skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what is that you are missing? Many exchanges now offer a set of Stable coins. If you had concerns with USDT then you should switch to USDC which so far functions the same as USDT. I did. Many people probably also did. USDT still holds its peg and did hold its peg through some bad price swings. So either it's fully backed or they are doing some magic there.

> The market trusts it because number go up, and it's in the interest of exactly zero market participants to show the world the emperor has no clothes.

Wouldn't work on extreme market fluctuations. Bitcoin dropped 50% and USDT still hold the peg. Bitcoin then almost tripled in a short period and USDT still hold the peg. I'm not sure if they have full reserves or running some magic; but whatever they are doing is working very well.
> FAANGs want to wedge themselves as the middleman between developers and end users.

well... ostensibly that is where the money can be made (at the point they meet the end-user)
There is absolutely nothing I could say to change your mind, any reader can see the arguments made, and it's left for them to decide.
I have been gritting my teeth through another reading of Atlas Shrugged, but this tweet is like a case study.

Prediction: Elon gets arrested, Tesla keeps producing, Tesla comes out of this stronger than other automakers, mid-term move to Nevada or Texas, congressperson retires with pension.
I wasnt hn user then, I lol'd hard
I’ve been working on this and will have a recipe-specific solution up in a couple weeks. See https://rcpe.io
FWIW Youngstown has also placed some big economic development bets on white collar industries. Last I checked, the Youngstown Business Incubator had a solid success with at least one software company: https://www.google.com/search?q=turning+technologies&rlz=1C5...

There's also been a lot of work to nurture additive manufacturing businesses (https://ysu.edu/center-for-innovation-in-additive-manufactur...). A mixture of federal grants (partly from the Appalachian Regional Commission IIRC) and support from the university going into that.

But to your point of embracing white collar workers ... does that solve the problem economic development agencies are actually trying to solve? An interesting case study a few miles down the highway is Pittsburgh. There's been a much-hyped boom in high skilled tech jobs seeded by CMU (robotics, software startups) plus a relatively strong healthcare/biotech sector there. But that doesn't do much to replace the big swath of steel and manufacturing jobs that were around a generation ago. So average wages go up and there's probably _some_ trickle down benefits, but the new tech jobs don't do much for the median Pittsburgher whose parents/grandparents would have worked in the mills.
> China's deaths per million is stated as 58 and that's clearly a number no one really believes.

China's Covid19 deaths per 1 million is actually 3, not 58. As of today, 4633 deaths for a population of 1.4 BN. Maybe that's manipulated, but it's hard to believe they are hiding 95% of the deaths.

So, yes, in the matter of Covid19, we should better look at China as the comparison. Did you see drones checking if people are wearing masks? Did you see temperature checks when people enter various buildings. Photos where absolutely everybody is wearing a mask, fully covering their nose (not like in the US where they wear it under their chin many times). Rapid testing, people being escorted to a quarantine center, etc, etc.

Now, I am not arguing in favor or Tesla resuming production. I don't know much about this to have an opinion. But strictly on the topic whether we should admire the Chinese response to the Covid19 infection, I think we should give credit where credit is due.
"who have bought into BTC"
Oh, so you just made it up out of whole cloth with zero understanding of the actual math? I guess that answers my question then.
or you just spend once to make a lightning connection and spend for much less and faster?

or use any other blockchain?
100% agree. I live in a more expensive apartment in the middle of downtown so I get the amenities of living downtown. Except now those are gone. As well, I don’t have a car because normally the rail system or busses or ride sharing was enough to get me around, but now I feel as if I’m trapped in this small area around my apartment. Can’t go anywhere, and even if I want to walk somewhere, it’ll be aimlessly cause everything is closed.

I’d rather live in a cheap apartment further out that had parking for a car so I could drive to the mountains or just anywhere really. Instead I’ve been within probably a quarter mile of my apartment at all times for the last ten weeks. I’m paying a premium for no return right now.
Motion-controlled Fruit Ninja game using Three.js and Tensorflow.js
Consult a lawyer
Thank you. I spent ten minutes looking for a project index when I discovered sourcehut today, and failed to find one.

Am I blind, or is there no link to https://sr.ht/projects from the main sr.ht or sourcehut.org pages? What is the expected path of discovery?
Aw, I was hoping for something a bit more substantial here. I think the sens foundation is on the right track but this is a highly implausible approach (though I am not a biologist).
See also Hotmail when they started migrating it to Microsoft tech.

The servers were stable for a day or two, so they cooked up a reaper process that would sequentially reboot every machine in the cluster, wait for it to start routing traffic, then reboot the next one. Every machine got at least one reboot a day from this.

