skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of good applications for geo-ip tech. Banks probably want to flag if someone is trying to login a US-based account from China or using a known VPS/VPN provider as a proxy.

They don't need to be perfect and its certainly better than nothing.
An OS is a tool for running applications, not vice versa. Packaging an application should indeed be the responsibility of people working on that application, which is why language package managers like maven are successful. Debian explicitly rejected this philosophy in favour of one where OS maintainers are responsible for packaging all applications (thus the OS-specific packaging format and closed-world assumption of their package manager).
I believe you are missing the point I was trying to make.

I was stating that nothing, not even bitcoin or money or gold or water has intrinsic value. Anything can have value to a person who is in need of a seller's goods. That was not my argument. Things have subjective value. Things do not have some mystic intrinsic property that makes them inherently valuable.
I am one of the anonymous responders quoted in that post.

Please do not speak for me. You are guessing about my reasons, and you are wrong.
> The fact that they earn minimum wage is evidence of their collective incompetence.

So, because society undervalues their work, they are incompetent losers, with anti-social behavior disorders?

Please, pray tell, how much do you think the people who grow the food that you need to live get paid? Do you think as poorly of them?
It's a pretty big shift from browsers like Chrome and Firefox, but I really like how Qutebrowser handles bookmarks (and "quickmarks"). It's very similar to what you're describing.
Bump up the stack size.
A lot of illegal business is done with bitcoin. It wouldn't be a huge surprise if some lost their capacity to trade, in one way or another.
Apple now treats privacy as if it were another product in its lineup; they clearly feel it’s a competitive advantage: https://www.apple.com/privacy/
The light turning to blue at 7am to indicate that sleep time is over is a nice touch.

Working in collectivities with young children, we'd have a sheet of paper with a sun/moon on each side, and every morning at 7 one of us would go in every room and turn the piece of paper around to let them know they could get out of bed and come to the common areas if they were awake.
The allocation is the huge portion of your salary going towards your mortgage.

The (arguable) "mis-" part is that while it's normal for some property to be worth more than others, and the housing market is functioning as it should given the parameters, we have chosen to make the supply highly inelastic in desirable places with predictable outcome.
After using Go and being forced to "think in composition," I loathe having to use inheritance when working in other languages. There's something about writing Go that feels crisp. When I'm having trouble making it do what I want, I almost almost realize that it was because I was doing something stupid and there was a simpler way.
> Not my definition but the accepted one is price times number of bitcoins mined so far.

Right, but that's essentially a lazy re-definition of the term. I get that it's a bit wordy to always say, "the current total value of all bitcoins is $X billion", but market cap is specifically about the total value of a security's outstanding shares. If people want bitcoin to be treated seriously as a currency, they should stop using terms that explicitly refer to non-currencies.

To put it another way, no one would reasonably talk about something like the "market cap of the Euro"[0], so why would you do that for something else claimed to be a currency?

[0] Entertainingly, when I search "euro currency market cap", most of the results that come up are related to cryptocurrency.
(number of bitcoin) * (price per coin).
Sounds like perhaps you confused with the other direction: that the base of log(n) doesn't matter
Yeah it's not the digital cash we were promised.

But it's great as a store of value, censorship-resistant money, and one of the fastest and cheapest ways to do cross-border remittances.
With subsidies it’s possible to get new electric cars for $20k-25k: that’s how much a Nissan Leaf will end up being for me.
It looks very nice indeed. Is this open source, and if so, is there a link to where I can see it?
I’m sure you can take a look at China for examples.
Funny, we discovered our TV's remote was ultrasonic when we could turn it off with a Slinky. "Rolling" the Slinky back and forth fast enough between two hands created a high metallic sound and we figured the remote must be emitting ultrasound for that to work--we just didn't think about how it worked before. I guess the off frequency was the lowest because we could never get it to do anything else, just turn off.

My honest Sesame Street story: before we had a TV (my parents didn't want one in the house) I was allowed to go to a neighbor's house on Saturday morning to watch with them. One time when I was about 5 years old, I showed up early (7am, 8am?) and just let myself in and turned on the TV before they got up. They would watch Sesame Street, but I never really liked the characters, I just didn't get why there were muppets and monsters living with people in a real city, it just seemed so made up (of course, now I see it as a race/not-race thing). Maybe it was too urban and didn't relate to my suburban upbringing. But I loved the pinball animation (except for the repeated counting and numbers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOaZbaPzdsk
Unless you have riches beyond imagination - this is not feasible in a modern economy... My SO is a prime example of this. She grew up in the bay area but she herself could never afford a home here cause homes be $2m now. Her parents never bought a home - so she will never inherit a fortune either. Even if they did - she wouldn't inherit it until they were dead (and thus unable to help take care of the children). So, she's either going to be unable to afford childcare (cause parents dead) or be unable to afford the house (cause parents alive) - likely unable to afford either (cause really she ain't ever gonna make enough either way).
> It remains a possibility that they are wash-trading.

