skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that the Internet had clear useful applications at that point and billions of dollars in real business (not just speculation) was happening annually. Yes, there were plenty VC misfires with no plausible path to profitability — my favorite was cement.com, with free shipping! — but there were tons of existing businesses finding significant value from it and new companies like Amazon, eBay, Travelocity, etc. who were making money on each sale. The daytraders were indeed chasing bad deals but anyone who paid attention to basic market fundamentals wasn't buying those stocks[1].

10 years into Bitcoin there's still no reason for someone to buy in other than speculation. It's not competitive as a currency and the current “store of value” pivot is undercut by the lack of fundamentals. One particular reason why that comparison doesn't work is that if you had, say, bought AMZN in 1997 even if the stock didn't do great you owned part of a profitable book seller which could carry on just fine even if it never saw rapid growth. Bitcoin doesn't have any value other than its current popularity so there's no floor on the losses if people switch to something else.

1. I actually sat in on some calls with Pets.com around the time one of our clients was thinking about buying them and it was quickly evident that they had no strategy beyond cashing out at the IPO.
Good point. In Africa and southern Europe this makes sense, but in Germany and the UK and Northern France... not so much.

But clearly this is an effective way of reducing insect life.
It is unfortunate that the term has both moral character but also a precise meaning that is correct here -- excessive interest in excess of the risk premium. There is unfortunately no common / non-technical word that conveys that meaning (excessive interest beyond risks).

The savings account interest rate is collected usury--as an FDIC insured deposit account the risk to the account holder is precisely zero, yet a return is nevertheless extracted. That's usury as the term was coined to mean, minus the historical moralistic baggage.
I'm not sure why HN would be affected

It's not the link's address that is the problem under the questionable proposals, but rather the text that describes it. HN's normal custom is to use the original title/headline for that description, and HN's own mods actively change submissions that don't follow that policy. It looks like that could easily get them caught in the same trap as a site like Google that offers accompanying snippets.

Maybe YC would be willing to accept the risk of publishers trying to extract money from them, just as running HN itself is a favour to the community, but I see no good reason they should be expected to put up with that risk and any actual costs incurred just to continue providing a useful service that they already generously provide for free.
Only reason for cloud to be popular was IBM MAINFRAME is expensive. MIPS way of billing is complexer. The way things are going cloud is a going expensive. Blue metal still rocks.
Great read!

I'm going to steal that use of 'typealias' when defining a closure that uses @escaping. Those method definitions are always so messy looking, this really cleans it up.
People Have Asked Google to Remove 2.4M Links About Them
System:
- recurring tasks to ensure that you’re stocked on non-sugary snacks and meals

The system goal is to make the good choice the easy choice.
Because they were the ones dating the older guys. Oh, the irony.
The local government should decide this, and they will almost always keep this dividend for their general fund.
I found this interesting for three reasons.

First, it's a data leak, and it's always good to have people informed about them.

Second, it's funny that their GDPR-related email saying that they're commited to it and respecting our data lead to our data being leaked.

And third, this might be the first instance that the data leaking reporting obligation of the GDPR is acted on ?

> We will be reporting the incident as mandated by the GDPR.

We very often see on thread about leaks justified complaints about how companies don't care, don't do anything to stop it and don't even warn their customers that they sent their data in the wild, and with all the talks about the GDPR I think this particular obligation, that they have to report when they screw up, kind of slipped under the radar of a lot of people.
Just one more reason why I personally believe this regulation is a string step in the right direction.
That’s an idea I can agree with, and that Vestager visibly sympathizes with, but that’d mean breaking apart Google, and as result would anger a lot of people.
Then maybe they shouldn’t be oversubscribing, or finally upgrade the infrastructure now that they milked out enough money from the oversubscription and the energy consumption is finally catching up.

Another solution is to make a proper “burstable” tariff with the corresponding meter that would give you a baseline current allowance plus a peak current allowance for X seconds.

As it stands however they are selling packages promising X amps and are pissed off because someone is actually using X amps. Well they definitely don’t earn any sympathy from me - this kind of behaviour reeks of scum.
3Blue1Brown has a YouTube video called the "Triangle of Power" which uses a clever bit of notation to unify exponents and logarithms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sULa9Lc4pck

A bit lowbrow, perhaps (you'd want Penrose notation or such things in that case).
Pointing out that other revolutionary tech looked stupid to some people at first doesn't mean that things that look stupid are going to be revolutionary.

You could just as easily point out that investing in beanie babies looked stupid, or any of a number of other totally failed ideas seemed stupid.

