skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stupid move - tax cut was a perfect moment to reduce your debts. These guys did the opposite
Maybe they need cash to pay for electricity and hardware, so that they don't spend bitcoin now when it's down.
Having been in that category of worker and having taken gig jobs, I can promise you that the flexibility of the gig jobs really is a life improvement. I appreciate that you think you're looking out for people, but that kind of sentiment will end up actually harming people because you apparently don't know how we feel about things and can't support policies accordingly.
Vice has been around since the mid 90's. It started as the Montreal Voice.
The linked article nowhere mentions the Renaissance, except in the title of an article mentioned as a reference.

Also, I don't think that the Renaissance depended a whole lot on the middle class. The middle class was critical to the economic changes that transformed Europe, sure, but that was kind of separate from the Renaissance itself.
This really needs reposted:

Uber is an Old Scam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGwZcR0q6VE

Seriously, watch the video. Professor Richard D Wolff.

Long story short, when taxis first came out, we saw the following: unsafe everything, assaults, kidnappings (pay more or you get dropped in $bad_location), wrecks and injuries and no insurance. The result of that was regulation, which improved conditions for riders and drivers both, but raising the bottom line.

It's only time until the regulation hammer hits Uber and similar businesses.
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Lets take slavery as an example. Did you know that federal and state prisioners are forced to work for 30 cents or less an hour. If they refuse they get put in solitary. The average time someone is in solitary in the California prison system is 7.5 years. That is a form of torture. Slavery still exists lawfully so does torture.

Conflating legality with morality is silly.

Are you aware/against those forms of slavery/torture?

Yes, because there are some moral absolutes, which is why you retreated from a moral argument into a legal one.
Back in the day there was more variety and more general-audience stores: small bookstores, magazine stands, maybe a mid-high end audio store, small toy store, music/video store, maybe a small pharmacy location.

Today, to put it bluntly, the stores skew heavily toward women-oriented products (clothing, accessories, underwear). Which is fine, and probably inevitable (clothing and whatnot are the kinds of things people prefer not to buy online). But there isn't of as much interest or utility for anyone else.
That's one of the primary reasons we haven't really cut back on military spending since the end of WWII. WWII military spending got us out of the depression, no one knows what will happen if we suddenly or gradually stopped. Considering that, we've been playing some sort of game since at least WWII and probably since FDR got elected.
Although, I would be curious what Linus would do with an FPGA.
Would it possible at all for you to write up how you did that? Would help me and perhaps a lot of others as well.
Social status seems to be correlated with life expectancy so it is possible wining the prize extends it.
I am not a scientist that can argue how the body processes fructose/glucose. But I can argue the difference between raw unprocessed sugar cane plant vs processed white sugar.

Processed white sugar has a detrimental effect on the body, and unprocessed sugar does not. Or if it does, it's so minimal as to be unnoticeable in my own tests.

This includes ability to concentrate, lethargy, dental health, sleep, hyperactivity and general health like colds and the flu.

This is from my own experimentation with multiple people, first hand, not just reading what others have said.
If you do it yourself in straight JS, you'll very quickly start building the common tools of D3: various scaling mechanisms mapping the domain to the pixels, data binding against a set of DOM elements, converting an array of data values to the co-ordinates for the d attribute of an SVG path, etc.

Somewhere else someone described D3 as a hammer, and that's a good analogy, because if you don't start with a hammer, it's the first tool you'll make for yourself when you need to pound nails.
4) It creates a larger market for scooters. Nobody wants to deal with docks.
Have you eaten in at a take out place lately? It's literally nothing but ageing, disheveled looking people who could barely operate a smartphone running in and out desperately, working either Uber Eats, Doordash, etc. stacking orders, getting stressed out over maybe making $3. It's the most depressing fucking thing I have ever seen.

Maybe there's an argument to be made that these people are better off than they would be otherwise. But I'm not so sure it's that simple. You have this zero sum game where the health and well being of humanity is being arbitraged for VC profits and increased efficiency for the restaurant owner.
Question: What is gauge invariance?

