skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sincerely hope this one is finally not a semi-hoax and delivers. I won't get my hopes up so soon though.

On a side note, I don't want to argue over this, but just saying I found two points (compound prices, safety) addressed. It reads kinda like a lot of hype... What do you take from the articles, how this reasearch project is more promising or further down the road then the many promising looking projects before them that ended up failing?
You don't see a pattern? This one is now different, how?
Service Mesh Wars, Goodbye Istio
> Europe assumes poor people are dumb.

This is one of the many drawbacks of socialism, even the "socialism with Scandinavian characteristics" that everyone seems to be obsessed with lately in the U.S. It assumes government paper-pushers are the smartest people around with the highest I.Q. ever, and everyone else is just a dumb lightweight. It's all about that soft bigotry of low expectations.
Best option: be the founder
Airbus considers scrapping sale of small-parts business
> Because of word-wrap, and the tendency for editors like notepad to save the newlines it adds, the 80-character limit came into fashion.

Uh... No, absolutely not. What are you imagining, that this newfangled Windows Notepad is ancient history or something? Sheesh, kids nowadays, geroffmylawn etc. The 80-character limit comes from old terminals (and the text mode of at least CGA, possibly even EGA, PC monitors) and, ultimately, punch cards.
> send discounts to people

No, this doesn't solve the problem.

Because what they want to do is ensure that the cards are not resold to miners, and instead stay in the hands of long term customers.

> You don't need to cripple the devices

First of all, they aren't crippled for the existing customers. They are only limited, for this other use case that the company doesn't care about.

And they do need to limit that functionality, if they want to prevent those cards from being resold to crypto miners.

> I don't support companies

Then don't purchase their product, if you don't like it. That is kind of the point of all of this. They don't want you as a customer. And it is their company, that they can do what they want with.
Interesting that this is occurring right as taxes were due. I wonder how much selling was for paying taxes?
Kernel Density Estimation
Where did it lose the retro vibe for you? I see a board with very few simple chips where you could reasonably understand the whole system top to bottom. The hardware is still very limited.
Windows 10 features we’re no longer developing
So how does this work? I find a strategy I like and just deposit money, and it runs like a robo-advisor? A How It Works would be nice
My Elixir backend, doing background processing, admin interface, data ingestion and serving data via GraphQL consumes 300 MB RAM on average, which is 20% less memory than the Node/Next.JS React frontend. YMMV.
If you care about privacy, then consider Monero.
There aren't even nicks, though.
"99.9% genes in his case"

You think if he was raised in a third-world country without access to education he would have achieved just as much?

He was raised in the intellectual hothouse of turn of the century Hungary, which also produced many other eminent mathematicians.

His parents were wealthy nobility, who could afford the best education for their children, and believed strongly in its value.

"When they were young, governesses taught von Neumann, his brothers and his cousins. Max believed that knowledge of languages in addition to Hungarian was essential, so the
children were tutored in English, French, German and Italian."

He attended "one of the best schools in Budapest and was part of a brilliant education system designed for the elite."

"The Hungarian school system produced a generation noted for intellectual achievement, which included Theodore von Kármán
(born 1881), George de Hevesy (born 1885), Michael Polanyi (born 1891), Leó Szilárd (born 1898), Dennis Gabor (born 1900), Eugene Wigner (born 1902), Edward Teller (born
1908), and Paul Erdős (born 1913)."

"At the age of 15, he began to study advanced calculus under the renowned analyst Gábor Szegő... He then went to the University of Göttingen on a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to study mathematics under David Hilbert."

Most people don't get opportunities to study at one of the most elite educational institutions in the world, with world-class academics.

That is not genetics, that's opportunity.

"Look how hard parents push their kids these days, yet few even come close to his genius."

Maybe they're "pushing" in the wrong way. And is pushing what needs to be done?

What was von Neumann's parents' approach exactly? How did they interact with him and what values about learning did they instill in him when he was young?

