skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprised you're saying that. Coinbase Earn has become a very valuable customer acquisition channel for Coinbase, and seems to have already paid for itself. Some references:

- Stellar anounced a 1B XLM deal with Coinbase Earn, worth >$120M, which is more than the reported acquisition price of $100M [1]

- The founders of Zcash, Stellar, Brave, and 0x have all given positive reviews of Earn [2]

- Coinbase Earn appears to be getting a lot of organic positive attention on Reddit [3] and Twitter [4]

- It appears that Coinbase Earn has dramatically improved MakerDao adoption, with a huge surge in new CDPs created [5]

- The COO of Coinbase stated that the company and the board seem to think of Earn as a very valuable acquisition [6]

Emilie Choi: With the Earn acquisition, I think we can
very confidently say and I think the board and the
management team would agree with us 100 percent is that
the Earn acquisition more than paid for itself multifold
in the course of this year. We’re going to continue to see
massive amounts of value from it.

Even if Coinbase Earn had only been used for the Stellar campaign, that in itself was worth more than $100M, as acknowledged by independent reporters [5]:

Frank Chaparro: You guys as part of the stellar airdrop which
was something like one hundred and twenty five million dollars
going, my understanding of the strategy was let’s drop this on
on two different customer sets. One that is super hyper engaged
and one with the folks that maybe haven’t engaged in the
platform for a while, the sort of A-B test like how those sort
of influences can change behavior. I don’t know if that’s
exactly precise but I’d like to know what the strategy was and
how it played out?

And by Stellar itself [6]:

Stellar: As an educational incentive, we’ve committed 1 billion XLM to
Earn, 100% of which will go to users. We’ll start by rolling
out to qualifying users in the US, and we will keep you posted
as we expand this to more areas.

Here are citations.

[1] https://www.stellar.org/blog/stellar-coinbase-earn/

[2] https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1129432654653222913

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/bz0xva/coinbase_e...

[4] https://twitter.com/search?q=%22coinbase%20earn%22&src=typd

[5] https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1155842008071770112

[6] https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2019/05/29/emilie-choi-coinba...
What does psychedelic use have to do with a change in society? I lived in Seattle during the time marijuana was legalized, and did not see anything of the sort.
Well, to be more clear on the #what: These are strains resistant specifically to efavirenz and nevirapine.

Both drugs are members of the same class of anti-retrovirals, NNRTIs, which aren't prescribed together, they are two alternatives of the same type of drug and are used in combination with other drug classes.

None of the people have resistance to anti-retrovirals in general, they have resistance to a particular class which is no longer recommended in the US (as a first treatment) but is still a go-to in Africa. There are multiple other drug classes that can be put together for effective treatment.

In the US, Efavirenz (brand name Sustiva) used to be one of the first-line recommendations, but has been replaced by other drugs with fewer side effects and higher barriers to resistance.

Importantly, no currently recommended starting regimens contain a member of the NNRTI class.

All 4 of the current US recommended regimens now contain an integrase inhibitor (Dolutegravir, Bictegravir, or Raltegravir)

https://aidsinfo.nih.gov/guidelines/brief-html/1/adult-and-a...

The integrase inhibitors have exceptionally few side effects and are also very high barrier to resistance. Dolutegravir which is mentioned at the end of the article is especially good in this regard, to the point that it is the only drug currently used in an only 2 drug (vs 3 drug) combination therapy. The main thing that needs to happen is for these areas to transition off of these particular NNRTIs.
I was a happy Sonic subscriber for a few years until I moved. Regardless of the company you use I’m really pleased to hear it’s NOT Comcast/Xfinity/TWC/etc. I’ve got a chip on my shoulder, and fuck them.
Dynamic and internal resistance probably mean different things, afaict, but essentially the internal resistance of an LED is a function of it's temperature. An exponential function in fact; the internal resistance of an LED is an exponential function with the temperature as the inverse in the exponent.

Your dynamic slope would also be sufficient to get runaway meltdown.

