skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computationally, this (ab)uses the scheduler to do your sorting for you. So really the performance becomes whatever your scheduler’s performance is, probably heapsort time (O(n log n)).
End of (2?) year peak! Get ready for 80% drop and gradual rise over the next 1-2 years again. It's the pattern, maybe this year I'm smart enough to sell before the drop and buy again by the end of January ;)
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What rational investor sees the loss of 100% a limited downside?

By the same logic any rational investor should own some Tesla stock: hide potential upside in battery tech going forward and "limited" downside.

Problem is at least one of these options has some fundamentals.
> Recycling also favors plastic bags.

How is this? I thought the economics of plastic recycling is pretty poor with bags being one of the worst offenders. Why are recyclers reluctant to accept them?
Huh, finally. I hopped on the bandwagon in 2017 but didn't sell when it was up, I've just been sitting on my hands until it did.

Of course, getting back onto Coinbase and I'm now asked to verify my identity and upload my driver's license and all. I mean they should have done that in the first place insofar as governments are concerned, but still.

edit: I also spammed random cryptocurrencies (ripple, dash, augur?) on Kraken, those have tanked since then, lol.
When secure boot started to go mainstream there was a lot of FUD that it was really just a mechanism to lock out alternative OSes.

The reality is that hardware manufactures do not care what OS you run, as long as it doesn’t result in costly hardware returns or endless support calls. This is why hardware typically has options to disable OS-specific. secure boot, but it requires some technical steps that average users won’t accidentally stumble upon.

The M1 macs were never locked down, either. Apple has said that Microsoft can make Windows builds for them if they’d like. Linux on M1 macs is only a matter of time.

Secure boot is a net win for everyone. Having an option to disable it lets the 0.01% of people who want to run Linux use the hardware too.
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But:

People would generally re-use the so-called "single use" thin, free plastic bags as bin liners and are now instead getting much thicker plastic bags and buying additional (also thicker) bin liners which are certainly single-use.

Is it a net win? I'm not convinced. It's definitely great PR, for everyone involved.

Disclaimer: I used to work for an environmental political party which very much supports this plastic bag tax.
Does Tether have a direct relationship with Bitcoin in a way that for example Ethereum doesn't? I was under the impression that all places that trade USDT do so with all major cryptocurrencies.
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USD compared to EUR was stronger in Dec 2017. So no, that's not it.
I agree with this weird mismatch of overcomplexity for the problem it's trying to solve. I did really like though the Gatsby model of ingesting all your source data into GraphQL and then having a standardised way to query and build pages from this. I wish Next.js would learn something from this.

I was using Next.js to build a staticly-generated website (so within the remit of Gatsby) but eventually i outgrew the limitations of static site generation (23k pages and counting...) it was so easy to switch to a traditional server-generated model with Next.js. I'm incredibly greatful for picking up and sticking with Next.js for this.
In order to attract those jobs back, you must compete with the tax rates of those places with very low taxes. globalization means tax rates must reduce.

No, you need to compete with the labour rates which isn't the same thing.

Interestingly total tax take vs GDP isn't much different between China (20%) and US(24%)[1].

It's somewhat easier to compare two similarly sized countries in Europe. The UK and Germany for instance. Germany has a total tax take of about 45%, the UK is at 35%. Yet German exports are much higher than the UK[2].

globalization means tax rates must reduce.

Globalisation means taxes will shift away from corporations and towards consumption, dividends and land value which are much harder to avoid.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_reven...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_exports
And OS/2 was better than Windows. Technical superiority doesn't matter.

And to be fair Ethereum has more scalability problems than Bitcoin.
Same thing? Its the chemical leaching from the rubber particles in the river.
A major chunk of Tether lives on Ethereum and is mostly being used for on-chain decentralized money-markets using smart contracts. (Eg Unisawp, MakerDAO, CurveFi and Compound)

You can track the Tether issued on Ethereum in real-time by looking at this contract https://etherscan.io/token/0xdac17f958d2ee523a2206206994597c...

Currently over $12.4 billion Tether issued on Ethereum
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Bitcoin's exchange rate has advanced in regular four-year cycles going back to about 2010. The peaks are phase-shifted from the four-year halving period.

Each cycle is punctuated by a media hype deluge. Nonstop coverage of Bitcoin in the popular media. Face ripping rallies every other day. Tales of freshly-minted millionaires and fortunes buried in landfills. That hasn't happened yet.

Each cycle brings in more news coverage, more users, more holders, more speculators, more critics, and more haters. If this trend holds, Bitcoin will follow one of two paths: it will be replaced by something better at its primary function; or it will replace something else. Network effects favor the latter.

