skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had literally the exact same experience as your first two paragraphs. Where my experience diverged is when I met a doctor of some kind who explained that it's the same kind of pain that truckers often get for resting their arms on the armrests. Turns out it was because I was resting my arms on the keyboard or the desk between me and the keyboard. Stopped doing that, the pain went away completely within a few days, and hasn't come back since. That was like 4 years ago. Just don't rest your arms on anything, that's the trick.
So, in light of all I'm reading here about how much the Chinese state is really in control of their tech sector, can we still say that Bitcoin is decentralized?

Here is the current Bitcoin hashrate distribution:

https://www.blockchain.com/en/pools

(20%) BTC.com - owned by Bitmain, a Chinese IC design company founded in the first quarter of 2013, which specializes in research, development and sales for custom mining chips and miners.[0]

(12%) F2Pool - a Chinese mining pool, also referred to as "Discus Fish".[1]

(11.8%) Poolin - a multi-currency mining pool. Started by the founders of BTC.com.[2]

(11.6%) Antpool - also owned by Bitmain.

That's 55.4% of the network controlled by Chinese mining companies, which I would assume have a similar structure to Huawei?

[0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitmain

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/F2Pool

[2] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Poolin
There was an HN post only yesterday about the community moving to the dark web[0,1]. Being "back online" doesn't necessarily mean returning to the same URL and host.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20656342

[1]https://www.thedailybeast.com/8chan-users-migrating-to-zeron...

>Regarding the rest of your post, I get the feeling that you're being intentionally obtuse in order to avoid the point.

And I get the feeling you were being intentionally hyperbolic in order to make a weak and poorly supported point seem stronger than it was, by appealing to fear and cynicism rather than data.

You're probably right that further discussion wouldn't be productive, though.
Neither is corruption.
Epstein committed suicide
I’d say there are pros and cons. One consequence of lax IP laws is that competitors will rapidly converge on the same set of popular product features. When everyone has the same set of features, innovation and the ability to distinguish oneself from the competition becomes a matter of life and death. Resting on one's laurels behind a warchest of patents is not an option.

This is particularly true of a playing field as large and as cutthroat as China, where at any given time there are thousands of competitors jostling for dominance of even the most minuscule of niches.
IBM missed a great marketing opportunity. They should have told the public that the decision to acquire Red Hat was made by Watson
I want to reply to you before your comment probably gets flagged.

That "political crisis of trust" is not entirely organic, and mentioning Pizzagate is an example of why that shouldn't be taken at face value. Pizzagate wasn't just a meme, it was an orchestrated attempt to poison the well of support for Hillary Clinton and the Democratic campaign. People in this very thread are still trying to push a connection between Epstein, Pizzagate and the Clintons.

I mention this because whenever this "crisis of trust" is brought up, inevitably the blame for it is placed either entirely on "the left," "the (left-wing) media establishment" or (probably leftist) politicians... in other words, its scope and nature is almost always framed in a way that benefits a specific political narrative.
Try doing some rock climbing either outdoors or at the rock gym. Fixed my hand pain real quick.
You do realize that those containers eventually need to be hosted somewhere, right? That somewhere is a server running an operating system. Containers are more a threat to virtual machine OSes than ones that host containers.
> If someone commits a mass killing with a gun, then it becomes a mass shooting.

Yes. This sub-thread started with someone else arguing that one of the entries on the list of "mass shootings" did not deserve to be on the list.

If the argument is "it must involve deaths to be a mass shooting", that incident also involved zero deaths (and zero innocent civilian injuries).
Red Hat is more than its products. The engineering talent at the company is astounding. I remain skeptical that they will remain for long though.
Are there buyback limits? Is it possible that company could buy all of it's stock?
Academia.edu wants to see and download your contacts. Yeah sure!
> So maybe this will be a net good for justice?

