skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they mean that a blockchain doesn't exist in a vacuum, someone has to write the code. While anyone can write a new client/protocol upgrade people won't upgrade to just anyone's new client given how much value Bitcoin represents.

No one has hard-control over bitcoin, but the leading dev group has some manner of soft/non-coercive control (by momentum alone).
As someone primarily interested in interpretation of deep models, I strongly resonate with this warning against anthropomorphization of neural networks. Deep learning isn't special; deep models tend to be more accurate than other methods, but fundamentally they aren't much closer to working like the human brain than e.g. gradient boosting models.

I think a lot of the issue stems from layman explanations of neural networks. Pretty much every time DL is covered by media, there has to be some contrived comparison to human brains; these descriptions frequently extend to DL tutorials as well. It's important for that idea to be dispelled when people actually start applying deep models. The model's intuition doesn't work like a human's, and that can often lead to unsatisfying conclusions (e.g. the panda --> gibbon example that Francois presents).

Unrelatedly, if people were more cautious about anthropomorphization, we'd probably have to deal a lot less with the irresponsible AI fearmongering that seems to dominate public opinion of the field. (I'm not trying to undermine the danger of AI models here, I just take issue with how most of the populace views the field.)
I just wanted to say that I've learned a LOT from the back-and-forth on this thread. My thanks to all that were involved.
Someone just posted one with the full text of War and Peace as the company name. Let this be a lesson kids: always validate your input.
Get a Chrome plugin such as "Stylebot" or "User Javascript and CSS" which lets you inject your own CSS automatically into any site.
We're not that far yet, but the potential is there. The closest thing are the current bitcoin-powered dark markets, where people buy various kinds of drugs (of various levels of harm and legality), including custom-made chemicals.
I'm sure it is partially a cultural thing. What steps did you take to reduce your debt after you realised it was holding you back?
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The only other reason they have such high fees is because those fees pay for dealing with fraud.

Bitcoin makes the user deal with fraud, with predictable results.
Actually Amazon Fresh is just this! They use local trucks to deliver the food. The food is placed inside a tote bag which contains reusable foam cushions and ice packs. You end up returning everything on the next delivery cycle. The downside is if you have a small apartment, it requires a bit of storage room.
I'm not surprised that a forum full of people who work in the information technology industry cannot see the epistomological failure of mass media, but these problems are not new, and the idea that nothing communicated through a screen can be trusted will most definitely cause more good than harm outside of the very near future.

Democratic institutions not only functioned but were put into effect before the advent of recorded or transmitted audio and video. Mass media has already been distorting the truth for over a century.

"Trust nothing you read online" becoming commonplace is something to be celebrated!
> Instead of spinning out and paying for a new vm or app service to host it on (which cost the same basically)

S3 / Cloudfront is (apologies for the buzzword) serverless and incredibly cheap. It's public-facing only though.
It’s inconvenient but the highway is right there. No car would make it hell
Depends what you mean by secure. If users cannot validate the blocks, then no matter how much hashpower is available, it is vulnerable to miner attack.
> It sure is too broad for all existing software to compile, but if we're talking about security-critical software

The problem I have with this is the assumption that software you write that may be used by others can easily be classified into security-critical software and non-security-critical software. Sometimes you don't know, sometimes it changes ten years later as something gets pulled in and used because it's easier, multiple times over the years until the original author of a portion of the code may be entirely unknown, much less their intention for whether it was sufficiently robust for security critical situations (think an OSS library that may have forked a few times, and copied small bits of code such as utility functions from some other projects).

It's time to switch to safety by default. We should fail safe, and require flags to allow previously failing code to compile, not to just hear that it might cause a problem.
If miners would do a hard fork with different protocol rules, that would be called something other than bitcoin, maybe "segwit2x-bitcoin" or something.
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I'm so sick of reading these articles about how horrendous our financial habits are, and they end up pointing the finger at everywhere else but the individual. There's so much literature out there on how to better oneself that it's near-inexcusable nowadays, especially when nearly everyone has access to the greatest library in the history of civilization (if they don't, they most likely know someone who does or can get access to it [public library and such]). 30-40 years ago I can see financial illiteracy being more forgivable. But not today.

Yeah, shit fucking sucks today. Wages haven't increased, student loan debt, etc. etc, but there's a point where people have to stop whining and start protecting themselves against the reality of the times.
We were discussing salary differences between men and women who do the same work and have made the same choices. Salaries exist in "the real world," so you're going to have to try harder to change the topic to whatever it is you want to talk about instead.
Mission? Loyalty? Company values? Which would do you live in?
You are speaking as if the companies are doing a favor to the employees by giving them a job and the employees are at the mercy of these companies.

