skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate some of the points you've brought up. I also appreciate that you took the time to articulate your thoughts in a civil manner.

My biggest issue with all of this comes down to one word. You keep using the word "decentralized" to describe what BTC is and what BCH has lost. I've seen this word used for a long time now by the BTC camp but none of them can better define it (or are willing to attempt it).

Here are some of the things that I think make a coin decentralized.

1. Distribution of mining. Neither BTC nor BCH have decentralized distribution of mining. The big pools are massive and they can (and do) switch between the two coins.

2. Communication channels. With the small exception of things like Memo.cash for BCH, both BTC and BCH have both built their community on censor-able platforms like Twitter and Reddit.

3. Full node mining clients. BTC has one and it's called Bitcoin Core. Attempts to create more (Bitcoin XT, Bitcoin Classic, Bitcoin unlimited, Segwit 2x) were labeled as scams by the r/bitcoin mods and all talk about them was silenced. Meanwhile BCH welcomed them. We now have 6+ full node clients that miners/users can choose from (ABC, Unlimited, Flowee, Bcash, BCHD, Satoshis Vision, and more). Our community encourages them because it makes for a healthy ecosystem.

TLDR: Both coins are pretty damn centralized but if you do compare them you'll find that for the things that matter, BCH is way more decentralized. It's more decentralized while have 32x the transaction capacity and sub-penny fees for the foreseeable future.
The guy hasn't been sleeping and short sellers had essentially all but cornered him to the extent he would go bankrupt. I don't blame him too much except that he hasn't got his #2 with whom he can vent out, calm down and strategize. Gates had Ballmer, Page has Brin, Zuck has Sanders. Who does Musk has? Not acquiring #2 is his single biggest failure.
ABI stands for Application Binary Interface. It's basically how compiled code interfaces with each other (e.g. how functions are called and values are returned).

In Swift, this is currently not stable, meaning it changes with each version. The result is that you can't use a library compiled with version X of Swift with version Y of Swift. From version 5 onward the ABI will be compatible between version 5 and versions >5.
I don’t think they’d have to worry. That business model clashes with the individualism I’ve experienced in the west. Their whole apartment option sounds viable though. They’d have some success here but they’d have to pick their markets well.

Certainly, let us not forget a rich RE boy lives in the White House right now.
There's a big difference between class="u-bg-red" and style="background: red;". The big difference being that the class make it so that it is first-class application idea.

And I think that may be one of the larger points here. CSS can be simple, and using techniques like this forces it to stay that way. You have to take a step back and understand what we're trying to do as engineers. I would argue that being able to quickly understand code (e.g. the context to understand a line of code is small) should be a top priority of most software project.
Are you busy or are you productive?
UEFI let’s the FW signal to the OS upon boot “please install this driver blindly”, but it can’t force the OS.

Only Windows obliges to this request. Linux is immune.
Good information. Thanks. Do you think the pay is comparable to the West?
Agree with this comment. If you’ve watched the community work at this language it’s been a very clear and well documented process. I’ve learned a lot just by watching Swift evolve through proposals.
Almost everyone except you has been surprised so that should give you a clue. The Bayesian probabilities are all relative :). If you did believed 100% then you should have shorted the hell out of that stock. But you didn't so my guess is that even for you it was more like 90%.
The part in Touching the Void where the the man begins to hallucinate that happy, irritating song ought to have a scientific explanation for it. I often have a song play in my mind when I hike, but doubt that my experience is even close to what he experienced.
>What do you think are the chances of Gwynne Shotwell tweeting SpaceX into the gutter or wrecking its reputation by getting into a tiff with a guy trying to rescue a bunch of kids?

Low, but we also know that the chances of her starting a company like SpaceX wouldn't have been nearly as high either since she didn't.
"The only Chef job with stock options!"

wow who was that chef?
Ask HN: Other than Sourceforge, are there any sites to publish your software?
Publish or share.

