skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't download them, the state history is generated from the blockchain locally. The blockchain itself is 68GB (uncompressed, decimal G)
That is quite simply wrong. I have been on the receiving end of this problem, and there is zero transparency about the reasons behind banning, zero warning or recourse, and of course the good old 180 day locking of funds which can kill any e-commerce platform that runs on anything other than absurdly high margins.

The company in question moved to Stripe where it operates to this day.

PayPal is just a very large, shady as fuck company. Im hoping cryptocurrency matures to a point where they are not needed.
I call bullshit, they can’t just put out numbers like this.
I remember that one of the last times that I stopped smoking happened because I was literally overdosing on nicotine from vaping almost continuously while drinking.
I stopped for almost one year at the time because I was completely nauseated by vaping.
I think that night was much worse than anything I smoked before, probably comparable to a red Marlboro smoked cutting the filter out (thanks Stephen king and the black tower.. -.- )
Misleading title. That's just a filling sentence in the middle of the article.
> The electricity company has bills to pay. If some company can find a way to make unlimited energy without expending resources, then yes, they will become the richest entity in the world, regardless of the presence of Bitcoin or not.

There is a finite amount of Bitcoin total by nature of the protocol. The electricity company is vital to Bitcoin being usable since it's a digital currency. The miners might be necessary too, but they need huge amounts of electricity - which if they had to pay in Bitcoin, means they are paying some portion of the dwindling number of Bitcoins to the electricity company. As is every Bitcoin user. And every bit of Bitcoin they get is worth slightly more after they get it then it was when it was paid, so their purchasing power is going up and up and up. You can't even found a new electricity company and try to compete on price, because beyond some point the original buyer can buy your new cheaper electricity without measurably reducing their spending power, and to capture the market they need to somehow not enrich you too much while doing it. And then of course, best case you just have 2 big electricity companies controlling all the wealth forever. Deflationary currencies are bad.

> Your assumptions are all resting on the idea that Bitcoin can't be used to pay taxes. This is already pretty flawed in a few places where it is possible.

"Just in time" Bitcoin -> currency conversions do not count. They don't count because they depend on an exchange rate (and are provided by a private company in all examples). The government's tax office is not accepting Bitcoin - it's letting someone act as a payment provider but the payment provider is still paying them in the local currency (and taxes are being assessed in local currency, not Bitcoin).

If the price of Bitcoin collapses, you'll owe more Bitcoins. If my local currency collapses, I'm still only taxed on the portion of my earnings in that currency.

> But Bitcoin maximalists don't actually care about this government thing.

However governments care a lot if you don't pay your taxes. And the utilities care a lot if you don't pay them.
Are there no other options? I get that it's difficult if you want international payments, but surely for inter-American payments enough other options are available? (Genuinely curious)
I love the clean design on your website. All the best!
Getting a button to appear in ExtJS ain't the problem. Getting it to appear where you like often is. Comapared to nested panels with umpteen different layout managers, flexbox ain't that hard (nevermind subtle cross-browser bugs that aren't priorities in Russia when compared to spurious pivot table features).

And let's not even get into customizing. Attaching CSS rules to four different generated nested divs, inline style declarations to both the object and its underlying element, custom XTemplates... Abstractions get leaky rather fast, if you're not doing the "3270 terminal forms meet Excel 2003" enterprise UI.
Couldn’t find another way to address your note at the bottom of the tumblr post. Inquiry posted below:

Hey Ivan, just saw your repl video on the other page. Cool work! I'm working on technology that will revolutionize many industries. It's called knophy.com and I am actively working on it myself. The core philosophy of knophy is that we can realign incentive structures in social media and online interaction to favor the competent rather than the loud. The website doesn't show much yet, but I'll have a prototype available soon and always love sharing and discussing the idea with others.

My email is in my profile. Let’s link up if you want to talk more about it. I don’t have any funding yet but am very confident that funding will come and I have a very sane business model that I think can again, help revolutionize many industries in our zero sum times.
MasterCard and Visa, 2 seperate companies in the same space are "monopolies"? You literally just proved yourself wrong.
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The city has a weird fascination with people called "Otto". Equally revered is Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, who a 1000+ years ago made Magdeburg his city of residence.

Also the German comedian Otto Waalkes (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Otto_Waalkes&oldi...) and Otto von Bismarck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck) - even though in opposite to Otto I and Otto von Guericke these two are not from Magdeburg.
> Is it healthy competition if one state lets a company dump chemicals and another doesn't? Or if one state lets a company burn coal?

You're arguing against something nobody in this thread suggested that we should do.
For me the alternative is not chasing the highest dollar jobs and working excessive hours that leave much less timen for leisure and family. Instead I happily work in a position that pays 30% or 40% less than I could be making if I chased constant advancement. I've actively declined opportunities like that. I am still paid very well for what I do, work a 40 hour work week, and still work on fun and interesting projects. So I'm not deferring until retirement the time I would have to wait to enjoy.

