skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Colour me skeptical. That certainly doesn’t sound like a plausible number, and the article doesn’t cite any sources.

This article http://www.worldstopexports.com/top-blood-exporters-by-count... total US blood exports at $1.4 billion, a distant second to Ireland. That includes both human and animal blood, and I’m not sure what fractions human.

Soybean exports, on the other hand, are closer to $17 billion a year: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/international-markets-us-tra...

Total US exports are $2.5 trillion, so blood is about 0.06% of that.

Edit: found a couple of reputable sources that put blood plus blood plasma exports in the $20 billion range. Possible that the discrepancy comes from whether plasma is included.
I think in a big way this is necessary, this in essence makes crypto that is truly anonymous. If I slide a briefcase full of cash across the floor to someone - nobody knows that happened. Tree falls in the forest and no one is there to see it essentially. If I send a bitcoin in the forest - well I damn well better hope I have an internet connection. The Brixton Pound is a very similar concept but for a much smaller market. I'm interested to see where it goes from the standpoint of the future of physical cash finding a place in a digital world - but it isn't without it's flaws.
> manufacturing housing scarcities ... are a GREAT way to keep your population working really hard to just barely keep a roof over their head.

This guy gets it.

The urbanists' hearts are in the right place, but in the end they're getting used. The only way to win is not to play.

Source: bought a rural foreclosure and licensed wholesale dark fiber from the electric utility. My internet bill is ten times my property tax bill and it's worth it.
However, some modern vims check which incantation they were started with and modify their behaviour accordingly (e.g. nocompatible vs not).
it'd be interesting to know about the tech behind this rewrite. E.g., what language/stack, how did you do it (or any frameworks of interest used), and what, if any, did you learn from the flash version that helped in this rewrite?
You've obviously never had "ants on a log" before. :-)
What will be use cases for such machine ? Training ML Models ? 3D Rendering ?
Yeah, I got this one: https://twitter.com/kstrauser/status/1199040190980845575

I went from about 25 followers to over 50 in approximately a month, after being there more or less from the launch. Those first 25 were largely people I've personally met in real life. The rest are entirely fakey.
It's about time this get's linked significantly to the Mexican cartels and illegal drugs - - as well as the prescription opiod scandle
Sure, but when you're fighting a public perception that cryptocurrency is a value store to be bought and held for huge windfalls, just giving it away won't change perception or behavior. Incentivize people to learn to transfer, spend, trade, or somehow use the currency rather than hoard it (or immediately cash it out as many of the fake users were likely doing).
$1,654,255,000,000 USD and counting ($38k/student) [0]

There are US citizens with over a million dollars in debt. [1]

This is crazy. Other countries invest in people, sometimes including non-citizens.

0. https://usdebtclock.org

1. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/he-ran-up-a-million-dollar...
There are asset-backed securities called SLABS (student loan ABS) that I guess you could make some kind of credit swap out of if that's what you're into. Probably super expensive to construct such an instrument since it like isn't a super liquid market.
This is pretty clearly false. People use things with this property to hedge inflation risk all the time (e.g. gold).
I've never heard this weird qualification for the definition of "line rate" that it somehow requires minimum packet size, so I looked it up. The first three sources for a quoted big-g search all imply or directly state that it's the same as bandwidth:

https://blog.ipspace.net/2009/03/line-rate-and-bit-rate.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/4tk2to/bandwidt...

https://www.fmad.io/blog-what-is-10g-line-rate.html

Also, for gigabit networks, ethernet packets are padded to at least 512 bytes because of a bigger slot size: https://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/cis788-97/ftp/gigabit_ethern...
This is super common, I knew a guy who knew a guy who could get similar stuff done at another famous social network. A company I know got its short url because the employee snagged it from some nobody and gave it to the company. I don’t feel that this is illegal as it is private company that can do what it want, but a low employee doing this unilaterally is sketchy.
There are a few reminders in the PR template in github. You have to check boxes for tests added, documentation added, A/B test team notified, etc if you are adding new functionality. The code review process keeps you honest, and CI will reject the PR if something is missing.
You misspelled “Georgia Tech”, they’re just crazy enough to do it. :P
It gets interesting when you juxtapose that (the gov having limits) with the First Amendment. That is, within certain limits, you can say whatever you want. Say whatever you want, and the gov can't easily "hear" it.

