skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But I'm afraid that almost all of the price increase is simply a hype/speculation/hold-cycle that inevitable never will survive.

People do get very fixated on the price. Anyone who bought into bitcoin at 16k or whatever is probably screwed at this point. If I were to guess on a long term settling price for bitcoin, I would place it somewhere between $400 and $4000 against the value of todays dollar.

Interestingly, it doesn't really impact me at all. I have a modest mining rig that brings in about $30 a month in random altcoins that I swap to either bitcoin or litecoin depending on where transaction fees are at. I then use that to buy stuff off aliexpress. That $30 is going out at about the same speed it's coming in so it doesn't really matter to me what the current price is. If the price goes up, more miners join and I get numerically less crypto but about the same value, and it goes the other direction if the price goes down.
There are a few vendors built on top of multiple cloud vendors however they themselves become the lock in, zeit or Joyent are good examples of this.
Tulip Mania lasted a few months during 1636/1637:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

Yet this episode continues to be trotted out whenever the Bitcoin exchange rate does something... unusual. It's been happening for eight years now.

Time to move on and either develop a new analogy, or finally decide that Bitcoin is unlike anything that's come before it.
>He held the same lectures that he gave for the last 20 years, so I guess he got some insane amount of gradient descent going on over time

I took Calc 2 with a lecturer like this. She had been working there for a few eternities and could probably have taught the wall how to integrate. She had a reputation of being the "easy" professor but after comparing with other students it turned out she actually assigned substantially more work and covered the material faster. Her quality of teaching was just so highly refined that it made the work easier.
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Every time I see Bitcoin compared with Tulip Mania, I'm reminded of this article:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...
I know I often think this way but I think what made it possible for me to pursue "unprofitable" hobbies was the realization that prophet isn't all that great an objective, it's just nice because it's easy to quantify. It doesn't tell you about the relationships you form or the things you learn. If you focus on things like that eventually thinking about prophet will actually make you feel a little sick and you'll pick up totally unprofitable things like learning Egyptian hieroglyphs and ukulele.
From my humble experience, performance of such views will be suboptimal. When we started our implementation of AVF (Johnson and Weis), we just decided to believe the authors, that people only "think" that storing all of the history in the same table as current data will make the said tables growing too fast and inefficient, that people just presume and do not try. So we decided to believe and to try, and it worked.

Our implementation is based on GIST with exclusion, and we have it in production for over a year by now. Zero performance problems, lots of gains from the business perspective.

Our code is here:
https://github.com/scalegenius/pg_bitemporal
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OpenShot might not be as polished as commercial tools with millions in budget, but its been quite easy and effective for some recent small editing work I've had to do, and I recommed it. It's quick and relatively simple, except for video encoding settings, but at least it does expose enough options there it should be possible to get the results you need.

I appreciate the developer's work.
I'm more worried about the small state space. Even if there are many possible images, randomly guessing lets in 1/8 of the bots. Is there something to protect against this?
I changed my WSJ billing address to California momentarily to be eligible for online cancellation. Worked like a charm :)
OpenShot uses ffmpeg, so I'm always concerned patents like h.264, h.265, etc. Open-source video editor is very very great, but software patents prevent that popularization.
I know that end-user will unlikely asked responsibility, but editing video means you may be content distributor, not just a end-user...I have a little fear for that. And patent license cost is not cheap.
Am I paranoiac?
> Also, if you're OK with the JVM running at BEAM speeds, you can give it far less memory.

I'm curious about this. How do you do it in practice? Doesn't it just crash with OutOfMemory errors when it runs out of memory?
It's complicated in the United states, federal law (FCRA and employment law) and state law are both involved.

Since this teenager is in New York, this arrest record (which will not be publicly available forever, and could be sealed immediately by court order) should not be a factor in their future interviewing in that state.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/new-york-law-employe...

Employers may not ask about or consider arrests or charges that did not result in conviction, unless they are currently pending, when making hiring decisions. They also may not ask about or consider records that have been sealed or youthful offender adjudications.
One of the successors is a Korean company which sells the chalk under the Hagoromo brand.
As opposed to monkeys as a service? All service businesses up until recently (and still most today) are literally selling the time of a human being to do something.

