skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get rid of this idea that satellite internet is somehow more resistant to censorship or control than wired internet, it’s totally false. In censorship-minded countries, this service will be completely illegal, and it will be enforced on both the client-side (the necessary tech to communicate with the sats will be impossible to acquire legally) and server-side (SpaceX will be forbidden from doing business in the country, and banks and payment processors will be forbidden from having anything to do with them).
In support of your point: https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2017/04/Happiness-across-...
Note that these are going into a low orbit that requires regular boosting, otherwise they’ll fall back into the atmosphere within a couple of years at most. There’s no long term space junk threat.
This should be the case for all paywall sites imo.
You can look up the original, circa 1992, definition of "fake news" over VNR/ADR (video/audio news releases), effectively commercial propaganda:

Barbara Lippert, "General Foods Maxwell House Coffee: For Maxwell House, Ellerbee Doesn't Quite Perk", Adweek, May 22, 1989.

Ed Buxton, "Ad Simulations Require Honesty to Reach Audiences", Ad Day, August 22, 1989

Darren Bosik, "TV Guide attack on VNRs is cheap shot, say video pros", O'Dwyer's PR Services Report, April, 1992.

PRSC developing set of standards codes for VNRs, O'Dwyer's PR Services Report, June 1992, page 46.

Darren Bosik, "Success of 'rotten' VNR told at seminar", O'Dwyer's PR Services Report, August, 1992.

"TV Guide calls VNRs 'fake news,' again", O'Dwyer's PR Services Report, April 1993, page 10.

Darren Bosik, "Video producers debate need for VNR ethics code", O'Dwyer's PR Services Report, April 1993, page 1.

Greg Hazley, "Ethics questioned, VNR pros sound off", O'Dwyer's PR Services Report, April 2004, page 1.

"Fake news is bad news for PR biz", Advertising Age, January 17, 2005, page 16.

Jim Cameron, "PR & Media: The Perfect Ethical Storm" O'Dwyers PR Daily, June 2, 2005. (Sub req'd).

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fake_news

Or 1950s quiz show and payola scandals:

The American quiz show scandals of the 1950s were a series of revelations that contestants of several popular television quiz shows were secretly given assistance by the show's producers to arrange the outcome of an ostensibly fair competition. The quiz show scandals were driven by a variety of reasons. Some of those reasons included the drive for financial gain, the willingness of contestants to "play along" with the assistance, and the lack of then-current regulations prohibiting the rigging of game shows.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950s_quiz_show_scandals

Prosecution for payola in the 1950s was in part a reaction of the traditional music establishment against newcomers.[5] Hit radio was a threat to the wages of song-pluggers.[4] Radio hits also threatened old revenue streams; for example, by the middle of the 1940s, three-quarters of the records produced in the USA went into jukeboxes.[5] Still, in the 1950s, independent record companies or music publishers frequently used payola to promote rock and roll on American radio; it promoted cultural diversity and disc jockeys were less inclined to indulge their own personal and racial biases.[6]

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

Or yellow journalism

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

The trend arises from time to time, throughout history.

It's countered by notions of journalistic professionalism, e.g., Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_(book)
Tether has maintained $1, tether redemptions are smooth, bitfinex premium over market has returned to ~0% and was even at a discount during the push up through $7200. There are serious problems ahead for Bitfinex legally, but bitfinex is not leading the price action and is certainly not driving up prices.

Source: Work in the space every day at an algo/automated prop trading and market making firm.
You're correct, but that is all fixed cost. The marginal cost of an e-book is essentially zero. In the short run, a publisher can keep selling an e-book at almost any price.
This has been free for quite a while already. I've been referencing this online edition since at least 2014.
Just to make sure I understand, is this the hypothesis?

- People want to exit their position in USDT.

- It is easier/faster for them to exit to Bitcoin than to USD (because of their banking situation or KYC issues.)

