skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin was designed first and foremost to be a peer-to-peer electronic cash. That is exactly what it is called in the title of its whitepaper. Satoshi describes how Bitcoin would be used in peer-to-peer transactions with full nodes processing gigabytes of data every day, so that Bitcoin could process transaction volumes comparable to Visa.

Now with a limit of 300,000 transaction per day thanks to the Core development team and the censorship of the main forums, BTC has no underlying or intrinsic value. It is based entirely on speculation and memes.
Yes, the only thing the Mass laws do is stop gun deaths "caused by negligence, suicide, or accident" and justifiable homicides - self defense or police shootings
After the Warming: a view from 2050 (via 1989)
The Ultimate Machine Elves!
Thank God for the existence of other countries or else I would be forced to say those laws in Russia and Saudi Arabia are justified, and any technology that that lets people subvert them is immoral.

The idea that one can live in a country where fundamental political values are wrong is alien to most people. Every form of imposition that the government applies is justified with ideological notions like the social contract. So one can only explain the value of censorship resistance by pointing out how it enables people to escape tyrannical laws in those other countries, which unlike our own perfect countries, are repressive.
No, but this comment is
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1994998
Well your experience is a data point, maybe it was not bug free.
Anyway I was referring to this https://www.google.fr/amp/s/blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017...
Every pet is more than just your average pet. They're good dogs, Brent.
Do you mind sharing how you found out it was posted here today?
The fall of a pop impresario (2001)
Or someone could read the first paragraph of the article instead of writing comments based on headlines.
Better yet, an RFID tag or BTLE beacon can be embedded cheaply.

Some pallets already have these types of chips embedded, and it has ensured these pallets are returned in most cases (and prevented pallet resale).
Got it— prioritization of say features vs prioritization of tasks in the backlog, as an example. Management is necessary— I don’t think management’s function to a company can be discounted. I am advocating for certain traits I think a manager ought to possess, one of which being they have full ownership of everything happening under their umbrella. :-) Not saying they have to code, but saying if necessary they can be a substitute for anyone under them (given some minor startup cost).
Windows has such a system with UWP. I think UbTouch or whatever the Ubuntu phone successor distribution is called has one too.

And I imagine most systems programmers could define an api if they wanted to.

I think this is definitely a case where apps need to be antisocial and operating systems need to peg them in. The age of cooperative multitasking is over. Let the OS decide.
Silicon Valley execs are making early bets on the 2020 presidential candidates
Wow. Did not anticipate such a long reply thread. Man it looks like I really should write up a comparison of my (amateur) experiences with TLA+ (TLC + TLAPS), Dafny, Idris, and Liquid Haskell.

Also permeakra, regardless of whether you agree with the points that pron is making here, if you ever find yourself interested in TLA+, I would highly recommend his four part TLA+ series (potentially as an intermediate step after e.g. Lamport's video course). It's absolutely fabulous.
The "Security" link in the footer of every HN page lists some flaws and acknowledges their discoverers.
I'm a regular HN reader, just happened to pull up the homepage and see it.
http://archive.is/sIrdZ
It seems to me to be all-Trump, all the time.
To me, PC culture is more about style than substance, a thing I very contemptuously called "empty polite noises" when I was younger.

I generally shoot for genuine respect of people. I far prefer the company of authentic but socially awkward people to superficially smooth con artist types.

If one can combine authentic respect with smooth language, they are basically hitting international diplomat levels of social interaction. Awesome if one can pull that off, but quite oppressive to expect it as a default for being able to interact with others at all.

Which is why PC culture is very often toxic: In a world where asking for both is very often asking too much, it usually prioritizes style over substance.

You will note that HN doesn't require PC language. The mods will not come down on you for casually swearing. They will come down on you for ad hominems.

It's a good standard, imo.
I don't understand the lighting issue. The city should have street lights for this. You were relying on business' advertising for safe lighting? What am I missing?
China is worse, but that says nothing about the major conflicts of interest plaguing our media right now.

It is not very free.
Wait. How is this no longer a minefield just because there is a test suite that identifies some tricky cases?

Doesn’t the test suite’s matrix demonstrate that there are tons of cases that aren’t handled consistently across these parsers?
An autonomous platform means that multiple mutually distrusting parties can transact without fear of the trusted third-party that controls the platform raising fees to extract economic rent from them once they're locked in.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/say-hello-nightfall-paul-brod...
Trident was IE's rendering engine.
I don't disagree, but the issue is that picking out "the dog poop" wrecks the cost/benefit balance of recycling vs landfilling it all.
> Plastic garbage is not "dumped" in Malaysia, it is sold to buyers in Malaysia.

