skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It _is_ a pyramid scheme, in which the originators and some early adopters all of the BitCoin. 0.1% of bitcoin owners have over 50% of all BitCoin. 1% of owners have over 90%. That's 2017 data. If adoption grows, the fractions of owners will essentially drop by another factor of 10.

These people's coin cannot be devalued by inflation - only by dumping Bitcoin. So encouraging adoption is encouraging buying into the pyramid scheme and enabling these people to use their ill-gotten gains to take people's stuff.
While other countries are adding the mediterranean diet more and more into their cultures, here around the mediterranean sea we are also improving and refining it with research!

I just read from Italians the same thing that I've been hearing in Spain for few years: do not burn your food, specially oil, since it's related to cancer.
Well, when people abandon TV they go to YouTube, and Google owns YouTube, end of story...

Video hosting is, by surprise, a very technology driven business, not as simple as upload a file then waiting for the profit. And as regulations tightens up, Google's advantage is only going to grow.
I never claimed its impossible with solar, its just not very smart. Your calculation also leaves out a lot of issues with solar and intermittency. But even those things could be overcome.

However, how is that better? Uranium mining is tiny and a non issue. Thorium is even more plentiful, literally a waste product. We have enough of that stuff for 1000s of years. We have the technology to use it on mass scale and it has PROVEN track record of replacing fossil fuels at mass scales.

Solar panel waste is further duplicated by the live cycle and the lack of life cycle planning in the global supply.
> if you want an app that will still be maintainable in 5 years

That's part of the issue. People have been making teams who CANT build apps still maintainable in 5 years. Everyone has and only a select few remember/know that it's possible.

At a previous job, I was in a meeting where we pointed out an app had become unmaintainable to the point of requiring a rewrite. One of the engineers who built it pointed out "Well, we built this app a year and a half ago, of course it's unmaintainable, what do you expect?". I choked on my drink.
I work and play every day over Linux and I never saw the desktop freezing.
I call optimism-b*ll [ on that headline ] [ Without reading the link which I'm sure has good ideas. ] Because, people are picky. AND OVERFEED, or over-PREPARE TO [overfeed...] timewise, causing WAR... because the time could have been spent advocating for PEACE, because there are those who advocate for, or seek, WAR. [ also, topsoil... aquifers... ]
The resolution and zoom capabilities is absolutely astounding of those little traffic cameras we see.
> I haven’t seen any evidence that experienced professionals can build a website that will last for 5 years either

You need a team of experienced professionals, which virtually no longer exists. You could work at 10 different companies back to back and not come across a team that can do it. That's the industry now.
You're skating on legal thin ice by setting booby traps.

If the idea of someone stealing packages off of your porch pisses you off, just wait until they do that and then also sue you.
That looks awesome (thanks for sharing) but it seems to be a different thing? People are looking for a way to run existing Linux FUSE in SL, not develop new virtual file system implementations. They haven't responded to that request at all. https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-con...
I read it more that growth percentage won't be as high in the future. Not that there won't be growth.

That makes sense to me for Google. They have played out most of their bag of tricks to get more ad impressions. Everything above the fold is an ad, or a link to a Google owned property for any query you can monetize now. And any video on YouTube with revenue potential has a forced ad view.

That wasn't true in the past, so they could turn the dial to turn up revenue. That dial is all the way to the right now.

So, revenue growth will now match eyeball growth instead of exceeding it.
Apple Data Privacy Joke
"The USA is the IHME index’s biggest loser among high-income countries falling from 43rd in 2016 to 64th in 2040, due to an increase of just 1.1 year – from 78.7 to 78.9 years."

I would have made that the headline.
I'm not familiar with WA state gun laws, but Alaska (where I am familiar) is a castle doctrine state too, but you aren't allowed to shoot someone in the back who is fleeing even if they did just try to rob you. It also matters whether the person is inside the house, or simply outside but on the property. I don't know for certain, but I don't believe you can use deadly for to protect property either, only life.

> If you don't want guns pointed at you, don't steal from innocent people, especially not at their homes.

I'll agree with you there, although I will state that it's poor firearm practice to point at something you don't intend to shoot (I know he didn't point it at her, just stating as a general rule since many people that read this board are totally unfamiliar with firearms).

I also don't think he really thought he was in any danger, as evidenced by the fact that he opened the door before calling for his weapon. If he really thought he was in danger, that would have been a foolish mistake.

That all said, I do cut the guy some slack because adrenaline makes us do and say things that we may never have done if rational faculties were engaged. This is why training is so important. You fall back on your training when adrenaline kicks in. If you have no training, you'll most assuredly do something unwise that you will regret later with a clear head.
As a Brit living in Spain the diet seems a lot better. More olive oils and less processed crap.
Why is it "hampster" instead of "hamster"?
> It needs to be less willing to evict recently used buffers even under pressure, more willing to let processes OOM

I've had similar experiences. On Windows, where either through bugs or poor coding, an application requests way too much memory, leading to an unresponsive system while the kernel is busy paging away.

