skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, that sourceforge 7zip "trailer" at the end was great. I wonder if anyone actually found that useful? Like, if they found the video, I assume they could have found and installed 7zip...
>It is not unreasonable to argue that fiat currencies around the world are not stable because of inflationary monetary policies.

Lots of crypto supporters will talk about inflation like it's bad. Hyperinflation is bad. Typical monetary inflation is a feature not a bug. This is because of people's expectation of wage increases over time. This results in increased demand and spending on goods and services.

Bitcoin by its very nature is deflationary. This reduces demand and increases hoarding. The currency then acts less and less like a currency (sound familiar?). In a deflationary environment, wages would go down over time and workers do not accept reduced wages vs increased wages even if their purchasing power remains the same in both cases.

Small amounts of inflation is a psychological trick that actually helps keep the economy moving along. Outside of hyperinflation the inflationary argument for cryptocurrency is one not rooted in the reality of economics.
You mean GitLab?

GitHub is free, but definitely not open source (and has never pretended to be).
I don't understand your point.

If you have a functioning company making something and sell it, your company is worth almost nothing. That's true.

But those people and assets are still useful to someone else. They have a value.

Bitcoin can't be consumed the way assets and labor can.
The will of a person is different from the will of all the people averaged together. Even in a society of completely amoral people, each person will think that nobody else should ruin the commons. If you put littering to a vote, you'd have one yes and three hundred million "no"s - everybody would want to stop other people's crimes, and that would be enough. The situation only gets better if anybody is principled.

Tinpot dictators ravage their land in pursuit of resources to sell to richer nations all the time. The elites aren't going to be more principled than the proles - if you're nasty and educated that just makes you better at being nasty.
Github is 100% open source. News to me.
Sublime is weirdly frustrating to me. I keep wanting to switch to VSCode (and occasionally Atom), but then I keep returning to Sublime. The main reason is that on my 4+ year old laptop, the difference in memory use and speed matters enough.

I had the same experience with Firefox. I switched to it about two weeks ago and really tried, but it just 'feels' clunkier than Chrome. What frustrates me is that I can't tell if that's actually the case, or if it's just that I'm used to Chrome.

At least with Sublime the difference in performance is clear enough.
Aside from the rare negative effects, the major issues with it were the efficacy of around 80% and that it interfered with Lyme tests. (All of the people that took the vaccine test positive for Lyme Disease.) This uncertainty made it challenging to know the cause of future illness.
It would make more sense for build failures to donate to a cause that the user opposes. Perhaps you oppose the NRA, or the ACLU, or a certain political party. That ought to provide a strong disincentive.
I think in addition there's a more visceral reason as well. It's the first time in a long time that a decision taken by the populace will adversely affect the "elite" directly. People who have done very well out of EU integration will suddenly find themselves actually having to figure out what to do without it.

Most of them are wealthy and will be able to adapt, but for the first time in a long time they haven't been insulated from the consequences of public opinion.
As you said, $100B is a colossal amount of money. You can't get it in and out of the market like that. SPY, the most traded S&P500 ETF has a market cap of $230B.
I would not. It's not reasonable that a pure data viewer runs something. This is like saying viewing a script in notepad can run it and is expected to infect you. And for better or worse antiviruses use 7z dll to scan archives too.
I think this is basically it. Good ol' Buffet. His argument against gold is similar [1]. It's always interesting to note the fundamental differences between these types of investors. Some investors place their faith only in things -- hard assets and hard money -- gold, bonds, and now bitcoin. Others like Buffet have maintained that the best thing to invest in is other human beings, specifically human ingenuity and sweat. This question -- whether wealth resides in things or in relations between people -- seems to drive a lot of investor psychology.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buf
If you think gold can’t be created, you need to revisit your chemistry and physics books. While not economically feasible yet, with the mastery of fusion energy technologies it one day will be...
Yeah, I've heard if you accidentally breath secondhand smoke you should probably start chemo too just to be safe.

Seriously though, if you actually hike in the northeast outdoors dealing with ticks are not a rare situation. In this past week alone I have had 2 deer ticks and 5 wood ticks on me . 1 wood tick actually did bite and it would be absurd to start an antibiotic course at this point.
Me too. But when programming I usually run

clear && make all && ./a.out
When the alternative is Lyme Disease? I'm not giving it up. My cousin is severely affected by it right now, in her brain, affecting everything. It's awful.
Websites put videos on pages because watcing a video increases tome on page, and time-on-page metrics that feed into automated advertising spend. The website needs nothing from the video besides you spending time playing it.
I don't get it more and more Windows specific features are creeping into .NET Core. Wasn't there already desktop applications support in regular .NET? Very confusing.

