skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've often wondered if there's a similarity in personality between people exploring technology today and explorers of old. This article seems to suggest a link, and that makes sense to me: as the world has flattened and become global there's less interest in exploring geographically and the frontiers of human life are increasingly technological. Kevin Kelly seems to have modeled that transition perfectly.
In both instances they are things meant to be kept secret.
Don’t they live off of transaction fees? My understanding is Coinbase makes sense as long as people are using crypto regardless of absolute numbers involved in individual transactions.

Banks are very valuable despite their tokens being worth only $1
They aren’t fake requirements. They are trivial requirements that are relatively simple with which to comply and the penalties are so stiff that not complying means that they didn’t carefully read the thing. On the other hand, the performers that demand a specific bottle of water hand bottled from a hidden Indonesian spring and blessed by a shaman — that’s venturing into jackass-pop diva territory. M&Ms are everywhere in America, so it’s an easy requirement that canaries adherence to the rest of the contract details.
I do not find myself misanthropic but I do not live in an idealistic bubble.

It does not matter if doctors know who would use your body parts. They even may be idealistic - you may help to save multiple lives. So they will make a decision, even perhaps subconscious, between your life and those potential saved lives.

There is a nice scene at the beginning of Dr Strange movie about this.

There should be some checks and balances so that the doctors will not become butchers. Perhaps the need to get an agreement of a close relative.
That's why you pay for experience. Doing it at once leads to better overall design provided the developer can produce proper structure on there own.
I've actually had this a couple of times on my Android 7 phone listening with earbuds or headphones. It seems to happen randomly.
The letter is still on the site, click on "Let's take IRC further" in the upper right corner.

At the bottom of the page opening there is a link to "London Trust Media Holdings":

Some of the brands listed:

* Private Internet Access

* Linux Journal

* freenode

* snoonet

and others
That's stealing, and I don't think cat tastes very good.
Amazing how many people think they know better than the author on print and distribution- like a guy who spends years researching and writing a work like this is some sort of rube taken by the first huckster he runs across. There are several well known options in POD, he went with Amazon, maybe he knows something we don't.
Our yodel driver reported they were struggling with both signing the packages as delivered and with drivers unable to cope without google maps.
There is always a document outside of JIRA that describes high level, just have to find it. I really don’t think this is a JIRA problem.
USAF Confirms the Chinese J-20 Spotted in Georgia Is a Mock-Up Used for Training
We use Confluence for the prose and JIRA for items with a life cycle. You can link very nicely from Confluence to JIRA items.
I noticed Hong Kong is missing (one of the SAR's in China). They have specific visa rules compared to mainland China

Overall pretty useful site!
The lack of widely accepted valuation models is probably a major contributing factor in the dramatic decline in prices...
If only they knew the Spade in Kate Spade is because she was married to David Spade's brother. Nothing says "luxury" like "Joe Dirt."
Yup; the speakers support both unbalanced RCA and balanced XLR. Same issue on both.
This works for me. Deferring dev work to the latest possible moment is more efficient when faced with mediocre POs and devs (in most traditional enterprises); wireframes, models and documents that you can 'test' with customers.
Haha awesome anecdote, the "hacker typing" thing always took me by surprise too!
Another point that people forget is that real world population is not only not evenly distributed in geography, but geographical distributions are not then evenly distributed in terms of age.

The real distribution of birth days within a neighborhood is almost always far less spread than an assumption of uniformity across the entire probability distribution (because schools, dinks, retirees, students, workers, etc all trend to cluster in real life).

This tendency of demographics to cluster makes de-identification harder than the theoretical models, and in some ways even protects it aa bit, because researchers who don't test their models assume greater accuracy than they actually achieve.

Of course, this might not be as protecting as one might assume, because for a lot of activities, even if people do casually link you to someone else, odds are pretty good you have similar modelled outcomes as someone very close to you in properties anyway...
Could also show 1 mBTC but that's a UX question imho.
Crypto is a different ballgame than the stock market, given concentration of trading volumes in relatively few coins.

