skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I dont think this view represents the majority.

The media has developed a bad habit of amplifying the views of tiny discontented activist minorities inside major companies and presenting their opinions (which are often radical) as if they were typical of the majority. After seeing many examples of this kind of total distortion over the years, I simply can't believe any reports about what employees at major companies think.
A critical relevant fact is missing to help explain this. It screws up currency analogies, and that may be why people have asked for clarification.

Bitcoin (BTC) is classed by the US Federal Gov't (IRS) as property, not currency.

That wasn't some kind of mistake or tax technicality on the IRS' part - a lot of analysis went into this in 2013, along with DHS and FinCEN. This is the definition for BTC in the US.

That means what happened today could be described as:
The first and oldest decentralized, distributed, cryptographically-secured record of digital property ownership (Bitcoin as a network) is producing cryptographic keys (the property, BTC) at half the rate it was yesterday. There is now less of the digital property (BTC) being created by the network daily, and this is due to an artificial scarcity strategy built into the Bitcoin source.

Hope that helps
Post-edit for spelling/clarity: Mandatory labeling of removed content ought to be legally mandated.
Oh, yes, I think delivery has gone up. Personally, I haven't used it (for food). I don't have decent restaurant delivery options--for my tastes. And the stock situation with supermarkets is sufficiently bad that I'd rather go myself and wing substitutions.

I have a couple nearby grocery pickup options (an hour outside a major city) but going into a store early on a weekday doesn't feel like a big problem where I live. Opinions may differ of course.
This is not going to change the rural/urban dynamic because people are not going to migrate from high-cost cities to rural areas, they are going to migrate from high-cost cities to slightly lower cost cities that still have an acceptable level of culture/amenities/jobs. Techies and other over-educated people are still going to spend almost all of their time interacting with people of a similar education and socio-economic status.

People left rural America for a reason, and a slight deviation from the coastal clustering is not going to change sufficiently to reverse the inevitable hollowing-out of rural counties.
Bespoke business apps – still relevant?
Bernie Madoff's scam lasted perhaps as much as 40 years.

It was still a scam.
I feel like the hydrogen atom model (the rendering model) is ambiguous, which makes the rotation ambiguous

Also, I feel like you have to have a good grasp of symmetry and rotation to grasp the thought that they rotating in different directions - the top part of the thing, closest to the viewer, is going right for both of them. Why is that counter or clockwise? Thank God I took quantum chemistry and think I know what they're going for.
> Unfortunately, practically all cryptocurrencies subscribe to the notion that early miners must receive greater rewards, even when they often already enjoy lower difficulty.

Well, it's a great way to get people to be invested in your new cryptocurrency.
Agreed. The business model seems to be to give access to the rent to own deals via the sample subscription fee. Don’t think they make any money of their plugin deals. I’m also not arguing it’s too expensive or a rip off. But it’s still a large amount of money for software, in the private space at least. The rent to own thing seems like a smart tool to get rid of the barrier of entry.
I think we agree: an implementation that uses a stack to make normal calls fast, needs to move/copy the stack to the heap, when the stack runs out (or when a continuation is captured).

I don't know whether Chez still uses the same strategy, but a major part of Dybvig's thesis (very readable) was dedicated to explain the details of a possible implementation strategy.

http://agl.cs.unm.edu/~williams/cs491/three-imp.pdf
Rest assured, when I'm trying to figure out whether I can coerce Linux into running on a board that was never meant to support such a thing, "slow" is a secondary concern:)
> Now, Youngstown’s approach to economic development is coming under greater scrutiny as the city’s former finance director and a prominent developer prepare to face trial on public corruption charges. At the heart of the case are allegations that officials steered taxpayer funds to favored projects in exchange for bribes.

Corruption runs deep in Youngstown. Search for "Youngstown corruption" and you'll get a grab bag of "mob/mafia/politicians/FBI" from any decade post-WWII to present.

FTA:
> Among the offenders are Enviva Materials, a tire recycling operation; Industrial Waste Control, a pressure-washing and waste handling business; and Domestic Linen Co., a uniform laundry and rental operation. All received 10-year tax abatements without creating a single new job or substantially missing their employment targets.

Some firms, like Allied Consolidated Industries Inc., a steel erecting and dismantling company, received back-to-back incentive packages, even after reneging on their initial agreement.

I think corruption is Occam's Razor here.

Source: grew up in Cleveland reading about Youngstown's corruption and watching clowns like former Congressman James Trafficant [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Traficant#Trial_and_expu...
True, board layouts aren't either, forgot about that. The circuit itself can't be copyrighted, so you do not need a license to make your own board with the same components.