Most things fail. Your comparison adds no meaningful information and is attempting to mislead based on fallacious reasoning.
How would this change if you were dealing with more sparse matrices? Im used to using spark mllib distributed to do matrix multiplication on large sparse coordinate matrices and it works fine for me but i dont think i need the level of optimality this approach would demand.
Yes, it does make it less like coins, because lying about the assets backing a share's value is a quick way to end up in low sec Federal prison for 5 to 20 years.
Meta: I use https://hn.algolia.com to search HN. It has a nice interface that shows full comments rather than snippets.
Jim Crow, segregation and lynchings were zero generations ago for a lot of people. It's easy to forget because so many of the leaders of the civil rights movement died early of unnatural causes, but someone who was 18 when the Civil Rights Act was passed is now only 72.
What ingredients does juice have besides water and juice? (okay, maybe sugar). Most juice _is_ apple juice anyway because it's the cheapest thing to make and its flavor can be masked. I can't imagine the gooseberry yield is enough to meet the demand for the product.

What you're saying literally isn't corroborated anywhere online on top of not making sense.

The testing authority said "unfit for consumption" and the company's official position on this was that their amla juice is not a drink but a medicine and that it should be tested by a different agency...
Yeah, I think "r > g" is more likely. The article talks about the "risk-free rate" (ie. bonds/CD's etc) which is not really "r" (which could vary widely for individuals/groups/institutions). The "risk-free rate" seems like it has alot more in common with g than r.

I think the problem is that our nations are having globally is that "g" (refers to the growth in the national income) is declining, which to me says that governments/nations are becoming increasingly inefficient at allocating capital overall compared to the likes of rentec, two-sigma, etc.(especially as capital becomes less sticky to a particular nation).
Also tip, you can set speed to 2x (or 0.5x if you like) in YouTube
Now I finally understand why Apple is making more and more of chips and tech in house.
> That's weird, I've been using it to buy stuff off amazon and aliexpress.

How? Neither company seems to accept Bitcoin directly.
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>What makes an investment in 'this Bitcoin crap' any different from an investment in say Facebook shares or Snap shares? Aren't they just unnecessary digital crap too that nobody actually needs?

There's a fundamental difference between buying shares of a publicly traded company on a regulated exchange and investing in bitcoin. This is quite literally comparing apples and oranges - your examples are not only different in kind, but in purpose. Also, there is a large, rather well funded government institution who aggressively works to make sure the stock market isn't subject to the sorts of abject manipulation, ponzi schemes, and other such unsavoriness that Bitcoin has been subject to. (Side note - watching the Bitcoin market is like watching the last 150 years of finance happen in 2-3 years. It's an interesting object lesson in market manipulation and why the SEC maybe isn't a bad thing).

As to Facebook/Snap being digital crap no one needs - yes. However, just because there's no physical good being created doesn't mean their value is entirely ephemeral/a financial illusion. Facebook/Snap create value by solving a problem people are willing to spend money to solve. Bitcoin creates value by...well it doesn't yet. People invest because they hope that "there'll be huge growth in the area of blockchain technology and tokenised digital assets in the years to come." That's a nice thought, but it's an assumption.

>If Bitcoin remains the gold standard for crypto then it's value will rise accordingly.

It's funny that you mention the gold standard, a standard that was dropped because of its votility, the fact that it was subject to manipulation, and the fact that it benefited some segments of the market FAR more than other.

>...many people invest on the basis that there'll be huge growth in the area of blockchain technology and tokenised digital assets in the years to come.

I think this is undeniably true. However, I think the assumption that bitcoin will be the vehicle for this growth is incorrect, or more charitably, overly optimistic. Bitcoin has accrued a lot of non-technical overhead that I think will prevent it from being used to drive these solutions - things like its association with speculation, the fact that the majority of miners are on the Chinese mainland, etc. I think the growth in blockchain technology will come from companies and individuals taking the concepts of the blockchain and using them to build products with real value (as in, they solve a problem that someone is willing to pay money to have solved). Bitcoin's value (sadly) doesn't come from the technology, which is fascinating and interesting - it comes from the fact that it's created an unregulated market with no barriers to access, which has allowed rampant speculation, incessant hype about 'the technology of the future', and a continual influx of new money to create 'value' that ultimately, has no real value.
An approach similar to Wikidata could be taken. "According yo Israel, the border changed like this". I.e. not a database of objective facts, but of statements.
I think “white washed” means left out of the textbooks used to teach us in the government schools.
> Is this (actually, getting 0 from 1/3) really more surprising than doing 2+2 and getting 3.9999999999999?

No, so it's a good thing doubles never do anything remotely like that
Stack Overflow tag correlations
The tube sites sometimes lead viewers into a constant state of high-chasing, in which, over time, the severity of the porn gradually increases for the viewer to achieve the same feeling of excitement or gratification. So, from a relative perspective, it can begin with Playboy-type softcore content, but can lead fairly easily to much more hardcore porn. And because the tube sites are free, there's no particular self-checked motivator for someone not to graduate. It requires the cognizance that it can eventually lead to a particularly problematic state of addiction.