Essentially, imagine it like this;

The LED has a starting temperature of 20°C and no power applied. When the appropriate voltage is applied, the LED heats up to 40°C. The dynamic resistance has a small slope, so as a result the dynamic and internal resistance both decrease. The current increases, the voltage is the same, the power output of the package goes up.

The LED now heats to 45°C. The process repeats but because the internal resistance is exponentially inverse related to temperature, it speeds up. The LED is now 55°C.

It repeats again and the LED reaches 75°C. Resistance drops again at the higher temperature, the current increases more. 115°C. At the next step the LED will reach 195°C, due to the exponential increase and likely the solder points will liquify. If the LED still works it'll hopefully melt itself from the PCB before it catches fire.

This can happen incredibly fast, you can counteract it by running the LED well below maximum spec but then you're one power surge or heat surge away from meltdown.

Similar to burning wood, the LED's meltdown requires a sufficient amount of extra heat to trigger, otherwise the exponential heat output is too small and is dissipated.

This is why you need a current controller or atleast limiter so that the LED cannot pull more current than it's designed for.

0: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/49586062_Internal_R...
Similar logic applies server side too. If your backend is inefficient then you may well be consuming orders of magnitude more power per query. While I take these numbers with more than a pinch of salt, I've seen comparisons that suggest that a backend written in ruby/python/php may be over 10x less efficient than one written in Java/C++
I'm really glad that's becoming a part of public discourse.

Of course, poor performance is an ethical and economical issue. As the latter, we've been largely ignoring it in PC era (as a software guy, you don't pay for the hardware you're wasting so why should you care?) and now it's starting to be a concern with the cloud.
I think your new tram system will be a great improvement on what is there right now (i.e over crowded buses). Maybe I am optimistic because I have witnessed the white elephant that is Newcastle's new 2.1km tram line (that's the next city up the east coast for non-Australians). Newcastle's tram line is a stark reminder that corporate interests can and will rip up heavy rail lines given enough incentives and a sufficiently corrupt state government. By most measures, public transport in Newcastle has gotten worse over the past few years, mostly due to stupid (or maybe just self serving) decisions made by those in charge.
I frequent other message boards in which people share their stories about using drugs. One story I read a while ago was from a "newbie" (novice?) sharing his experience taking LSD. First he got some nice hallucinations but then he took a knife from his kitchen and started carving up his arm. Which, of course, meant he lost lots of blood and had to go to the hospital.

Anyways, the point, for me, wasn't the story itself but how the more experienced drug users reacted. They didn't write "You're lying! LSD is a mellow drug and won't cause you to harm yourself." Nope, nothing of the sort, instead their opinion was that the novice made a "classic rookie mistake" by leaving dangerous items around. One user wrote that before he tripped he always hid all dangerous items as a precaution. What I also read on that message board was that you shouldn't experiment with psychedelia unless you have a stable psyche.

Would a pill with the label "Not to be taken by people with an unstable psyche" or "Possible side effects: Knife carving of muscle tissue by user" pass any regulatory body? I think if such substance came from big pharma most people would be very skeptical.
Just wait for someone dressed as Ghandi to attend. The police really won’t like that comparison.
4nm! Is this for real? I recall there being talk of the “7nm” being mostly marketing / branding.

Is Samsung really looking at 4nm?
I would guess in most cases candidates can't fully be their authentic self or perform at their best during the interview process, so for me I'm not sure I can boil it down to "fit".

Our hope is that we can remove the traditional method so candidates don't need to go through a lengthy process as a whole, and instead get on the job as quickly as possible via one interview!
Ask HN: Funny or Die? Random Docker Container Names
#6 from the top cracked me up. :P

NAMES
pensive_kirch
kind_tesla
brave_hamilton
xenodochial_booth
optimistic_davinci
jovial_cocks
hungry_lederberg
frosty_merkle
sad_merkle
affectionate_ellis
condescending_brahmagupta
recursing_kapitsa
hopeful_morse
youthful_bartik
elegant_burnell
wonderful_shannon
awesome_cori
nervous_varahamihira
quirky_lumiere
pensive_engelbart
competent_jang
kind_gagarin
priceless_torvalds
brave_grothendieck
lucid_nash
condescending_grothendieck
competent_wing
fervent_blackwell
It's Experian monitoring, not Equifax. They are not the same company.
Sonic Fibre is great. I have the gigabit service and I've never worried about the cost because I'd pay $100 for it and it's less than that. Comcast was $89 for 200 megabit.

