skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
took this test this Friday (Quest Direct) in NYC and tested negative.
In late Feb. I had a 'flu like symptoms' with fever and massive headache for few days. What worried me later is that I had the 'can't taste anything' symptom a week later. No coughing though.

If you read online, you see people swear they had it at some point this winter. So, if you had a 'flu like' symptoms in Feb or early March, perhaps it was just that...

It cost $110 and personally I think it was worth it... (it is a reminder to be more careful as I can still get it)...
Feel free to elaborate, I have no idea what your point is here or what you mean with your non-sequitur about the government or how that relates to developers of 3d renderers in any way. I don't know what you mean by "it's just a trend." The fact is that there's evidence for my argument, and you're attempting to dismiss it without any evidence.

Comparing Gelato to RTX seems bizarre, they're not related, other than that they're both Nvidia products. Are you trying to say you distrust Nvidia? RTX already is a commercial success, and there are already dozens of games & rendering softwares using RTX on the market and hundreds more building on it. RTX already went somewhere.
The last statement, yes. Miners receive less new Bitcoin for each block, which, of course, assuming the price stays the same, means that their mining becomes less profitable. The price itself isn't directly tied to the block reward, though the market has recently been more volatile in anticipation of the halving.
Availability of Research Articles for the Public During Pandemic – A Case Study
The payout for mining bitcoins was cut in half. The number of total available bitcoins in the system remained stable.
Action at a Distance
The N64 was so close to being even better than it was, but the field was so new.

Any of the following would have helped a lot:
* Larger VRAM cache
* Dedicated VRAM with DMA moved between it main RAM.
* Trade-off bandwidth for latency in RD-RAM configuration
* Static work RAM for the main CPU
* Splitting off audio duty into a 65c816-like DSP/cache

Hindsight 20/20, etc.
Links Puzzle – A Relaxing and Brain Challenging Game
My only opinions on the incident are that the MOVE group were not easy to empathize with (they were being reported to the health department for keeping their infants in squalor) and that the police lacked any reasonable use of prosecutorial discretion (which seems to be a widespread problem in the USA).
For a well-organized team with top of the line collab tools? Perhaps, if everyone is comfortable with working from home, but I'm still skeptical. Finding myself in a management position, coordinating the efforts of a medium-size development team across two organizations has become an order of magnitude more challenging. I cover a lot of meetings that the developers don't have to, but sometimes we still need to sit two to five people in a room to hash out the details of some technical problem. I have not seen an adequate substitute for that process. I believe that the people who worked from home full time prior to this (and I've been one of those before) are leveraging the time others spend in face to face interactions to their indirect advantage. When no high-level planning or in-depth low-level in person conversations can happen, many organizations are simply going to move much more slowly and make more mistakes.
And what about people without any knowledge of Scheme dialects? (Let's call them, for the sake of brevity "CS juniors".)
Likely yes but it depends on the Bitcoin price. The amount "wasted" (i.e. securing distributed ledger against attacks, providing difficult to fake notary service for transactions) is dependent on block rewards and fees. Since the block reward makes up most of that and has now been halved, you should expect less resources being put into mining (i.e. unprofitable miners will turn off their machines).

If the price of Bitcoin now doubles presumably no miners will be turning off their machines. If it doesn't double, some fraction of all mining setups just became unprofitable.
No: it is the value of mining, nothing to do with the value of the token. AFAIK.
A bunch of users flagged that comment. We can only guess why users flag things, but my guess is that in this case they thought it was a specimen of the very distraction it was worrying about.
Math for common people summarized in a single page of symbols
How were these early PCs any more closed than the IBM PC clones that followed? Some shipped with schematics and ROM listings. Smartphones have now been around longer than the entire pre-IBM PC era with no obvious movement towards any kind of opening outside of hobbyist devices. Game consoles have been around for decades without any such shift either.
Ooh! Ask them about Tether! And how all the worlds crypto prices are in USDT, which is at most 70% backed (30% seized by the feds in a money laundering sting) and has never been audited.
“Does /dev/null support sharding?”

Lmao
Lately I've been prototyping a small board with my goal of maybe 10 units built. For me, the process is literally putting it together on a breadboard to check if it works, then design a PCB and send it to a Chinese manufacturer. Repeat if your PCB design is faulty. (Do double check your design though, you don't want to pay for new boards and shipping every other week)
In the long term yes the halving schedule must lead to huge fees (eventually there will be zero inflation). As inflation decreases, miners have to be paid by fees to secure the network. Otherwise the security collapses.
With the goal of not having to go outside my normal flow of learning, I use:

- Readwise.io: to capture and resurface highlights I make on my Kindle
- Pocket: to capture web reading and highlighting (readwise works here too)

Simple, effective :)
Can you elaborate by what you mean on a TIBCO like approach? I haven't used their tools, but would like to know more about the issues you ran into. What were examples of the leaky abstraction>?
Companies will often compensate you for part of your phone bill, especially if being on the phone is a part of your job.
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But existing Bitcoin still have the same value?

