skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin is really far from stable though. It can easily become worthless just like any other currency that gets inflated away.
But look! https://twitter.com/khannib/status/1116352595537403905?s=19
Tariffs
Are US tariffs on China a good idea? Do you see these escalating dramatically? How will this impact DT's re-election in 20?
> Source? This doesn’t jive with how popular Medicare is.

One of the great trickeries of using Medicare's "popularity" is that people that have it pay 150$ a month, while the cost is 1000$. If medicare charged its patients what it cost, "popular sentiment" will rapidly change.
Multi-Person Pose Estimation with Enhanced Channel-wise and Spatial Information
In the US is not a free market, which is more important than its typicity.
To adapt a quote from one of my favorite movies: "Not everyone can become a great coder; but a great coder can come from anywhere." That's what (in my opinion) you should take away from "everybody can code."

I think it's obvious that not every single person in the world has the external characteristics to be a great software developer. But those with passion and curiosity will be able to make a great career for themselves.
I encourage anyone with this perspective to read Clayton Christensen’s “The Innovator’s Dilemma”.

The book examines cases where the world is moved by disruptive technology - one property is that they are at first derided and dismissed as too limited / impractical / toys, before eclipsing the capabilities of the legacy technology, e.g. the very limited initial hydraulic construction equipment which came to lose its limitations and replace cable-driven alternatives in the 20th century.
Bitcoin layer 2 solutions (i.e. lightning network) don't have this "per transaction" issue, though
Software charges 1000000000% its costs, maybe it should be made illegal as well.
Agreed. Techgnosis was a very influential read for me and Expanding Mind is still a very unique program.

A bit late probably, but for anyone reading this I highly recommend tracking down Davis’s interview with McKenna conducted shortly before he passed. It was probably one of the first things I heard from either and became interested for life in both.
Also, it apparently was a European partner doing the research, but we won't even know which one. Maybe Lenzing?
Two objections:

1. The 80/20 rule is a rule of thumb that happens to apply in many fields, but you can't take it as a general law and stipulate that "Probably the top 20% [0] of men are involved in the 80% of heterosexual sexual couplings". It's an empirical question.

2. "the same is true of the top 20% of women". No, probably not. The statistics for men and women look quite different (which goes to show that you can't just apply the 80/20 "rule" willy-nilly).
Ask HN: Can we ban BusinessInsider's paid article links for HN community?
Hello There,

I am seeing so many links from BusinessInsider on Hackernews. To read the article we need to pay them. I still don't know what is the point for posting it over here. This is the community to share knowledge without charging any money. Why are we allowing them to post those links in this community? This is not a community to make some money. Please share knowledge without charging any money. Internet should be free and open.
I don't think anyone was suggesting it was 0. It is a many orders of magnitude less per transaction though.
The Marine Conservation Society (MSC) has an excellent Good Fish Guide if you want to find out which fish are overfished:

"Use the Good Fish Guide to find out which fish are the most sustainable (Green rated), and which are the least sustainable (Red rated)."

https://www.mcsuk.org/goodfishguide/search

In the UK, supermarkets display the MSC logo on frozen fish products to indicate the fish is sustainably sourced. They did a recent Good Fish Fingers guide for 2018 (UK only):

https://www.mcsuk.org/responsible-seafood/fish-finger-guide
In fairness, I've never known anyone to describe x86 as anything but... idiosyncratic. Its not terrible, and it goes hand in hand with decades of unbroken backwards compatibility, but it really isn't the most elegant thing.
Australia is one of the only markets where Starbucks' global domination strategy failed horribly due to several factors (I'm not an Aussie so I can't explain the cultural differences). IIRC, in 6-7 years, they opened ~100 locations only to close over 60 of them. Aussies tend to deride the chain and Starbucks themselves have pivoted and tend to mostly cater to tourists so as not to go under completely.
There's some truth to that. There definitely is plenty drudge work that can be done by supervised noivices.

But I think we tend to overestimate how much of our jobs that work entails, and what exactly can be done independently.

A master carpenter can have an apprentice do most of the physical work, but the apprentice is still very much working under the master and relying on them to guide their work.

Good bootcamps can prepare someone to be an apprentice, but we shouldn't pretend 12 weeks is enough to produce a useful employee. And it's not a wholesale replacement for a degree. Good graduates are going to have at least as much practical experience as good bootcamp graduates from internships, hackathons, personal projects, group projects etc... Plus they are going to have significantly more theoretical knowledge.

