skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The end game is everyone gets the shits, and there is a noticeable drop in the usage of the old POTS (plain old telephone system) network. People use Apple Facetime, Google Duo or whatever instead. Then the telco's start to notice they are loosing customers.

At that point one of two things happen. One is that telco's fix their networks. The second thing is they decide it isn't worth the effort, and let the traditional phone system die. Given phone calls are effectively free so there is stuff all revenue in them, I bet it's the latter.

If that happens it will be painful. Like it is with messaging now, but even more so. Messaging now is either SMS with it's limitations (like you can't use it from a computer), or a choice of a zillion walled gardens - Apple, Hangouts, Slack, Signal, Viber, Telegram, WhatsApp, Facebook, ... most of which I don't have installed so I can't communicate with someone using them. The voice equivalents are Facetime, Duo, Viber, Signal - many of the same things in fact. The result will worse than messaging - the ability to communicate universally with anyone dies, but with no SMS fallback.

But that's not the end point. Universal communication is just too useful to be dispensed with - as the explosion of internet and the postal system before that have shown. So something will replace it, and once again we will all be able communicate with anyone we please.

However, the replacement has to solve the parasite problem. Once the cost of sending a message drops below a certain point every universal system we've had so far has been overrun with parasites, aka spammers. The postal system has junk mail, email has it's spam, now the phone system, and of course SMS.

A solution may be to allow the recipient to charge the sender any amount they like for successful delivery of a message. Most people would allow friends to send for free, messages from unknown recipients to cost something, messages from spammers cost more.

That could happen with the existing phone system of course, but I'd lay log odds the incumbents have too much in common with the dinosaurs for it to even cross their minds. Sadly that means we are in for a very painful transition period. In fact they are already losing customers as people stop using land lines in droves, so I'd say the writing is on the wall.
Uber Fined $649M for Saying Drivers Aren’t Employees
This isn't really any different from any other market. In general, unregulated markets in the context of a property framework that allows for unrestricted accumulation of capital tend to be monopolized over time. And, of course, such monopolization will tend to correspond to centralization of services.

With your GitHub example, I think the better question isn't why John doesn't want to run their own server - that much is obvious. It is, rather, why doesn't John want to go to hosted GitLab instead?
> guarantee its no where near $97B

Worldwide? What if you include brothels, strip clubs, "used" items (ie panties, gamer girl bathwater,) etc.?

Here's the source for $97B, puts US at $10-12B - https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/things-are-lo...
Ok, but the buyers and sellers of BTC are discriminating very little, against perfectly legal activities, in the way that PayPal is doing it a lot.

If I buy or sell BTC from coinbase, for example, they aren't going to care if the money came from the porn industry or not.

That's the difference. Apparently, for some reason, PayPal is shutting down people who are doing perfectly legal stuff, but coinbase isn't, to the same degree.

That is the practical advantage, right there.
Here's a personal opinion that might be wildly unpopular with entities whose revenue stream is primarily composed of advertising.

I work in network engineering for an ISP, which is a mid-sized regional ASN.

there is no reason why the internet needs to have advertising on it at all, for people to both make use of it and pay for it as end-user residential consumers, or businesses.

as an ISP that has both wholly-owned facilities-based last-mile services, and that uses third-party last-mile services, these are entirely paid for by the subscriber revenue.

Our revenue is also sufficient to pay for inter-city transport services, IP Transit upstreams, various colocation costs, and all of the infrastructure needed to connect to various IX points and content delivery networks.

Essentially, look at it as the same difference between Netflix, Amazon Prime, or traditional advertising-supported cable television.

Residential end-user internet service is now just as essential as having functioning water, sewer, or electrical grid connection. The monthly subscriber fee per connection when aggregated between dozens of thousands of individual endpoints, is more than sufficient to support a robust, redundant ISP that can pay competitive salaries to its staff.
I can't be the only one that finds the before images more attractive.

The before pictures look like a vibrant and alive city where things are happening and commerce is being done. The after pictures look dull and dead.
It's because the ranges of distributions you sample from don't necessarily line up nicely with our number systems. For example, if you're measuring the distance between you and nearby stars in light years does it seem likely that the distances fit in the range of 0-99.99 light years perfectly? No, it's far more likely to overflow into 100s or even 200s of light years.

Hopefully that gives you an intuitive sense why Benford's law gives a highest probability for 1 as the leading number but 2 is the next most common and so on. You can also see the weaker application by the same argument to the following digits.
Yeah, and Eric Schmidt could have simply taken a digital camera into a public restroom, snapped some pictures over the stall walls, and been satiated. Yet here we are.
My bank isn't deplatforming me, when I transfer money from coinbase, though.

