/facebooks-new-privacy-...
What a silly article. The metric they use for reaching the conclusion that bitcoin is the biggest (??) bubble in history is... peak multiple of an arbitrarily defined "starting value"...

I don't know what's worse, the cargo cult of bitcoin or the reactionary hate.
They are trying new things and going back on some if it did not work out. Really love the mobile app. Although, it's buggy at times mostly on gifs and videos. I like the mobile app
As of this writing there are at least 3 other replies peppering you with suggestions you've almost certainly already known about & tried without success.

I'm not going to suggest anything. I feel bad for you, and just wanted to say so. I'm fairly convinced I would be either homeless or dead if I couldn't get enough sleep, and the fact that you at least aren't the latter is inspiring to me.

Your life seems impossibly difficult to me, and so I wish you all the best success in regularly finding a tranquil oasis to bide your time in along your way.
GPU prices dropped 25% in March: https://wccftech.com/nvidia-amd-gpu-prices-down-25-in-march-...

The bitmain ethereum asic is probably a large factor: https://www.coindesk.com/bitmain-confirms-release-first-ever...
abstruse not obtuse /nit
Does Nvidia have an obligation to make AMD graphics cards work if they happened to have worked with some version, at some point in time?
I imagine part and parcel of this unhappiness is that it is taboo - you have to create a throwaway account or otherwise find an anonymous forum in which to express it.
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HN users have been pounding loudly on the anti-Facebook wardrums. Where did you imagine that going?
This meme needs to die. Fingerprints are a perfectly fine authentication factor. They are unique enough and require effort to fake.

Consider a simple fingerprint USB vault which stores your keys:

* Factor 1: You must have physical possession of my vault.

* Factor 2: You must be me or have a convincing fake of my fingerprint.

Before we even think about a password I've already prevented almost all of the attacks I'm likely to ever encounter against my accounts.

* I have made it impossible for someone to casually break into my accounts/device.

* I've created enormous distance between myself and remote attackers.

* I've eliminated password reuse and contained the effect of data breaches to the service that was breached.

* I've made it much more difficult for network operators to carry out MitM attacks since tokens are origin bound and the challenges are real-time with replay protection.

Yes in a forum of nerds you can point out that lifting fingerprints is possible but if everyone switched to this simple U2F device the world would be far far more secure. Passwords optional.

Then if you're worried about a more sophisticated attackers like corporate espionage or governments you can add a password.
Absolutely zero caffeine or stimulants. Caffeine makes me feel sick so I've never gotten into the habit of drinking it and I've found it doesn't really help my "alertness" when I'm tired anyway.
If the Internet is a series of tubes, well, Bitcoin is a series of bubbles.
Free yourself from indentured servitude, wake when you want, work late into the night. That is your optimal lifestyle, make it a goal.
When somebody makes a post about purchasing something using money, do you wade into the discussion to call them slavers and murderers because of capitalism's unsavory history?
My take on this earlier this year: https://www.nullauth.org/
> In Germany, you would not call yourself a senior but apply for a position as senior.

Interesting. Anybody know why that is? Seems to happen in the US.
Boeing had a competing transsonic design that lost to the 787. We hit $4/gal for gas during planning and airlines were interested in operating costs. Not shaving 90 minutes off an intercontinental flight.
What precision have you got? I have a m3800 running Fedora 27 pretty smooth. Trackpad support is better than on Windows to my surprise. Additionally it clogs on Windows but does not on Linux so that's a plus.

Wayland is working fine, hdmi-out, no prop. Have not found time to test the dp however.
"The history of Facebook involves many apologies. After a while, they begin to sound the same." https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-a-history-of-mark-zucke...
If you think, even for a moment, that nobody has ever compiled and distributed a compilation of leaked credentials then I have a bridge to sell you.
> What's the culmination of all this?
> What's even the point [...]

I can assure you that the answer to your question leads to something that you don't want to endure.

I receive my dopamine from browsing on HN. Is this better? If I would be an AI that is able to simulate real interaction and you wouldn't know it, it wouldn't change anything. reminds me of https://xkcd.com/810/
I want them to be transparent about such issues and then let me buy a new battery at the apple store when it gets to that point. They don't want to make this happen, they want me to buy a new phone.
Meh. Down vote me all you like but... I don't really understand the outrage. If you're not paying, you're the product. It's fairly obvious. All your data belong to them and they can basically do whatever they want with it because ToS, EULA, no data privacy laws, etc. This situation is their actual business model. The EU is making law like GDPR[0] to actually make this illegal but afaik there is no similar law in the States. What we need is something like GDPR or a HIPPA[1] equivalent for general personal data.