I'm not saying everyone should do this, it's just the answer I came up with. I know people who go the other way and also seem happy (though some not too) so it comes down to personal introspection abd preference.
I think it's more a criticism of pure empiricism as a model of reality.
Hey, big tobacco is dead but welcome to era of big-vape!
Some people are robots and never write errors. I and most C++ programmers are not in that category.
Have no clue about how will ethereum scale too
> Probably way more people are dying from car accidents, yet people are starting a major hysteria about a few wolves returning.

Hehe, agree to a certain degree.

I see this on a number of issues.

That said we have somewhat effective countermeasures against kids getting hit by cars: we lower speed limits around schools and elsewhere where children walk, and we built sidewalks and put up fences.

> a wolve roaming through some far off forrest is considered more dangerous and newsworthy.

As for why the wolves are more newsworthy that is easy to explain: the cars aren't news at all anymore. Wolves returning are news.
They mention that file performance decreases with the numbers of filters that are attached to the NTFS drive. Is there a way to list the filters to determine which ones (and how many) are applied on your system?
Case Law – Skill of Caselaw Access Project
Cookies, Tracking and pixels: Where does your Web data comes from?
Yes Ultima Underworld was like the modern 3d RPG appeared in one stroke, fully formed. Also it's world was full of things and NPCs one could interact with, where the Doom maps were largely empty.
> so pissed off

> single bike sticks out like a sore thumb

Now it totally makes sense.
Yeah, everyone suggest to move from platform with 0.001% incidents rate, to the scammy bitcoin where no one is responsible for anything.
Grover Gardner is a terrific narrator. If you’re into grand-scale, multi-volume histories, I highly recommend his readings of Shelby Foote’s The Civil War: A Narrative and Robert Caro’s The Years of Lyndon Johnson.
Did NOT like: ‘Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People.’ I could not finish this audiobook. Super boring with obvious ideas and some ideas that I believe are not true. For example claiming to talk about somebody’s accent. I am an immigrant in US, this was always very offensive for me somebody points out my accent. I am not bothered by that anymore but it always makes me feel like I don’t belong when somebody points out my foreign accent. I would never recommend it as a conversation starter.

I recommend a book published this year: High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People, by Elad B. Gil
You're probably getting downvoted by people who have used Linux in the past 10 years.
JSOAP!
Portrait of the Voice in My Head
As far as I know, The Hacker News is just bunch of copied articles (i.e., blog spam) - but copying and plagiarism is so prevalent and pervasive on these news sites. Nothing new here.

However, they did add "donate" pay button on their website which means that PayPal might be on the hook if somebody donates to The Hacker News but article is written by somebody else. Just speculating.
You know, most PR firms operate with a bit more subtelty.
This seems interesting. How often do you use this script? and is there any other part that you failed or found very boring?

On a side-note; I loved sandspiel.
Is IO allowed in constexpr functions?
Even still, if a node is connected to the owner through another (malicious) node, how do you prevent the malicious node from making mutation requests on behalf of the legitimate node?

I can see a number of ways that it can be accomplished that would take a good amount of work but it begs the question, is this worth the effort? You now have lots of security concerns, issues with nodes disconnecting, and nodes becoming overloaded. What benefit does this have over plain old fashioned AJAX? What problem does this solve?
It's actually not even a nice implementation of a classical graph algorithm. They use a Python list as a queue. Python lists are only efficient when used as stacks. calling list.pop(0) or list.remove(list[0]) takes time proportional to the length of the list. This makes the algorithm take quadratic time, when it should be linear.

For this to be a nice implementation, they should use the standard library deque for the BFS or just pop from the end of the list to do a more efficient DFS for the connected component algorithm.
you are kind of asking for it... :) Bitcoin
Going by the screenshots, it looks like the censorship isn't that sophisticated.

Looks like it is just simple string matching, not even censoring based on the context of previous messages.
If you use speakers add amplifiers, speakers and (most important) acoustics
This is absolute crap. We've been growing a bit under the european average which we've always done, other than during the crisis, at which time we greatly fell behind. We haven't recovered any ground to the rest of the european zone. Ireland for example has pretty much recovered and in the last 4 year grew 50% more than Portugal.

There's a name for a rule that escapes me right now, on when the news writes about a subject you know about, that's when you realize all news reporting is utter crap. This was that moment for me.
Reminds me of a performance optimization I did at work. A previous developer had implemented a routine to clean up old files. The routine would enumerate all the files in a directory, and then ask for the file age, and if old enough delete the file.

The problem was that asking the file age given a path caused an open/close, as GetFileSizeEx expects a handle.