Does this mean the end of businesses that seemed to exist only to mine using custom computers and GPUs? Because their revenue stream has been cut in half?
Yes, they are terrible terms for general usage!

Unfortunately, we don't choose our terminology from a public communications perspective. But it's obviously understandable why this is in hindsight.

I don't think people really need to have this level of detail nailed down anyhow, at this level, we'll have to just trust the system.
the idea that any crypto currency is scarce is nonsense. It is only scarce by convention, so long as traders decide that one particular block chain is the One True Blockchain. There are many forks of bitcoin, as well as many other cryptocurrencies. If it ever becomes financially worth while for a group of people to turn on the bitcoin money spigot either through forking or launching a new cryptocurrency, it _will_ happen, and the value of bitcoin could evaporate over night. It's trivially easy to launch a new cryptocurrency as we saw in the last bubble.
Quarantine Fatigue Is Real
> the universe's scarcest asset

So like Americium? Or maybe antimatter?
There is a finite amount of gold and it’s a lot less likely to stop being useful in the future for many many high tech uses.
Apache Kylin 101 – How to Deliver Sub-Second Analytics on Massive Datasets
In relatively plain language, this means that new bitcoins are being created at roughly half the rate as before.

> Is Bitcoin now half as valuable?

Bitcoin's value, like any currency, is dictated by the market.

> Did mining it get easier/harder?

The difficulty hasn't changed (although it might if this causes a significant drop in the number of miners).

> Less profitable to mine, but existing Bitcoins still have same value as before?

It is less profitable to mine bitcoin. The impact this will have on the value of Bitcoin remains to be seen.
Virtual World to Connect Friends
Connect.Club app lets you engage in real-time, informal communication with colleagues and friends and get introduced to new friends. By creating your personal virtual space, you will be able to meet up with friends and get connected to new people too.
You can do exactly this with an ESP32. It's got an RTOS (FreeRTOS) which will spend most of its time sleeping https://learn.circuit.rocks/esp32-deep-sleep
Just letting out some pent-up frustration about $MESSAGING_APP that was running this kind of A/B tests in their TestFlight builds where I'd get a different UI at each launch (I know I opted in to the bleeding edge, but could you at least make it consistent?) $SEARCH_ENGINE keeps changing fonts and spacing on me too, which is less jarring but somehow more annoying because it instantly feels "off" to me.
Off topic, but possibly the people here might be able to help: Is there a name for the type of music where the theme evolves over time. Not (obviously) repeating, no echoing on another instrument, just progression. The bass line in Free's Mr Big (https://youtu.be/Azkef2lXW88?t=282) is the classic example for me. Is it a one-part fugue? or something with no name that just happens and has no name?

I asked a musician theorist friend and he said Minimalism, but that doesn't seem quite right.
"The universe's scarcest asset"? That would be unobtanium; there is no supply of it whatsoever. ;-)

But how do you measure "scarcest"? Hardest to develop new sources? Is the year-over-year increase in bitcoin smaller than in gold? (Year-over-year because that gives a measure of how hard it is to create/find more of the asset, which seems a decent measure of "scarce".)
> As evidence, he pointed to data from real estate companies that showed less interest in California, New York and New Jersey as well as slowing searches for homes in larger cities

This isn’t good evidence for the argument. People who live in cities primarily rent.

As an aside, I do think that a move to smaller cities will help strengthen the American economy overall, similar to the distributed small-cities economy that you see in Germany, where no one city has the primacy and pull of NYC.
Termux has some "soft keys" for ESC, ctrl, alt etc (user-definable). Swipe in from left, hold the button labeled "keyboard".

Hacker's Keyboard (app) is the recommended onscreen keyboard (has ESC etc).

But really need a bluetooth keyboard e.g. logitech K480 or fullsize logitech K375s - or regular USB one if your phone has OTG.
Bonus: doubles screen space.
Mining and immediately selling right now will get half the reward.
Serious question. Steve Jobs outsourced the work to FoxConn and others in China, where suicide and rsi were rampant. How is that better?
my guess is most companies that were forced into WFH by coronavirus will try to return to "business as usual" as soon as reasonably possible. if you're already paying for enough square footage and operations people to have everyone on-site, you may as well get your money's worth.

my hope is that, after seeing that work still got done during the crisis, employers will be more willing to entertain a certain number of WFH days per week. this would be ideal for me. I love the flexibility and comfort of WFH, but I would like to have at least a small window where I can reliably find people on-site for a face-to-face meeting, without having to plan that interaction far in advance.
How do you find that quote in the site?
Sweet, and reminiscent of the message included in the initial block [1]