It would have been admissible against anyone but Epstein even if Epstein hadn't died, and further warrants derived from information discovered through it (including reseizure of the same evidence under a new warrant) wouldn't, as I understand it, be precluded unless it was to be used against Epstein, all for the same reason that the right to object dies with Epstein, so it does nothing for justice except preventing any Constitutional violation from even being recognized, which is a net loss, not a win.
As a programmer, I am much more facile with powers of 2, than Fibonacci. My way is to double the number 4 times (multiplying by 16) and divide by 10.

So for example 55 mph,

double 4 times:
110, 220, 440, 880

divide by 10:
88

So 55 mph is approximately 88 km/h
I, lay person here, to see if I get it:

> Huge amounts of cheap debt allow companies to buy lots of stock, driving up prices.

> Stock prices inflated in such a way are not supported by fundamentals and so the downside risk greatly increases.

The price is driven up by "demand" but the demand is not "real" because it wasn't due to the business actually _innovating_ but actually just "stock changing hands"?

> Once the downside eventually materializes, markets drop violently. At first, the FED ignores this, but eventually it bails. The funds rate is once again lowered, so the game can continue.

When/how does that happen?

> All of this causes massive asset price inflation.

There is no way for it to "not" right? It's sort of like measuring volume of action, but the action didn't actually produce any real "value"?

> The CPI doesn't immediately reflect this kind of inflation, so the FED gets to claim "there is no inflation" and everything is "just fine". Well, it's not fine and they know it, they just can't really do anything about it.

Is there a better measure that _does_ reflect it? It sounds like it can be modeled with corporate debt / buyback on a graph?

Again, layperson here, hoping to learn stuff.
100% agree with you, I feel like I get treated like a luddite when I tell people I’m not really a huge fan of Tesla.

I’ve been looking forward to the Germans entering the electric car market for real. Should force everyone to step up their game.
> red herring

A really subtle red herring can be fun, but in general they are just frustrating. A good game master will often step in and guide you through the game, but I remember at least one room where we've wasted like 15 minutes going into a wrong direction.

> non-replayability looks like such a big problem

Does it? I know a couple who owns an escape room (5 rooms in total). Their first room is now 4-5 years old and they thought about changing the puzzles (or create a whole new room), but people are still booking it. That is for a small city in Europe with only 2 escape room providers, so YMMV.

There are also a lot of board games that can be only played once, and their boom does not seem to diminish. The "Exit" series from Germany was even awarded "Spiel des Jahres" in 2017, and it's still releasing new non-replayable games.
New York has lots of make up experts, fake identities, have a brain like Jeffrey Epstein, money plus all the well known people were or are surrounding him, with the gold he has, he could have gotten the whole village working for him. He killed himself ???!??? It has to be more transparent evidence to show to the public to buy this...in addition, either way, it is still so not fair to the victims. It was just seemingly way too easy for him to kill himself. What type of the guards of the New York cell had, who hired them. It seems like a joke in kids TV show......!
I agree on the Myst comment. I think if there was more tech involved and a little “magic” after the solving of each puzzle, it would be a bit more fun. That said, watch how much you drink. My friend and I went into one in Denver pretty hammered and ended up both sitting down and falling asleep! The employee came in and woke us up after a little bit. We somehow still ended up escaping with less than a minute left.
Teach ;)
Anything that can be reliably measured. Height of pile of dead journalists, that kind of thing.
Very helpful information, going to try this out, thanks!
First heard about him at a cheap drinks place named after him in the Tenderloins. Interesting dude.
Same for me. Also doesn’t work on Firefox Focus on mobile.
I always assumed every metro area would have something like this. In Minneapolis it was the Hudson's map book: http://hudsonmap.com/hudsons-twin-cities-steet-atlas.html

I too lament the lack of the big picture that comes with Google maps.
One of the doctors took them seriously, did a biopsy, and gave them a diagnosis.

