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Best comment of the day understands what has happened to crypto and the evolution of liquidity

At first we called them all scamcoins, shitcoins, then it became altcoins as the market matured

Now it's just all giant pools of liquidity to fuck around in. It doesn't matter what you think the value is. It's liquid or it isn't.
Why Are Millions of N95 Masks Sitting in a Factory Without a Buyer?
It depends on the publisher but 7% to 9% is common. So for authors selling "only" 5 K copies the only way to survive is to self-publish. Now of course when you self-publish you have to find a way to reach your audience.
Of course they do. Obamacare officials defended theirs as well. What else is new?
Show HN: I processed 97k upwork job titles
Nah, if they suspect you of fraud they're barely allowed to talk to you outside of confirming your account has been suspended
But in this case it's not someone going to prison for smoking a joint, it's someone who robbed and in one incident led to a policewoman being killed.
I don't care if I'm tracked by advertisers, and I'm also not advertising, so I guess I'm pretty neutral?

FLoC is Google's new way to target "cohorts" of users with advertising. The idea is that Google will classify each user into a cohort (and that classification will change over time as the user visits more web pages, and perhaps other data is acquired) and only that cohort is reported to the advertiser, which can then use it to serve appropriate ads.

On the flip side, this is obviously still targeted advertising, and some people have a strong negative outlook towards that idea in general. Also, it's been said that if you can manage to track a person across just a few cohort changes, you can personally identify them, which is contrary to the entire idea about FLoC protecting a person's privacy.

In short, proponents think it's better than tracking cookies, and opponents think it's still privacy invasion, and not much better than tracking cookies.
Just yesterday Australia noted the first anniversary of a similar Twitter faux pas, by Prof. Peter Doherty [1], a Nobel laureate in physiology/medicine, and popular commentator on medical science in Australia.

One evening during Melbourne's first lockdown for the pandemic, he accidentally tweeted "Dan Murphy opening hours" – Dan Murphy's being a major chain of liquor stores.

It gave the nation some much-needed cheer that such an eminent, intelligent person was capable of making that kind of error, as well as apparently being so in need of a drink, which most of us could relate to.

He has also been a good enough sport to leave the tweet up [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_C._Doherty

[2] https://twitter.com/ProfPCDoherty/status/1254616358479966209
Reminder: 1) Signal, Matrix, XMPP and so on do not protect you from timing correlation especially between users connecting to the same server.

2) The social connection graph is easy to extract when people communicate often

3) The more data is captured, the more likely it is to find suspicious coincidences that are actually false positives

4) Not everybody lives in a healthy and safe society

Please consider recommending Briar or similar onion-routed messengers instead of Signal, Matrix, XMPP
Market cap is still useful to compare projects but you do have to look at it in combination with liquidity.

E.g. I work on a Cross-chain bridge project (currently for BSC-Polygon) [0] and technically we have a market cap of 1.4m right now but practically the liquidity in exchanges is still just in the thousands so that's all you can cash out if you try to.

On the other hand, comparing e.g. ETH and BTC's market cap is a lot more useful since they have a lot of and comparable enough liquidity.

0. https://wpnt.org/
curl -i (lowercase) prints the headers as well as the response body without the verbosity of -v
Advertising is the worst industry on the planet
That there isn't a single Perl community but rather communities that lack a shared behavior standard and that each has its own culture.
Cyberdog. I never heard about this. I quite like the name.
FLoC is Google's loophole after disabling third-party cookies in Chrome and promising they "will not build alternate identifiers to track individuals as they browse across the web"[0]. FLoC is a new tracker to replace third-party cookies, but it works by putting users in groups and tracking those groups, so they technically aren't tracking "individuals" this time. Except you can use FLoC to track individuals by identifying them as a unique intersection of many disparate groups[1].

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/3/22310332/google-privacy-re...

[1] https://github.com/WICG/floc/issues/100
Reminds me of BBM (blackberry messenger). Only available on their hardware.
No, it isn’t actually the clutch doing most of the braking, it’s the inherent friction of the engine moving without combustion
I’ve been trying hard lately to try to avoid downvoting comments just because I disagree with them, but a comment that makes no sense or is very badly written is a good candidate for a downvote.
> I don't think we should talk about "The Perl Community", but rather "The Perl Communities".

That's like saying that "cities" don't exist, only "neighborhoods".
I've never looked at academic papers before, but they mostly seem concerned with automated fact-checking, under an assumption that this is desirable.

Papers looking at whether or not this is desirable tend not to come to that conclusion, e.g.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08913811.2013.84...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10584609.2019.16... (2020 meta-analysis)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15205436.2020.17...

I personally hold a belief that a fact-checking publisher has the same biases and profit-motives as any news publisher (or, as motive, political influence of the wealthy).

