skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Walmart and Magazine Luiza were the only 2 large stores that I accepted buying online from (Walmart doesn't sell online anymore in Brazil). I just never brought anything from 3rd party sellers, on any site (except the ones that only sell 3rd party things, that have good reputation management systems).

I have to say, I know of no large store with any passable POS on Brazil. They are all horrible.
Whether or not something is a conspiracy theory has nothing to do with the person or persons advocating it.

And the mainstream press is really bad at careful logical analysis. If anything, their desire for sensationalism can easily outweigh their concerns over looking foolish. For example, back in the '80s there was the Satanic daycare abuse scare, and it was absolutely pushed by mainstream news outlets.

(That's more of a moral panic than a conspiracy theory, but real conspiracy theories tend to be partisan and I'm trying to avoid that.)
The years demonstrate the amount and magnitude of the errors. If a punishment was life in prison, and the person had done two of those, that’s two life sentences. For example, if someone was facing 519 years for the same crimes as above professor, it would indicate the amount of which they have been accused of. A person can commit much more crime than a remaining lifetime worth(75 years realistic max)of imprisonment time. Similar to el chapo being charged more than a sicario, even though the sicario would have most likely done things that if convicted also warrant life in prison.
> By that logic, gold should be worthless.

No, gold is not a currency (anymore). Gold is an asset. Gold is rare. Gold has real world use. Gold can be used for many things. Gold can be purchased with money to be worn or used.

So no, by that logic, gold shouldn't be worthless at all. You're comparing two different things.
A slightly more useful way to think about it might be that early adopters can try out and perfect new ways of living that later might be scaled up.

So if you take that perspective, it's not just what works for you, but what can you come up with that might appeal to others? Can you document what works and what doesn't?
The solution is to get rid of them. They are not necessary.
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Rust and C++ have rather different concepts of moving. A moved-from Rust object is entirely dead, cannot be used, and will not be dropped. A C++ moved-from object is alive as far as the language is concerned, and the destructor will still run. The move operation and the destructor need to cooperate to avoid crashing. This often adds overhead.
Aren't these large numbers just the sum of the maximum jail time for each of the charges? How are multiple charges handled in other countries?
coming from erlang elixir is much nicer than that. exunit is miles ahead of eunit and i feel like that would be enough to convince me to switch.

the with syntax is nice and helps to deal with early exit on errors but still feels a bit awkward compared to imperative control flow.

like you can do something like this in an imperative language:

foo, err = func()
if err != nil {
return nil, Err("bad")
}
bah, err = func2(foo)
if err != nil {
return nil, Err("blah")
}
return bah

whereas in elixir you have to do something like the following in order to avoid the nesting of doom:

with {ok, foo} <- func() |> Error.or({:error, "bad"}),
{ok, bah} <- func2(foo) |> Error.or({:error, "blah"}), do
bah
end

like the with blocks kind of work until you have to transform the errors you receive then you need helper functions. if you are just doing static transforms like above it is not too bad but it starts to get hairy if you want to transform based on the returned error or variables in the function. whereas the imperative style you can inline your error handling logic nicely into the function.

for example what if i want to log something on the error path that includes some contextual information and custom formatting. probably, the easiest way is going to be to use with() and pipe to a custom function that triggers on the error path to do the logging because the code is going to start getting really messy. whereas if i was writing it imperatively i could just inline the logging statement most of the time because it is just a few lines of code.

foo, err = func()
if err != nil {
return nil, Err("bad")
}
bah, err = func2(foo)
if err != nil {
Logger.error("err: " + err + " when processing: " + foo.name)
return nil, Err("blah")
}
return bah

like i feel this is a bit messy but maybe it is actually not that bad:

with {ok, foo} <- func() |> Error.or({:error, "bad"}),
{ok, bah} <- func2(foo) |> Error.or_else(fn err ->
Logger.error("err: " <> err <> " when processing: " <> foo.name)
{:error, "blah"}
end), do
bah
end
Backed by a government means that it's backed by the ability of a government to tax work and production happening in the country.

