skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're only looking at Bitcoin where the devs celebrated when the fees got up to $50. [0]

It could have easily been prevented by focusing on on-chain scaling instead of waiting for off-chain solutions which aren't ready yet and possibly never will. This is what Bitcoin Cash does and the goal is to never have high fees again. During the latest stress test they processed multiple more transactions than Bitcoin could ever do and fees were still $0.0017. [1]

Credit cards also has a small fixed fee which can hurt merchants you need to take into account when comparing. It's not easy to compare though since there are many different possible contracts.

> Less safe for consumers as this simply transfers risk to the buyer

You're right, that's a negative.

> Why would they prefer Bitcoin over protected credit card transactions that, depending on terms, give a 1-2% cash kickback to the consumer.

Because it might be the only payment method possible. Because the merchants now avoid the credit card fees and can instead pass on the savings to the customer. They are incentivized to do this to avoid credit charge back fraud (which they otherwise eat).

[0]: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017...
[1]: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-cash-stress-test-resu...
It feels like there's this blanket belief that both parties are, by nature of the cosmos, equally as wrong when you add it all up.
It is very difficult to know when to quit, I've had projects (not gaming) that I pursued for far too long.
Tangentially related (and an absolutely shameless self-promote): a colleague and I recently described a repeatable approach and methodology (including example) for malware deobfuscation in a recent conference talk. Full narrated video of the talk is here [1], deobfuscation portion is roughly the middle third.

[1] https://youtu.be/RAtjW7PVGaM
and how exactly would you know
Submitted DMCA since it contains my copyrighted picture.
Why are we signing and creating laws purely for symbolism?
Between your two quotes you are missing this one:

> But this mystery was solved earlier today by Wardle
I guess because nobody uses macs, despite the bubble we live in

this was just nobody looked because it wasn't that popular to look
Mhh no they don't. Working poors in Europe have vars because they live in suburbs with bad connections and have to work far outside city centers. People without cars are mostly richer households living close to city center and working inside the city or not far around.
The author doesn’t want to learn new language features. Worry not, this framework will be forgotten in a week due to this.
I was thinking specifically of Pramiplexole.

Pramipexole in Treatment Resistant-Depression, Possible Role of Inflammatory Cytokines:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5143506/
https://www.nature.com/articles/npp2016217.pdf?origin=ppub

Antidepressant-like effect of pramipexole in an inflammatory model of depression.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27825895

Anti-inflammatory treatment for major depressive disorder: implications for patients with an elevated immune profile and non-responders to standard antidepressant therapy

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5606303/
But those sorts of instability are not sollely associated with climate change. We might yet have a thermonuclear war even before the climate warms up.

Equally, why stop at thermonuclear war brought on by economic instability, brought on by climate change? We can go all the way and imagine hostlie aliens taking over the Earth now that humanity is nearly wiped out by the rising temperatures.

There's a point at which predicting the future stops and imagining it begins, and that stuff about methane fireballs and radioactive soil seems to be over it.
There are many secure RFC 3161 timestamping services. You send them a hash, they timestamp and sign it and send it back. Some services are free, some cost money. Unfortunately, there's no way to express timestamps of web pages in a form Google understands. And it would only be meaningful for static pages, anyway.
Few things lag, these things have a long cycle. I come a state in India which used to be richest 60 years ago then we voted in the communists. Now we rank in the bottom five, after all parties trying to out left each other.
If that is true, it just highlights how broken US healthcare pricing is, if even hospitals or hospital groups are unable to negotiate good enough supplier pricing to be able to make that work.

For some perspective of this: The US government in recent years have often paid more per US citizen for all of Medicare and Medicaid than UK citizens pay for the NHS (1).

The difference being that that per citizen cost in the UK provides universal coverage. Per eligible person, while Medicare is quite cheap by US standards, it's incredibly expensive by the standards of most other developed countries... So US tax payers pay more for healthcare than UK taxpayers before most of you even get any cover yourself.

You might expect it to be higher than the UK given difference in salaries etc., but the per eligible person costs in Norway, Switzerland and Luxembourg, the three most expensive countries in the world for healthcare outside of the US, largely driven by high salaries, are lower than the Medicare per eligible person costs (2), and lower than the combined Medicare/Medicaid per eligible person costs for Norway and Luxembourg and just barely higher for Switzerland. But Medicare cover is also far more limited.

So how in the world can it cost so much more?

(1) https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2016/feb/... - UK cost per person in 2014/2015: 2069 GBP. 2069 GBP is ca. $2695 per person today.
Medicare in 2017: $702 billion according to https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/the-facts-on-medica...
Medicaid in 2016: $533 billion according to https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/total-medicaid-...
US population ca. 327m, gives $3770 per person.

