skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bitcoin "bubble" was caused by an invention in the ecosystem. Bitcoin was "stuck" for a long time around $300, because it is not much good @ 10 mins tx time.
Then a solution was published, the lightning network whitepaper. A mere 5 days later volume exploded and a period of 6 months of accumulation occurred where price was contained by large bid / ask walls. Volume dropped off after this point and the price rocketed up. The ultimate destination was the joint mcap of visa and mastercard, which it would in theory now be able to compete with at some point, which worked out at 18k per coin at the time.
The collapse afterward is due to the fact that it must be used in this way and at that tx magnitude to justify that valuation. Your basic buy the rumour sell the news variation. It might thus range around 10k for a long time.
Whether those who accumulated used bots or tethers or both to drive the price up rather than it being organic price action is debatable, and it seems difficult to prove.
What is interesting to me is how fast money went to work on this after the technical hurdle was overcome.
They were too risk averse then (probably a consequence of the gigantic funding). Maybe the risk is lower now.
Tried Zettlr, but couldn't get it to work.
I mean, the strategy has created all of the biggest winners: Amazon, Google, Facebook, Spotify, eBay, PayPal, (maybe) Airbnb, etc.

Each of them effectively monopolized something for close to a decade.

It’s not a failed proposition; it just might be harder to pull off in some spheres than others, and harder as more money gets funneled into startups, and harder as the giants jump into your newly minted market, or acquire that new market.
There are a lot of whatever-as-a-service offers which can relieve you of updating, patching, and restarting. But if your troubles originate as bugs in software, poorly formatted data, or something along this lines then human supervision is probably the only solution.
So I think people may be misinterpreting this drop:

lock up expired today, so the sales today -- throughout the day -- are a result of the lock up expiry.

This pre-market drop is the result of people anticipating the drop and selling before the market opens.

It is also, partly, driven by the disappointing earnings from 3 days ago, and indeed the drops over the last few days have been about as large.

For what its worth, shares are slightly up from the open.
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This is one of my greatest fears and I think it may be the ultimate demise of humanity.

Imagine a virus that has a 90% mortality rate among East Asians, but only a 10% mortality rate amount Europeans. Or vice versa. It breaks the concept of mutually assured destruction because the attacker might believe that other nations do not have the ability to strike back, or they can construct feasible defenses against a counterstrike. Release the virus then close your borders and ports.

It also would of course be easier for a non-state actor to construct a world-destroying biological weapon compared to an arsenal of nuclear weapons. You can hide a biological weapons lab anywhere.
But when you need to edit text the only thing you can be guaranteed to have is notepad, which (a) has no features and (b) does the basics of text editing terribly
The administrations are only partly to blame. It's something of an arms race, and anyone who doesn't participate gets left behind. When one school starts something, it's initially a competitive advantage. After a few years, other schools pick up on it and it becomes less valuable. After that it becomes almost compulsory because what used to be a competitive advantage is now status quo, creating a sort of negative Nash equilibrium.

The identically formatted materials are because there are a dozen or so higher ed marketing companies that serve most of the market, and they are themselves competing with each other in a similar way, converging on a handful of templates they've tested to be the most successful. Once one of them comes up with something more innovative, the very next marketing cycle will see their competitors mirror it.
What right do journalists have to have a platform for promotion and advertising? Either before or after the Internet and Twitter.
In your definition of censorship, would it be OK for Facebook to hide some political articles behind a "filter dishonest posts" setting that was on by default for users and groups?

Is it OK to do that to a marketing post?
> I doubt it, since they’re primarily there to ensure the original investors get an ROI, but they sure seem to be an overall negative incentive for the general public / retail traders to purchase stock with lockup agreements, given the earliest they can buy is right when the IPO pops.

That seems slightly backwards. The lockup protects buyers in the IPO more than sellers: it means you can be confident that the market isn't going to be flooded tomorrow. Anyone who bought in the IPO has now had plenty of time to get out, if they wanted to.
> An interesting criticism of this stance is the implication that nature is more important than humans

With our current usage of Nature's resources, human civilization is probably not sustainable. Therefore, protecting Nature benefits humans.

> and that humans will never be space-faring.

A forced mass-exodus to the stars might help. Depending on the resources necessary to move billions of humans, this might well doom this planet.

Exploiting off-world resources is a non-solution since it would mean just throwing more resources at our problems.

Basic survival of Nature and the Human race is almost certain, even without space travel. Survival of our civilization is not.
it's not a "will it flood or not" it's "how many miles from the coast will we lose to the ocean" Is the water going to come 2 miles in or 30? Both are catastrophic, but to different degrees.
On Linotype machines, roman and italic versions of a character share a matrix and must have the same width.
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WeWork has actual real-estate assets. So, they do have some worth.

