skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We in the US spent something like $7000/citizen on stimulus so far though, so $30/test gets you a lot of tests if it mitigates the economic effects of the virus.
Honestly, I'm surprised that Amazon hasn't done this sooner. Google and to a lesser extent Apple both have a huge lead in this space. Amazon is one of the few companies that can afford the massive capital cost to create this kind of service.

I am curious about the quality though. It seems like they're just reselling from 3rd party data providers. Hopefully, we see this forcing price cuts to Google's Maps API at some point, but I think it will be a while until they reach parity in data quality.
Yeah, but Mike Pondsmith no doubt drew inspiration for the Voodoo Boys from the Rastafarians living in orbit in Neuromancer, and from the AIs representing themselves as Haitian voodoo gods in Count Zero.

The tabletop game draws heavily on Gibson and Philip K. Dick by the way of Blade Runner. (And to be clear, I love that!)
Developers are end users as well
He did say "prominent". I agree, inline screenshots on the site are preferable to a Flickr gallery.
"lol" has morphed into an onomatopoeia, sometimes expressed out loud as an interjection in the same way that "heh" or "ha" might, but with a touch of "I found that droll".
https://themoneymongers.com/lightning-network-watchtowers/
Thanks for the prompt & detailed responses in this thread.

It’ll be interesting to see what this looks like in a polyglot stack, I think that’s where having functionality in in the policy language might be really valuable.

For the time being, it’d still be possible to build a oso based policy server which applications invoke to make consistent decisions - so there are options to achieve this in the meantime too.
I think there's a difference between the game being half-baked (it is) and just genuine failure on the part of the developer. Basically I'm pretty sure the cop mechanic wasn't intended to be the way it is.

That doesn't really make it good, but I don't think it represents the feature design.
There’s Rocky Linux: https://rockylinux.org/
tl;dr: Years ago, Niue traded away their rights to the .nu TLD in exchange for free Internet access and Wi-Fi coverage for their entire country. Now that the value of .nu went up, they want to unilaterally revoke the deal and take it back.
Yes, Safari is the most buggy browser in common use other than IE11. It's also the one that uses the least battery life, it's standards-compliant enough to render most web pages, and it's the only option on iOS.
I have been using Emacs for about 5 years. I don't think I will ever graduate from advanced beginner. I learn something new every week. And I would say I have done fairly sophisticated stuff with Emacs.

I also think you are right. I am very grateful I managed to get a preconfigured Emacs to start my journey.
How about taxes and increased interest rates?
I'm jealous of you and others in this thread that shared this path. I've unfortunately been dragged in the other direction: I was a happy i3/Linux user and now I'm coping with a multi-monitor Mac setup which stubbornly refuses to support workflows which I find to be very fast and efficient.

There are some tools (all $$) for Mac which attempt to replicate a tiling WM but Apple's support for it is extremely poor, affecting the quality of the tools.
about:about is the fastest way to look these up. :-)
It's definitely true on the DeFi / lending front. Check out BlockFi for example.

But I wouldn't say these are the _main_ reason why Bitcoin is going up. More likely reasons:

- Inflation concerns from the massive QE efforts in 2020
- Equities market are very overvalued right now, people are looking for alternate asset classes and fiat isn't a great option (see point #1)
- Institutional (more risk adverse) names are getting in. Ex: Mass Mutual bought $100M of BTC last week. Because this was for their general account it needed Fed approval, which is a big milestone.
- The idea of BTC as a true alternate store of value to gold is becoming more widely accepted.

Specifically in regard to the point around Bitcoin as an alternative to gold, the market cap of gold is around $9T. If even half of that moves to BTC we'd hit about $130k/BTC.
No, in the general case it is infuriatingly impossible
Most of the regrets here seem to be about quitting academia or "meaningful" work rather than astrophysics per se.