You want a toilet fixed, you call a plumbing service, which is a human as a service. Why is this creepier than the old-school scribes that would write what someone dictates?
My experience with serverless (mostly AWS Lambda) is that I've found 3 major use cases where it's been a very successful choice:

1. as a cron-style job (e.g. download a file every hour and put it in S3, or connect to a DB and do some smaller processing task)
2. as a responder to (or processor of) cloud-based events (e.g. receiving from a stream, reacting to an instance shutdown notification or an alarm)
3. as a backend for a small REST API (especially for heavily cacheable APIs)

For all 3 cases, assuming the task isn't hugely inappropriate and you've got a bit of infrastructure-as-code lying around which can be repurposed, serverless has lead to a massive time saving for me for several tasks, for very little money and with basically no maintenance effort required.

There's definitely a tendency towards smaller tasks, though. Ultimately serverless necessarily means giving up control of your infrastructure and removing a lot of customization or specialization options; that means that at a certain scale or level of complexity, it just isn't an appropriate choice either for cost or performance reasons - but that's fine, it doesn't have to solve all problems. It has its niche, and it's quite easy to go from a quick Lambda to a container-based or VM-based alternative.
From my wife experience they work well assuming you have access to clean water and a proper environment. She wouldn't wear it in camping for example.
Its what they voted for.
The multiple thefts are linked together via facial recognition in the Apple Stores and tied back to the stolen ID.

If, it was just a single theft and the stolen ID was used on that occasion, then I would agree facial recognition would not be relevant.
I think this drives the point of the OP: some of us obsess over the optimal solution and it dries up our happiness.
Yes indeed, but I am not actually “wrong”. Cute cartoon though!
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What kind of savage country gives a 16 year old "a long stretch of hard time" ?
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Looks like you left out the link
I would highly encourage everyone to watch Kent Beck's 2015 RubyConf talk (which has nothing to do with Ruby):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aApmOZwdPqA

In the talk, he discusses a few things, but one thing he discusses in the importance in doing things periodically for which we are beginners. If you are getting paid to do something, you're probably not a beginner. One way to practice not making money is take up a hobby in which you are a beginner. I don't mean like: I'm a programmer by day, and I YouTube about programming by night (that's still about programming). Find something completely unrelated to what you're doing.
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> Just give me Clojure running on BEAM and I'll take it over anything in this world.

Isn't it more or less what Elixir is?
This is an interesting point. The attacks probably did have a significant financial cost to the banks and their customers, but harm is not the only factor that goes into sentencing. Judges often recognise that young people are less deserving of punishment due to their natural inexperience and weaker ability to foresee consequences. To be rehabilitated, they may only need to grow up, and a severe punishment is unnecessary.

Also the nature of intent and forethought are important, but are interpreted differently. Some jurisdictions tend to punish an easy crime like a DDoS less, because less planning and premeditation suggests a less guilty mind could commit the crime. Other jurisdictions punish more, because they want a greater deterrent.
He obviously wasn't wealthy^H^H^H^H^H^H^H remorseful enough:

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-felicity-huffman-c...

IDK, maybe incitement to DDOS is worse than bribery, fraud, tax evasion and money laundering? (not to mention robbing hard working students from their well earned college spots).
> ...how we store, retrieve and transmit data is vastly more important.

Agreed. Data storage and transmission formats have the potential to dramatically outlast the modules where they originate. This is in large part because these things represent commitments to others, where the internal design (or implementation language) of a specific module really doesn't. So, these days I tend to be much more interested in the design at the interface level than anywhere else.

This works both for and against languages like Clojure. It works for it, to the extent that fewer people have to care what you use when you're building the innards of something. Against it to the extent that it can put a potentially relatively low bound on the gain that can be realized through the use of better (?) tooling like Clojure.

(There's also something to be said for the fact that languages like Clojure tend to snowball in my experience better than other languages. A single program written in Clojure is nice, but it's in the ecosystem/network effects where it really pays off... and that takes a lot of time to see. More than most people take.)
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Same as the Olympics in the amateur only days.
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> The point is that even a small 1-2% of all transactions would still be a huge amount.

The real point is that there's no reason to think that this is achievable.
Assets being priced proportionally to their currently-generated use-value isn’t how efficient markets work even in principle. If that were so, you could make predictable profits just by buying anything whose current adoption was currently on a predictable upward trend. An asset’s present price is first and foremost an estimate of its future price. As Andrew Critch put it, the reason the stock market is hard to predict is that it’s a prediction.
I think it's the other way around: Clojure gained more exposure than past Lisps because it runs on the JVM.