The only problem is that it disconnected during two CS:GO games leaving my teammates annoyed (mildly) with me.

Also I think it was them who told me about the .org TLD being uncapped and all that and I appreciate that.
Love this analogy. Everyone showcases their skills in different ways, and we definitely want to help more people shine in whatever run they perform best in.
These paradoxes are a lot of fun. In this case, the paradox in essence says that under some circumstances there isn't a limitless amount of work to be done, so if people try to work harder aggregate employment can't rise.

As with the paradox of thrift this exposes the essential madness of modern politics, modern economics and indeed modern humans. Most people would much rather be lounging around comfortably all day than working. It would be better if the economy let people lounge around all day and only work every so often to secure what they need to live comfortably. Employment for the sake of goosing the statistics is profoundly wasteful.
Writing code with performance in mind will get you there without any optimizations whatsoever. It's not about 12% speed up anymore, we're not living in the 70s. It's about not wasting orders of magnitude because of poor design choices.
I'm guessing no relation to the convenience store brand? Was thinking 7-11 had a payment thing. I know some brands want to develop their own payment systems instead of supporting Apple or Android Pay. Walmart has Walmart Pay and then CVS along with other retailers was working with some some payment thing called CurrentC while disabling their NFC terminals. At our local CVS store they now support Apple Pay, so maybe they gave up on that since 2016 - https://9to5mac.com/2016/08/11/cvs-introduces-cvs-pay/

Also interesting my iPhone cable was fraying after slightly over 2 years, so bought a new cable while one of my family members were filling a prescription. I find it so interesting that a drug store seems to sell better cables than Apple. This one is what I believe braided, so far it seems more tougher and stronger.

Edit: Found a article about CurrentC. Looks like it never really took off, but was a way to try to save on processing fees. I don't get why companies get so upset about processing fees since it's a tax write off, I guess since it cuts into margins.

https://www.applicoinc.com/blog/happened-currentc-platform-i...

I wonder with Apple offering their own credit card that gives higher cashback if that might make people want to shop at more merchants that accept it. I think it's kinda cool to pay for stuff using your watch, but maybe I'm a show off being in a small town. The first time using it in real life and the cashier mentioned how she doesn't trust it, which I'm a tech nerd so I understand tech more but I can see how people are afraid. Wouldn't surprise me if it was her first time someone ever used Apple Pay either. I have a relative who said he'd never do online banking because he doesn't want his information on the internet, yet his banking information is accessed by the computers in the branch in their database already. Wouldn't surprise me if the only difference is some fields in the database account table or a separate table for online enabled accounts. OnlineBankingEnabled, username, email, password (hopefully hashed!)
Ah you edited your response? An HMODULE.. That is weak dude. Calling and HMODULE a HANDLE is cheating... by that definition a UINT is a HANDLE since you can cast it.

Can you use HMODULEs orthogonally to common APIs that use Handles? That's what really matters. Just because something is 4 or 8 bytes wide and you call it the same thing isn't interesting. Like can you pass HMODULE to WaitForSingleObject? Oh Ok, I guess that's mean because to be fair, what does "waiting" on a DLL mean.

Ok, well surely you can pass that HMODULE to CloseHandle, at least closing should be orthogonal.. Why don't you try that? I'll wait.

So what point are you trying to make here? It sound like you're just jerking everyone around, tbh.

Edit: Moreover, it's a bit ridiculous to say that an HMODULE is just an address with no kernel state. It uniquely identifies the loaded DLL, so it a key to a tremendous amount of kernel bookkeeping about the loaded module.
> Umm

Signaling of disdain and contempt not required.

> Cooking destroys like 99% of lectins.

Citation required.