- This increases the demand for Bitcoin and drives the price up.
The bigger organizations have made ties with the law enforcement on an individual cop bribing level, and sometimes even collaborating with higher-ups of the law enforcement organizations. Police ordering customs to let a particular shipment through, et cetera.

Lots of money gives you influence to reduce the risks.
MicroKanren: A Minimal Functional Core for Relational Programming (2013) [pdf]
Also since this came up out-of-band (ugh) and apparently is not the norm for US conferences: Build Stuff pays full travel expenses for all speakers, whether they come from Kaunas or San Francisco.
That's a pretty dumb article. For example:

>Glow was even worse. The first onboarding screen asks users to choose their “journey” and provides three choices: avoiding pregnancy, trying to conceive, and fertility treatments.

If you go to https://glowing.com/ you can see their tag line is "Modern care for your fertility". So a good chunk of the article is nothing more than complaining that Glow isn't what they want it to be.
It doesn’t sound strictly like a counter-point? More like we agree. As you say they weeded out those who had the capability from those who didn’t. Which in my experience is what bootcamps do, very expensively.

Watching someone go through one of the more “legit” bootcamps: they first filter for candidates that can largely grok it and self teach by putting through a few hours of basic tutorial and quizzes. But a fair amount of ground is covered quickly in this which when you look at the people going through it (in chat rooms etc) means it’s very much a lot of googling and self teaching to understand what they’re saying in the videos. So after this point you selected people who can get basic programming and teach themselves. And the rest don’t go into the course and so don’t pollute their success rate statistics.
Any ideas on how we (HN) could help these people that dealt with Mined Minds?

Perhaps some free remote tutoring?

Some interview coaching?

Resume review?

A whole lot of bagging on coding boot camps, the founders of Mined Minds & people looking for an easier life. I’m game to help myself!

If anyone knows those folks & they want some help - I’m happy to connect & spend time doing any of the above!
Instead of burning the plastic, wouldn't it make more sense to use techniques like pyrolysis and eventually return the plastics to non-polymer hydrocarbons, to make whatever new plastic from it?
I've no idea why coding should be anymore special than basic reading/writing skills.

Code is a way to express solution to the problem which a computer can execute.

If you can learn any language, you can learn coding too.

Sure, not everyone can understand intricacies of the algorithm design and data structure gotchas but some of that can come as experience and curiousity.

Question worth asking is that, does everyone need this special knowledge? And the answer is even many today working in the field know lot less than you would like them to know.

Many websites have vunerabilities which can easily be solved by following some good practise. But still they are getting paid for that kind of work, which means there is a market for less knowledgeable developers who get the stuff done what's assigned to them even if they do not know how memory and processor works on the basic level.

Today, it's lot easier to code with stackoverflow and GitHub at your disposal than ever.
> Of the three Rs drilled into our heads in school—reduce, reuse, recycle—recycling is the only one that most of us regularly practise.

This is the most salient point of these discussions, I think. I've found it much easier to reduce and sometimes to reuse. For one, it's just not hard for me to tell myself that 'I don't need that' -- whatever 'that' happens to be at the moment. For another, replacing plastic bottles with reusable containers involves some effort initially, but once you figure it out, it's actually easy.

I lived in Seattle when the recycling nazis first started up their garbage patrols. What a waste of effort. Spend the energy on providing accessible and clean drinking fountains or spigots, or spend some influencer money on making reusing stuff cool. Yes, I understand that many consumer products are made in such a way as to shorten their useful life, and there's a lot of economic reasons behind that. So spend some effort on changing that and it will still be more beneficial than fining people for putting their trash in the wrong bin.
uBlock Origin seems to get around them for me.

You might also try https://outline.com/ though that doesn't always work on paywalls.
HN's policy on this is really clear -

> please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic
If your mother has an iphone you can just grab the photo from her icloud.com. Much simpler than messing with cables.