If looking at just Medicare you come out a bit lower at $2167, but of course that includes cover for far fewer people, only about 55 million, for costs per patient more comparable to the NHS of more than $12,700. The per-patient cost of Medicaid and Medicare combined is more than $9500/year.

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
> the Romans planted the walled settlement of Londinium on the marshy north bank of the Thames

Err, I'm reasonably sure that the reason why the Roman settlement was on the North bank was that the North bank was rocky, and the South bank was the marshy one.

The Romans were too pragmatic to try build Swamp Castle ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNaXdLWt17A )
I've always considered myself a liberal, but I've become so frustrated by what seems to be passing for "liberal solutions" in the past few years.

For example, I believe having more women on boards is a desirable, admirable goal, but this mandate has to be about the dumbest way to accomplish it. It's similar to what I feel about the housing crises in big cities. I'm very much in favor of increasing affordable housing, but things like rent control (coupled with relatively small numbers of government funded affordable housing units) are so probably counter-productive it's laughable.
If you think you like driving into the city anytime near rush hour, then yes, I think you’re definitely brainwashed. :)
I've spent ~$200 on this.
I started using org-mode just because this seems to be a best solution for "I want just a simple todolist in my terminal, but with pretty bullets." It kinda feels like using a bazooka to kill a fly :D
Indeed, those can work well, but the urbanist community is working hard to remove them (i.e. AB 2923 in California).
The fake pop-up window isn't new. This does seem a fairly well engineered version of the trick, but sites have been pulling this shit since the 90s. It has been a while since I've seen it though, but then I use an ad blocker so I suppose I wouldn't.
L-World: Value Type Prototypes for Java
I’m guessing you mean in the abstract rather than in the short term, but it’s unclear.

In the abstract, the jury is still out. I think many scientists would say - yes, provided the hardware guys improve the fidelity of operations and make things scale, it will be possible. But you’re going to need a very large number of qubits to do things like factoring large numbers, and we’re probably going to wait a long time for that.

Short term - we’re going to be playing with “toy” examples for now. There’s a lot of focus on achieving “quantum supremacy”, which is a silly term, and finding things small enough and resilient enough to hardware limitations that are also mildly interesting.
It's low enough in the UK, that if I lived in the US and found myself needing to pay privately for something non-urgent, I'd probably fly to the UK or elsewhere to do it. There are in fact several private London hospitals that market themselves to foreign patients.
Related, Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners by Larry Harris is also excellent.

https://www.amazon.com/Trading-Exchanges-Market-Microstructu...

These aren't really textbooks, but regardless, the Market Wizards series by Jack Schwagger is highly recommended:

https://www.amazon.com/Market-Wizards-Updated-Interviews-Tra...

https://www.amazon.com/New-Market-Wizards-Conversations-Amer...

https://www.amazon.com/Hedge-Fund-Market-Wizards-Winning/dp/...
I can put wheels on my cock yet it doesn’t make it a car.
Wallabad isn't quite suitable for Archival operation last I checked since it doesn't present or save the original webpage.

That's one of the major points why archive.is/wayback is popular; you get the exact same page as you get in the browser. Perfectly for archival.
Second the “stupidly simple to setup and get running”. My company works with billion row datasets on client sites where we get super locked down accounts. Clickhouse is a single binary that you can run with no actual “install” needed.

Also echo the comments in the rest of the discussion about it being blazing fast. On our beefier machines we get querying in the 100s of millions of rows per second when the data is not in cache.
i cab imagine there are much more lovely weather than in SF, yet it’s the city with the largest number of homeless i’ve ever seen ( and i live in europe).
Being in the board of directors of a public company requires a certain attitude toward life and a willingness to accept certain trade-offs. I don't see why having a vagina between your legs should give you any preferential treatment by law.
For some people, that would be a lot of money.
and slavery in the 1850s

I mean if reacting against the Federal Government not upholding contractual obligations is your argument then the democratic party has been consistent!

(look, don't get defensive to protect the base, I've got zero chips in the game, just come up with a better argument)
For example? Truly, I'm curious as to what the dysfunctional policies you're referring to? Absolutely agree the homelessness and housing are ridiculous. That said, California is something like the 5th largest economy in the world, produces a huge chunk of USAs food, has some of the greatest universities in the world and is home to some of the largest and most powerful companies in the history of humanity (not sure how I feel about that one). Not to say there aren't huge issues but it's not exactly a hellscape here.
Uber has finally agreed for paying $148M for data beach scandal
The San Francisco Bay Area is the only part of the US with a Mediterranean climate.

As I said, there are many factors, weather being just one.
An essential step in the right direction. If one can use the legal system to grab a board seat, maybe they will stop paying them so much.
ok, so we will waste money on A: token female board members or B: a female board member who is under qualified because the company couldn’t find a better qualified woman to fill the role; when that male candidate had to be passed up because of his gender.

