skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think mining will be profitable anymore at a certain point. As soon as mining becomes unprofitable, there will be a death spiral for the price of Bitcoin.
Doing this through the python library might be even easier than Postman
> Is it using protocol buffers? Do you care?

I don't, but other people do. For anything low latency, the cost of encoding/decoding starts to become extremely difficult to avoid.

But that said, I'm pretty sure GRPC can use JSON internally, so it's up to you which encoding to use.
Isn't that a bit like saying that chess clubs are extremely intolerant of card games? I mean, science is science because it follows those methods. Other methods for producing knowledge may be perfectly valid, they're just a different thing.

Maybe we need a discipline which has the purpose of merging the knowledge from science with other source, but I don't think it's fair to criticize scientists for not doing that work - it's none of their business.
Has anyone had much experience with Amplify? I was thinking of going "all in" on a greenfield project - but am hesitant about all-in-one type frameworks.
Starting career X at age Y. In tech, answer is always yes. How bad do you want it?
It only disables them, doesn't kill them. After the helium has time to diffuse back out the phone starts working again.
I'm surprised it's that high, given that its biggest uses are just speculation, drugs, and ransomware.
> A tool to misbehave

Cash is a better tool for misbehaving. Bitcoin is a good tool for misbehaving remotely at a small scale, though even there something like Monero has it beat. The market for small-scale remote misbehaviour is small. Extant, but small—much smaller than the present cryptocurrency markets.
Companies can be valued based on expectations of future cashflows.

Bitcoin can be valued based on... ???
> The Pickaxe book is better than anything else that I am aware of for describing Ruby idioms. I'm not sure how well it has aged.

The last version covered Ruby 1.9/2.0; the language has evolved since 2.0, so it's certainly not complete and current.
A Roku exec predicts the future of streaming
The value proposition of FB seems much easier to explain than cryptocurrency, though. We at least know what FB gets used for and where it earns money. That's 100% more than I can say about Bitcoin.
Please let this mean cheaper GPUs
It seems to have widespread utility in countries with severe currency problems like Venezuela. But I agree, for countries with healthy economies, I don't see why crypto would attain mainstream adoption for much more than black market transactions.
I wanted to get some bitcoin to buy some things off a website where bitcoin was the only thing accepted.

I recall being asked by a keen young thing if his (completely legal) online business should take bitcoin only. I suggested that since he wanted people to give him their money, he needed to make it easier for people to give him their money; not harder. The website of which you speak, I can only imagine, didn't really want your business.
London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down, London Bridge is falling down, my dear lady

(ambiguity intended)
I honestly don’t know what to make of it. I’m surrounded by a lot of bankers, none of them believe in cryptocurrencies but all of them are focused on the price and have zero understanding of the technology. I’m also surrounded by a lot of blockchain people who are insanely hyped by the future of cryptocurrencies and who have little idea about their current prices.

Being in the middle I see 99% of bullshit blockchain stuff, but I’m really hyped by some cryptocurrencies and some of their tech. It is a really interesting field if you ignore the market, but there is also a lot to win/lose if you can predict where the tech will go.

Bankers and blockchain people are both the worst people to ask for an opinion. So I might be in the right position to make a guess.

There is value. This market might become as strong as the stock market is nowadays. As long as there is hype, there will continue to be a market. If it’s a scam/pyramid sheme/mlm, then it’s an international one and it’s probably not going to stop.
There are several projects working to put power back in the hands of general consumers, rather than enterprise businesses.

DataWallet[0], for example, is building blockchain-based data hub for users to manage their data, in such a way that they (the users) retain control over it, and companies wanting access have to pay. Simplest use case: enter your contact info in 1 place only, not on every website you sign up for. More generally, I think something like this would be well-received by the public, given recent outcries around privacy, scandals in large tech companies, and the emergence of GDPR (specifically: regular people learning - perhaps for the first time - that they have a right to control the access permissions of the data they create, even on someone else's platform).

Another development of interest is Basic Attention Token[1], wherein users are essentially paid to watch ads. This project is pretty well-known so I won't say much about it other than that it does have consumer appeal.

Granted, the majority of blockchain projects don't (directly) address major problems that consumers have; rather, most address the problems that developers and/or businesses face. The hope is that some of these new technologies will enable said devs & businesses to build better products for their respective users.

[0] https://datawallet.com
[1] https://basicattentiontoken.org/
Disclaimer: I made about 13x total ROI speculating on Bitcoin during its volatility between the $1200-8k range. I wouldn't touch it with a 10' pole now.

Demand has crashed because speculation is much more difficult now, and it's much easier to get into a position where your only choices are (a) sell at a huge loss; or, (b) hold and hope it goes up and you can get out even. A few years ago when it was much more volatile unless you were very unlucky with your timing you didn't have to wait more than a month or two to be able to sell with substantial gains, and wait for another drop to buy back in (or buy in pieces on the way down).
I really don't understand these examples for micropayments, they're always for things I wouldn't pay for anyway.
On a company forum? This is not Twitter. I would assume the rule is “any post can be removed for any or no reason at any time.”