And no, lock-in is not what drives design at apple.
Because if you define "to code" as knowing the correct syntax for a given language, just about anyone can "learn to code." That does not mean they can write a program that solves a problem. That's a different skill set. It requires you to think and not simply look at a quick-reference card.
So it is again a long term gamble to maybe make one day a load of money. So again one of Elon Musks enterprises is promising a long term success story.

Before they get there they have how many satellites to build and launch? Before space link is profitable and cash positive all that cost has to off set by profit and positive cash flow. Looking at it from that perspective, the idea that this is some kind of fund raising exercise isn't to far fetched. Personally I doubt that SpaceX is cash positive and profitable as their funding rounds just match too nicely their losses if you assume that real SpaceX launch costs are somewhere near the commercial costs of their competition.

Honestly, I almost expected something like that after their capsule blew up.

The saddest element of both SpaceX and Tesla is that all the successes and cool stuff these companies do just gets drowned in all the Musk hype and BS. An I seriously doubt that it does any good.
Indian languages are heavily influenced by Samskrutam and have borrowed words from the language. So the word vitanDa in Kannada is borrowed from Samskrut language.
Audience are searching; the question is, do you know what for?
There were several articles over the past years citing individuals in South Korea seeing bitcoin as an opportunity for a middle class life and in Eastern Europe with the same end goals.
some recent updates:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/10/business/south-korea-bitc...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/business/georgia-bitcoin-...
I think some of their articles are behind a paywall and others aren't.
Meanwhile Tether traded 10x its total market cap.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
I live in Kazakhstan with crazy inflation and I just store my savings in US dollars. Works fine for me.
yup, and since Sen. Manchin took credit for bringing them in and giving them tons of public money, doubtful he'll be up for that crusade
USDC is a stablecoin backed one-for-one with US dollars, audited by Grant Thornton and operated by Circle and Coinbase, which are regulated and above-board legal cryptocurrency exchanges. As of this writing, $327 million has been converted into it, and any amount of money can be transferred globally within seconds. Over 250,000 transactions have occurred since September 2018 when it launched. This is a legitimate use-case that has been enabled by Ethereum. Wiring money or using ACH is more expensive, slower, and more cumbersome than USDC.

https://www.circle.com/en/usdc

https://etherscan.io/token/0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb0c...
Looks like everyone dislikes the fact that Linux is only popular on an `non-free' Operating System;

But I consider that also as a success to Linux... as that means that people who feel like home at Windows can also develop Linux Software, and that's the big deal.

It's something like Emacs for Windows and Emacs for macOS, allowing gcc running on other (non-free) platforms, because they show other people how free software `tastes'.

Additionally, this makes Microsoft directly benefit from the Linux kernel and the software ecosystem; which will motivate Microsoft to invest resources on Linux.
But quite some operating cost!
The best Pixar movie IMHO.
"Most discussions around data defensibility actually boil down to scale effects, a dynamic that fits a looser definition of network effects in which there is no direct interaction between nodes."

Good distinction between scale vs network effects, not every company with scale has a network effect...
Why do you grab your bag when running off a burning plane?
Yes, I tell people thinking about a boot camp to first try really damn hard to teach themselves first, then if they still want to, to just use something like Lambda School as interview preparation and to “credential” yourself.
On the Looming Bitcoin Bubble
I know people with 4 year CS degrees from reputable schools who picked tech jobs for the same reason. I think wanting a job that allows you the means and time to enjoy other parts of life is perfectly valid. Being incompetent at said job is where the problems come from.
This is called balance billing and many states have banned it.
In America anyways, coding "could" become a proficiency in the same way that business analysis "could" theoretically become a proficiency, but that is so thoroughly at odds with the American education system that I don't think it would happen unless there was a fundamental structural reformation of the entire system from the top down -- culturally, legally and probably generationally.

As someone else in the thread said "
Anyone can learn to cook. This shouldn't be equated to everyone being equipped to become a chef de cuisine." The fact that anyone can learn to cook only magnifies the detectable skill differential between a professional and an amateur, and I see no reason to see anything but the same pattern emerge with software construction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_escape
> If there was some massive sell pressure it would go under parity fast.

