skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but what you call a "toy", I call a highly reliable technology that's used in production widely across the majority of Fortune 500 companies. No one here is suggesting anything remotely like what you're strawmanning, but it's clear the straw man is the only argument you can take down.

The reason you are completely wrong and a toxic member of your team is that your logic can be used to justify all kinds of terrible, short term wins that sacrifice any kind of long term/sustainable design. You'd rather make a bad technology play so your boss gets off your back, than think through your decision and make a long term investment into a sustainable, maintainable, improvable, and agile technology that's actually suited to solve the real problem you have.

OF COURSE you're there to accomplish the tasks your business needs to succeed. That's a given. What's not a given is that you need to slap together the shittiest piece of software that'll do that job right then and there.

Your attitude is what keeps companies from solving problems, and forces them to pay dollar after dollar to fix the same issue over and over again. You're selfish, you're greedy, and you cost your company insane amounts of money.

You should not be employed in this industry if what you wrote here is how you think, period.
Have you checked if the CPUs are throttling at load?
Not sure how taxes are "already high" on property in CA when we have an absurd voter-passed amendment that specifically locks property taxes very low (prop 13).
You can achieve reasonably anonymous payments through use of good opsec, and by utilizing CoinJoins: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CoinJoin

Wasabi Wallet has built in trustless coinjoins, routed through tor by default: https://wasabiwallet.io/

Samourai Wallet has similar features, requiring a much smaller amount of coins: https://samouraiwallet.com/

I assume anyone competent enough to hang on to this amount of bitcoin is already doing this.
Same. Passive cooling works great and the heatsink is also a case. Dead quiet and no throttling.

I'm using as a media center with my cheap 75 inch TV.
I think that'd be much more expensive than an adult dorm for long-term travel.

I'm imagining a scenario where I work remotely and visit different cities every month between returning home. Sort of as work tourism. Get to spend lots of time visiting other cities for largely just the cost of airfare, and still have enough budget to support your existing rent/mortgage back home.

I'm thinking you'd want something closer to cheap capsule hotel rates. It gives you the flexibility of not being tied down, but at the same time lets you maintain your life back home for when you want to return to it (since it's affordable). There's no hassle of searching for hotels that satisfy {safe,clean,cheap,accessible} criteria since you're in a network.

Imagine having these available internationally as a part of your subscription service.

I'd love to have something like this.

(Edit: whoops, I just double posted instead of editing. Deleted the duplicate message.)
Ya you're probably right. I got the idea watching an episode of Shark Tank where Kevin O'Leary offered to give someone some money with similar terms but at 15% interest because he felt that the contestant needed the money to survive (so it was riskier than usual like a credit card). Luckily they turned down the offer, and the others congratulated them that they made the right choice.

But to me it seems like there are A) a lot of startups that want loans and can't get them (almost all of them) and B) a lot of wealthy people that can't find easy investments that return over 10% interest.

So I wish there was a standard way that angels could co-sign loans (possibly even with some leverage, so maybe they could put down as little as 20% like a down payment) and then those startups could actually build something rather than spending all of their time bootstrapping and consulting to make rent.

I guess I just thought that there might be a hack here that would let banks get into the startup business through existing channels and also let angels get some leverage by potentially putting down less than the total amount they would have given before. Angels would still have the liability of potentially having to pay the whole loan back, but could take on some interest to free up the money for other things in the meantime.

So ya, it's a potentially bad deal for the company, but it's better than the current situation of not being able to get a loan anywhere.
New blood test could lead to better treatment for sepsis
I totally agree with you but I wonder if it’s a moral thing (like those assholes have any) or if it’s a fraud thing. I’ve worked in the online dating space and we always had trouble with payment providers due to a really high rate of fraudulent transactions.
I lived through hyperinflation. Sometimes products were updated mid day. Comics used codes that referred to a table because it was not possible to change the price on the cover.
Yeah I think there’s an issue with legal sex or political content being deplatformed, but if you want to stop deplatforming weed you should focus on actually legalizing it first lol
Even better ending their exploitative ad model business would promote the use of decentralized social network solutions.

If people couldn't easily monetize the platform the way Facebook does it opens up the market for diverse platforms. Monetizing email service is notoriously difficult and Gmails lack of in-app advertising sets a playing field nobody else can exploit for massive growth. That has probably in large part been what has kept IMAP alive while XMPP and other open communication protocols died - the ubiquity and lack of ability to dilute the user experience with ads for profit keeps predatory competition out. That hasn't stopped Google from doing some seedy shit in recent years with their position but even they have to be conservative on radical anti-user behavior that would drive their base off Gmail - because their userbase can leave. Its the beauty of decentralization.
For context: this idea is basically a fetish amongst those around Corbyn.

