skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure Tether and 100:1 margin trading has nothing to do with the price spike.
Original Show HN from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8027405
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my little secret to not getting punted on aol was to remove the aolrich.dll which was responsible for parsing all the html the client received. those were great days!
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I think limited spectrum, combined with the desire for it to be a welcoming hobby, is why.
That's a very interesting chart to look at! Thank you.

One thing to look at is the projected rates in 2026. Non-hispanic white males are projected to be at 64.5 percent in the labor participation rate. This is in part due to the aging of the Baby boomers out of the work force. Still, that means that 1 of 3 non-hispanic white males will not be working and I don't see any reason for the trend to change.

Also, the maximum outflows for Social Security are expected to be in ~2030 [0]. The presidential election cycles are 2020, 2024, 2028, and 2032.

Lastly, the projected temperature of the Earth is expected to be ~0.3 degrees C higher in 2030 than it is today. For reference in terms of the possible effects of climate changes on human politics and government, CrashCourse recently did a good episode on the 17th Centrury Crisis where global temperatures fell ~0.5 degrees C [1,2]. TLDW: things were really bad.

[0] https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v75n1/v75n1p1.html

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmKHYpC_jVs

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_General_Crisis
The worst aspect of ecoins is mining, followed closely by scamming and speculation.

I think the ecoin concept by itself is a step forward for the progress of humanity, and without mining, the blockchain needs a lot less resources. How would you fairly distribute ecoins if mining is excised? No idea.
Some iPhone apps provide this for the time slider (I believe via the native media player control, although I could be wrong). It is very nice.
Engineers also tend to identify and describe what's wrong with precision and accuracy in order to identify the proper solutions. The tendency here is to exaggerate or mischaracterize the problems in the US. That often comes along with rose-tinted views of how much better places other than the US are.

None of this is conducive to actually solving the problems the US has. In fact, it's polarizingly counterproductive. I also think it's fair to classify that as a form of anti-US bias.
These are areas like: Data analysis (low-level stuff, like excel, MySQL stuff, etc), Product managements, Project management, etc. Location: bay area. One guy, spent 2-3 years looking for a job before he finally found something in slimy real-estate firm that makes him work day and night and weekends. Some of them are going back for another degree because they couldn't find work and their visa is running out. Another one, just finished a 2 yr contract at facebook and is having trouble finding work (they don't reknew contracts there). Another guy I know, spent 18 months looking for a job before he finally got a contract job at Google.

And yes, these people didn't go to stanford, harverd or any top tier business school.

Many of the executive producers and product managers I knew at gaming companies had to leave the bay area in order to find jobs in that industry, some of them are still unemployed after a couple years. some of them (especially the high level ones) start their own "consulting business" to prevent their linkedIn from looking like they're unemployed. everything looks great from the surface and they don't show up on statistics as unemployed, but things aren't rosy.
You'll note that I did not say it made me awesome, nor did I suggest anyone else should do it. In fact, I even added the "(mis)fortune)" to point out the obvious negative aspect to my statement.

I literally just said those factors got me to where I am today. I did not imply where I am now is better than an alternative.
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Probably. AFAIK GFI measures the current difference live and neutral, so a current between live and ground (as in the third slot) would trip it. Imagine if someone forms a path for current between a "grounded" metal case and live. If there is no third slot then "grounding" means connecting to neutral, so GFI wouldn't trip.
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Yeah, I somewhat intentionally picked it because it's ambiguous whether it's a good thing. I personally as a young(ish) person with a bicycle and a ham license would like both legal e-bikes and legal encryption :)

I share a bike lane with e-bikes fairly frequently and I feel way, way, way safer than I feel when sharing a lane with a truck.
Do you have any supporting examples?
In my experience, the Italian/Chilean Type L has by far the most convenient geometry of these plugs, with a very compact design as well as modern safety features. Main downside is that it is not polarized.

https://www.worldstandards.eu/electricity/plugs-and-sockets/...
I assume you're the same person I've been talking to on Lobsters. Clarification: they're talking about git push over https, which is deliberately unsupported in favor of the more secure SSH push option. git.sr.ht doesn't even have access to your password, so if the server is compromised then the attacker can't dump password hashes.
No way not going to happen. The only way this will happen is if 1) they find a way to make high speed work on the NA railway gauges and 2) you convince the cargo companies to make passenger a priority.

1) seems like an engineering problem and 2) seems like a pipe dream.

Option 3) would be build dedicated high speed lines. Unless you’re a developing nation it sounds way too expensive. Especially a rail system as big as NA (US, Canada and Mexico are connected, maybe others in Central America).
The primary role of subs has been intelligence for as long as subs have existed. One of the first missions subs carried out in WW1 was cutting undersea cables.