This isn’t necessarily true. Tether could use their reserves to buy up the demand and keep the price stable, all the way up until they run out of reserves (I think it’s uncontroversial that they are not 1:1 backed by USD now, right?)
It is rare that I read a HN comment that just get it completely, outright wrong.

After the Tether news came out. USDT/USD dropped to around 0.97 which is around a 3% discount. The Bitcoin price on Bitfinex had an additional 4% premium, which is what the market has priced the exchange risk to be. [1]

If people wanted to get out of Bitfinex, they had ample time to buy BTC and get out. They can also withdraw USDT to binance, and exchange for BTC on another USDT exchange, such as Binance. In fact, the price had been relatively flat for 5 days after Tether news. If you thought Tether or Bitfinex was insolvent, I doubt very much you'd wait 5 days to make your move. So in fact, this did not cause a run up.

There is no reason why Tether being only 70% backed would cause "a run on Tether exchanges" (what does that sentence even mean?). The truth is, people don't really care if Tether is only 70% backed. Bitfinex makes enough money to cover the shortfall easily. The largest community of Tether holders are not westerners. They are Chinese, they hold USDT to get RMB out of China, they absolutely love Tether. Tether traded at a premium to USD before, during and after the USAG news came out on Chinese OTC exchanges. Bitfinex easily fundraised 1b USD from big Chinese players with the LEO token in about a week.

The market had already decided that the Tether news as a nothingburger. After a slew of bad news "China mining ban", "Tether", "Binance hack", the price continued to run up. When a market discounts bad news like this, it means a fundamental shift occurred, the weak hands who did not believe in the core value of Bitcoin has exited the market and the market is free to move up.

There is a lot of salt about Bitcoin on HN, many missed the run from $10 to $1k, many more missed the run from $200 to $20k, Bitcoin is at a cusp of a run from $3k to ??? and HN will tell you everything to not get on the train.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/MC4obep.png
A patient is accepted, cared for, and cannot pay. The patient has medicare. Would you, as a hospital, refuse any payment; or would you take what you could get (medicare)? A below-market rate is bad, but nothing is worse.
Some or most of that volume is fake. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19465606
I think writing things down as if I were to teach someone is the best way to fortify my memory. The more I write, the easier I can communicate at work.

I also don’t what fellow developers to go through the same struggles when solving a similar problem and fall for the same misleading information they may find online, I feel I should document my frustration and solutions.

Also for self promoting
The AI That's Too Dangerous to Release
It is your managers job to build their team, so the time and money put in to bring you on board is their problem, not yours. Maybe your departure will be a lesson learned for your manager. And maybe they will try to avoid hiring short-timers in the future. So you helped them learn a lesson, and contributed for 6 months. And they paid you for your time. That is a fair business transaction.

Also, 5 years from now, if you do go on to Facebook and higher degrees, and other things... you may barely remember the names of the people from this job. Your current situation has a far larger place in your mind than it will in the bigger picture of your career and your life, once you have more experience under your belt.

I had this discussion, frankly, with my manager the last time I left a job. It was a startup, with struggles, but a promising future. It was a good place. But I didn't want to follow them to an office farther from my home. So I told him that while it seemed like leaving would be a big thing, that in reality, 6 months later, it would make no difference to them or me. And that was true - they hired other devs, I got a different job, everyone is doing fine.

In short, you just need to make this decision for yourself.
That line of argument does not hold as RNNs are are just special cases of hidden Markov models. If RNNs are easy to implement it means some hidden Markov models are as well.

In any case by ease of implementation I think you men availability of libraries rather than something fundamental to the approach. Anyway we have strayed from your claim that RNNs are not Markovian. I was struck by the confidence in the claim especially so because it isnt true by a long shot.
SpaceX's last few raises did not perform well with the last two raising $43 million out of $400 million offered (2019) and $250 million out of $750 million offered (2018).
> Wiring money or using ACH is more expensive, slower, and more cumbersome that USDC

Wiring is free and instantaneous for anyone sending moderate sums. Fidelity, for example, does this.
I really don't understand this.