Here’s what Tesla says about reserving the right to remove posts or suspend accounts:

https://forums.tesla.com/node/58282

My point was just that there’s a business reason not to leave a post up about a gripe for special treatment that goes against their stated policy. I completely agree there was nothing wrong with the tone of the post and that it was factual.

The stated purpose of the forum is specifically not to post your gripes as a way to get special treatment from Tesla customer support. Tesla provides the forum as a space for enthusiasts to geek out about their spaceships. If it became a place to rant for special treatment it would devolve quickly and probably be shut down.
>Does he have a website? I'd love to read more about his place!

Yes. http://www.earthshipkaruna.net/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-leeor-2a3b8222/?originalSub...

>I spent a couple of years traveling and living in remote permaculture communities before starting my own project six months ago

Cool. Suggest you write something about that experience and share it. Also maybe check out Rico Zook (you might know of him already). A person I know, in the same town (Kodaikanal) somewhat near where Alex's earthship is (whose website link I gave above), is getting a permaculture farm and farmhouse done with consultancy by Rico or someone trained by him.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rico-zook-0abb3241/
something that I think is commonly misunderstood about Bitcoin is that something can bring a lot of value, without being valuable in a market capitalisation sense. Think Wikipedia and Linux.
Oh yeah? Try exchanging a small amount of cash from the US with someone in Africa. Cash doesn't solve this problem. In fact there is no good current solution to this problem.
Amusing that the Bitcoin / Bitcoin Cash split is now even deeper with a split in Bitcoin Cash. Just keep on forking until everyone has their own cryptocurrency, I guess.

Aside from that, a point nobody seems to bring up is just how unproven most cryptocurrency technology is from a monetary safety standpoint.

It's not just about a 51% blockchain attack. In multiple cases of some of the most popular cryptocurrencies, we've seen danger [0] (these are not the only examples). Nobody talks about this though, so while you're worried about centralized banking, consider for a moment the threat of bad actors to the core of your system.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/09/cryptocurrency-insecurity-...

Of course many fanatics (some of the same people who still treat John McAfee seriously) will blindly "hodl" by the logic that it's gone up after the post-2013 crash, it must surely skyrocket again. Some people can justify their belief, but many are just playing follow the leader.
By design the Bitcoin Cash network upgrades every 6 months. There were some proposed network upgrades that a certain influential mining group led by someone claiming to be the creator of Bitcoin disagreed with, and decided to band together with some other large miners to hard fork with their own protocol changes.

The changes were mostly around blocksize (the camp that disagreed wanted larger block sizes), how transactions are ordered in a block, and adding/removing certain functions.
Venmo, Square Cash, Patreon. There's this espresso bar in LA that only takes cash or Venmo.
Stripe has bugs sometimes. I've personally submitted at least 5 that were verified by them as bugs, across all areas of their project. Most recently, they started generating phantom "subscription updated" events with nothing actually changed (which my system did NOT like).

That said, we've only been on Stripe for a year and a half, and they've made some real progress in that short time, even though I thought they were great before all of that. Compared to most of their competitors, they are still the best to work with.

For the future, there's also an IRC channel that you can reach out to for general help, in addition to the ways you tried.
I _think_ the split came down to how to support the increasing rate of txn/s. The Bitcoin cash folks wanted to increase the "block size" which required a hard fork. The Bitcoin "board" wanted to implement a new "protocol" called lightning instead.
Interesting stuff. I noticed a few weeks ago that Google Translate will sometimes vary the pronunciation of words when you hit the audio playback button repeatedly, I wonder if they're already doing something similar.
This is a bit of a blanket statement. I believe it depends a lot on the candidates negotiating ability
I recently read Biodiversos by Stefano Mancuso and Carlo Petrini, the founder of the slow food movement. It's basically a discussion between the two where they lay out the big problems with our production and consumption of food.

For instance, concentrating on making single kinds as productive as possible instead of cultivating variety is extremely dangerous, as shown by this event. The great Irish famine is maybe the most striking example. Humanity does exactly that with wheat, cows, almost everything. The very basis of most of the globe's food comes from a handful of species. In my mind, this is one of the great ticking bombs of our close future.
> You wouldn't argue that cash isn't viable because some countries economies have crashed.

That's actually exactly the argument I've seen from many Bitcoin proponents, ironically enough.
I would love to see a citation for this, as I can't find domestic violence statistics for this. Most of the domestic violence I hear about is family attacking the queer member of the household, my current SO has multiple scars from that, and my prior one left home at 16 to get away from the abuse.
I dunno about the NYT, but this is something Dr Carroll does a fair bit (I follow him both on his Healthcare Triage YouTube channel, and the Incidental Economist blog). He's not a fan of the "XYZ is the cure to all ills" fads that seem so common these days (not that they're anything new), and it's not uncommon for him to write stuff like this.