They did not like their diagnosis because “idiopathic” means “we don’t know what causes this,” which the patient translated as “go the fuck away.” As if all human disease is deeply understood and an admission of ignorance is equivalent to laziness. They then continued going to additional doctors.
Reddit discussion: https://old.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/cohct9/creator_of_...
its also explosive and highly unstable, even stainless steel of lower grade will catalyze explosive decompositi0n
One theory I've heard is that too many people were pushed into becoming doctors for the money, and now the profession is full of people who hate it, are deep in debt, and see no way out.
To me, SICP is not really a book about Lisp. Scheme makes the underlying concepts easier to explain. Pedagogical power was one of the motivations for developing Scheme.

The Lisp that's more like Erlang(Elixir). The one that was developed for commercial applications programming is Common Lisp. For me, the book that shows the power of Lisp for applications programming is Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence: Case Studies in Common Lisp https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp

Common Lisp is the result of consensus among industry stakeholders. There is meaningful consistency but no commitment to purity or theory or dogma. More about what people are (were) doing than what "people should do".

YMMV.
"Big business"? 2300 escape rooms times a few thousand a month is still only in the millions i annual revenue. Tiny compared to Google, Facebook, Exxon, etc. Even frozen yogurt was 1.8 billion in 2018.
When I wrote python regularly, I’d always use explicit equality checks like foo == false or foo is None after being bitten by unexpected falsy values.
Creating a PostgreSQL Database in Python
The question mark is the standard Scheme way of writing a predicate, for example see https://www-sop.inria.fr/indes/fp/Bigloo/doc/r5rs-9.html#Num...
Right. All I need from a node is the CPU / Memory and a docker daemon. The less I know about an OS or any other services / patches, etc the better. I.e. I want my nodes to be cattles.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Niosh):Hydrazine
Not to compare CCC and DEFCON, but there are quite a few "non-hacking"
things going on at CCC. I was there last year and was surprised to see such a diverse background of attendees—ranging from humanities, arts, to hardcore hackers. In my personal experience I've never seen this kind of a diversity within one event.

Overall it was an amazing experience. Although, a little knowledge of German would have been helpful :)
When I started a real estate startup, it was because I had gotten the wall version of the Thomas Bros. map — of course! — and plotted LA’s median home prices, crime and school stats.

My idea was, wow, wouldn’t it be great to give other people this kind of expansive knowledge about Los Angeles? If they could only understand what I see on this map!

But of course, it’s not necessary to understand the entirety of a map if you have a tool that zeroes in on what you really want. Google doesn’t exist for you to understand the whole web, but to mine it precisely. Finding a home is hard to do the same way, but giving people a zeitgeist is always inferior to giving them a tool that lets them understand the least about something. It’s a hard lesson for an infovore to learn, I’ll say that.

So, of course, now LA drivers know too much, while they themselves know very little. In the 2000s there were “hidden shortcuts” and alternate routes that were risky. Now, the risk is hedged and nothing is hidden. It is a marketplace of nearly perfect information, where saving a minute of someone’s life in traffic is treated with the respect it actually deserves.

Yet now the big problem is that people have locked in their commute route years ago, and it gets slower and slower with no escape. They drive from their far-away apartment, guided by synthesized voices, past the landed aristocracy of Los Angeles with the favor of Prop. 13 whose lawn signs chide land-use refugees to drive like their non-existent kids lived there.

Ultimately, the era of broad knowledge was also an era of choice. Both are leaving us at the same velocity. There is little need for a giant book of colleges when you can’t get into or afford the ones you’re interested in. Who cares about a directory of reviewed doctors when your crummy insurance will not let you see any of the ones you would choose? The time of the Thomas Bros. map was before the closing of the urban frontier. Now, you just take the only thing on the shelf.
> A properly engineered drivetrain will be able to sustain its launches over several back-to-back activations

All cars designed primarily for the highway rather than the track have issues with brake heating, transmission fluid heating, et cetera, and slow down over time. The Model S is extreme in that manner, but the Model 3 slowdowns are are far less extreme than the S's limp mode.