I need to think about this some more.
Some people believe that government control of the money supply is a form of theft. It's certainly a form of indirect taxation (via inflation), and it forces you to rely on the responsibility of your government. Some people believe that eliminating the need to rely on the responsibility of other humans is a terminal good.
I guess ...

I never had much interest in trading or investing in Bitcoin.

But I do earn a little Bitcoin, now and then. And I like to play with VPS, and the occasional server. So I probably spend maybe $100-$200 in Bitcoin each month.

And given that I do all that ~anonymously, it'd be far more hassle without cryptocurrencies.
Lifetimes of debt service is a lenders dream
So, assume colleges overcharged. Maybe they overestimated the value of those new facilities. Lenders are just lenders, they shouldn't have to take it in the shorts, whatever universities are churning out underemployed workers seem like the issue here.

The market for universities facing students sucks too. It's like getting a bunch of blind bids, and they're probably not "educated" enough to build that spreadsheet, plan 5 years out, and realistically guess that they'll be gainfully employed enough to cover the payments at the end of the tunnel.

There's a market issue, and there's a hundred things students can do fuck-all to fix.
Meaning while Trump is trying to make other country buy more Boeing planes?
Fair enough but the performance gap is so wide now (and will be for at least a while) that it's hard to recommend this one.
Is this not strictly worse than cash, then? It’s still a centralized physical currency, but instead of a government with checks and balances that is ostensibly accountable to its citizens, Kong is controlled by an opaque organization accountable to nobody.

After reading the paper, I’m still not exactly sure how the lockdrop works. Could you elaborate on it?

As for verifying transactions offline, I’m skeptical of how useful that is. If you can lock down printing, the supply of fake or duplicate Kong should be low anyway. If you decentralize printing (or a lot of counterfeit/duplicate Kong gets introduced into the market some other way) then offline verification seems insufficient. What’s to stop me from printing and spending two copies of a note if I know the other parties won’t veriify the transaction online until much later?
I suppose you could be right. My understanding is that literally that is what marginalism is. Where are you getting the idea that there are multiple branches of it?
The Chinese name 港幣 may be confusing for Chinese speakers as it's already common short hand for HKD, e.g. the "二十塊港幣" shown on the Kong illustration already means "twenty HKD bucks," not some new currency like "twenty Kong."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_dollar
Yup it is and it's still a terrible value proposition vs AMD.
It's not about how popular the website is, rather how video-centric it is.
I think I'm quite good at detecting when my experience isn't able to suggest a specific choice with statistical significance. I have a generally good overview on whatever I'm designing, but it's hard to find a place where I can make good use of these capabilities (limited, escalation-allowing solo design).

Are there any lesser-known types of positions that require these skills? Preferably backend/core systems, not embedded or fronted.
> That flaw is mostly a non-issue with cash because printing it is difficult.

That depends entirely on how good your fake is. And it is most certainly not 'mostly a non-issue'. Counterfeiting happens all the time.

> Who prints Kong? I imagine prevalence of counterfeiting is more or less directly proportional to the ease of printing.

Nobody. Kong is printed algorithmically, like any other cryptocurrency.
I'm an American, and haven't followed this closely. I have read the articles you mention.

His main point was that if the Tories have been in power for 11 years and haven't even brought up changing the law on early release it's disengenuous for them to argue that it's Labor's fault. If they had cared about the issue, they would have done something about it, goes his argument. You don't seem to address this.