> Aristo is not sure about this one...

Maybe next year.

On the other hand...

>Question: What is an excitatory neurotransmitter?

> Aristo is not sure about this one...

> Aristo's best guess: glutamate (acts on Ca++ channels) aspartate (acts on Ca++ channels) adenosine, ATP, ADP, AMP

> Confidence: 24.80%

Not bad.....
"having to negotiate with every single noble if they wanted to change something"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto
No, don't use Redux everywhere. Most applications don't need to manage client-side state. State lives on the server. If your application lets the user edit stuff without immediately sending the update to the server then you may have state, otherwise you don't and you don't need a state manager.
Hi. IMO, current upcoming tech businesses may provide more value to the immediate community the founders are from, if say founders are from the same area. Personally, I like to explore global ideas & stitch them together for a diverse image. Certain founders begin with the notion of building just a feature and maybe later being acquired by a larger company. Some founders take on the challenge of creating an entire organization and never want to be acquired because they strongly believe they are best suited to implement the vision the company began with. ONE GOOD THOUGHT process I wish business people knew about running tech businesses is we are all founders of this beautiful planet inhabited by a diverse array of characters & life. That whether you are a techie or a luddite, we all deserve the pursuit of happiness. I think perfection is the art of finding balance. We're all connected within the ecosystem, so my advice to the techies of the future & the luddites of now, share your skills with each other, create knowledge amongst communities of projects that can help regenerate the world. Be Happy.
There's a former mall near Yale in New Haven that was converted to upscale apartments with some retail at ground level.
Yes, I fell into the trap of assuming a brand name actually has a fixed meaning.

Still, that's an epoxy, and if it's like the epoxy putties I've used, I bet it cures to a hard and rigid plastic, rather than the soft and flexible rubber that "Sugru brand mouldable glue" cures into.
No one could seize control of the company, that's the point. The signing keys were wiped - compromise is now impossible through that avenue.
Just released the latest version of usql, which fixes issues with syntax highlighting, adds initial support for Cassandra databases via CQL, among other changes.

If you've not seen usql before, it's a universal command-line client for SQL databases (and now also Cassandra), modeled on psql. usql makes it easy to work from the command-line, in a simple and consistent way across any database and on any platform (Windows, macOS, Linux). usql is written in Go, and provides things like syntax highlighting and compatibility with databases other than PostgreSQL (see below for the list of the supported databases).

Progress is moving at a decent clip towards a v1.0, which I expect to include 100% native Go support for Oracle databases, tab-completion, full compatibility with psql's \pset (and other output formatting) commands.

usql supports the following databases:

Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL
PostgreSQL
SQLite3
Oracle
Apache Avatica
Cassandra
ClickHouse
Couchbase
Cznic QL
Firebird SQL
Microsoft ADODB (Windows only)
ODBC
Presto
SAP HANA
VoltDB

Hope others in the community can make use of usql. Glad to answer any questions if anyone has any.
Success but by your own bootstrap. Hell hath no fury if you unionize.
‘Day Zero’ Denied: Solving the Looming Water Crisis
Because all the Blue Gene/L/P/Q code is POWER.
If this is a reference to Maslanka's "A Child's Garden of Dreams", I like it. One of my favorite pieces for wind ensemble.
Does anyone have a link the the analysis done by Carl Shapiro?
Most people don't know that store bought brown sugar is actually just processed white sugar + molasses.

That is not my argument. I never said "brown sugar", I said "organic sugar", which includes the growing and any processing of the sugar. True brown sugar is something like succanat [0], and it doesn't look anything like what we normally consider "brown sugar".

[0] https://www.amazon.com/NOW-Foods-Sucanat-Organic-Sugar/dp/B0...
To be fair, all the established governments think that way.

The ability to print money and collect tax is the cornerstone of political power.

