skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, I emphasize this point:

> I would caution you that while you're correct in that repair mechanisms do exist, it's important to remember that these mechanisms are themselves composed from the same components as the rest of your body, i.e. they too will age and begin to fail over time.

The process of nuclear reprogramming to induced pluripotent stem cells, which is the subject of your referenced paper, is something that I believe to be a great scientific breakthrough, but nevertheless fails to address the accumulated mutations that build up over time in your cells. All those mutations don't just magically disappear.
Completing the mining of 1 block of bitcoin now rewards half as many bitcoins as it used to. Bitcoin hyper-bulls think this is a massive event and believe it will lead to Bitcoin rocketing to $300K-$500k by next year. Bitcoin increased in value by hundreds to thousands of percent after the last 2 halvings but whether this is a cause and effect relation is not clear. Both were during the Bitcoin Hype train.
Yup. I love Teensies for building USB input devices. It's trivial to get something basic working and not much harder to tweak it if you want to appear differently to the system or use a higher refresh rate for lower latency gaming.

They're breadboard friendly, as easy to use as an Arduino, etc. For one-off builds that need lower power or tighter timing than I can achieve with a Pi I pretty much default to looking at the Teensy line unless I need some kind of wireless communications, in which case an ESP variant is usually my choice.
This is one of the studies which were stopped due to low enrollment, so the statistical power is just not there.

The NIAID study's preliminary results (shared a couple of weeks ago) showed a 30% reduction in recovery time in people treated with remedisivir. That one had 800+ people enrolled.
I used to do this too - write dense essays and documentation that took forever to read. Then I took a class on business writing at my local university. It was well worth the time. It helped me focus on writing short, terse language that was simple and quick for the reader. If your organization does struggle with producing easy, well written communications I would highly encourage considering they enroll in some sort of 12-week long course with an experienced instructor who can provide direct feedback.
Not only is the width of that purple region absolutely ridiculous, it doesn't even manage to match the actual data. I'm not exactly convinced.
A lot of the objections people have to "mixing code and HTML" stem from experience with PHP and similar technologies. The distinction is important, because JSX is less objectionable than PHP.
Everything is only scarce "by convention". By convention we don't call also silver "gold" and treat the two metals as equivalent for money-like purposes, though we could-- just like people could by convention choose to adopt some radically incompatible system and call it Bitcoin, but they don't and likely won't.

Critically though, no one can force you to adopt a fake bitcoin. True, you wouldn't be very happy being the last holdout on the real thing due to network effects-- but even there you could still hold on if other people were stupid... and that's about any strong and independent as anything used as a money ever could be, because money inherently gets its value from network effect.
Sure, nvidia is doing pretty well indeed.
I've never heard of Tether before this, what effects does it have on the btc halving?
Sums up the last 2 companies I've worked for and they weren't even large companies reallly.

Re-writing our entire platform in Go from .Net (at both places) solved zero of the problems we had as there is nothing in language syntax that could fundamentally fix: priority churn, lack of dev skills, no testing on the most critical platform components(!).

IMO it made it worse because 2 weeks of PluralSight doesn't turn a .NET (or any other) dev into a high performing Golang dev. They just write .NET apps using Golang syntax - a common Golang refrain I hear. So if you thought they weren't great in uncool-language-xyz then just wait until they 'learn' Go.
But what to use? The Pi Zero can't be used for mass-production, because you can't get it in quantity. Other options exist, but they are even more expensive, or obscure chinesium for which you can't get documentation or someone to talk to.
Traditional education is at least partially a signalling mechanism. Some of that is necessarily created by limited physical space, which enforces enrollment caps.