Being employed with a company is a business transaction, where one party sells their time and skills in exchange for money.

Aren't employees disposable anyway? When the company runs low on cash, they are not going to hesitate to fire you to restore the financial health of itself.

Companies are motivated by money. It is in my interest to be motivated by money too. Companies are not loyal to employees. It is foolish to expect employees to be loyal to companies.
Well the "jewel" you point out was merely the conclusion of the paragraph is was in; it's hardly mentioned again throughout the rest of the essay. Furthermore, he's pretty consistent in laying out that these are merely his thoughts and interpretations regarding the matter; I don't think it's necessary that he prove all of his statements. He merely lays out what he believes is a logical progression which culminates in the final conclusion that a capitalist society is not sustainable, and that a socialist society would be better for people in general.

I thought it was an interesting read, and it articulated thoughts I've had regarding the same issue for a while now.
One related question is: what percent of customers typically choose a lifetime pricing option?

Is this just an option that is presented (1) for the few customers who actually prefer to pay a much larger up-front cost instead of an annual subscription; and (2) as a mental anchor that makes the subscription pricing seem much more reasonable? Or would many people end up choosing the up-front option?

If it's mainly there for those who strongly prefer up-front, and to offer a mental anchor, then it would make sense to set the multiple high. But if it might have mass-market appeal, then perhaps a lower number would perform better, due to elasticity of demand.
I agree. The munchery/whole-foods combo is the ace here.

They only need to figure out meals that last 7 days (chilled) with natural ingredients only, but since freshly(acquired by nestle) did it, it's possible.

Or maybe there's some patent here, and it's really hard to achieve otherwise, and that's why nestle bought them.
Someone else could write it down and publish it without the author's permission.
I went to look at Visa rules and I think you are right. Here's one relevant paragraph:

> 5.4.2.3

> Minimum Transaction Amount – US Region and US Territories

> In the US Region or a US Territory, a Merchant must not establish a minimum Transaction amount as a
condition for honoring a Visa Card, except for a Transaction conducted with a Visa credit Card issued
in the US Region or a US Territory.
The minimum Transaction amount must not be greater than USD 10 and must not be discriminatory
between Issuers or between Visa and another payment network.

So, in the US, it doesn't look like there are any rules. Outside of the US, it looks like a minimum is fine as long as it's not more than $10
Oh, well then I guess we'll have to continue underpaying employees.
Aren't the major game engines already cross-platform? I'm definitely an outsider to the industry, but it almost seems like a game developer would have to go out of their way to NOT support Mac and Linux these days.

Why would one take a cross platform game engine and make the rest of the game logic Windows-only?
I'm 1/3 of a three person dev. shop — does that count? We charge 250/person/hr and have been doing 40+ hr weeks for the last few years. We'll also make some margin if we need to sub out occasionally as client needs increase. This stability is really shaky though as all this work was from a single client.
The point is, when someone has offers from other companies for 10% increase (which imo is pretty low usually it is 20% or more), the employee finally realizes their value.

In these situations often the employee is getting raises that do not even cover inflation. So the employee now sees their market value and would like to continue working for the company, but they have realized they could take on risk for a 20-50% raise instead.

I mean the risk equation is simple, with such a raise you can save enough cash to justify the risk even if it doesn't work out.

I always ended up taking the offer from the more generous company, and they tended to increase my pay to offset more than inflation and then a bonus to justify staying.
I know a guy making $10-15k a month from his apps. He's a full time employee now, but when he had kids, he stayed home, taught himself android, and made apps for 5 years while his wife worked full time. Now they are in maintenance mode and print cash.
Let's all calm down please.

Come to think of it, I'm mostly in agreement with you. I do feel there's a difference between "all you can eat buffet" and "unlimited storage" (or "lifetime warranties"). The former is more of a reasonable and well-explained offer; the latter is more of a bogus marketing claim. I detest bogus marketing claim.
Just to offer counter-perspective on your estimation that there's a "large" opportunity as you describe - I have never heard of any of my friends or family holding or attending a "watch party" for anything other than a few American football games each year.

It seems to me that this does happen, but for all I know, maybe FB considered your idea, and the idea failed market validation.