Despite all the undue attention placed on the combat U-Boats and their limited success in sinking merchant ships, the history of submarines is primarily the history of getting in good positions to tap cables or radio frequencies or put people in places.

There is very little need for torpedoes or missiles anymore, outside of creating dramatic scenes in the movies.
Few years ago, I made a simple web app using a non-profit's API (I was bored) with no expectations. I haven't touched it in like 3 years, I still have at least a few dozen people using it daily and once in a while, I get a nice thank you message.

If you hang out in forums frequented by enthusiastic supporters of non profits, you can find tons of ideas.
It depends on the group. Some deal with Malware. Most it really is just the draw of the community, the recognition and the fun. I say this from having (formerly) been on the inside.

Not really surprising when you look at how much non-monetary development goes into the open source community.
I deleted FB 4 years back and at that time I had around 1000 'friends' on FB. Needless to say I didn't miss a thing and life has been only better.

But there was one subtle interesting thing I noticed that nobody missed me on FB. Nobody was like, "wait, where did that guy disappear".

The people who mattered were always around me and are still around me.

Only after deleting FB I realized what a cancer FB was. I hear it has become even more cancerous.

The only thing I seriously want to give up is this Whatsapp app, especially because it is now FB product. Otherwise, the way I use Whatsapp, it doesn't pose much problem.
In the US the grid used to guarantee 5184000 per day with only short-term fluctuations (standard WEQ-006, the exact deviation allowed depends on which grid you are talking about). This was used by e.g. cheap clocks in coffee makers, but also by synchronous motors used by telescopes to align the telescope with the stars.

More recently, with our larger power grid, it is more efficient to deviate from 60 Hz. I do not understand the exact reasons, but for some reason the 5184000 cycle/day guarantee turns out to come with some cost when you have a hundred gigawatts of power spread across a thousand miles. There have been two petitions in North America to remove TEC and allow synchronous clocks to accumulate error, I believe this is going forward but not yet implemented.

See the section "Time Error Correction": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_frequency

See the section "Accuracy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_clock
random thought: Can this be why colder countries are doing better than hotter countries, by being forced to stay at home/shelter during winter periods.
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A complicating factor not addressed in that graph is the aging of the U.S. population. I don't have great numbers immediately available, but it looks like over that same period of 10 years the population over 65 has grown from about 40million to 50 million. Those people are still considered in that graph as not participating.
There are several kinds of procrastination, so it's impossible to generalize.

Some projects require very large time commitment to get right, reworking several times, etc. Some others reach a diminishing return stage very quickly and continued effort is wasted. You definitely shouldn't just take whatever you have in front of you and just rush it until it's barely workable.

The critical skill is to be able to judge without anxiety and with some precision how much additional time is going to improve the outcome, and what is the rough global value (to you) of this improvement. Some projects have long ramps of effort and refinement, some are just not worth the time and can arrive at a good enough stage very quickly.

I think the best advice I could come up with is that if you're having this sort of problem, recognize it, try to deal with the anxiety and get a perspective on the risks vs benefits, and improve. If possible find an environment/hobby /side occupation where you have to make a ton of such decisions to get a lot of practice. College/personal projects tend to be pretty sparse and give a lot of room for failure and delaying I guess.

For me it's been a very slow, progressive realization that I'll never get things I wanted done by just leaving them to an arbitrary later date, or obsessing too much over details. In nothing vs something, something wins.
This is one of those cases where you should definitely consult woz on how to build a hobby computer but take light any advice he gives you on how to live your life.
To many people bitcoin (and similar crypto currency) more than adequately demonstrates why the protections provided by governments and etc for financal orgnizations, transactions exist / are needed.

As for blockchain I think we've seen a number of "solutions" to problems that are adequately solved by a database.
Raise wages, you'll get more nurses.
Same with any other product or service.
Nursing is not different and is not resistant to the laws of supply and demand.
Blind already solves the first by mandating you use your company email to register. Of course, that means privacy is paramount, and you'd have to prevent situations where say management floods your system with dummy accounts. But that's at least a starting point.

The second point is definitely important. The problem too with having an anonymized place where users can vent and gossip, is that it can quickly become a toxic dump of FUD, similar to how Blind is now. And the smaller the organization is, the less likely people will want to speak out, for fear their anonymous words will be traced back to them.
Boredom is where I recharge, it’s wonderful and therapeutic. It’s also at that moment where my creativity soars. Engineered engagement is at an all time high and I just need to get away from it all.
Yann LeCun (Chief AI @ FB) puts this article in perspective: https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10156068737942143

TLDR: The use of texture is inherent to the ImageNet dataset and not to deep learning / ConvNet. Training on less-textured versions of ImageNet drives the ConvNet to focus more on shape.
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> The article is basically unreadable, but the fundamental point is probably correct

A lot of the articles on this blog are like that - barely-coherent ramblings. I think the general thesis of the site is that financial markets are driven by narratives, not maths / rational behaviours.