To the extent that the investment philosophy leans more towards "HODL" as prices decrease, trading volumes will go down, and trading volumes predicate volatility.
The correct way to deal with that problem is to decouple the UI from the computation, once process for each would be the ideal, anything less is going to messy and require all kinds of hacks to give the same outward appearance. Better still: one supervisor process and one for UI and computation each.
I too herniated a disc (MTB racing), which in turn created a lot of scar tissue, which in turn pressed on nerves leaving me with a bad back and leg pain and numbness/pins and needles.

In the beginning, physiotherapy got it to a stage where I was able to ride again and function normally (albeit with pain and stiffness) and painkillers helped in this phase.

After 5 or so years, I went to a doctor because the remaining pain (especially the occasional "hard pinch" of a nerve would almost take my legs out from under me) was getting to me. He advice was to me that surgery is pretty much always a worse option in cases like mine because scar tissue does eventually fade (as it does elsewhere on your body) and it probably takes a good 10 years for that to happen.

I did the injury at the end of 2010 and, it seems the doctor was spot on as in the last year or so my pain had almost entirely faded away.

Just my little piece of anecdata.
Who cares about clock movements today?

When everybody has a GPS on their phone they have automatic synchronization with satellite atomic clocks. As a matter of fact there is redundancy with connection to cell towers and Internet that also syncs the clocks with atomic clocks.

What happens is that with tech advancement the main utility of clocks had disappeared like photography killed the utility of painters as recorders of visual information.

Photography created impressionism first, then cubism and ended in absurd paintings like "White over white"(empty canvas)selling for hundred of thousands of dollars, color dots for tens of millions and so on.

People selling clocks will do it for different reasons that in the past, like signaling that you have so much money you don't care about wasting it.
The problem with every large scale plan is how to bring the "russians" on board (by russians I mean the people, but maybe also Russia).
I got 4 / 6 with some old Apple EarPods plugged into my laptop. I think it was probably just luck, because I picked the 128kbps MP3 for both of the ones that I got wrong.

It's fun to think that I might be able to distinguish between uncompressed audio and 320kbps MP3. I didn't think it was possible. I had a hearing test recently, and they did say that I have better than average hearing. But yeah it was probably just random.
I welcome pull requests [0]! :)

[0] https://github.com/tdickman/crypto51
To play devil's advocate.

Other work can be assigned so in two months the customer gets the entire website. If they did it the other way every two weeks something would be finished but at the end they need to rewrite the backend adding an addional months because they didn't have the chance to look ahead and see that module 1 and 2 can't run at the same time.
I don't want to take the spot away from the topic of the article, but what horrified me the most is the appalling conditions of end-of-life care of the health system in the US. If there is one reason I'm glad I was born in a EU country is that I can escape that madness when the time comes.
Mechanism of Sonoluminescence
The crypto market is going bust. Quick! Toss in everything you can!
Sure, but in which concrete cases, and how was it somehow morally reprehensible to seek compensation for open-source work?
Spray cow manure on fields to encourage plant grown

I don't believe that's quite right. The article suggests that manure and fertiliser themselves release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, potentially negating any increase in sequestration due to plant growth:

Wick wanted to know if he could deliberately replicate this process on his ranch — but without manure, which, as it decomposes, can release potent greenhouse gases like methane and nitrous oxide. The former traps about 30 times as much heat as carbon dioxide, the latter 300 times as much. As a carbon-farming tool, manure might be self-defeating.

Instead they propose that compost be used, while avoiding methods of farming that release carbon from the soil.

Jeff Creque, a onetime organic farmer, had a suggestion: Why not use compost? Compost can contain manure, but whereas manure alone can release nitrogen as nitrous oxide, the nitrogen in compost becomes locked up in complex molecules. At least in theory, that limits the escape of a powerful greenhouse gas.