It's possible to become addicted to much softer varieties of porn, but the potential ramifications of that addiction may be less severe (or they might be problematic in another sense, like financially).
You're kind of disproving your own point here, no? Or at least, both the fact that its parents die and that they have no language creates a vicious circle.

Though you skipped over it, probably the most important skill you've learnt from your parents is language. The octopus' parents die before they can transfer that skill. Hence, they can (barely) communicate with others of the same species and elevate their collective knowledge.
In which case the utility is the one at fault for not properly calculating the capacity of their grid.

If a transformer is rated to supply 1000A then you should not under any circumstances allow more to be drawn from it.
> Be vague

Then it would seem Peterson is doing poorly at being a cult leader. :/

"On the New York Times and 'Enforced Monogamy'" https://jordanbpeterson.com/media/on-the-new-york-times-and-...
One of the "big gray blob(s) in the middle of the map" is the Black Sea.
My writing for the Wall Street Journal, along with my public practice on this blog, attracted the attention of book publishers, and that attention turned into a book deal. And the book deal generated speaking requests that are embarrassingly lucrative. So the payday for blogging eventually arrived, but I didn’t know in advance what path it would take. My blogging has kicked up dozens of business opportunities over the past years, so it could have taken any direction.

I wonder if a cartoon had anything to do with that
There's still the issue of enforcement. If the operators and servers are all outside the EU, how would a user effectively get courts to enforce the GDPR?
Javascript is likely to get 64 bit integers soon. It's busy making its way through TC39, anyways.
>The "toasty" camera (below right), as Ingalls calls it, is likely headed for display somewhere at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.

Cool.

>Meanwhile, Ingalls himself will soon travel to Kazakhstan to photograph the June 3 landing of the International Space Station's Expedition 55 crew. He expects that will be a completely normal assignment.

Something about that last sentence made me laugh. Some sort of “Dry NASA humor” plus “Don’t temp fate!”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16200322
>A lot of money? As in actual, hard currency?

Yes. Definitely.
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Certain phrases in the parent ("own home") and grandparent ("property owner") would seem to make this comment about apartments somewhat inapplicable. But it really is as simple as that - if you own the equipment and/or can safely handle the load and/or can bear all the costs yourself of any un-safety, then you can do whatever you want. If what you do affects others, those others will object, either in the form of an ultimatum/eviction/lawsuit by your landlord, a complaint/lawsuit by your neighbor(s), an ultimatum or unpaid claim by your insurance company, or an ultimatum/discontinuation of service by the electricity provider. "In America we still have freedom" and calling people "totalitarians" are both a little off-the-hook which I think explains the downvotes.
Those are the best available people to ask, though. You wouldn't want to ask people who entirely failed, or never tried. People who claim they never experienced near-failures on their way to success are either lying, or attempted something unambitious, or were so lucky that their experience isn't representative.
The E.U. has no legal authority or enforcement mechanism to stop foreign, online companies from not doing business in the E.U.
This is a common pattern in all the epigenetic research I've seen thus far.
There's the Penrose Graphical Notation[0] for linear algebra, and (much more generally) string diagrams[1] for representing and manipulating morphisms in n-categories.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_graphical_notation

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_diagram
The systematic ordinals start at one. The word one becomes first, two becomes second, three becomes third, and everything else has th appended.
Extradition?
I love how the 'ruler' of switzerland changes every year (from the 19th century onwards) Because that's how it is, every year the ruler changes, rotates among the 6 ministers.
I predict secretive offshore entities which exploit activities banned under GDPR which have sufficient economic value. Entities which are essentially judgment proof in EU. Maybe directly affiliated with a foreign government.

Being able to do certain kinds of background checks or financial risk calculations is the first use case which comes to mind.
If the company does not have a data protection officer (or if the DPO doesn't comply with users' requests), users can go to their national government's data protection regulator. No need to go to court.
I feel like the admonition, "don't roll your own crypto" refers to production code. If you want to develop your own crypto for "curiosity, learning and knowledge" I don't think many people in the security community will really bother you about it. Just don't use it for securing anything in production unless it's been thoroughly audited and you have a reason not to use something that already exists.

