skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the name sounded familiar, but looking on Wikipedia, there are two Ray(mond) Chens (one is a Federal judge) and neither of them seems to be this guy.
There are over 10,000 LN nodes right now, with a capacity of nearly $8 million and growing quickly. The site is called “1ML” because the goal is to get to 1 millions LN nodes: https://1ml.com

You have nodes running on smartphones now; as soon as you launch a LN app, the channel is opened. There are billions of smartphones out there, so the 70 years you quoted is not a thing.
> the very same institutions that are generally very left leaning, decry income inequality, ...

These schools are price discriminating, which means only the richest families are paying the full price. This kind of heavily graduated pricing where the wealthy pay for most of the cost of the school is very much in line with their principles.
Physics unlocks oil production in that it is an absolute prerequisite. Debt funding isn't an absolute prerequisite, just the preferred funding approach.

This exercise provides valuable data, for example would you rather government research dollars go toward academic research into Chemical Engineering, Physics, or Aerospace? Data from this sort of study can inform that sort of decision.
You gave two examples - the one I know about “broke” with a major version release, was known during the beta period and is exactly how a platform vendor should behave. The only thing in question was the beta period long enough. The other you didn’t say whether it was a point release or an iOS 13 change.

The electron rejection is not a symptom of Apple breaking a public API. It’s just the opposite. An API change didn’t break Electron apps - it was rejected for using a private API.

It’s not “nitpicking” to point out that your examples are completely irrelevant to the submitted article - Apple rejected an app that used private APIs. None of your examples have anything to do with the submitted post.

Would you also complain if you wrote a C program that depended on documented “undefined behavior”...

int b= a++ + ++a;

and it broke with the next version of the compiler or broke based on which optimizations were turned on? Yes I am sticking with examples of how irresponsible it is to depend on private APIs and undocumented behavior - something you advocated in other comments because that’s the entire point of the submitted article.
You are right but this has already been done using the CMB data and the universe seems flat with a 0.4% uncertainty. I don't think there is any need for artificial probes for it.

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01589
Seems weird to single Apple out here. Apple routinely spends significantly less on lobbying compared to other tech companies. Facebook and Amazon both spent twice what Apple did, and Google 3x.
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It's such a rare event that it wouldn't happen at the scale to trigger a financial crisis.
Any savings from not paying a driver would probably be taken up by maintaining and deploying their own vehicle fleet. And that's assuming the tech is ready in a reasonable timeframe and doesn't cost a ridiculous amount.
At any school in the system the top performers would be in advanced classes and receiving the top education at that school. We are talking about public schools, everyone pays taxes for these schools not just the families of the top performers. Therefore, every student should have access to the AP classes and resources that are centralized within magnet schools.
But even NPE's aren't intrinsically a bad thing. It's just the NPE space is filled with these horrid trolls. Context matters.
It is unfounded because maintaining affordable housing is a responsibility of policymakers, not of corporations, and policymakers are as familiar with the facts about inflation and demand as you are.
In my school, the 'gifted/nerdy' group had significant (but not complete) overlap with the 'socially/athletically outgoing' group, with the 'aspy' kids sprinkled around and generally respected by their peers. A lot of the dichotomies being described in this thread are therefore alien to me.

The bigger divide was between the 'gifted/nerdy/popular/athletic' group and the 'prone to violence, nihilistic body modification and hard drug use' group. Those kids weren't cool though. Drug use, poor grades, and criminal records all disqualified people from participating in sports, which negatively impacted their ability to socialize.

I think sports are a big equalizer. Through a shared enthusiasm for a sport, a stereotypical 'aspy nerd' and 'popular jock' can come to understand and respect each other. I don't think there is much else in the public school system quite as effective at tearing down these barriers as a healthy athletics program.
Because I'm the next person about to decided where to go/what to do. The narrative informs my choice. If the narrative is false then the market is basing decisions on incorrect information producing unrelated results but will never be aware to self-correct.
“Cryptoqueen” Trial Begins in Manhattan
"You can add a wifi password with just two buttons"

Reminds me that I bought a printer with wifi, which I didn't really want, but it didn't come with a cable, so then I found out you had to enter passwords by hitting an up or down button to scroll through all possible characters.

Eventually I found a USB cable that worked with it.
I agree that the net effect for the world might be nearly equal but it’s still inherently unfair for the US and those who attempted to conduct the research in a US institution.

You’re discounting the loss or setback of career for the US based researchers.
> Two other professors with ties to Epstein, including Richard Stallman, the famed founder of the free software movement, have resigned.

(From the article). Considering Stallman wasn’t a professor and didn’t have ties to Epstein, it doesn’t give a lot of confidence in the article author to get other facts right.
There are porn sites serving 100k+ uniques/day written in Ruby or Python and hosted on worse hardware than yours. 1000 simultaneous users is a breeze.
> it is so complicated and not very popular to boot.