Or maybe you're dead on! (shruggie emoticon)
Another thing we need to learn from this: just how high Taxes are in the US. The middle class is getting hit really hard with this. US govt spends 38% of GDP, so for the average person, they're losing 4/10$ they earn: though it's not all from income. And it's worse than you think, because it's not just about the income you make. When you spend that income, the purchasing power is much less because everything costs much more due to the high taxes. Example: Day care costs 1500 instead of 1000$ per month, etc, etc. And it's much worse in states where living costs are high: like CA and New york (where the author lived).
Well certainly it will be interesting if this trick gets miners to signal segwit, as currently the segwit signaling is only around 45%.
Permissioned blockchains contain almost none of the interesting properties of a public, untrusted-node blockchain, and function mostly as a signed-transaction append-only database.
Well said. It's just curve fitting.
And that is indeed what AmazonFresh does. They pick them up when they do your next delivery.
Hacker Allegedly Steals $7.4M in Ethereum with Incredibly Simple Trick
It's very normal to buy a home, car, or other major purchase with credit. This normalises the idea of using credit, as does it's wide availability for other, less essential spending.
In the UK, Martin Lewis and others are campaigning to have personal finance taught in schools. I think that's a good idea, given all the misconceptions I have encountered on the subject.
I think this is the problem or at least what permits what we're seeing. If coin holders had to choose a side for their coins to be found on I bet things would be rather different. However, this is in no one's financial interest.

Right now, the risk isn't that high as the worst case (added uncertainty breaks bitcoin completely) is very unlikely. Instead, (a) one side wins you still have the same amount of coins or (b) both sides win and you probably have +2x the value long term.
http://starecat.com/content/wp-content/uploads/frequency-of-...

Basically, we now have the video version of this graph. It came a little later than Photoshop, but as with any technology, anything that is technology possible will be implemented by somebody at some point in the future.
That agreement seems very general, doesn't indicate that the participants will run specific code. Segwit2x client didn't even exist at that time, first release was yesterday.

People are just making this bullshit up.
DogeCoin was a joke too, right? I think it earned some people some money.

I actually like this about the Internet. A good joke deserves some profits.
That's not what it means. You are right that those clients would begin rejecting blocks, but you can be sure that when customers are calling them asking why their transactions aren't being validated that they will switch. It's not economically feasible to run a business on a minority hash power chain with low transaction throughput.
You've been making 7-figures of a single client for a few years?
> This is one of the main issues of open source - people tend to work on what seems fun/interesting/rewarding. As a result a lot of people work on different implementations of the same things instead of coming up with one good solution and creating new things on top of it.

Creating new things is better than sitting on a sofa watching TV or playing video games all day. Furthermore, it often opens the door to possible new, unforeseen use cases, concepts, and success. Open source has a natural evolutionary path. Survival of the fittest, rather than survival of the richest.
Formal verification of the WireGuard protocol
Definitely -- both are in the works. We think the car's an awesome place to listen.
I hope Elon Musk understands that.
Do you have the money to fund it yourself? Do you have the network you need to greatly increase your chances of success at each stage? If so, definitely take that option. If not, the semi-retired guy isn't semi-retired because he gives his money to people that aren't highly motivated and hungry for success.
Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the person’s birthday
> Now women are being pulled into the same trap/punishment as men, and finally we can include them in our own destruction.

Isn't it a fabulous irony. The dream of technology is that it'll free up more time for us to enjoy life, yet we find ourselves more slave to our hamster wheels in an ever more expensive, demanding world, where our only comfort is living the commercially constructed "now".

Women with families are doubly punished. Today they are expected to be both breadwinner and home-builder. While this is welcoming, the reality is that this is a superpower and can be a burden, especially if society doesn't adapt to it (e.g. work flexibility) and men and women continue to not share responsibilities at home.

Sometimes I think that in our intellectual battle for gender rights and justice, we forget another party, the one most innocent yet may bear the most brunt - our children. Who, coincidentally, will also be the next generation.
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Currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14788620
I think thats for a difference use case. In my project the schema refers to available data types in the faker library where the types refer to real-world data rather than data types like int, float, string etc.

Can you give some examples how json-schema can be used? What I am thinking is that for JSON types, we find the relevant faker method for e.g. if someone defines an int, faker-schema calls random_int from faker
I see not many people want to associate their usernames with income info. I am a web app and mobile app developer and I make around $25K a year. This excludes any extra and side projects or gigs from other areas (marketing). I plan to increase this to $60K by starting doing niche projects soon and entirely focusing on development, but for now, I am focusing more on my side projects.
What apps did he make? How did he make money off of them?
This is cool—I've definitely been wanting this. I've tried many times to use iOS's accessibility features to read me an article on Pocket and... well.... you know. That didn't exactly stick ;)

I'm curious—how many narrators do you employ so far? This is such an interesting business.
Does MySpace still exists?
I don't think movies are good benchmark. You go to movies relatively rarely and basically because someone I group really want to see the movie or to be able to talk around watercooler if movie is really popular.