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block
>the simpler and more flexible approach taken by Sony

I mean, up to a point? The PS1 was so simple it didn't have a floating point processor. https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/bkedc/heres_a_quest...
Neat! I am interested in developing REST API around it to support more functionality, wanna collaborate?
Central banks don't print unlimited fiat, they strike a balance between inflation and deflation. Anyone thinking that they can "print unlimited fiat" winds up like Zimbabwe. "Print" too much, and there's inflation. Too little, and there's deflation. But most money isn't printed, it's just balances on bank statements; the central banks control the money supply by regulating banks. With Bitcoin, there's no intelligent control, just rules that produce deflation, meaning it might be attractive as an investment but it doesn't work as currency.
I agree, but I'm saying something stronger here. The reaction notation is equivalent to a FRACTRAN program. Given a prime<->species correspondence, it survives a round trip to and from fractional notation, so to speak ("assembly" and "disassembly"). It's just another way of writing prime decompositions.

Perfectly logical agents who can see the entirety of logical consequence would think "eh, what's the big deal? it's equivalent!" But, for whatever reason, the notation finally made me "get" FRACTRAN.
>please stop working with closed-access venues...

please write my grant officer and explain to him why my publication costs to the grant just doubled.
> Bitcoin's value, like any currency, is dictated by the market.

... is dictated by the whims of Bitfinex and Tether
I don't think we should expect an increase in price given that the halvening is well know and predictable. It should be priced in, if anything I think it would be overvalued because of it since lots of people are buying in because they expect a spike in price.
Exactly the reason I use Opera on Android devices. Does not save movies or odd file data but html + images perfectly and web pages looks like originals. I use it a lot to save pages for offline viewing during flights. Now Vivaldi is on Android too and I hope it does have the same feature.
Does anybody actually use bitcoin? And by use I mean transact actual business, and not just speculate. You know, buying and selling real world goods and services.

Or is it like gold reserves, people just hoard these digital numbers until they are ready to cash out.

I'm really curious for the hoarders, if they're doing it as a hedge against global financial collapse, how exactly do they expect to redeem their bitcoin for anything tangible?

These are serious questions, I've given bitcoin only a minimum of thought. It seems a great way to move value out of a closed economy like China, or for drug dealers to move cash across borders, but who else uses it?
I have experience from multiple projects with NiFi and it was the main reason for me and others quitting the company.
Somehow management were convinced by some salesmen that this would be the golden bullet, however, all of their deliveries were delayed. We experienced issues debugging flows with performance problems, and even basic version control was problematic due to ids being replaced every time.
In this case, we're trying to build upon compiled assembly code that's been re-obfuscated every generation.

I'm not even kidding. Almost every protein in the human body has multiple unrelated functions, just because evolution says "hey, this is here, let's use it for something new".

Every new human is an experiment in code chaos.
Not exactly. I think a more apt analogy is a person who missed the game winning three point shot who only practiced inside shots. You'd want to tell the person they should probably round out their practice routine with outside shots as well.
It's a good thing only if it indicates the UX is getting better.
I wish I had this when I first started cooking! I love this concept, but wouldn't this also harm the creator's traffic???
Much like others I found the no blood test thing wild.

Personally I've just resorted to doing annual blood test in a 3rd world country. There the doctors will run whatever you like basically - it's paid at commercial (3rd world) rates so they don't give AF.

Ironically in a "european" healthcare system the doctors are much more reluctant given that they need to fairly allocate public funds.
The event will not exactly come as a surprise for the miners: the date was more or less built-in the bitcoin algorithm from day one.

If it means the end of their business, it means their planning was fairly poor.
An excellent introductory tutorial on how to get started with, and fully leverage, Apache Kylin. Led by Apache Kylin Committer, Kaige Liu.
Really like your product
Do you have to be a paid user to get access
Do I get a license for hardware schematics and board layout and other aspects besides the bootloader? Where can I find a license in writing? If a license is not provided, I can't do anything with it besides hobby work.

Here is the schematic page but no mention of a license: https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/schematic.html

This is NOT open-source. It is visible-source.

Please note, I am not demanding an open-source license. Closed source projects are totally fine, I feel absolutely no entitlement to get stuff for free. I am just pointing out projects that are closed-source but disguised as open-source, thereby taking advantage of the hobbyist community. Paul may be a cool guy, but objectively that doesn't change anything.
TLDR: mining rewards should pretty much have no effect on BTC price

We're years into bitcoin and I feel that people still don't understand the basic premise that with an adjusting difficulty it literally doesn't matter how many people want to mine. Difficulty will adjust to about the break even point for miners that can run at scale (likely in a place with cheap electricity).