Every year the US government collects about 25% of all economic activity as taxes payable only in USD. Every person and business in the country must sell on average 25% of their productive output for USD, and you can buy all those things with USD.
They do, gold is rare and useful, supply and demand, that's all.
There is a lot of unexplored wiggle room in the design of borrow checking that might get closer to what you want.

For example, Rust puts &T and &mut T at the forefront, which leads to a slightly alien way of handling aliasing- it's all or nothing. This makes some things feel way harder than they are in C, but helps out the optimizer (every pointer is now restrict/noalias).

A different language could emphasize (the equivalent of) &Cell<T>, which allows shared mutability but restricts certain "shape changing" mutations. Most of those C patterns would feel easy again, with a bit less of Rust's non-safety-essential guarantees.
I believe carbon pricing has two aspects - one is to charge carbon emitters, the other aspect is to use that money to do something that reduces existing CO2 levels. Just charging emitters does not completely solve the problem, so research into the best ways to spend the funds generated by carbon pricing is critical.
6.4 magnitude it is a lot. I hope there are no injured
Are there any live sidechains in production? I thought the team behind them moved on to the Lightning Network.
In the conventional way, you are right.

However, there is a system that is evolving to generate returns for your open lightning network channels. They do generate small amount of returns. [0]

[0] https://medium.com/@timevalueofbtc/the-lightning-network-ref...
My (not "the") utopian ideal is one that actively minimizes suffering of sentient life... aiming for zero socially inflicted suffering (war, famine, coercion, etc) and in harmony with the environment (sustainable environmental exploitation). Working backwards involves details of socioeconomic structures and so on... but that's my ideal in a nutshell.

It is subjective. I said that from the beginning. The value of strong principles is being able to make decisions with intent and confidence.

Unless you consult an RNG for every decision, you still live by a set of principles... emergent, unexplored, uninformed ones, but principles nonetheless. Why do you work? Why do you do that work? Heck, why do you do laundry?
>Do USB-C thumbdrives even exist?

The only hits I find on google are for a few sandisk drives with terrible amazon reviews reporting they're slow and get searing hot in the drive after only a few seconds of use. I'm kind of surprised sandisk would release that, one reviewer even reports theirs smoking after being inserted into a recent MBP. I'm also a bit surprised nobody has produced a working drive yet? Maybe there's so little demand for thumb drives these days it's just not worth the r&d to accomodate the standard with adequate cooling.
Let me translate that for you:

Would x spins on a slot machine make a good investment?

Btw I have 1.x bitcoin in my wallet. Not as an investment though.
To understand if all the OS it is freeze
I was a Wisp user for some time so I know the brand and it was a solid device overall. I looked into the UniFi products and the AP plus a controller is almost 100 euros more expensive than the Linksys device. I will look in the future for Ubiquiti devices but I think I am going to use a standard WiFi device (after all it is a one story flat not too big) and perhaps in the future I will buy a barebones so I can run pfsense with the current wifi device as a dumb AP.
Bitcoin is not a commodity. Commodities have a real word purpose. Gold has inherent value by its uses. That's why you pay a damn fortune to acquire it. What real world use has Bitcoin ? None.
I run OpenWrt on my wrt3200acm. It runs grate, but I use it for routing only. I run 2 TP-Link c7 v2s as dumb APs for both 5 and 2.4 GHZ. The c7s are on OpenWrt to. The WRT3200acm does adblocking, runs BanIP and DNS over HTTPS. Plus some firewall rools and BCP38. I am very happy with OpenWrt and my setup! If you have a router that can run OpenWrt you should giv it a go. We have good forums and a irc channel. Even a twitter to help.
https://twitter.com/openwrth?lang=en
Happy flashing!
How is it better than Jsonnet or Starlark?
"Given a crew that has experienced an AOA sensor failure during MCAS operation in the simulator, I would fly on a 737 MAX as it was delivered. Without concern."

