skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s all true. I’m not from the midwest, nor do I have a big allegiance to it, but the places I’ve visited, explored extensively, and have friends living in (Indy, Minneapolis, St. Louis) I find would be a very pleasant place to live and work. I can imagine that several other mid west cities also have much to offer as well. Perhaps not all at Austin’s “weird” level, but I’ve found plenty of culture (and counter culture), interesting food, and decent housing, in any big mid west city I’ve been around enough.
I read this as information density in theory, not necessarily in practice.

For this result to be true in practice evidence that ternary hardware can be manufactured and operated at the scale of binary hardware, e.g clock speed, error rates and power draw. Everything I have heard prior pointed to the conclusion that binary is more efficient when accounting for the physical properties of the substrate.

I'm sceptical of claims in the realm of physics on the basis of pure math without empirical confirmation.

Is there any modern research into manufacturing ternary chips?
Warning to any devs using the phrase “choose your own adventure”
Moderators didn't do anything to either that submission or this one. Users flagged them.

I did change the title on this one to match what the article currently says; that's all.
It doesn't. He's a troll that claims solaris is the solution to every problem that he doesn't understand.
My understanding—only because another HN commenter told me as much, many months back—was that even the exact same model hardware would return different canvas fingerprints due to silicon differences. Not true?
It would make more sense if fields actually were functions, or at least function-like in syntax.

Then again, OCaml still has module-scoped scoped record field names today, even though it also uses the dot syntax.
GUN: a realtime, decentralized, offline-first, graph protocol to sync the web
You are thinking of 'Neverwhere', by Neil Gaiman!
How does the background blurring work? Take multiple photos with different focus depth or simply body segmentation with neural networks?
Oh that's a good idea. I was thinking that there should be an open source object recognizer that can sort any material (kind of like a 3D printer). But having cameras on recycle bins would be great. Used cell phones could do it. There are probably unlimited amounts available for $5-10 each:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=lot+cell+phone

Also image recognition has been a solved problem since about 2010, so any roughly 1 GHz processor can do it in under a second for something like a plastics recycling symbol.

I just can't believe that there is no money available for projects like these. I was thinking about it just now at the gym and I'd like to see society move away from donating time at a personal level, and towards organizational donating where the workers involved are paid the going rate on their labor. So instead of working a full-time job and being expected to put in a couple nights and weekends per month on volunteering, we'd instead donate money to foundations that could go deep on problems with real backing. It seems to me that this would also be a good fit with open source in general. These problems are so much easier than the yak shaving we do at work that we could solve most of them in a matter of a year or two.
I've heard the ad industry has been moving toward that model rather than clicks, which seems good -- but it doesn't seem to be appreciably helping make the ads suck less. For years Daring Fireball paid its bills and then some with a simple, non-moving, square sidebar ad; obviously that wouldn't keep the lights on at Vox, let alone the NYT, but I can't help but think ads could have been... better.

There are places that at least strike a balance that doesn't make me want to poke my eyes out -- The Outline, for instance, at least now that they've toned down the over-engineered JavaScript woo they launched with -- but it's depressing how uncommon that is.
I believe it's more beneficial for developers to learn the underlying model of how git works (blobs, trees, commits, tags, etc) and how various commands deal with those underlying concepts. The Pro Git book git internals chapter is a very good place to start. That, in combination with the man pages for the commands they go over, will greatly enhance one's understanding of how git works.

Relying on cheat sheets to learn how to use git is not much different compared to learning how to use a programming language via Stack Overflow. In other words, you'll never develop a more thorough understanding of how the tool works and how to use it effectively.
That's the parent company's financial figures, which include profits from franchisee's. This inflates their earnings. A typical store (franchisee or McOpCo) clears about 10% net of their sales. For a McOpCo store (one owned directly by McDonalds), this is not bad at all, since they don't have to pay a franchise fee. This means they're clearing 5-8% more. But for a franchisee, they pay a franchise fee of around that amount. So take home is not as extravagant. 90% of McDonalds are franchised, so the parent company's earnings are largely composed of franchise fees, not sales margins.
USENET meme then?
Big 3:

Cost structure of college

Cost structure of healthcare

Mass incarceration (actual cost + lost GDP etc.)

If we fixed those 3, or at least dramatically reduced their impact, we would unlock 30+ years of growth. Its basically free money, just sitting there, waiting for someone to restructure each of them.
Quick sort can be made to be O(n log n) with careful choice of pivot - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_of_medians
I'm not sure I agree with quite a few of those points when you look at the "SF" part of "SF Bay Area". Sure, Woodside and Moraga are top tier quality of life if you can afford it, but half of SF is essentially Gotham city.
Their BNB coin used to pay fees outperforms bitcoin past year. Is that wash trading as well?
The landlord does not need to settle the transaction on the Bitcoin network to spend the money I have payed him. He could spend it anywhere within lightning. This is the crux of your misunderstanding.