I personally quite like the approach of using the bootloader chip as light DRM: The majority of the value is in software you can freely use, with licenses provided. Prototyping with a Teensy and then making a product using the same parts and the libraries, not a problem. Just if you want to provide the same easy dev-board experience you need the bootloader chip (which you can buy and use for your own design) or invest your own development of an alternative.
NYC is actually within five counties: New York County, Kings County, Bronx County, Queens County, and Richmond County.
Bitcoin needed to bootstrap. Without reward subsidies halving there would be little incentive to invest early. See Grin: https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/GRINUSDT/?exchange=POLON...
There was a Seinfeld episode where Kramer tries it, so... very roughly pre-internet
Yeah, he is awful, now all those people working in the factories can feed their families and pay their mortgages/rent. What a d*ck.
Just because you can't predict it in the short term doesn't make it correct or efficient in the short term, it is only correct in some sense in the very long term.
I don't think NYC does. Nassau County, yes - but that's outside of city limits.
China didn't use a much more severe lockdown. Severe lockdowns are their primary pandemic control measure; in every area where they've seen a double-digit number of cases, they've responded by imposing a severe lockdown. It doesn't really seem like they believe test/trace/isolate is effective.
What is a "quant", when referring to a person?
> people say that because .25% of the population in NYC are dead from covid

Source? I can only get a rate that high by taking the highest death count I can find (which involves extrapolations to attribute deaths to Covid-19) for New York State and dividing it by the population of New York City (which is clearly invalid).
>Often the ideal outcome is simply an agreement that Person X will move forward with approach Y.

Which you can write down if you so desire.
There is a short play here: if there's ever a bank run on Tether, it'll crash to 0. The bet would be to hold onto this short and wait for this event to happen, but given how banks survive with fractional reserve banking, it's entirely possible that a bank run will never happen.
There's an error in the post: x >> 65 in C is not the same as in x >> 1. It's undefined behavior, so theoretically the compiler can do whatever it wants with it (although, this is the kind of undefined behavior that's particularly rare to take advantage of). But even in the absence of optimizer shenanigans, it's not even consistent on hardware. On x86, the hardware only looks at the low 6 bits of the shift amount, i.e., it's x >> 1. On ARM, the full shift amount is used, so x >> 65 would be 0.
Ask HN: How to Webscrape InnerHTML?
I am learning webscraping, and wondering how to scrape a website if you want the changed HTML after you press a button. I am able to do it with Selenium, but that is slow. How would one do it with requests?

EX: I start at https://www.collegeswimming.com/swimmer/356597/ and I want to scrape the table that appears when you click the button on the page “Fastest.” Note that in the HTML source the table does not exist until you press “Fastest,” and once you press “Fastest” the url is unchanged and still “https://www.collegeswimming.com/swimmer/356597/“.

I used inspect element, and then under “network” looked at the request that is made when I click on the button “Fastest”. The request is “https://www.collegeswimming.com/swimmer/356597/times/fastest/“. Notice that it is not possible to navigate to this by itself, as it just leads to the original https://www.collegeswimming.com/swimmer/356597. I tried using requests as so:

import requests
r=requests.get(“https://www.collegeswimming.com/swimmer/356597/times/fastest”)
print(r.text)
print(r.content)
r.json()

Sadly, none of these work. The response I am looking for is the response that is shown after clicking “fastest” that can be viewed by “inspect element -> Network -> fastest/ -> response”, but the response I get using the above code is just the html for the original page “ https://www.collegeswimming.com/swimmer/356597”

I would greatly appreciate some help!
Every borough is a county.
Good points. I haven't read the link but aren't you missing the equation of price economics? Bitcoin is only highly skewed for early miners only if they have held on to their rewards stash.

Atleast what the designer intended/predicted if I remember correctly, is for the reward value over time to be the same. This is of course not backed by mathematical equation of sort. I would way super early mining is more similar to being the first employee of a startup that pays you in equity only.
imageboard culture's progression summed up in two links. good god.
Slightly misleading headline. The test is not new, it's been launched since April and has already shipped 10M tests.

According to https://abbott.mediaroom.com/2020-05-08-Research-from-Univer...
It wasn't an ad hominem attack. Ad hominem quite literally refers to an attack against a specific person. Not only was he not attacking a person, but referring to 'hipsters' is not necessarily pejorative.

I believe he was incorrect to call guitar players who use analog equipment hipsters, as using analog equipment is the status quo, not some niche subculture outside of the mainstream.

I would like to respectfully suggest being a little less sensitive, though. Not giving new things a chance because of other people attitudes seems very silly to me.
Harvard and Microsoft Research Optimizes AI-Human Teamwork
The bitcoin stock-to-flow model has only three parameters: stock, flow, and price.