But it's still definitely niche and hardly used anywhere.
It’s an awesome Visual development tool!
I think Linux much faster and better than the window operating systems
I got it too. there was a time when I was happier, having lots of sex ( like light aerobic exercise ) , and just naturally eating less.

my theory is that it starts with the mind. happy mind, light exercise, naturally eat less, and I lost weight.
Ok, I take it back. This situation is vastly different. Thanks for taking the time to write this comment.
To me, that does not seem to describe anything specific to "serverless"?

You've always been free to serve your static assets in any way you like, so I'm unclear as to how the way the backend is architected comes into play here.
DVI is indeed my approach to get around the issue. Like you mentioned, the downside is losing those nice extras, like audio.
Isn't Elixir more like Ruby on BEAM?
> If you are a software entrepreneur, raising money by selling digital assets (“tokens”) is a legitimate option

Is it?

I would say that's not really been shown yet. The vast majority of ICOs have absolutely nothing to show for it, many may well face SEC and other body legal proceedings in the coming years, and the bottom seems to have dropped out of the market.

> Cosmos launched their mainnet yesterday, and now has a market cap over $1 billion

This means nothing.
Absence? There's absolutely syntax in Clojure.

1) Lexemes have a specific structure.

2) Core data types have a specific syntax (representable with a grammar).

3) The data types used to represent programming constructs also have a specific set of syntactic rules by which they are assembled.

It's a different kind of syntax than the usual - more raw/direct, perhaps - but it's a misconception to say there is an absence of syntax. A big part of the reason I mention this is that the nature of Lisp's syntax is one of its biggest strengths.
This and some of your other comments are some of the most ridiculous ones I've read out there. If somebody posted such a general blanket comment driven by ideology against the American gov without backing it up with any actual evidence or facts, they'd be butchered here. Get a grip.
> I don't see why that should be the case.

At the most basic level, if project A makes use of library B and library C, then you want to be able to verify the behaviour of library B and library C independently and then make use of your conclusions when analysing project A. But if library B and library C use global state then you can't have any confidence that that will work. E.g. if both library B and library C use some other library D that has some global construct, then they will likely interfere with each other.

> Another possibility would be to have subproject-wide global state, and passing a pointer only to library API calls. The latter is also the most realistic case since most libraries take pointer handles.

At that point you're not using global state in the library, which was the point.

> you can always opt for process- or thread-wide global state

That doesn't solve the problem at all.

> Also called "singleton" in OOP circles. Singletons are nothing but global data with nondeterminstic initialization order and superfluous syntax crap on top.

Indeed, and they're seen as bad practice for the same reason as global state in general.
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It is not. The people of the United States give not only the most money to charity in the world per capita, but also score very highly on World Giving Index (we are #2), which accounts for time spent helping others and working for charitable organizations. We are a very charity oriented country.
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Not surprising. Many European nations and their citizens are extremely jealous of the success of US companies (how many big, famous and innovative brands from the past 3 decades have come out of Europe? Let's name a few. [crickets] Exactly)

Don't worry though, their excellent PR and damage control team will be out shortly to commence the circlejerk on how much the EU actually cares about privacy and that everybody is for privacy there, while US=Spying evil no privacy land forever.
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> Many may disagree about Oracle vs Android but I think it is devaluing the work of people like James Gosling _and_ SmartCar if you say there is not intellectual value in the code/API headers.

It is not the same simply because Java is an open-source project. SmartCar, on the other hand, is not. I would argue that, because of the nature of open-source, Google should have been able to do as they pleased to facilitate allowing java code on their OS. I know that many would disagree. But to say that there is not intellectual value in the code/API of Java would be disingenuous, and ultimately incorrect; I can say with certainty that I would never say that, so thank you for putting words in my mouth.
They may connect potential medication (stimulants, my bad) with the ability to drive.

Needless to say that this connection (if you even are prescribed such meds) is complete and utter bullshit.

It also doesn't help to de-stigmatize mental illness in society.

Thanks for sharing.
Wasnt a military site. It was a civilian service's site, not a public site like travelocity, but one biult for use by government agencies.
Clojure -> DBMS, Super Foxpro

STM -> Transaction，MVCC

Persistent Collections -> db, table, col

hash-map -> indexed data

Watch -> trigger, log

Spec -> constraint

Core API -> SQL, Built-in function

function -> Stored Procedure

Meta Data -> System Table

In the latest spec2, spec is more like RMDB. see: https://github.com/clojure/spec-alpha2/wiki/Schema-and-selec...