No reason why as a data scientist he can't pivot from financial services into something more research oriented within industry, or back into academia; the pay will likely be much less in the latter case, but the opportunities for work on a more meaningful track with like-minded people will be there.
This is a sane proposal, but honestly an across the board ‘carbon tax’ would probably be easier to implement and have the desired effect. That’s essentially what you’re proposing on meat — with the inclusion of some other negative externalities.
On a large scale, the wrong results from such tests don't matter if you test people often enough

That assumes that for each test it is a sort of dice roll on whether or not there will be a false result. It might be that something about the individual person's biochemistry or health history (like prior exposure to a different corona strain) is the cause of the false result. If that's the case, then people who receive a false result on this type of test will tend to always receive false results, and testing more often won't help much.
> worthwhile to recycle

People say this implying that there is something about the material which makes it inherently "worthwhile" and that's just not true anymore. Recycling has advanced quite a bit and these days what makes things not "worthwhile" to recycle can have as much to do with how they are designed and disposed as with the utility of the underlying material.

A cottage cheese tub is made from recyclable plastic but it's not "worthwhile" for a recycler to collect them if they aren't rinsed. Cardboard is useful but moreso if flattened. Though not at all if a plastic liner is still glued inside.

I encounter people all the time not knowing if a thing is recyclable and if so how to prepare it. The worst part is that people often even put extra effort into recycling but because they don't understand how the recycler consumes the items they actually harm the recycler with improper disassembly.

You could have one icon for things like pop cans and milk jugs which are recyclable without modification. Similarly, there could be icons for compound packaging. You might have a symbol that means a box must have a plastic liner removed and the box be flattened. The important thing is consistnecy.

People might even begin to shift their shopping habits towards products that came in easy to recycle packages. But consumers can't even really index on that currently because they have to get pretty educated on their local recycler's practices to know this.
> You may want to consider that the value of Bitcoin a constant.

That seems like a foolhardy assumption given that what I can go to the store and buy with $1 stays relatively constant day-to-day, while what I can buy with 1 BTC fluctuates wildly.
Julia is not a Matlab clone, but it does have more in common with Matlab than Python does, so translation is easier.

That said, Matlab does encourage quite a few bad habits that can kill performance in Julia, so it's important to try and properly learn Julia idioms too before you just blindly start translating if you care about performance.
Launched 70 projects in 20 years
You mean false positives? This assay doesn't false positive that much-- specificity is estimated to be 96-97%.
It's the world's first globally accessible, decentralized, transparent, immutable ledger.
And it makes me more worried about Fedora to be honest, because _that_ is something that IBM could decide it doesn't like...
It says further down the article that the restrictions include providing names and email addresses to Red Hat and that the software can't be redistributed. Not really in the spirit of CentOS and open source.
Thanks for sharing Jonathan, unprecedented situation. And that's just gmail.com addresses we can see data on, while there are all those business domains that use Google Apps for their email that probably experienced a similar issue...
Insomnia Core: Testing APIs Secured with Auth0
Even neater feature in electric vehicles!
I would! I also like to look at the job openings page when evaluating a technical product. The experience they ask for can give a lot of insight into internal engineering health.
It's hard to fake because people can cash out of Tether. You can sustain a ponzi only if you had tight control of inflow-outflow until it collapses.

For example, Okex froze withdrawals a month ago on its exchange. I had a 5 figures there that I was able to move by mirror trading on another exchange. If many people mirror traded (which they probably did), the prices will start to diverge. The prices very slightly diverged, which means a well capitalized third-party had strong conviction/guarantees that Okex is good for the coins/money, and played the reverse trade by injecting even more capital into Okex (they still allowed deposits).

If you are trading and notice these patterns, this gives you an idea about the probability that the exchange is going back to business. Same thing for Tether, their liquidity and price stability is even better than USDC.
So why did they buy it in the first place then?