> Its always broken down completely first

It's

Ummm

We are talking here about the lining of the digestive system. You know, the system that takes in whole foods and breaks them down. You bet the digestive system's walls are exposed to the proteins.
The real cancer on society are religions. Not only they are totally useless, but they have been obstructing critical thinking and the progress of sciencific development for thousands of years.
To be fair, I did see quite a few people who probably "officially" retired 25 years ago walking around with canes last time I visited an IBM campus. I actually thought it was very cool and really wanted to hear their stories.
Many CC contracts I have signed (not US or EU banks) have explicit section and additional (mandatory) signature specifically for sharing data with credit reporting company.
I doubt IBM lays off its older workers solely to appeal to Millenials.

It's more likely that older workers are laid off because they are more expensive due to higher higher pay, have more paid time off, use more healthcare and are more politically calibrated to their organizations than younger workers.
Windows runs on single socket systems with 128 cores. If you can't think of some time you might need to wait on more than 64 items at a time, you only have your own lack of imagination to blame.
Maybe?

HIV transmission is not so easy; last I checked, the rough odds of transmission from a single act of unprotected vaginal sex with a HIV+ partner was around 1 in 500.

If the test is 99% accurate, and your partner isn't in an obvious high risk group, it may push the odds into "less risky than other behaviors you commonly accept" territory.

For point of reference, condom use only decreases the risk by a factor of 10. Possibly less: https://www.catie.ca/en/fact-sheets/prevention/condoms
Until there are clear and real incentives for performant code I think we are largely in a academic exercise.
I believe Equifax wants to give that money so consumers (I didnt read the terms) sign away their rights for future claims. This retraction looks like a marketing effort to make it even more valuable to those who didn't ask for it, I'd wait and see if it resumes..
Melbourne has a suburban heavy commuter rail network with an underground CBD loop. That's not the same thing as an underground metro like the NYC subway, Paris metro, Tehran metro, Japan, London Underground etc. All of these cities have urban metros in addition to suburban commuter rail (except Tehran I guess?). Melbourne's just not there yet and is still fairly suburban. Sydney's building a new metro system which will operate like the above mentioned systems.
When you can be just as productive as a web developer in c++ let me know.
Use gron.

See https://github.com/TomNomNom/gron
Yeah... just need to have a ton of debug registers included. Especially if it's ASIC.

And yes, Stack Overflow is really not going to help you with pretty much any of this. When doing low level programming, better get comfortable with that there's often no one in the world who can answer your question. Find it out yourself.
Yes. Also look at the ingredients - the composition is very far from real meat in terms of nutrient value.

But if you think beyond meat is bad, try some vegan cheeses some time. I tried 3 and they all tasted like 6 parts soap, 1 part nail polish, and "hints" of cheese.
Because clearly the borrowers are not the only ones capable of being untrustworthy and yet the trustworthiness of neither the lender nor the credit bureau is held to account in this system.

And this is related to the reality that individuals are at a distinct disadvantage for being largely unorganized and unable to bargain collectively, or else they probably would blackball bad lenders and credit bureaus for a history of untrustworthiness.

But they can't; their only tool is the democratic process. We ought to ruin Equifax to the same degree any one of us would be ruined if we had been so careless.
Quoting like this makes it impossible to read on mobile. Not your fault but “speech marks” are fine.
> International Business Machines Corp. has fired as many as 100,000 employees in the last few years in an effort to boost its appeal to millennials

> “The company hires 50,000 employees each year.”

> The number of IBM employees has fallen to its lowest point in six years, with 350,600 global workers at the end of 2018 -- a 19% reduction since 2013.

The fact that a company can have such high turnover and still function says something about how much work each of those people were doing. While an impressive effort at potentially reinvesting the culture, I bet many of those jobs weren't necessary from the beginning.
If this did become used in a medical setting it would only be allowed to be prescribed by a small number of licensed physicians, and only in a specific type of healthcare session.