“People are stupid” is not a valid reason for not choosing a technology. It’s just something that needs to be overcome. Do you realize how complex and out of grasp a basic SCADA controller is to normal people? A modern turbofan? Yet people entrust their lives to these things every day wi the no issue.

> incredible strides PV and wind turbines have made in the past decades.

PV and wind absolutely do not matter. They cannot provide stable base load. Solar enthusiasts bury their heads in the sand when it comes to base load and hand wave about batteries, pumped storage, etc when in reality they are just signing civilization up for more gas turbine plants and coal while virtue signaling that they care about the environment.
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Please post this in every thread about Apple and Google.

I agree, so we should rag on them.
U.S. Schools See Continual Drop in International Applicants and Students
When I graduated University in 2003, I took a front desk job doing business reporting and running adhoc queries. I did this work for many years in a variety of places, always working with a different type of database in each company. There's so much depth to relational data modeling and SQL. Many, many ways to design queries. I didn't get into hardcore application development until many years later.

I've forgotten some of the more advanced SQL that I've written over the years. I look back at SQL I've written as if I'm reading someone else's work.

I enjoy working with postgres but miss the temporary table workflow in sybase.
Patent trolls are racketeers, plain and simple. There should be jail time for it.
- simultaneous shift away from coal+ nuclear, giving a huge boost to natural gas in the long term (LNG build-out is only now beginning)

I have a feeling natural gas plants will not be built out to the extent you are imagining, because solar, wind, and lithium-ion storage are now competitive, and still getting cheaper very quickly.
Thanks. I know my friends will never get over it. My wife had a sister that passed at 6 months old from a heart issue and my MiL said exactly that (“they’ll never forget its always with you every hour of every day”).

If you don’t mind my asking what part of the world are you in?
Seems like it would have to be open since the boundaries are permanently expanding. The set can’t contain its accumulation points if new points will always be created. Granted, infinite sets like aleph-0 and -1 are typically considered both open and closed, iirc. Been a while since I took topology.
Check their Slack and ask.
That's the only thing that works with thugs.
Surely there is a difference between investments that have underlying value, but are speculated on, and investments which have no underlying value except that due to speculation.
Hi Doug, thanks for the write up and community engagement. Cloudflare has done the community a great service here.

> the federal litigation process still lasted nearly two years, involved combined legal filings of more than 1,500 pages, and ran up considerable legal expenses

With such considerable prior art evidence in your favor, can you offer any advice on lowering the cost of defending yourself?
"Obscure Newspaper Discovers 40-year-old Concept Widely Used in Medical Literature"
The concept of QALY goes back to 1976[0] and is a mainstay of cost-effectiveness literature. Fair to say there has sometimes been resistance to its application in the US, where we like to pretend that we are equitable in providing care. But odd that WSJ seems to have just discovered this idea.

[0] https://academic.oup.com/heapol/article/21/5/402/578296
They need to provide GAAP numbers and so long as everything else is clearly labeled (i.e. "non-GAAP"), there's no problems.
I bought a cheap Sharp microwave because I'd been accustomed to the way Sharps work since childhood, but I was disappointed they seem to have messed with the interface for no good reason. It's not quite as weird as one atrocious GE I remember, but they still fixed what wasn't broke. The numbers are entered from the left for some reason.
Basically always the company.
It's fine to critique the implementation of a brand, but it doesn't change the fact that branding has real tangible value. If they don't use a curvy wordmark, it would have to be some other arbitrary mark.

for reference, the coca cola brand is worth an estimated 57 billion USD, and at the end of the day it is just a curvy font and some colors. It's worth at least a few million to maximize brand recognition by choosing the right curvy font.
What is a "disingenuous argument?" Is it like reading the phrase "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" to mean something less than that based on a clearly set-off explanatory clause in front? (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

The standard for permissible arguments in court is having a good faith basis in law or fact, or a good faith argument for extending or changing the law. It's not clear to me that's wrong. Fee-splitting with non-lawyers is the bigger issue. That is impermissible for all sorts of good reasons.
Oh, I'm not offended. Whether it was my generation or my upbringing, I'm not sure I know what that even means.

I do understand the challenges and they largely do not exist. Ask someone who grew up in WWI, WWII, or even the cold war. They got all of the same, with an extra side of famine, war, totalitarianism, nuclear annihilation and more. You have expensive housing and degrees that are a bad value proposition. And weather.

Who is a study of whom? :)
It was a relief when some of the worst bullies finished 9th grade and dropped out.
I would like out of tech. no idea what to do to start over.
Your filter sucks. Pro trolls don’t become irrational. They just defuse or disappear.