> NHTSA recently sent Tesla a cease-and-desist letter over misleading statements about the Model 3′s safety rating.

Having the NHTSA say "A lack of evidence proving you're not the safest isn't the same as saying you are the safest" isn't really bad news or bad publicity.

> The machines they ship will hit a number, and then they will hit that number again, and again, and again, and again. And that won't fade. It won't destroy the battery. It won't get nerfed with an over-the-air update a couple of months after hitting the market.

The big manufacturers have been promising "Tesla killers" for a decade now. They've continually disappointed. This is Porsche's first production BEV. There will be compromises, they will make mistakes. It still might be a Tesla killer, substantially better than the new Tesla Roadster coming next year but up until they're shipping in volume and have had some time to shake out both cars are brochure-ware.
So why run a full os for container runtime? Wouldn’t a hypervisor be more efficient? What is the point of red hat at that point
They're real, but doctors often do a half-assed (if not downright negligent) job of ruling out other possibilities before settling on somatoform disorders (or any other psychiatric diagnosis, for that matter). Especially when it comes to women presenting with chronic or recurring pain or fatigue as their primary symptoms.
>Tesla has been doing the same sort of thing with "Safest car ever!" to the point that NHTSA recently sent Tesla a cease-and-desist letter over misleading statements about the Model 3′s safety rating.

Ten months ago, though it has been in the news again the last few days as the letter and response were just released. The blog post in question is still up, which means the NHTSA either backed off after Tesla's response or hasn't yet been able to get a court to take their side.
Multi day storage is always an issue. X kWh stored over Y hours takes X kWh of storage but X/Y kw of generation capacity. Start talking 50 hours and the cost difference becomes huge.

PS: Though batteries inherently have some emergency storage capacity as daily deep discharge is inefficient.
How a Group of Heretical Thinkers Chipped Away at the Idea of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’
Probably the car will switch between gears while in motion. It seems to me that it would be difficult to do that smoothly without a clutch.
This is the method I'm using :D
I have seen this in my office parking lot. I speculate that they upload and match against cars behind payment, then contact the repo men.
Many such forecasts have been embarrassingly wrong as of late, grossly underestimating the pace of renewable installation.
Yes, if iCloud backups are enabled, Apple does then have the keys required to decrypt backed-up iMessage messages.
New media is misrepresenting women in Africa
Jeffrey Epstein is dead from alleged suicide
Name two.
> You must have your plans approved

Oh, plans. Right, and then half of the shops put a (real steel) chain and padlock (or a large piece of furniture) on the emergency exit, or they use the exit stairway as storage. But indeed on the plans there is an emergency exit anyone can open if needed.
This is entirely conjecture. Why not wait until the car is actually available.
The overnight rate does not effect real long term rates, they are fucking inverted. Real rates are set by return on capital (plus inflation for nominal rates) in the long end. Pensions and retirement funds are only affected by the overnight rates in so much they use hold short term reserves as cash equivalents.

> Stock prices inflated in such a way are not supported by fundamentals

Inflation - what your describing, more dollars chasing same production - is a fundamental factor and doesn't affect rate of return in the time scales you are talking about.

> All of this causes massive asset price inflation. Stock prices are detached from actual revenue,

No, then there would be an arbitrage opportunity (if you so easily see it obviously the smart, deep pocketed money would see it too). Stock prices are still set by future income streams but now that is nominally pumped by inflation so they are bid up. Since equity prices are forward looking their prices rise faster than the backwards looking cpi.

There really isn't a lot of extra dollars sloshing around though. All the forward looking indexes of inflation are down: commodity crb index, metals index (including gold), tips spreads - all down in the last six months.
When is Google going to require monthly security patch delivery?
You really don’t know how many hypochondriacs we get. And general anxiety disorder with a focus on healthcare. And totally reasonable people who start attaching every last twinge and twitch to their (real) core symptom, and want an answer that encompasses all of them.