It is sold to some businesses in Malaysia who will then dump it. This is how they make quick money.
For the level of customization you're looking for, it sounds like what you're looking for here is called a "laptop computer"

Failing that, I'm pretty sure a few of the NAS brands support WiFi adapters being installed in to M.2 slots or USB ports. Couldn't help you with your battery requirement, but I'm not really seeing why it'd be useful in this application.

Personally, I'd just do it with a normal wired NAS if the only time it needs to be on a network is at the office. Have a defined station for it where there's always a wire and a power cord locked down. Hell, in a lot of cases a USB drive works just as well.
I feel you, but at the same time, this discussion is about GNU Parallel. A tool that does not execute things in parallel is an irrelevancy in this context.
Get yer money pit here! Roll up...roll up!
It is, some people just think making them hire better engineers and fix shitty infra is too hard
I worked in commercial property for some time, which allowed me to understand why certain things happen that seem irrational from the outside.

Everything in real estate is driven by the valuation. This dictates lending terms, tenant acquisition, sales & marketing strategy, everything.

But valuations, fundamentally, are just numbers that an independent advisor plucks out of thin air. It's a difficult job that ends up being a mishmash of guesswork of what things could be rented for, and how much they will appreciate over the coming years, and tangible numbers around what other "comparable" properties are selling/renting for right now.

This isn't as nonsensical as it sounds. After all, an untenanted building clearly isn't "worthless".

Now owners have every incentive to push this valuation up. Actual yield (i.e. how much rent you are actually receiving at any given point in time) limits your flexibility to do so. It's difficult to convince the valuer that your space could be rented for $1000 psqm when it's already being rented out at $800 psqm.

Absurdly, it's much easier to convince a valuer that untenanted space could be rented at $1000 psqm. There's no direct evidence to the contrary, so the smoke and mirrors story is much more convincing.

This is why commercial landlords will almost always lose a tenant before dropping rents. The latter will crystallise a reduction in yield which immediately affects the property's valuation (and thus their sale prospects or leverage ratio).

It was incredibly eye-opening to see how much unreality goes on in real estate.
Because direct collaboration scales as O(N^2) in terms of person-to-person interactions which becomes rather big as N grows. Having everyone spend 80 hours a week in meetings and still only understanding 1% of the business seems a silly use of time and rather inefficient in actually getting things done. Thus you get managers who are the ones in meeting with other managers which leads to a smaller N.
More info on guide horses, including advantages:

http://guide-horse.org/
I encourage you to read <Manufacturing Consent>, to see how Uncle Sam was able to do the propoganda and how most of their citizens was fine with them.

It was communism, then terroism. The U.S. always needs an enemy. As an aside, 60% of americans supported to invade Iraq.

When it comes to WTO, the big money voted with their money.
Now that Net Neutrality regulations have been repealed, this type of innovation is possible!
They don’t give a shit about their reputation.
I hate to be pedantic about this but it bothers me that in the west, "saag" has been taken to only mean spinach. There are other leafy greens that saag can be made out of: mustard leaves, for example is a popular one. Fenugreek leaves is another one.

Anyway, good luck with the business, but it would be great if you promoted the more accurate definition of saag. "spinach _or_ other greens" instead of "spinach _and_ other greens".
> Illegal shipments of Australian waste used as fuel to make tofu in Indonesia

https://youtu.be/S_rFC54Bxjc
You don't have any contact details listed in your profile so I'll ask here: what games are they?
Neither the Chromium or nonChromium based versions of Edge behave like that. It seems like your work machine has something impeding performance.
The Math Behind That Dick Joke in HBO’s “Silicon Valley”
Is there some reason the articles never say that clearly? I don't really understand the angle they're taking.

I mean this specific article actually interviews someone that's added a robot machine for sorting plastic bottles. Presumably the idea is that this is economically sound, and whether it is or not, it seems like it should have been spelled out.

Feels like they wanted to leave the impression that it's uneconomic to recycle, bit didn't actually have facts to back that up.
A serious and frequently permanent loss of productivity occurs when people live on a financial cliff where minor unfortunes can propel even smart individuals into unemployment and homelssness, and their children into poorer education outcomes, while minor investments and more equitible distributions of wealth in a society create robust sustainable growth.