These questions are important to answer.
I'm not following your argument.

You share the same space. How distant are you with other people that you can't just say hi? Does it matter if you don't discuss politics after it?

When i was a kid, i had to take the bus and i forgot my bus ticket (a pupil, on one bus stop, everyday, the same bus stop the same bus driver on a school route...) and he put a lot of energy into telling me off.

A few days/weeks later i thought about it and i also thought about why i'm not greeting my bus driver when i enter. I started to say hi. I liked it. I liked saying hi to my bus driver.

I forgot my bus ticket again. No issues no worries. there was mutual respect and that mutual respect came to acknowleding him.

I like greeting my neigbhours as well. Somehow it makes a small connection between us.

and yes i read the part with the shield: The first step is a hi. Every other step is easier not harder. Finding out their names, a little bit of talking about family and friends etc.

If i would have worked close enough to Bill Gates i probably would have talked to him sooner or later. Why not? He is a human, not like Mark Zuckerburg.
There are nitro versions of all the index funds but you usually have to buy them separately, and they come with their own fat stack of disclosures haha.

For SPY see UPRO, for QQQ see TQQQ.
How is BTC any different than gold?

The difficulty ratchet in BTC mining means extracting new coins is rising in difficulty, just like the difficulty in extracting better-hidden gold. The supply of gold is indeed fixed unless you can pull it out of an asteroid.

The major difference is that BTC is trivial to destroy, gold not so. There is no economic way to actually destroy gold.
I don't know why but comparing Matrix.org Foundation with standardization organizations such as IETF seems just not right. Maybe it would be more correct to compare Matrix.org with XMPP Software Foundation?
> such as in the living room of his house with the television blaring.

The environment is still under his control. Not at all like an open office.
Magic Arena does this. It's _incredibly_ irritating, especially if you play a combo deck or something click intensive. Those 5-10s animations get really old after the millionth time.
Speaking of disclosure, aren't you the CEO of Matrix?
There is a theory that life exists, because it is effective at spreading out energy as heat more efficently[0]. In such case, bitcoin (or having fun) can be seen as a good purpose for life. Most of activities seen by people as "fun" use up energy and spread it as heat.

[0] https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-o...
Where? My ex-girlfriend from 12 years ago came from Amish country and I got to meet some when we visited her family. Not a single house even had electricity. They wouldn't have been able to charge a mobile phone even if they had them. I remember mentioning some Italian food I liked for some reason or other while having dinner with them and none of them even knew what I was talking about. They knew about the existence of Italy, but none of the cuisine, not even basic names of dishes. They didn't exactly come across as people with exposure to the broader world afforded by remote communications technology.

I'm sure every community is different, though, as you would expect in the absence of widespread remote communications.
Async in Flask 2.0
Yep, exactly! Because why would someone steal when they can just go on Amazon and have the thing delivered?
Every time a miner post something here or on Reddit, they are mining one coin and immediately trading into another. The same for the exchanges, that keep reserves in a lot of them, and trade one for the other all the time to keep their ratio.

It's not unexpected that they are correlated.
Bitcoin’s plunge intensifies, tanks 30% to $30k in single day
Well, dumping once you already knee deep in the dump only ensures a guaranteed loss.

If you are confident about the long term prospects of an investment, then holding on for longer might just work. I won't be selling any of my Eth or PoS crypto currencies any time soon. It helps that crypto makes up less than 15% of my portfolio.
> i have code running on two planets

Pretty cool. I wonder which one of her libraries (if that's what she's referring to) is being used on a Mars rover.
Which is excellent, and I totally support that. But that doesn't change the market dynamics that I'm describing. We probably should live in a world where what drove the adoption of video calling was supporting the hard of hearing. But we don't, so it's not a relevant factor for the market analysis of what will drive the adoption of 3D video.
Yes, but before that excerpt Orwell pointed out that the financial margins involved in eating healthily on the minimum income were much narrower than the "why don't they just" contingent knew or admitted. That doesn't carry over to the contemporary US as self-evidently as the psychological point does, but I suspect that it does carry over somewhat.