The moral authority with which I used to share that anecdote has eroded quite a bit in the years of Continuous Deployment. Most of my endpoints reboot at least once a week, except for holidays where we occasionally discover longevity bugs. With autoscaling some instances will be up for hours at a time (and if we are not very careful we'll completely pollute our server statistics).
This dashboard covers all of NY state
You could argue it is priced in. Maybe there’s a 30% chance of it being 3.5x higher?
hyperscript itself is basically Elm without the Elm language
But these are sold for outdoor use, like at the beach, or hiking, etc. If my can is room temperature, the I am very likely indoors already, with a refrigerator nearby. I'm not going to spend money on single-use chiller cans for typical day-to-day beverages. I'll just buy the normal ones and stick 'em in the fridge.

Sure, there's some scenario where I might find myself in a temperate climate, and want a cold drink, and don't have an ice chest or fridge nearby. But does that happen often enough to make this technology viable? I just don't see it.
For manual capture I use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/full-page-screen-c... and Chrome "Print to PDF". Layout issues are not important for my use case.

For scheduled captures I automated this workflow with kantu: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/uivision-rpa/gcbal...

> Those captures should happen in the background.

Yes, it would be nice if the Chrome extension api would allow full page screen captures to happen instanstly. Currently all extensions need to scroll up/down.
Not ill-founded so much as jumping the gun.

To understand why neural networks work, you will have to understand how a whole host of smaller, simpler ML models work in excruciating detail. Multiple linear regression, logistic regression, etc. What they mean, how they work, what's really going on "inside", what the underlying probabilistic model represents, etc.

Neural networks are great because it takes basically all of those smaller ideas and concatenates them into a super flexible statistical machine. It's really cool to see the "in->out" but it's even cooler once you have a good grasp on what's going on in the intermediate steps.

In my experience, almost everyone working with neural networks don't have those details down. This goes 100-fold for non-research roles. They learned the Keras API and are happy stacking layers, and as long as the output looks nice they push to production. For most cases empirical validation is probably enough, because NNs usually can achieve some incremental improvement just by virtue of the fact they have so many damn degrees of freedom. But to get a well-performing, well-founded model, you need to know the ins and outs.
I bought gold with Bitcoin the other day, but I find it difficult to do the reverse.
I must admit I'm not very familiar with business accounting or tax rules, and I can't find any sources that directly address this specific topic. it's my understanding that equipment purchases are counted as expenses for the business, so they get to subtract it from their taxable income. does this change when the employee directly controls equipment purchases?
That is the one
Imagine the next jumbo jet using avionics rendered on Electron.
Supply growth cut in half. Unlike oil, BTC doesn't get used up.
It would be nice if you could actually install it using brew.
Kraken does and they are US regulated. Good luck with your short, you should make %100 of your money risk-free when Tether implodes.
The blockchain has no support for this kind of feature. That's rather antithetical to Bitcoin. How do you propose to achieve this without a central bank figure?
I had a teacher in high school that was like this. He got a job as a night checker at the grocery store to help pass the time and make a little extra money. He felt great when getting about 4 hours of sleep. He had researched it quite a bit and after talking to a doctor decided to embrace the extra time. I was always jealous.

But yeah I don't buy the 2 hour sleep thing, because according to this teacher it's almost always around 4 hours for people in this boat.
American Medical Assoc. Issues New Principles to Restore Trust in Data Privacy
> So my only hope is to create an open source project or blog and pray it explodes in popularity?

Pretty much, yes.
> Well, yes, and the same could be asked about gold…
>Does anybody actually use gold? And by use I mean transact actual business, and not just speculate.

Well, in some parts of the world (most notably South Asia, but elsewhere too), gold is used to varying degrees to "transact" marriages, so there's that. I've never seen a wedding ring made of BTC, but that would be an interesting bit of performance art ;)
I got to try their VR demo a little while ago - its amazing, I played the entire thing only using my thoughts to trigger actions. Training was really quick and it was weird how natural it was.
> One cannot create value from trading.

I think you're wrong.

An illustration could be McDonald's offering of a burger for $1, where you'd prefer burger and McDonald's would prefer $1. If you give them $1 and McDonald's give you the burger, both of you would be better off.
Musk dares Alameda county to arrest him
I got that message and thought it was a summary of my posts.
Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Quibi’s Rough Start
Courts generally don't take kindly to this sort of thing. And Tesla probably needs a business license to operate.
Musk expects Alameda County and the State of CA to support his profits over common sense, caution, and the rule of law; but Tesla isn't even a drop in the bucket compared to the size of the California economy. He may be noisy, but he's not as important as he seems to think.
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Coinbase/Gemini USD are US regulated. So... no.
Early Erlang was based on prolog.
It balances itself out. a portion of the miners leave making it proportionally more profitable for the remaining miners, or they upgrade to more efficient hardware reducing their power costs to mine the same amount of bitcoin, or the price doubles, or a combination of all of the above.

during some periods of time the price falls and it takes longer for all of that to happen, with existing miners being slowly replaced by more well capitalized miners
Charge is symbolized by directional momentum of rotation here. Transmission of momentum indicates arc'ing of current.
This had a big thread just a few months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22100736) so this repost is clearly a dupe. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

There was also a big thread at the time (2018): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18526261. Since the cutoff is about a year, that repost was ok, but the current one was not ok.
The popularity of shitting on cryptocurrencies is directly in proportion to the level of hype that never lived up to anything. They were supposed to revolutionize the world's economy. But so far they only have proven utility for speculation and light financial crime.