I'd say they all have every single incentive to wash-trade, front-run, and otherwise cheat the hell out of their system to their advantage. After all, they are completely unregulated and almost always operate well outside any jurisdiction who would care to go after them. I'd say you'd be silly to assume they aren't doing ultra-shady crap.
Calculating economic costs should be done with respect to each nation. I would estimate Afghanistan suffered about $2.5 billion in losses from deaths of civilians and insurgents. However their GDP increased by 5x covering those losses in a month or two. From an economic standpoint losing the war was the best thing to happen to Afghanistan. From the perspective of its citizens and culture though I think you would have to ask them.
>... Lightning only scales with the number of transactions, not users.

Is the rest of the sentence that you quoted out of context. Did you not see the example?
This really just sounds like you need to unionise. The conditions of the factory workers were hard fought for and they display an understanding of the value that they bring to their company. This is absolutely something IT workers around the world need to recognise and begin to organise for for when the market isn't quite so good for IT workers.
Right, but how do you pay more than that, but still make it worthwhile for the parent to work after the cost of child care is deducted from their pay check?
Have you looked into the so-called "DeFi" space? Compound, MakerDAO, Synthetix, and others have some very interesting and surprising product offerings with incredible potential.

Celo and others are working on Libra alternatives.

Arweave has probably the most compelling decentralized but economically thoughtful web-friendly storage system I've seen — and it's launched, live, now.

They certainly "do" things, although they're in early days. And none of them are Bitcoin.
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1) as to 'real'ness, which is not really I think anything I can comment on (or IMO, any honest economist can) writ large -- in the 80s we were well past nixon shock when the US detached from the Bretton Woods II.

2) Perhaps you're referring to reserve limits holding back the money multiplier to a maximum of 10x, which would make it realer than now, when the multiplier is unbounded?... Even if money is realer, if we have any debt at all (presumed by the notion of an interest rate lever) you are lowering the price of debt, which encourages borrowing, meant to or not, which will not pump M0 but will increase the amount of money that people think they have (presuming they can be paid back as creditors), or really, the amount of money that people think they have in their bank accounts that they think their banks can recover from their leveraged adventures.

3) now probably the real fake labor subjective value of money is neither true to the austrian nor the keynesian/chicagoan extremes, certainly not the smith/marx/ricardian absolute (I mean let's say you do something crazy like save the earth from an asteroid strike, how much was that one hour of looking at a photograph worth surely not the same as one hour of a worker in a nail factory), and not really a thing that depends entirely on M0 nor the velocity of money (an immesurable measurable if ever there was one) in which case who the hell knows. In the end we're all dead anyways. The three universal truths are death, taxes, and network splits.
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From the perspective of one worker, until such a time as they sell & move away it is indeed spent. The old adage, house rich cash poor.
> Company B: I got an offer from another start-up like company, with a very interesting job, doing what I like. They pay: 3000 monthly for 40 hours a week, with 30 days paid vacation. Working here, would benefit my knowledge for my future plan greatly. I would not have that much spare-time between tasks.

I would note that 40 hour weeks, in my experience, are very rare in technical roles if you're at a "start-up like company". Be prepared for 60ish hour weeks (and celebrate if that doesn't happen).
Just like a sponsored article is an ad, but it's also an article. The cover is pretty good :D
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Safety, reliability, service, fit and finish, range.
I’m not being flippant. I don’t think college is valuable for most people, and the “four year vacation for already privileged kids” isn’t something I want to see public money being spent on.

As to being elitist: subsidizing college is a handout to people who are already pretty well off. The people who need help the most aren’t going to college. I’d very much like to see colleges defunded and that money redirected to social services for kids in high-need communities.
Are the after-effects of an explosion any less gruesome?
This only makes sense if you think that bachelors degrees contribute no value during the entire lifetimes of the people who receive them, which seems like a pretty huge assumption that should not pass unexamined.

I agree that college financing is out of control, but that doesn’t mean a college education is a waste of time. Secondary education was once the domain of rich kids too, but we changed that and the long term value to the world is obvious. Financing public goods is a solvable problem.

It seems pretty reasonable to me that as human society grows more complex and specialized, humans would benefit from more education.
And, based on what I see every day, a license still doesn't always mean "drive[s] a car safely".