What is the cross platform .NET?
It would be so dilute by that point that it would not be worth worrying about.
Ad-supported websites are about as pure of an example of revealed preference as you can get. Advertisers target eyeballs that spend money, and the sites that capture the attention of said eyeballs get ad revenue.

The golden age of journalism, pre-web, was based on price signals being divorced from content because of classifieds propping up everything else.

We have been given the web that we want. It has been found wanting, because we ourselves are wanting.
I think he understands it better than you give him credit for. He just doesn't see a future for it. To most investors the promise of Bitcoin is the same promise of snake oil.

Everything about Bitcoin is new and untested and most institutional investors abhor anything they can't quantify. Bitcoin is a huge gamble, and people like Gates and Buffet don't gamble.
I keep hearing people say that other people think things should be free. Yet, I can't think of a single time I've ever heard someone actually say that, or read something that said "this should be free."

Rarely does anyone think something should be free.

What people are actually thinking is: this thing is free and I'll use it while it is, but if there's a paywall, I'm done.

This is very different than "should be free" because we are really saying it's value to me is $0.

And, everyone is batting an eye at the rising prices of cable, cell phone service, insurance, etc. In fact, it's so blinding we can't even open our eyes to look at anymore.
I'd like welfare to be a system that gives people food, shelter, clothing and hygiene rather than "free money".

also that shelter would allow people to run a business without fear of that free stuff being removed from under them.

it would help battered wives/husbands and young adults get on their feet.

would also help governments build those desperately needed (communal) homes that they promise.
The ocean has a lot of water in it, and it is unlikely to be deadly at such low concentrations.
In that case you could raise the price of Concorde tickets to push surplus business customers back to regular planes. But this raises the question, why would you even want to bother with Concorde in the first place?

It only makes sense if you could attract new business class customers, who would take the faster trip but wouldn't take the slower one at all.
"It is not unreasonable to argue that fiat currencies around the world are not stable because of inflationary monetary policies. Buffet always holds billions in cash which is constantly depreciating in value."

I would say that fiat currencies are quite predictable. The last thing the Fed, for instance, wants to do is to come out of left field and change things. That would be disastrous for markets.
I am largely ignorant to the details of BTC and other coins, but your comment seems incorrect.

> Most importantly it can't be created/destroyed at will by a central government.

Couldn't someone destroy/steal my BTC wallet though? I'd have no recourse for justice, right? Also, doesn't the Federal Reserve print money mostly at will?

> Huge sums can be transferred globally at the speed of light with very low fees.

I think the speed claim here is totally false[1].

> With normal currency a wire transfer costs money

Don't all BTC transactions have confirmation fees?

> and moving a lot of money from a bank account usually takes days.

This is true crypto currencies shine here. It can take 20 minutes to transfer $5 or $5,000,000.

> The electricity it takes to maintain it is nothing compared to the rest of the banking system.

Maybe, but also maybe not. The rest of the banking system provides lots of services and protections that crypto currencies don't.

> These properties are the very nature of crypto, that's why it's intrinsic.

These are properties of crypto currencies for sure, but that these are valuable properties is entirely subjective.

[1] - https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time
Remember when Microsoft Outlook used to automatically execute programs sent to you in email?
Even education has its dangers. It can be co-opted into the process of hoodwinking: something that actually works better when it's not focused on job training. (A true vocational education wouldn't help people become more sophisticated, but it wouldn't twist them around either.)
Or maybe 'you are the aliens'.
You wouldn't.

People definitely would open: .zip, .7z, .gz, .xz, .iso, ...
This is very true, but it's also true that the inappropriate generalisation of this experiment seems to have started with the press release!

If somebody announced a drug test that didn't look at symptoms or benchmark against placebo effects was "testing a new cure", people would rightly point out it was doing no such thing, just as an evaluation of how people in extreme poverty react to charitable handouts doesn't really tell us much about the effects of redesigning the Western welfare state on UBI principle that taxpayers really ought to subsidise wealthy early retirees and housewives on exactly the same basis they subsidise the desperately seeking work and disabled.
Kubernetes and microservices: Making the web faster, stable, and more open
Everyone that listened to him 20 years ago missed Amazon, Google, etc.
Well, my point is that Buffett usually just uses some sound byte to bash it, like 'rat poison squared'. Give us an actual argument. Or convince us that he's done significant research into BTC to come to this conclusion. It's just frustrating to hear him make a very outlandish claim like this, and then not educate us with the explanation.
>punt the OS engineering and hardware design and maintenance off to someone else

Isn't hiring other people who know better than you to do this kind of stuff kind of the point? Like, a lot of people's jobs are based on that idea, including almost everyone in the IT industry. I'm confused by your point. It almost looks like sarcasm. Getting some serious "Poe's Law" here.
that would be a plot twist, could also be "come have a look at the interior"
Berkshire vice chairman and longtime Buffett confidant Charlie Munger was even more blunt.