In my case, it's for regular users.
I'd argue it's pretty standard, I mean you don't have to use it.

I find lunch at work already a pretty big perk, where it's not offered it's an easy E5-7 per day (I can't be arsed to make it at home), that adds up over a year.
The overwhelming majority of r/math agrees with what you say. The consensus is that the organizers were foolish to let someone like Atiyah present his talk, given his age and the recent passing of his wife.
I think most people would very much like to deploy cluster updates more frequently.

Unfortunately this is difficult because most distributions don't keep up with the release cadence.

One of (the most?) popular way to deploy Kubernetes is the Kops project. As far as I know there is nobody who is paid to work on Kops, thus the bugs and PR's don't get enough hours invested in them.

Distribution and packaging is very boring and fiddly grunt work, it would be wonderful if somehow we as a community could figure out how to fund full time work on a distribution in the OSS space. Perhaps CNCF could do a better job of funding this somehow.

It's a hard problem, because the organizations most suited to solving it are CoreOS/RedHat/Microsoft/Google/Amazon/etc, and they have a vested interest in putting that effort into making their hosted solutions a great experience instead.

Kubeadm looks like a great step in the right direction, but as far as I'm aware, there aren't any production quality distributions for installing clusters with it yet.
I bought this one! It's so pleasant. Thanks for reminding me about it. I think I will watch it again soon.
I worked somewhere with free coke and kit kats.

Turns out, I've got willpower when in the supermarket, but not when there's a fridge in the office. I could just about limit myself to 1 of each a day, but even that was too much.
Yeah having forked k8s will be bad. Back-porting possible security fixes could be tricky and having multiple companies have to do it, would be painful.
Hard to tell whether this is a news article or an ad for the featured company.

Also, tech has been in real estate for a very long time. Zillow, Trulia, Redfin, etc were supposedly "disrupting and revolutionizing" real estate before smartphones got popular. I remember reading about this more than a decade ago. My god time flies.

From 2007.

Redfin On 60 Minutes Tonight – Real Estate Market Disruption.

https://techcrunch.com/2007/05/13/redfin-on-60-minutes-tonig...

Zillow has created a real estate revolution.

http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive...
Can't land. Front fell off.
I've seen people make the distinction between statements and expressions in the past, but I don't get the significance. I mean I understand what they are but I don't understand why people view the concept as such a big deal.

Are there any resources explaining this which you would recommend?
It's not going to be open-and-shut if for whatever magical reasons Saudis come back and decide to corroborate on Musk's statement.
You got me at the emulate a keyboard thing. Now I’m thinking that you shouldn’t plug strange keyboards or mice in because they could have an onboard payload. The crash cart at a data center is kind of a dumb idea in a way except the place is full of cameras usually
Not sure about the App Store but when you get into the preferences -> icloud -> manage you can right click on that window and "inspect element" and safari debugging window will pop up :)
It’s worth reading the article, it’s actually not bad! The key quote is probably:

“This is precisely the area that the researchers, from Imperial College in the UK, targeted with their gene drive system. Males that carry one or two copies of the edited version of the doublesex gene develop perfectly normally and are fertile. Females with only one copy also develop normally. In all these cases, these animals will experience gene editing, and all their offspring will end up receiving a copy of the edited version of the gene from them. And females where both copies have been edited develop with a mix of male and female traits and can't reproduce.”

So the majority of offspring carrying the trait can reproduce. The gene drive mechanism ensures that while the change reduces fitness, it still spreads through the population.

It does this, because even if the gene drive modification only exists on one chromosome, it will copy itself to the other chromosome.
You still need to hook up stuff to a computer - mice, keyboards, those weird 3D-mice our CAD people use, printers, and these days even displays are all attached to USB ports. And since the ports USB replaces have mostly gone, there is little alternative left.

