skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, Lightning Network is a total dud and no one is using it, so they rented some bandwidth from satellites used for lots of other things and are trying to look innovative with this nonsense.
You don't have to "deplete" it like so to cause problems. Some areas that are higher up will lose access before others. In some places, wells will have to be drilled deeper, and everywhere, the water table will drop.

You can't get something for nothing.
Because saying that they are "pledging" 500m is disingenuous. The article should make clear exactly how much of a hit MS is taking ... if they are taking a hit. This is not the same as me pledging money to a charity and should not be described in such terms.
For a reason.
You don't actually think that's what they would do with the money, do you?
It's still cool though

If civilisation collapsed, as the power grid shut off, sys admins became farmers and ISPs collapsed, satellite ground stations go dark, interstate trade might still be possible through something like this. If it was able to receive messages and payment from unauthorised satellite dishes on the ground rather than through a REST API

Being able to slow the collapse of civilisation, the idea is cool even if not quite this specific implementation
This is anecdotal, but I've typically fasted in a similar way (eat between 4-8pm only) for around 5 years. A few years ago I was running 20-30km while fasted without issues. I was running slow (5:30 per kilometer) but I felt pretty good, with steady energy and no weakness or crashing. I took a while to adapt to not eating first, but I'd say it was a matter of a month at most.

I personally did (and do) drink a lot of water if I feel hungry. I usually end up hungry the next day if I allow myself to eat past 8 or so - it's always a mistake for me to do that.

I allow myself to have tea and coffee, which some people say isn't true fasting because you have to metabolize the things in the tea or coffee. I don't mind. I'm doing this to maintain control over bad eating habits which lead me to be very overweight. I have ADHD and I suppose it comes with poor impulse control in my case - I tend to be very "all or nothing", so fasting works very well for me. I have nothing until I can have it all :)
Are aerodynamics even that significant an energy bleed at the speeds we’re talking about? I’m guessing engine losses for those large low rev torque tuned engines are a bigger difference. And of course the massive weight of most pickups these days.
Also, providing tax-funded low cost housing as a community to make sure you don't lose your regional baristas and cooks is basically a tax payer subsidy to keep eating out affordable.
The second link is a referral shopping page without any information about the company. This url also appears on their crunchbase page.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kaishu-jianggushi#se...
It is always a good thing if something can be solved directly by the citizens without the use of force, i.e. state intervention. It is indicative of a prosperous economy, and possibly of high social capital and cohesion.

The proper use of the state should really only be as a reluctant override meant to address explicit market failures, such as monopolies and collusion and negative externalities. Unfortunately, that isn't the way that most people view the role of government anymore, and are increasingly content to see it as a consequence-free button for moral authoritarianism.
I was sorely tempted to paste a URL to the Steve Ballmer "developers developers developers developers" video.
GoogleAI promised but refuses to share dataset fields for a published paper
One thing I didn't see you address is where you think affordable housing should be built. Do you have any thoughts in this regard?
Reason why I just using a 3rd party between the business and my credit card. Have no problem with a 3rd party taking a cut but standardizing the whole process through a single interface to cancel subscriptions services without needing to go through all the crap.
For me, it was leaked through boltcd, elance, and reseller ratings. All those emails had been regularly leaked.

I know because every time I register for a site I use site@mydomain.com as my email.
Scientists always want more money, even if it isn’t needed. It is what they are groomed to do by their organizations. It’s a sickness. How do I know? I work in academia as a scientist and see it first hand. It’s not about what did you discover anymore, it’s about how much money did you bring in.
I'm surprised it works outdoors, I would think the red light would be impossible to pick out of a high resolution image even with a fine filter.
>I've always wondered what the degradation is like, because it dictates what secondary applications are viable.

All of the above. Internal resistance increases as the SEI layer (boundary between electrolyte material and the anode) gets thicker and thicker. Eventually it reaches a point where internal resistance is so high that it becomes dangerous to even charge, and at that point the battery basically has to be completely disassembled and recycled. There's essentially no way to safely reuse a whole cell because of the wildly different charge/discharge profiles each one may have been exposed to, which affects the discharge curve accordingly.

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1210/1210.3672.pdf
That, and depending on the companies they got data on (i.e. any number of widely traded stocks with large market caps), they could have had a LOT of volume to play with. This is a big deal and it's mind-boggling that the breach happened.
> Was the gmail advantage ever in their web interface?

Compared to hotmail and yahoo mail it was, compared to a desktop client not so much.

> For me it was always their spam handling that set them apart from everyone else.

It seems they've done such a good job that there isn't much of a spam market anymore, looking in my spam folder (gmail) I'm averaging 1-2 a day and that includes false positives.