I don't find it useful to distinguish fact-checking as special and call for specific research on this, as if existing academic research can always be invalidated by a simple re-branding.
when talking about the M1 I had in mind the apple mini pc
If you really need a laptop just go with anything comparing the specs
In my prev job laptop was required and I had a really good thinkpad, much better than any apple laptop on the office

If you don't need a laptop, just get a desktop, much more computing power per dollar expend
I would, if I had the skills, maybe call it "LI Dungeon" (Liberal Intelligence Dungeon). Regarding the market: I am surprised there even is a market for AI Dungeon. Any output I have seen is complete trash.
I don't think there's any part of the academic experience which isn't biased.

For example I long resented the foreign language requirement of many colleges, this alone caused me to go to a less prestigious school. At first I thought this favored those who come from households were more than one language is spoken, but then once I actually talked to my friends from said households they'd tell me unless your parents have money to put you in classes you don't just learn.

If we keep rolling down the rabbit hole, many young adults don't even have stable housing, I can never imagine a world where these potential students would have a fair shot. I myself went through a few evictions as a kid, and in no way shape or form would I have been able to go to a four year school straight out of high school.

College is the status symbol that keeps on giving. Once your college educated you'll find it easier to attract partners who are also college educated, and then if you ever have children you'll be able to build a much better life for them. As opposed to not being able to attend college since your parents are insane and then shacking up with someone from a similar background.

From this point on your life is going to be extremely difficult, I don't think there's anywhere in America where a minimum wage worker can reasonably afford a place to live. I often see articles about millennials having to live with their parents, but I never see articles about what happens when you don't have parents you can live with
Helps that it's a great tool for money laundering. "Love" this dystopia where the interests of organized crime, tax evaders, and easy money techno-fetishists combine.

Western Roman empire fell apart in part because of its inability to raise revenues. When states can't raise taxes to provide services, justice, and protection, private lords and strongmen fill the void.
Yes! I like the garbage collection analogy and we already know that children brought up without parents do badly. Why would an AGI be any different, let alone an AGI brought up in virtual chains for safety's sake. What a misguided notion of safety that would be.

>The idea though that we'd make a solo intelligence is bizarre.

Yes, even our outlier general intelligences (i.e. creative geniuses) got that way because they somehow reproduced more of the surrounding culture inside their heads than everyone else did. It's misleading to think of that as solo brilliance.

>They would communicate with each other at speeds so fast that communication with them would be almost impossible.

In addition to pausing, we could also slow the simulation down for periods of communication. But given how long it took humans to evolve from single-celled organisms, and later to develop hand axes, etc, we may find that our potential AGI culture also starts off very very slowly.
>> And, yes, Deep Blue was just "a bit of symbolic manipulation you can do in Lisp" at a very large hardware scale.

Modern chess engines use the same approach as Deep Blue, on much smaller hardware. IBM certainly tried to position Deep Blue as a triumph of large hardware, but its success is widely recognised as being owed to its minimax with alpha-beta cutoff algorithm. I can't imagine anyone who would call minimax "brute force"- it's a search algorithm and alpha-beta is a heuristic pruning technique. It's very hard to see pruning of any kind as "brute force"; rather that's the whole point, you prune a search tree to avoid an exhaustive search.

The evaluation function was hard-coded, yes, according to human expertise and chess theory. Note that Deep Blue also had an extensive "opening book" which if I remember correctly made it possible to play a very strong early game.

In any case, it took a few decades to create a system like Deep Blue and it was far from "a bit of symbolic manipulation in Lisp" but scaled up. I recommend the Adversarial Search section in Russel and Norvig if you want to develop a more thorough understanding of the relevant approaches (probably fourth edition will do).

>> Creating Deep Blue's hardware in 1997 was the most impressive achievement.

Can you point to other achievements in symbolic AI that were not as impressive as Deep Blue? Do you know of any others that you could compare to Deep Blue?
The article seems to be talking about the efficient use space (sea area). However, speaking as a layman, these vertical turbines appear to be structurally more complex and to consist of more material, so I would expect them to be more expensive per MWh.

Would they be more efficient than traditional horizontal wind parks when looking at total cost of ownership?
And would it still be an issue if they're in the sea?
It's evaluated eagerly. The notebook is executed and materialized at upload.

We're enabling re-triggering notebooks soon, which will allow things like scheduled and parameterized executions, and those will be eagerly evaluated as well.
In the context of streaming apps, there is no inconsistency. Are people really confused by having to go to a website to sign up?

There is a huge difference between having to follow one rule and submitting your app to the store and being required to make a revenue and ad sharing deal.