So this is already a solved issue. They aren't deplatforming me right now!
You are probably joking, but just in case not: dental fillings are not magnetic. They are amalgams of mercury and silver.
Among other things, the first digit is easier to change (percentage-wise) when a number starts with a large first digit.

StackExchange math has a decent analogy: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/781/why-does-benfor...
The cells are kept warm which might have carried the scent better. I'm not sure exactly what the cells are expressing that caused the smell.
What if the service is more expensive? What if it has poor service quality? What if it makes it hard to find because your're unpopular? Can you easily define answers to these everyone can follow for more than just a single business example of hosting? If you can does everyone agree it's fair enough? This is the debate, not whether you think hosting can have an enforceable set of rules.
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For a village to grow from 1,000 people to 2,000 people, it has to double in size. But to grow from 9,000 people to 10,000 people, it only needs to grow by about 11%.
It's nearly 2020, why can't I pay to get rid of Ads on Instagram, Facebook and Google? There must be a price where it makes sense to do this. It baffles my mind that there are billionaires out there who are being pestered by badly placed ads.
Sure. But why not offer the option?

Google offers me Gmail for $5/mo. Why won't they do that with search? Why won't FB or Twitter do the same? Ad-free google search is easily worth >$28/yr and I'd gladly pay it.

Given the enormous armies of engineers in the employ of Google, FB, Twitter, etc, and the fact that Google already offers paid services on non-search products, the ONLY explanation is malice.
I wonder how much money PayPal will make off of the interest on these frozen funds..
Fair point. It looks cool so I am interested. I am also a Rust beginner
>And don't tell me advertising is free speech.

Advertising is free speech.

>As far as I'm concerned, corporations are not people and have no rights.

Well, that's just, like, your opinion.

>Like governments, a corporation's powers are defined by law.

The law defines corporations as entities with rights, including the right to free speech, and therefore they have an abstract form of personhood for various legal reasons. If corporations had no rights, they would have no right to enter into contracts as a singular entity, nor would they have the right to use, or to be sued as entities.
You're expected to clean that stuff up with 2to3. The whole idea is to not leave band-aids in place.
A ban on ads would be great but would not to be a universal solution. We need anti-ad technology that works regardless of the legality of ads. Open source blockers should come pre-installed with browsers, operating systems, router firmwares.
Just because they're popular doesn't necessarily mean their users like them.

Lots of people learn and use these languages because:

1 - That's what they're taught at school.

2 - That's where many if not most programming jobs are.

3 - There are a bazillion libraries they can use, compared to other languages.

4 - JS is built in to browsers.

5 - They don't know any better.

6 - Marketing.

Also, many companies want their staff to develop in these languages because of the reasons on this list plus that's what most programmers know, so it's relatively easy to find employees.
Every time you hit a power of ten, fracPart(log10(n!)) gets the unit interval finely iterated by n=10^k, 10^k + 1, 10^k + 2, ..., 10^k + sqrt(2 log(10) 10^k).
I'll assume this was meant with irony, and applaud you for this comment.
> Uber basically controls every aspect of the entire process but let's people choose when they want to work.

No, the main benefit is that Uber doesn't choose who can drive, anyone can sign up and start driving. I don't see how you can classify them as employees without Uber having any selection criteria at all for the drivers except that they have a valid drivers licence.

The workers choose to work at Uber, Uber didn't choose to employ the workers since Uber is open for all.
Gotcha. Might be out of my league
Law enforcement will put drug traffickers out of business, and dealers out of a job. Banning coal mining will put miners out of a job. Jobs are not an end in itself, if their value to society is negative.

It does not just "look better in a photo". People are allowed to walk on their daily lives without being bombarded by flashing, highly targeted, hyper-optimised psychological manipulation. Without adverts that make them feel bad, inferior, missing out, all so they buy whatever shit the man with the money is peddling. They are allowed to decorate their buildings and public spaces with aesthetically pleasing art and decoration.

It's a major improvement in quality of life.
Let's fundraise to run a facebook campaign to ban all the ads then!
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I understand the concern too.

It's also raised at their official forum but no reply from the author.

https://community.bitwarden.com/t/who-is-hosting-bitwarden/1...

The author did take an interview in 2018.

https://opensource.com/article/18/3/behind-scenes-bitwarden
Surely it should work by availability areas? Web hosting is generally a global market. ISPs can have coverage vary inside a city block. As such, it's very nearly impossible for a customer to run out of web hosting options, but they may only have literally one option for internet providers.
It has ads, but those are not commercial. Only indirectly.
They're making the assumption that the ions and electrons can be held outside of thermal equilibirium (and provide no evidence for this). In reality thermalisation is likely to occur rapidly due to frequent collisions, once thermalised a normal Maxwell distribution will apply and Bremsstrahlung losses will return with a vengeance.
Boy, nothing says "poor country" like walls covered with coloured signs with a thousand cramped letters each.
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Why would you assume adult workers don’t care about Bitcoin? I follow “crypto twitter” a bit and there are certainly a decent number of adult workers that are interested in it. Most understand the benefits for an industry that is in a legal gray area.