Silver had thought that the compost would simply break down, releasing its carbon back into the atmosphere or, worse, produce nitrous oxide. But those emissions never occurred; moreover, judging by its chemical signature, most of the carbon moving into the soil came from the air, not the compost. The compost appeared to help the plants draw more carbon from the atmosphere than they otherwise would have.
The impact of the variables you mention can't be assessed without understanding the internals of their business. For example, if they have a lot of fixed or hard-to-change operating costs (like headcount) that have been taken on that now assume a certain amount of transaction volume, you may be right. But if they have just had their average revenue per employee spike over the last 18 months (after all, ETH is trading where it was in May last year) then what we just went through was more of a windfall-laden anomaly for their business to accrue a rainy day fund not necessarily something they were dependent upon.

In any case, given the volatility of crypto and the survivorship of Coinbase vs all other exchanges, it'd be surprising to me if they didn't manage their business in a way that assumed a 10X cut in price could happen at any time.
Just curious if you have any examples of good uses? I haven't seen much although I think Estonia's X-roads initiative uses it in some neat and novel ways although that's not distributed.
Visualizing Science Fiction Films Through the Ages
> The problem with almost all software development analogies is that they attempt to draw parallels between design and manufacturing. Software development is much more design than manufacturing.

Also construction.

The way I see it, what programmers do is not constructing a building, they're doing the architecture (and wiring plans, and landscape plans). Construction is what compilers do.
I think the attack looks like, two transactions at the same time, one sending to exchange or merchant, one sending elsewhere (back to owner). Keep orphan chain open long enough for merchant to send goods or exchange to payout. Then release orphan chain and have it "snap back" to a world in which you received something but didn't have to pay for it.

https://unhashed.com/cryptocurrency-news/five-successful-51-...
New Yorkers don't have to cross an ocean to see good transit. Even closer to New York at just a day's train ride, the third busiest North American transit system is Montreal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Metro

I was recently there to visit - the metro is beautifully efficient, on-time, clean, and frequent. Trains every 4 minutes during work hours like clockwork. Connected to an extensive underground pedestrian network downtown, and frequent bus service outside of the core (even on Sundays).

And an unlimited weekend pass valid on both the bus and metro was only ~13 USD.
The article seems to be saying, don't spray manure but compost made with manure. I'm not sure what that is. Is it manure mixed with plant compost?
The solution to this problem is to solicit user feedback all the time. As in, the moment you get your code kinda sorta working you get some feedback from the ultimate end users (e.g. NOT the product manager, LOL)...

"This rough implementation is how I (we) envision this feature working. What do you think?"

"We've got the feature working well but it requires non-trivial back end changes. Would you be willing to wait or will you be satisfied if it works but only in a very manual way until we get the back end changes in place?"

Week 2 after release: "The feature is live... What do you think? How is it working?"

These are conversations the developers should be having with the end users. Regularly! It's when developers only ever talk to their boss and/or the project manager that pushes development into the anti-user zone.
The first seems to add new DOM nodes with text on every click. The second one doesn't. So they don't seem to be equivalent.
Yes, in battery powered stuff it is pretty common. When working from a single supply it is a quick and easy way to use operational amplifiers.

That the author used two batteries in series did not change much in that respect (and internally those 9V batteries are a stack of 6 cells anyway). The alternative would be to use the common rail between the two batteries as a ground and then two regulators (or simply a Zener and a follower transistor, same effect for less cost) to get say plus and minus 7 or 8 volts depending on how far you want to run the batteries down and what kind of specs that op-amp has.

Most op-amp circuitry would be +- 15V, but they usually work on much less than that. The circuit as presented here probably has a DC bias that is in the 100's of mV, there is no adjustment for it either so it is a bit of a kludge the way it is set up. There are better ways to do this, it all comes down to part variation and that should not be a factor in a good schematic.