These types of risks are far less if you imagine taking them in a hospital room with a babysitter, similar to how ecstacy is currently prescribed.
A problem with means based charges is that it gives no incentive to people covered by the system to alter their behavior. I think a better way would be to have the charges apply to everyone and add a system that directs (some of) the collected money to people less well off. That way, if they need to, they can still afford to drive in the city, but if they can avoid it, it benefits them.
It's definitely an issue. A woman was killed when she rode over tracks and slipped, then went under a bus.

And: https://www.smh.com.au/national/tram-tracks-a-trap-for-cycli...

http://www.executivestyle.com.au/rail-lines-tram-tracks-and-...

It's a common issue for cyclists in Melbourne.

Now, a proper analysis would compare this detriment to the risks presented by busses, more cars, etc.
Even with absolutely 0 advertising I probably wouldn't be working to build apartments for the homeless. Sure maybe I'm not seeing some movie, or buying some piece of chocolate I heard discovered through advertising but in that case I'm going to be spending my time watching/reading/playing/indulging in various other hobbies and vices and any money I would otherwise have spent I'd be saving.

Absolutely no benefit to future generations or my fellow man, and I'd assume the case to be true of most people. It isn't as if advertising has made me more callous or lazy.

Unless your point is that companies could be doing those things instead of spending ad dollars, but that is a ridiculous proposition because they'd be using it to make more capital in some other way
It’s $40/mo for the first 6 or so months, then $60/mo. They have been very clear on that in all of their advertising.
> Point #2 is very weak, because the alternative to slow sites is spending time optimizing them which may waste human time.

Ehhh the easiest way to get fast sites is combining a fast language and framework. There's like 3 orders of magnitude difference in performance between something like Django and Vert.x

I've seen code slow enough (PHP, 10 req/second) that running enough capacity consumed like 15% of the engineering budget. That could have easily been .1%.

Since developers dont care about hosting cost most of the time, they keep using horrifically inefficient frameworks. I rarely see super slow code because people get called out in code reviews for doing really stupid stuff. It's always the slowness of frameworks that's been a problem IMO.
I would 100% rather drive 25 minutes each way instead of sitting on a train for 40 minutes each way even if I could use my laptop/phone the whole time
This type of shit has been pushed for about 10 years at this point.

Who the hell wrote the bill, get them out of the Senate immediately.
To summarize the article: the density at which Intel can pack the transistors on a chip is high enough even with a larger transistor size, still means Intel has more transistors in the same chip size. The advantage of the 7nm TSMC transistor is that they are faster and more power-efficient.
There are far greater things to be worried about.
> Real cities have metros underground, full stop.

European cities usually have these in progression: tram for small cities, tram+train for large ones, tram+train+metro for the metropolis. Having a metro doesn't mean you shouldn't also have a tram. I agree that building everything from scratch may seem cost-prohibitive, but you have to start somewhere. Lifetime of cities is long enough to build these gradually.

> Eh the trams are cute, and smooth, but painfully slow.

Trams are for shorter trips that metro/heavy rail. They are slower than either of those two, but don't need to be painfully slow -- this depends on the city layout, e.g. Berlin vs. Prague has a large difference in tram speeds (Berlin having the fast ones).

> Better passenger experience than buses, but the tracks and overhead cables are a blight on the streetscape and impact drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists alike. Overall, not worth it.

Also, strongly disagreeing with this too. Trams look great, including the tracks and overhead lines -- they just belong to a city.
Firing talent because of age is not so smart I think. Of course I don't know who they fire, etc.

But I'm young, yeah, and I want to distance myself from IBM products.

Why? I'v been setting IBM Tivoli/Spectrum protect to backup client computers and, ugh, is it ugly, unfriendly and complex piece of software. I'v also touched the server part. Maybe it's just me, the windows guy (but who loves scripting) and it is more appealing to linux-type guys. Then I got feedback from Linux team that they also don't love that product.

They should do something about their products or product managers to be more appealing.

After 1hr they will present IBM QRadar to us. Perhaps it will be a pretty presentation and so. I just wonder what's it under the hood, when sysadmins put their hands on it - any experiences someone can share?
They are marketing this to police.
More like replace 100k workers that expect work life balance for underpaid millennial that you can exploit at submarket wages for long hours.