On Linux I've experienced the system killing system processes when under memory pressure, leading to crashes or an unusable system.

I don't understand why the OS would allow a program to allocate more than available physical memory, at least without asking the user, given the severe consequences.
With any of these tech inroads into non-tech fields, the issue is always communicating to the non-tech people that your solution has value, and not developing the tech solution itself. If you're a salesman walking into a person's house, telling them they live their life wrong, and your (expensive) solution will fix it, good luck with that.
Nuclear waste form civilian power production has not done much. Basically not a single person died from it. I tired to separate civilian waste from nuclear weapons waste, that has a worse track record.

The few accidents that have happened are far smaller in scale then the 'horror' stories that people believe in and pretty much all of those are overhanging issue from the early nuclear age.
Elon and the collective
Its really disappointing how telsla is pushing a proprietary charging plug when open charging standards exist and are supported by Tesla cars. They should be forced to use standerdized chargers like how phones are required to charge with USB in the EU.
"this is not a 9 to 5 shop" - this just gave me flashbacks.
Uhh what? Software is probably more secure now than ever before. I don't think AV software is snake oil at all.
Short selling. But be careful with margin calls.
I have no idea what python implementation you're talking about. Concepts behind cryptocurrencies are most often not hard, but there are a million implementation details to consider if you want to write a production ready client
What VAT regulations are keeping you from selling to other EU customers?
That's a weapons production cite. In most post I tried to separate civilian power waste from that.

If we look at civilian power production in the last 40 years its basically a non issue.
>Google and Facebook have enormous advantages over Disney

The big advantage is that Google and Facebook have monopolies.
It may not be important for your use case, but Stripe will not work with Estonian company. https://stripe.com/global
I think you misread the article, which is not about the segment of the ad market that wants to know so much about its audience.

Instead it’s about the ads that are currently on TV. The ads that are about broad brand recognition, not about microtargeting the audience. The point is that Google and Facebook already won the battle for their markets but they have no particular advantage over other media companies in competing for the rest of the ad market. In fact they are worse off because they have no existing brand of TV like content and they don’t have the cash reserves to buy their way in.

This article is a couple of years old but in the interim Facebook and Google have both had to back up and re-assess their media production strategies because so far they’ve been failing exactly as this article predicted.
>I’ve heard people in the Bristol TN/VA region refer to electric cars as a threat to their daily life and values.

Seems a little crazy when these are American made vehicles and they use electricity to run, most of which in that area comes from coal. If anything they should be huge supporters of Tesla.
Either legacy codebases that have rules dating back to the times when avoiding exceptions actually made sense, or else a cargo cult.
Playing devils advocate, debating everything, and winning every debate, only works if you're a patient, skillful debater. More often than not, debate is a war of emotional attrition. Better to choose your battles. For this reason, I avoid debate and negotiation if at all possible.
The content that Google and Facebook produce is garbage. It’s only barely better than nothing at all. Most people would not pay for the kind of content that shows up on Facebook and YouTube by so-called “content creators”.

Facebooks ads are garbage except in certain circumstances. Everyone knows this, including the big brands, but they continue to do it because it makes the board happy when they see their brand on FB.

AdWords is the only ad platform that works, works well, and is pretty universal.

Disney has a real good chance here though because Disney has actual valuable content. As in, literally valuable. You know, because people pay for Disney content with money.
I’m left-handed and write with fountain pens without too much trouble. The key is to find the right combination of fast-drying ink and absorbent paper: a combination of Iroshizuku inks and Baron Fig or Field Notes notebooks have been great for me. The smooth, sheen-y “fountain pen friendly” paper like Rhodia and many of the Japanese brands unfortunately do not work as well.
They generate profit with far less work than Disney, therefore their profit is much more protected and scalable with automation and tech.

Original content and physical parks are very hard to invest in and make profitable, and Disney has had plenty of missteps recently. Also Google has Youtube which is replacing TV for many young people and full of original content that required no investment.
Epic lets you change provider context to Emergency department, internal medicine, etc. I think they just need to make the provider context suck a whole lot less. Epic Haiku (mobile) is a pathetic joke as well. Nevermind, I think you're right actually, the whole thing needs to be burned to the ground and built completely different. The only thing Epic has going for it is that it's not Cerner.
"In June 2015, the Japanese government released an energy proposal that includes the revival of nuclear power to account for Japan's energy needs. The proposal calls for an increase of about 20% in nuclear energy by 2030.[2] This reverses a decision by the previous Democratic Party, the government will re-open nuclear plants, aiming for "a realistic and balanced energy structure"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Japan
This guy not knowing why Amazon's P/E ratio is intentionally over 200 sums up his "expertise" on the situation - he has absolutely none.
Guards would scream movie Nazi German snippets at you. "Achtung!" etc. Seems a bit simple now, but almost nothing else like it on the Apple II and C64 when it came out.
> Lawns are stupid.