I'm not here to argue that the model is good or bad, but I will say that it's surprising, and interesting.
HN discussions from past halvings:

2012 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4842947

2016 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12061618
I love this extension! I use it in place of bookmarks. I then run a cron job to move .html files from my downloads folder to a bookmarks folder. Then I generate thumbnails and an html index to easily browse my bookmarks. I feel so much more relaxed knowing I have can save with one click any good information I find on the web. Eventually I want to add NLP keyword extraction and categorization, and an internal search feature.
I strongly disagree. I think you are overestimating the morality of the common man. If you enable anonymous purchasing of items with no proof of funds being sent, it will be abused. A lot. No storefront will sign up for this. This is very different than physical shoplifting.
This right here is what excites me the most about Linux phones
The linked webpage covers 62 counties, way more than the Bay Area.
Just back from the Quest draw myself. After a week's worth of drive tests in February with a colleague who had just come back after a 6 week vacation in EU with his family, I caught the nastiest flu I've had. Self isolated till I got better and after 1 day back in the office, the company imposed compulsory WFH.
Same! Whatever its didactic virtues, as a piece of art it's marvelous.
> I'm a little disappointed that they seem to be very uninterested on how to get it working on "unsupported" configurations

I think that's entirely reasonable. Unsupported configurations are "unsupported" for a reason: because open source developers have a limited amount of their unpaid free time to devote to their project, a project you get to use for free.

> ... was closed by the developer as "only two people have asked about Gentoo"

Again, entirely reasonable. Maintaining installation scripts for your project for every OS under the sun is a large burden, especially for OSes that the developers don't personally run themselves.

Since Linux distros are basically the poster-child of fragmentation, the usual way to get a piece of software supported on your distro is to have a distro package (for Gentoo I guess that'd be an ebuild) that does any distro-specific patching. Stuff that's generic enough can be upstreamed. Stuff that is distro-specific often has to stay in the distro patches unless someone is willing to step forward and be trusted to actively maintain it upstream in the long term. As an open source project maintainer, I definitely would not want distro-specific code in my build if there's no one with the inclination or expertise to maintain it.

> essentially saying "please install package X/Y/Z" during setup

... and this is exactly something that goes in your Gentoo ebuild, not in PiHole's generic install.

> I know Gentoo is fairly niche as far as distributions go, but seeing popular software moving away from "here's how to compile/install it" to "here's a docker container/here's what "we" support" is very disheartening

I'm a little puzzled by this remark, since that's how it's always been with open source that's intended to run on Linux. I go back and forth on what I think about Docker, but before we had that, you basically got a tarball with a configure script, and had to figure out on your own what dependencies to install on your distro to get it to build properly. Some projects with more bandwidth would include an RPM Or DEB package, but oftentimes those would only run on a few specific versions of RedHat/Fedora or Debian/Ubuntu, and you'd still have to install the dependencies yourself. At least with Docker it's sorta a "build once, run anywhere" type thing.

The thing I don't think you're getting is that you are not entitled to these people's time or resources. They're putting out a project in the hopes that people will find it useful. It is not reasonable to expect them to cater to every whim of every potential user's personal setup.

I'm sorry for the long-winded reply here, but it really bothers me when people expect open source developers to have their free time directed by non-contributors.
How did you come across these techniques? Do you know of any body of research that covers this?

With my kid, we practice drawing and eating with the non-dominant hand or try and draw something from a different orientation.
OpenBCI ?
Overnight
Play overnight with your friends
I have to read more on how this works in Germany, but the idea of UBI would be that everyone would get 400 eur. I know that is not possible right now without taxing individual income even more, and as such my view is we should come up with tech we can tax. I dont have the specific silver bullet for how it could work, but would it be possible to tax every robot that replaces a human worker? Or tax anything that 10x’s productivity in any field, but at a level where it still is very motivating for an investor to make that 10x investment by letting them keep 8x of the output?
And the catholic church is around even longer .. claiming to be the only ones who know the eternal truth. (luckily they lost power, so today they can only claim(mostly) and not enforce)
>The irony is that no matter what you do there will only ever be a finite supply of any currency, fiat or otherwise. It's a finite universe, so "finite supply" is inherently imposed by the laws of physics.

I'm not so certain that holds true. You could, in theory, either in a game or in real life, create a currency item that represents infinite currency. There would a finite number of physical representation of such items (if done is real life), and people would only place a finite value on it, but it would still representing an infinite number of whatever currency. You could even digitally create an infinite number of such infinite currencies.

Depending upon exactly how they behave, it would quickly make the currency worthless about as fast as people conceptualized what infinite means, but at the core there would be an infinite amount of money.
It's not anonymous if you're standing in the store paying..
This is gold :-)
> So, if you want to transact in large amounts (tens of thousands to millions of dollars) across borders, it's hard to beat Bitcoin.