Make sure your pilot is a bodybuilder or something.

"But Lemme said the Ethiopian pilots most likely were unable to carry out that last instruction in the Boeing emergency procedure — because they simply couldn’t physically move that wheel against the heavy forces acting on the tail."

“The forces on the tail could have been too great,” Lemme said. “They couldn’t turn the manual trim wheel.”
Only available to US and Canada users sadly :(
Definitely too many buttons
That sounds like a strange argument. Nobody can pay their taxes in gold, still gold has a value, right? And on the other hand, the value of the USD can fall to practically zero, as it happened to many other currencies before, despite the governments of the respective countries imposing taxes in those currencies.

Bitcoins are, of course, nothing. But it's a nothing that is pretty guaranteed to stay, to be in rigidly limited supply, and that is easily exchangeable. People give it a value that depends on their expectations of other people's willingness to buy them. Would you buy 10 bitcoins from me at $1000 each? I bet you would without hesitation. We're talking of giving a $1k value to something that is useless and completely immaterial, yet you just know it's an excellent deal.
You've accidentally stumbled upon the Bitcoin's true strength in your own answer.

> unless the group governing it decides to 'fix' those flaws, but there's another issue, I don't want you messing with how my money works...

That's exactly the reason why arguably technically superior projects are worth less - they are constantly messing with how their money works.

The community around Bitcoin, it's so called "immune system" is incredibly conservative. All they care about is stability and security. Every new feature is being introduced as an opt-in soft fork. It can take around 3 years of rigorous testing and discussion to go from a BIP to a protocol upgrade. Yes, other projects may be technologically superior, but it doesn't matter because they are funny money and Bitcoin's rigor and resistance to change make it hard money.
Apparently, mountains buffer the waves. SGV is bordered by a San Gabriel mountain range. So, your experience sounds reasonable to me.
Isn't pea protein the base of the Beyond Burgers that are getting so much hype now?
But are the systems all interconnected? Or is there still value in minimizing your biometric footprint spreading across multiple systems?
Mind if I ask what part of Los Gatos you were in? I was near the corner of West Main and Bayview, a few blocks from downtown.

We didn't have much damage, but walking through the neighborhood afterward I counted about 20 houses that slid off their foundations.
This might be a bit of a strange question, but it's interesting to think about and I know antirez will probably read it here, so I want to bring it up:

Could there be some potential privacy or data-leakage concerns with this, since the server is now storing and acting on info about what data has been accessed, by which clients, and even when (to a limited degree)?

For example, say that some kind of sensitive data is stored in redis (e.g. user private messages). By watching for relevant invalidation messages (or if there's any way for clients to read the data in the Invalidation Table directly), it could be possible to learn some info about how that data was accessed.

Without knowing more about the implementation, I don't know if this is even a concern at all, and I haven't come up with a specific method of abusing it even if it is. I think it's probably something to keep in mind though.
Yes, in the US and most of continental Europe, multiple charges are usually first summed, then sentence determination is done by court order and then penal enforcement rules kick in after the verdict (2 years sentenced does not always mean 2 years served). A 1000 years' sentence has a greater non-parole duration than a life with parole; it is likely that he will serve life with no parole.
IANAL, though.
It all depends on the ANSI_WARNINGS switch. Some clients set it, some don't. Thus you have to be explicit or you might have a NoSQL database.

You should also read about arithabort and arithignore.

As I told you, you need to study the database engine you are using. For Mssql too. So you assumed it's always on. The type of mystake some non diligent devs do with MySQL. Gives it an undeserved bad rep. A dba can help you and teach you the nuances. Ask them at your company.

There have been a considerable amount of efforts made to improve innodb. It's plenty fast and properly used, it's well behaved. Just like Mssql.
This is a very blanket statement.

Not all stocks have dividends. Most don't.

Some bonds have negative yields.