The proof is in the pudding. Every streaming service has always supported iOS from day one. Then you hear “we are still waiting to make a deal with Roku”.
I don't reopen them all. I close all my tabs a couple times a day. The next time I'm browsing I might open something I had open before, but typing 3-4 characters of its title into the address bar and hitting return is quicker than searching for the correct tab to click on
Origins of Agile in Japanese Stone Masonry
I’m suspicious that unique content is something that consumers intrinsically value. While the first round of game of thrones is fun, the 5th clone gets pretty old.

The question is how do we algorithmically boost unique content without bringing along junk content.
In the past I wanted to build a system that checks flight paths and will tell you what kind of plane noise you can expect in the area where you want to buy a house.

Anyone build it yet/ needs something like this?
100%. I use some online communities to learn about my hobbies - such as woodworking. The woodworking subreddit used to be my go-to place to learn about the skill from others.

That being said, they have very firm views about a certain brand of table saw, and will be slightly (and politely) combative if you justify using something else.

All groups have this issue - it's very, very, very easy to become an unhealthy echo chamber when it's all online. I believe it's because people automatically project their own emotions, beliefs, and standards onto comments from other humans. In other words, my theory is that online nonsense is so easy to fall into because everyone seems to think, contrary to reality, that they're the only person online.

Also, gas stoves absolutely are better than electric ones.
The Math Behind Dante's Divine Comedy
I quite literally don't need to care about the blue bubble nonsense. It's a great flag for a person I can happily ignore.
It really depends where you live, where I live in Asia electric (induction) is the high end option and gas is the standard. Electric also doesn't work great with a wok.
This is so, so many extra layers of abstraction that don't need to exist. Just use Hyper-V directly, or better yet use VMWare.
I love money laundering schemes!
Password Generator Using JavaScript, HTML
> Overall, the class of vulnerability is the same, but Apple just does a far better job of vetting and controlling the list of people/code.

This as well as the extreme lack of trust for anything Google. Apple has an incentive to keep the privacy kick going, Google is already figuring out a way around Apple nuking ad identifiers. Trust is important.
> (protip: its affecting your life and relationships)

Haha, what?

Anyway, joke's on them, I use Signal.
> but the pandemic wrecked them

Everything I've read indicates bookstores have done phenomenally well during the pandemic
Well, he did say he was sorry
For the US, it's an average of 12 years for an experimental drug to travel from the laboratory to hosital or clinic.

Covid-19 vaccines are being given to millions of people after a few months development. Will the Covid-19 vaccine example mean that other non-Covid drugs are more likely to have expedited routes to authorized use for use when they are desperately needed?
I am a lawyer, and you’re correct. It’s typically called a “jurisdictional hook.” In certain regards the US Constitution limits the U.S. Congress’s ability to legislate to issues that touch on “interstate commerce.” If it all happens within Montana’s borders, that’s typically for Montana to handle in its own state legislature. So, for the DOJ to investigate something, they have to then satisfy whatever jurisdictional hook that the Congress put in the law, which in turn makes the law constitutional (in the sense of: within the Congress’s jurisdiction to legislate about). Here, the Congress will have required a proof of “use of interstate wires” (or something to that effect).
Wikipedia's policy doesn't say you can't have multiple accounts, just that you can't misuse them.
This new header seems like DoNotTrack 2.0 that Google will be forced to ignore once it gains some adoption to preserve their core business.
Few challenge that the children of highly educated parents have higher academic achievement. As highly educated parents is strongly correlated with upper class. This is enough to make it quite likely that someone from an upper class background will be the better candidate in expectation, even if the only information you get is the socioeconomic background. We can quibble over details, but the more you dig into this the more convincing this will become. It does not matter as you already believe this.

With regards to minority tenants, institutionalized racism often leads to the case that non-racist agents will have sound evidence based reasons to discriminate. Not based on the properties of the group discriminated, but based on the behaviour of a third party. A decent example is if banks discriminate against a group, then their availability of credit is worse. This can create self perpetuating circles of discrimination, which can be sustained even if all involved organisations and individuals aren't racist. For a hilarious example of something similar, see: https://i.snipboard.io/kdu77.jpg This is a communication and organisational failure, not racism, but its difficult to distinguish, but critically yes, it means it could be.

Non-discrimination and positive discrimination is best viewed as taxes designed to address this kind of problem, and its working. But the habit people have of challenging this kind of thing as a kneejerk reaction is harmful. What you are doing is essentially claiming that their judgements are corrupt or trying to shame by implied association, and that isn't helpful.
And so, are you obligated to contact the "Special Agent" in the case the you do disclose the subpoena?
It's still a joke
Exactly!

All of this just smacks of the old, worn-out argument that "it's different because it uses computers!"

Editor is a literal career field, and has been for years and years.
Show HN: Spine automatically imports data from DBs or tools in Google Sheets
2B+ people have access to Google Sheets.

7M+ businesses are paying for Google Workspaces.