The cryptocurrencies attack those foundations and, thus, are going to be prevented from becoming mainstream.
> In one way or another we all depend on the stock market to climb about 10% a year so we can retire some day and have savings to live off of, etc.

One critical detail here: 10% is definitely not sustainable. Long-term, the market reliably provides about 4% after accounting for inflation. You shouldn't assume you can get any more return on investment than that.
One could use blockchain to record the microscopic surface imperfections on the art. It would be like matching up the broken ends of stick...
>> If I want to pass an array of ids to a sub-component declaratively, there's not really an easy way to do it.

Yes, there is. See https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder
Are there plans to use the new tech for Go app engine? Go on app engine was a real struggle with the non-standard bits.
Any explanation on why?
In her short life, mathematician Emmy Noether changed the face of physics
Kolyma Stories is probably the best book about the reality of communism.
Apparently the Christian daughter-in-law of Ghengis Khan, Sorghaghtani Beki, was instrumental in the preservation and adoption of the pre-existing Han Chinese culture and political apparatus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghaghtani_Beki
Psychedelics punch through the big illusion, as in maya. They give the game away. I feel people are subconsciously and collectively terrified of this.
lol yeah, they have actual productive things to work on.
Amen. I'm making a career change and my wife is going bay to work and half our questions about a new job... healthcare benefits, not necessarily the better career choice...
Not to mention, “we” is a pretty varied group. I’ve met Uber drivers who were refugees trying to survive in America and I met one who was a retired Stanford surgeon who just liked to get out of the house and meet people a few times a week. He picked me up in a BMW 5-Series.
The Mongols adopting Chinese culture was an intentional act by Kublai and his established Yuan dynasty after conquering China.
Mods, title should reflect the actual title of the piece: "Beware the 'mother of all credit bubbles.'"
How about we just vote for single payer? Simple. The truly broken end up homeless in the end.. unless by magic you find section 8. And then there is the paperwork, the miles and miles and miles of paperwork. And then, soon, there will be the work means test. No medical if you don't work. Got cancer? Too bad, work. The only positive is that it equalizes medicaid with the working stiff... which might bring about single payer faster.
In my town in Connecticut, medical offices are multiplying like rabbits.
I think that's mysnomer https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/11/30/the-gre...
... or the infamous Zidane head-butt, Mardona's "hand of god", etc.
They must want some of the bitcoin market.
Erratic shift work in retail is definitely worse than gig work.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-retail-scheduling-2018...

“The Kmart in Los Angeles where Noemi Castro works often doesn't post her schedule until a few days before the week begins, she said. Days off frequently change, as do her hours. Last week, she got 26 hours; this week only eight.
Sometimes, Castro said, a last-minute change is made to an online scheduling document without her knowledge. "The manager calls and says, 'Why aren't you here?' " she said.”
Gotcha, I was wondering if the VBUS was dynamic. Thanks for clearing that up for me and linking to the documentation, I appreciate that.
NFS tends to be living in the kernel, which sounds like a terrible place for TLS. That said, IPSec lives in the kernel to some extent, you could layer NFS on top of ipsec....
I know, just an example.

I wouldn't bet against relay right now - historical precendent is irrelevant here. There's an enormous opportunity for application of ML techniques in protein engineering (as an umbrella term...) - I've really been itching to take a crack at it but it's a moonshot...

A well-positioned player with the right people could make a killing in this market right now.
I'd like a portion of my equity to be shares of a Y-combinator fund. I can spread my comp risk across a batch of startups, just like a VC.
If you want to learn the trouble with d3, try to apply their general pattern to anything with multiple grouped elements and watch all of your code devolve into forEach loops, or even better, go look up their recommended approach for using it with canvas. It's great for a demo about a chart, though!
The allure of gig jobs is the ability to turn an arbitrary number of your unproductive hours and an idle car into money. Sometimes you really need that money.