Is it possible that somebody will make money speculating on cryptocurrencies? Sure. Some people make money from MLM schemes too. But ultimately these are negative-sum activities: more money goes in than comes out. And a lot of the money going in is from suckers being taken for a ride. I think there's nothing wrong with people being negative about that.
To me, honestly, this seems more similar to Azure Data Factory.
Yes, I think you are right.

If the price were somehow fixed at $1000, the difficulty would eventually be adjusted so that miners would barely break even.

Same if the price were somehow fixed at $100,000.
No. There is no causal relationship between the two. Transaction fees are driven by usage in that they increase the more the network is over capacity. Miners cannot "demand" more fees as the supply is inelastic.
> So, if you had a 'flu like' symptoms in Feb or early March, perhaps it was just that

Please do remember that this was apparently a bad flu season before everybody locked down and the flu vaccine was less effective than average.

It was odd, because, anecdotally, in Southern California flu season seemed to be much better than average, but apparently other parts of the country were getting pounded.
What exactly is a "mobile health unit"?
Well, I'd rather get laid off over zoom than email, also, I was laid off in 3 minutes in-person. Is that better? I would have preferred they just called me that morning so i could have stayed home. Maybe that's just me. It sucks to be laid off any way you look at it.
One of Bitcoin's main goals is to fix the unpredictable and arbitrary emission in fiat currencies. But its finite supply, said to be modeled after Gold's, is questionable.

Gold may have a finite supply, but it's been mined for millenia and has slowly increased its supply rate over time, and will likely continue to do so in our lifetime.

In contrast, Bitcoin's emission which ranges from 2009 through 2140 is heavily tilted to the first few years.

Its final century from 2040 through 2140 accounts for only about 0.5% of emission.

The only point of the halvings is to be able to claim "finite supply". A constant reward would still have the yearly supply inflation rate (stock to flow ratio) going to 0, albeit more slowly. So crucially, supply would still be scarce, would be more predictable (time independent), more fair to late adopters, and be much closer to Gold's emission over our lifetime.

It would also avoid the inherent instability [1] of mining rewards dominated by transaction fees, and avoid lengthening confirmation times to maintain security against doublespending [2].

If we further consider the fact that coins inevitably get lost, then even a constant reward will yield a softcap of supply, where yearly emission merely serves to balance the yearly losses.

Unfortunately, practically all cryptocurrencies subscribe to the notion that early miners must receive greater rewards, even when they often already enjoy lower difficulty.

[1] https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/publications/mining_CC...

[2] https://www.coindesk.com/the-halving-exposes-bitcoin-to-51-a...
The title underplays it. It’s more than just membership in a despicable organization. He has actively participated in violent hate crimes. Specifically, he was involved in a drive-by shooting at a synagogue.

This is not the kind of background I would want for an employee (or CEO) of a surveillance company with sensitive and private data about US citizens.

https://onezero.medium.com/ceo-of-surveillance-firm-banjo-on...
This article from the NYT (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/business/coronavirus-elon... ) seem to indicate that all of that fuss was to open a week early because Musk really wanted to.

Somewhat pathetic to sue your local government for that.
They said the same thing for Internet. It is used for p*rn, drug-dealing, etc.
An intelligent comment about Bitcoin on HN? Prepare to be down voted to hell.
The gut punch that keeps on punching...

A bit of web searching yields:

YouTube video from Matt's family and friends about Matt Bencke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbgVvCnvrAk

Matt's wife and friends post to https://www.facebook.com/groups/benckeupdates/ (most content viewable w/o login)

Here's a covid19-related post - https://www.facebook.com/groups/benckeupdates/permalink/6501...

One sad thing is that the domain registration for Matt's personal website has expired. So the web has recycled the website a couple of times.

Now the website content is NSFW. :(
> Comparing Gelato to RTX seems bizarre, they're not related, [...]

I did not compare RTX with Gelato. Where do you find the word 'RTX' in any of my replies?

I compared Gelato as a GPU-based offline renderer with other contemporary GPU offline renderers.
I can easily see a scenario where, say, extended rentals on beach houses on Cape Cod are especially popular this summer given:

- A lot of the usual urban concerts etc. will probably be canceled and even casual eating/drinking/walking/shopping will be more awkward.

- International travel will be mostly a no-go.