Certainly not Softbank's valuation-levels of worth, but it's still not nothing.
Thanks for the explanation! I enjoy reading about idiosyncracies like this.
At the current share price, no, it's probably not. It's the weak version of WeWork. The company is wildly overvalued based on growth expectations it can't possibly meet after a history of investor-driven mania. But the business model is solid. Pervasive gig-sourced drivers across the world with a universal interface is absolutely what the market wants.

Uber the company may be in trouble, but Uber the brand will be driving people around for decades to come.

I still wouldn't buy them right now, though.
At what point do Musk’s statements represent a moderate legal risk?

For the sake of argument, could Musk’s statement, along with his very public insistence of being actively engaged in the design process, demonstrate a cavalier disregard for proper safety engineering at the management level (outside acceptable industry practice) and so a defective process?
The article starts with an unsupported premise that the platforms these companies operate favor liberal over conservative speech so my natural inclination is just to dismiss the rest of it; however, even if true the solution to improving freedom of speech is not suppressing someone else's freedom of speech.
Correction: the _maximum_ fine is 4% of annual income or €20 million, whichever is greater.

There is also no guarantee of any fine, see vertex-four's comment. For something like this I expect they will simply be warned to fix their WiFi and won't actually be fined unless they continue being in violation.
We'd be a lot better off with a 3rd maker of large passenger aircraft. Duopolies are never good for the market, and markets seem to do a lot better when there's 3 dominant players: with only 3, the players have very good economies of scale, but because there's 3 (and not 1 or 2), there's still a good amount of competition, while still having a lot of stability, so it balances out. Too many competitors means too little stability and too little economy of scale, too few competitors means too much power in the hands of those companies and too little competition.

Personally, I'd like to see Mitsubishi get back into the passenger plane business. They're already starting, but with a smaller regional jet.
OK you can replace "platform" with "protected by CDA 230 ", the argument still stands as is.

https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230
I believe s/he means large scale contracting like Accenture and overseas IT shops, not smaller scale one person contracting
Boeing merged with McDonnell, but in the shuffle MD management got all the top spots at Boeing. So ironically, Boeing inherited all the culture and org problems that made MD planes such a shitshow
Of course you love Uber as a user, each ride you take is subsidized by their investors and it's generally a better experience than finding a taxi.

Why an investor would love this arrangement is not clear to me.
>> USB stick or shared drive

You have limited experience in a huge piece of the enterprise / government world if you think this would ever fly - and they all run windows
In which case, this would have been a jaywalking infraction in many European countries, as a designated crossing is nearby.

However, it is not the role of a driver (or their car) to serve death penalties for that.
For what it's worth I prefer the city. I miss the city. I moved to a tiny town for one single reason: it's insanely cheap. So cheap I can buy a house, decide to move somewhere in a few years, and just keep the old house around in case in case I need it in the future Instead of giving my money to my landlord I can keep it. Ironically this might mean I can afford to move to the city in a few years.

More people joining in would be really nice, actually.
I can't find any evidence supporting that. I find numerous references referring to the supply as if it was distinct from the normal supply and none that indicate it is in any way connected to the main water supply:

- https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/dib/de/index/wasserversorgung/w... (mentions a 150km spring-fed pipeline connected to the emergency wells that requires no energy)

- https://skyplan.ch/maps/zurich-water/ (mentions "Das separate Quellwassernetz" - "the separate spring water network")

- https://www.gemeinderat-zuerich.ch/geschaefte/detailansicht-... (mentions "Dieses separate Leitungsnetz")

- https://www.alt-zueri.ch/turicum/brunnen/notwasserbrunnen.ht... (mentions "unabhängigen Notwassernetz" - "independent emergency water network")

Can you point to any sources that say otherwise?
The core business is very profitable. Loss-making is happening in their less mature product categories and expansion efforts.
Yeah the HTML preview is using QtWebEngine, but not the text editor part.

I suppose there is a way to deactivate Javascript execution in QtWebEngine but I don't know enough about it. But given that Markdown allows inline HTML and JavaScript, I don't see how you could have an accurate WYSIWYG representation if you don't have a Javascript engine available somewhere.
I'm on Firefox on Android 9. The cube and all font weights and styles rendered as expected.

Kudos to the FF team!
In Portugal it's the same way, and I'm glad to say that the countermarketing+regulation is working effectively: more and more people are choosing generics
> more students sending out far more applications (out of paranoia? Pressure?)

