skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do we imagine those unbanked people being likely to have bitcoin wallets?

Yes, mobile phones far outnumber bank accounts in much of the developing world.

Also unbanked people exist in the developed countries. Ex convicts, immigrants and homeless for example.

> That a problem, for sure, but in exchange consumers have no recourse if they legitimately need to chargeback a vendor. This is an anti-consumer feature of bitcoin.

Yes it's one of the drawbacks.

You could argue that it's easier to have recourse against a business than against an individual.

> you'll need an exchange to your currency of choice, at which point governments have all the ability in the world to effectively freeze your assets.

You're imagining a world-wide all powerful and all knowing government which can freeze your funds. There are exchanges all over the world and you can even sell your coins for physical cash. Also you need to be able to trace all coins and then try to freeze them, which isn't practical if you use Monero or a good mixing service.

That's assuming you actually sell your coins for fiat instead of buying things or services instead. Or if you just hold the coins.

This is very different from holding the actual wallet and being able to freeze it at any time.

> yet the number of websites that are offering bitcoin payments is shrinking

Do you have any source that the number of porn websites are accepting cryptocurrencies less?

Cause that doesn't seem to be the case at all. Pornhub for example has partnered with other cryptocurrencies (bad move IMO but still). Playboy was working on it but apparently got screwed by their contractor. There are other smaller sites that have begun accepting cryptocurrencies recently.

This is also not a technical argument against cryptocurrencies. With time adoption will increase since the technology is here.
How does this work in light of how some people, including myself, use slacks:

Work slack

N Side-project-team slacks

Personal Slack

---

I cant have work-slack email address to login to my personal slack, which is just for me. Further, need no connections between various side-project/side-interests slacks.

I also participate in Discords, but not actively enough where I am as fluid in using discord...
Well the Australian government(s) aren't sane then. We've been privatizing our power plants for decades, and iirc some owned by Government owned Chinese enterprises.

EDIT: For what it's worth. I don't have a problem with foreign ownership of the powerplants. But I do have a problem with privatization in a market without much competition.
Build a live table using Flask
As long as you disable the disk write cache.

I had a home Nas running zfs on a unreliable power supply and I lost the contents of the Nas a few times before I disabled the write cache. Ext4 seems to tolerate this much better.
The Story of Why I Left Riot Games
It’s fits their tendency to want to keep everything in house as well.

But I would have preferred to have ZFS while they worked on their own FS. And I still want data integrity to protect against bit rot whichever APFS does t provide.
Do you remember what model it was?
To be honest, that's most C++ compilers.
I know why rejection emails suck – I write them
Not sure why you're being downvoted. It's possible that nVidia's unsold GPUs are just a coincidence with crypto price drops, but I'd like to see some evidence.
That is because it is compiling for x86.
It is the Knight Architecture, designed for TTL implementation
Various metrics have predicted the majority of slumps for about 100 years. That's like every hour, not "twice". I don't believe the pattern of slumps is random: it's roughly a decade cycle. Inverting yield curves, PE ratios above average (using long-term earnings), and bull market duration all point to a likely pattern.
Is there any evidence that the crows are poisoned? Can you provide the source?
An introduction to pipes and named pipes in Linux
> It's not some random commenter that assumed the cronotype though, it's scientists.

However, what is actually known about the human body is often a lot more fuzzy and uncertain than how the popular press, or sometimes scientists, would have use believe. If the second paragraph of the Wikipedia article on the chronotype is to be believed there is plenty of room for believing that environment and habits play a role in your Chronotype as is the case for most behaviours.

> The causes and regulation of chronotypes, including developmental change, individual propensity for a specific chronotype, and flexible versus fixed chronotypes have yet to be determined. However, research is beginning to shed light on these questions, such as the relationship between age and chronotype.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronotype
Very cool project! Glad to see support for PBT and HyperBand. Also related to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/hyperdr...
Introducing a New Framework for Reproducible Reinforcement Learning Research
> also because the safety egineer blidnly trusted the software runnign the car

My understanding is the opposite. Uber's software was generating a lot of false breaking events so they set it up so it wasn't controlling the breaks. Drivers were trying to gather evidence about the triggers for these false events. That created this perverse situation where the software correctly identified it should have braked, but the only action it could take was to raise an alert, distracting the driver at a critical moment.
True, I was referring to waking up in the middle of the night for an hour or two and then going back to sleep.
ah so it sounds like aquaponic culture...that would make a very taste free product. nutritional just the same but ^bland^
git clone 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/stage0.git'
make test

That should do the full bootstrap in about 1 minute
Western Europe is well aware of this fact this is why they are desperate to get the pipeline from Qatar built - which is not going anywhere because of destabilization in Syria (The pipeline needs to pass through Syria). Hmm.. I wonder which foreign power is helping prop up the Assad Regime

Also Germany is building HVDC lines from solar power plants is Spain. Depending on Russia has already got us in the mess where Europe is unable to hold them accountable for a lot of crimes they have committed on European soil.
Ah yes, it's a legal justification, but as the article said, criminal investigations should not be blocked by civil agreements.

