skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The page lists "Coinbase Transaction" in the quantity 7.15968084 BTC.

The coinbase transaction is the first one listed in the block. It has no explicit payer, and can be valued up to/including the sum of:

- the block's aggregate transaction fees

- the block subsidy (6.25 BTC starting with block 630,000 today)

There's some technically detailed information on coinbase transaction/money stock edge cases that have occurred over the years here:

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/38998

Also see this discussion of a jaw-dropping miscalculation of the block subsidy (even though dated April 1, it's for real):

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0042.mediawi...
For your purposes, it doesn't matter. You can do your capstone in the current hotness, or not, as you please. If you do it in deep learning and in five years deep learning is passe, it won't matter. You'll have your degree and be four years into your career. Or you'll be four years into grad school. You'll be fine. (In this scenario, if your grad school is in deep learning, you won't be fine. Think harder about that choice than about your capstone.)

Given all that you've said, a capstone that tries to dent the "inscrutable nature" of deep learning might be an interesting choice.
Mount Everest Base Camp to Summit in 3D [video]
Once you become accustomed to this culture, it's difficult to go back. At one of my previous companies, there was a PowerPoint heavy culture. Every meeting had a presenter who brought PowerPoint slides. There's something to be said about PowerPoint being boring, but the bigger issue with PowerPoint culture is that the focus stays on the presenter and whatever information they provide... questions were typically saved towards the end. Some presenters who are open to disruption during their presentation will answer question, but it never fosters a rigorous, thorough deep dive.

Instead, using a written document absolutely forces the presenter/writer to have clarity in thought and it absolutely requires that they "cut the bullshit" and get to the point – what matters and what doesn't matter.

These kinds of meetings will derail if the writer hasn't fully fleshed out their ideas or even if the document is missing important structure ... the purpose of the document, what the author is trying to get out of the meeting ("what is the success criteria for the document or meeting?"), what's in scope, if it's a technical document then clarity in functional requirements, non-functional requirements/constraints, options/alternatives, trade offs, and so on.

In my honest opinion, the document driven meetings provide Amazon a competitive advantage.
The universe is at equilibrium in the sense that transitions from energy to matter and vice versa are more or less balanced at the scale of the universe. So the critical temperature of equilibrium between densities of radiation and matter in the universe writ large would appear to be well-approximated by the global temperature of the universe at any point in time except for those times near the Big Bang itself.
You have to really look at the Heisenberg uncertainty relation.

Position cannot be sharply determined if we know direction (angular momentum). Speed is problematic too. The state of an electron (or electrons) in the atoms isn't an eigenstate of the velocity (or speed) operator, so no way to nail down the speed precisely.

That being said, we chose to abbreviate momentum with rotation speed for our visualization. Reality includes coherence of the shells. They must effectively rotate together to produce coherent momentum and force the other terminal.
The "rational market" are things like bluechips and bellweathers. Coke, Pepsi, Target. They follow traditional rules, e.g., valuation, price-to-earnings, capital, dividends, etc.

BitCoin is gambling where big players intentionally alter the price and small players hope to sap some $$$ like fleas on a dog.
Splice's numbers aren't public so I can't comment on their success. Avid's are, and they had a terrible quarter - and they're the poster child (alongside Adobe) for subscription licensing in creative software. But I'd be interested to see what the breakdown in revenue is for plugin licenses versus preset/sample packs (bit of a blade & razor model there).

The price points really aren't horrendous if you consider how expensive the engineering is, how little demand there is, and how long you need to maintain a product. You aren't being ripped off by spending a couple hundred bucks on a plugin. I think we'll end up at a place where everything is a subscription, but I can tell you from experience that it creates friction for the users.
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You’re off by a factor of 50.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees...
For those of you who have been following the Typesetting Markdown[1] series, this topic takes a detour to discuss some technical aspects involved with making the Impacts Project[2]. There's a mix of art, programming, and ways to avoid reinventing some wheels in this post that may prove informative. My plan is to write about technical adventures for the Impacts Project, leading up to a tie-in with the final part of the Typesetting Markdown series.

Ideas for the Making of Impacts topics include (some more programming-oriented than others):

* Stripe payment integration with unique link generation for downloadable PDF files

* Generating a dual Y-axis plot using R (from temperature and CO2 data)

* Running Celestia to approximate locations of protoplanetary orbital paths

* Recreating a rasterized drawing as separate logical vector objects, inexpensively

* Simulations behind the K-Pg Extinction impact event

* Using MetaFun to draw lines based on values in Markdown document (i.e., Part 9 of Typesetting Markdown)

What topics would be of most interest?

[1]: http://localhost/dave/blog/2019/05/22/typesetting-markdown-p...