No, it's actually a rational choice, because no one can accurately forecast what a given school will cost anymore.

At some point (I believe in the late ’00s, but could be wrong), elite schools started to extend their financial aid programs to include students from middle-class families. Prior to this change, a student from a family with middle-class income or above could know with reasonable certainty what a given college would cost: they would expect to pay the tuition, fees, etc. listed on the brochures. After this change, they would have no idea until after they were admitted. They might get a generous financial aid package that brings the cost down to the price of their local state university, or they might get nothing except loans. The systems used to determine financial aid packages are opaque and not well-publicized, so the outcome is unpredictable.

In 2009, I applied to a broad sample of 14 schools on the east coast. They were a mix of “elite” private and flagship public universities. My parents were comfortably middle-class. I was lucky enough to get into most of them, and so I had the opportunity to compare financial offers. In maybe 1 case out of 12, I would have had to pay the full sticker price. The rest would have been heavily “discounted”, but the discount varied widely between schools, from ~5% off the total cost of attendance, to 60% off, to 100% off (full ride). For the private universities the “discount” came from a mix of “need-based aid” and merit scholarships, while for the public universities it was exclusively from merit scholarships.

In this system, you don’t know what the financial offer is until you get in, there are possible windfalls from getting a generous financial offer, and it’s difficult to predict in advance what the financial offer will be until you get in. The incentives here are obvious: student who are conscious about the cost of their education have a strong incentive to “play the lottery” by applying to as many schools as is feasible for them, while biasing towards schools that are known to provide generous financial packages.
Milan Airports answered that they have submitted the issue to the "Information technology staff"

source: https://twitter.com/pimterry/status/1192038174408753152?s=20
This is what happens when engineering decisions are ceded to marketing wanks and MBA bros.
At least for installation on another distribution it doesn't suggest you to install apt-get.

http://support.typora.io/Typora-on-Linux/
>. Plus it's in the non-coding or "junk" zone of the chromosomes.

The site themselves aren't important but they are physically linked to important sites. DNA is a chain, if you which section you are in and roughly what it looks like you can infer someones disease state.
If Uber never figures out how to turn a profit at scale, it'll be worth approximately $0 at some point in the future.
An interesting example of technology and the tech that defeats it evolving together, a friend with leukemia who received a bone marrow transplant was told that a DNA test using a blood sample would identify him as a woman, the person who donated the marrow.
Could you elaborate on this? I do not have extensive experience with or cultural knowledge of India, so I would be very interested to know about the cultural background for your statement. Maybe it can save me from inadvertently being rude to someone in the future.
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This is a great list; I'm bookmarking it!

I would add nmslib to the list: https://github.com/nmslib/nmslib

nsmlib is a great alternative to faiss that can be faster in some applications, as shown here: https://github.com/erikbern/ann-benchmarks
I remember being disappointed that my SAT score was too low to even get inbound mail from decent institutions!

Guess the world for the high-SAT scorers and the rest of us is pretty different.
No more nightly online gaming for Chinese below 18yo
Also absurd because these are the people that should be following the evidence.

Plenty of great theories have been crushed by evidence.
It sounds like you're saying that what a company calls itself determines which ethical obligations apply to it. I can agree to an extent, but I suspect there's a different point here.

Twitter, per its own website, is "what’s happening in the world and what people are talking about right now." Is there any way to revise this sentence—or any other aspect of the Twitter brand—such that Twitter would no longer be subject to these complaints of censorship?
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Just checked and Spotify sorting isn't stable, either. Presumably this is because, as with most apps based on a database of some sort, there may not be a "materialized" in-memory data model that one would sort, but the column to be sorted by is passed to the backing database as a part of a query. The app could, I guess, remember the last few sort-by columns and craft the query accordingly.

However, insofar as most people desire the ability to sort by multiple columns, they'd likely also want a more intuitive UI than clicking the columns in the reverse order of priority. A few years ago I participated in developing a datagrid component where you could add columns to the sort order by shift-clicking.
It may work for some, but is it really wise for our 18 year old young minds to travel across the country for a 4 year vacation if they DON'T know what field-specific school they want? Maybe it'd be better if our youth stuck close to home with better financials, family, and social supports, until they figure out a solid plan to head across the country?
It’s a very heavy dependency, in many ways.
I think you are right.
But I would also argue that such censorship should be as transparent as possible.

Though the real question is, at a certain size of user base, does a private space not become a public one? Or rather, if there is no alternative of not having censorship, no place else to go, does the censorship not become a problem then?