Online education has the possibility to be effectively free at scale, but in the process it loses its value for signalling. For an online degree to be truly viewed as equivalent to a traditional university degree, supply will have to be limited, enrollment hurdles will need to be raised, and cost increased. This is a tragedy, but I don't see a reasonable other alternative if employers continue to value the signalling piece.
Uber lays off 3700 employees via Zoom
Maybe it's almost a good sign it's only 14% of the company -- I don't know anyone that's been taking Ubers since March
Being able to purchase a house and land for 1/4 or less of a similar city price is attractive, and having access to rural PUD-built fiber can be attractive. But the sticking point would be the lack of rural school systems for many looking to move.
miners get paid less for the same work
Do they have any materials available to the public? I vaguely remember reading about their approach to meetings (written agenda with context which everyone must read prior etc. )
I think the idea is that production has a real world cost (hardware, power, and space), and those costs determine the price (eventually)
Any market that is just a market is a zero sum game.... One cannot create value from trading.
Seemingly multiple people downvoted this. Why??
Which is why you'd end up implementing tunneling for your DNS requests like cloudflared provides.
Can you please not take HN threads further into flamewar like this? It's bad for curious conversation. Generic discussions that have been repeated many times already never lead anyplace new; especially not indignant generic discussions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
as safe as it ever was
Not sure. Sorry.
There’s a distinction between learning to write well at length or often — and learning to write well enough for clear, concise communication. The former is not something everyone needs or values. The latter is one everyone should work on, especially now that we are all communicating via chat, email, comments, social posts, and other written methods. Effectively communicating your thought or opinion is a skill worth honing.
Bitcoin is "hard money", the hardest the world has ever seen. People prefer to spend softer money (like paper currency) and hoard hard money (Bitcoin, gold).

If there was money less trusted than the US dollar that was widely accepted, and US citizens had it, they would choose to spend that money before US dollars.

In countries with very poor fiat currencies, people will hoard USD and spend their local fiat currency where ever they can, only spending their USD when they are forced to, because it's better money.

Governments still demand payment in hard money. Venezuela has been raiding their gold reserves to pay Iran for gasoline https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/maduro-tap-dealmaker-sanc...
Hrm, it looks like its a documented endpoint: https://apidocs.teleapi.net/api/my-phone-numbers/block-inbou...
The markets for a lot of esoteric commodities are dictated by the whims of a select few organizations. It's partially how so many of these end up being control by cartels, the demand for cranberries or topaz is just no where near that of soy beans and oil, making it relatively easy to corner the market.
I'd guess a lot of "hoarders" of BTC are in a similar boat to me: mined/bought some in the early days (pre-2013), and have recouped their initial investments and then some, and still had some left over. I'm not holding it as a hedge per se, but more as part of a diversified portfolio, with set exit points to rebalance into other assets.
Ask HN: Do Mailchimp/Drip etc. offer deliverability advantages over AWS SES?
Say I want to send a monthly marketing email and I don't care for bells and whistles like GUIs for creating pretty emails. I just want to get my marketing emails in inboxes. Do pricey email marketing platforms like Mailchimp/Drip/ConvertKit offer any advantage in that respect compared to doing it myself with something lower level like AWS SES or Sendgrid?

Do we have are any hard data on deliverability differences in 2020?

I certainly feel like these companies add technical risk. My current provider (SendInBlue) automatically adds link-tracking with redirects, but this service seems to have poor uptime, meaning the links in my emails sometimes freeze at the redirect stage, which is functionally equivalent to breaking.
Is the actual market really any better? Seems a strange position to take.
I've already asked the question here and there but so far no good answer. I'm an old hacked : that is, I use a phone 99% of the time to send SMS and 1% of the time to give voice calls.

Everybody test various things : youtube, browser, camera, consoles, various OS'es, etc.

But does this pinephone can actually make phone calls (and receive phone calls) in a reliable way ? That's the only thing that prevents me from buying one.