FWIW in NSW it's 120 hours logged as a learner and nearly everyone I've asked admits to lying a bit. It was only 50 hours when I did it, and most lied back then - mostly due to just driving until they felt ready for a test without really logging, then adding it later.
Not sure why this is greyed out, but I appreciated your comment. Is Forest School a thing beyond where you live, do you know?
Yes. It is not in any sense fileless.
Look in the settings then switch backup chats externally to on, then hit backup chat. What is so hard about that?
All of the above? Plus a lot of other things like styling, interior, infotainment, soundscape and sound dampening, dealership/repair network, and so on...

There’s nothing magical about electric cars that takes away all the hard parts of building a car. Look at all the maintenance issues Teslas have with falcon wing doors and so on to see the potential issues that can turn customers away even on an electric car. Just because you have an electric motor instead of an engine doesn’t mean you don’t have all the other parts of a car to deal with and tweak.
Related: four-phase logic[0] and its red-haired, CMOS step-child, domino logic[1].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-phase_logic

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_logic
Yes, but a shiny Sprinter with solar panels, aggressive tires, and a 4x4 emblem isn't fooling anyone.
familiarity, documenting the process for building, and last but not least, access to the entire unix toolchain.
Because we're now locked into binary? Balanced ternary computers were built and used in the Soviet Union until 1970: http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/setun.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Vietnam

“Since the mid-1980s, through the Doi Moi reform period Vietnam has made a shift from a highly centralized command economy to a mixed economy that uses both directive and indicative planning through five-year plans.”
Even if this fails spectacularly, if he really spends $2bn it could have an effect globally on increased demand/manufacturing, and lower prices in $ per kWh for good quality lithium ion batteries.

I may be wrong on this, but as I recall, Vietnam's domestic auto industry exists because they have escalating high tariffs on foreign manufactured cars with certain engine sizes (eg: 35% tariff on foreign made 4 cyl 1.6 L, 40% or more on 2.4L and larger engines, 50% tariff on things with 3.5 to 5L engines). Similar to China.
I do not currently work for Apple on this, but you can read about the ways Intelligent Tracking Prevention has changed to adapt to the ecosystem on the WebKit blog: https://webkit.org/blog/category/privacy/. I was under the impression that the ad click attribution work (which I think is what you’re talking about) is being proposed as a standard and is open for comments right now.
What differentiates one ICE car manufacturer from another? Already they're using the same basic engine design (and often the same engine) between brands. With ICE cars it comes down to aesthetics, passenger features, and marketing. No different than EV makers.
Basically Twitter got pwned big time, and now denies it because GDPR will ruin them if breach is proven.

Here is what Doubi's online followers figured:

State security got all phone numbers used for Twitter phone verification up to May 2019 and possibly till July.

Twitter haphazardly closed the breach in complete secrecy.

API hole explanation is excluded as people with 100% private accs got police visits.

People with foreign SIM cards also got into trouble. So the explanation that China compromised Twitter's SMS providers is also excluded, as its improbable that they did it in 4+ countries.

2016 breach is also out of question.

The only explanation is that they got hold on a big piece of their user DB, or, worse, they have an active infiltrator in Twitter, or Twitter voluntarily cooperated.

https://mobile.twitter.com/robert_spalding/status/1134797195...

https://amp.ft.com/content/afd44222-5c34-11e9-9dde-7aedca0a0...
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Sesame Street was just beautiful at dealing with these complex subjects in a way that was both easy to digest for kids and nuanced. Portrayed all emotions, highlighted things that you, as a child, wouldn't learn from adults as those might be things they're ashamed of, scared of, etc.

I think Sesame Street is up there with Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood as one of the kindest and most influential shows on television, not in terms of influencing the medium and other shows but in terms of influencing viewers. Each of them brought up thousands of good people who went on to do more good. Caroll Spinney has, undoubtedly, played a huge part in that. RIP to a great man from a great show.
$120K (for a BS) is still a lot of money to owe straight out of university. I think it would be hard to justify getting that in debt for most degrees.
1st: I do not claim a conspiracy. I just am rather sceptical when it comes to believing anyone with a potentially (if not likely) sketchy history, who all of a sudden grows a moral conscience that he or she apparently didn't require before. Especially if that somehow nicely aligns with the political agenda of powerful people in a country they seek refuge, from either prosecution or persecution elsewhere.

2nd: WADA might be situated in Canada, but that will not prevent the US from trying to influence (or even infiltrate) the organization. Either way, WADA has already received its share of criticism. I don't know enough to judge if that's information warfare against WADA, or if the organization has indeed become a US puppet as some do claim.