And these people seek care. A lot. Literally orders of magnitude more than ordinary people do. You have your one story of (x). I can tell you about a score-plus of nuts I see in a regular week. Many of them are frequent fliers: I will get to see the same ones pretty soon with wildly different symptoms that in no way relate to their current symptoms. They certainly don’t relate to the crap they brought me a month ago.

I’ll take your wager for “more than half.” Dunning-Kruger is not your friend.
Other way round, IBM are hoping that a lot of their customers who aren't already big Red Hat customers can be converted to using RHEL and (especially) Openshift. They already have all the sales and delivery relationships in place that they need to do really big (like 100 million to billion dollar big) deals, much bigger then anything Red Hat has been able to sell on their own. They also have relationships to sell RHEL/Openshift to IBM customers that RH struggled to get through the door of. So if they can get big growth in the number and size of Red Hat deals by selling to their existing customers then they can grow RH massively and of course all growth in Red Hat deals is growth in IBMs profits.

And if they can sell some of them RHEL on POWER9 they will be very happy to take that money as well :)
That is too much for one sentence. More sentences would read easier.
Kind of ironic that the means of fighting the billions spent is to do nothing, which is totally free and takes less effort than e.g. purchasing a TV, purchasing a subscription, starting a social media account and engaging with it, or even reading an article.
Both are done by the dog I have, but he is a rescue dog.
Regardless of whether you think the advice from the GP is sound or not, the best way to get a doctor to listen to you is to listen to (and follow) their advice first.

Cursing at them out of frustration only makes your situation worse.
yes well... that was a consequence of the last failed attempt to create backdoors with clipper thankfully.. but you could argue encryption is a munition in practice if not by current statute. For instance one could argue without encryption the revolutionary war would have had a different outcome as it enabled Washington’s network of spies to tip the balance in favor of the revolutionaries. But more importantly the point I was tongue in cheek trying to make is twofold: 1) for a right to encryption to exist, an individual must be sovereign. For an individual to be sovereign they must have a right to bear arms. And 2) while there are numerous rights to privacy enumerated in the bill of rights there is not one that I know of that gives an explicit right to encrypt. But if one were to argue encryption as munition... then you’d have the 2nd amendment to support the right.. which as I stated is kind of provocative and that’s all I was trying to be.
> Many of the recently-publicized shootings in the US have occurred in California, which has some of the most strict firearms laws in the nation

If California's laws prevented some but not all of the shootings then it still should be considered a success.

> Why guns are the hot-button issue and heart disease isn’t plastered over the media 24/7? I

I don't think this is honest. If your mother and father died in a mass shooting you would not feel the same as if they had died of heart disease. To treat the trauma of violent deaths differently from illness/disease is very natural.

Rationally, if heart disease suddenly killed tens of people in a single event you had better believe it would make headlines.
I've got a book called Building Django 2.0 We Applications published by Packt.
It consists of several different complete solutions, the first and main one being a simple IMDB type site.
You will not see market dropping or any sudden move. Basically there is no alternative to risk (the riskless rate will drop below 0) . There will also be no inflation (maybe deflation due to the increasing part of software in products)
> I’ve been looking forward to the Germans entering the electric car market for real. Should force everyone to step up their game.

So was I. The Audi e-tron was supposed to be that, but I've been massively disillusioned by it's horrible efficiency, high price and inability to produce in volume.
Another poorly written article on Hackernoon.
Basically that you can't return the chip to AMD if ecc doesn't work.
Wouldn't you start off using spherical cows?
So you know how you can tell if something is a multiple of 2 or 5 based on the last digit? & all those shortcuts you get with multiplying by 5? For base 12 you'll lose that, but then get to do it for multiples of 2,3,4,6
> heavy communal shaming and stigmatization
That sounds like the new brand of fascism we’ve seen from Antifa by shouting down and silencing people they disagree with, including very moderate people. Not saying “far right” is okay, but we’ve seen it swing to the other “far left” extreme in Portland, OR recently, and that’s not okay either.