I do encourage anyone who hasn't already to read the whole chapter http://www.george-orwell.org/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier/5.html : it's not really very long though I felt that the relevant parts were a bit too long, all together, to fit in a comment.
Overthrow of the Elected Iranian Prime Minister Orchestrated by US and UK (1953)
I don't think that's fair. Give them a chance to scale up the new service.
> That's because Bitcoin is very tightly held, and the amount of tradeable float is very very small compared to holdings.

By the diamond-est of hands: those who lost their keys.
My hope is that bc it's an open protocol that it'll be simple to create local bridges to services and then hook those into an irc client. I agree with the parent that Discord and Slack are absolute messes and all I want is text on a screen with hyperlinks for chat.

To that end, I tried to set a personal server up on a local box that I have running, but it didn't take. I'm surprised there aren't any good tutorials sitting around to create a local instance/bridge.
>By this logic, getting clean is a reward to substance abuse disorder so we shouldn’t offer programs to substance abuse disorder sufferers to get them clean.

Is your help getting clean only offered to substance abusers that assaulted another person? If so, you might see why someone who is addicted, wants but can't afford help, and who hasn't assaulted someone might not appreciate the help only going to those who have assaulted another.

If the help is offered to everyone who needs it, then the logic wouldn't apply.

>Additionally, the notion that there isn’t enough social programs to go around is a lie.

Where did I suggest such? I pointed out that there isn't enough purely from volunteering, meaning you'll have to spend money. I specifically pointed out that money could be spend buying more.

>and money is spent buying more labor.

Right there. My argument is that the money spent on buying more help follows the same issue. Spending money to help someone who committed a crime that you wouldn't spend to help them if they hadn't is not a widely agreeable position.
How Cloud Services Management Is Changing in 2021
Sorry, the server is down. Restarting.
FS: "It sounds good, but it does not work."
This quote made me laugh:

"Hong Kong's Bitcoin Association said in a tweet in response to China's reiterated ban: "For those new to bitcoin, it is customary for the People's Bank of China to ban bitcoin at least once in a bull cycle."
This is more, did I accidentally break something? The correctness of the tests is not known but you will know which tests have changed. Then you can go and review that code and see why it changed and whether the new behavior is correct. This gives you confidence in a change didn’t break anything but not that things weren’t broken from the start.
Crypto isn’t governed by finra regulations. Its wild west, therefore wildwest tactics like front running etc are fair game.

Gg for those of you who maxed out credit cards to buy crypto
https://github.com/alphapapa/matrix-client.el there is this
It's not that simple. Among many other factors, Hitler was small potatoes until it was advantageous to those in power to start givig him more power, including the capitalist classes who saw a choice between bolshevism and the NSDAP, and chose the Nazis.
They're at the commercialisation stage now. They'll be selling them next year.
Is there anyone actually saying this is off topic / irrelevant?
If anything the vt100 ttys are just as suitable as ever. Command line interfaces are superior even today because the step from interaction to automation is as minimal as possible. I predict that the futuristc VR GUI of tomorrow will still be just a bunch of vt100 terminals floating in space.
Show HN: Tips and Tricks on Creating a Strategy
Nothing in your link about 14 year olds in prison for marijuana possession.
Can you help me reconcile the apparent contradiction between the title and the results? Title:

> Excess Deaths Associated With [...] Overweight

Results:

> Overweight was not associated with excess mortality (−86 094 deaths; 95% CI, −161 223 to −10 966).
I've tried to follow the scene, but I still don't understand the value behind the tech.

In my opinion, states and currencies are almost the same thing.

As an ex-anarchist I think that it is unreasonable to completely remove centralized states or currencies.

Because the alternative is worse.