I am not sure what the solution here would be, actually, but while I think if people don't like facebooks/twitters censorship they should just go somewhere else, I would not hold the same view for example on email providers.
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I had actually listed decorators as a rare counterexample, but then removed it from my comment for brevity.

1. Decorators are currently TC39 Stage 2. [1]

2. Because of its unusual status, TypeScript lists decorators as "experimental, subject to change". Once the EcmaScript proposal advances, TS will ensure it is compatible with the ES standard and then remove the experimental sticker.

3. If it doesn't affect runtime, then you shouldn't expect JS to have the feature. TS private members are no different than public members at runtime; there is no need for JS to have that feature. (Note that TypeScript deliberately chooses not to name-mangle members.)

4. Sure call it a "feature and syntactic superset", but that doesn't make TS any less beholden to JS. Dedicated adherence to that property commits them to support every feature and syntax that JS adds; future-proofing means they can't really add anything that JS doesn't have or is going to have.

5. Note that TS abandoned having a standard long ago. The behavior and validity of TypeScript program is determined by "whatever tsc does" and the ES standard.

6. Again, if you need convincing that TS effectively only implements JS features, refer the linked pipeline issue, locked as "waiting for TC39."

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-decorators
Notepad++ is unnecessarily complicated for end users. It’s not only developers who use Windows.
> Additionally, all MAC addresses are unique so it is the easiest way to match/combine your data from different trackers.

This is not true. While it's intended for MAC addresses to be unique, there are plenty of instances where manufacturers re-use MACs when they run out instead of registering more.

Additionally, there is no issue with multiple devices having the same MAC address as long as they're never on the same Layer 2 domain.
GDPR: German property firm fined 14.5M for keeping old data
Not everyone has a system with over 8 or 16 gigabytes of RAM to run such apps.
The thing is, there are so many sites being sampled that any one false positive is buried under a mountain of true positives.

False positives only matter when you are trying to be definitive about disease diagnosis. That is why clinicians follow up with more sensitive DNA tests after something like 23 and me detects a deleterious variant. For something like ancestry, the number of true positives is so ridiculously large that a few false positives don't matter.
I think facebook should be required to have controls to turn off their various filterings. And they should be held liable if someone can prove they systematic hide certain views from searches. That would be enough for me (having them on by default is also OK).

(Incidentally i started using twitter in "view latest" mode and i prefer it - turns out their expensive algorithms were pretty useless for me)
I'm surprised it isn't much lower. Maybe people holding the stock are too "pot-committed" to sell at this point?
I did some MFC for my job and disliked it. It didn't help that the software in my job was made up of thousands and thousands of COM objects and everything felt like treacle to write (got to implement those interface functions I'm never going to use!).

I have used wxWidgets a lot and really like it, but for modern C++ on Windows what do Microsoft recommend?

I can't seem to get any idea. Honestly, I would like to know.
I've often wondered if we should follow the Swiss' example on a planetary scale.

It's not that an alien invasion is particularly likely, but, just in case, we might want to plant a few nukes here and there, in strategic locations. That is, locations selected to make it very clear to any potential invader from the stars that sending an interstellar invasion armada to Earth would be all cost and no benefit.

I mean, we already have all those nukes lying around, ready to blow the planet to smithereens. We might as well put them into use as actual "deterrents".
A bash script?

You can scan for the networks in the area, select the one you want, run the name through, say sha256, select the first 8 characters and reset the mac address to that.
Endianness matters when you share binary data between computers with different architectures. That didn't happen that often in 1984.
> But the killer feature is being able to transact without requiring the underlying bitcoin blockchain.

To be clear, you can send and receive bitcoin without the fees or latency of the bitcoin blockchain until you close the channel. And depending on the use case, that could be weeks or months in the future.

And even when opening or closing a payment channel, you don’t have to wait for the blockchain to confirm that transaction.

> Except a 4tx/sec cap on opening and closing channels.

No such cap exists.

Here’s a great video—“10 Myths about Bitcoin's Lightning Network debunked by a Developer”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obRs-WpJ05M
It marked Uber having a significant loss and slow growth as positive — seems like a bad signal based on an initial sanity check
Well, those 32-bit apps run in a hypervisor. The compatibility is so good because you have both 64-bit and 32-bit Windows in your 64-bit installation.
How often does that really happen though, in terms of needing it for general system usage? I have worked in Windows all day for my entire career and it hasn't come up much. When it has, notepad is almost always sufficient to deal with the edge case.

For other kinds of text editing, just download and use whatever text editor has the features you want for the task at hand. If notepad had to be all things to all people it would be bloated and not particularly good at anything anyway, so it's better that it remain a lightweight simple text editor in my opinion.