Building your own PayPal is way harder than building a payout mechanism for Bitcoin.
This should just link to the Firefox page on the app store, can a moderator update the link?
Even though Uber will eventually be ruined by the bad press, we should all appreciate what they did. The taxi industry was an overregulated high-rent business dominated by insiders, delivering shitty service at high prices, and nobody was able to break into it.

Uber broke that and introduced people to what is possible with the free market. Now the government can't just go back to its corrupt ways. People will notice if service degrades.

I hope Lyft, Uber, and others are driven out of some markets just so we can see if there's a backlash against the unholy union of government, left-wing unions, and taxi cab companies.

I feel like people should be reminded about what the government and taxi cab union dominated market was like with their hedgefund insider deals (to purchase medallions) and other corrupt dealings.

People always assume decapitating Uber will bring an utopia ... they should be reminded about how corrupt government is when nobody is watching (and people usually aren't watching).
Are you a sex worker?
What if they deplatform coinbase due to AML risk... Or some other reason?
C2Rust contributor here. Yes, the conversion to unsafe is indeed only intended as a stepping stone for a rewrite into idiomatic Rust. In fact, we're hard at work on a refactoring tool that will (hopefully, one day) take some of the tedium out of that process by doing things such as identifying raw pointers that can be upgraded to proper Rust references.
How do I know op's standards are the same as Carmack's ? What I consider great maybe average after all ?.

Same could have been said when Carmack said he wanted to work on VR. "it's a retirement letter"
Backport the fix from 3.6, or just implement a fix yourself?
No, 'cargo culting' is when you don't understand the causal link between cause and effect. Of course "newer is better" in this case, and we know exactly why: Thousands of man days have been spend improving underlying libraries, lessons have been learnt, new ideas stolen from other languages, optimization, security improvements and so on.
> While almost everyone can agree that something must be done

I’m not sure that’s true. There’s a very strong correlation between people who think something must be done, and people who think they must be granted more power to control the flow of information across the internet.

As long as communication has existed, communicating false or misleading information has existed. The only way to combat it is with skepticism and critical thought. Trying to ban it is impossible, and establishing an authority to enforce the truth won’t decrease the amount of false or misleading information communicated, it will only ensure that all false or misleading information aligns with the views of the authority.
> CPUs don't have RGB

The AMD Wraith Spire is a stock heatsink and comes with lighting except on the APU models.
so basically force facebook to shutdown so that all these people flock to HN which is ads-free?

The shortsightedness of such thinking amazes me.
The first digit is a 1 much more frequently, the second digit less so, the third even less so, etc. The more digits the numbers in the sample have, on average, the smaller the difference in frequency, taken over all digits, gets.

So, in general, one cannot state that 1's appear much more frequently than 9's.

Also, that’s not in any random sample of numbers; you need to sample from a distribution with a certain property.

The distributions of many samples of real-world phenomena happen to have that property.
Then that is beautiful. I'd like to see those pictures, and the article should be updated to reflect that.
> The orthodoxy of "everything is supply and demand" has failed to predict many recent, important macroeconomic phenomenon.

Can you give some examples of these many unpredicted phenomenon?
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In the common model for inflation MV=PQ that would match with low V, or "velocity of money"
I can't seem to find any info on whether they allow prepaid credit cards. If they don't, then we're still stuck with the same issue of requiring real-world identifiers.
For context, David Graeber is an anarchist anthropologist who has written extensively about economics. His two best-known works on the subject:

- https://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/dp/1612191290/

- https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Jobs-Theory-David-Graeber/dp...

His views are surely influenced by his a-priori politics, but I've found his ideas thought-provoking to say the least.
I need to think about it more, but I think this is the general direction my intuition is moving. Thank you!
Hey, I'm sorry this is where you're at, I hope it gets better for you.
Maybe... there’s some other properties of biological neurons we don’t capture in NNs currently.
I’ve worked in a variety of Django codebases, and the last time I had trouble with string encoding/decoding was with Python 2. Since moving to Python 3, I have rarely needed to manually encode or decode, and I genuinely can't remember the last time I did.

Perhaps there’s something about a port that requires encoding/decoding bytes/strings?
It's not even hard to lose cell service near urban areas. In the Angeles Nat'l Forest by LA you lose cell service real quick, not even 15 miles from major civilization.

I'm like you, too. I have an awesome Harley-Davidson map book that has complete maps of almost all highways in the entire USA, state by state. Also has maps of large metro areas in it, too.