He further argues that Johnson's comments plagiarized his. If he wrote comments that the Tories wanted to publicize, wouldn't that contradict your assertion he never criticizes labor? Furthermore, you don't seem to address the plagiarism issue; if Johnson plagiarized the tweets it doesn't matter how well written they were.
Silly question: is there any legal way to default on a student loan? Can that be exploited? En mass? Perhaps?
Same as any other workstation-class desktop out there. Also, a cool box to have. Wouldn’t you want one if it was, say, $2,000?
... especially considering that there might be confusing tax consequences for people who receive these.
If I recall, this is similar to how the US agreed to let China into the WTO back in ‘99.

Basically, China agreed to license CDMA from Qualcomm, despite already deploying GSM. Once China started paying, the US dropped its objections.

So I think it’s quite normal for politicians to advocate for their nation’s companies.
In my view, ZonedTime<Z> needs to exist, such that it isn't even a complete type without an actual time zone, and you can convert between ZonedTime<PDT> and ZonedTime<CEST> with a cast.

Of course, I'd also have DurationTime as its own type, and do whatever magic is needed to ensure it remains uninfected by leap second shifts.
The internet used to be a paradise of sorts. Sure, there was the occasional troll, affiliate link or Viagra ad in your inbox; but that was the spice of the 'net. Today it's all spice, no curry.
> Student Loans a Lot

Well, bad for student. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I keep being baffled by continued use of the newspaper title style on the English-language web—but at least it's a steady source of entertainment.
That's not remotely true. Even archlinux links to ex.

Type vim if you mean vim. Even if vi is aliased to vim, it's possible you'll end up in ex compatible mode anyway.
I'm not sure what your point is. The comment I was responding to claimed that verification represented a regression in usability in relation to cash. This is not true, because cash also requires verification. I'm not claiming Kong is better in this regard, simply that it is equivalent.
Uhh yeah. It’s not because of setbacks or hurricane structural requirements or parking spaces. The “cookie cutter cul-de-sac” neighborhoods are the affordable neighborhoods built to fight that. What you present as evidence contradicts your thesis. I lived there. And affordability is why.
SiteGround, along with Singlehop, is a Chinese front company for the military. I don’t necessarily blame them for buying out the world’s registrars and hosting services...the rollout of Tor was a giant wake up call to the CCP that can theoretically run almost anywhere as it is software. The only way to compete with such a high level software solution is to make absolute sure you have as much of the hardware boxed in and squatted on as possible.

The proof btw is the fact that some of Siteground’s servers are using banners that are only used by a specific set of companies in China...the “sinister 6” I once heard them called. Venus, TOP-SEC, SANGFOR, NSFOCUS, and Hillstone Networks were all formed in the early 1990’s (some under different names) by the MSS, the Ministry of State Security. It is like a combination of the CIA and the FBI. As for the last of the 6, that would fascinatingly need H3C, formed out of a partial merger between Huawei and 3Com.

All of these companies sell exclusively defensive firewall, DDOS and NG-WAF-like products. At one time there mission was more defensive, the Chinese were paranoid, rightly IMO, that they were running entirely on American software and thus very vulnerable (with the exception of the Titan Rain attack in 2003). However after the GFC in 2008, as hacking became more aggressive, China would start leveraging these firms for surveillance and DDOS on an extraordinary level. Now they have grown so bold as to do things that are frankly somewhat humorously obvious if the situation was not so serious and the political leadership of most countries devoid (purely due to birth years and what they were exposed to) technical experience.

EDIT: because the Alexa Top 1 Million is pretty well sanitized, best resource I recommend is a book from the Naval Institute Press that came out two weeks ago: https://www.usni.org/press/books/chinese-communist-espionage
Apple's marketing team says yes https://www.apple.com/privacy/

Jokes aside it's not perfect and there are different shades of "great" depending on what that means to you personally. But I do trust Apple over Google since their business model is not so aligned with mass scale data collection.
It would still be a lot more diversified than the Softbank fund is. Okay, so maybe multiple index funds in different countries? And a bunch of bonds funds?
I am looking at just this design pattern now (pseudo uuid) can you elaborate on “given good retry logic”?
That was rad as hell.
RAM is used as a disk cache. RAM-drive can also be useful.
Great product. One of my original fave hosted tools. I still use it. Yeah, Flash makes my cringe, but it still works. I'm looking forward to the new post-Flash version.