Ethical-wise I can think of only a couple of acts (usually headline worthy) that look less ethical than that.
Clearing browsing data in Chrome doesn't remove Google cookies
Latest version of Chrome doesn't remove Google cookies when you clear browsing data. I feel like Google is adding super cookies to track users even after clearing browser data.
And if she had bragged about getting the right amount of sleep, I wouldn't have cared. But she just went on and on about the superiority of early risers: how this successful VC or that successful CEO wakes up very early, and how in fact most successful people in SV wake up early.
Stop Rate Limiting
The C version is alot easier to read: https://github.com/oriansj/M2-Planet
Is the SMART attribute “media wearout indicator” only available on enterprise-grade SSD and not on consumer-grade SSD? I checked my Samsung SSD as well as NVMe drives and I didn't find it on CrystalDiskInfo.

EDIT: It looks like "wear leveling count" attribute is available on Intel (#233) and some high-end Samsungs (#177), as well as other SSD, but it's not on any of my SSD.
Why do you think it is vizier, and not something developed specifically for clous?..
It's a good idea. Afaik, naval nuclear power has a pretty good track record.

Who knows if that will continue for commercial power generation?

But at least it solves the stupid "perpetual one-off design" space nuclear power seems to have been stuck in. (Although I believe I read that at least France standardized all their reactor buildings?)
There is one obviously visible cam (yellow half-circle) that seems to control the little wheel that shoots a single piece into slots that move over the sorting bins.
Oh indeed,

And quite a few might be further surprised that even in an enterprise which needs to do some illegal things to make money, those at the top insulate themselves from any potential illegal acts and merely hire people to "do the impossible" and are simply happy when money pours in, "as if by magic" not asking exactly how this happens and even accepting assurances that nothing illegal has been done.
I don't think it makes sense to assume a 100% conversion rate for a web app.
Build a Basic CRUD App with ASP.NET Core and Vue
Isn’t this the difference between computer science and software engineering courses?
Facebook tracking UK political party websites
I might be an anomaly, but I only read HN on mobile, usually when I am waiting for something. If I am at my desktop, I have real work to do while on mobile, I am usually passing time waiting on something or another.
If you click through the explanation in the documentation:

> Cloud Machine Learning Engine is a managed service that enables you to easily build machine learning models that work on any type of data, of any size. And one of its most powerful capabilities is HyperTune, which is hyperparameter tuning as a service using Google Vizier.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/hyperparameter-tu...
I'm the author. We wanted to showcase some scenarios and that's it.

I would love to hear any suggestions of what else we can gather and report.
From the SSD torture tests Ive seen, it is many petabytes of data that the average SSD must write before getting anywhere near "weared out".

What those tests don't show by continuously writing and reading until absolute failure is the degradation in retention that occurs; a block that has been erased and rewritten over the specified endurance will almost certainly still accept writes, and even read back the same data, but is unlikely to retain that data for the specified length of time (several years, normally) --- instead, erasing itself soon after being written.
When you repeat things over and over, even with an increasingly large sample, you artificially increase the chances of replicating something purely by chance. When papers are published they tend to publish ranges for the expected strength of their findings. What replication studies have found is that these ranges are not representative of reality in most cases. It's not about 'these papers are not infallible' but 'these papers seem to have misrepresented the strength of their findings.' And like the article mentions, even with this rather generous method of trying to 'replicate' studies, they found huge chunks of papers could not be replicated to anything like the strength originally suggested.

The unstated implication here is that it seems a very large chunk of social science researchers are faking their numbers, likely through p-hacking, to create attention (and journal) grabbing headlines that are, for lack of a better word, simply fake.
A legal push to revive US net neutrality rules is gaining momentum
I remember when microphones were physically dangerous. It mentions carbon microphones with the main supply voltage going through them: http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/mechamp/mechamp.htm.... But even into the 80s, microphones plugged into portable vacuum tube amps sometimes ended up with the plate voltage (200+ volts) on them and shocked people when they touched them. Stage performers usually brushed a mic quickly with a finger before putting their lips close to it, to make sure it wasn't electrically hot.