Only fanboys dig in and defend a subject with senseless arguments once they become emotional.

If you’re trying to come up with a filter, decide: do you want to filter out trolls or just people that are fans of topics that hurt your feelings? Right now it just looks like a filter for any conversation with a human you disagree with.
I work at a lot of startups as a contractor. The disregard for privacy and user data everywhere I go is astounding. They're all in survival mode.
Great disparity and unaffordable housing are not an inevitable consequence of some people’s high wages, because they will engage in more consumption, buying better haircuts and so forth in a way that raises other people’s wages. Even the phrasing “consequences of their actions” carried with it a connotation of wrong doing; but the failure of California housing policy to accommodate more people — a legitimate goal, because in the US we have freedom of movement — is simply not Apple’s problem.

Because it isn’t really a consequence of their actions, what Apple is doing here is not really the kind of action that we want to see. It’s not like a company coming and cleaning up an oil spill that they made — it’s like a company coming in and cleaning up the government’s oil spill, and it represents an extension of corporate involvement in public life that dealing with the consequences of their actions wouldn’t. They are dealing with the government’s consequences.
I read your article, and it's about reasoning in regard to design requirements. I'm curious to hear what you have to say. Would you please provide some explanation as to why programmers should understand building blocks?
People don’t look at the reviews before going to the Waffle House. You don’t expect a five star experience. That’s not meant to be an insult to Waffle House. When you go in you know what to expect.
i am compelled to bring up "growth mindset". the author of this article, Jo Boaler published this book [0] which is about as textbook Growth Mindset as you can get. the general idea is that there's very little real talent gap between people, it's all societal or whatnot.

Growth Mindset is weak scientifically. I believe that the belief in it drives articles such as this submission, so I think it is directly related.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/08/no-clarity-around-grow...

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/07/growth-mindset-4-growt...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/what-is-your-mindset

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Dweck#Criticism

important to note that there is a necessary baseline necessary for someone's potential to be unlocked. you can't be starving with poor nutrition and no education and become einstein. stable home environment is important. baseline being necessary to unlock talent does not mean talent is not important.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Limitless-Mind-Learn-Without-Barriers...
Americais and always has been fantastic place if you're part of the upper 20% and dog shit for everyone else. We just have great propaganda.
Nope, installed Windows 10 Pro two weeks ago on a PC connected to the Internet and the skip option was there. Done that on dozens of builds in the past couple years...
Non American here. They seem to be the greatest country on earth. They have a big problem with the gap between the rich and the poor but have huge upward mobility.

The education system is too expensive and a bit of a scam but does that cause the problems people think it does. Can you make it in the US without a degree?
Motivated reasoning can invent an excuse for anything.
The subject of quantum computing is not changed by the professor's actions in visiting someone who has been accused, but not convicted, of crimes.
If you had bought $10 worth of bitcoin starting on Oct 21, 2015, and continued to do so every month for the next four years, your total investment of $480 would be worth around $3,337 today — a gain of 595% (as of 10/21/19).

Coinbase: https://blog.coinbase.com/charting-the-course-of-bitcoin-11-...
Tech Book Face Off: Game Engine Black Book [Wolfenstein 3D vs. Doom]
Adobe, Twitter, NYT launch effort to fight deepfakes
Not without a bounty ;)
There is no hidden “back” at the Waffle House. You would see the manager cooking or washing dishes right in front of you.
I’ve always associated all caps with shouting. Not sure how an all caps logo with a few softening tweaks sends a message of empathy.
This is such a great feel good story. I've been reading for a decade about the injustice of patent trolls bullying and extorting startups for money, sometimes killing them. Hearing about NewEgg fighting back gave me some hope, but this scorched earth strategy from Cloudflare read the same to me as watching an epic sports play. Well done Cloudflare, once again you have my respect and gratitude. There's nothing better than a bully getting theirs.
Thank you so much for asking! Naturally, part of why we wanted to share this with the broader community was to make it so interested people can jump in and help out in the open. And I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the fact that we’re hiring! [1]

We can always use help raising awareness. Advocating for more survivor resources is a great place to start. Help spread the word through your social networks by connecting with us on Facebook and Twitter. Learn about even more ways to get involved and subscribe to our newsletter for general updates [2].

[1] https://thorn.org/careers

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I think there's an argument to be made that the disruptive kids need special attention just as much as the gifted students, albeit of a different kind. they don't seem to benefit from the standard "just pretend they're learning" approach.
The Tether:USD rate is not the only factor you must consider, particularly because of how thinly traded it is.

The more important metric is comparing what it costs to buy BTC on Coinbase with cold hard USD, and what it costs to buy and then transfer out BTC with Tether anywhere else.