Hmm.
I don't understand the need for this comparasion. One died as a symbol and hero and has unimaginable legacy and the other is just , yes amazing , but a tech CEO like always.
California can't be the only US place where it's warm, there's probably other reasons.
Bentley Bear's Honey Hunt – A New Arcade Style Game for Atari Lynx
Does it touch on mixing / mastering at all? I have a suspicion that some of my friends will be looking to me to put together some demos in the near future, so I'd be very interested in some beginner/intermediate knowledge around that.
I was against this for a long time going against meritocracy, fairness and makeing a company weaker.

Now I think this is a good idea to kickstart more women into top management, as one reason people want to make a career and see it achievable are role models, which there currently aren't too many.

This should be limited to a kickstart period, say 5y.
Any state in the sun belt has similar weather.
> And I cannot comprehend how anyone who sees themselves as scientific can genuinely insist in earnest that the power of belief has more influence over my physical body than the power of food chemistry.

It would appear belief can have an extreme severe acute impact on our bodies. It follows then belief can also have chronic affects.

People can die simply because they've given up, life has beaten them and they feel defeat is inescapable, according to new research.

The study, by Dr. John Leach, a senior research fellow at the University of Portsmouth, is the first to describe the clinical markers for 'give-up-itis', a term used to describe what is known medically as psychogenic death.

https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2018-09-people-die.html

HN discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18083509

It appears you didn’t comment on that one, so perhaps you missed it?

Also, it stands to reason the affect of foods, herbs, essential oils, what have you, on people probably follows a bell curve distribution and therefore there are likely to be extreme outliers. This may explain why some people experience significant clinical effects from, say, Rosemary and Sage, while others not.

This brings me to something I like to highlight: the difference between public health policy and individualised medicine. It might not be sound public health policy to put essential oils in the water, although I’m not aware of any rigorous studies, but may be sound advice for a component of individualised wholistic care.

Disclosure: I’ve dabbled in nutritional and herbal medicine, with four years of formal study and the resultant certifications, here in Australia. For what it’s worth.
Everyone who hates this law hates women and you should be ashamed.
Down-voting based on your political views instead of rationally arguing your point just makes it clear how unfit for society you are.
I have a feeling that SoftBank would be $1 trillion organization by the end of 2030. Let me explain why. The entire magic here lies in the ability to through lots and lots of arrows and this ability is gained only when you have reached a critical mass in terms of fund size. As an example, here is YC facts:

YC started in: 2005

Number of companies funded (2017): 1,450

Approximate investment: $200M

Valuation of all companies: $80B

People here will be quick to point out that there is a difference between valuation and realized cash. Also that there is pg magic that is missing in other funds. For the first objection, let’s cut down valuation to just 25%of what they claim, ie, $20B. For the second objection, I had say there have been couple of semi-scientific studies that pointed out that YC is doing just 10-20% better than other funds of same size and that predicting startup success if futile and that your only real recourse is to have lots of arrows.

So timided down YC data suggests that if you have fund of certain critical size you can ignite the chain reaction and watch the magic of compounded growth. YC has showed approximately 100X return over 10 years. There is no other financial vehicle that does this.
Do you mean remove self from the method signature or altogether?

I think the latter is fundamentally impossible. There would be name collisions and it would be horribly ambiguous. I assume you're suggesting the former.

I can see it being plausible. I'm not sure I have a really clear case against it. I do really like that things are explicit. There's no magical place "self" emerges from. I hate this about some other languages, like JavaScript's 'attributes' collection that magically exists in a function context.

Being able to juggle binded and unbinded functions is nice. The explicit self or cls kind of forces you to declare what the intent of your function is.

Not super clear. But the ship has sailed on that issue. Not sure it could be changed in a non breaking way.
Isn't this illegal? Gender based employment opportunity?
That is the nature of kickstarter. You are not buying a product, you are funding the development of a product that may or may not ever succeed.
> That's not really true - take a look at the graphics from Factorio 0.1, released in 2012

Yes, that was in 2012, well before the indie explosion. If you saw this game today, you would assume it is one of the hundreds of crappy 2D Minecraft clones.
This boils down to "don't be wrong" except far more subjective.
Admittedly more of an Astronomy text book but a great starting point is Universe by Freedman and Kaufmann.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/705558.Universe
Type annotations strongest advantage is when diving into a new code base you've never read before. Can't see how it can make it harder to track down bugs. It does prevent monkeypatching so some "i'll just add a quick fix here" are going to be harder, and that is a good thing, otherwise you end up with spaghetti soup.
Many people who support ads imply some kind of social contract with their business model. I never signed such a thing and they can shove it up their rear end. If you make your site public I will consume it however I wish.

Self hosted unobtrusive ads without tracking? Yes I will disable ublock. But it won't happen because tracking simply makes too much $€¥.
> What makes the bitcoin blockchain good for this?