No, it's actually very easy. Moving 100k across borders with a SWIFT transfer would cost me $20-30 (and I'm a nobody, someone doing that a lot would switch to a business account and pay maybe half of that). And if you time it well (i.e. during office hours for the emitting, intermediary and receiving banks) it shouldn't take more than a couple hours.

And that's using USD. Switch to Euro as your medium and now it's costing you literally nothing or a few cents.
Ask HN: Name of field of algorithm design focused on execution by human-agents?
Is there a name for sub-field of research focused on achieving some goal (possibly computational) with human and/or other imperfect agents?

One is probably solving for some real physical world "UI/UX" considerations on one hand, possibly in dispersed/async conditions, and robustly managing unreliable agents on the other hand.

I suppose the highest current form might be the augmented humans in amazon warehouses. But what was the best coolest way to run a warehouse before any high-tech augmentation was available?

Also that thing about how UPS drivers only make right turns?
Traveling salesman with a team of competing salesman in one market?
Best way to unload a truck into specific rooms of a house? Without running a python script on a laptop because that's not a real solution anyway?

I would imagine there is a rich history and retrospective research on how pre-telegraph societies implemented particularly effective and clever dispersed problem solving. Maybe draw a line somewhere below the huge scale/complexity of command-and-control military theory or whatever. That line might be that the research aims for and achieves discrete prediction of success and the time/energy spent. Maybe just a corner of operations research?

Or cool histories of whatever I'm talking about!!
Sounds like your immersion level was increasing with every try
Remote Collaboration in the Time of Coronavirus
The article on "Encouraging a Culture of Written Communication" currently being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23141353 recommends that...

> you should try to have a single source of truth as much as possible

> As much as possible, encourage people to post anything of interest to the public channels.

In my view, this is backwards.

A public (to the team) single source of truth is the imperative. You want to require it, because having a canonical, asynchronous channel where all decisions must be discussed before they are finalized allows for efficient remote collaboration!

Good writing will often but not always follow as a consequence of establishing that canonical asynchronous channel, as team members strive to operate effectively within it — but the writing is only a means to an end.
> - They had 30% of their assets seized in a money laundering sting but of course, the exchange rate remained 1:1 instead of 1:0.7

Thsi one I don't understand: A ton of MXN has been seized because El Chapo had been using it for shady stuff, but yet nobody expects the MXN/USD pair to suffer from that.

Why would it be different? The fact that someone takes the token "by force" won't suddenly decrease their value.
There's likely more to the story, but ordering production from another party is different than directly setting policy.
What's your point? It's not like the earlier people are better or worse by any measure.
Microsoft Launches Free 44-Part Python Programming Course
Are they going to reopen a region if it hits all the criteria. A concern is that people will flood from a closed region to a open one.
Even better, we could adjust the rate of issue in accordance with the demand for money, thus negating the need for more than a constant, low amount of inflation in the first place.

We could call the entity that adjusts the rate of issue a "central bank" and they could perform this "inflation targeting" to keep the value of the currency stable through economic shocks.
Definition of a Gentleman: someone who knows how to play the bagpipes but doesn't.

This is kind of similar.
This principle is the basis for the extremely better throughput of ring buffers over other so-called "lock-free" queue structures. Things labeled "lock-free" typically are not; instead, they rely on locks at the hardware level that are subject to the same sort of contention seen with software-visible locks, such as mutexes, and the same sort of stalls, with just smaller numbers. So, a lock-free queue is often little faster than a locking one.

But a ring buffer suffers from none of these overheads. The reader has to be sure to keep up with the writer, over a short enough time scale not to "get lapped"; but you need that anyway.
It's still way more of a meritocracy than many other disciplines. In what other field can you get an upper-echelon salary via non-credentialed routes like open-source projects and blogs?

Btw, you don't need to create an OSS project from scratch. You could also get visibility by making important contributions to an existing one.
Former software developer turned real estate agent here, with this PSA: As an agent, I seek to inform you of market conditions and show you a range of pricing options based on that market. You as the seller always have and should always have the final say on the go to market price. If you believe your agent is not working in your best interests or is pressuring you in order to get a quick sale, find an agent with whom you can build the relationship you want.

In terms of pricing high or pricing low - there are a range of strategies and a good agent will describe your options relative to market conditions and the marketability of your home.

My own opinion: there are a lot of bad agents in the world, but a good agent really does earn their commission by understanding the market, how to present your house, will project manage a range of things that have to happen in every transaction, and will ultimately work to get you the best outcome possible. If you don't believe any of the above, I fully recommend you find a different agent.
Quantitative analyst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_analysis_(finance...
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar. Since threads are sensitive to initial conditions, that's particularly important when a thread is new.
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Yep, I really like how the bootloader works - upgrades are drag and drop. I'll write to Paul if he is open for selling the bootloader license to me for commercial use. I am sure we can come to an agreement.