In the case of student loans, they should have come with restrictions on increases in admin costs at the college as tuition has inordinately increased. In terms of the housing crisis, do not discount the role of predatory lending by institutions that used to engender trust. I find your position to ignore context and subtelty, and to propogate myths about poverty and the impoverished as primarily being the result of a meritocracy.
I'd stay away from things like drive-producer-specific solutions. There are many NAS solutions which will take any drives and support raid configs. For simple setup, check what can you run FreeNAS on. For very cheap, custom solution, have a look at something like odroid-hc1.
Nobody is getting a blue tang/hippo on a whim, first they require a salt water tank, second they are not a cheap fish, third they need a pretty well established tank, any decent dealer will inform the customer of this. Clowns on the other hand can damn near survive in any water.
What is the reason though? Was there some survey done that analyzes why this strategy is used (in large tech firms)? I am going to start looking into past research to see if any have delved into this question.
Hey, thanks - on Tor and just created, so probably shadow banned. Thought it was not a bad comment that would make it through a mod queue, but w/e. Thanks for letting me know and hope you get some visible comments!
You forgot to mention code ninjas but otherwise A+
Dunno where you live, but my local places also offer complimentary food poisoning with every meal.
Your main issue will be IO unless you use a host only PV and if you do that you are likely limiting you db instamce to a specific node which can have scaling and/or HA impacts. Most will go with a network based FS to back your db data, if that is the case your network IO will likely impact your db performance. For a dev or test env this might not be a problem but for prod it is usually a blocker.
This is a circular argument, as the earliest uses of jewelery was likely as a store of value (your tribe could trade jewelery for food with a neighboring tribe in emergencies)

There exists no objective argument that gold is somehow more beautiful than say, a flower or a rainbow... We only think of it as "beautiful" because of its money-like properties (i.e. it's scarce, durable, easily carried & transferred)

This suggests to me that gold is valuable precisely for the same reasons as Bitcoin, not because of some magical notion of "intrinsic value" that eludes other money alternatives.

(Yes, I'm aware gold has some minor uses in electronics manufacturing, but then lots of people are currently building electronic devices with Bitcoin wallets, so both have uses in this regard...)
Two outcomes for the technical industry:

1.) Everyone is studying these problems all of the time and they finally disappear.

2.) Other outcome is a dystopian field fueled by a race to the bottom where everyone is practicing algorithms problems all of the time. If you read the blind forums, some people are completing 500-1000 leetcode problems before heading into interviews.

I'm putting my money on number 2, which is where we already are. Can only imagine what this is doing to code quality...
The problem is that the world is not filled with superman. People who can code, lead, manage down, manage up, do product and so on are very rare. Ones who can do all those well are even rarer. By focusing on coding you get people, who to be blunt, can't manage or lead well. Which leads to more conflicts and issues than it fixes in my experience. Even if you find such people you get into the problem of them stepping on toes because they or others don't realize which hat they're wearing at a moment (ie: are they talking as an IC or as a manager).

Plus, at the end of the data, a good manager should aim to hire people smarter and better than them. If they can step in for those people quickly then they're not hiring better or smarter people which is a problem. A first line manager should understand what people do but that is different from being able to do their job to the same level.
You mean resell the thing you agreed not to resell?
>Unions certainly introduce inefficiency into the free market enterprise, but without them, abuses can and have arisen.

This is the false dichotomy promoted by unions.

While obviously there are instances of unions counteracting corporate abusive, unions by-and-large subvert the right to freely contract and the right to private property and therefore increase abuse.

They do not combat the main forms of corporate abuse like lobbying to restrict competition via regulatory barriers, licensing restrictions, etc.

The NEA for example supported the bank bailout that was a massive subsidy to banking corporations in the form of socializing their losses and risks.

Unions are designed specifically to acquire monopolies over labor forces. They are not like corporations where there are good ones and bad ones. Unions are almost all harmful to the freedom to contract because that's what the union organizational structure was designed to do.
there's https://yabits.github.io/ , a coreboot payload implementing UEFI

or you can use https://www.linuxboot.org/ as a coreboot payload
Casual racism amirite?
This is all well and good, but which decoders are already in the browser?

XML and JSON last I checked.
Soylent tastes good. I actually crave it some days. Feels like there is plenty of room in this market without resorting to negative advertising but maybe it'll work for you...
Understood. Apologies, I didn’t understand what was being prioritized previously. Previous replier clarified. Agree that otherwise this reduces to a handshake problem.
Consider the illegality of Ponzi scheme: nobody is forced to participate, investors make idiotic investments, and yet, because of the essentially certain loss of money, it can be regarded as knowingly defrauding the investor.
> The best way to help poor people is to lower the minimum wage so they can get jobs.

Raising the minimum wage can have a negative effect on jobs, but unless it's hard to find minimum wage jobs right now, I don't see what lowering the minimum wage will achieve. Also there's labor force participation to consider - if unskilled jobs are too low paying, some people at the margins will choose not to participate (for example, by living with their parents).

> Subsidizing the poor increases consumption which is bad not only for the first order effect (throwing away money)... but also for the little thought of second order effect: it incentivizes people to build businesses that cater to consumption that was in the first place unsustainable.