- Flying in general will be more awkward

- Even a driving vacation won't be as low friction as usual

So maybe better to rent a house somewhere nice and hang out with the family.
Being as comfortable with the strange as with the familiar, if we want to get pedantic with the semantics.
I read once that "mathematics is the study of terms that have precise definitions". I wish I could remember where I read it...
And I'd argue that credit card transactions don't settle for somewhere ~90 days (if even then).
This is why Blockchain is such an elegant solution to distributed consensus.

I prefer calling it a distributed mechanism for emergent consensus. Consensus is not achieved explicitly - there is no election or fixed moment when consensus occurs. Instead, consensus is an emergent product of the asynchronous interaction of thousands of independent nodes, all following protocol rules.
I am already doing that. Each lawyer has a different strategy. Some are more aggressive than others. I wanted to hear Thoughts from The community.
IIRC, in the US many airlines have eliminated the in-flight beverage service. Maybe in the future there will be no alternative to the overpriced drinks if you want to drink anything during the hours you're in transit.
The cutoff is about a year (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). However, there was also a major thread a few months ago, so this is clearly a dupe. More explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23146996
Nonsense.

First of all, you regularly consume items where the price is determined by demand, not production cost. Cars, housing, and premium products regularly sell for multiples of what they cost to produce.

Secondly, just because something’s expensive to produce doesn’t mean that it’s valuable to anyone else. This is a common problem in customized products, but also happens when market demand either fails to materialize or collapses. Your ultra premium buggy whip might be incredibly expensive to produce, but if nobody wants buggy whips you can’t sell it high enough to make a profit.
There's no good managed k8s anywhere. You can get bad managed k8s cheaply from Digital Ocean, or expensively from EKS or GKS, whose pricing and service levels are broadly similar. The major difference is that, if you do >$100M ARR and have EKS spend to match, you can expect to have several TAMs available, at least one of whom will usually understand what they're all taking turns apologizing for this time. Google, by contrast, will never give a shit about you no matter who you are, and charges slightly more for this service.
Why do HNers turn into such idiots around Bitcoin?
Capturing resources from asteroids could be more expensive than from the planet, given the infrastructure on the planet.

So you may make an investment - spend initially to make a planet base, then enjoy smaller expenses.

Maybe the question is of comparison - how big space infrastructure one need to colonize the planet comparing to returns from planet base. Is it obvious that planet returns are smaller?
Harder to chew though.
There's an option for this ("Misc. > save the page of a newly created bookmark") in SingleFile [1].

[1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/
It probably more accurate to say that one gambles in Bitcoin
Tara Sell on Covid-19 misinformation, who’s done well/badly, and what to reopen
tl;dr: double-blind study on 237 hospitalised patients finds no statistically significant effect on recovery chance for remdesivir, a drug that works on some other coronaviruses. Possible effect on those treated earlier, but effect not significant enough to be sure.
I think Satoshi maybe liked the idea of having these big “events”.. sort of like the olympics? It also helps give everybody a speculative target to try and hold bitcoin until. And one that’s typically far enough away to seem like it might not be priced in but not so far away as to be unreasonable to target. Like four years of high school until graduation, or four years of college..
The "blockchain" doesn't need to support this - the GP's point is that transactions don't need to irrevocably settle for all transaction types. If you're spending $5 to buy coffee, the chance that you are going to defraud the store is low, and there are a number of less complex ways you could accomplish this anyways (just take the item off the shelf, and leave without paying).

And I'll note that there are other ways to accept bitcoin payments without high fees or long wait times (lightning).
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Quick question:

How is the pinephone software development coordinated and how did you get into it?
As long as it's 'carbon neutral' they'll sell a trillion of them.
I wonder how long people with large, leveraged positions are able to wait for that increase before they get nervous.
I’m still angry about that.
It is a good term:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind

My wife and daughter are on the spectrum and it has been an interesting (and often difficult) experience to spend a lot of time around people whose intuitive theory of mind isn't as strong as a typical person's.

It made me realize how much we take for granted the dedicated brain regions we have for social cognition. For most of us, it's completely effortless to know "Oh, I told her ___ so she'll want ___." We do that processing as automatically as we recognize faces or climb stairs with a cup of coffee in our hands.

But for people on the spectrum, it's like the wetware is reduced, like having bad balance or no sense of direction. They can do the same task deliberately by focusing all of their attention on it, using the general-purpose calculator part of their brain to do a job most of us rely on dedicated hardware for.

Doing that takes a lot out of them. Imagine if every conversation felt like a calculus test. When they don't do that, it manifests itself in all sorts of behaviorally strange ways. There's the classic stuff like unusual affect and eye contact. But the one I notice a lot now that I'm attuned to it is pronouns. They will often use a pronoun to refer to a noun they've never introduced, because they are already thinking of that noun and didn't notice that they never mentioned it explicitly.

Brains are weird.