All the best!
Not just (North?) Americans. Health insurance in general is overpriced due to multiple market distortions. Governments don't seem to want or, more likely, be able to fix this in a systemic way. So many vested interests.
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I'd make the argument that something like Calpers is quite different to a college or hospital endowment.

Calpers has a huge deficit, whereas Harvard has far more than they're likely to ever spend (especially considering the fact that colleges with the largest endowments also attract enormous donations from wealth individuals).
Not OP, but I can vouch that this is a common occurrence now in Australia. Contactless payment is now so ubiquitous, when you go to pay with cash it's often received with surprise. The vendor has indeed already readied the EFTPOS machine for your payment, and has to cancel that and put the transaction through as cash.

Only last year I always carried cash. I like cash. Now, I have a $10 note in my wallet and I can't even remember where it came from. I've stopped actually carrying my wallet, thanks to Apple Pay on my watch.

(I live in a major metropolitan area. It might be different elsewhere.)
Even if that were the case, declaring bankruptcy at the age of 23 doesn't really make the future easier. Doing so in your 40s is easier one could argue because you'd had more connections and life experience, in a sense.
One interesting thing I found was that they must have done some cleanup very early on, or perhaps many people decided to opt out. According to the wallet tab in the app, the Sept 9 airdrop went out to 280,598 users, while the Nov 17 airdrop (after the fake accounts started piling up) was only to 145,263 users. Curious to see what this final airdrop will be like.

It seemed kinda novel and fun, but I've never really been interested in cryptocurrency, and I have no idea what Stellar is good for, or even if I care more than my ability to cash it out as USD.

Overall Stellar feels like a distraction from Keybase building out their core platform and improving the user experience to the point where I'd even think of trying to get my non-technical friends to use it. And if they want to attract the masses (maybe they don't), they need to integrate traditional payments, in local currencies. (Yes, I know Stellar can act as an exchange medium, but people will want single-click ability to transfer fiat currency in/out of their bank account.)
Here's the thing... when you do it en mass, it doesn't matter if it's illegal because nobody can do anything to stop you. It's called a strike.

Apparently the people that started http://rollingjubilee.org/ were originally working on a student debt strike project. Not sure exactly why they switched to a medical debt project, but it's certainly a worthy one.
Why is it hard to prove whether pi plus e is an irrational number?
Developers shouldn’t distribute their own software
Vote for appropriate candidates
Pretty sure mass suicide would be the only option.
Considering that BeiDou uses the same frequency range as Galileo, is it really feasible for the military to jam one without the other?
With one thread, maybe. But using multiple threads it’s not even that hard. I’ve hit 100Gbps using stock TCP stack and ~10 threads in Rusts Hyper without much trouble.

Another example, you can saturate 100Gbps with just 4 iPerf3 processes.
Is there any possible way to break the American addiction on housing as the primary investment / wealth for a family?

As long as existing homeowners are incentivized to drive up the price of their home, none of our housing supply woes are likely to change. And who can blame them? For most people their house is worth more than all their other possessions and investments combined.

Besides the incentive issue, the fact is that most increases in home value are not created by the homeowner. They're created by the city who provide streets, infrastructure, security, etc. They're created by small business owners who make a neighborhood attractive to live in. They're created by nearby employers who bring in wage earners who create demand. The new bathroom the homeowner puts in is a minor matter. Yet all of the value (minus property taxes where applicable) is captured by the private home owner.
Common Lisp does have proper arrays as well, which can be used if the situation calls for it.