[2]: https://impacts.to
I do not know how much gold is in the earth’s crust or in passing asteroids, but I do know how many Bitcoin there are: 21 million.

https://aidaily.co.uk/articles/artificial-intelligence-and-s...
You too! And wrt to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY - we at $GIANT_CO originally created it to solve some challenges, as one of the primary authors I'm starting $PERCY_JACKSON_CHARACTER_CO that provides commercial support and some extra features (honestly - just RBAC with LDAP and some light UI).
This solution is on the user side, which is great because each person can get and manage saved pages for themselves.

But if we're looking for a developer side solution, then making pages that last an order of magnitude longer may be better for everyone in the long run, e.g. https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/
Why can't you?

The vast majority of businesses are privately held[1]. Those businesses hire most of the people and buy most of the goods. Even for companies that are listed on the markets, the majority of their financial assets come from doing business.

It's true that companies raise money on the public markets to expand and thus hire more people, but the idea that most economic activity happens there is false.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/sageworks/2012/10/01/private-co...
Isn't that supposed to be an equilibrium? As in, if the price of bitcoin increases (because the economy expands, assuming that it's the main currency) then miners make more money, so more miners enter the competition which means fewer rewards for individual miners and we're back to equilibrium?

Given this feedback loop, how do you establish what's the proper equilibrium? What's the total amount of hardware bitcoin is supposed to stabilize on? As a thought experiment, if BTC stabilizes at $30k, that means that the total value of all bitcoins will be about half a trillion dollars. How can that work if Bitcoin becomes the new dollar? Clearly the entire world ecomony is more than that.

Normally I'd assume that I'm missing something and the people who came up with that model know more than I do, but then again we're talking about cryptocurrencies so...
That sounds awesome for camping/tailgating/travelling/picnics etc.
Yeah that’s what I mean about PRs - such a time saver to not discuss trivial code style issues and be able to just focus on the code itself!
If you are so confident, why not sit on a Tether short?

The reality is that the market expects solvency for the foreseeable future, and tether solves a market problem (liquidity in environments that do not impose the KYC laws required by the US government to trade USD), thereby allowing Bitcoin users to achieve a level of anonymity while still having liquidity. It also, of course, allows a wider variety and leverage range of financial instruments.
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.
The automation might, in some cases BECOME the documentation.
Ryanair is simply a young airline that only recently grew in size. Their safety record is practically blank and hardly qualifies them as the best in the business.

Hawaii Airlines for example has not had a single fatal crash since it’s founding in 1929.
> If I'm remembering correctly, Walter Isaacson's Einstein biography tended towards says that she didn't truly contribute much to any of the work he did around that time....

I'm not sure how much credence I'd put in such an assertion given that Einstein himself wrote in a letter to Mileva:

> “When I read Helmholtz for the first time, it seemed so odd that you were not at my side and today, this is not getting better. I find the work we do together very good, healing and also easier.”

Emphasis added by me.

Having not read the book, Isaacson might have some additional evidence and insights I'm not aware of, but who knows?
3D Printing Has Entered the Nuclear Realm
And that is better?
My current philosophy is that programming is mostly about not making mistakes, so I'm most interested in cutting my error rate than in learning the latest tech, whatever that might be.

To that end, I keep a mistake log, into which I insert an entry after doing something that either caused down-time or that caused my team to lose over an hour of productive time. It now has over 500 entries in story format, along with the relevant code. Some example titles (along with their tags in square brackets):

- [gotchas] references to relative file paths are brittle when there are multiple entry points to a program

- [gotchas] lazy evaluation cannot be cached in most systems

- [unix] adding `sudo` affects $PATH and can cause commands not to be found

- [gotchas] never confuse STDOUT with return value

- [collaboration] never remove a flow in code without consulting all possible stake-holders

- [algorithms] when calling a sorting function, always ask yourself if alphabetical or numerical

I plan on posting a video with more details on my YouTube channel soon.
> There is not much actual legitimate usage

To make an definitive statement like this, with no sources, shows the inherent bias you have.

In reality, apparently a lot of people use BTC for quite a bit of actual business.[1][2]

[1]: https://bitpay.com/blog/bitpay-growth-2017/
[2]: https://news.bitcoin.com/bitpay-reports-processing-over-1-bi....
I've held for several years now (~7 or so). My logic is this:

1. This is all 100% speculative at the moment. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a charlatan. You may make someone money if you're patient, but the point is acquiring a decent stake while it's still affordable on the off (IMO, not 0%) chance that Bitcoin or one of its derivatives become a secondary and then primary spending currency. Realistically, I see a boondoggled attempt by governments to create their own digital currencies with Bitcoin being used primarily as a store of value, a la gold.

2. Technologically, Bitcoin is an intelligent solution to the financial problems created by government mismanagement and greed. It's not perfect, but it's pretty damn creative. With time, most of the major issues seem to be fixable.