I know some people who landed in hard situations where their usual day job would not be enough to cover rent + food + bills. But working the day job and spending 5-6 nights a week driving Uber would be enough. Granted: that's at the expense of not sleeping, not resting, running up their car's mileage, and possibly ruining their health. But the availability of the app has literally saved people from homelessness.
When you find yourself surrounded by enemies, you might ask yourself how it came to be that all your neighbors turned against you.

An Anglo-French alliance was not inevitable; as late as 1894 it was possible to publish a novel in which England, invaded by France and Russia, was rescued by Germany [1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_War_in_England_in_18...
Not only that but as a consumer the experience doesn't feel that much better. Sure there are lots more places that deliver but I now feel like I pay more after delivery fee+ service fee + tip.
This isn't "the standard mirroring whatever Google feels".
The headline of the article is "Psychedelics could heal brain cells in people suffering from depression: study" So it appears that research into psychadelics is not blocked! The substances in question are classified as research chemicals meaning that scientists are indeed allowed to perform research on them.
The rational numbers aren't physically real, because that would imply the ability to divide objects into exactly fractions, which generally isn't possible in a verifiable way, which also must be consistent with the operations we want to perform. Fractions are a useful abstraction. The reality is just relations between natural numbers.

The real numbers aren't invented to capture the square root of two. You can deal with that using a simpler set. The real numbers are necessary for common approaches to calculus and other forms of math that depend on a continuum of quantity.

I would describe math as a tool for modeling reality, rather than understanding it. Because we really don't know much at all. All we've got are rules that are pretty damn good at predicting things under everyday conditions.
> and quantum physics

Hmm. I built the first version of my quantum wavefunction visualizer with D3, since D3 has a reputation for being good at visualization. However I eventually dropped D3 for WebGL-backed three.js.

One problem is much of the SVG spec is just not implemented. This means it is less capable than it appears at first. 3D in particular was very awkward.

Performance was also a problem. D3 round trips through text, making it hard to achieve fast custom animations. A big performance win was to truncate floats to two decimal places, which is an absurd thing to need to do.

three.js had its own issues, in particular drawing lines which is quite challenging. However it was more flexible and faster.

http://ridiculousfish.com/wavefiz/ if anyone wants to see.
Very unlikely, I would guess. There's a reasonable chance Bitcoin won't even exist in 2020.
yeah, basically I wanted to release some stuff I've been working on using similar format.
This will be great for everyone. About time theres some more competition.
I didn't claim [4] was the solution. I claimed the problem was solvable. One example of how to improve on [4] is to build into browsers the option of automatically searching archive.org whenever you hit a 404.
Is there a way to have both? Innovation (that matters) plus localized wellbeing? Regulation could force the second to certain extent but I would prefer a market solution.
You think online small businesses are transacting directly with their customers using Bitcoin?
Never expect old code to handle new protocol elements. If it's not exercised regularly, it's not going to work.

Very few developers (outside of Google) are going to write randomized fuzzers to test for compatibility with theoretical future extensions. They're going to test that it works with existing stuff and then ship it.

So, the fuzzing has got to become part of the public ecosystem.
So this would be in place of a service like Dropbox -- or S3 or Azure Blob -- where user passes a token to the app to allow reading/wring data to the user's storage account/location... but with a standard protocol and authorization scheme?
" It was Toys 'R' Us' own mismanagement that doomed it."

It was the private equity investors who loaded it up with debt in order to cash out who doomed it.

You don't have a hope in hell of adjusting to market changes when your funds are tied up paying off the loans your owners made you take on in order to fund their takeover.
Yup, I agree with you as well.
Any other D3 performance hacks?
Craigslist Ads from the Future: Tesla Model 3
Why blockchain founders always brag about their community size
This is only the beginning, automation is coming fast to disrupt gig workers, then situation will be worse.
d3 has a lot of really useful libraries baked in. You can even use them independently and roll your own svg using its components as utilities. I find this super helpful when using d3 as a whole isn't really a good option (as part of a React/React-Native app for example).

Such as:
https://github.com/d3/d3-shape

https://github.com/d3/d3-scale

Doing it from scratch without the help of utilities like these would be much harder.