On the corporate email using a different filter I only see about 1 spam message get through a year, so they might not even have a competitive advantage there.
It seems very unlikely to actually raise much directly. As the article quotes someone saying,

> You’d certainly see some people under that system change their behavior to avoid the higher rate, which could significantly impact how much revenue it generates

Which is the real point. It's intended to do something to rein in out of control executive compensation. Particularly stock compensation which gives execs an incentive to do short term price manipulation.

(Edit: that's what it did the last time the top rate was this high before Reagan cut it. CEO pay was more like 30x ordinary workers, not 300x)
As long as our votes are secret, you can't "pressure" anyone to vote any way about anything.
I have purchased products/services off of ads, but only because I was directly searching to buy those things and they came up as sponsored results. I'm not sure if that counts.

I have never bought off of ads otherwise and find that most of the time they are not relevant to my interests. I also started using an adblocker because of other reasons (mal-ads/autoplay) even though I previously did not do so because I felt text/banner ads were quite acceptable in order to help keep the lights on.
All you're doing is claiming the wall won't work as well as your solution. There's zero reason to believe what you're saying would be effective. Walls have worked for thousands of years...
Not 'someone'. Google.
The big issue with affordability in the area concerns zoning: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2015/07/how-a-seattle-plan-to.... Right now, you can put a lot of money into affordable housing, but without substantially increasing supply, you are going to raise overall prices.

LA has the same problem with its attempts to "solve" its homelessness problems, which are at their root zoning problems: http://seliger.com/2017/08/30/l-digs-hole-slowly-economics-f...
Granted, there have been a lot of scams in this sector. But to draw a parallel to the previous decades, it's like you were saying that because there were a lot of companies selling scammy ideas about their TCP/IP-based intranets, then the internet is a scam (i.e.: this article is about bitcoin, not about any other altcoin).
I've gone back and forth on this. The very likely outcome of such a thing in practice is another PCI-like process. We both know an "EFF-like" organisation selected by a Government will one of the big accounting firms or similar in practice.

Particularly once there's a certification fee, it quickly becomes a racket, where people with strong ethics and skills get pushed aside by someone who paid a fortune to sit a course. Language lawyers will find ways to sign off on major issues, and some largely irrelevant thing ends up becoming the majority of the process.
I replied to a similar comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18927767

To reiterate, my main objection to asserting "democracy is the best" is that it discourages thought about other possibilities.

I don't know what work better. But I do think there are other possibilities. I'm using a somewhat stricter definition of democracy and autocracy. For our purposes, lets say a democracy allows nearly everyone to vote for a person or party that will have complete or nearly complete control over the government. We'll allow exceptions for felons and young people not voting. Lets call countries where one person has full power an autocracy.

I'm not going to give an example of a perfect form of government. But I'll give some bad or half-baked ideas just to illustrate it's possible.

As you mentioned, there's anarchy. Not far from there, you could have rule by corporations, where corporations hire their own internal police force to protect their employees, enforce their rules, and make up for the lack of national government. I know, scary. I said these weren't good ideas.

You could have rule by experts. Technocracy, or something similar. Only economists would vote on economic policy, medical professionals would vote on healthcare policy, etc.

We could say all new laws must be in pursuit of some mandate, such as increasing standard of living for the lowest 30% of the population. Laws that don't work towards this goal could be challenged and struck down in courts. Maybe laws could be proposed by anyone and the most upvoted ones would be considered by the courts.

Maybe direct democracy should be revisited now that we have the internet.

We could allow more departments to operate independently, much like the Federal Reserve Bank does now.

Maybe it's totally impossible to improve on the democracy we have now. I'd still rather not discourage thinking about it.
There’s a chance your uncle made that one up himself: “No SSNs with an area number of 666 have been or will be assigned.”[0]

[0] https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v69n2/v69n2p55.html
But then the sentence still isn't right. You'd have to say "We're going to add all-electric to F-Series" or "We're going to make all-electric for F-Series."
I wonder about that too. It seems a much simpler and constrained task than driving a car.
It's interesting that the 20y compound return are pretty close. I don't understand the STDev value in the tables, and it is not explained. Is that the the standard deviation of the annual returns?
> I'm pretty sure Jones and co are crazy enough to believe much of what they pubish there.

I don't believe Jones himself does, but maybe some contributors do. However: (some of) the audience definitely believes it. When they reproduce it, they do so with the best intentions.