They really need an editor, or someone to tell them to cut the pretentious writing style, weird metaphors, obscure poetry and movie references, and just get to the point.
But the point is, why is libel illegal at all? I can mislead someone in order to get someone to buy something from me, but if I lie about a person it's not okay? Why is reputational damage worse than monetary?

The fact that it's okay to libel a public figure (a fact I didn't know until now!) further underscores how arbitrary it is. At what level of renown are you a "public figure"? How is it measured?

We should be as stringent as possible in legal exceptions to freedom of speech. But there's no moral obligation to protect any given speech from social consequences (such as getting kicked from your web host). No one is actually a free speech absolutist.
Since they're both valid uses, let's just partition/segregate the freq bands and be done with it.
Yes I think it is impossible to completely codify a list. I can always think of exceptions, grey areas, ways to exploit individuals, and ways individuals can create "loop holes."

I think the main problem is the human heart ... but that is a different discussion.
Never underestimate the ability of some President to waste tens of millions of dollars reaching the same conclusion after doing exactly what OP suggested.
I was going to go as far as saying that elixir itself is the ‘killer app’. It doesn’t make you an Erlang developer but it is also arguable that knowing Rails isn’t necessarily sufficient to fully grok Ruby. You’ll still make some headway though.

I’ve interviewed plenty of people who cut their teeth on Rails and fall apart as soon as you present them, say, Sinatra. Or a gem that provides an API client. Once it comes to writing non-Rails code (with all the helpers and the magic), it’s as good as learning a new language that happens to look exactly the same.
You can't really "distribute labor" in the sense you mean, as if people were units you allocate regardless of their own will. At best you can offer incentives to take up caring positions, but there are barriers. Nursing and hospital work is high stress and high skill, while social work is low paid and frustrating. Even basic caring is generally distasteful work, like senior care or group home work with autistic or handicapped children.

People generally aren't going to rush to those kind of careers. Nursing is an exception, but it's a very demanding stressful line of work, where you have to filter out a lot of people to avoid serious, life threatening mistakes.
Personally I like Ripple.

I like permissioned blockchains.

Why is it that blockchains weren't invented sooner? I'll contend that you'd be laughed out of any distributed systems conference if you suggested any protocol where the workload capacity doesn't increase when you add nodes.

If you have ten traders who trade under a buttonwood tree, then having ten copies of the database makes the system bulletproof. If you have ten million traders, there is no additional gain, but there is a huge cost because you have ten million copies of the database.

Blockchains attract people who know nothing about money or technology the same way that pot startups attract stoners. It's just a bad scene.
That's why you don't use circular dragging for a knob, you use vertical/horizontal drags (or a combination of both, JUCE supports those for reference, I forget what it defaults to). I've only seen rotary dragging in a handful of products and it always sucks.

Arrow buttons are pointless when you're trying to dial in a value - which is the whole point of using knobs in audio software. They don't give you adjustable granularity or an easy way to continuously adjust - and if you do give it those functions, you've made a knob without the visual feedback of knob position. Or like you say, put it in the center of a ring of numbers, but again, you've just made a knob!
There is a pretty direct line drawn between speech and violence against out-groups; anyone who says otherwise would do well to read about the Rwandan genocide and their 200 days of public radio broadcasting demonizing the Tutsis prior to the genocide itself.

If you're concerned about the "pretty direct line drawn between speech and violence against out-groups" then you should be paying keen attention to the normalization of political intimidation and violence in the past several years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC4u1zo6OpQ

The fact that the media have been giving groups tacit support, by not or minimally covering their assaults and vandalism, while even giving them positive spin, should raise some concern.

I haven't often seen the position that incitements to violence should also be protected speech

They should not be. "Punch a Nazi" -- despite the vileness of the purported targets -- shouldn't be allowed. "Milkshaking" is incitement to assault. The fact that Twitter allows those to continue shows a groupthink bias at operation there.
I ride Uber daily to commute to work. The article describes pretty well my experience with Uber. It is a bimodal mix of (1) people who want flexible, marginal employment and (2) people who make a living out of it. The people who make a living out of it definitely get the short end of the stick.
>port to other browsers

Except it requires literally no 'porting' at all: it runs fine out of the box without modification https://lol768.com/i/ReveilleAgitationsIncurablesBicyclist

This is just laziness.
Well--no, not in the same way, but it can still be a hint passed along somewhere, to allow the compositor to swap out its root framebuffer for the program's.
One of my old eployers did the same and so I resorted to using one of those convert url to pdf sites to read the such blogs.
Got a fake account for that “benny van gisteren”. Funny to translate in dutch. It is a saying for “i am not a fool”). Did not use it for years now. Most companies have a specific account which can be used. Also not into building that social crap.
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Except it is, from CS point of view.
There is a misunderstanding here. It's not the algorithm that emphasizes textures over shapes, it's the dataset. Texture is a more informative feature than shape in the datasets used.