Danny Blanchflower was, at one point, influential amongst the Corbyn crowd. Around 2013-15, he made a prediction that wage growth wouldn't rise as unemployment fell. This was true for a while...until 2015, and wage growth was nearly 4% a few quarters ago.

The idea that high employment won't cause wage growth is something that you will, however, hear repeatedly from Corbynites.

Btw, economists, unlike the author, tend to be quite sensible on the Phillips curve and understand that the relationship varies.
Snicker: Alice and Bob Can Mix Bitcoin with No Interaction
undestand though that for people who live in the poorest of regions , the ones who absolutely can't pay for it, facebook is free communication with their loved ones, often in another country. for most people that's what makes FB useful, not the constant political bickering
From the article, "Another study conducted in Puerto Rico found that 98% of the island's ground insects had vanished since the 1970s."

That is simply a bewildering statistic. A very large area of that tropical island is extremely hilly and unsuited to large scale agriculture. Most of the human population within a few miles of the coast. The inland areas should be teeming with insect life.

From the study on PR cited by the article, "Our analyses provide strong support for the hypothesis that climate warming has been a major factor driving reductions in arthropod abundance, and that these declines have in turn precipitated decreases in forest insectivores in a classic bottom-up cascade. . . . As the sixth mass extinction continues to decimate the world’s biota (137, 138), these data will be crucial to understanding the impact of climate change on terrestrial food webs (139), ecosystem dynamics (140), and biodiversity (8), and to formulating conservation strategies aimed at mitigating the effects of future climate forcing."

A stunning and tragic conclusion.
This is my favorite article on MLMs, how they basically consume and destroy female friendships for a quick buck. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/21/how-mlms-a...
No crickets, they fully embraced it for survival.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/dec/13/drug-money-ba...
More broadly, financial institutions should be accountable.

Because, indeed, discrimination is illegal, but suing a bank for it is long and very difficult if your account is frozen.
Not just in the past. There's a current case going on about a major channel that Pornhub used to feature about performers being allegedly both lied to about where the footage would be available and raped.

Very possibly what spurred PayPal to make this change.
For anyone missing the context on "Who's on First?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcRRaXV-fg
I had a power supply with similar problems which actually started on fire - I had been restarting it repeatedly after it kept (supposably) hitting thermal or some other shutdown condition.

Lesson: just because there are protections for going past limits doesn't mean that everything is fine when you are constantly hitting them. (applicable to our current government problems sadly)
Is the IRS going to seriously audit you for the $10 in taxes you should have paid because you held some BTC for a week? I can see that being an issue at institutional scale, but for small users it seems unlikely it would ever be enforced.
I have one of these cases[1] for my Pi4 4GB from Amazon. Comes with heatsink and small fan (very quiet). Right now running "watch -n 1 vcgencmd measure_temp" puts it at 36C idle. Well I guess it is actually running k3s with no deployments/pods, so fairly idle.

I do remember it running a bit hotter before I updated to the latest firmware via "sudo apt full-upgrade" a few days ago.

Running "stress -c 4" gets it up to about 50C ...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Raspberry-iUniker-Heatsink-Model-Sing...
The key distinction is that a talk therapist doesn't prescribe drugs. These drugs are poorly understood, as are the conditions they ostensibly help treat, and there are a great many concerns about the validity of much of the research that went into justifying their use. There are also large numbers of people reporting long term side effects from said drugs which arguably made the patient worse off. I would caution everyone to avoid them in all but the most clear cut, 'textbook' cases.

I've also noticed - both personally and from talking with others - that a disturbing number of practitioners in this field seem to lack empathy and/or professionalism, which in my view are absolutely critical when dealing with mental health issues.
I hate lots of music, sure.

My taste runs toward punk, black metal, acid house, and trance.
I saw data at a company where adding a fake loading screen to a tech product increased conversion rate 5x - it made the product seem fancier.
Phone cameras can see in IR. A classic trick to test if your TV remote is working is to look at the LED through a digital camera while pressing a button. Try it right now if you don't believe me.

What's missing is screens which can display meta information in the IR channel. I say we call the image format IRGB.
See, if you have zillions of dollars there all kinds of financial instruments that harm society (say, by reducing taxes paid), but any vice the little people can partake in, either as producers or consumers, well, we have to keep that on a short leash. Or kill it.

The financial industry's policies around sex and pot need a reboot. It's ridiculous what they're restricting.

"I Hope PayPal's Dick Falls Off"
https://gizmodo.com/i-hope-paypals-dick-falls-off-1839870796
> If one person’s presence is derailing the conversation for some reason, don’t automatically decide they must be the bad guy. The absolute worst thing you can do is to tell that person to shut up and leave the discussion while allowing other people to keep attacking them in some way. This includes everyone rebutting their comments that they are no longer allowed to defend because they were asked to stop posting.