There are single supply op-amps too, but in this case I suspect the voltage required to drive those headphones properly was the major deciding factor in using two stacked 9V cells.
Show HN: USB Power Monitor with TUI
A junior engineer thinks speed is the most important metric.
"Cryptocurrencies on the other hand are a new solution to a new problem"

The solution may be new but the problem is not at all new. The first solution to that problem was proposed in the 1980s and there is a large body of academic work on cryptographic approaches that preceded Bitcoin.
Not only the industry or workers, but CO2 taxes, when implemented as petrol or electricity taxes, end up increasing the cost to users who don't control their own usage: petrol is required to commute to work, electricity is required for home necessity, etc.

And the other side of the imbalance: the only way to mitigate these taxes is a large depreciating capital investment in an electric car or home battery. Those who can't afford the investment suffer the worst of the tax.
Nice! I didn't realize you were on HN, I've sent your site to friends before. I'm curious -- has your traffic increased or decreased lately (due to the bust)? Do you track your traffic or graph it at all?
An important subtlety that's often missed. The iterations before it would have been numerous.
They also manage availability by surge pricing. It not only discourages riders, but it also encourages more drivers to work.
> You seem to think it is unreasonable and unfair to dock a test score for "careless" mistakes.

I don't think that.

I think it is unreasonable and unfair to take someone who gets, say, a 93% average on the tests and didn't do most of the homework, and give him a 78% score in the class.

I also think it's unreasonable to have a policy of allowing someone who gets 100% on the tests to get 100% in the class regardless of homework, but if they only got 99% on the tests, to instead give them 84% total because they didn't do homework.

Did Hal Finney make a single math mistake on his final? If he did, would the professor have said, "Whoops, guess you haven't mastered the material, now we're going to give you a C because of the homework you didn't do"?
I couldn’t imagine how hard 3 years must have been. I dealt with mine for about 5 weeks before I got an injection. It was slowly getting better on its own, but going for years would have been tough. I’m glad you made it through.

I do a ton of calisthenics, and thought about stopping squats and dead’s completely. The reason I didn’t is that they enforce good posture and the proper way to pick things up. They also strengthen all the muscles that will help keep me from being hurt again. With that said, I worked incredibly slowly back to where I am. From no weight to now. And, if I’m not feeling it that day, I have no problem just doing calisthenics or riding the bike. Ego be damned.
Maybe I'm a little skeptical but it sounds like, "Gee, what we really need is a lie detector for the dogs.". Maybe dogs aren't the right tools for the job.
> Crypto is a different ballgame than the stock market...[because] as prices decrease, trading volumes will go down

This happens in all markets. Precipitous price drops scare away buyers and trigger loss aversion (and an aversion to marking down positions) in sellers. That leads to the market transitioning to an illiquid regime and non-viability for exchanges.

I don’t think we’re there yet with cryptocurrencies. (Beanie Babies took over a decade to resolve.) But it may be what Coinbase is guarding against with this move.
I'm sorry to hear you have constant pain. I deal with constant neck pain, and I can tell you two things that really, really helped (after trying pretty much everything and even considering surgery). The first one is reading "Healing Back Pain" by John Sarno. As an engineer the prospect of reading a book to manage pain sounded quite dumb, but I can assure you it removed 90% of the pain. The other thing that worked was taking 0.5mg Clonazepam whenever the pain got worse. I got the prescription from a doctor saying that it works for some patients with chronic pain.