It seems pretty obvious why you shouldn't design or implement novel cryptography in production without good reason and significant expertise. It also doesn't seem like the people saying this need to spell out that this doesn't preclude learning exercises or legitimate research which won't endanger any real world information. So what's the controversy?
Funny how big names like Alexander, Caesar, Atilla, Napoleon and Hitler seem to fly by in an instant compared to the vast timespan of almost 2,5 millenea. Most of the other names don't even ring a bell and seem to have ruled longer. Other rulers must have really been so unremarkable.
Extradition treaties usually limit extradition to things that are punishable in both countries.
It does not cost the same amount to distribute different amounts of energy, as a matter of fact. If you build infrastructure capable of handling a certain amount of electricity plus some overhead, you want to disincentivise eating into that overhead before you can build better infrastructure.
> when people discuss IT certificates the are usually seen as a good thing to have for IT jobs

Are they? Which certificates exactly? The only ones that come to my mind are
Red Hat's, Cisco's, and Oracle's (for the database), and only the high level
ones are conveying any sort of proficiency.
No. (Usual caveats, not a lawyer, not an expert).

If you aren't storing the data tied to a specific person, you aren't profiling, otherwise "receiving an http request and logging that" would violate the GDPR, which it doesn't.

Second, country isn't pii under the GDPR, the location would need to be more precise to be relevant.

I think blocking the entire EU is lazy, but this is the non-est of nonsense.
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Is it intentional that the site is blank for me (in the EU), or is their JS just crap?
> how would a user effectively get courts to enforce the GDPR?

Most Americans would prefer not to have European court judgments against them. That said, I agree this is absurd. If I choose to do business in your country, that is one thing. But extending that to blocking my right not to do business in your jurisdiction is silly.
My dictionary defines it as "the illegal action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest." It gives no alternate definition. If that isn't what you meant then I think you should use a different word.
Objectives are projections of a desired state at a certain moment in time imo. Goals are the actual state at that moment in time. Stop consuming sugar wouldn't be a goal, but goal oriented objective behavior (because you can control/measure you sugar intake, materializing your objective this way). A goal would be a certain amount of lost weight.
bitcoin is already 65% off the highs. many other coins down 80% + more. I think that is pretty much close to imploded
Arrests when an operator visits an EU country? I mean, that's how the US seems to get gambling company CEOs and internet betting site operators...
The purpose of an ORM is to map database query results to objects. You still have to write the queries yourself.

I will agree that HQL has flaws but not the same ones that you admit. It is string based which means it is cumbersome to use, dynamic column filtering is not possible, entering parameters requires 3x dupliation of the. variable name and it isn't type checked at compile time.

But frameworks like grails (which is built on top of hibernate and criteria) or LINQ have solved these problems.

My biggest performance bottlenecks are in batch insert/update performance for which most ORMs already generate optimal queries that don't involve database specific features like "unnest(col1, col2)". But even that could be solved trivially by exposing a simple batch insert/update api to have both the convenience of an ORM and the performance of db specific optimisations.
I guess the site got hackernewsd (old lingo is slashdotted).
The one book is probably actually three books that were read more or less at the same time: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick, Little, Big by John Crowley, and Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe. These books led to a change of reading habits in way that led eventually to working in publishing.
Its ridiculous on its face. European laws don't apply to American companies if they don't do business in Europe.

It will become a major international incident if people try to do this.
I think it was on HN. It was a quote to the effect that the world changes by just a handful of great people, not by the small contributions of billions.
Maybe then there’s some way to attack this problem without necessarily requiring full on abstinence from pornography, which is probably not realistic for the majority of people?

For example an extension that tracks your porn viewing habits and limits video recommendations.
The Inner Game of Tennis. My coach gave me his copy from like 1998 that was very, very worn and I could tell he had read it many many times.

He was a badass, grew up in South Central, would ride his bike to nicer areas of LA where there were tennis courts, and just hit against the wall until someone else would show up & he’d ask to play with them.

Ended up playing in High School, and getting a full ride to a DI college.

He told me that reading this book when he was trying to get scholarships to college was one of the turning points in his life and then said, “How I’m teaching you to respond to adversity on the court is preparation for the more important challenges you’ll face in your life off the court.”

To this day, I often suggest this book to anyone as it played a similar role in my life as well.
This is the worst kind of clickbait/linkbait website, embedding other people's content for profit. Please change the URL to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpKqCu6RcdI
But you didn't have to learn language from parents specifically, you could've leart it from other members of the society.

I was making the distinction between learning from parents and learning from "others". The argument around the mistmatch between the life time of parents compared to the time of the offspring to maturity only makes sense with parents.

> The octopus' parents die before they can transfer that skill. Hence, they can (barely) communicate with others of the same species and elevate their collective knowledge.

Yeah, but that can't be an important factor. Elephant parents hang around for long and you still don't see talking elephants.
Yes but what will that regulator do once they determine the foreign government in which the offense occurred is indeed guilty?
Writing On Water by Mooji.