60%+ of US classrooms use Google Classrooms which evangelizes their spreadsheet.

Still, countless companies come out with plans to kill the spreadsheet or replace them.

We get it, we love building big things from scratch, too.

However, there's more value to be had to do the hard work to solve for an elegant solution within the legacy eco-system.

We created SPINE with the assumption that it's better to empower users within Google Sheets and Excel rather than compel them to learn a new tool for a few new features or more modern look-and-feel.

Remove all unnecessary friction, and the biggest is saying "go somewhere else."

With that "meet the customers where they are" mindset, we built SPINE for Google Sheets to supercharge Google Sheets with new features. The first feature, and what we're excited to share, today is our simple data integration utility within Google Sheets.

*SPINE for Google Sheets automatically synchronizes data from databases and work tools (think: Salesforce, Google Analytics, or Stripe) directly in Sheets. We, first, sync everything to our cloud data store so users can select subsets to surface in any Spreadsheet.*

We plan to release more features over time to augment the Google Sheets experience and enable new use cases.

We wanted to share things as they are and discuss new use cases or features you'd like to see.

At the present time, users need to be able to build reports or tools on their own. However, we're actively working to enable a platform atop GSheets so our community can stop rebuilding the same tools and models, time and time again.

Inspired by the success of the open source coding communities, we're bringing together Google Sheets power users to create extensible configurable apps that SPINE can help install on top of a spreadsheet and imported data.

Tell us what you think!
Data Scientists
You're a top performing Data Scientist and have an interest in Fintech. I'm the gatekeeper at said Fintech. darrin@placed.nyc
On the other other hand they seem mechanically simpler because the entire turbine doesn't have to be mounted to pivot depending on the direction of the wind, and the column that holds up the turbine and blades is much shorter.
There’s a far larger number of iPhone users that either don’t know what root is, or don’t care. And your parent post is incorrect, Apple denies apps all the time.
> So I don't see how they're "damned if they don't".

The specifics of their approach don't even matter - all it takes is one random Twitter user or media outlet to report on "immoral" output generated by someone to damage the brand image.

That's what they want to avoid and that's why they are trying to take preventive measures.
i think there was a ponzicoin once, there were many similar actually

https://techweez.com/2018/01/26/ponzicoin-crypto-scheme
https://packetlife.net/library/cheat-sheets/

It's also fairly easy to make a nice poster from a patent by mixing snippets of titles, claims, and diagrams.
It is a joke, but the goal of the joke is to provide a friendly onramp to cryptocurrency
It’s nothing more than what happens here on HN. It has guidelines, rules, restrictions on what you can say. They will even stop conversations that start naturally.
Indeed, we have lots of space. The more important efficiency is turning capital into electricity. I believe horizontal turbines still have the edge here. This could possibly change if produced in enough volume to get the manufacturing costs down - it depends if they have an advantage in materials use, install and shipping costs, and maintenance costs.
Yes, it will become useless. The header that is..
This is just true in general. People complain about everything these days.
they already do, it's called stocks, the difference is it's regulated but not without a lot of leeway
Vavilov was such an extraordinary individual. While he was imprisoned in 1940 for defying Stalin-era leader Trofim Lysenko for his Mendelian beliefs, his collaborators protected the then largest seed bank in the world during the Siege of Lenningrad [1] by Nazi Germany. Most of those "protectors" died, and Vavilov died of starvation in prison - the same thing he was so obsessed of solving for everyone.

"Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End" [2] is the canonical read on this topic!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad
[2]: https://www.librarything.com/work/7565437
"The achievement of the Polish-Chinese-Canadian team of researchers is of fundamental importance, but it is so profound that it may translate into new quantum technologies."

Pure hyperbole. This result is philosophically interesting, and is useful in the sense that it might get some diehard anti-complex-numbers physicists to finally admit they were wrong (well, we can dream). But if it somehow leads to any new technology then I will eat my hat.
> Android is open source

It is not. Android without the proprietary Google Play Services is utterly broken for non-technical end-users.
It's too bad this well-reported piece of what led to Basecamp's "no politics" decision isn't getting as much discussion here as the initial decision announcement [0], as it is really a case study in poor leadership and decision process. Whatever the merits and tradeoffs of a "no politics" policy, it seems rash to jump into it for an incident that was hugely preventable and had nothing to do with politics:

> A day later, Hansson responded with a post of his own. He had conducted a forensic analysis of who created the document and how it had spread around the company. He called it a systemic failure on the company’s part. In a conversation with me today, he acknowledged that he and Fried had known about the list for years.

> “There was some awareness at the time within the company that that list had existed and it wasn't acted upon. That is squarely on Jason’s and my record.” The list, he said, “in itself is just a gross violation of the trust … It’s just wrong in all sorts of fundamental ways.”

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26944192
excellent bait