I wonder if it resulted in people being more careful what they said near a microphone too.
The End of Theoretical Physics as We Know It
get an old drawer from a captains bed a few pieces of 4" pipe a bag of your favorite fertilizer (organic or othewise) and some full spectrum LED panels, ready to go except for a wack old futon mattress to lay ontop...
then lettuce grow hmm, what would we grow hidden away under the couch?
Tesla Inc.’s CEO Elon Musk Takes a U-Turn on Privatization Deal
Great Barrier Reef headed for 'massive death'
This is from a new private browsing session, no page loaded (tabs only prefilled with urls to load).

Notice, no consent given on Facebook or the political party
sites.

Facebook has been sent a wealth of data on who is a member of UK political parties, because UK political parties are mostly giving it away to them illegally.
Cmm_of_wasm: From WebAssembly to Native Code via the OCaml Back End
Article author - I'm on the writing team at Triplebyte. Most of what we do is summarize candidates' technical performance for their introduction to companies, but we also send feedback to everyone who takes our two-hour interview. I took this responsibility over from our first engineer, who built a bunch of software to make the process faster - it lets me quickly autogenerate emails by clicking all the resources I want to include, and then highlights the things that require more careful review. (So the people who accuse me of being a robot are half-right, I guess.)
"I was up at 5 so I knocked it out before I drove in" comes across differently than "I was up at 5, but I go to bed around 9:30, so it evens out".
Build one. Build another. Now you have built two. Hopefully you learnt something and now you know where things are headed. Now you can write an abstraction. Now you can rebuild the first two using the abstraction along with the next. If you’ve done the abstraction right all three now share and use a commonality that helps clear up and simplify.
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Yeah, the BI level should be pegged to targeted inflation, not observed or expected inflation.
These designers used data to create fashionable outfits
You're missing arguably the single most important sentence in this article:

* If an initial replication attempt failed, the researchers added even more participants.
> that needs solving before any other.

Sadly, I think there is huge incentive to maintain status quo. It is essentially a loophole to manipulate the scientific consensus without the actual scientists being dishonest. Some wise once said "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.". I think that what we call as "science" today, has thus that fallen prey to this.
Went to a similar event at Harvard some years ago. Was interesting but if you are a HN regular you probably get as much out of blog posts following happenings online as at the event.

YMMV if you are a better net-worker than I am.
Except that the current increase in partisan voting began in the 2000s. The 50s were closer in the mid 70% but for the period since partisan voting was under 50%
Not only classical AI. If you bake in probability into logic-based Lisp & Prolog AI you end up in probabilistic programming. This is a very hot research topic.

You can also then add deep-learning based samplers. It's all connected.
How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing to OpenStreetMap
>given the seeming importance of sobriety on such a vessel, have a drink at the bar.

if the journalists ever mentioned the "importance of sobriety on such a vessel" in the presence of the crew, i'm pretty sure it immediately became the next, right after "Za mirnyy atom!", popular drinking toast on that ship. "Nu! za osobuyu vazhnost trezvosti na yadernom reaktore." Amen.

These floating reactors aren't the future - you just don't want a potential Chernobyl delivered right to your city (just lookup the safety record of Russian nuclear submarines what these peaceful reactors are built after). These ships are a classic Russian solution (cheap, low tech simple/crude, without long-term thinking) to the typical Russian issue of lack of infrastructure at the time when climate change encourages and political situation pushes Russia to increase development in the North-East regions.
The staggering money that Jenner, Bezos and Zuckerberg make in a single hour
This really assumes that there is one-true-deliciousness factor, which is patently false if the spaghetti sauce optimization exists. (in which the previously unknown chunky sauce actually was discovered to be a non-trivial market segment)

This seems more like a spanning/optimization problem (how to cover the majority of preferences while not needing too many varieties) than an actual optimization problem, but then again it's just a sample use case to use to sell their API, so they probably didn't think too hard about it.
How is it easier to trust the admins of Twitter for the average user? It's a closed, for profit corporation that intentionally obfuscates its moderation practices and in general distrusts direct engagement with admins/moderators.

Every Mastodon instance lists its admins on its frontpage, including how to @ mention them. Most instance admins respond to feedback directly. As I mentioned in the previous comment, particularly good Mastodon instances list their moderation policies and accountability/transparency standards on their frontpages, too, with many of them linking to GitHub repositories or similar where they conduct their business in the source-controlled open.

It's not "random others", because you have the option to choose your instance(s), and can often form personal bonds with the instance's admin(s). Some good instances like toot.cafe and friend.camp are making that a focus that you know who your friendly neighborhood admin is/are and should have a good relationship with them. Sure, your local admin probably talks to other admins or follows other admins, but at the end of the day the admin accountable to the instance is still the one running the instance. There's no central cabal secretly running the show behind the scenes because the admins are already as diverse as the users.