Even more "professional" jobs like lawyer and capital E Engineer can be learned throughout apprenticeship, so there is value there. But we should stop acting like our profession is just hooking up wires. Other professions aren't nearly as self effacing as we are, it's like we've all internalized the disdain that upper management feels for us because of the power that we hold.
I was thinking about this too, what if there was no insurance? Or what if only the government was allowed to offer insurance?
Petrodollar powers the war machine, so it’s not even close.
> EVs don't appreciably reduce CO2 in the atmosphere, you need clean electricity generation for that.

EVs do emit less CO2 than conventional vehicles, even in US states like West Virginia who power their grids mostly non-renewably: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/02/19/electric-car-well-to-wh...

Zero tailpipe CO2 emissions are just one advantage of EVs. They also emit zero particulates, zero ozone, and negligible engine noise.

EVs get cleaner as grid power gets cleaner. By contrast, tightening emissions standards only affects brand-new conventional vehicles, and these only get dirtier as they age.

This topic has been discussed on HN before; here's an insightful article and thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15106398
In the spirit of this thread...

If a child lives in X, he/they will Y.
If a child lived in X, he/they would Y.
They do however have pretty strict capital controls making it difficult to transfer money out of the country (which is why Bitcoin has historically traded at a premium in South Korea).
For sure, but for most people using APIs to integrate with systems, caching is an unwanted middle way between always fresh and stored persistent, where local storage is the "cache", except it isn't invalidated using HTTP logic.
Discussing Puerto Rico without reference to the established policies of the main political parties is like recommending that poor people who can't get bread should eat cake instead.
You're feeling what you're feeling because you're trying to treat your mental health issues yourself, and your mental health issues are interfering with your attempt at treatment.

Instead of trying to self-treat, you really should go see a mental health professional; that's what they're there for. Your work very likely will cover it; if not, well, this is why you have savings. Once a professional has helped you deal with your unhealthy attitudes towards work and what could very possibly be depression, then you can determine the best way to move forward with your life.
I had a friend from university who tried to smuggle cocaine from Las Vegas to Australia. He was coerced by a guy working at Vice and was introduced to the opportunity through a drug dealer / nightlife mutual connection. I remember he bet me $20 he could beat me at 1v1 basketball. He would participate in pyramid schemes and was a club promoter too. I heard he came from a wealthy or at least upper middle class family in the Middle East.

Initially he was supposed to escort someone else doing the smuggling and get paid, but then the job changed. He said no, so they threatened his safety and his younger sisters safety who was also studying in Canada. He got caught and sentenced to years in jail in Australia.
Agreed. And I see the same counterpoint being trotted out for a case against EV vehicles. "Cobolt mining bad!" but I suppose oil drilling and fracking isn't?
A daughter’s gift to her mother saves two lives
Quick notes on Léon Bottou's work with causality in deep learning (re the MIT Tech Review article "Deep learning could reveal why the world works the way it does"): https://twitter.com/theAlexLavin/status/1126520379927740416
Medium scale. It's not like I need to pimp each of my servers like it's a Honda Civic.

If the load gets too high, I just add another instance.

It's way more economical than wasting developer time fiddling with GC params.
The untrustworthy city slicker stereotype doesn't come from nowhere. Nobody ever engages with these people except to take their money or tell them they're backwards hicks and their way of life is somehow wrong/bad (this being an example of the former).
At the expense of putting people on spectrums where two people with the same diagnose have wildly different symptoms and effective treatments, rendering the diagnosis moot.

This is a crisis in "autism", where Asperger's and autism are different on such an extreme scale, yet the language, medical literature, and treatment plans and funding are muddling it up to the detriment of all involved, creating a culture war between people who say their mild Asperger's is a personality type not a disorder, and caregivers of people who cannot speak or provide basic self-care for themselves -- because DSM dumps them in the same diagnosis and society loses the language to disambiguate the scenarios.
HN is full of non-technical users who jump on the "blockchain not Bitcoin" bandwagon
Won't happen. Unless some WV politician makes a crusade out of it nobody is going to get prosecuted for ripping off poor people.
I don't see your point. Is the article about the US population not dating, or the South Korean population not dating?
I guess people believe what they want to believe, but it should be obvious that if programming is really something you can learn in a few months in your spare time, it’s not going to be a very valuable skill. Either programming requires extensive education and experience to be really proficient (read: employable) in, or it’s going to be a minimum wage “we can throw a rock and replace you this afternoon” call-center job.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6993091-the-dervish-hous...

The Dervish House from Ian McDonald has a plot thread based around that idea.
Well,

Apple has 24% market share of headphones in the US between their own brand and Beats.
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> “Instructors with little tech experience, high rate of firing and stuff turnover, students being told to "google it", operating without licenses, all while the founder has fancy offices in Chicago with rapacious and alcoholic parties.”