People might have altruistic intentions, it does not matter.
This makes no sense. 1 BTC still equals 1 BTC.
Honestly, if SPY returned to 368, a 13% draw-down from the near-term peak, the financial press would lose their damn minds. That's half way between correction and bear market territory.
> that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

Equal potential maybe. But it's nonsense to equate potential with talent. Talent is observed based on demonstrable execution.

A pithy quote is all that is.
> the most destructive person to have ever lived

I'm not sure if we can that easily pin the responsibility on a single person and not on every single one who still continue to go for PoW while knowing how destructive it is.
I think it's nothing as dramatic as (1). Just that instead of holding USD currency, they're holding equivalent "commercial paper"[1]. This means that everything will be ok as long as they can sell these bonds when the time comes. But if any of the held bonds fail or decrease in value, Tether will be in serious trouble.

I could see Tether becoming insolvent if/when there is another financial crisis that reveals some of these bonds as junk.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/tether-first-reserve-composition-re...
That's what you literally said, but why bring it up?
>there is still a "process" and "data" that guides the overall one on one field work you describe.

You're right of course. I'm being slightly hyperbolic because I think the process doesn't really correspond to what an engineer has in mind.

The take-home point (and it sounds like you agree with me) is that sales has an incompressible field-work component.
It wouldn't disappear, money is just changing hands. Bitcoin doesn't add or destroy any value, it's just a speculative way of zero-sum trade. When you buy bitcoin, someone else gets your money.
10% annual is not huge at all, it would actually be on the lower end of a year that had positive gains. 10% average is what you should expect for the SP500 - and that tends to be driven by lumps, years with returns >20%.

50% is high from a historical perspective but there are plausible explanations for why it's not absurd.
Read up on what a ponzi scheme actually is.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/ponzischeme.asp#:~:text....

I'm so tired of people saying crypto is a ponzi scheme.

Maybe you think it's nonsense, or a bad investment, but it is not a ponzi scheme.

> A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud in which clients are promised a large profit at little to no risk. Companies that engage in a Ponzi scheme focus all of their energy into attracting new clients to make investments. This new income is used to pay original investors their returns, marked as a profit from a legitimate transaction.
XMPP MUC is is fantastic, but it seems like the only public chats are for developing XMPP clients.
>Only a person who did well in JEE would say this.

Please forgive me for considering, in a country fraught from top to bottom with corruption and casteism, an objective system that offers an opportunity for young, talented students, irrespective of their backgrounds, to devote two years of their lives to serious study and meaningfully transform their lives "beautiful". It MUST be because of my single-digit rank.

>Tell me though, how many students from villages and small towns do well in JEE without moving to a coaching centre in a bigger town?

If you count Kota, there are plenty of students from small towns who do well in JEE by moving to a coaching center in a smaller town.

Why is "without moving to a different town" such an important consideration? Rural areas almost by definition don't have any scale.

>There are some rural students certainly, but not like the 80% you'd expect if the system was truly egalitarian.

Most rural students don't even have access to good primary schools. There is a huge information asymmetry between people from villages and big cities. That is not a problem an engineering exam can solve.

You replace JEE with a less objective system, and much fewer rural/small-town students will get in.
Isn't Bitcoin absolutely terrible at transactions, though? It's too slow to ever be used as a cash alternative. Why wouldn't an alternative cryptocurrency fill that void then leave Bitcoin with no actual value at all?
You use and buy things from corporations all the time, without knowing a single name or face behind it. 2021 hasn't changed that.
On average, I imagine it's low. However, anecdotally the gamers I know who are buying $1000+ cards, generally do so every 2 years with the intent to flip them and buy the newest hottest card.

In a similar train of thought - there might be better data on this question if one was to look at the photography equipment market. Or other used consumer markets with high re-sale value.
I'm not sure I see anything wrong with not bothering the cleaning staff while they're at work. The whole reason they've been hired is to spare everyone else the time and effort involved in cleaning, so to have everyone waste time on greetings would just be demeaning their work.
With a similar sentiment, I still keep a VM around with NextSTEP just because I still think Improv/Quantrix is such a charming portal to the past--and still amazing apps.
I'm doing it, always have. A lot of other colleuges never do it.