"I like cryptocurrencies a lot less than you do," Munger said to Buffett. "To me, it's just dementia. It's like somebody else is trading turds and you decide you can't be left out."

http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/07/investing/warren-buffett-bit...
Cue the “Hunt for Red October” soundtrack. Pure geeky engineering porn.
I don't think you should recommend this. Using alcohol (or xanax from the other comment) to treat symptoms (e.g. to relax) can lead to having it as a crutch. Additionally when you get rid of a symptom of a problem will mean you will have less motivation to eliminate the root cause of problem in the first place (e.g. if someone bullies you, it's easier to "just have a beer" rather than report it or speak to them, or find out ways not to get traumatised in the first place).

Using crutches like this can lead to psychological addiction, because if the situation does not improve the person can too easily choose to "have more beers".

Of course there's also the chemical addiction to alcohol which will be even worse.
> But there is no electric airplane.

Not for consumer use, but they exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_aircraft
It doesn't need to be, though. I'm sure that libraries can work out a licensing deal that works fine with client-side certificates or some other "proof" that it is the library's machines that are being used to access the content.
I can’t tell what part of that you think is different in the US.

The US has three major retirement regimes:

- Defined contribution retirement funds, owned by the employee, managed by employer designated group

- Defined benefit retirement funds, which are going away or nearly gone for non-public-employees, and are causing the bankruptcy of various states because governments thought it was clever to offer public employees most of their compensation in the distant future to deceive present taxpayers about the cost of government

- An income distributing safety net for the elderly which is dressed up to pretend it’s a retirement program

Doesn’t sound so different from most European systems I’m familiar with, except for the much better health care (which dominates costs in old age, of course)
Wouldn’t that be explained by survivorship bias?
Weird. Mine isn't there, or I am blind. shrugs Though I did find it by searching the O'Reilly user :)
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/07/google_bed_plane/
It can't be created practically which is the same as can't be created for purposes of this discussion. Talking about creating something using a tool that we haven't even created is futurism.
Hartsfield International does this regularly in Atlanta when lines backup too much. They'll open additional security lines, divert people into the Special Needs and TSA Pre-Check lines, a shut off the nudy scanners (backscatter x-ray) and just run everyone through the metal detectors as fast as possible.
Curious as to which geographic area?
Do I understand you correctly that if we would stop flying right now, we could reverse some effects of global warming (the water vapor part of it would be gone instantly)?
Gold can't be created, but it had real usefulness in manufacturing.

Are you saying that the intrinsic value of gold is the price manufacturers of "useful" products from gold are willing to pay for it?
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Written in Rust

- fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

- ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern
https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

- exa: Replacement for 'ls' written in Rust
https://github.com/ogham/exa

- bat: A 'cat' replacement. I recommend following the customizations.
https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

Written in Python

- asciinema: Terminal session recorder
https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema

- httpie: Modern command line HTTP client
https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie

- visidata: A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data
https://github.com/saulpw/visidata

- youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

- pgcli: Postgres cli with autocomplete and syntax highlighting
https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli

Written in C

- jq: Command-line JSON processor
https://github.com/stedolan/jq

- tmux: a terminal multiplexer
https://github.com/tmux/tmux

- pspg: postgres pager (you can combine it with pgcli)
https://github.com/okbob/pspg
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Scarcity is absolutely an intrinsic value. Gold has value because it is relatively scarce given the difficulty to mine. In addition to being really shiny which was valued by our ancestors. There are lots of useful rare elements used in manufacturing. In terms of a currency though gold has nothing on bitcoin. Gold is hard to move, hard to validate as authentic, heavy, easy to steal, etc..
I think your concerns are valid, but if knowledge about development economics increase, even if it's not applicable to "rich" countries, this is a good thing.

I'm a donor, and they had a program where they gave cash to poor people in Kenia and the people explained what they did with the money. It was a very interesting reading.

For instance, one of the first, and one of the most common, things people bought was a metallic roof for their home in order to fix leaking. That's something that I, in my urban ignorance, would never predict.

Other common investments were: paying the debt with their children's school, a cow, basic furniture or starting a small business.
Doesn't that mean anything that can handle RAR needs to be more safe, not less safe?
Steve Jobs’s button phobia has shaped the modern world (2014)
No. Even the first reddit comment clarifies that all these new cloud options are running Linux.