3rd: anyone who has been following this whole thing for a while, should also have noticed that some professional athletes from other countries appear to be getting an easier treatment than Russian ones. Could just be framing in the media, but could also be a real thing. I could honestly not tell. Still, when it comes to counting actual verified accounts of deliberate misinformation, I think that the US media is currently a lot more high on propaganda than Russian media (though neither are innocent, obviously).
For some reason we can't "spread the load" of economic activity so that we are not all crammed into dots on the map.

I suspect this is partially due to the specialization needed to globally compete. You have to hire lots of specialists to compete and put them in the same building so they are collaborating efficiently. Tele-work hasn't yet lived up to the promise, perhaps because office politics matter, and tele-work hides one from the real going-ons.
Thank you Jacques!
Indeed, for practical sorting purposes going down to individual parts is less useful. But there are intriguing possibilities, like for example using it to keep track of your collection, or extracting sets from a collection.

The machine is quite robust to jams so long as you're careful not to insert oversized parts. That being said,
I'd say there's a problem every 30-60 minutes, so certainly not something you could leave overnight. Running for hours and hours means that it will eventually grind itself into dust anyway (I've already burned out a motor!)

I'll probably end up sharing everything one way or another. I'm sure you'll agree that any real commercial application of something like this is pretty far-fetched so I'm more than happy to just treat this as a contribution to the body of domain randomization application research.
The trade-off is the following. If serious traders don't make any profit on a platform but make it on another one, they will leave. That is the primarily reason for an exchange to steal money at a reasonable rate instead of doing some super greedy stuff.
> Here's a crime that really shouldn't be a crime [...] but people mention "this is a crime" as a deterrent.

Many, many people seem to be missing the mental concept of "a crime that shouldn't be a crime". You know it's wrong because it's against the law, and of course it's against the law because it's wrong.
As an aside, is there anyway to recover emails if I didn't sign into Yahoo for a year? I and a lot of others had up to 15 years of sentimental mail exchanged during that period :(
Not all in the same day. If you loan $30, then take it back the next day for 10 days in a row, you're still just moving around $30, not $300
Also, most hash tables are not really O(1). The worst case scenario is more like O(n).
Correct. Bitcoin is mainly a hoarding and speculation asset.
Not if you consider the intermittency/storage issues.

(And guess what - intermittency isn't a big deal for cryptomining / SETI/Folding@Home either!)
Every big software company hires thousands of new grads every year. The caveat is that they recruit almost entirely from the pool of current college seniors, not people who have already graduated. Most competent grads have a job lined up well before they graduate so hunting for your first job AFTER you graduate is a giant red flag and most companies are going to be very skeptical about you. You aren’t seeing those postings on public job boards because they do most of their recruiting on campus.

The company I work for classifies all candidates as “campus” or “experienced hire”. There’s no category for non-experienced hires who are out of college, the company won’t even acknowledge that these people even exist because there’s no interest in recruiting from that pool.
I guess it depends on if we are talking about enthusiasts or the average consumer? If we are talking about the average consumer I would assume in order of importance; Reliability, vehicle range, charging time, ride quality, available technology, interior quality.

For the average "enthusiasts" seen in the comments section of Car and Driver's facebook page it would be more along the lines of; 0 to 60mph time, nurburgring lap times, 0 to 100mph times, quarter mile times, looks. But for actual enthusiasts who have an interest in Electric Vehicles i would say all the things you mentioned are fairly important. But really, to the average consumer who purchases something like a Camry or Accord, I feel as if reliability/range/technology (by that i mean things like apple car play, lane assist, and other QoL technologies) and value are really what the average person is looking for.
This is a curse of practicality and popularity, and you see it in other areas of computing.

Recently there have been some threads about filesystems, and how they don't provide exactly the guarantees that applications would find useful for providing their own guarantees on top. The reason is because filesystems had to deal with performance desires and many imperfect applications and hardware storage devices in the past. Trying for certain kinds/levels of "guarantees" just didn't make "market" sense, even in an open-source OS. And they do usually work remarkably well in practice ...
Amazon only charges you when the pre-ordered item ships. :)
David Tong‘s lecture notes are pretty good: What I am talking about is covered in lecture 7: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/string/seven.pdf
There are actually not that many tools solving this problem. I appreciate the efforts of the project team and look forward to learning more about it.
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It seems that Signal is working on adding usernames: https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-introducing-usern...
For gold, typically ownership is traded, not custody.
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I used to work there, I can confirm that they are legit about their standards. They visit their factories constantly.
MIT Tagged Token machine is another TTDA. I actually wonder if cheaper CAM or Qubits would help, even though debugging would still be very, very painful.
Those are the exact same comments as people had on Tesla roughly 8 years back. There even was a whole website dedicated on the Tesla 'death clock', predicting when they would go bankrupt.

Only time will tell.