Jewelry is a big part of most people's lives.

Lawns are in large part conspicuous consumption and an honest signal of conscientiousness.
Here is a question to ponder about: is Google loosing market share or is the market expanding?
Some people pronounce it with a p. That's the reason behind just about every spelling difference.
The nail gun in Quake fires “nine inch nails”, which I always thought was a nice touch.
By now I think parsing is not exactly the bottleneck. But back in 90s, I'm sure that it has been a part of why TP and BP were as fast as they were, esp. compared to C++. Having precompiled units (and therefore no need to #include hundreds of kilobytes of headers for every translation unit) is probably a bigger deal today.

Also, IIRC Delphi had only recently gotten generics, and they're still not heavily used? I suspect that code that's heavy on those will compile pretty slow.
I'm pretty sure UI tends to be science, with art kept for flight of fancy systems interactive like Emacs, vim, the Leo editor or Bret Victor's ideas--none of which would pass muster in committee UI decisions in for-profit companies. Shells are some black art.
One of my favorite streets in Madison, WI is no car traffic. Really great for business, getting across town, and general atmosphere.
This is the premise of The Innovator's Dilemma.

Incumbents ignore low-margin, cost-conscious customers.

Innovators cater to customers the incumbents don't want and build a product that is worse than incumbent's in every area except cost.

Then innovators improve the product to capture the lower tier of incumbent's customer base, then work their way up to more profitable customers.

Incumbent wakes up too late, finds their customers moved to a product the incumbent always thought was worse.

Lesson: don't ignore large, underserved populations or you'll find your lunch has been eaten.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
None of the growth oriented items he listed are even remotely capable of justifying 2x the multiple of other media companies.
Many Dutch cities also have car-free pedestrian areas in their city centers. And it's not just that the biggest shopping centers happen to be there, it is exactly the busy shopping areas that are made car-free, so people can shop there in peace. There's usually a ring of car parking lots around the center, as well as on the edge of the town, so people can leave their car early and cheaply while continuing their trip to the center using public transport.
Can you do this with traditional commands? Disown detatches from the terminal (if I remember correctly), is there an equivalent to re-atach it later?
I mean, you could technically distinguish between positive and negative zero, if your numbers are all floating points (like JS or Lua). But that would be even more of a horror show.
Blanks are significantly quieter than regular rounds (not sure if the dB level you posted took that into consideration or not). In fact, you don't really need hearing protection with blanks at all. In the military we trained with blanks all the time without hearing protection, and they are anal about OSHA standards.

But I agree, it's a lawsuit waiting to happen. I would not recommend anybody do this.
just think of they way the OSs are used.

get to a directory:

linux: cd /dir (no info)
windows: open directory ... all the info and different views depending on your selection currently like image file thumbnails

in windows you are always accessing this meta data so it makes sense to speed it up. while in linux even the ls fucking does give you meta data you have to add the extra options so it doesnt makes sense to speed up and waste storage on something that is infrequent

seem like both ways are sound
a) That doesn't follow at all. How do you get from less effort to higher moat?

b) So what? You're going to value a moat at a 100% premium NPV?
The world made much more sense when I realized money is just a proxy for "want". One will never have enough, so long as one "wants", which in my experience is basically what everyone does all the time.
Sadly they are overpriced to hell.
Epic is often compared to Salesforce, which is to say even if there is a better localized app for a specialty (of which there are many in healthcare), the next questions are: How do integrate this into the other apps, how does it get into the record, how can people in other specialties receive information downstream to act appropriately from medical side to billing side. Then there's the last non-app part, what is the cost structure, what are the hardware requirements, who's going to watch it when it goes down, what disaster recovery strategies are available, what downtime-protocols should be followed when it goes down and up, who can I call when there's a problem I need fixed now, and finally who out there is already using it and demonstrated success with it?

I used to work at Epic and have seen in the field the requirements the immediate people need as I listed above. Billing driven documentation is an accurate way to label it. The software is implemented to maximize revenue for the hospitals and organizations, without reliable targeted information coverage agencies won't pay for what was supposedly done. There are whole teams in health care and applications from suites like Epic for such teams just for refining billing. A physician knows what they are ordering for a patient, a temp worker downstream refining billing data doesn't, therefore prioritizing accurate data from the physician will result in better likelihood of obtaining claims downstream. That however competes with the immediate need of the patient.
Here's a link to his short paper, which is probably the reason this was posted.

http://sci-hub.tw/10.1109/JRPROC.1962.288062
Why would my autonomous vehicles attack your autonomous army when I can just drop them in densely populated areas instead?
I’ve been a professional software developer for over 20 years.