(if you look on the web, you'll find a handful of comments about actually receiving phone calls and they are worrying at best)
I don't think that's accurate, just google up an Apple ][. But even if it were true, it wouldn't be strong evidence for your 'consumer hardware platforms become more open' theory given the reality of the longer-lasting smartphone era we live in now. Both the theory and the example used to support it seem starkly at odds with that reality, to me.
Is that https://www.realtimerendering.com/?
Physics has spherical cows and economics has rational markets.
1. Of course not. And I didn't say so.

2. I never contested that too. What I did say is that GPU porting of offline renderers is a waste of time better spent otherwise. And that denoising is solving a problem you would have less off if you didn't waste time with the former.
And that 3Delight is proof of that.

3. I never said this was a broad use case. I was making a point in the context of ray-tracing which is the topic of this HNs discussion. But I do assure you: comparing these renderers by other means wouldn't make them look better.

> Your 3delight page doesn't say whether they're using binary or ascii .rib files.

This is completely unimportant. The resp. renderer plug-ins were used inside Maya and 'render' was pressed.

3Delight didn't need to generate RIB files. Neither did (P)RMan. The Ri API is a C binding that can talk directly to the renderer or spit out RIB. If Pixar uses this in their Maya plug-in, I dunno.

Every time I used RenderMan from inside Maya I was working at some facility that had their own exporter. Arnold: I have no idea if it writes .ass files or talks directly to the renderer.

In any case, if you checked the numbers on the page for building up the ray acceleration structure it would be obvious to you that any amount of file I/O with the example scene in question is negligible.

I know a bit about this. I was maintainer of the Liquid Maya rendering translator at Rising Sun Pictures and wrote the Affogato Softimage to RenderMan exporter there. I also wrote a direct in-memory export that made Nuke render with 3Delight using the Ri (called AtomKraft for Nuke) and was heavily involved in the Atomkraft for AfterEffects. So I can assure you RIB is not a factor in this comparison. Trust me. :)

Texturing quality is the same with the caveat that Pixar can only use power of two textures. Which can have adverse effects on memory use and all implications coming from that.

Meaning that if I have e.g. a 46k pixels per axis resolution texture I have to upsample that to 64k to get the same quality that I can get in 3Delight using ... well: a 46k texture.

Because the next closest power of two I could use with RMan, 32k, will mean I loose 14k of resolution (aka quality) per axis axis.
And lastly, apart from that: if you compare texture cache efficiency between those two, I am happy to bet considerable money on who will come out on top. Guess. :]

> you are being sucked into some marketing, and missing the bigger picture.

What marketing? 3Delight doesn't have any and that page is not known and extremely hard to find even through google unless you enter exact search terms.

I do not need marketing to be a tad informed about these topics. I have been using Pixar's RenderMan for almost 20 years in production and 3Delight for a decade.
Doesn't Microsoft Access have a similar interface? It's been a long time since I've used it.
In the early days, Nakamoto wrote to somebody and said Bitcoin can scale larger than VISA for a fraction of the cost. Was he wrong about that, or has something changed since then?
Hahaha. This really reminds me of the ReiserFS/Namesys website, if anyone remembers that
Actually I can't detect much chocolate taste. Sugar and chalk.
That's literally backwards to how this works though. Just because you fire up a bunch of miners doesn't make Bitcoin's value jump - it's the opposite, Bitcoin's value jumping makes it cost-effective to run additional miners.
My mental image (fwiw) is that the push of an electron is able to push electrons both in immediate proximity and to electrons at a distance. So, that allows the relatively slow speed of moving electrons to produce nearly light speed changes in momentum of faraway electrons.
Agreed - some find it useful to have this instrument in order to move dollars to crypto, so it's really no worse than the fiat currencies that we are forced to use, and that many are deciding to move away from.

It is a fact that at present, you can't replace your entire life with cryptocurrency transactions, but the actions of the Federal Reserve over the last few months demonstrate how useful it is to have a parallel construct that actually represents an asset that isn't immediately able to be transmogrified by actions of a shadowy cabal (JPow in particular, who with his 50mm nest egg stuck in a hole at BlackRock, has a direct incentive to keep markets afloat)

Just my $0.02
I'm sure the majority of volume is from speculators. I think Bitcoin really is basically a Digital Gold, with a finite supply and creation rate.
It is used as a toy, as speculation, for criminal activity, and for money laundering.