3. Also technologically, Bitcoin is not ready for the prime time. The lightning network being implemented at a large scale would be the first warning shot that Bitcoin could see massive, stable use. Until you match transaction volume of Visa, Amex, etc., it's not going to take.

4. The likely timeline this plays out will be loosely correlated with the government's intervention negatively impacting the purchasing power of the dollar (speaking relative to the U.S.). The current situation is actually surprising; I didn't expect anything like this to happen for at least another 2-3 years.

5. Due to the way that humans tend to overestimate change in the short-term, the likely timeline for this to all play out is throughout the 2020's and early 30's, with the mid-to-late 2030's being the "even grandma pays with Bitcoin" moment. I'd say right now is the 97'-98' era for Bitcoin if we're using the internet as a parallel.

6. The current marketing and messaging of Bitcoin is, to be blunt, a freakshow. Painful as it may be, normal folks don't want to be associated with things that seem grimy, shifty, or subversive. The only way to overcome this is to demonstrate that using Bitcoin is easier than the current payment options, or, not having it would mean seeing all of your financial assets rapidly devalue downward toward 0 (which means the U.S. is collapsing and is a whole other bag of chips).
I don't really feel like playing the quotes game... but, sure.

"All of the issues we found had to do with tablet migrations"

"ndeed, the work Dgraph has undertaken in the last 18 months has dramatically improved safety. In 1.0.2, Jepsen tests routinely observed safety issues even in healthy clusters. In 1.1.1, tests with healthy clusters, clock skew, process kills, and network partitions all passed. Only tablet moves appeared susceptible to safety problems."

No one is here to claim that anyone is getting through any kind of rigorous testing without bugs found. But there is a huge difference between "My extremely common write path + a partition = dropped transactional writes" and "Under very specific circumstances, with worst case testing, multiple partitions, and the db in a specific state, we drop writes".

There is an ocean between, say, mongodb's test results, and Dgraph's.

Read Redis's evaluation, for example:
https://aphyr.com/posts/283-call-me-maybe-redis

"If you use Redis as a queue, it can drop enqueued items. However, it can also re-enqueue items which were removed. "

"f you use Redis as a database, be prepared for clients to disagree about the state of the system. Batch operations will still be atomic (I think), but you’ll have no inter-write linearizability, which almost all applications implicitly rely on."

"Because Redis does not have a consensus protocol for writes, it can’t be CP. Because it relies on quorums to promote secondaries, it can’t be AP. What it can be is fast, and that’s an excellent property for a weakly consistent best-effort service, like a cache."

Again, Redis is a very different type of database, so expectations should be aligned. Further, this test is quite old.

But that's a huge difference from DGraph's results.

Basically, saying "Well no one does well on Jepsen" isn't really true. Lots of databases do well, but you have to adjust your definition of "do well".
I love this topic, too. And this is so true:

> I think one thing that's needed to establish a culture of written communication is getting rid of any cultural elements that allow people to use the avoidance of reading and writing as an expression of power.

I'm not in love of the idea of assigning a team librarian or scribe. I really want it to be part of the culture. Up to the executives. But if someone could demonstrate it works (and how it works), I could be persuaded.

One rule I try to impress on my team: you should be answering common questions whenever you can with a URL rather than a wall of text. That URL can link to a wall of text (or hopefully something a little better structured). Ideally in our wiki. That beats eight different people answering the question eight different ways. Or the same person answering it eight times in slightly different ways.
Node.js itself was the new hotness for a while.
I've seen a bit of Prolog in the wild, but never got deep into it. Syntactically it reminds me of Erlang. Are they at all similar?
> If you are so confident, why not sit on a Tether short?

Because betting either way in a manipulated market is a sucker's game. Bitfinex has their finger on the scales. Why on earth would I bet in their casino?

Does anyone other than Bitfinex even allow you to short USDT? Remember those two are one and the same, and Bitfinex doesn't even have banking. What are they going to pay my USDT short in? USDT?
It's built into the protocol. After X number of blocks mined, the reward paid for a mined block halves. This repeats every 4 years until all blocks are mined (about 100 years from now).
I'm skeptical of the "hobby project" designation. The botherder demonstrated decent operational security, except for the initial lapse of German C2 servers, and the tar file with user name "stefan". Used TOR to access things. Stefan T. Botherder wrote custom backdoor(s), and subnetted the infected machines. Stefan was careful not to exfiltrate data so fast as to raise alarms, and exhibited extensive knowledge of Linux and the NAS/DVR environments.

This is a lot better than most of the sub-moronic WordPress compromise bottom feeders who put bitcoin miners out there, or those goofs that run the Perl IRC bot. The Perl IRC bot people you could characterize as "hobbyists", but this botnet seems way too carefully done.