The current cycle just happens to coincide with the largest expansion money base the world has ever seen.
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Even though I know the algorithm, I still find that I need to think a nontrivial amount to see why it will not miss anything. I mean, sure, you are strictly improving the "sortedness" by a discrete amount in each pass and crucually, you don't destroy any progress you made before (not totally trivial), and there's only a finite amount of "sortedness" to attain, so it will converge to the sorted state. But how exactly and, as you say, after how many iterations, is not so clear. In more complex algorithms, you may get stuck in a local optimum with such a greedy approach though.

But contrast that with insertion sort. I have a sorted pile that grows after each insertion. I find it trivially clear that it works and when I will be done.

It's also something that people will intuitively do in the physical world to sort paper documents I think: just grow a pile of sorted documents by adding the next one in the right place.
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Yeah, Gatsby-image was what drew us into the platform to begin with. That's what made it fast to get started.

I found the plugin system confusing, and poorly documented so it was hard to know how to get the most out of a plugin and adjust it to whatever our own funny use case was.

The graphql thing was annoying, we don't use graphql and don't know it and didn't find any advantage in having it around.

It's been a while since I touched it, but every time I need to a put it off because it's not a nice env to work in compared to our "from scratch" react apps
I assume you agree with my argument. It's reasonable to assume that block delay in PoW network has log-normal distribution too. Let's see what will happen if we add delay due to the block mining. If there is a Poisson point process, then time delay between two arrivals in it has exponential distribution. Then if we add to random variables, one with log-normal distribution and one with exponential distribution, then we will get a random variable with log-normal distribution. So in the case of PoW we have the same type of probability distribution as in PoS! So there is no any problem here. Your original argument is invalid.
release the game on the last gen or PC and Stadia first

It is only released on last gen consoles. There's no native PS5 or Xbox series X/S version you can buy. You buy the PS4/Xbox One version and play it via backwards compatibility. Apart from video resolution or low FPS, have there been significant problems on the last gen consoles in terms of bugs that aren't on the new gen?
This would be a good moment to collect all former frontpage HN articles about why you should never buy Bitcoin.
https://github.com/Jeffrey-P-McAteer/azure_os - not polished at all, just what I use to throw away + re-format my laptop when I lose track of the files on it.

EDIT: I am pretty damn proud of it though, nearly every week I'm finding some button I can "not have to click anymore" and packages that support that get recorded in the azure-os build script.
Re: technically superior

Can you elaborate? I was under the impression that it had notable failings, including privacy, compared to something like Monero
It doesn't make any more sense than the dollar going to ~1/2000 oz of gold, but here we are.

Bitcoin is decentralized fiat currency which you can perceive to be very valuable like the USD or worthless like the Venezuelan bolivar, as none have any intrinsic value or fundamentals besides trust.
You can impose a floor beyond which lower latencies no longer provide an advantage by replacing the current continuous auction market with a periodic, blind auction.

That is, have a market where orders accummulate in the order book and every, say, 15 seconds, the order book is crossed and trades are made.
How come nobody mentioned the day <em>after</em> the surgeon's birthday?
> The study focused on emergency surgery, so as to minimize the potential selection bias. For example, surgeons might otherwise choose patients based on their illness severity, or patients might choose their surgeon.
It's definitely interesting if the concept is new to you, but there's quite a lot of work on this done already, decades ago, which should be known to those who care about securing
airgapped machines. Here's a good place to start: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename). I did a demo as an undergrad ~10 years ago playing music on the radio via leaked emissions from my netbook. Didn't have to write a line of code because a complete solution had already been freely available for quite some time.

It's not without value, no, but they've definitely found a formula and are just cranking out variations of that formula as papers. I'd say calling it a paper mill isn't too harsh.
What's the simpler explanation than "fraud" where Tether is concerned?

They still haven't passed an audit, and they've changed the "1USDT is backed by $1" to "1USDT is backed by loans and vaguely defined investments". https://cointelegraph.com/news/changes-to-tethers-terms-of-r...
You can't ban all bags, but you can ban free bags. Like, charge $0.25 for each bag and use the proceeds to clean up microplastic waste in your jurisdiction. It's basically a tax on plastic bags.

The current market price of plastic bags doesn't reflect the externalities of using them willy-nilly and throwing them out.
This argument could be used against the ban of asbestos. One of the factors that makes plastic bags the "best" option is externalized costs. Killing sea life and whatever the effects of microplastics collecting in our bloodstream are not included the price.
I completely agree. A solution is available to us right now: regulation. Ignoring this solution in favor of economic growth or a future magic bullet is folly.

Demand your government do more. If you are in the US and a Republican, at least politely request that your party acknowledge climate change as a reality.
I would really like a system where by a seller wants to make $X/m and so sells their service at a base price of $Y/m.