Many of his articles could be summed up as: "No, XYZ is not the (best|worst) thing ever. (Eat|do|use) it if you want, in moderation, and don't worry too much about it. Except exercise. Do that."
I agree but the cash has it's own limitations and governments are trying to get rid of it and actually succeeding in some places like the Nordic countries.
The Bitcoin Cash folks didn't want to use a new cryptocurrency, they already had bitcoin and wanted to use it more like cash (i.e., low transaction fees). Basically, there was a large subset of Bitcoin users who did not agree with the development roadmap as set by the core Bitcoin developers. The core developers did not do enough to accommodate this subset of bitcoin users (there are technical reasons why they refused to do so, though their validity is debatable), so the codebase and blockchain were forked. It's a little confusing, but the most reasonable outcome since the community was at a political standstill for years and now both groups are free to do their own thing.
Or maybe not? I mean Bing, et. al. would kill to dominate one area of search, and MS has burned billions so far with middling success. What's a few more $B if you can get dominance in the EU?

Trading one monopoly for another may be exactly what the TradMed has been wanting - with the carrot that they'll switch back if "the price is right".
The price of bitcoin is actually a pretty good metric to observe the Gartner hype cycle in action: from the rise, peak of inflated expectations, and slide into the through of disillusionment. I predict that in 2019 or 2020 the price of bitcoin will slowly begin to come back up once we hit the slope of enlightenment.
This situation reminds me of Google Shopping...used to be completely free to post products and get them included in the search results as "snippets". Now it's 100% paid, and expensive.

Google News may go dark, but I wonder if they won't come up with some nice new ad format for publishers to feed their stories into, for a market based price, of course.
What's the momentum for adoption in places like venezuela?
40? By God, that's a young whippersnapper. I do remember starting to feel discrimination/agism around 42, and even considered leaving IT, knowing my age would only go up.

Go for it! The agism counter-wind is still weak at 40.
I totally agree with you. Despite not having much experience with the tool, I recently used Make and M4 in a project to build Docker images for multiple architectures [1] and it worked really well.

[1] https://github.com/hectorm/hblock-resolver/blob/master/Makef...
Isn't this the same as the link tax? Except that the link tax clearly assigns the money to the news outlets who are actually producing the news people are reading on Google, whereas "every news org" is hard to quantify and discerning who should receive how much funding is a complicated question otherwise?

Is it possible people are opposed to the link tax not because of what it does, but the marketing they've been exposed to characterizing it as bad? Even the description "link tax" is oddly loaded, as "snippet tax" would be far more accurate, to that it applies to lifted content, not "literally the URL".
Ah, I was talking about the new split, I understand the original fork was over the blocksize cap.
There are a number of real-world applications to which cryptocurrency has been proven to be useful outside of gambling and financial speculation, such as darknet markets, ransomware, donations to blacklisted organisations, paying international contractors sotto banco, transporting money illegally across borders... While you may notice a common pattern in their legality or lack thereof, they certainly have real needs that are fulfilled by cryptocurrency.
Inside Facebook, denial, tension and finger-pointing as sense of crisis builds
Japan is also the country where there's 99% conviction rate in the courts (imagine what that entails) and you can be held by the police without charges for 30 days.
Imba claims to use an "imperative, memoized DOM" as opposed to a VDOM. Apparently it looks like they still use a VDOM (i.e. a wrapper around the DOM). The difference is that, at compile time, they attempt to unmix the dynamic parts of a template from the static parts, then they memoize the static parts for you automatically.

Sure, there are issues with existing VDOM implementations that do not do these compile-time optimizations:

1. Returning new JSX elements from every render
2. Building key indexes for every subdiff

The first issue can be solved with application-specified memoization in render. The second issue is pretty hard to avoid if you want to avoid matching elements based on indexes (naive subdiffs). Implicit and explicit keys are there for a reason, namely that moving elements is assumed to be a much less expensive operation than unmounting and re-mounting them. The O(N) trash memory overhead per subdiff incurred due to key indexes is justified, in my opinion. If using an algorithm like LCS, you'll incur more time/space cost, but you will even further minimize the edit path.

If I'm not mistaken, Imba would have to use something similar to key indexes if they want to avoid unnecessary unmounting and re-mounting for templates which are composed of large dynamic lists.