Please do yourself a favor and read that book, I hope it helps (it did help a very skeptical me one year ago).
Google, Microsoft, and AWS together have enough spare compute to 51% even BitCoin.
Have you tried using a DAC with a USB noise isolator? I don't get any hiss with my setup:

Neutron Player on Android > USB OTG cable > HiFimeDIY USB noise isolator > HiFimeDIY USB DAC > Beyerdynamic DT880

Although I don't use all that any longer, for convenience sake I just use a wireless Audiotechnica ATH-DSR9BT which supports aptX-HD and produces "good enough" quality with no hissing/noise.
Optimizing Kubernetes resource allocation in production
> Taxing the hell out of CO2 emissions

That’ll last about 5 minutes until the French realise that it boils down to a petrol tax and start rioting again.
Oh with base material I don't necessarily mean etching yourself. I rarely do that, I mostly use it as-is constructing my circuitry floating above it, suspended by its ground connections. It's somewhat similar to the Manhattan Style. It's also very easy to built custom shielding enclosures this way (all you need is a somewhat powerful soldering iron).
Your data can be obtained in a few minutes for $3
Wasn't referring to their many other acquired services, only the titular domain.
I'm not really at all sure how to even begin to respond to that.

I mean surely you think that flights AA 11, ua 175, and AA 77 were materially different than UA 93. So I really don't get your point.
How to Make a Difference When You’re 1 in 7B
But bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies have fallen far more than dollars have in any short timeframe. The best answer is diversify, stocks in different areas, bonds, cash, maybe real estate.
That sounds very reasonable, is there an equivalent chain of authority possible on iOS?
Who needs a war? Taiwan and China will eventually merge without a murmur. More like Germany did than Vietnam.
Let's call a spade a spade.

This market is a bust, and there's no value-driven economic model to justify cryptos collectively being worth $50B-$100B.

With any startup, there is an expected future value of the company discounted back to the present. It then just becomes a risk-weighted probability question of whether that startup will achieve that expected future value in the expected timeframe.

Conversely, the valuations of the crypto market are driven mostly by momentum and prayers. It's ultimately a case study of what happens when you mix unsophisticated investors, no regulation, frictionless market entry, memes as an investment philosophy ("HODL") and the psychological highs of winning a lot of money. It's gambling, not investing.

In terms of Coinbase - sure, they're selling pickaxes during a gold rush, but gold rushes end and the pickaxe salesmen go out of business too.
I don't want to mock this idea, but I do think the question of how people should coordinate their efforts to directly help each other, and how to use their resources is an important one. How should the people attempt to ensure that their efforts to help each other are comprehensive, efficient, fair, etc? How should we attempt to make sure our help is targeted at the needs that are most important? For people raised in a society where government plays a large role, it's hard to imagine a solution which we wouldn't perceive as government.
I do understand. You just don't like the conclusion I drew as it paints the company in a bad light.

We fundamentally disagree on how companies should behave. That's all.
256kbps MP3 is transparent in most cases, but there are some sounds that MP3 is bad at encoding (notably the sound of maracas and similar rattle type sounds), and you can train yourself to get better at identifying MP3 artifacts. People have reported successful ABX of maracas sound at 256kbps, e.g.:

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/when-is-mp3-transparent-an-a...
I'll wager that in order to write this message you used a device which had a certain number of plastic components, and I suppose that the probability of said device to reach your home or office entirely by muscle or wind powered vehicles are pretty near 0.

In other words, while I am sure that "fossil fuel industry" was never motivated by purely altruistic ideas, we have also to take in account that the standard of living we take for granted is in large part due to "fossil fuel industry and all other gross industrial polluters".
I am going to need some sort of citation for the idea that Europe has high corporate taxes. According to KPMG the EU average is lower than the current US corporate tax rate. Furthermore, setting it at 37% is 3% lower than the US tax rate was last year. I don't really see any downside to doing this. It's not like companies are not going to do business in Europe, it's waaay to attractive a market.

Also, "spending money on immigrants" sounds like it's just being given to immigrants, the money is specifically to countries cope with the cost that is there already. It might fuel right wing nationalists, but that seems to happen anyway, while they are busy doing their thing, it would be nice if the sensible people tried to tackle the issues at hand.
The F-words: functor and friends
> time-telling watches are now 100% a status symbol, heirloom, and/or enthusiast good

or non-status jewelry. men especially can much more easily justify a watch over a bracelet.