One outcome here is the public outrage punishes FB market cap to the extent that FB self regulates and Congress takes action. The former is far more likely than the later nevertheless both will surely fail to adequately protect the public. A more advantageous outcome is better tech that provides FB like features in a decentralized fashion. Perhaps an OSS system that spins up encrypted vm's with FB/Twitter/Email like functionality all paid for via cryptocurrency is a future I would really like to see. I liked what Sandstorm was doing in this space[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_a...

[2] https://sandstorm.io/
I gave my comment merely to provoke some thought about why people and industries may live where they live, and not near to each other.
Can someone help me understand, is the "breakthrough" this? :

>t is the world’s first and only experiment to have achieved the necessary sensitivity to “hear” the telltale signs of dark matter axions. This technological breakthrough is the result of more than 30 years of research and development, with the latest piece of the puzzle coming in the form of a quantum-enabled device that allows ADMX to listen for axions more closely than any experiment ever built.

Basically, is the purpose to announce that a new higher-fidelity device has come online? If that's the case, I feel mildly bamboozled... creation of a newer, better tool doesn't to me indicate any new "discoveries" regarding dark matter.

I'm pretty bad at understanding anything "physics" above the most basic classical stuff though so it's very possible I'm totally off base here.
Viewed on a logarithmic scale it looks like an adjustment back to the trend-line:

https://blockchain.info/en/charts/market-price?timespan=all&...
This year's F1 cars are faster than they were last year, when the lap record by Lewis Hamilton (in qualifying) was 1:42.553. Spa is a long circuit, it's not impossible that the F1s take back the record at the end of August.

In the two races so far, the qualifying lap times were about 1s and .8s faster than last year. A similar improvement for Spa would break the 1.41.770 time of the 919.

Either way, that Porsche is a fantastic monster of a car. I'd really love to see Porsche enter and compete in F1.
The graphics card I want retails for $700. It is getting more and more possible to find it at that price, but NEWEGG is still charging $1,000 for it.

So I think its a little premature to say that Graphics Cards unaffected by crypto.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/cryptocurrency-minin...
The assets for Myst at least should be in decent shape, or at least the ones used in the real-time 3D Myst Live (I think that was the title) remake from a few years back.

I seem to recall hearing that there wouldn't be a similar Riven remake, due to loss of the source assets from that game. I assume the new package will be using the same GOG versions you can get now, with the original stills.

It's also worth checking out the fan-run Starry Expanse project[0], which is an attempt to manually recreate the entirety of Riven in a modern 3D environment. Progress is very slow, but already looks quite impressive.

I'm really excited to see that they've finally got the rights to III and IV, which I always felt were the technical/visual peak of the series.

[0] http://www.starryexpanse.com/
You're right. They are supposed to get you used to a sleep schedule, not to force you to sleep every night. They can't be used forever. As someone else already suggested, meditation might be worth trying. Some people find it harder to calm their thoughts, but those are usually the most benefited.
Is it 'popping' or has it popped? The other example bubbles don't all drop to zero. Notably that 'gold' bubble (that I admit I've never heard of). I'll say it has popped with certainty only when it's been years and the price hasn't risen again.

Also what's with the Mississippi Company value having distinctive step-like patterns? I assume they represent the banks refusing to pay for long periods
That's not what gaslighting means.
>But they purchase Renewable Energy Certificates to offset

>their use of non-renewable energy, so they can make the

>claim that their net consumption of non-renewable

> electricity is negative.

Yes, or than can get a (or create ;)) a power consumption plan. I mean in Germany there are various plans like they exist for telecommunication providers. Of course the power is in part nuclear, from coal etc. but as you say the net consumption can be 0. Greenpeace Energy has as far as I know the most progressive interpretation of that as they make sure new power plants are built.
Nasa also has an interesting free ebook about the previous sonic boom research: https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/nasa-ebook-quieting-the-...
Most other cryptos are heavily linked to Bitcoin's price. If the Bitcoin bubble bursts, it's fairly safe to say miners are going to start dumping the mining equipment used for other coins, so yes, the ripple effect.
One important thing to know that many are not aware, is that banks don't trade on their public research. Because it's useless. Nobody made any money trading banks research ever.

If you have a real investment idea, you don't broadcast it to the world.
I do not like reddit's mobile website, especially "Open app" thing at the bottom. I personally like desktop website > mobile app > .... > mobile website
I have done this many times. Failing each time. The last failure left me with a job at 1/2 of my previous salary. And that after burning thru savings.