Now, at least on Windows, enumerating a directory gets[1] you not just the filename, but a record containing filename, attributes, size, creation and access timestamps. So all I had to do was simply merge the directory enumeration and age checking.

The result was several orders of magnitudes faster, especially if the directory was on a network share.

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/minwinb...
It's amazing the ingenuity you see from hackers when money is at stake, especially something like crypto currency where there is no way to get it back
What is successful about ethereum? The price?
A few years back I attended a course on spacecraft operations at ESA. The instructor had a quite inspiring goal for operations: maximizing mission output.

He kind of touches upon it in the talk with the TV-SAt 1 situation where operations really got to be creative and find some solution to learn about the problem. Other great examples of this mindset are the quite successful Mars rovers, the Voyager spacecrafts and the Huygens probe.
No, Applied Cryptography isn’t “terrible”, but treat it as a starting point. It will help you understand more advanced references (like the linked blog post).
Why does it bottom out in these credit card companies? Is it just prohibitively hard to set up a competitor because you need some critical mass of banks to sign on? Or because people want to pay with credit card and cc companies will prohibit transactions to a fledgling competitor?
I believe templates make for slower compilation times.
R.A.D.I.C.A.L. Systems: Techniques to Create Software That Scales
Pairing A Patriot's History and A People's History makes for some interesting perspective. They don't really offer explicit points/counterpoints, but they certainly frame things differently over similar time periods (which cover America's coming of age to a powerful world presence).

https://www.amazon.com/Patriots-History%C2%AE-United-States-...

https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States/dp/0062...
The Senator Who Wants to Keep Silicon Valley from Reading Your Messages
Most larger studios have a huge isolation trasformer for the whole set of studio circuits, and then smaller local filters like furmans. Balanced wiring as noted, also occasionally makes an appearance, but is less common. I run a dedicated ground. I personally use 3 transformers, and 3 filters (one capacitance, 2 mot). Not all in series mind you, but digital and analog gear are on seperate circuits, and a 3rd for hybrid designs (yay 80s synths). Analog recoding is sensitive to power in a huge way, but listening is seldom as affected. Note all studios use balanced audio, while most 'audiophile' crap is still unbalanced.
Because it was intro to computer science, not intro to computer practicalities
Sounds like Catholicism with extra steps...
So it could be 99.99% but they are holding back...better to be pleasantly surprised. :)

Isn't it ironic that Philip Morris owns a nice chuck of Juul that aims to get rid of smoking. My guess is that they'll milk this for decades and then pay a small % of their profit to settle claims. Then they'll jump on another bandwagon, maybe buy El Chapo's Select. Rinse, repeat.
Even assuming you are 100% correct, it is interesting that this violation is not decided by the legal system but by a secret court inside PayPal. They will not even tell you the offense you are guilty of.
Thanks for the correction. 18 kWh ought to do the job, then. Not quite in “buy it tomorrow” territory, but close enough I should give them another look.
A) The reason why the liability cap don't follow rational argument is that policy does not follow rational arguments. Politics dictate that and just like with airport security, security management is about the perceived risk rather than true risk.

B) Transparency is not great when it come to power plants. It is impossible for citizens to make a informed decisions about which countries has safe power plants and which are unsafe.

C) The environmentalist argument is not that renewable electricity is worse than nuclear, but that we still burn material and put co2 into the air for power and heat. Even in a place like Sweden, we still sometimes burn coal. If we could ban all such usage without building more nuclear than great, but we don't look like we are any nearer a ban on burning gas, oil and coal today than when renewable prices was prohibitive expensive. Nuclear power plants directly replace other power plants, while wind and solar seems mostly just supplement the market with cheaper electricity during good conditions while coal keep burning when the wind is calm and the sun is set.
Ask HN: Do you believe that your government has access to your Google history?
I was thinking about this, and I'm not sure where I come down. In the post-Snowden world, most big sites (including Google) have gone HTTPS-only, with additional security features like certificate pinning. As far as I'm aware, nothing in the Snowden revelations suggested that that the NSA had been able to break SSL/TLS, so it would seem reasonable that it would be very difficult for them to snoop on you while you're googling.

Obviously, if you're a suspect in a criminal case, the government could get a court order for google to turn over your search history. But do you believe the the kind of widespread "dragnet" surveillance that was made known through the Snowden leaks is still going on? Or do you believe that the last few years of tightening up web security really made a difference when it comes to state sponsored snooping?
When School Choice Means School’s Choice
It is quite remarkable how fast Carmack moved their engines forward, especially given the pioneering nature of the progress in question.