When they have enough customers (C) such that X/C < Y, the price (Y) for all customers drops so that Y = X/C.

Obviously, as they gain more customers they may need to increase X to pay for resources or staff which would increase the price.
The late 2017/early 2018 Bitcoin-USD peak actually lines up with the last big dip in USD-EUR: https://www.google.com/search?q=1+usd+to+eur
It doesn't take much of a "sophisticated hack" if they post their passwords publicly.
> I prefer ads that are relevant to my interests.

A third party company that buys ads will decide on the content. What ads you see will be aligned with their interests, not yours; e.g. if you're a "high earner", you might see ads for more expensive products and no cheap alternatives. If you're "expecting a child", the ads might scare you into buying more child safety products than you need; etc.
Shit, I don't know; I'm conjecturing here.
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You can trade bitcoin options on deribit. I believe they are cash settled though, so maybe that won't count for you.
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I’m not going to down vote you for being incorrect.

You are wrong because you are focused on FB abalone and ignoring the system. You are wrong because you are focused on what FB exports and ignoring what they import. You are wrong because you are focused on the present and ignoring the past history of abuses.
All of them are optional as you don't need any of those. The thing is that at the end you have to choose, of course some combinations are better/make more sense than others, I'm not saying you should have any.
People are too dense to protect themselves. You just accuse those that try to cancel the book as misogynistic hate. Problem solved and will implode on inconsistencies.
So then the comparison between mugs and bags doesn't make much sense, because unlike water waste carbon emissions are an issue.
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I've been on I3 with nixOS (and emacs as my go to editor) for a few years now, and it's a dream. I can carry my configurations between machines with almost no setup. Every computer I use is the same.

I find Windows and macOS painful to use. Constantly hunting around for applications I have open, that requires me to remove my fingers from my keyboard and play around with my mouse. I barely bother to use tabs for anything (terminal or browser), just switch to another workspace and pop up another instance of FireFox or a terminal.

TWM do ruin you though. Once you're comfortable in them, you'll never want to go back and so using somebody else's computer just feels alien.
If $1000 is 1% of your portfolio it is only a 1% loss, which is less than nominal inflation.
There is a lot of money floating around, but there has also been a huge explosion of new and aspiring VCs.

The number of VCs seems to be growing faster than the number of startups, so VCs are increasingly competitive to get the scoop on potential deals before their competitors. This leads to mass spamming of anyone and everyone who might potentially have a lead.

The new trend for aspiring VCs is to source deals and bring them to actual VCs. It’s not uncommon to be hit up by people implying that they have connections to VCs, when in reality they’re just hoping to find a new, unknown deal to bring to a VC firm to build rapport.

It’s becoming a numbers game.
Is a tool to deploy frontends super easy. It's called JAMStack, but the main idea is make your life easier. I like it.

If you want to deploy a JS frontend (not just static files, though you can), this automatically handles a lot of things like SSR, SSL, etc https://vercel.com/pricing
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I second sway! I have switched full-time from i3 sometime last year and haven't looked back. In my experience it's even more performant than i3 wayland has largely been a boon, except some odd programs that don't work even under x wayland (currently that's obs and meet.jit.si and zoom screen sharing)

The only thing one needs to do is configure environment variables to start qt and gtk apps in wayland mode.
>>It’s a strange mindset to think that something should just be free.

When it comes to healthcare? Yes, it should absolutely be free to the recepient.

I don't know why it's such a strange concept to you - afer all, Americans are also used to receiving certain services for free - you don't have to pay the police for coming to help you, or the fire brigade for that matter. To me it's the same thing - if your house on fire, the fire brigade will come and help, free of charge - that's what taxes are for. So if I'm ill, I will be given any and all help needed - also free of charge, after all, that's what taxes are for.

>>They are also exorbitantly expensive because of the absurd moral hazard they create.

Like, sometimes I think Americans live literally on a different planet. Do you think that in countries where healthcare is free to use people have medical procedures without any reason and simply because they don't have to pay for it?

In general, it's simple - if a country wants to have healthy, productive citizens, it should pay for their healthcare, I don't understand why it's such a divisive concept. The crown example of how crazy the US system is, is the fact that you have to pay to give birth. Like.....so US cares so little for its citizens that literally the very act of giving birth to new ones is not covered by the government? That's....beyond mind boggling.
Similar situation for me: I've had an account since 2013, but Coinbase is just a month ago started asking me to verify my identity. That prevents me from selling or transferring my crypto, but I'm still allowed to buy more!? Their automated verification tool fails for my driver's license, and despite multiple support tickets I've gotten no human response. My takeaway from this is that Coinbase isn't mature enough to be trusted.
Libertarian vs Libeartarian.
Lower privacy can be a failing from a consumer point of view, but an advantage for regulated businesses.
In macOS it is not entirely clear to me what category of things the cmd key is for. On one hand it's used for keyboard shortcuts related to window management and the system, but on the other hand it's also used to issue commands to the application itself.