Commercial software is generally much better than it was 15 years ago.

Yes, Vista was bad but Win7 was good. You should have seen Win3 or 95 though. You’d expect to have the computer crash multiple times a day.
> Are you Romanian by any chance and is that Pacepa you are talking about?

Yeah, it's about Pacepa.

> Ever thought about going to CNSAS and try getting any flies they might have had on your uncle?

My brother suggested that we should give it a try, I might actually do it at some point. In fact, I got the info about my uncle being a Directorate chief later in his career from a "semi-public" CNSAS document that somehow was leaked on the Internet, document which was detailing the hierarchal structure at the top of the Romanian foreign intelligence services in the 1970s (before Pacepa's defection).
The article mentions that there are "even mixed color boards", does anyone have a photo of any? I did a cursory search and didn't see any, but am interested in how these looked.
Functional Secret Santa
Cerner and Epic are billing driven because that is priority 1 for hospitals.
Looks like a mixture of the top wine consuming countries and Japan longevity.
It's a great font with a lot of features, and it is visually very similar with Roboto. I just wish it had a thinner variant (font weight 300).
>>> Eight seven percent of Google’s revenue comes from advertising

Is this eight or seven or eighty seven? First line and the author is already confusing.
Never think like a spy. Never think of other people just as assets, constantly scanning for flaws and weakness to roll them "downhill", think about all the people you know - your family, your spouse, your kids, your neighbors as individuals you could get to do anything, so entangled in lies and corruption.
Never be a spy.
Because once you are a spy, can can never stop being one.
Dont beat them, join em. Build a solution to a problem and integrate it into one of their html5 modules. Both systems offer breadth, not depth when it comes to solving problems.
Less work to generate more money as an industry compared to Disney, that's why they have better valuations.

The moat has nothing to do with that and is formed by their scale, which is almost impossible to break at this point. This is valued highly when it defends a multi-billion profit machine that nobody else can match.
The nailgun ammo crates had "NIͶ" on them as well ;)

https://slm-assets1.secondlife.com/assets/8685509/lightbox/N...
Most people would not pay for the kind of content that shows up on Facebook and YouTube by so-called “content creators”.

This isn’t really true. I’ve been trying to demonstrate this by curating some interesting and educational YouTube videos in one place: https://www.laarc.io/l/videos

You’re right that there’s a lot of noise to sift through. But there are real gems.

People may not pay for it directly, but they pay for it with their time and attention. In most cases that can be translated to dollars for popular items. You can get a sense of estimated value by looking at socialblade. Here’s a content creator that recently rose to fame: https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UC5_do3JQAPHA1rIlM-2...

(If anyone knows how this guy got ~300k subscribers almost overnight, I’d love to hear from you. It’s a mystery, but it doesn’t seem like foul play. Just lucky social exposure with some good timing.)
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It's probably moreso the Mediterranean diet and the Mediterranean climate (encouraging more walking). The evidence that wine or any alcohol consumption positively affects health is equivocal at best (I say as I drink an IPA).
This article doesn't talk much about the Cantor set, which is a pity given how amazing it is. Maybe one of the most beautiful objects in all of mathematics:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CantorSet.html

A great, rare, example of a set with no length (0 measure) but an uncountable number of points.
>It isn't the "embassy attaché" (official cover) spies who are alleged to be having the cinematic adventures

For James Bond style adventures, yes. But there are tons of adventures, cinematic and in books, for embassy attaché style spies as well, from John le Carré's heroes to Berlin Station...
As a bonus, developing-world tyrants usually have poor logistical and maintenance capabilities, so PMCs and defense contractors have the option of long-tail contracts for supply, maintenance, and upgrades as well, reducing the risk of regime elements going rogue with the murderbot army. It’s really a win-win for murderous ethnonationalist authoritarianism and unfettered global capitalism!
Excellent post and I learned a lot. One tiny quibble is that it is the left side pedal on a bicycle that is "reverse threaded".

And as an exercise to the reader, if you think carefully through relative rotations of each pedal compared to its shaft, shouldn't it be the right side pedal that goes on/off wrong!? Why on earth is it the left one?

answer here: https://blog.everydayscientist.com/?p=2655
These are beautiful drawings, congrats!
Esselstyn might be right but he is just making a best guess. His science is terrible, one uncontrolled study of 18 patients.
In a similar situation - I've had reasonable success in Linux developing a .net framework c# app in VS Code with Mono from the Ubuntu PPA. Almost everything works but for the odd project calling native Windows DLLs, so I keep windows around for manipulating VS projects and compiling these oddities. Most dev can happen in Linux though.