One of the few ways I can see people trust Twitter better is that at least as a for-profit company, it has a business model, and accountability to shareholders (if really, no one else in modern corporate America). There's nothing stopping Mastodon instances from incorporating and forming "proper" business models/governance models to get that additional level of government-blessed transparency. In fact, I've advocated for just that and think that something like a non-profit/charitable Mastodon Foundation to help instances run the business administrivia would be a good idea.
I highly recommend that user's full channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/akiyuky/videos

Akiyuky is apparently a process engineer in Japan, and posts impressive lego-based contraptions.

A lot of of them are for GBC, or "Great Ball Contraption", a collaborative project to make lego modules whose sole purpose is to move standard lego balls from one point to another. You'll often see collections of these at lego conventions. For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cbpNV8ivME
CrowdTruth 2.0: Quality Metrics for Crowdsourcing with Disagreement
A related idea—representing state as pseudo-continuously varying values—is Conal Elliott's original formulation of functional reactive programming in the context of animation [1].

[1] Elliott, Conal; Hudak, Paul (1997), "Functional Reactive Animation" <http://conal.net/papers/icfp97/>
As an author I would greatly appreciate any suggestions in what kind of stats you would want us to gather and share.
>I don't believe any of them will ever succeed as once the project becomes unwieldy, they leave for other pastures.

On the contrary, this is the formula to success: Outrun Your Mistakes.

If you make your code look sufficiently complicated and meta the team will praise you as a genius after you are gone, even as they try to untangle problems that you created.
Open Source and Cloud: who eats who?
Because the regular timing attacks were always relatively easy to mitigate in software with low performance penalties?

Unless I'm misreading your comment, you're saying Meltdown and Spectre are just the "run of the mill" cache timing attacks about which tens or hundreds of papers were written in the past years. In which case the same mitigations should still apply since they have been used in cryptography for decades.

If this is the case and there's nothing more to them, and since you appear to be working in the field, I have one question: what is it that triggered this kind of response now that wasn't already triggered by the swath of already existing papers?
Price controls just create shortages. See Venezuela.
Intel I think, but not positive. It was a higher grade SSD. Could have been an isolated incident but it was definitely abused.
Show HN: Process Google Location History for use in wage-theft cases
I have a 16GB SSD that used to be in a POS terminal before I bought it second hand. The SSD Wear Leveling Count attribute shows as failed. Still works.

I have chosen to use it as part of a RAID1 for an OS install on a home server. Waiting to see how long it will last.
The interpreter pattern permeates the stack.
Although I agree that there exist (at least) these two compensation situations, I disagree with the subsequent assertion:

> Moving due to B is only needed in small companies, large ones generally have room for people to grow.

I have personally found, as have, I'm sure, many other people with an affinity for startups, that large companies can be quite limiting to growth, especially for certain careers/specialties.
Ghost Markings: European Droughts Reveal Hunger Stones and Hidden Henges
They most likely are holding it back for a bigger media event where they will show them off and every tech blog on the internet will run a story about them.
To address housing prices, UBI would ideally be paired with a Land Value Tax (LVT), to capture the producer surplus. More detailed discussion of the economics can be found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax#Economic_proper...
It mades sbcl bearable at least. Not a minor point, so thanks stevelosh.
Here’s something. Rad-hardened parts are mostly BS. An MSP430 takes 20krads without shielding. Process shrink seems to increase hardness, not decrease. I used flash FPGAs with parity circuits because flash was supposed to be better for SEU. This is all theory; it’s really hard to test SEUs. Store firmware as a low-rate RS and do circuit parity checks to trigger firmware refresh. There is probably a smarter way to do circuit ECC without the EC as a weakness, but I don’t know. That was years ago, and we were just space cowboys giving the middle finger to the rad-hard parts business.
'Lost Squadron' WWII Warplane Discovered Deep Beneath a Greenland Glacier
Relationship Hero (YC S17) Is Hiring Coaches
This sounds like the plot of the book Wringer, but I never imagined it was a thing in real life. Really?
Alto: Lightweight VMs Using Virtualization-Aware Managed Runtimes [pdf]
American naval nuclear power has an excellent record. Russian, not so much. Skimming this list, I’m inclined to use the word “horrendous”: http://spb.org.ru/bellona/ehome/russia/nfl/nfl8.htm#O5
I've come to the same conclusion about myself, but I pegged it closer to 26 or 27 hours. For a while I've thought about just letting it rotate through the 24 hour day, to the point that I'm awake all night and sleep all day, until it realigns, to see what would happen. Sounds exactly what you're doing, though. I'm scared that it would have adverse psychological effects... and no doubt it would make working in the "real world" more difficult. Interested to hear more about your experience, how long you've been doing it, etc.

In the end, my wife is a lark, so I'd rather be awake with her :)