I agree regarding mistakes - otoh, being paranoid about making mistakes might be a good thing in today's media. Public shaming (by their competitors) isn't happening / working, that might be a good side effect.
By areas with high density and good transit. So, mostly Seattle and the Western/Central part of Renton, also Downtown Bellevue and Downtown Redmond. Last time I drove around Georgetown I noticed lots of unused space, maybe there's a reason a lot of affordable housing hasn't been built there, but it seems underutilized if it's not actively being developed for affordable housing

I'm not in principle against low income people living on the Eastside. In fact, I think most of Bellevue, Kirkland, and the area surrounding the Bel-Red corridor should be upzoned and get more infrastructure - then low income people could actually live there
Given the amount of money these companies are sitting they should just handover 10billion to the county. 136 billion in cash. Go eff off Microsoft and every other company like this.
Obtaining a locality domain
Those can be determined by the CC number, and a lot of companies (and some processors) just won't accept them (they're used a lot for money laundering since you can buy them with cash). For instance, Stripe reports them as "prepaid" and you can reject them. https://stripe.com/docs/api/cards/object#card_object-funding
Yeah, this primarily inspires the thought of whether we should be providing services that enable this kind of behavior.
Critical detail beneath the fold:

> The research is based on a survey of creators for thousands of Kickstarter projects between 2009 and May 2015.

It would be crazy to generalize from this to most VC-backed (or seeking) businesses... and another thing still to compare the massively larger set of small businesses started by individuals without major external funding. Different kinds of firms face incredibly different pressures and failure modes at every stage.
The main east-west street corridors through the outer west burbs (Lake St, North Ave, Roosevelt Rd, etc) are choked with them. Addison for example has one every 5 feet.
BTW Stackoverflow does many of these things with their ads.
Mypy 0.660 Released
That's true. "Intent to publish" is probably pretty easy to prove, but "knowledge of falsehood"? Short of lie detector tests (that are questionable iirc), how would one do that?
Many thanks for that and for all your other contributions to the world of open source!
You said it yourself. Why should the Eastside get to avoid having homeless and subsided housing in their backyard? Certainly the employers of Eastside residents have contributed to the rise in Seattle home prices.
You seem to have missed the point of the appraiser.

The market clearing price is not set in stone. It is determined partly by the actions of the agents.

The appraiser's estimate of the market clearing price would set a measuring point from which the agent's performance can be measured. Agents are then paid according to how their performance exceeds the expectation.

Without the appraiser's estimate, the performance of the agents can not be measured. There is no way to reward good performance or punish bad performance. The agents are simply collecting their cut of the transaction.
I used to work for my uncle who had video games, pinballs and video slots. It was semi-regulated years ago but then more rigidly controlled. And yes there people who ranged from addicted to casual as were the drinkers at the bar.

It's not the machine it's the thrill though. MY uncle was contacted by a man's wife who said he dumped his entire paycheque into the slots. My uncle took a slot machine to the man's house, set it for free play but the man was not interested in that. The devices people use for gambling slots, dice, cards, don't matter it's not what it is it's the result people desire.

I've seen people win $100,000 get it in cash and dump it all back in and be happy. Or others who spend $1,000 to win a $50 bonus pot, a very common thing.

I can even somewhat tell what models of slots are in the picture in the article shows a (left) IGT/Spielo Prodigi VU, (middle)a WMS BB2 and (right) a Bally AP-1 V32.
> But there are many obvious avenues in which this resolves itself, the most obvious of which is that the prices of those services simply rise until it becomes worthwhile for those people to commute further, or that they can start to move back into the city.

In an economic fairy tale, sure.

In reality, what happens is that people working low-income jobs end up with a two and a half hour commute from half-the-state-away, or, alternatively, living in a slumlord's idea of a barracks. Or, sometimes, both.

It's a 'solution' much in the same way that in the Soviet Union, people would 'solve' the problem of toilet paper shortages by joining the Communist party, which would entitle them a subscription to Pravda.

The wealthiest country in the world can, and should do better.
I'm not sure I understand your point.

There is indeed a non-negligible chance that you are an AI, but how is it relevant to the subject we're discussing?

mikeash made a statement that:

It is unlikely... that some third factor causes both economic inequality and race.

I politely disagree with this point and, moreover, gave an example of such third factor.
I wonder if this still works if the camera is of the pin-hole type with no lens. i.e. camera obscura
Most people will want to do something useful to supplement their basic income because it will only be enough to pay for the basic necessities. Would you want to live like a poor student for the rest of your life, renting a bedroom and being only able to afford thrift shop clothes and ramen noodles? Most people aspire to have their own place, date other people, have friends, etc. Most people have some minimum amount of drive for status. That will ensure that they make some effort to rise above the bare minimum.

As for how to pay for this, consider that central banks have printed trillions of dollars and basically handed that money to corporations, bailing them out of their debt. We live in the world of corporate welfare. We could expand the money supply and give that money to the people instead. In some ways, this is more capitalist than the alternative. Why? Because corporations who get too far into debt should die. If you give money to the people, you at least ensure that corporations will have to sell people something that they actually need/want, instead of being able to count on a corporate bailout.
The term can be pretty broad. In terms of what's used in practice, it's generally elected representatives or parties.