Some consider a store of value to be an investment (like, as you mentioned, gold or silver). Unlike gold or silver, though, there's a hard limit to the number of bitcoin that will ever be mined. It's not inconceivable that in the not too distant future we'll mine gold/silver/other precious metals from space, and prices will plummet.

Bitcoin can certainly provide dividends, not necessarily in the traditional sense, via future hard forks. Anyone who has held bitcoin in the last 2 years or so have already received equivalent amount of Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV. Those chains can, in turn, hard fork, and assuming you have held you'd receive equivalent amounts of those forks, and so on.
> Been there done that, and that pain lasted hours... ouch!

What an unusual form of earthquake injury!
"Get a better view with our mobile app"

Yeah, that is annoying, but it doesn't seem entirely relevant.
Bitcoin is rare too, and has supply and demand too, so what?
This strikes me as a somewhat semantic argument. Many stocks don't pay dividends. Flipping houses would also fall outside of your definition of investing. Buying gold has also been a relatively safe "investment" strategy as well, speculation or not.

Every form of investment is, at its core, speculation on some level. If i pour my savings into Apple and they tank, the dividends would pale in comparison to my losses.
People use the terms "invest" and "speculate" interchangeably, or they try to suggest that an "investment" has a lower risk than a "speculation," but your disambiguation is the correct one and it is vital to understand the difference between:

1. Putting money into something that generates a return of some kind, and which may also be sold to someone else, and;

2. Putting money into something where the only return you get is from selling it to someone else for more money.

Both practices can even involve the same kind of entity: If you buy a condominium and live in it, it is an investment. Your use of the property as a home is a return. If you rent it out, it is more obviously an investment.

Whereas, if you buy an empty plot of land and do not use it or rent it out as a parking lot/whatever, you are speculating in real estate.
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20343254
These numbers in headlines are frequently overblown: https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentenc...
> Dialyzer via Dialyxir is imperfect

Imperfect is putting it lightly. I loathe it. Aside from useless errors ("here's what the success typing looks like! Ignore the any()s, and fix it! But I won't tell you what's _wrong_!"), it doesn't run against tests (which bit my ass in production last month due to some return values being ignored, and only actually matched in tests.)

> especially with the error message improvements available via my Erlex library

My interest is piqued. Does it help unfuck Dialyzer error messages?
This comes off as incredibly whiny and an inappropriate way to make any points you might have.
What happened to 5 nines uptime?
The cool thing is that you can order your own dense, self-sustaining forest from https://www.afforestt.com — and it doesn't have to be big (100 square meters), and it doesn't take a hundred years, either.
I wonder that too. Also, how much concrete construction could be replaced with engineered wood construction so that less concrete was manufactured (thus reducing a primary source of CO2 output) and more CO2 could be sequestered in buildings? i.e. can we genetically engineer a tree that grows fast and is well suited for construction uses?
They definitely are not prone to not-invented-here syndrome.
> Except for a small window around the peak

Most people bought during the peak, that's why it was a peak.

As any other pyramidal Scheme the only way to win is to be there first. Later on you are just trying to put other people into the scheme to regain some losses.
And hopefully not soon.
> since they regrow new trees that sequester carbon faster in their early years than mature trees

Is that actually the case? Wouldn't a larger tree's volume mean it consumes a ton more Carbon than a smaller tree, even if the smaller tree is rapidly growing?
upload a different sized one next time, with a new filename
Show HN: How to Create ARIMA Model Forecasting BTCUSD in Python Part 1
So, it is fair to say this is just the full stack (endpoints, databases, etc) being sharded consistently?
They use it to talk endlessly about their coins, that might be an end in itself...
Stocks that don't pay dividends are absolutely speculations.

Flipping houses is absolutely speculating in real estate if you neither occupy them nor rent them out during the time you own them.