There is not much actual legitimate usage. It is pretty bad for privacy as the whole idea is that the entire transaction history is public and permanent.
I am not talking about games. I am talking about offline rendering only.

My point was that indeed bizarre things can become trends and it doesn't make them less bizarre.
And if you are working in a team it makes those arguments about styling moot. One of the best aspects of JavaScript.
So they are predicting a 70% drop in the value of usd in energy terms. Hmmmmm.
Internet Archive link[1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190927072318/https://chillcan....
Another one I had some fun with: write a FRACTRAN->brainfuck compiler!

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/5210/convert-fr...

My solution was nowhere near competitive but I sure had fun with it.
Yeah, it's basically PWM, which is used in basically everything.
Based on Google's reputation of maintaining both products and API's I think I will give this a pass.
Competition or difficulty ?
> Triangles are rasterizer-friendly because they are composed of two edges

Huh? Can you elaborate on how a triangle has 2 edges opposed to 3?
The Quest website warns that having the antibodies does not necessarily mean you are immune. Is it really likely that reinfection is possible less than a year after initial infection, or is that just something they have to write as a disclaimer?
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.”

- George Box
It's never safe to invest in Bitcoin.
Oops - made a mistake here. The American side wanted the PlayStation to be WHITE, not black. I went back and checked the book. Quote:

>First he [Michael Schulhof - CEO of Sony Corp of America] objected to the color of the console. [He] insisted that gray was unacceptable in the U.S. market, and that the console must be white. Neither did he like the design or the logo mark. Their approach was to object to everything on grounds such as the results of market research: "We can't accept such an unusual controller. The design is too small for American hands." What is more, they insisted that they would set the U.S. list price themselves and they disapproved of the name PlayStation. The "Play" in PlayStation, they said, was reminiscent of "Playboy" and might be misconstrued. With one issue after another, the criticism was relentless.

>...Maruyama carefully assessed the likelihood that U.S. management would respect the intentions of management in Japan. He concluded that it would be impossible for managers steeped in the conventions of the game industry, and he decided to replace the lot except for a select few. In January of 1996, Sony established subsidiary SCEI America in San Francisco, simultaneously replacing most of the managers and launching a new management team. Maruyama comments: "We swept the organization clean of all the old obstacles. We realized that we had to manage our own business."

I previously transcribed more of this excerpt here:

https://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?34167-Sega-and-...

And here is the news story about Michael Schulhof being forced to resign:

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-12-06-19953400...
Sweet, thanks for sharing!
I don't agree that this is the reason that people are in a "tizzy". To me this instance is an instance where a shock enters the system.

Think of it like a differential equation where a steady state is changed... like a spring that has been held in a certain position is released. There will be a shock as the system seeks to find a new equilibrium.

The fact that the system has been shocked means that there is some predictable craziness that will happen soon. It is basically guaranteed fun no matter how it turns out.

I've been following bitcoin a long time, and was excited for the halving. But I'd never heard of the model you described and could care less about it.
Too bad, was only a thin wrapper at best though. Maybe time for a new open source SVG library.
We get paid to go to school and the education in any STEM field is good, especially if you're getting into programming (see KU and their Ponies for example). I'm a half-Dane and I've known enough of the American Life to know that yes life is much, much better here in Denmark to the point that most Danes around me appear completely oblivious to how good they have it.