This article raises another question: how many carefully-built and maintained botnets are there, where the botherder just flies under the radar?
Block count. Every 210,000 blocks
As a lay person, I think it is somewhere in the middle. In all likelihood antibody presence does mean some level of immunity or at least resistance. But testing is still only measuring presence of antibodies, not their efficacy in resisting future infections. Furthermore somebody who is reinfected but has antibody driven resistance may end up behaving as an asymptomatic case.

https://www.ibtimes.com/coronavirus-treatment-antibody-study...
>Many of our customers use us for their ETL pipelines, they appreciate the ease of use of the platform and the performance boost from automated tuning.

This is quite interesting. Founder of RudderStack here (we are a CDI or simply an open-source Segment equivalent). I have seen a similar pain point across some of our customers. They use RudderStack to get data into S3 (or equivalent) and then run some kind of post-processing Spark jobs for analytics/machine-learning use cases. Managing two setups (RudderStack on Kubernetes + Spark) is a pain.

A singly managed solution with Spark on Kubernetes makes so much sense. Would love to figure out how to integrate with you guys.
If there were any decent probability of Bitcoin being 3.5x higher in a year's time, why wouldn't it already be getting priced in?
> I've always wondered if there would be value in teams establishing an internship or low/mid level position for a technical writer to serve as a team librarian.

If I remember rightly, this is actually one of the core ideas in The Mythical Man Month.
My experience with Ryanair ist pretty good. If (big if) you know what to expect. I had terrible experiences with Wizz and United and avoid them like the plague.

Ryanair is cheap. Tickets can be 9.99, 12.99 Euros. (One Way). I have often speculatively bought these tickets for a trip that might or might not occur and then let them expire. Obviously this is part of their business strategy.

But Ryanair is great.

By the way, Kiwi.com also searches flights with Ryanair connecting flights (AKA Flight hacks). They once offered me a 50 Euros trip from Duesseldorf to Malta with 5 tickets, including going to Bucharest, Berlin etc. I would have been on the road/in the air for two days.
Compare coding to managing and suddenly they're on board. In practical terms: a checklist for work can achieve the same thing as a manager verbalising and visualising that checklist. Every argument the manager has against that is the same as 'gui workflow' vs code.
That's like saying the harder you work on a software product, the more you should charge for that product...
> Yeah you're real smug working for Google aren't ya. Tell that to all the business owners, unemployed workers, and starving masses.

If you feel the need to lash out at someone, I'm a better target than those facing more hardship. But yes, while I'm fortunate, I know many people who aren't in as stable a situation, most of them however recognize the necessity of that hardship.

It's an unfortunate situation yes, but the alternatives aren't better.

> After all this ain't the Black Death plague, it's a bad cold that has a zero effect on most that get it.

You're right, it's more like the Spanish flu, which killed 3% of the world's population at the time, or 180 million people today. That's not a sacrifice we should be willing to make.

> Basically we've reverted to centralized control of the economy so it's failing like communism.

No. This is comically incorrect. In some sense there is more centralized economic control sure, but well first of all that isn't communism, but second of all, that centralized control is succeeding at its goal, which is to reduce the death toll of the virus. You may not share the same value system, but that's Ok with most people, who don't value profit over lives. Granted this would be easier to bear for everyone if the US had a stronger social support system.

> It's an ecological emergency, take a look at the Amazon.

I don't see how deforestation in the amazon, which usually has to do with comsumerism in places like the US, has anything to do with the population of Brazil.

> I say protect the vulnerable and let the rest self-isolate if they feel the risk is warranted.

I read this as you saying you want some of the most vulnerable populations among us to sacrifice their safety and quality of life for the rest of us, while you yourself are unwilling to do the same for them. Is that correct?
Is there speculation regarding what miners will do instead of mining Bitcoin? For example, mining another cryptocurrency instead of Bitcoin? This would seem to have implications for the mining power for these altcoins, and perhaps implications for their prices as a result. I haven't seen any discussion about this.
The Bitcoin code is set to halve block rewards every 210,000 blocks. If a miner attempts to mine a block with a too-high reward, the network nodes will reject it as invalid.
These are the same kinds of communities are just being ravaged by brain drain. Their brightest students And their college graduates are being driven out of town from lack of opportunity.

Those are the people who businesses want to hire. Instead, Youngstown’s best chances of a brighter future are moving to Columbus nearby or the coasts to places that already have plenty of advantages.

Remote work could change this. But, these types of communities really need to embrace white-collar workers and not keep praying for a blue-collar comeback.
This is the future. If you're doing iOS or Android dev professionally, your days are numbered.
AWS EMR is a fairly straight-forward and reasonably cost-effective method to manage ephemeral Spark clusters on Amazon Web Services.