"AI" can detect shapes just fine; simply use a different dataset and you'll get a different result with the same algorithm. I mean, just look at the classic MNIST: it's all shape, no texture, and neural nets work great.
I'm not disagreeing with you (I've never used this service you linked) ... but what becomes "the town square" has nothing to do with how optimized or tuned it is for that purpose. People are gonna do what people are gonna do, and if you want to be involved with certain people, you gotta go where they are.
And here is a MITRE entry:

https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1220/
Yeah, every Raspberry Pi chip that came after the original was custom designed and created for the sole purpose of being used in Raspberry Pis. They just made some... interesting design decisions.
I thought it was for SEO reasons. They want to add in phrases similar to what a user would search for.
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NanoGUI[1] is another GUI framework which uses NanoVG underneath. Interested to know if the author is familiar with that and what's their take on it.

[1]: https://github.com/wjakob/nanogui
That's hardly even the cost of the exploratory committee, let alone the initial train ride. . .
It is true. US inequality rose around 1980. almost specifically around the time of japan (and Asia) and Europe’s rise from ashes and US losing jobs to globalization. They were a mere fraction of their former self before then. Japan’s gdp spikes around 1985. Same with Germany.
I read that "developers" to mean those people who develop the algorithms also. For example Bernstein et al, who made ed25519 and its implementation.
I’ve seen this too, and yes, it’s nice. I don’t know where in the stack this feature lives.
Well, you can construct a mechanical Turing machine out of wood. I saw it on HN a few weeks ago.

https://siamagazin.com/mechanical-turing-machine-in-wood/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20219442
> you have to drop to Erlang and call :erlang.term_to_binary(), which feels a bit second-class.

Well, to be honest, :erlang module has many functions, many of which have literally nothing in common with each other. That's because that module is imported by default in Erlang - it's like `__builtins__` in Python. Exposing it as `Erlang.term_to_binary/1` module/wrapper wouldn't really fit well with the rest of the Elixir stdlib, which is (commendably) very neatly organized, with each module doing just what its name suggests.

On the other hand, wrapping just `erlang:term_to_binary/1` and `erlang:binary_to_term/1` in a `Serializer` module would be probably ok, but then there are tens of such modules you'd be pressed to implement for `:erlang` alone, and it gets worse with a rather extensive Erlang stdlib and OTP apps.

One of the Elixir selling points was (and probably is) the simplest possible FFI to (and back from) other BEAM languages (like Erlang or LFE). Calling an Erlang function is exactly the same operation as calling Elixir one - literally, the only difference is that, syntactically, most Elixir functions live in CapitalizedModules. That's it - there's no runtime overhead, no difference in handling arities, arguments, guards, exceptions or return values. The feeling of second-classiness is definitely there - the argument order and naming conventions (for args and functions both) differ, and the Erlang/OTP docs (used to - not sure it's still the case) look less than appealing in comparison with Elixir. But, realistically, Erlang's stdlib is a result of 30 years of accretion of tools and it's not small by any means. Wrapping entirety of it would take many years at least and it would consume a lot of developers' time, possibly hindering the development of the language itself. Elixir is still a young language, without a very large following and secure position in the industry - it's dangerous to divide your forces and pursue to many goals at once in a situation like that.

To summarize: in my opinion, the feeling of second-classiness is not a serious enough problem to invest resources in making it go away, at least at this point. While they may look less than pretty, Erlang/OTP docs are very well written and the functionalities tend to be rock solid. The stdlib is... not the prettiest in terms of organization, owing to decades of evolution, but with the FFI as trivial as it is, it's more than usable from Elixir. I think that was the original plan: the stdlib of Elixir was intentionally kept small and very clean, which was supposed to be Elixir's appeal, but it's only possible if reaching for the functionality missing from stdlib is simple. Just a hunch of mine, we'd need to ask Jose to know for sure :)
Syntax is a subjective concern for sure. My experience has been that Erlang takes a little more effort and time to read fluidly, but only when first learning. I think this is because Erlang uses visually subtle tokens for important language distinctions (upper vs lower caps and periods being the primary culprits). Now that I've spent enough time in the ecosystem reading Erlang isn't really a problem, but Elixir's syntax felt like it took less mental effort to read when starting out.

I think Elixir making different token choices for these distinct ideas is the main reason for readability improvements. Especially since Erlang has less different tokens overall which you'd think would help reduce the noise.