The only difference is that a lot of manual interaction with servers is being offloaded to software, so Linux skills are demanded less.
7-Zip libraries are commonly used in third party applications, like… antivirus.

So, your antivirus can scan your .png files, try to uncompress them as rar (based on their content) and execute malicious code without you having even the slightest idea of what is happening.
Like a cruise ship, but in the sky? Sadly, they went out of fashion after the Hindenburg, and never came back.
"penalizing himself"

Implies that OP is correct. In order to penalizing yourself you need to do something you consider a punishment. In this case donating to charity...
There is a proposal that has recently been merged into the kernel to implement AF_XDP (LWN intro: https://lwn.net/Articles/750845/), which is a long-term kernel built-in solution in combination with XDP/BPF to achieve speed of user space bypasses for use cases that require it. First, API pieces were recently merged and more work soon to be appear such as the zero-copy bits as another milestone.
Does thermal paper darken if left in the sun? If not, I don't see how a projected image will be hot enough to burn an image. Even if it warms up the paper, the process has to happen fast enough that the heat isn't conducted to the surrounded area first. Maybe you could make a solargraph with thermal paper, where the sun burns a path over many days.

Typical photographic paper (developed in the darkroom) or direct positive paper is better suited to what you're suggesting.
I'm finding your posts intriguing despite disagreeing with you. Do you have any sources for further reading?

> Why do you think deteriorated forms of Buddhism nowadays have attached themselves to the term ego?

Is it deterioration or just accepting new ideas? I don't think that 2000-year-old Buddhism had all the answers, or would even be useful to a Westerner (I do feel that we are mostly exposed to "deteriorated" forms of Buddhism, but maybe it's for the better).
The Subtle Sexism of Your Open Plan Office
might be an unpopular prediction on this board but i believe climate change will be solved by technology and not reduced consumption. electricity generation also has significant environmental impact and is not a solution in itself
> People who do not own property do not pay property taxes, so less wealthy people are naturally excused from such taxation.

The less wealthy have those property taxes rolled into their monthly rent, so I fail to see how you can make that claim.
The numerals used by Al Khawarizmi are not the exact ones used in India back then. Now the problem is Al Khawarizmi is Persian he's not Arab.

https://cdn.britannica.com/668x448/60/91960-004-42DF23AB.jpg
I didn't know that! I'll update my comment.
Intrinsic properties are the things that remain even if no one is using it. So even if no one is using bitcoin it is still quick to transfer, hard to forge, difficult to create, etc.. etc..
It's been tested for over 10 years with the biggest bug bounty in the world.
Cutting Edge Deep Learning for Coders: 2018 Edition
Talent isn't the problem, capital is.
Transform, Anything
Here's the default output (embedded 1220 byte 128x128 Lena picture) of Fabrice's IOCCC entry converted into PNG:

https://pasteboard.co/Hk60KEv.png

Of course there are plenty of compression artifacts, but very impressive for just 1220 bytes of image data embedded in decompressor written in C totaling only 3984 bytes of source code!

No idea about what kind of service pasteboard.co is, hopefully the image will stay up for a while...

Edit: For comparison, here's a roughly corresponding original Lena image converted into 1269 byte 128x128 JPEG.

convert -resize 128x128 -strip -quality 12% lena.png lena.jpg

https://pasteboard.co/Hk67yXC.png
The government has taken control of Bitcoins in the past, and will continue to do so in the future. All it takes is a warrant.

Also, unlike cash, you're making your transaction history public. Any central government in the world can see this. You have to jump through a lot of hoops and use multiple blockchains to anonymize your Bitcoins.

Transfers incur a network fee with Bitcoin as well. I doubt anyone making a small purchase wants to pay fees that might be a significant percentage of, or exceed, their purchase subtotal.

You cannot send Bitcoins "at the speed of light". On average, the Bitcoin network processes 7 transactions per second.
The reason for this project was that people want to migrate to containers as industry is pushing them forward to it, but - there will always be cases in which "normal" containers will be out of scope - when you will be dependent on piece which is:
a) based on other than linux based operating system
b) you need a specific linux module which for some reason should not be loaded on host kernel
c) you need a hardware separation using virtualization because of security reasons
All that can be achieved using "somewhere around" openstack, but what about integration/common interface with other parts of stack?
That's the reason why we did Virtlet - to have the same interface for "normal" (docker image based) pods and VMs (hard disk image based), with the same kubectl command, with the same api (so it can be used for deployments, daemonsets, statefulsets and so on), with the same thing configuring networking in whole cluster (CNI, hopefully any of your choice - if it's not working, please fill the bug on GH).
That's a silly argument. You don't need to drink Coke to assess it's value. If you don't see value in Bitcoin on its face, buying a pizza with it won't change much.