Additionally, I always buy one of those NatGeo maps for wherever I'm going hiking/backpacking/camping (typically nat'l parks/monuments, but also Nat'l forests, state parks, etc.)

With these, I'm always prepared for no cell service.
This is pretty much how the US has been going about it. It's been a bit laggard as you have noted though. Some say this is good enough and we should work on updating things, others say the societal cost to just do this everywhere can be lower than the societal cost of being slow to update.
The US "printed money" after 2008, and it did not cause inflation. Maybe your understanding is wrong.
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There are some issues with Gogs not working with tags on Drone CI. I wouldn't have switched otherwise.
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Because the price would be too high. $28/yr is the global per-user price but it's extremely skewed by region. The same equivalent price a US/CA user is $140/yr. Also the necessary 20% price increase every year would be really tough to convince people of the value.

How about instead we just stop using Facebook? I dropped it 3 years ago and haven't missed it one bit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_envy
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Do you use it as your desktop machine? This is fascinating
How thorough is Pornhub’s KYC?

In a business like that it may be quite difficult to detect exploitation. If they don’t strive do a good job at it (which doesn’t especially align with maximizing revenue), PayPal’s decision may be hard to criticize.
> In fact, you can make your own payments platform denominated in USD and that's as useful as BTC for legal activities. So why go through the extra steps?

Good call. These pornstars should just create their own payment platform instead of going through all the hassle of using BTC.
What about drivers rating?
We can have both Uber's app experience and drivers being classified as employees. They are not mutually exclusive.
But with or without a fan, the point of a heatsink is to increase surface area for convection.

A fan also aids convection, but instead by maintaining a larger temperature difference between the surface (however large) and the surrounding air.

Either alone is good; both together are better.
And who decides what defines every availability area and competition map for every product and service every day to see if there is enough coverage/competition? Or are you arguing for a whitelist-to-discriminate model for things with extremely large coverage areas (perhaps worldwide)? If the latter do you think there are enough of these that can be done easily enough to save complexity/cost overall or is it only applicable to a narrow field e.g. web services and other things still need an answer anyways?
Take a look under a microscope. The difference between a rubber stamp whose ink bleeds into the paper and a Xerox which is kind of melted on the paper is enormous.
If we take the opposite of your logical argument, then lessened supply of anything increases it's value. That's a logical proposition stemming from your original thesis.

Now let's try applying that to bus networks. The more busses we have on the road, the less they're worth. If we reduce the supply of busses, then busses will be more valuable.

But this ignores the network effects of increasing the supply of something. If we increase the supply of busses, then we also increase the demand for busses and the value of busses through increased ridership. A single bus is worthless, but a fleet of busses is valuable to a community.
Sure, but Coinbase's KYC prevents it from being a reliable long-term alternative. There's still a central authority with your identity, governing whether you can move your money.
> Just a little side note to correct your facts: no, the x2 extreme gen2 does not have ethernet.

Incorrect - it does not have a RJ45 connector, but it does have Ethernet, it just requires a dongle which may or may not come with the machine depending on the region its purchased in.

The benefit of the on board Ethernet is the fact you can PXE boot over it and other enterprise management benefits you don't get with a USB Ethernet adapter.
Nothing like a good old fashioned moral panic, every time a new communication medium turned up someone tried to ban it or neuter it.
”So it takes the data and draws it on a log scale to visualize it, but doesn't explain why the data naturally transposes to a log scale (we are talking about random data sets in nature)”

Random data sets in nature, measured in some arbitrary unit chosen by mankind. If one assumes expressing lengths in inches, feet, meters, parsecs, or any other arbitrary units will not change the distribution of initial digits, Benford’s law follows.

For example, when converting a set of lengths measured in yards to one measured in feet, the numbers originally beginning with a ‘1’, i.e. in the half-open interval [1,2) will start with a ‘3’, ‘4’, or ‘5’ i.e. lie in the half-open interval [3,6) in the new table. That can’t be true if initial digits are uniformly distributed.
Your shock is warranted. It's actually a very deep question, called the Zipf mystery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCn8zs912OE

No one really knows why it's true. It's also true across physical constants, not just artificial quantities made up by humans.

The same type of distribution pops up in language, in nature, in numbers, popularity of opening chess moves, everywhere.
It was only fixed when a fuzzer showed a lot of vulnerabilities. Up until then the attitude was "stop demonizing unsafe, we know what we're doing."
Didn't even start reading, with the prominent pie-chart directly above the article. Not sure the author has any reasonable knowledge about visualization at all.
Here I found a good article about it:

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/05/against-economic...
I don't think there will ever be one coin that will solve everyone's problem. As attested to by the number of new crypto currencies attempting to correct every perceived issue with more popular crypto currencies.