The price of bitcoin is still based on supply and demand for bitcoin. Whatever THAT clearing price is will determine whether or not it is profitable to mine. If it is not profitable to mine, miners will drop out until the difficulty level falls enough that it becomes profitable again.
You get half the amount of BTC as before, regardless of the market price
But the actual words were removed. It sounds as if it was presumed from the start that those words were without value, and that colored the whole presentation. The removal of the "valueless" words removed any chance of you inferring meaning through context.

Watch that same interview without the censorship, and you might well understand it. Watch another one, without any cursing, with random words censored, and you might have trouble understanding it as well.
I made a video course for getting up and running with KiCad, the open source electronics CAD program: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy2022BX6EspFAKBCgRuE...

If you're looking at broader focus on building hardware, Contextual Electronics helps to fill out some of the other elements you're looking to do. As luck would have it, I just started a new course today (no joke) where I'm showing how I'm designing a Raspberry Pi HAT with cellular and Bluetooth capabilities, which I'll be selling and using as a reference design for my hardware design consulting business.
the thing is, thanks to eu you have a support, also legal rights as every airline
At zero block reward, who pays for mining?
Agreed, this is one of the reasons working remotely for a 100% remote company is substantially better than working remotely for a team that is partially remote and partially in the office.
Background No specific antiviral drug has been proven effective for treatment of patients with severe coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19). Remdesivir (GS-5734), a nucleoside analogue prodrug, has inhibitory effects on pathogenic
animal and human coronaviruses, including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in vitro,
and inhibits Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, SARS-CoV-1, and SARS-CoV-2 replication in animal
models.

Methods We did a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre trial at ten hospitals in Hubei, China.
Eligible patients were adults (aged ≥18 years) admitted to hospital with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection,
with an interval from symptom onset to enrolment of 12 days or less, oxygen saturation of 94% or less on room air
or a ratio of arterial oxygen partial pressure to fractional inspired oxygen of 300 mm Hg or less, and radiologically
confirmed pneumonia. Patients were randomly assigned in a 2:1 ratio to intravenous remdesivir (200 mg on day 1
followed by 100 mg on days 2–10 in single daily infusions) or the same volume of placebo infusions for 10 days.
Patients were permitted concomitant use of lopinavir–ritonavir, interferons, and corticosteroids. The primary
endpoint was time to clinical improvement up to day 28, defined as the time (in days) from randomisation to the
point of a decline of two levels on a six-point ordinal scale of clinical status (from 1=discharged to 6=death) or
discharged alive from hospital, whichever came first. Primary analysis was done in the intention-to-treat (ITT)
population and safety analysis was done in all patients who started their assigned treatment. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04257656.

Findings Between Feb 6, 2020, and March 12, 2020, 237 patients were enrolled and randomly assigned to a treatment
group (158 to remdesivir and 79 to placebo); one patient in the placebo group who withdrew after randomisation was
not included in the ITT population. Remdesivir use was not associated with a difference in time to clinical
improvement (hazard ratio 1·23 [95% CI 0·87–1·75]). Although not statistically significant, patients receiving
remdesivir had a numerically faster time to clinical improvement than those receiving placebo among patients with
symptom duration of 10 days or less (hazard ratio 1·52 [0·95–2·43]). Adverse events were reported in 102 (66%) of
155 remdesivir recipients versus 50 (64%) of 78 placebo recipients. Remdesivir was stopped early because of adverse
events in 18 (12%) patients versus four (5%) patients who stopped placebo early.

Interpretation In this study of adult patients admitted to hospital for severe COVID-19, remdesivir was not associated with statistically significant clinical benefits. However, the numerical reduction in time to clinical improvement in those treated earlier requires confirmation in larger studies.
Funding Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Emergency Project of COVID-19, National Key Research and
Development Program of China, the Beijing Science and Technology Project.
According to the website, in 2015, a case study was published: https://chillcan.com/harvard/

It seems inaccessible now. Is there a way to read it?
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This! Also ironic that the currency that would ideologically only bring benefits to the unbanked is now largely held and controlled by bank-like institutions and the crypto equivalent of the top 0.1% since most bitcoin is held in a very small amount of wallets.

Its premise is now basically to replace one shitty system for another shitty system but one that's unregulated and powered by memes and waste of electricity.
you should consider what the price to mine is vs the reward. as long as the reward > price to mine, the miners will keep mining. once it drops, you will either have miners dropping off the networks or the difficulty decreasing until another equilibrium is reached. once you have less miners it's possible that the TX fees will increase if you want your transactions mined (the miners cannot really impose a transaction fee. it's the transactions with the highest fees that get mined into a block and incorporated into the block chain)