Hmmm sounds like pretty much every start-up I’ve ever heard of.
Schizophrenia can run in families. A family we knew was killed in the middle of the night by their step son with a hammer. Apparently, the disease can have a sudden onset. The mother and step father were teachers, and the whole community was affected. The son (teenager at the time) was diagnosed and has been held in a facility now for many years. The biological father has been in and out of institutions and homeless.

Such a terrible disease.
> Jesus, that’s a really bad article, spinning some truths, irrelevant info and memes into hate.

Such a strong statement! I look forward to the rest of your comment wherein you detail these "irrelevant infos and memes" and "hate".

> Most of what’s written applies to all wireless headphones, wired headphones or even other consumer electronics.

So after complaining about "irrelevant info and memes" you're leading with whataboutism? Where's your evidence for your initial statement?

> Also, Apple has a recycling program.

Big whoop. So does Best Buy, Walmart and Target. That doesn't change the fact that wired headphones could last 20 years whereas the ones Apple now pushes could never ever last that long.

> Would it be too much journalism to say why it doesn’t change the situation?

Would it be too much to ask for you to support your initial statements with some actual evidence? Anyway, I thought it was obvious that a recycling program wouldn't change the situation.

> If they managed to recycle most of the AirPods, then I’m mostly happy with the product, and it’s entirely my fault if it ends up on a landfill.

So, it's your fault that Apple sells overpriced crap that sounds bad and and has to be recycled after a year of usage, but they market it really well so that people that are naturally susceptible to such types of marketing are forced to buy it as a status symbol? I don't think so. Seems like a societal/biological issue.

> True, I would wish the headphones to be more repairable, but there’s a big difference between designing a repairable washing machine and repairable wireless headphones. The design constraints are pretty tight I imagine.

Headphone jacks worked great since forever. What ever happened to those? I guess you blame Vice for marketing a worse replacement and engineering it to look like a better option by removing headphone jacks?

> Writing such hateful and poor quality articles is not going to improve anything.

I feel like your analysis is severely lacking here. Frankly, the more people who know about the overpriced, overhyped garbage that Apple sells, the better.
From the FreeBSD man page [0] on readlink:

> if the -f option is specified, the output is canonicalized by following every symlink in every component of the given path recursively. readlink will resolve both absolute and relative paths, and return the absolute pathname corresponding to file. In this case, the argument does not need to be a symbolic link.

[0] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=readlink&sektion=1

Update:

And here’s the OpenBSD man page from 1997 refuting your claim it’s for formatting as well:

https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.2/readlink.1

Update 2:

OpenBSD (1997): http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/readlink/r...

GNU/Linux (2003): https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-02/msg...

So it definitely did exist in at least one *BSD before Linux.
It seems that median confirmation time is holding up rather well, around ~10min - https://www.blockchain.com/en/charts/median-confirmation-tim...
I used to see a doctor who had an angry note in his front office stating he would charge less if he could but his group had negotiated a price with Medicare and it was against the law for him to charge less. In lieu, he took donations to pay for the needy and I strongly suspect laundered his own profits into that pot effectively circumventing Medicare’s insane rules. I suspect this because lots of people used the donations but he would never accept any from me.
Khosla says he doesn't do much more than write checks now because he's been wrong almost every time about which start-ups he should help with. He thinks he's working on the next big thing, but it usually flops and a different company in his portfolio is the fund returner.

Furthrr, "Expert" Hedge fund managers routinely get smoked by the index.

> Seides had already conceded the bet earlier in 2017, due to the huge disparity in performance between his basket of hedge funds and Buffett's S&P 500 index fund. After all, through the end of 2016, the S&P 500 index fund had gained more than 85%, while the average of Seides' five baskets of funds was just 22%. [0]

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fool.com/amp/investing/2018...
I don't get it either. A lot of people also would find coding as very tedious and boring. You have to be cut out for it.
>he dominance of the critical spirit in Einstein, and its total absence in Marx, Freud and Adler

What's ironic about this is not only that Marx and Freud inspired the entire school of critical theory today, but that Marx, Freud and Nietzche are the "big three" when it comes to the culture of suspicion and criticism. I'm not sure how Popper could claim the lack of the critical spirit in Marx when Marx's major thesis was a critique of political economy and capitalism which had not been attempted an nearly such a deep and rigorous level until Marx. Successive Marxists after Marx have been very critical of Marxism too. It makes me wonder whether Popper ever read Marx at all when he thinks like this.