At work, we keep a couple of power-socket-to-USB chargers around, if people want to charge their smartphone they can grab one. But simply disabling the USB ports on our users machines is not a realistic option at this point.
I assume you are specifically referring to the Great Filter, yes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
It's vital to protect our "the advertised price is the price you pay" rules. Before these fee rules we had e.g. Ryanair advertising prices that were only available when paying with one rare credit card, and a substantial surcharge on all the cards people actually used.

I believe merchants can still offer a cash discount, which seems like a better way of handling it: cards shouldn't be subsidised, but advertised prices should be the prices when paying the way most people actually pay.
Since version 11.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Server_Management_Studio
BBS :). It brought back nice memories.
Hi, I responded to your great comment over at lowtechmagazine[0]. I'm not sure if you check the thread there regularly so I'm also pinging you here

[0]: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-lowtec...
Google were not "evil" for a long time after this. They really were a force for good in the world for a long time. I have never admired a large company so much as I did the Google of the early 2000s. Youthful, gifted, moral, crazily ambitious, constantly doing things I thought impossible…

The "evil" only really crept in once they started to take over all of the world's advertising.
You make it a recessive trait. So only if both parents have it - it gets activated and the child is infertile.
Forgot about March of the Penguins! Everything about that documentary was great, especially Freeman as narrator.
Depends on how hot the battery can get. Normal cars already dissipate 50+kW of heat as gasoline engines are well under 40% efficient.
Most of the huge datacenter builders (digital realty trust, etc) are REITs.
It's funny to bring this comparison up (since Graydon is now on the Swift team), but Rust _also_ iterated like mad and took a while to mature — however, they waited until some degree of maturity before they called it 1.0, and have since been incredibly cautious about breaking changes. And they did this all of this iterating while building Servo in-house at Mozilla on the unstable version.

This is, in many ways, the diametric opposite of what this thread is discussing: pushing out nominally "stable" versions to the outside world, breaking things, but not committing internally.
Or turn it into a simple iterative process, instead of a recursive process. They explain how quite simply in SICP:

http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/1_002e2.xhtml (Ctrl-F "We can also formulate an iterative process for computing the Fibonacci numbers.")

Here's a Python implementation:

def fib(n):
a = 1
b = 0
i = 0
while i < n:
temp = a
a += b
b = temp
i += 1
return a

With that, fib(100000) takes half a second to compute on my machine.
All .com domains are $6.99 for me. Have been for at least 6 months. That not the case for you?

Edit: I do have many domains with them. I register new ones semi-frequently.
Shorting is selling a stock. Selling a stock lowers its price.

The way shorting works is Alice lends a stock from Bob and gives him a small compensation for that. Then Alice sells that stock she lend. Somewhere in the future Alice will buy the stock and give it back to Bob.

If the price goes up enouogh, Alice will (be forced to) cut her losses. For this she has to buy a stock, which will increase the price further. This can lead to a so called 'short squeeze' when shorters Carol and Dave also (are forced to) cut their losses, driving the price up even further.

Right now >28% the TSLA float is sold short[0]. That must have an impact on the price. Also should a TSLA short squeeze ever happen, that's going to be epic. There will be enough Tesla believers that it's probable going to be hard to find that 28% for anything close to reasonable prices.

[0] https://www.gurufocus.com/term/ShortPercentageOfFloat/NAS:TS...
If the user hasn't visited the subdomain evil.chase.com yet, a http downgrade attack (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18090419) would maybe work.
OIST scientists demo mechanism that helps develop electronic devices differently
Charlie Ayers I believe.
Ended up with $26 million in stock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Ayers
This documentary compelled me to study more about this calamity
More like how to do a cheap philosophy PR stunt.
Personally I don't Musk had a choice. If he didn't do what he did then very likely Tesla would be bankrupt by now because of its debt obligations + short sellers. The short sellers counted on it. The choices he faced were go bankrupt and lose company or do this risky move and hope SEC lets you go with slap on the wrist.
That's basically what a password field already is. That would make no difference to anything - the password would be sent over the network in exactly the same way either way.
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Github. Gitlab.
Chrome changes the "Not secure" in the address bar from grey to red (and displays a red explamation mark symbol there) when data is entered into the form.
That would be Charlie Ayers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Ayers
Requiem for the American Dream
The idea of an option type (Optional in Swift) is to use it only for a variables truly assume a "none" value at some point.
With the guarantees of such a type it is easier to reason about the correctness of a program - compared to Objective-C where a pointer anywhere may be null at any time.
Optional shouldn't be used for most variables and parameters. `guard let param = param else { return }` should be something pretty rare. I would mostly expect to see that for weak self variables in completion blocks.