In i3 you assign a $mod key, which then always and exclusively used for 'system and window management'. Opening, closing, moving and resizing windows, switching workspaces and showing toolbars is all done with some key combination that starts with $mod.

Since reading and writing the clipboard is done by the application, in my brain it should not involve $mod. So I use ctrl+c and ctrl+v for all applications. The one exception is the terminal, in which ctrl+c terminates programs. So there I use ctrl+shift+c. I also unified the register vim yanks to with the system clipboard, so for me most copying and pasting that happens in the terminal is done via `y` (yank) and `p` (paste).

A more straight answer to your question is: yes, you can remap everything to bits. You can modify what keypress each keycode should trigger, so there is really no limit to what you can do there.
Most of the porn is produced according to US sensibilities anyway
I didn't see anyone talking about this downtime. I started to think that the problem might be with my Internet access.
One could easily make more than minimum wage.
Indeed. Even when the wine is objectively superior in many respects, are those the issues you really care about? How marked is the difference? Your fine bottle might have taken decades to nail a specific tone or quality, but if you are just trying to get sloshed and tomorrow you'll have forgotten everything about it, the boxed stuff will do just fine. That's the challenge for business software - to be so much better than Excel that people will be willing to move on.
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Ah great, another round of feeling bad as Ponzi Schemes as a Service makes people rich.
Why would they fail?

It opens an SMTP connection and runs through the handshake. If this fails then, it will fail with a real delivery just the same.

It's still a bad test to do, but for other reasons.
I just watched it on YouTube and, at the risk of sounding like a fuddy duddy, I don't get it. Looks like you just point a flamethrower at the weed or blow something up near it, and watch it burn. I mean it looks cool but what makes it stand out as an all-time great gaming moment?
Also, two passes of cocktail-shaker sort (back and forth bubble sort) would guarantee that the top and bottom z-order would be correct, which would probably be good enough to keep really obviously bad z-ordering at bay.

Like you say, when it's already partially sorted and you're just having to maintain a slowly-updated list, a single partial-sort pass per frame could be quite enough to maintain a good-enough ordering of a list.
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Yes, this has been discussed many times on HN, but I'd like to hear the specifics of the mechanism by which Tether actually influences the price of Bitcoin up and down.

According to [1] (2018) , actually getting down to the metal to track what happens in the tether blockchain isn't straightforward.

According to coincap [2] there is around 20B tether in circulation.

Also according to coincap, the Bitcoin market cap is around 380B.

Now, the question is one of market depth: can 20B be used to manipulate a 380B market.

What I would very much like to see is an aggregate market depth number for - say - the top 30 exchanges. Does anyone have a reference for this?

[1] https://hackernoon.com/a-closer-look-at-tethers-blockchain-5...

[2] https://coincap.io/
Presumably your trade would be time limited as well (or at least have some exit conditions) unless your plan would be to buy and hold bitcoin from now until the end of time.
Amen to this. The effortless translation of matrix expressions into code is a huge positive for Matlab/Octave and negative for Python. Have not worked with Julia, and I wonder what the experience is there.
For most applications email validation is really not nesecarry. instead a service can rely on email verification. If the address is invalid, mails sent to it will never arrive at a destination.
I am but a technical cog in the machine my friend, while I know about what goes on in business and contract negoatiations I cannot comment on power dynamics. I would assume it's like any other negotiation - whomever has the greatest leverage has the power, I doubt it's ever fairly balanced.
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FOMO is not a reasonable investment strategy.
Probably worth a disclosure that you work at Poloniex, a crypto exchange, every time you make one of these permabull comments.
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It has no inherent value, with enough fear it can easily drop to ~0$
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Were chocolate bars in the UK really only 25p in the era of cell phones?
The news and press defined the "attack sophistication". An attack of this scale definitely needs some amount of sophistication but on a difficulty scale of 1-10 to infiltrate their network, I would rate it a humble 0.5/10.
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Marginally stronger than now, but it dropped from 1 USD = 0.94 EUR in Apr 2017 to 1 USD = 0.84 EUR in mid-December.
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Can also just use Zoom web client.

But my guess is if you are in the position where you can use something like i3 for your daily driver, you are in the position to use something better than Zoom.
I just tested this for myself. I was very surprised when I started writing with my pen what I was singing instead of what I'd intended. I then tried coding and was still able to do that while singing. However, I was also able to type natural language while singing.