I really wish people would take more time to understand the things they criticize. There are real problems with lightning, this isn't one of them.
Got it! Thank you all for clarification, my comment is irrelevant then.
Can we bypass their firewall protection?
Samuel Delaney was a big influence; Gibson wrote the foreword to newer editions of Dhalgren.

Gibson has also said John Brunner was also a big influence, and praised The Sheep Look Up (which is great).

I wonder if Gibson read Alfred Bester, whose The Stars My Destination certainly has something cyberpunk in it. His lesser-known novel The Computer Connection (also known as Extro) is also terrific.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21718456
I am primarily an angular dev and back in September I decided to learn some React. I have often used multiple websites for color conversions like HEX to RGB or RGB to HEX as well as for darkening/lightening shades etc so I thought it would be a good opportunity to combine all the features across the different sites I use into one convenient place instead of jumping around from site to site.

So the Cron Color Tool was born! The initial iteration wasn't so great so a couple weeks ago when I got some more free time I rebuilt the app (First time using redux too!) and added a contrast tool as well (feature request from coworker! :D)

The heavy lifting relies on ChromaJS and TinyColor2. The github is sort of a mess right now but I linked it in another comment if anyone is interested.

Would be interested in any feedback or suggestions on the UI (I usually work with a design team and find it hard to design on my own). As well as any suggestions anyone has for more tools to add onto this.
There was a discussion about a 'dead zone' of media relating to books because of overreaching copyright [1]. Since the economies of providing older copyrighted work aren't in high enough demand aren't incentivized enough, the works effectively become 'lost'.

There's a long tail to exploit, which I think Netflix, at least when it started out, benefited from, but in practice the works become effectively lost.

I've found at least one other example of an article talking about this effect relating to Zora Neale Hurston [2].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-h...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/0...
In fact, we don't (at least the first $5k, if you have access to a DCRA through your employer.)

Why you need to have access to a DCRA and can't simply deduct child care expenses, I have no idea. It's like with an FSA, it seems someone wants to provide a benefit but is purposefully making it harder to use...
> The US Federal Government is providing 90%+ of the liquidity. What benefit is it gaining?

A perpetual (young) underclass and whose legal status is favourable, thus tax requirements are firmly intact, but whose job opportunities for social mobility are ever diminishing, should make that obvious. Cheap, local sourced labour is critical to a consumer-driven, service sector economy: which the US is.

The limited manufacturing that does take place in the US is increasingly automated away, and the maintenance, deployment, installing and management of said equipment is limited in both scope and capacity, but could also be learned as an apprentice as it was done for millennia for other of man's highly coveted crafts. University requirements are a subsidy for an industry, much like Insurance was after WWII--they sought to inflate a needless sector of the economy.

No, the US Federal Reserve loans the US Government (treasury) money at interest which is then the basis for its ever increasing debt ceiling; the US government itself has the sole monopoly as having the Reserve Currency of the World (USD), with the largest Military and the biggest pollution based footprint on the World to maintain its inflation based petro-dollar.

They already won. This is merely about keeping the system in place, this the 'American Century' these plutocrats extolled and sold generations on can be viewed as such: they went from exploiting black slaves to being indiscriminate and targeting the youth and poor. Debt is the tool, and its effective.

I really can't understand how you guys in the Valley can just ignore all the homeless so effectively (many are really young) that you cannot see how obvious it all is; I guess being in a place modeled on affording its affluent residents a permanent state of infantile distraction must work.
Since the article is from 2017, it would have been better to omit "Confronts a New Problem" in my opinion. There is a difference between "10% of Americans Cook" and the actual title, "10% of Americans Love Cooking".
What you are referring to exists in regular stocks markets but not in cryptomarkets (at least, when we talk about relatively reputable exchanges).

Take Binance as the largest crypto-exchange. Market makers are the ones who put buy or less limit orders. Market takers are the ones who put market order to "eat" limit orders. Market markers are not paid to provide liquidity. However, their fees decrease from, e.g., 0.075% per trade to say 0.030% per trade if they trade millions $ per month.
something that is not limited perhaps?

there is growth everywhere, every day millions of people create new value, if limited bitcoin were to represent it then it would have to rise in value - but that makes it a bad deal to spend the bitcoin if you know tomorrow will rise in value
>The landlord does not need to cash the check to spend the money I have payed him. He could spend it anywhere as a third party check. This is the crux of your misunderstanding.