Acquiring a competitor and shutting it down is standard SV business as usual. Just took a bit longer this time.
Good to know. But do any PC manufacturers do that in practice?
Let's pay tribute to the very first Hacker News thread about Bitcoin back in May, 2009 with this classic comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852

> Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency.
That hardware could be in the presumed-safe next room, though.
And yet, somehow, during various other periods of money printing its value has crashed. So are you asserting this period of money printing is different, and if so how?

edit Even the post facto explanations of Bitcoins price fluctuations generally do not seem to be agreed or understood.
1. facilitating "illegal" activities (ransomware, dodging capital controls and taxes, drugs, etc), similar to cash

2. speculation:
"Someone speculating on Bitcoin over a week cares little about its fundamental value: even if you told her that Bitcoin would crash to zero for sure in three years, it would make essentially no dent in her trading profits, since you can make a lot of money in a volatile market over the course of a week if you get on the right side of the volatility."

https://review.chicagobooth.edu/finance/2018/article/bitcoin...
This makes no sense to me. Isn't the value of bitcoin measured in USD?
I really like i3. I wish that I could have something similar on Mac OS.
Thank you for this, and I totally agree.

The price of Bitcoin is largely irrelevant given how interesting the tech. that powers it actually is.

Bitcoin is a fluid that aims to power a hydraulic machine, and once Lightning gets to where it should be (it's been a while, yes :\), my bet is that many of the naysayers will have no choice but to take a second look at it.

The rise in price is just a side-effect.
Chicken Nuggets Were Grown in a Petri Dish
Yeah, I can bounce from one thing to another there just soaking up info for hours.

After all these years of doing that I finally visited the Wikipedia Home page a few weeks ago. I was quite surprised with all the stuff they have there that I had no idea about. That rabbit hole is a lot bigger than I knew about.
also ugly :)
People had been thinking about digital money for decades but didn’t know how to solve double spend. Proof of work was around since 2000 or so (hashcash) but it wasn’t until satoshi that these ideas were congealed together in the form of the blockchain.
I'd suggest following ethereum and it's founder Vitalik. He's explicitly said things like, "If all that we accomplish is lambo memes and immature puns about "sharting", then I WILL leave.

Though I still have a lot of hope that the community can steer in the right direction."

He has worked with the UN world food program, and posts a lot of material on voting, economic fairness, and social aspects of blockchain in general. It seems like he is genuinely interested in using blockchain for general societal good, rather than just speculative price chasing.
I originally meant a slider to control speed but I also like the waypoints idea (a slider in cube state history) .

I'm still curious about the internal lines idea. But I don't understand the Rubik's cube enough. If you label all blue squares as {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} is their solution configuration unique?
> Americans are by far the biggest polluters and consumers on the planet

How do you figure ? By what metric ?
>> While electric cars may help a bit, rubber from breaking and tyres is an issue

In what way are they an issue?

Tyre emissions are around 1/20th of the PM2.5 ejected from the exhaust and the airborne proportion is even smaller.

Edit:

"Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants" has a fairly non-commital "needs more study" finding but they did say "Non-exhaust particulate matter (PM) emissions, ie from brake wear,
tyre wear, road surface wear and re-suspended road dust currently comprise just
under 10% of UK primary particulate emissions and they are expected to become
proportionately more important, as vehicle exhaust PM emissions from road
transport are expected to decrease over the coming years"

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
It should to treat special characters first (somehow cannot search for ä,ö,ü)
Listen, America Has more forest landthan 100 years ago because we clearcut the entire continent for the century before (1) talk about moving goalposts. (2) seriously, go to Vermont & tour the abandoned farms in the middle of nowhere, you'll be stunned by the sins of our ancestors.
(3)Trending is great on that one very small thing, but again, Global Warming is a cumulative problem, not a trending one.

And btw, what's your endgame here? Climate Change denialism? I hope not, b/c that's a real bummer.
That’s literally more money than I have in my bank account lol
At that point, even though it’ll probably lock you out of your account indefinitely, the best option probably is a chargeback through the credit card issuer
So Red Hat is promising a possible migration path for CentOS 8 users to some limited, restricted form of RHEL next year, but not announcing it yet? So they deprecate a product, and expect people to wait for an announcement that may or may not work for them? Who is making these decisions???