Please, just find ways of being grateful. It's the good life and you were lucky enough to be born into it.
Waiting more than a few minutes eliminates all in-person, food delivery, and probably most same-day delivery transactions. Who’s going to wait an hour for the purchase to go through for an Uber Eats or Prime Now delivery?
Sure, but, presumably, in most cases, you can repeat the therapy. And, if such treatments are shown to provide additional healthy years, who cares, even if they're not repeatable? I'd pay for a treatment that could be shown to add years to my life expectancy.
I'm sure the cost of getting all of the devs to write Python that safely runs without GC is far les than 10% of your AWS bill for Python services... Maybe at Instagram it is, but it won't be at 99% of companies.

It isn't like most Python devs you interview are going to have any kind of a reasonable answer for "How would you write XYZ - with the GC disabled?" I'd bet the ones with a good answer cost >10% more on average.
"And some are not"

-- Anyone who has watched people apply technical analysis to Bitcoin charts as a source of amusement over the last decade
More than half, since you still get the full transaction fees.
> TLDR: mining rewards should pretty much have no effect on BTC price

Miners will want to cover the cost of mining, and to achieve that they will want to sell coins for higher price than they were selling it before for.
I believe you got it backwards. The price of bitcoin determines how much the miners are going to spend to produce it.

(Or we are both wrong)
I am similarly curious! The only thing I could find is this paywalled link: https://www.coursehero.com/file/p49pacr/Mitchell-was-able-to...
The supply isn't changing, only the rewards for mining are.
I live in the heights but I haven't been to the grocery store since March. I wonder if the distinction is grocery store vs corner store/bar/restaurant. I imagine cautious poeple are much more likely to go to the grocery store than to a corner store/bar/restaurant.
Making of Impacts – Programming ⋂ Art
What triggers this halving? Given the distributed nature of bitcoin it probably wasn't some central entity, wasn't it?
> stale

How is that relevant? If he's right, he's right.
Okay, now how about not having your design be terrible?
Passive Income System
According to BitPay–a merchant/consumer Bitcoin processing application—they've been processing >$1B in transactions for the past few years.[1][2] That is just from one centralized service, and there are many other similar ones, private transactions, etc.

So, to answer your question, yes, apparently a lot of people use BTC for conducting actual business.

[1]: https://bitpay.com/blog/bitpay-growth-2017/
[2]: https://news.bitcoin.com/bitpay-reports-processing-over-1-bi...
30k usd? Let me tell my wife!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=64R918K-3L8

With the extreme uncertainty globally, this model cannot be reliable.
That contains all of the info linked above, but not the actual HBS case study.
> I wonder how we can better accommodate it, especially in a remote environment.

Perhaps improving speech-to-text programs will help a lot? Maybe they can record what they want to document in a lecture-style way. Give them a white board or paper, set them up with a good microphone, and get a program that records their voice to a video / mp3 file. Then process their lecture through a speech-to-text program and have another team member format it to match the wiki. That way all the other team members are doing is light editing of an existing document.

Now that doesn't fix the issue of the dyslexic team member having trouble reading. Maybe they can use screen readers like JAWS to quickly have knowledge bases read to them? That way it is no different than an in-person phone call?
Whence do you infer that the RAM can't be upgraded?
TSA hoarded over 1M masks, whistleblower claims
- 80+% of crypto exchange transactions aren't denominated in USD, but in USDT.

- USDT is a fictional currency invented by Bitfinex to make up for the fact they don't actually have access to banking because they're unbelivably shady.

- They got many other exchanges onboard since it effectively allows you to skirt AML and KYC regulations.

- Bitfinex is a shadowy cabal of truly dreadful market participants who mess around under the covers with Tether and use it to effectively control pricing. They print Tether and use it to buy BTC to drive the price up. They then sell BTC for Tether if they want to drive the price down.

- They promised for 5+ years that they'd get Tether's bank account audited but instead auditors up and quit.

- 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

- The NYAG is suing them.

The price you see of BTC doesn't really reflect anything other than Bitfinex' manipulation. The rate of BTC inflation falling from 12.5BTC/block to 6.25/block affects miners and their ability to be solvent. Not much else.