I can use it for decentralized time stamping right now.
Related: https://medium.com/s/futurehuman/survival-of-the-richest-9ef...
Not remotely true. California has a unique combination in some parts of the state of mild temperatures combined with low precipitation. Other places with mild temperatures tend to be much, much wetter. Other places with dry weather tend to have more extreme temperatures.

Off the top of my head:

The joke is that San Diego is "72 degrees and sunny" year round. San Diego gets about 10 inches of rain annually. Fresno gets 11 inches. SFBA gets around 20. Average for the nation is 44 inches annually iirc.

If you go someplace dry that's more inland, it's typically blazing hot in summer at a minimum and deserts can have temperature swings between day and night of 30 degrees or more.
In the hundreds of US cities that aren't NY/SF/etc, traffic flow at rush hour is perfectly reasonable. The average speeds are much faster than BART, anyway.
Salt Edge builds Open Banking payment infrastructure
To heal depression or OCD or both?
Democrats now get as much money from corporations as Republicans, but no strings attached, eh?

https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/sectors.php?cycle=2018
Ah sorry, I meant from the method signature. I wouldn't like the totally implicit `self` / `this` found in Java.

>Being able to juggle binded and unbinded functions is nice. The explicit self or cls kind of forces you to declare what the intent of your function is.

Sure, but we can already do that with the @classmethod decorator. They could just make it so `cls` is a variable that can be accessed from any method. If it's a class method, `cls = self`, otherwise, `cls = self.__class__`.
Taking your statement as a legitimate point, I think the issue isn't that having a vagina means you should be treated differently (side point: not all women have vaginas; don't down vote me). In tech we like to think that everything is a meritocracy but we see countless examples where company culture has made it difficult to exist as a woman. Think of the numerous complaints from women working at Uber circa 2016-2017. Or the thousands of high profile #MeToo allegations. Men being in the dominant and default in tech means it's easier to get away with crap like that. Ensuring that women are adequately represented means that type of stuff is harder to get away with. If more equal representation makes workplaces less toxic, then it's worth it for that alone.
I distinctly remember laughing at fake popups using Windows UI styling while I’m using Linux.
Looking for Contributors and Sponsors for CVPM (Computer Vision Package Manager)
Documents： https://cvpm.autoai.org/

GitHub: https://github.com/unarxiv/cvpm

中文介绍(Chinese Intro): https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/45672318

CVPM (Computer Vision Package Manager) is an open source software to help developers download, install and run computer vision services. It is the 'pip' for computer vision.

Though it is still in a very early stage and not recommend for use in production (actually, I do not recommend you to try it now because it may contain unknown bugs), We'd like to invite adorable developers to join us. We have a roadmap draft as below:

* Complete the test cases and docs.

* Complete the Model Hub. (Prototype is at https://hub.autoai.org)

* Complete packages for some classic tasks as "Official Repo"

* Complete third party package upload.

As an open source software, I am really sorry that we cannot promise you anything. But the following is what I can do:

* We will have an Authors List for all the contributors.

* There will be logo banner and donors page at the bottom of our Model Hub for sponsors.

If you are interested, please contact me at xiaozhe.yaoi@gmail.com, or you can post a GitHub Issues.
> Ah yes, no one could possibly like driving of their own accord, they must be brainwashed.

To think that you need:

- A 5000 pound machine to take a 200 pound human to work

- Workplace is 60 miles away

- On a road with many other rush hour drowsy 200 pound humans

- Said humans, then spend 30 mins and $30 for parking, in which the 5000 pound machine is just lying around empty

- All the above effort just to bring back the person from work in the evening and leave that car back on the street, lying around?

That doesn't sound insane to you? There's no reason for this for a rich country.

If you want proof that there are better, efficient and human friendly transportation systems, you need to visit HongKong and Singapore. (NYC doesn't count)
How is rent control counterproductive?
> What do you think looks bad about it?

If it's not immediately obvious to you, then I can't explain it either, or at least I can't be bothered to try. Some people don't see it. It has nothing to do with being a graphic artist. It's not about technicals, it's not something that comes off a checklist.
http://archive.is/21BnV
Well there is yak shaving with org mode but it can do inline images. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27129338/inline-images-i...
Ah the four great philosophers, the very four that would roll off any one's lips: Plato, Kant, Aristotle,.....and Ayn Rand.
Sadly, the author apparently mostly wasted his time pursuing an idea he considered good, based mostly on his high opinion of his own experience. Had he tested the idea with neutral, honest people (kids are great), he might not have been so stubborn.

As for the references to „Superstar economics“: as if modern superstars in the music or film industry weren‘t 100% reliant on test audiences... It‘s why we don’t get much original, experimental stuff these days.
For anyone interested in building analytical instruments for chemistry:

Chemical instrumentation: A systematic Approach by Strobel. It is quite old (1989), but it is still best in class.