Why on earth not announce the free RHEL offering now. Or wait until those details are ready to deprecate CentOS 8.

It sounds like some CentOS users might be able to migrate to some free version of RHEL, but it's unclear how restricted that free version will be. Probably good for home users, but how about medium or large businesses? And then, why should anyone even use a restricted RHEL when Rocky will be full RHEL for free.
You don't think "bitcoin as an inflation resistant storage" is a good theory ?
I don't understand why rural is relevant to the latency I posted?
How do you know for sure the "other places" are any better?
FB is much more scrutinized than other companies.

And as I wrote earlier: scandals were largely reported and extensively covered.
Most users stayed.
So if users are happy with it, why should the employees quit a good job?
I find auth stuff to be a huge ball of frustration for everybody. It strikes me as if the people designing auth mechanisms and APIs and people designing usable UX are different species with different goals and value systems, and this leaks out all the way up to the user.

In many ways this is just growing pains. For years people willingly handed their name/password to third party apps and sites, and this granted those sites full auth. This was too permissive, but extremely easy for people to understand, even for non-techies.

With things like OAuth, OS level capabilities in iOS and Android, etc., we've now got to break down these "scopes" into slices that are flexible enough to write useful software against without being too broad, too revealing of the underling software architecture (brittle), and too confusing for the user. I think this is actually a really hard problem.
I disagree with this. Safari and Chrome are both noticeably better than Firefox on OSX.

I'm a Firefox fanboy, still use it on OSX because it's important to me, but the amount of random pauses, crashes, etc is just painful on OSX. It's like none of the Firefox developers use it on OSX or something.

And before someone says "oh it's your extensions", that IMO leads to two talking points

1. It's 2020 and major extensions still cause memory leaks in Firefox. Debugging them isn't easy at all. Almost all of the resources say something like "Run in safe mode and see if it fixes things" and then lots of posts of "post your about:memory here and I'll analyze it." I'm a software engineer by trade and it's been difficult for me to diagnose...

2. Nah because I don't run any extensions on my OSX firefox install
Sure, and in that specific case octave is the elegant and refined choice!
Amethyst is nice but has odd and unfortunate edge cases. The use of the Accessibility APIs limits what it can do. For example, keybinds stop working if the focus is on an empty screen with no windows. Occassionaly it "loses" a window and you can't cycle to it any more, even if you focus it manually. I also don't think it can throw windows to other workspaces but maybe that's changed?

For very simple i3-like configurations (single workspace+monitor, always fullscreen or side-by-side), it's not bad. It's limited by poor support from Apple.
Yea from the old MacOS sure. However, now that iOS apps are looking to be pushed to desktop, do you really think that is gonna continue in the future?

As soon as universal binaries/iOS apps becomes fully fledged on ARM Mac I can imagine Apple just removing support completely. It's almost inevitable the way Apple is progressing to basically move to the iOS style platform control to OS X.

Even from Mozilla's economics perspective, it doesn't make sense for Mozilla to be spending engineering effort maintaining both the iOS and OS X variants for something like 4% of desktop. If it was up to me, I would have just migrated/maintained the Firefox Wrapper iOS and called it a day.
5k-year-old piece of Great Pyramid puzzle found in Aberdeen
The difference is a law "partner" is called that because they become a partner in the LLP. In other words they are given a very real ownership stake in the firm. They are paid a portion of the firms profits in addition to any salary.

Associate lawyers (what you are before partner) are paid a regular salary as employees.

Law firms aren't healthy workplaces, but I wouldn't worry about the legal rights of the lawyers working for them.
I've been watching the way OpenSuse is matching binaries with SLES. This is something CentOS never had. The binaries were generated from the same source, but inevitably had some differences.