As it turns out, arrays aren't actually used that much (except for strings of course) in CL code. Most lists are just a few elements long, and regular lists are perfect for that.
Is this an okay simplification?

• I want to send my password (44) to Google but don't want them to know it's 44. So I multiply it by 37 (Kc) and send 1628.

• I also tell Google that the password is between 40 and 50. (Equivalent to sending three characters of cleartext.)

• Google multiplies 1628 by 78 (Kg) and sends me the result, 126984.

• Google also sends me every number between 40 and 50, multiplied by 78.

• I divide 126984 by Kc and get 3432. I see that 3432 is in the set of other numbers Google sent me (44x78). So I can infer that my password is in Google's set of breached passwords.
Still too confusimg.
EMP's have numerous causes besides nuclear bombs, perhaps "After the blast" is more appropriate here.
You're basically making a point about the Harvard endowment and like maybe....5 other college endowments? This is a small percentage of the LP pool, so....not all that important to the discussion.
Well hopefully "Try Tonight" doesn't appear if I need to enable some other setting!
I don't think you can build new trailer parks in most of the U.S.
Doesn't fix it, unfortunately.
That is one route, or I think the better route may be cds on revenue bonds for public or private schools. Should be cheaper cds, but just as damaged as the crisis rolls through
Sorry, but your website is awful.

Vertical scroll, then horizontal scroll, then finally a video that appears on a button's hover.

Yeech!
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I think that depends a lot on the area and local clubs, some are better than others.

While this looks interesting I'm curious if they've done the numbers for Lora throughput. It's very, very low(which is also what makes it able to punch through everything).

Honestly I'm surprised they're not going for a p2p directional wifi. You've got a lot more hardware to choose from(pretty much all WISP hardware) and it has much better throughput with the benefit of dedicated links. Anything that's omnidirectional is going to have to deal with collisions which is not an easy thing to do.
We need to get rid of student loans. The problem is that Universities don't ever need to worry about a student defaulting and can keep increasing the prices of tuition with impunity. If they default, they don't care, because the money is already in the bank.

If universities had to worry about students defaulting, they would get rid of bullshit degrees that don't result in an actual job and the prices would come done due to free market forces.
You wouldn’t get much fallout from EMP. It has to be an upper atmosphere detonation to get the EMP.
It's not a threat -- it's an offer. Take it or leave it.
Maybe I should have said that some tricks are slow to deploy.

Sometimes the publisher only embeds an image form the tracker (the famed "tracking pixel"). Getting lots of sites to change that to script is a pain. Sometimes they need to deploy new server-side tech for a workaround. For the recent CNAME cloaking trick, they have to get sites to modify their DNS and change what URL they embed script from.
>Not sure exactly why they switched to a medical debt project

My assumption is that the government and lenders of government guaranteed loans aren't selling the delinquent accounts for pennies on the dollar.
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Even places with public transit good enough that you don't have to have a car (ex: Somerville MA, where we live) generally require off street parking.

Setbacks are not the same as sidewalks. You can allow buildings to run right to the sidewalk without pushing pedestrians/wheelchairs into the street.
It's probably a better idea to shelter in place for a week, with windows closed and a hepa filter installed.
You know, I’d be impressed if it weren’t for Google deliberately tracking people. I’d be even more impressed if Chrome started actively working on privacy, like Brave and Mozilla are doing.

Right now Firefox already has monitor that does all of what this does. Seems to me they are playing a sort of partial catchup.
> By that definition, any foreign currency isn't real.

And that's why you generally can't pay for your eggs & bacon at the diner in Wisconsin using British pounds.

The difference here is that you can trivially go to your bank and exchange those pounds for US dollars. Good luck getting them to exchange your Kong.
Stellar is a nonprofit and an organization that is trying to do positive things in the space. Much respect to them. I agree with other commenters that airdropping millions of dollars to Keybase users was not the best - I myself traded them immediately. I think they could have spent ~$15million on devs around the world to build integrations and features and that would have been a far better investment.
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