What I have discovered. No matter how well your product meets the needs of your market. It is sales that will make your company. And sales can be a lot harder than it seems. Even in a b to b business where companies stand to make $, using your product.

What I am working on now... my free by age 50 plan (i am 42). Create enough streams of income to not need a job. If you don’t want to work. Become anti-fragile... no debt, not reliant on a single source of income(job). So, I am not quitting the crappy job anytime soon. Reduce expenses, save more, create income streams in your spare time. The Mr money mustache blog has this figured out. You can do anything you want, after you have secured your future forever.
This kind of volatility is nothing new for Bitcoin. This kind of volatility in an asset with that market cap is fairly rare.
That term is unusual enough that I've never seen it.

So-called full-stack developers are people who build the back-end (server side) as well as the user-facing front-end (client side). As far as I know, it only refers to web development, so the client will usually be a browser or native app.

Based on context, it seems like "full-stack website" means a website that has some business logic on the back-end. This would be distinct from a static site.

(A "static" site does technically have a back-end, but it would just be serving flat HTML/JS/CSS files that are unmodified.)
This is 100% not bullshit.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170272058A1/
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170124010A1/
+1 I could have written this exact same thing.
Understanding of Bitcoin surely can be modeled, and the price and hash rate are parts of that proxy model. Can its uptake be compared to other challenging ideas, such as global climate change, or propagation of more effective forms of government? Does this form of bubble, crash (but not as far), slow up-take, and re-bubble (3x now for Bitcoin) compare at all to how other disruptive concepts have been propagated?
One could argue that technically nothing's illegal in English, since there's no governing body, just what's in common use.

Kind of like civil vs common law too, now that I think about it :)
I owned a company that provided off-shore services to companies in the US, it worked perfectly.

If you are doing off-shoring, you really need to insist on the independence and the ability to speak up of the team, it doesn't work if you get yes-men, sadly that's the general case for India-based offshore companies
love cointracker! super useful while doing my taxes, couldn't have done it without them.
Because he brings that game up at length in the very next article.
It almost seems predatory. Nobody will be drawn to the paid version of OKC unless they weren't having success with the free version, and if someone wasn't having success with the free version then it's extremely unlikely that whatever is in the paid version is going to improve their chances.
This is precisely the kind of stuff that Microsoft is famous for, and it is entirely possible. Heck, third party hardware is what made PCs great. I think, however, that there is a difference in customer base; Microsoft caters to businesses, Apple to consumers.

When Microsoft breaks a third party app/device with a Windows Service Pack, Microsoft needs to fix this otherwise their customers get angry. When Apple breaks a third party app, they require the customer or third party app provider to fix it, because Apple is inherently a company that wants to control the whole stack and doesn’t embrace an open ecosystem.
This provides the information I need to ask quality questions to lawyers and accountants, thank you.

Regarding why to do it, is there a reason you can't just stand up the DE C and that IP agreement as part of the funding round instead of having it in place before?
I mean, if people are deterred by regulation from making apps that don't respect people's data and privacy, I'd consider that a win. For far, far too long, the ethos has been to not worry or care about your users; to not protect their privacy, and to just vacuum up all their data so you can sell it. I'll be more than happy to see those days go away.
I find it disingenous if you claim "continually pushes new tracking URLs as I discover them" and not give the upstream credit.
That's the most absurd article ever. With 3 lines of text and laughable graph. "Years from peak". There have been so many peaks in the history of Bitcoin, what is the reason to think this is the final one? No word on that.

But hey, let's talk about Bitcoin? Why not! It's super interesting. I think there is not enough real debate about it on HN!

I think we are facing a massive wave of change due to the crypto technology that is currently developed. I expect it will be as big or bigger then the internet. But I am skeptical about Bitcoins share in the long run. I doubt we really need the mining. I expect that there will be new technologies that enable crypto without proof of work. And they will become strong competition to Bitcoin.

However, the market is so enormous that even with a small market share, Bitcoin could be worth the $100B it is currently traded for.
The title nor the article make no claim of such a discovery. The "breakthrough" is, as claimed, the technology that will hopefully be used to detect something leading to making a discovery.
I think the choice to not go with Clickhouse deserves a bit more explanation than what was given in the article.

Instead of writing all this code to do roll ups they could’ve used an AggregatingMergeTree table over their raw events table and... gotten back to work.