Ask your landlord why they won't spend third party checks and you have your answer as to why they won't spend unsettled IOUs on a lightning network.

You're free to pull the, "Lightning too complicated for you to understand" but I think you're projecting again. Lightning doesn't scale with millions of users despite your attempts of apologizing for it.
At least the cars look quite good https://www.vinfast.vn/themes/custom/vinfast/static/images/h...

There are 2.2 million+ Vietnamese Americans so maybe some of those will buy on principle.
You could program a dataflow system on a network of Transputers but the hardware isn't dataflow. We would have called it a General Purpose Parallel machine.
Raising children is an instinct that's hardwired in each of us.

Maybe, but raising children well certainly isn't...
This was not a crowdsourcing product. I ordered two scooters because they were advertising scooters for sale. Nothing in my purchase order stated that my order wouldn’t be filled immediately. It was once they had my money that they kept pushing the date back for shipping.
I would disagree. "People who can afford Apple gadgets" is a desirable high-income audience. I wouldn't be surprised if it was broken out as a special category for purchase by FB and GOOG soon.
With the graphic novel Archangel and his non-fiction collection Distrust That Particular Flavor you get 14, at least. The sequel to The Peripheral comes out in January.
The difference is that we're evolved for physical interaction. Using all of your senses and social cues and the surrounding environment to interact with someone makes a big difference.

It's how you can read the tone of the room, see tiny changes in expression, hear the differences in intonation, shake someone's hand and feel their demeanor, measure the level of background chatter, check if people are really paying attention, etc. All of this helps us have more honest and confident communications which underlies deal making and business.

Unless we get to matrix-level VR, this is something that can't be replicated by any kind of tech and will always require travel to get that full experience.
Correct. This was not a Kickstarter or anything like it. They represented like they had product at the time that I ordered.
Isn't that a much more general argument? Anytime I do some garden work myself, fix some appliance myself, clean my house, buy groceries, cook my own dinner, do my taxes alone, drive my car myself, etc, I'm not increasing the GDP, but I would be if I paid for the respective service.

Also note how in your first scenario both people earn money, in the second scenario only A does (ending up with more than what B had in scenario 1).
The thing that sunk the Transputer was that you couldn't (for the time it had a hardware performance advantage over competitors) program it in C.
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The general assumption is that the hash function used is a random oracle, if your hash function is H(s) = 0, then you will obviously end up with lots of collisions.
The point is that UW offers degrees that are easily worth it at that price.
Which side it is doesn't matter. Assuming signed operands, if either one is long, then the other one is also promoted to long; otherwise, both are promoted to int. So bool * bool or char * char or short * short is actually int * int, and the resulting type is also int.
Note that it's very rare to end up with programs with provably zero instances of panicking. Even .unwrap() is okay to have if you don't use it for errors but signaling fatal, unexpected logic bugs. Every instance of array indexing have bound checks, and thus panics. The formatting machinery is going to end up in your binary if you don't make special precautions for it not to.
They're talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_architecture not dataflow programming.
placebo effect, power of positive thinking

Bit of a jump from 'reading stories to water.'
I don’t think I’m a sucker for ordering a product promised to be in stock.
Yeah that's fair, although I think then we'd lose the article's focus on the grocery business. Hopefully my most recent edit is a reasonable compromise
http://archive.is/g1cf5
It wasn’t a Kickstarter though.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-recommends-that-you-keep-y...
I have the same experience. The only chat I've managed to get people on and keep for a longer period of time - no dealbreakers so far.
amusingly, the long term the availability of bitcoin will be zero.

every day someone loses their passcode, backups are lost, people die and forget to share the information etc ... eventually, over a long enough time horizon, everyone will make a mistake or be struck down by a series of unfortunate events, thus long term the number of bitcoins available to a transaction will be zero, all will be locked away and lost forever

(this is a joke, but worth considering hypotetically)
Most people do not work in BL2 lab space. Most office people have desk jobs, where they sit at a desk and type all day.
Is America on the brink of civil war? More like a coming reign of terror
The subsidies are per-manufacturer, for the first 200k units sold. As of June, only Tesla and GM have hit the phase-out threshold. Everyone else still has the full $7.5k credit available.

https://evadoption.com/ev-sales/federal-ev-tax-credit-phase-...
Not sure if this is the case but it would be possible to fool fingerprinting by randomizing parts of the browser so each request has a unique fingerprint which isn't useful for tracking.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21743129
I made the observation just a day or two ago to a friend, that when I decided I would invest in a lot of storage, I also had to invest in even more to be able to do backups...and then to perform those backups I have to be able to sync the data effectively, which has some natural scaling limits and introduces ergonomic concerns. After a certain point I threw up my hands and said, "okay, I guess the amount of data I can reasonably keep track of is roughly the amount I can keep synced across multiple devices". So, for the consumer equipment I am using regularly, a few terabytes at most.