And for all the talk of the lack of critical spirit, it's odd that scientists dogmatically cling to the theory of falsifictaionism, even in Popper's sufficient and necessary criterion.
HN's policy on paywalls is clear: if there's a way to work around them, they are allowed. Given that I can't remember ever seeing a paywall on BusinessInsider, I suspect a strong adblocker suffices as a workaround.
Would you explanation work for example for sprinters (where men are objectively faster)? What does it tell about the quality of the explanation?
Fuck you racist
That almost sounds intentional so you leave sooner. This allows the restaurant to hold more people.
Companies that raised money through ICOs are not so much startups as boiler room scams.

If you want to raise money by selling stock to non-Americans, there are European crowdfunding platforms that let you do exactly that. Real companies with actual products[1] have raised millions on these platforms, whereas every ICO ever is stuck in "plausible deniability R&D mode" where they pretend to be implementing their magic-powered whitepaper but nobody actually uses any of the stuff.

[1] BrewDog, Monzo, Revolut spring to mind as UK examples.
It sounds uncomfortably close to a cynic's view of aid projects in poor countries. The customers aren't the students, but rather the Commission, and they were apparently sufficiently impressed with the TED talks to part with $1.5 million to start this thing. Maybe someone trying to get re-elected got to cut a ribbon on TV too. And I bet this also made a great story for the founders to tell in their law school applications.
There is no “European care”. Every country has its own system and they vary greatly in aspects.
Princeton looks to break up black male money monopoly. See how fucking racist that is?
There's no reason why this would change, as its dependent on the hash rate rather than the transaction rate.

And even if the transaction rate mattered exchange transactions are not the same as chain transactions.
I think people got too hung up on "greatness" and some vague idea of "coding" as a kind of gold-rush job (pardon the pun).

Could the school have instead focused on more boring general job skills with a special focus on using software effectively? I think so. I think it would have been more successful than teaching "the LAMP stack" or whatever it was they did. Not that software development is rocket science, but it's true that it's not for everybody, and neither is accounting, nursing, engineering, teaching or plumbing.
I highly doubt that any company charges that much of a premium for software, you have any sources or examples?
Based on how they framed it, I am not too surprised it is in the NYT.

Headline: Many Hospitals Charge Double or Even Triple What Medicare Would Pay

You have to get about 80% of the way through to read a more accurate version of the truth:
"Medicare payment rates, which reimburse below the cost of care, should not be held as a standard benchmark for hospital prices”
or everybody pays a small amount into a pot, and the sick gets treated with money from that pot?
If you could summon gold from the ground in a more efficient way, would you?

Bitcoin mining is meant to be inefficient - why not try for a better way with similar guarantees?
I've seen this fairly often. I believe it's akin to the Dunning-Kruger effect in that experts begin to over-assess the effectiveness of the theories they hold most deeply to their expert identity the more entrenched they become in that identity.

It's usually easy to spot experts less susceptible to this problem (and more open to change) since they'll almost never consider themselves "experts" and avoid the label. They know how susceptible to change their theories could be or potential for being misguided/wrong. Their deep degree of understanding shows them just how little they truly know.

Furthermore, in our society, you must project confidence to be successful. Many experts are forced to appear confident when they're really not (does not make them less of an expert). If you're an expert and don't come off as exact, non-experts (and some experts even) may falsely assume you're not an expert because they expect you can produce an answer to some question they pose with certainty.

I believe this structure is partly to blame for the problem. Some play this confidence charade and are able to separate out the act of appearing certain, but still understanding the uncertainties they don't share and keeping them held tight.

The others get caught in this feedback loop where appearing confident and being right translates emotionally to being more confident. Their confidence is rewarded so they assume the the perspectives they have confidence in are sound the more it occurs over time. When a case comes a long that breaks that flow, they're still confident, but have positive emotional ties to those beliefs and become a victim of their own successes. Something else must be wrong because I've been rewarded so much for being right about this.

I believe those doing translational/applied sciences and engineering are more susceptible to problem than those on the theoretical side due to the way things are incentivized as a society. On the theoretical side there's a greater acceptance of being wrong (that's becoming less true as research is privatized more). On the applied side, people expect a high degree of confidence and certainty because that's what they pay for and there's little-to-no acceptance for error even though we're all human and make errors daily.

So I think the problem is really due to how society views experts and exerts its expectations upon them.
The “anyone can code” and “just learn to code” phenomena needs to die in a fire. This reminds me of many other scams in our education system, it’s disgusting how much money is being leeched out of people on private “schools”.

This “anyone can code” idea is actually an easy thing to test if we were serious and honest about it. But we are not. And I believe boot camps give a false sense that more people are successful at it than aren’t. It really seems boot camps are in reality is a very expensive filtering system to separate those with some ability to teach themselves coding from those who can’t.
“If you're partying about Bitcoin's price, here's a timely reminder that everything you think you know is a lie”

https://twitter.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1127364374451163136...