Also, take into account that in Objective-C you can send any message to a nil pointer, and the result will be nil or 0 (for scalar types), as defined by the language standard.
I many of those cases people use lambda when a partial would be a better fit.
> In practice, at the scale of short selling actually taking place, does it materially impact the price of Tesla shares? Is there even any way to know?

Right now >28% the TSLA float is sold short[0]. I can't imagine that not have an impact on the price.

[0] https://www.gurufocus.com/term/ShortPercentageOfFloat/NAS:TS...
Presumably you're ok with the months and months of time that you'll have to spend going through court to do so? And maybe this might work for you, but what if you don't have months/years (house purchase?) or if you're broke? Or if you've just quit your job and were planning on using the funds to start a company/retire early? Last time I was a victim of financial fraud, a few hundred pounds was taken from my card. Visa noticed before I did, and phoned me, refunded the amount to my account, and replaced my card, without any hassle or action required from me.
Ordinary people must have a say in deciding the future of the web
I'm migrating "legacy" applications (as in non-containerized ones) to container environments for medium to large companies, and I would suggest two things:

- get a local test setup with minikube (https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube) and Helm (https://www.helm.sh/) and try out a few applications
- convert a project of yours to a Kubernetes deployment, then a Helm chart

If both steps are successful and you still feel like Kubernetes is doing a better job for you then Heroku, get a Kubernetes professional. I promise you, there will be as many problems as with any other environment. The only difference is that the Kubernetes issues are not documented.
I'm ignorant of the practical aspects here: aren't shorts self-fulfilling eventually if the people taking this positions are powerful enough?

If I'm long on Tesla, then I lend my shares for someone and the shares happen to fall at all (normal market variations) then I lost money. If I see more short orders then surely I'm going to get antsy, move to "a more stable share", pushing the price down a little, making some other short positions come off and starting the snowball rolling.

Add to that the ability of people to win on large short positions by selling shares 'they' are holding (pushing the price down), or knowing what major news outlets are publishing in advance, and any inkling of weakness gets multiplied beyond reality.

Surely you'd be stupid not to respect a major trading operation going short on a company you're long on; but that makes the position easy to manipulate?

If you see the sharks circling ready to depress your share price the temptation to blip the share price with an announcement "free cake for all shareholders!" is going to be strong. Especially if that might save the company.

Teach me oh wise ones, where am I wrong, what am I missing.

(I'd guess one thing would be the ability to hide the origin of bids/buys; I assume these are public.)
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> Well with Bitcoin it's trivial to prove that a transaction went through

Sure, 10 minutes after you request it.
So they were “not evil” as long as they were being funded by investors and didn’t have a self sustaining business plan...
No, Transferwise provide balances as part of their "Borderless banking" accounts: https://transferwise.com/gb/borderless/
...and yet many retailers who won't take Amex directly, will let you pay via Paypal, and Paypal do let you provide funds from an Amex card.