> It is healthier to allow them to vigorously defend their point of view if they wish. If they are the only person representing a particular point of view or experience, do not act like “they are posting too much” if they reply to everyone talking with them about it.

Really wish dang would read this. HN takes the exact opposite approach to this and dang prefers to enforce this to avoid confrontation rather than create a space for conversation.

Edit: this is a great example. I can't reply to anyone here, because I'm rate limited, so people can say how many ways I'm wrong and I have no real ability to defend my argument. This is what dang wants, and it's incredibly toxic. The downvotes pour in and I'm helpless.
> In Germany every bank is obliged to offer everyone a so-called base account

That's very commendable; I wish more countries had such a regulation. Does it extend to non-citizens living in Germany? What about to visitors to Germany? Could someone open an account (by right) while there on a holiday?
What sort of censorship are you referring to? If taproot-schnorr is deployed and adopted, cooperative channel operations will look exactly like normal single-sig transactions. As for routing censorship, if one node fails to route for me, I can open a channel with a different node and route around them.
Serverless and Eventdriven – Fraternal Twins
HTML Isn’t Done (Chrome Dev Summit 2019)
I wrote a similar article earlier this month, about the (hopefully) ad-free, tracking-free future of social media: https://medium.com/@dfang/what-will-next-gen-social-networks...

It really lines up well with your points about engagement, advertiser incentives, and political disinformation!

Here's to hoping people choose to use/build new social tools that better align with our interests and values.
even if your proposal has merit, the most contentious type of advertising seems to be political advertising . I don't read often complaints about flower store advertisements.
yet politicians are not corporations
> Surely it's not that much harder to install [sync app] + [password app] than it is to install [password app]?

It's literally twice as much work. Often more, because I need the password to the sync app's service. Where's that stored?

How many characters is it? Oh, it's a secure, 20-32 character password. What a pain to re-type it. Good thing it uses a ton of symbols which are a pain to type on my mobile keyboard.

> I suspect the intersection between "people who don't know how to manipulate files" and "people who care enough about passwords and are willing to fork over $36/yr" isn't big.

It's not "people who don't know how to manipulate files", it's "people who don't _like_ to manipulate files, and external services, and get them onto all of their devices".

Further, I expect the proportion of the first circle is constant and relatively small (<10%).

I expect the proportion of the second circle _was_ small, but is growing extremely rapidly.
https://newscrewdriver.com/2018/09/06/detecting-raspberry-pi...
Every different technology added to an infrastructure adds potential failure points, raises the DevOps burden, and adds surface area subject to bugs and security attacks.

If a PG-based solution meets the needs then this reduces complexity in the large. And this has nothing to do with learning or not learning.

Sorry but your argument just does not hold up.
I'm not claiming they require "clean experimental results" for the field to have validity. I think sociology is a very valid and valuable field that doesn't have such a thing.

My problem is the misrepresentation of a sociology-like field as experimental physics, or worse, a study of morality. Both are exceptionally common in economics, and I've had several teachers and professors present it that way. It's the orthodoxy surrounding a very specific, Reagan-era capitalist interpretation of the function and behaviour of a society taught as a universal law.
Hayabusa2 is leaving the asteroid Ryugu and heading back to Earth
Seems a big reason for that was the lack of maturity in the node module ecosystem 6-7 years ago.

From the interview:

"How do we gone down a PHP root? I think from a product point of view, we'd probably be a lot
further along than we are now, because in the PHP ecosystem much like in the Ruby
ecosystem, or even the Python ecosystem to some extent, this tooling is well understood. It has
evolved over a long amount of time. You have your defaults that just work. You have your
libraries, which have been time-tested, proven they're great.

Whereas in end of 2012, beginning of 2013 starting out into the node.js ecosystem, pretty Wild
West. There's not a lot of stuff going on. There was barely a usable authentication library that
we could start working with. Even to this day, it's not – there's a lot of things where if you were
working in Ruby or PHP you’d go, “Yeah. Obviously, I'll just grab this library that everyone uses.”
Whereas in node you go, “I can't believe that doesn't exist.”

I think when we wrote the first version of Ghost that wasn't a usable RSS library for parsing XML
and delivering RSS feeds in node, and that was just mind boggling. Then that has repeated
enough times to where it really slowed us down."
Sweet, another sink for techdollars that isn't public policy. The money should go to lobbyists for anonymity-protecting legislation, not a bitcoinz4startup pipe dream.

This has to be someone's tax shelter.
Looks like boarding houses are back....
Thank you (and it's good to say so if another reader doesn't know), but yeah, the 4 versions I was referring to were 3.5-3.8... but my point is that it's now a perpetually moving target.