Not all forms of investment are speculations at some level. If I own a landscaping business and invest in a truck, I can drive it until it goes to the junkyard. I generate a return that hopefully offsets the depreciation, and I might not get even a dollar for it when I'm done... I may even have to pay to get it towed away.
You're half way there. Investments promise a return to investors by creating value, or that's the goal, at least. Speculation does not create value; commodities, options, and shorting do not create value, they are zero-sum.
Gold has value because it’s useful, among other things. That base level of value is why people started making coins out of it in the first place. It’s properties as a physical metal make it easy to store, transport, and protect, all of which are good properties to have as a currency.
People's money? The majority of bitcoin is held by various "people" but that doesn't make it people's money.
At least in France, this article says that for similar concurrent charges (not sure how similarity is determined), the most important sentence is picked. So, max instead of sum.

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?idArticl...
I always thought that carbon/green certificates taxes go towards environment/renewable energy, but I'm probably too naive...

How to minimize the Tragedy of the commons effect? Where countries don't want to impact their economic growth because other countries won't impose such taxes, therefore some production will move there.
Interesting that the charges include " failed to report income generated by the scheme on his tax returns."
Thesis.

It's a proposed classifier algorithm that is suppose to be better than Random Forest and XGBoost for classifying high dimensional data. The data sets are cancer data (prostate and myeloma). Unfortunately it's not going to be publish because I'd like to graduate sooner and that the software does not meet certain criteria for the journal we were aiming for.

The proposed algorithm uses two technique:

1. My forest consist of GUIDE decision trees by Dr. Loh. It is better than CART and M4.5 and such because it does not have the selection bias problem. CART and M4.5 are bias to selecting categorical predictor for node splitting. They're also bias on variables that enable more splitting so decision trees usually contain more levels. GUIDE is also aim at finding interactions candidate to split if it is statistically significant.

2. CERP by Dr. Moon. It makes the trees within the forest less correlated among each other. Much more so than Random Forest. Accuracy takes a hit as your correlation gets higher (obviously zero is the best). It also enabled ensemble of ensembles (ensemble of forests). Of course some of you may state that you can do ensemble of random forests but it is naive and won't help you.

I should be defending in this month or next month.
In the Loma Prieta earthquake Santa Cruz and Watsonville were badly damaged. But their was very little information getting out. So a lot of the coverage was San Francisco and Oakland. There is an inverse correlation between how bad a disaster is and a reporters ability to get any information.
And a shout-out to Asuswrt-Merlin for ASUS models (https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/ and https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin and https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng), which I have on my ASUS RT-N66U and have been very pleased with. I am actually running a self-compiled image just to ensure it's possible, and I found that process relatively painless
Stocks that don’t pay dividends invest in new capital and directly increase stakeholder equity.

Not entirely, but apple’s price is based on a predicted future cash flow and growth in cash flow and assets.

This is different from bitcoin.
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20342917
Really? Economists see economic solution...
You can run controller in the cloud, or on a Raspberry Pi, or on a VM, or ...
The first mover advantage in this case is the fact that early adopters of crypto bought BTC, because BTC was all there was.

Now that those people already have BTC, they are less likely to purchase a second coin. For one, they already have money invested in the space. Secondly, BTC has shown that it has staying power - outlasting many altcoins which came after it - which further solidifies BTC as the top contender (for now).

So, those already invested in BTC have little impetus to change from BTC to another coin == a first mover advantage.
Houses are tangible assets which can be rented out for a direct rate of return.

Gold is a better analogy though the physical existence and thousands of years of use as a store or value give it a pass compared to anything crypto.
These are arguments made by some, notably Derrick Jensen, and my new favorite, Helga Vierich.[1]

I’d say I agree that human nature will play out differently when fitted into different systems—so much that I started thinking about the artificial component of our nature as separate:

human artifiture (ar-'TI-fi-ture) human nature refitted to and re-emergent from its own artificial systems

[1] https://anthroecologycom.wordpress.com/2017/10/09/human-natu...
Turris Omnia:

https://www.turris.cz/en/omnia/
There's also https://www.ecosia.org/ search that donates ad money generated from searches to tree planting projects. They also provide their monthly finances on their blog.