And that solves the problem in the sense of "I have some form of redundancy", but not "I am confident that it's durable", and definitely not "I am actually curating the data at archival quality".

But when I investigated using PAR2 I had another thought, which is that, in a sense, this is a quality-of-service type of issue, and those are always subject to variable standards. And part of my problem is like what you allude to - I can't easily specify how important the data is. If only I could just say, "I only somewhat care about these commercial multi-gigabyte sample libraries, but I care deeply about my password database, so please do the right thing with each." And that's something that - whether it's surfaced to the app or to the user - it really needs a much greater degree of coordination to pull off. As it is, there's a lot of redundant guesswork taking place.
Vingroup is a classic Asian conglomerate that is already varyingly successful in half a dozen fields ranging from retail to real estate and hospitals. The key challenge is whether they can make money outside their home market of Vietnam.
Which is not surprising, since religious schools get to pick their students. I'm the product of 12 years of Catholic education, much of it supposedly high-quality, and expulsion and removal to the public school system was an ever-present threat. Not to mention, I'd already been implicitly selected into the school by dint of my parents being able to afford it, and opting to spend the money.
Buy up a few parking lots in a few major metros and let people unlock the cars with an app on their phones as short term rentals.

The vehicles will probably end up as a loss, but it's going to get a lot of press. Then start selling them. Make the parking lots into car dealerships. Put them in college towns where people are just starting to get real jobs and have money to spend, and are also very online.
Important Startup Lessons for Founders and CEOs
If it's made with proper merino wool then that would explain the price.
I've bought merino jumpers in that price range before, and they're well worth it since they're warm but also light-weight.
I would not hesitate to find a paid alternative to a free site/service that tries to control my choice of browser. The moment you try to push me into changing my up to date setup is the moment you’ve lost me as a user forever.
Why do we assume that they wanted a status symbol?
iPhones are popular across income distribution and Macs are a very small market compared to phones
> A Criteo spokeswoman said that by making the ad-blocking feature automatic in Safari, Apple “does not truly promote choice for the users of its browser.”

That's an... interesting take on the situation.
A completely valid point. Thanks for sharing.

I suspect there's a time and place to use new experiments. Production isn't usually it.
I don’t think a good CS degree is “easily” worth $120k.
> "If you're the CEO of the kind of company that can afford private jet money, people should be coming to you."

Renting makes sense but that line doesn't. CEOs aren't the boss, they serve their customers. They're often the face of the company and always the top salesperson.

You go to your customers and keep them happy if you want to be in business, you don't demand they come to you. The bigger the company, the more the CEO tends to travel.
I learned that from a chemistry set I got when I was 10. My high school didn't teach metric, nor really much of anything that I recall.
There's another way to think about this. Privacy is a human right. If your business model is built on violating human rights at scale then I'm not going to have a lot of sympathy for you if technology kills your business.

The lesson from Apple is build something great, something that people love, and they will pay you for it.
This could result in the common misconception that market cap is equal to the influx of money into an asset. E.g. market cap increasing by 5bil doesn't mean that 5 billion worth of currency was invested into it.
Very nice (seriously!). Now, please let people use the platform without needing a valid phone number. The one major issue I have is that. Phone numbers are the new SSN, just like SSN is being misused by traditional businesses, phone numbers are also misused thse days (due to how you generally can be tracked down to a physical area for antifraud and how "everyone" has a cell phone) to uniquely identify users.

I don't get why users can't be addressed by both phone numbers and a "signal id", if you opt-in to use a phone number for addressing, your phone will be verified and signal will resolve it to your signal id. If you opt out people will need your signal id to address you and you can't use it for SMS. What are the challenges with that?

If I have a signal private group system, signal can find out a ton about me and my associations with others using only that information. Many other messaging platforms do not nees this very sensitive information from me to function. And it does not support a desktop only app even if you give them a phone number and verify you control that number.

I am always reminded of General Hayden (Former NSA chief) was saying how they love PGP at the NSA because they can sniff metadata and know who talks to who, it lets them easily find who has something to hide so they can target them. Not that I have the NSA in my threat model but I am very sensitive to unnecessary metadata being generated
> That claim about "thinly" contradicts the numbers given in my post above

Most Bitcoin volume is non-economic [1]. Some of it is fraudulent printing. Some of it is wash trading.

That said, I don't doubt Binance's figures. The problem with taking a few trades and multiplying it by the outstanding coinage goes back to the aggregate being meaningless.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nysearca-2019-01/srnysearca2...