A couple examples:

var line = d3.line()
.x(function(d) { return x(d.date); })
.y(function(d) { return y(d.value); })
.curve(d3.curveCatmullRom.alpha(0.5));

line(data); // gives you svg path

and

var color = d3.scaleLinear().domain([10, 100]).range(["brown", "steelblue"]);

color(20); // "#9a3439"
color(50); // "#7b5167"
Aren't you presupposing that lines are themselves a continuum? It's a reasonable abstraction, but as far as we know, it's not physical real.

If a line were just a collection of discrete points related by some formula, there's no reason two lines that aren't parallel should have to intersect, from the perspective of sharing a point.
I recently had a problem where a hard drive was being negatively impacted by the noise caused by cooling fans in the chassis.

The hard drive was a Toshiba P300 3TB model HDWD130XZSTA. In the last year or two, since Toshiba's corporate troubles have gone on, they have started to price their hard drives more competitively. They seem like pretty nice drives in regards to performance and noise, but I discovered that this model at least seems to be susceptible to errors when subjected to nearby acoustic noise/vibration.

The server was a generic 1U with six 40mm fans in the center behind the hard drives. When the fans run at full speed they are really loud -- like seriously hurting your ears loud.

I first noticed something was wrong when some SMART errors developed on one of the drives, indicating a failure. I RMAed that drive and then got a new one, but the linux mdadm RAID rebuild was insanely slow. Further tests showed that the new drive was performing terribly and I went through the process of troubleshooting.

It took awhile before I finally figured out it was the fan noise causing it, but you could really see the transfer speed ramp up/down when I plugged the fans in/out. When the fans running at full speed, the drive read rate (hdparm -h) would drop down to 1MBps or even less, whereas they would go up to 175-190MBps normally. The read errors were SO bad that it must have triggered a SMART failure on the previous drive.

I've been a sysadmin for about 20 years now in datacenter environments and this was the first time I've seen an effect this substantial.

It's noteworthy that this same chassis has two Seagate drives in it which didn't suffer any negative performance issues from the noise.

I guess that's what I get for using desktop class drives in a server.
> D3 round trips through text, making it hard to achieve fast custom animations.

Isn’t this just an inherent problem with using SVG (or DOM in general)?

Conceivably you could use D3 to drive some other drawing method, though you might not get that much out of it at that point, unless you were trying to draw maps or something.
Thanks for the advice! Silos of businesses, with an umbrella domain sheltering them all together. Kind of reminds me of this guys site:

https://apki.io/
> Having said all that, will an implementation of your code with generics be all that much faster?

Likely yes. If generics are implemented via monomorphization, then you can avoid the overhead of virtual calls necessitated by interfaces.

It is possible that the compiler could become smart enough to devirtualize calls through interfaces.
Perhaps the argument amounts to "driving a scooter on the road makes me feel unsafe, and I'd rather make others (pedestrians) unsafe to make myself feel safer." Seems typically selfish.
I don't see how this conception of personalized medicine would work. For many drugs, the binding sites aren't terribly different or different at all between individuals. I can see this being different for larger populations. More likely you'll see drugs created that very specifically target something so that the personalization will be at the level of the drug cocktail as opposed to synthesizing some new molecule. This isn't to mention the possibly wildly different effects you can get from changing something seemingly minor about the molecule. A sort of good example of this is methamphetamine (yes, I know chirality isn't minor but its a good layman's example).
Is the hourly rate before or after taxes? Don't forget as independent contractors you have to pay way more in tax than as W2 employee, so take home income will be significantly less.
This is depressing. We can't even get $275 per full-time worker each year (previously reduced from $500) from some of the worlds richest companies to pay towards the homelessness situation they have helped create. Jeff Bezos wants to build houses on the Moon. How about helping out here on Earth first.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/03/bezos_billions_spac...
It's still here. A lot of tea/coffee shops use it to prepare coffee. It tastes really good.
I don't think bitcoin is even on their radar.