If it was true that there were problems with Tether; there would be a run on the bank.

And there would be a point where people were blocked from getting real USD for Tethers.

But if I buy 100 USD worth of Tether; then can I go to Tether the company (or something) and exchange it to real USD which would be transferred to my USD bank account?

Does it work that way?

If not then how does Tether maintain the price of one USD to one USDT?
Let’s say that I live in Venezuela, getting paid in Bolivars that depreciate so rapidly that I immediately go to the store to buy as much as possible before prices inflate out of reach. How do I use Bitcoin to improve my life? I just don’t see how it helps.
If I didn't work from home, I'd not have a room for an office. Working from home means I need an extra room realistically.
Just a heads up, CoinMarketCap has been deliberately dragging its feet on addressing the issue of blatant wash trading to increase volume reported on some unregulated exchanges (especially some coming out of/focused on asian markets).

There are a number of sites working on more reliable volume metrics, one is here: https://messari.io/onchainfx . (edit: it is the "Real 10" 24 Hour Vol column)

What CMC is doing is disingenuous at best, they have a clear conflict of interest, and they are holding back the industry. We should push for alternative sources of information.
Perhaps since you didn't buy you could have a unique perspective. Imagine you bought at $1 and made $10s of millions of dollars - whether from any value or work actually being done, or whether it was just the effect of a global, decentralized Ponzi-Pyramid-like scheme. Imagine you don't sell all of it because, well, now you're set for life - or in a better position than you were before - so you're happy to promote whatever cryptocurrency you hold, in hopes it goes up further in value. Imagine then instead you bought it anywhere from $5000 to its peak $19,000+ value. Imagine how desperate and how incentivized you may be wanting or working towards increasing the positive perception and therefore demand of whatever cryptocurrency. Now imagine this army of "HODLers" that seems to mostly be tied to ideology and greed over there being any seemingly useful consumer use case that's better than non-cryptocurrency alternatives. Then understand that as this army of HODLers grows, they will influence and lobby or inject themselves further into regulatory bodies (regulatory capture) in order to try to force (even subtly) the rest of society to adopt cryptocurrencies, in order to try to legitimize them - however in reality it's in order to transfer wealth an unnecessary and unreasonable amount from late adopters weighted towards the earliest adopters, so they can realize their "gains" - to exit from the Ponzi-Pyramid scheme.

Edit: The initial downvotes didn't don't convince me that the pro-Bitcoin et al holders aren't part of a Pyramid-Ponzi scheme, however they were certainly expected to happen in this thread.

If you're not familiar with indoctrination - which is belief guided by others with similar bias and blind spots - even Fred Wilson, USV partner - USV who's early investor in Coinbase (etc) acknowledged the problem of ideologies/orthodoxy (yet blind to it himself it seems): https://avc.com/2019/04/orthodoxy/ -- Bitcoin/cryptocurrencies is religion with members tied together with a financial incentive.
Incognito, archive.is, and outline.com will provide WashPo.
wouldnt making gold mining more efficient just mean that you would mine more of it eventually taking the same amount of overall energy use?
Define successful.
The difference is that Bitcoin is far more energy intensive than real mining.
This isn't meant to replace fibre (except maybe for some high speed intercontinental trading purposes). This is high speed Internet for people in rural areas, where they'll pay for the bandwidth and latency improvements.

This isn't going to let them jump past national regulatory agencies. It will help them avoid local regulations and right-of-way issues that helped kill Google fiber.

Where did you get the $10 billion number from?
In my opinion a more all-encompassing (if also more obtuse) definition would be: Calculus is the study of completeness.

I rather like this phrasing because basically everything you'll learn in calculus is a consequence of the completeness property of the reals.
Not really, because most of your costs aren’t energy.