> Our government should invest the majority of capital in basic research, healthcare, education and infrastructure

Consumption funded by debt may be bad, but I wouldn't suggest that consumption (in other words, having a consumer-driven economy) is throwing away money. Many goods that people spend their own money on (consumer electronics, cars, clothing, etc) have competitive markets with reasonable prices and/or steady improvements. On the contrary to throwing away money, it seems pretty efficient at delivering utility. Especially when compared to recent trends in healthcare, education, and infrastructure.

I agree with some of the other comments that productivity determines the long-run living standards of a country, and that consumption is not investment and it may be a bad idea to finance it with debt. But I don't think the answer is to reduce people's ability to consume goods & services, but rather to enable doing it in a sustainable way.
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is brett glass of http://bikeshed.org fame still a wireless isp mucky muck?
Harming users to coerce OS designers is a pretty shitty plan. Sorry if that's too blunt, but that's simply the way I feel.
I'm afraid that I unaware of evidence that mass murders are a Christian problem whatsoever. Nor does it seem to be a political "radicalization" issue, as would be similar to what the UK saw during the Irish troubles, to take one of several possible examples. But I think that people might better describe it as serious mental health epidemic of as yet poorly understood origin. (Pick your poison: drugs, social media, social climate, etc.)

Some people have put forward decent ideas on how we could restrict firearms from such individuals. (I personally think that everyone purchasing a firearm should have to find a longtime acquaintance to swear under penalty of perjury that this person is fit to own a firearm. Maybe others have better ideas.) Regardless, I hope that that situation can be improved somehow.
my vote is for scam, or scam through culpable negligence. bet they loved all the attention though.
Ok. If that is enough of a value prop, are we going to see startups offering KungPao as a service, Udon as a Service, Sushi as a service and so on - it doesn't compute.

I really wish you success, since I'm sure/hoping you have other things on your roadmap, but am not convinced this is a sustainable business model at the moment.
Not sure I'd classify R as 'wildly popular'...
This was not at all a failure. They built a 1km experimental road. They gained valuable information about real-world performance and technical challenges. It's not as though they built a 100km long six-lane highway with unproven technology. They built a tiny one-lane trial to test a promising idea.

It was overhyped by politicians, but what isn't? Maybe they even steamrolled over engineering red flags. That doesn't mean it wasn't a valuable experiment.
> The thing is, this is just that - your opinion, generalized as The Truth.

Heh? Where?
A rather shallow article, starting with the truism in the headline...

The criticism of stock buybacks is bound to be fairly popular. But as far as I can tell, buybacks are close to identical to paying dividends, except for their tax treatment? I'd love to see higher taxation of capital gains and corporate profits, but the specific practice doesn't strike me as quite as dangerous and/or amoral as the article makes it out.

It's not like corporations would really decide to "pay their workers more" as the article suggests. That's the same blatantly flawed logic that led Republicans to suggest the tax cut would be used to raise wages.
Maybe in some circles, but in general, they fared less better due to the film.

"Jaws: ever since this movie came out, shark-killing contests are run all over the world. On average, between 20 and 100 million sharks are murdered every year."

http://screenprism.com/insights/article/did-jaws-demonize-sh...
Salts are everywhere, there's nothing wrong with trace amounts in water.
Who would've guessed? Getting a kilometer of solar panels installed as a road (sic!) in a region that has a cloudy skies most of the time. It's borderline genius. How did it get any approval at all? Who treated solar panels being used as a road (probably to spend some more tax money on casing?) as a good idea? How is it not just obvious that it will not even get close to the easier and cheaper (rooftop panels) options? This imitation of environment care is so hilarious that I don't have the proper words to describe it.
There is no such requirement. If you read the text you'll see that author explains that's their only income source, so they ask you to consider citing them in your paper. It is an entirely reasonable thing for a software engineer to ask from their users.
There are spelled-out plain ASCII alternatives for all those weird unicode operators. If you're thinking in more mathematical notation, the unicode versions can feel more natural to use though.
Yes, the practices everyone should follow, because they make sense. The - nobody actually does - part is a whole new discussion.

Question popped in my head while reading this para from the book -
"Techniques proven and routine in other engineering disciplines are considered radical innovations in the software engineering"
What are such practices? What other practices can the software industry derive from other engineering domains?
(1) Disability

The term "disability" means, with respect to an individual

(A) a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of such individual;

...

(2) Major Life Activities

(A) In general

For purposes of paragraph (1), major life activities include, but are not limited to, caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working.
> Why not both? Neither works right now, it's probably prudent to try as many interesting things as possible.

1. Solar roadways is a terrible idea that will never be a good idea. It is strictly worse than building a roof over the road and putting solar panels on that.

2. Roughly half the renewable energy on earth comes from decaying isotopes and half comes from sunlight. If humans want more than that, they'll basically need to get it from sunlight not hitting the earth i.e. solar power satellites. That is a road that we'll eventually go down, but not for quite some time.