And fwiw "3.7 is the current version" doesn't help my users.
Private Equity Ghouls Buy Non-Profit That Handles .Org Domains
Have you considered getting a cheap tiny HDMI -> VGA adapter? This with an iPad Lightning to HDMI adapter would allow you to solve (m) and (n).
GitHub hasn't rolled it out yet, so the beating is yet to come.

If it works for me, I'm switching.
pass (passwordstore.org) - self hosted, built from independent components (git, gpg) and completely open source.
Do you have the right to get between two people if one is trying to convince the other to take drugs? To self harm? To harm others? To verbally abuse them? To maliciously deceive and lie to them? To swindle or rob them?

Those last few points is why I have no personal conflict considering modern advertising wholly independent of free speech. Advertising for the purpose of informing someone a product exists would have been fine... in 1920. In 2019 there is no longer limited access to information like that. If I have a problem that needs solving I can seek out information on it on my own. I don't need corporations shoving it in my face against my will as much as they can.

And on top of that they don't do it just for informative purposes. Modern advertising has become cancerous and predatory in its attempts to manipulate people into buying things they don't homeostatically want with money they probably don't have. Its exploitative "speech" meant to rob people designed and implemented by those who hold degrees in psychological sciences meant to take advantage of human biochemistry for profit.

I'd be willing to hear a compromise position on the validity of informational advertising - a side banner that says "Duracell ranked the longest lasting battery by XXX independent group!" but not "Duracell batteries will save your life because they last longer, if you don't buy our batteries your kids will die!" is less unethical. But its a slippery slope - advertisers will always want to exploit people psychologically rather than just be informative. Thats more profitable. I don't think for a second the marginal information utility of unsolicited advertising - remember, information age - is worth the constant attempts for exploitation that modern advertising is wholly immersed in.
Real world random data often doesn't have a hard maximum. Try plotting a histogram of digits of -log(rand()). (I think this gives an exponential distribution with mean 1)
Quotas and incentives. There may be incentives to serve many meals instead of serving a lot of food.
Read the classics, too!

http://www.vandruff.com/mlm.html
I think the lofty and idealistic "end goal" for cryptocurrencies is to be fiat independent, so you don't need any fiat on/off ramps and you will be able to use it for everyday purchases.

Whether that will realistically happen or not I have no idea, but that's the promised land held onto for true believers.
The article borders on the ridiculous.

> after 200 years, $1m placed in trust and growing tax-free at an annual rate of 6% will have become $136bn.

Great, let me just put $10K into this magical tax free, 6% annual trust and collect my $1.36B in 200 years.

Nevermind, the article is ridiculous.
It’s not obvious, but morality and fraud are linked. People buying something considered immoral, when confronted by a spouse or other loved one, lie and say the charge is fraudulent. In this way “immoral” businesses rack up lots of chargebacks, which pisses off financial institutions. Payment providers need to remain on good terms with those institutions. So dealing with these businesses can create more risk than is worth it.

Nobody who runs a payment processor is wagging their finger at camgirls or dispensaries or whatever. They could not care less.

I’m not saying it’s fair or good, I’m saying it’s about risk and financial institutions not morality.
This happens with Firefox on my work machine too. I use Firefox at home but Chrome at work for this reason. I just assumed something was glitching out due to some corporate group policy failure. But yeah, similar behavior: the Firefox window opens but is completely unresponsive for a minute.
> which also let you do all of those things from your computer was an awesome experience

FWIW this has been replaced by https://messages.google.com, but you have to use the messages app, and the phone has to be online. It's still way better than texting on a touch keyboard.
It only adds the burden to DevOps who can't figure out how to monitor/maintain a system, which is not rocket science, and if you're a DevOps person who doesn't know how to handle such a mainstream technology as, say, ZeroMQ or RabbitMQ or even Redis, then maybe you shouldn't be in the position you're in.

The only argument that doesn't hold up is "use one tool for everything". This ideology is for lazy people who want to anchor themselves in a period of time, and refuse to learn new things.
Is there an issue for this in the bug tracker?
I'm also not getting your proof. What does it mean every time you hit a power of 10? The sequence n! does not hit powers of 10 since all terms of the sequence after n=3 are at least divisible by 3.

I agree though, density in (0,1) of the fracPart(log10(n!)) is a good thing to try to prove, since 10^fracPart(log10(n!)) should have the same digits as 10^intPart(log10(n!))*10^fracPart(log10(n!))=10^log10(n!)=n!
Your argument would work if porn were interchangeable. It's not. People don't pay for porn, they pay for specific porn.
iPhones have IR filters over them so that doesn't work anymore unfortunately.
It varies by field. Some have standard repositories for data to go in - all RNA seq experiments get their raw data uploaded to GEO or similar, for example. But they usually don't specify their pipeline sufficiently precisely to be able to recreate the exact analysis done.
That sounds like something that should be handled by law enforcement, not your bank.
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“The computer says no.” Why do credit decisions have to be so opaque?