I'm not sold on Imba's value proposition. The value proposition is compile-time memoization for static elements, so you avoid re-creating those templates during renders. That's great and all, but how much of SPA webapps are purely static elements? For example, consider the the following JSX template:

<ul>
{this.state.bigList.map(i => <li>${i}</li>)}
</ul>

I don't think Imba would perform much better than these other libraries for templates which are 99% dynamic (like this one), and so the dominating term here is the subdiff term, where you will end up either:

1. Creating at least O(N) trash memory (e.g. key indexes)
2. Doing unnecessary mounts and unmounts
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When it comes to the general public adopting crypto as usable, cash replacement currency, I think there's two issues with adoption.

One is of course the network effect. I can't pay with (whatever)coin unless other people use it too. So unless I'm just really excited about crypto and want to pay with it, it's not very useful to me until more people start using it. And considering most of the crypt-hype has worn off, there's less and less people that are just dying to use it.

And the other is that people (and businesses) are not going to try things over and over until someone gets it right. Bitcoin is terrible as a currency. I tried paying a friend of mine for a sandwich once, just for fun, and it cost me $10 to send him $10, plus it took almost an hour. Of course it's less bad now, but it's still not great. Valve started accepting bitcion and later stopped. Lots of retailers did too. No one is going to jump on Bitcoin Cash or Monero or whatever, even if they're better, because they were burned pretty hard with Bitcoin.

Someone is going to have to genuinely nail it with a currency that is instant, costs almost nothing per transaction, is very easy to use, and they're going to have to make sure everyone knows it. And even then I think it's going to be uphill.
REST is a good fit if the operations you want to do are CRUD, or if the data model you have is hierarchical. This is for most people, but it breaks down when there involve multiple steps. A bank transaction is a good example, because it involves multiple updates that need to be done atomically. Mapping this to REST is complex. It's possible of course, but more complicated than the equivalent RPC counterpart. Hence, REST is not better in some common cases.
For this sort of thing, a notary could do the job, and if you search on "notary near me" there are plenty of businesses doing it. It seems like there's an opportunity here to make this easier?
I agree it's possible. I disagree it's compatible with seeing product management as being about consistent execution of plans.
Google search for info about him and his work:

https://www.google.co.in/search?q=alex+leeor+earthship+karun...
That is a good point (location). I currently am located in Colorado.
I think all these visions for micro payments have been swamped by advertising as a source for revenue.

I dislike that fact, but I don't think most people care. So micro payments are just a way to make less money than advertising-based models.
I couldn't find anything on domestic violence among gay couples, but I would be surprised if it were notable.
Not often you get to laugh that hard, Thanks for sharing
I don’t know about dangerous.

We have a wide range of crops and the loss of a single one is only ever a regional problem. The loss of any one crop be that something minor like strawberries or major like corn is just not that big a deal globally.

Now locally yea it can be a huge issue, but the tradeoff of lower productivity every year vs the low odds in any one year of a problem make this fairly complex balancing act.
Thank you.

Update: That link worked. Looks like a good article.
We underestimate the bandwidth of a phone call. We can speak faster than we can type. We can listen to a big block of text more comfortably than we can read it. And that doesn't take into account the annotations about the rhythm, pitch, tone, etc. Face-to-face bandwidth is even higher, but not that much higher. Phone calls convey 80% of the information with 2% the effort.

Still, text messages (SMS or Slack or what have you) are even more convenient. So I would say it depends on the question. A question like, "What is wrong with the syntax in this line of code," is far better by text. But a question like, "How do you suggest we reconcile these two contradictory requests from our customers," might take less time over phone.

The rule I'm trying follow is this: If a reply to one of my emails suggests disagreement or misunderstanding, I usually try to catch them on the phone, rather than trying to clear things up with another reply. My experience is that these emails take several replies to clear things up, and sometimes there is a damage to rapport. A friendly phone call keeps rapport at the same level or even adds health points.
HAHA Are you me? This is sounds creepily familiar..
I had decided against a somewhat stronger statement; I didn't want to bash Pickaxe unnecessarily, particularly as I don't have a lot of better suggestions. I'm fairly inclined to write a book myself to address the situation, but not any time soon.
To be honest they always supported PGP encryption (they are the biggest contributor and lead Openpgpjs development). Since July it's possible to also send encrypted messages to external contacts.

ProtonMail is actually very committed to OpenPGP as a standard (it's evident by their engagement on the OpenPGP Mailing List).
Facebook ads are a goldmine for both advertisers and FB. Not hard to see the value of the company, now, or years ago.
Assuming you view your job as a means to an end (a decent standard of living with a family you actually get to see), why is this a bad thing?
I have thought about if computer vision could be used to identify individual birds as well. Maybe image data with ultraviolet light included would be useful. A digital camera that captures the ultraviolet spectrum might be expensive though.
> The thing is, it isn't just javascript eval; any eval is bad.

I can think of a few good use cases (though outside the context of JIT). Consider something like Jinja where you can put python code in your template - we've used this to generate C++ source files from JSON metadata in our embedded systems products. In this case it's pretty safe because both the producer and consumer of the eval is the same person.