If you can buy large quantities of BTC with your Tether at close to the USD:BTC rate, then you can exit your Tether holdings at or close to the effective peg.
Did your parents not know that your sibling would graduate college before you did. Strange thing to be livid about.
Yes, significant hype around digital money is about providing services to the underbanked/unbanked that people with the privilege of a bank account and debit card take for granted.

That's an important and needed service.
But there is no upside for them doing that. Solar and wind don’t even compete with fossil fuels.

The best thing for fossil fuels in the current climate is to keep everyone against nuclear. A solar/wind future without the fantasy breakthrough in cheap storage is actually just a solar/wind + fossils base-load future. Anti-nuclear == pro-fossils in any solution that doesn’t involve significant blackouts.
As in most cases, problems left for the reader are usually the hard ones!

The rocket equation tells us that if one somehow managed to build a spacecraft containing an infinite power source that weighed a single kilogram, and incorporated the most efficient engine designs known to us (electrostatic ion thrusters), it would still need to be fueled with a reaction mass of xenon equivalent to approximately two billion times the estimated mass of the observable universe to achieve even 10% of the speed of light.
>religion--the motive behind most western art and history, be it protagonist or antagonist. can't talk about it though--massive black hole in any sort of humanities education.

Went to a public school in California. We learned plenty about religion, of all kinds. We even read parts of the Bible during literature class. Perhaps you should re-examine your assumptions.
Great question — organizations decide how to handle reviews internally. So the answer to your question on “review all” versus “automatically submit” is a, perhaps unsatisfying, but honest: it depends. We provide a guide [1] to help organizations formulate their own policies. And we're currently working on a content moderation tool that focuses on helping organizations operationally handle problematic content and considers the wellness and resiliency of reviewers.

[1] https://www.thorn.org/sound-practices-guide-stopping-child-a...
> A towing capable engine is a negative if you're not using it, because MPG;

If want to pull a 30' boat or a trailer big enough for a family of four up the Rockies, then, sure, can want a big engine. Otherwise two of the main things about a "towing capable engine" is (i) a bigger radiator and (ii) an engine oil cooler. The main issue is that when towing the engine can run at relatively high power levels for minutes at a time instead of the usual just seconds; then discover that the radiator is not big enough and the engine oil gets hot. The radiator never was "big enough" it's just that the high power levels lasted only for seconds instead of minutes, and the seconds were not long enough to overheat the coolant.
But social status is a zero sum game and that’s the dirty little secret of the people opposed to tracking. They can’t seem to improve their own kids’ lot so they hurt other kids’ opportunities instead.
Less efficient than the same vehicle at lower speeds, I assume. But, that's true of every vehicle...so, it's a weird argument.
Is that really Krispy Kremes problem?

If I buy some waffles from the (definitely not sanctioned by any corp) random waffle stand next to the local bar who do I blame with the syrup is bad? Not Aunt Jemima, I blame the guy running the waffle stand.

Same if I go to Walmart and buy bananas that turn out to be rotten. I don't blame whoever grew the bananas, I blame the local Walmart.

If you don't trust that the kid is selling legit donuts then don't buy from him, its pretty simple. I don't think KK should have any say in the matter, hes just buying donuts. What he does with them after that is none of their business as far as I am concerned. You can buy and resell anything you want if the market for it exists.
This is one of the worst anti-bitcoin articles I’ve ever read.

Bitcoin is no game; over $7 trillion has been transferred since 2009: https://blog.coinbase.com/charting-the-course-of-bitcoin-11-....

We’re seeing the beginning of a new economic good being created right in front of our eyes and many of us won’t realize this until many years later.
Annually the world adds more power to the grid. Renewables are maybe 25-30% of it. We need to reach 120-130% where new demand is all met by renewables and we are shuting down coal and gas plants.
Right -- it's the ability to avoid changing to USD, while pretending that you can if you want to.
I get what you're saying... but it doesn't make sense in this case. Back in the early days of Krispy Kreme, this kind of thing was defacto standard way to get Krispy Kreme donuts as everyone in rural communities made runs to metropolitan areas to get boxes of donuts to sell on corners and in WalMart parking lots for fund raisers for every type of youth organization possible.

I've noticed I see less of that now, as the number of stores has gone way up and novelty of importing the cool rare donut has worn off. But I still see it a little. If food safety were ever an issue, this company would have died a long time ago.
Feudal dystopias, as you call them, were characterized by minimal capital creation and the lack of rights to exploit that capital leading to both poverty and inequality.

On the other hand, the sudden explosion of capital creation and exploitation that sparked the industrial revolution led to the creation of the first societies in which wealth and freedom were attainable by families not of noble birth.
In theory. Do you have evidence that is what is actually happening?