If you're a small business, Paypal charges are also high compared with standard debit and credit cards, but my understanding based on conversations with people in the SMB space is that somehow the marketing types think the benefit of having a "pay with Paypal" button on your website outweighs the additional charges. For the moment, anyway.
And it seems likely that he did have the "intention of manipulating the price." He's gone on about price changes and annoying the short sellers quite a bit. He's not naive on this stuff.
It's a bit much to say that being deflationary kills a currency, metals were used as currency for a long time and they were deflationary mostly.
It's an admirable goal, and we'll see whether it works out in practice. Remember, this entire thread is about JDK updates. Java also explicitly has forward and backward compatibility as a design goal, but then sun.misc.Unsafe turned out to be a bigger headache than most people thought, and upgrading to Java 11 will require many companies to update core dependencies, and unfortunately a lot of companies would rather pay for Java 8 support than put in the maintenance effort.

Even if there's 99% compatibility, if upgrading requires anything more than updating the compiler, even if it's just adding a runtime flag and the upgrade effort should be minimal, you're going to see significant resistance from companies with large codebases.
He absolutely has one in Shotwell on the SpaceX side.

Maybe that's part of the reason that Tesla is the company causing him all the issues.
In my area a lot of gas stations are now using signs with two prices: the cash price and the credit card price with the cash price being lower. It seems some merchants are starting to be able to handle this at scale to rebalance.

It seems there was a time when as a consumer it didn't make sense not use a rewards card, but now that the ramifications are becoming apparent it is likely that some people may opt to switch back to cash.
Musk is Tesla, and people loves Musk whatever he do. The same way a couple years ago, the Apple Board pulled out Steve Jobs from his company, they are now trying to do the same with Musk on Tesla. BAD Move. Tesla without Musk is nothing
I understand it about placeholders. Fair enough. I can do quick s/\?/\$1/g, no prob.

Still how about not lowercasing identifiers? This is actually a blocker, I'm sure you see it:)
Test && commit || revert, an alternative to TDD
The German city investing in grandmas' cakes
”the macOS Dock was rewritten in Swift in macOS 10.12, and Mission Control was super buggy for me in that version. I'm not blaming this on Swift”

Foo was rewritten in Swift, and bar was super buggy. Why would you blame that on Swift?
The commute times are way worse than the free lunches when it comes to family time.
If it works don't knock it! Teaching young pups not to eat cane toads is pretty cool
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The answer is no. Gödel's incompleteness theorem is interesting here as it states that within a given axiomatic system, there are facts that are true but not provable within that same axiomatic system.

Another way to think about it is that if we are part of a set of fundamental rules that make up a simulation, it's impossible for us to prove everything about that system.
> The plan is to target those sub-species only.

How does the saying go?

The best laid plans of mice and men always work out exactly as predicted and never suffer from unintended consequences.

Just like cane toads and prickly pear.
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If I go to Transferwise to buy foreign currency, I'm charged the same additional fee whether I fund my transfer from a debit or a credit card.

This doesn't seem right as it must be more expensive for them to process a credit card payment.
I've been a vi user for all of my Linux computing life. Watching the gifs in this repo put me in the shoes of coworkers watching me type in arcane symbols in vi to do 'magic'.

I feel like I should give emacs a download and try to wrap my brain around it, if for no other reason than to be more well-rounded.
What about political orientation :).
I've been down the Emacs road a couple times. It's just not going to happen. It comes down to to time. I have a limited amount of it and investing in Emacs isn't worth it. Obviously Emacs will have users for years to come, but its future is bleak.
So if I understand correctly, in Javascript a fat arrow is just the syntax sugar for:

var x = function(x){ return x };
Ah, interesting! Thanks!
Isn't it curious that in an age where people want more privacy and control over their data that shoppers would love these kinds of cards?
If you have > $400 to cover the difference, then yes, you could keep on holding the stock at $500.

But most people don't 'leverage' like that. So they either get spooked and cut their losses (before the price goes on to $1000) or their broker steps in and basically says: "either you show us that $400 or we sell before your bad judgement becomes ours."
Yes for sure - or 80k+ pickup trucks…
FYI Ziroom had whole apartment rentals for many years now
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