Wolfenstein 3D, May 1992 -> Doom, December 1993 -> Quake 1, June 1996 -> Quake 2, December 1997

In the span of five years, they went from:

Wolf: https://i.imgur.com/1gGewDp.png

Doom: https://i.imgur.com/6CqvrLg.png

Q1: https://i.imgur.com/6wZg8NG.png

Q2: https://i.imgur.com/4Lxtg4f.jpg

The leap forward between the release dates of Doom and Quake 2 in just four years is particularly impressive.
Thanks, cimmanom, this list is definitely helpful. I noticed that you mentioned communication twice! I will work harder on improving my communication skills meanwhile.
> But Python encourages the direct opposite - writing long files of code to avoid introducing too many "modules" and this is a debilitating headache.

How does Python encourage mega-files? AFAIK there's nothing that prevents nor discourages proper organization of code into files.

I frequently use multiple files to organize my library implementations.
When I grew up (in communist Poland in the 80ties), I was never paid for doing chores, and neither was any of my friends. I suggested this to my parents (I was a sly kid), but they refused it, citing that we're all a family and we should all be doing things for one another. I was getting a monthly allowance that I could spend however I wanted, but it was not linked to the chores. I think it's healtier attitude than paying children for their contributions to the family, as if the family were a business and they were employees.
As a collective culture, I agree with you (assuming we don’t turn the planet into a Dyson swarm in that timeframe, which is surprisingly plausible and I don’t know how to start making forecasts).

Absent scenarios which Isaac Arthur has already made YouTube videos about, I’m more worried about atomic analogs of antivaxxers or homeopaths. Or “Traditional Chinese Medicine”. Or… well, you get the idea.
Truck owners are blocking Tesla Superchargers in 'ICE-ing' protests
Paypal is practically the only commonly accepted online payment method that doesn't require me to have a credit card. The reason people use Paypal today is that they offer a service without much competition to people who want to pay, so if you want to get paid you're leaving money on the table if you don't accept Paypal.

This does of course depend on where your customer base is. Credit cards are universal in the US, not so much internationally.
Surprising they didn't mention the PO74G00A and its friends.

http://www.potatosemi.com/datasheet/PO74G00A.pdf

Note before you try to make a 1 GHz CPU using 1970s design with those chips, for current limit reasons those chips can only switch in the GHz range with output capacitance below the input capacitance of a single gate input, so your redesigned PDP-11 is only gonna run at a mere 500 MHz not in the GHz range.

I'm a little unclear where you buy their products other than their ebay store. Digikey doesn't seem to stock. They DO seem to be real, not a meme.

I've never screwed around with the PotSemi products but I've seen the youtube videos where some dude makes a classic ring oscillator out of an inverter that runs at some high UHF frequency like seven hundred MHz or so. I thought I was pretty cool making ring oscilators running at 20-something MHz back in the 80s. If you're really bored or don't have a tape measure you can measure a length of cable by inserting it into a ring osc and recording the resulting frequency and applying some correctional math based on the speed of the inverter... I suppose with a GHz class inverter the correction factor would be round to zero for any cable longer than a couple feet and could be ignored. You can also make a toy TDR using what amounts to a ring osc and a very fast (expensive) o-scope.

Power supply noise decoupling caps must be "fun" with those chips, what happens if you put a very old 0.1 uF cap that self-resonates at a freq lower than the switching freq of the chip? Nothing good, I imagine. I know you can buy 0402 SMD caps that resonate in the higher GHz range so thats OK, but you know some goofball is going to try an 0.1 uF electrolytic for decoupling LOL.

In the "Old Days" you used strange fast high power logic sparingly to eliminate race conditions, obviously the 74F would always latch up before the 74LS or whatever so careful use of ttl family could eliminate race conditions. I would imagine that, and strange interfacing tricks, would be the purpose of modern TTL. If you wanted a slow arduino to intelligently monitor a 30 MHz signal, a little TTL support might make it possible in certain very limited cases.
It does?

It does even much weirder things.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/markrussinovich/2007/08/...
> appears to me much more accomplished

Was it more fun?
Which broker are you using for execution? IB? Curious if there's a better one for futures/futures options since I've started getting into them recently on IB.

If it's not revealing too much, what kind of stop loss distances are you generally using in your strategies (ticks)?

Are you using any kind of "walk forward optimization" in your testing?

You mention in another comment that you intentionally do not trade during _expected_ market volatility. Do you have parameters for sitting on the sidelines during _unexpected_ volatility, e.g., VIX over certain threshold, time since last Trump tweet according to Twitter's firehose API (serious), etc.?
"When I express the problem using well-defined and coherent terminology, I am unable to prove the existence of something which is neither well-defined or coherent".
It was / still is that the default scheduler is / was bad under heavy IO, copying a file on a USB disk would freeze the whole system ( on desktop ).

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/131094
The explained the reason in the article. In order to transform the Time Square NYE celebration from a violent dangerous drunken brawl complete with hookers and cocaine from the dealers on 'eighth and forty - deuce' they started dropping the confetti to make the experience a lot more fun.
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