Cloudflare is using Clickhouse for their DNS analytics and (maybe even by now) soon their HTTP analytics. And the system they migrated off of looked a heck of a lot like this one in the article.

Edit: I should add that I am not saying their decision was wrong. I just think the sentence that was given in the article does not justify the decision by itself on an engineering level.

The data load process of Clickhouse and Citus (in this configuration) are nearly identical. Clickhouse takes CSV files just fine like Citus. The default settings are fine for the volume mentioned in the article of single digit billions of records per day. This would probably fit on a single server if you age out the raw logs after your coarsest aggregate is created. Queries over the AggregatingMergeTree table at five minute resolution will finish in high double digit to low triple digit milliseconds if the server is not being hammered with queries and the time range is days to weeks.
Show HN: Unfollow.xyz – Tools to help clean up who you follow on Twitter
Are you looking for vestigial? I would be inclined to agree with you, except that birds have tetrachromatic vision (as opposed to our trichromatic vision), and it is possible that the beak coloration is visible after all.
Maybe one of the healthcare related cryptocurrencies or ICOs, if that is somewhere you want it to go.
doesn't even qualify as an article. just a chart of some bubbles that have popped implying that bitcoin is the same
>Lands of Lore (the LoL of our time, hehe)

Thank you, I was looking for the name of that game for at least ten years.
Maybe http://idlewords.com/2015/11/the_advertising_bubble.htm ?
I find it ironic that two classes of monopolies (ISPs and Big Web) are being discussed here with diametrically opposed recommendations.

For ISPs, the council is that they should be regulated (e.g. net neutrality, data privacy).

For Facebook, Google, et al. the council is that they shouldn't be regulated (e.g. EU GDPR).

I have yet to see a cogent argument justifying that difference. My suspicion is that it ultimately falls down to "ISPs are unpopular, web companies are popular."

When it comes down to it, regulation promoting consumer privacy, price and TOS transparency, and access by new entrants to the market is almost always beneficial... to the consumer.

Because let's not kid ourselves that Facebook or Google are fundamentally different than someone who owns the last mile of your network connectivity.

Their current behavior might be (mostly) benevolent, but the centralization they've engineered means if they want to maximize monetization tomorrow...
I think we should consider the cost benefit analysis and maybe it makes sense to mandate that boosters throttle back when transiting the ionosphere. Especially if we are going to increase launches by a factor of ten or more.
Lunch break launch on ShowHN!

UNFOLLOW.xyz started as a way for me to take control (and clean up) who I follow on Twitter, but then realized that is a little bit selfish of me so I decided to open it up to everyone.

As you can see by its amazing design, I launched this in a very VERY MVP state.

Right now there is only one tool online. Basically wanting to see if this might be useful for Twitter users, and if so, I'll be releasing more and more tools.

Let me know your thoughts.
And what kind of idiot (I mean, financially uneducated person) does one have to be to plot that on a linear scale (instead of logarithmic)...
Interesting. I wonder if anyone has studied what it would take to render fingerprints useless? Like N minutes/day of sanding with Y grit sandpaper?

Additionally, I was under the impression that some fingerprint readers looked at the blood vessels rather than the actual prints. Not sure how that would be affected by abrasion. Perhaps this is a misunderstanding on my end.
I'm currently working with two developers off-shore (through Upwork). I've used off-shore in the past for small jobs, basically to MVP a feature or so.

For example, I currently have someone building a small raspberry pi program that takes RFID input, and posts the ID and date to our API. I want to demo this to some clients and if it's well received, we'll build it out fully.

I think offshore can be great for small projects like this, I have no experience with larger, longer off shore projects.
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I prefer CoinTracker over Bitcoin.Tax, but I hope they add the ability to import en masse for next year. I use a decentralized exchange (BitShares), and I had to switch from CoinTracker to Bitcoin.Tax because of a few thousand trades I had to track. If I was just trading on Coinbase/Gdax/Bittrex, then I would have stuck with CoinTracker for sure.
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I went to college on an ROTC scholarship, so that's another option (of course, you're an indentured servant to Uncle Sam for 8 years after graduating - that may or may not be worse than obligating yourself to lenders via student loans, depending on your perspective).
You know what a cool application of this would be?

Cameras in your bloodstream that create a distributed 3D image of your entire circulation at once.
Am using namecheap's email service for my personal email and domain, this says it is an invalid email address
I think that certain kinds of lying have already been so normalized (e.g. all of Zuckerberg and company’s evasion/tactics around this scandal), that people are trying to recenter the dishonesty as something that’s wrong/inappropriate with different language.
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