The main development goal of clojure is to write the database. The development idea is actually from the database, not the FP.

With reference to the database, as long as I use spec to strictly define (standardization) the core data model, I can ensure the correctness of the system.

I've turned the traditional work of ensuring code correctness from in-code type system validation to data self-validation. Turn the work into verifying the core data model instead of validating the input and output data types of the function.

Similar to industry, verify that all finished products meet the standards before entering the warehouse. Also similar to databases, verify their compliance before data enters the database.

That is "Data as a service, Warehouse as the core, operates around it".

A system requires only a few core data models, and development is built around the core data model.

Persistent data structures ensure that the modification of the immutable big data model are high performance and memory efficient.

In addition, using my pure function pipeline data stream (https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow) makes debugging, parallelism and extension very simple.

from:
https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow...
I'm a member of two 'old-school' forums (both built with xenoforo, though), both I've joined 1 and 2 years ago. Both are niche communities and you can find there long-form discussion relevant to the interest of the forums (and then some shitposting, because internet). So old school are still alive, but I can't say how they are evolving.

There's also that story on the front page (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19717717), again about a niche forum (astronomy).
I used to dismiss this view, because it seems so impropable that an arbitrary digital asset would be able to fill a role like gold. But it does seem to be happening, and I am coming around to the idea. What is gold after all but a commonly agreed upon medium of value transfer, suitable because of scarcity and divisability, but other than that rather arbitrary too. If enough people decide that bitcoin is a good medium, then so it will be, and that momentum itself will keep it that way. And bitcoin does have a lot of attributes that make it suitable.

There is a lot of money looking for a place to go and be safe (from loss and inflation). There are very few 'pure' ways to simply store that value, even gold is difficult to invest in, at least if you want actual ownership and not merely a promissory note. Bitcoin (or another cryptocurrency) could be one of these ways.
Bro, you are going into the "rich people problems" compilation.
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Any system lower that SAE Level 5 is allowed to ask for human assistance at any moment. It can literally just start buzzing and ask the driver to take over for that left hand turn. That's the sucky part of the UX, so why would the marketers showcase it? I bet that wasn't even on the table when they wrote the script for that video.

The delay before the car's human needs to take over is one of the things making the difference between level 3 (human has to have "eyes on the road" and be able to take over in less than a few seconds) and level 4 (the car can put itself into a safe situation if takeover is not coming quickly). I really thing level 3 is insanity because of this short delay. I wish Tesla all the luck in getting to level 4.

That being said, Waymo has shown that their cars can do 4 way left hand turns.

Level 5 doesn't need human assistance in any part of its driving envelope, so manufacturers can omit the driving controls.
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They started texting me that I had notifications. I'm pretty sure I provided my phone for 2FA, or they just scraped it off my phone when I had the app installed (mistake). This was also shortly after they had one day shown me some kind of dashboard where I could see the various engagements with content I posted. It just stunk of sadness and desperation. I closed my account after that.
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At least a decade ago since I checked but back then, “standard terms” clauses were not copyrightable, the theory being there’s an optimal way to express a legal idea and you can’t be barred from saying it that way. And a collection of such terms is basically a sampled remix.

Quoting:

“[Because] the vast majority of contracts prepared by law firms are either outright copies that aren’t entitled to copyright protection or are contracts that derive copyright protection from their status as compilations, a law firm would likely have a hard time demonstrating breach of copyright.”

And:

”It is standard practice for corporate lawyers to copy—from deal binders, the SEC’s EDGAR database, and elsewhere—and revise contracts drafted by others.... It’s a safe assumption that the vast majority of contracts are either outright copies that aren’t entitled to copyright protection or contracts that derive copyright protection from their status as compilations. Because any compilation contract would resemble countless other contracts, a law firm would likely have a hard time demonstrating breach of copyright of its compilation contract. And even if were able to do so, its damages would likely be nominal, because compiling such contracts is a relatively quick scissor-and-paste exercise. So you should feel free to copy a run-of-the- mill compilation contract, not because doing so constitutes fair use, but because the likelihood of someone knowing of that copying and having any interest in preventing it are exceedingly remote.”

https://www.adamsdrafting.com/downloads/Copyright-NYLJ-8.23....
Substantively, to me, it seems more similar to Clojure than Ruby, though it has a superficial syntactic resemblance to Ruby.