China's a pretty interesting counter-example. I don't know very much about their government unfortunately, beyond what tends to make the news.
Has anyone tried react-native-desktop that uses QT? What are your experiences?

https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop
One of your sibling comments asked whether this was good or bad. This is the pragmatic answer.

I wish the problem was being solved the way I think it should be solved, but I'm still happy it's being addressed. "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth" applies; we should encourage good behavior rather than taking the chance to be mildly upset about incentives and taxation and all the other angles from which one can be mildly disconcerted by the situation surrounding the action. I'm lacking an idiom here, but I feel like what I want is something like "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" but for mild disappointment and good news, instead.
Télé LCD
Texas for one. No duty by either buyer or seller to report the sale price.
Small price to pay in today’s society. These surveillance devices and storage are only going to get less expensive, and easier to conceal.
> "Protect your privacy online and access media content with no regional restrictions. Strong encryption and no-log policy with 5000+ servers in 60+ countries..."

I don't see how this is deceptive whatsoever? It states known facts about the VPN while also giving a basic outline on their policies. I'm inclined to believe that Nord doesn't keep logs (as of Nov. 1 of 2018) due to their audit by an external company. The report is available: https://ucp.nordvpn.com/audit-report/

I'm not saying that Nord is 100% safe, as others mentioned in this thread, it is completely possible that any "no-logs" VPN provider may store logs somewhere else or an organization may store their data. It allows a provider to claim they keep no logs, which also technically being truthful. I'm intrigued by Nord's stance to this (as their audit has no mention of it at a quick glance) and I will email their support about this.

Not only that, regional restrictions may apply to services such as Netflix, which have been battling VPNs for years now. Most VPN providers don't work with many of these services, and due to the fact Nord does, I'd claim that as a good advertising standpoint. Never tried "Mullvad", but I doubt they can bypass restrictions of these same sites.

Now onto Mullvad...
The reason they can't claim to be the best, in any field for that matter, is because they aren't. Isn't keeping your data private "a GIVEN for any decent service" (to quote your own words...)? I'm also worried about that price, are the potential legal fees Mullvad may pay to keep your privacy safe worth the 5 pounds a month you pay? Same with any VPN for that matter - the cheaper it is, the less likely it is safe.
Car and almost $1m on offer for Tesla Model 3 hacks
It’s not actually related to blockchains, is it? Aside from accepting cryptocurrency for their fees, anyway.
For CA, take a look at the ballot initiative that failed miserably in the last election. double facepalm
Used to own a factory Ford Ranger EV.

The vehicle was a dead ringer for the gas version, down to the same weird gearshift off-by-half-a-position thing. I even gave people rides and they didn't notice it wasn't gas.

Alas, it had a second-hand 312V lead acid pack made up of out-of-production 8V batteries. One battery went bad and then it became a yearlong half-finished battery changeout. Sold it for about what I paid for it.

Would buy one (if they ever made any more) in a heartbeat. Word is Ford crushed most of the ones they made, rather than all of them.
They really should use the money to instead build more remote offices, where housing is already affordable, develop the technologies/processes to support that distributed culture, invest in making those other cities more livable, and thereby bring economic opportunity to a more diverse set of cities/cultures.

I am personally not in favor of more density here because my lifestyle, and those of many I know, is better suited to the lower density we have on the east side. The balance we have now is one of the main reasons many of us choose to live here, in the PNW. It feels to me like this growth will be good for new transplants at the cost of those who have made a life here already.
> PostgreSQL's `recursive` keyword lets you achieve roughly the same things

Or you could run GraphQL on top of PostgreSQL. Just because you can write anything in SQL doesn’t mean you should.
Ask HN: Negotiating salary: remote position and stock options vs. cash
Getting remote job at a startup - what should be the reasonable discount for remote position (one US metropolitan area remotely working with another) and what is the general logic for calculating how the salary should be affected by the stock options? I like the remote aspect so don't mind taking a cut.

Basically if its the early stage startup - should I go with the it's funding round and be ok subtracting this from... 1 year salary? 4 year (vesting period) salary?
They know when you come and go by your key card. I was in a hotel recently in which the elevator would only move if you swiped your key card _and_ chose your floor—no other floor, even the lobby.
>So I guess just assume all your passwords are cracked and use a password manager.

I mean I do, and that's why I have 100+ passwords that MIGHT be compromised. I don't even know where to start? Seems like the password should be shareable if you control the email or something like that. Fuck, I'd take a cc style last four type redaction or something.
Accessors who really care would just hit it from multiple IP's? And keep adding distributed IP's until they got what they wanted.
The name "Spectrum" has regrettably been ruined by Charter, which has the same poor and indifferent customer service for last mile cable internet customers as other competing giants like Comcast.