It would be much simpler for them to provide a version of Redhat that could be run without subscriptions and some way for it to convert to Subscriptions.
>Just a question, isn't all criticism against bitcoin applicable to gold?

Gold fluctuates a lot less. Its hard to swallow "ok ok bitcoin is useless but it can still be a stable currency/safe asset" when the price is booming and crashing every year.
> OP’s acknowledgment is not entirely valid - their business models don’t rely on ads per se. Rather the nature of capital and free markets leads to them being snuffed out by bigger ones.

As the OP, I would argue against this. I don't fully understand what you mean by the 'nature of capital and free markets' unless that's just a fancy term for 'the rich get richer'.

Let's take... idk a knitting business for example. A single entreprenuer knits and sells hats. In no way, shape, or form, does successfully selling knit items require tracking people from all over the nation/state/city, and all the small personal details of their lives, in order to sell them hats.

This is not to say advertising is not essential/important. But there are many options: A) cold-calls B) networking your friends/family C) print and post flyers D) Post on your personal/business social media accts E) have your own website F) Rent a billboard G) pay for space in magazines/newspapers H) try in-person sales, and so on and so forth.

This winner-take-all mentality is bizarre. Just because carhartt, for example, will always sell more hats than "Nina Knitter Co." doesn't mean she can't run a successful business.

Running a successful small business has never and will never require invading the privacy of your potential customers. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a morally bankrupt POS.

Edit: To better address the quoted text: These businesses DO rely on ads, and that is entirely of their own making and their unwillingness to choose other avenues of growth/advertising that are not exploitatative on such a massive scale. AND, if they have explored those options and found that it is not profitable to do so, then they are complicit in the theft and violation of privacy.
Ethereum removed the 100M soft cap on EIP 669.

This was quietly slipped through with no debate. ETH shouldn't be trusted.
If they're sensible they'll keep all current domains and just redirect the profits
$330 million per day or nearly 10 billion per month, not counting distribution costs.

And could we manufacture 10 billion of them a month?
You know what he's talking about though, seems like the word did its job fine.
> Let's assume bitcoin becomes the dominant currency for payments down the road.

What if we don't assume that?
In fairness, it's 10 years later and sentiment still swings back and forth.
I think it's easier to understand BTC valuation (and, indeed, many individual stocks, e.g. see what happened to Hertz earlier this year) if you think of it like an MMO game instead of an asset that is valued based on some analysis of discounted future cash flows. When an asset has so much volatility, many people are just gambling on when they can get in and get out, underlying fundamentals be damned.
"Red hat leadership"

I imagine it's IBM leadership that decided this one.

"It's unclear how restricted that free version will be"

Probably not directly restricted. Just restricted in the sense that it won't be an LTS type distribution that matches RHEL's LTS product, package versions, etc. That was the value prop for CentOS.
Gold isn't controlled by a handful of miners in China, the way Bitcoin is.

The whole decentralization-as-design principle of Bitcoin has shown that, given few constraints, anything of value naturally centralizes on the select few with the means to control it anyways.

The block size debate, and the tragedy of the commons that it shines a light on, is a prime example of that.
> spend their time on complex cooking books

That press campaign was masterful. Even HN was "in his spare time, he's an innovative chef! nifty!", not "IV now trolling food industry". Oh well.
It's somewhat a myth that Safari is less standard-compliant. True, Safari's release cycle is slower and Apple has the motivation to prevent PWAs to become too good, but in many things Safari has always been very innovative browser.

Built on top of KHTML foundation, it then became webkit and later the most successfull engine. It was the first to implement full ES6 support, and basically invented CSS transformations/transitions (really amazing stuff back then but not really used until all major browsers caught up years later), was the first to ditch Flash support, has argueably the best privacy policy, has superb font rendering, etc.
There are a variety of solutions for realtime w/ serverless: https://vercel.com/docs/solutions/realtime