I would argue that this has just nothing to do with poor/rich or where you work.

Perhaps its just random how your work environment or your collegues are.
For a frame of reference, an Erlang VM running all of Phoenix will consume 16MB memory on startup, so we need more details on what exactly you've heard and for what usecases. For the Phoenix channels 2M connection benchmark, some folks claimed go uses less memory for websockets, but neglected to consider our realtime layer monitors connections for multiplexed messaging, handles distributed PubSub, etc, so it wasn't a proper comparison. There are certainly nuanced convos we could have about memory usage vs other platforms, but a blanket "non memory efficient for web" anecdote is inaccurate :)
Everyone should take some time now to learn about Tether, the high likelihood that it is in fact a Ponzi scheme, and that it poses a big systemic risk to the crypto exchanges and therefore the markets themselves [1].

People have been sounding the alarm on Tether for a long time now, but we’re finally getting some hard evidence now to back the allegations [2].

Don’t say you weren’t warned.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/smdiehl

[2] https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-...
Isn't the network already saturated with transactions though? To the point where it was needed to implement something like Lightning Network to compensate for that?
Lexus Confirms PHEV Coming Later This Year, EV in 2022
how can you possibly make the claim that BTC was diluted vs the market cap of other coins being net new value?
A very common saying in the crypto world to "no coiners" is "have fun being poor". They are eating their words.
Donald Trump - he's an American citizen. He was officially elected as the president of America some years back. Fine bloke! Always brought a smile on people's faces. He used to call himself the best of the best, some people considered that narcissist.

I think the author is saying that this Andrew Lee bloke, is trying his best of the best to be like Trump.
> Regular law-abiding folks do it after all.

Prostitution is legal in my country, but it'd be mad unethical to force someone into prostitution against their will.
Really because some outrageous percentage of the mining power is centralized in China.
I identify with this article more in a meta-level of how much mental bandwidth one loses to the overhead of having been born
poor:

All those things you worry when you didn't came from a well-to-do family rob mental processing time, thus making it harder to use your time productively to escape further and faster from poverty.

Rich people for example probably never ever entertain those worst case thoughts someone who was born poor usually obsess from time to time, like, "what if this recession I saw on news deepens, I am laid off and can't find a job for months, maybe years? will I become homeless? will my family have food?".

This is mental processing time that wealthy people can use to be creative, to learn something new, to have fun, but for you, it is about a couple hours of extreme anxiety where you can't concentrate enough even to work.
NCCoE Releases Draft Project Description for Data Classification [pdf]
It's still an actual rock though.

Cryptocurrency is less then that. Cryptocurrency is expended energy. You can't use a cryptohash for anything. Whereas I can melt down gold and make earings with it.
I'm not even really talking about technical limitations. More that 90% of consumers don't own any crypto. And (more controversially) it has completely morphed into an investment asset class. One that is possibly in a deflationary spiral where no one wants to spend any of it. IMHO it has really failed in it's mission of actually being a currency.
But there can't really be 2x the transactions (or, at the very least there cannot be 100x the transactions). Transactions/block varies but there is a fundamental limit on how many bits can fit into a block.

Transactions are the thing that matters. Simply securing the network achieves nothing if people cannot move money. That's why people measure the network with transactions/joule.
Not really, you can dump and buy lower. Dump and not buy back will guarantee losses. Usually you dump based on panic and not buy back that’s how wealth is lost usually. Most assets don’t go to zero after someone sells, they may go lower but will have a bounce point somewhere down the line.
> You have to consider the energy used by militaries and banks to secure fiat.

If, ever, it so happens that cryptocurrencies become anything more than a joke from the point of view of the global economy, militaries and banks will be required to secure their operations too.