Most people dont go for movies outside those constraints if ever. Movie is rather expensive choice people normally don't do.
The problem with security through obscurity (which is what this approach is analogous to), is that obscurity can't really be guaranteed, and you usually can't be sure exactly how your code will be implemented in the future. Here's some somewhat recent examples of that, where a Jeep was remotely controlled because the system's bus wasn't correctly segregated[1], and where an avionics messaging channel may be exploitable to send bogus information between planes and air traffic control[2].

1: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...

2: https://defcon.org/images/defcon-22/dc-22-presentations/Pols...
Perhaps the problem simply lies in calling them neural networks.
> the trust path for a huge chunk of binary data now hinges on a single individual, rather than a corporate entity.

You make it sound like it was a bad thing. It's not.
Yes, waste is reduced on the consumer side, but there is also enormous waste in the supply chain and retail.

https://www.wired.com/2016/07/us-throws-away-much-half-food-...
Every single time I tried that I end up leaving. Once I got offered a bump but it felt too little, too late.
Aren't meal-kits just plain expensive, compared to shopping at a local grocery store?
Nitpick of your nitpick: GPU and even CPU can mine Bitcoin. It's considered ineffective because of the power consumption and hardware time relative to the value (and compared to what custom ASICs can do once you've made that investment) makes it prohibitively expensive for the returns one gets. If it was being mined on other people's power and time it's more effective than not mining at all and you'd not be paying for the power or hardware time. Etherium or Litecoin would be more effectively mined that way than Bitcoin, but anything you're getting for free is free. Of course the ethical and moral implications here are very negative.
Speculators have various reasons buy and sell many of which have little to do with miners.
Of course, and you can - you can manually hit the + button to retrigger a build, and if you want specific inputs you can select the exact one you want in the resources tab (which is slightly less common, since you probably haven't been committing since your build broke, but it's totally doable).
We can lampoon these people for writing "stupid" laws or educate them as to why we secure things the way we do - how have we gotten here? What tradeoffs were made and why? How might this be implemented and what problems might that create? They need to be made aware of the trade-offs without insulting their intelligence as that isn't going to get us anywhere.
Have you tried what you are suggesting in practice?

I have never succeeded in getting any raise unless I had a concrete actionable BATNA, i.e. a competing offer.
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That's assuming hashing power will determine the outcome.

In the exchanges runs will take place. The actual economic users will vote this issue out.

In the end spreadsheets will be updated, and miners won't want to spend their electricity on a chain that went unprofitable.

Miners may have the software coming from segwit2x, and be the ones who actually provide the technical consensus. But the economic consensus will trump everything else; and late software along with questionable roadmap does not inspire confidence.
Other apps' read-aloud features make good temporary solutions, but sophisticated content really needs to be handled by the best narrators.

Our current core roster includes a dozen narrators.
Varies from 5 to 6-figures/y, working mainly for large companies, mostly in the edtech space. (http://jibly.com)
Good idea. But that doesn't allow me to share my enthusiasm for Unix with my friends.
If you like Clojure.spec, you'll love a proper type system. ;)

More seriously, keeping comments up to date is hard, but there's no alternative if you want to maintain a public API.
Any tool that requires special knowledge to use safely rather than defaulting to safe operation and requiring special knowledge to use unsafely is poorly designed. If the design specification for that class or tools encourages or requires that, it's a poor specification indeed.
> Most line managers worth working for, value their teams and will fight for them if they are unhappy, without the threats.

Demonstrating that you're undervalued is not a threat, it's feedback on how the market values your employees. You give feedback on how well your employees are serving the business right? Why shouldn't it work the other way around?

Your work is not your family, this isn't personal judgment or criticism, this is just business.
That aphorism is true in general but reuse might still fall short here and it's most true when you're dealing with the recipient reusing the item themselves not shipping it back to be reused. To get the it back to Amazon or whatever meal service sent the boxes will require a second trip by your house to pick up the used items, the entire trip back to the warehouse where the food boxes are packed (which is probably not local unless Amazon gets into this in a big way, and smaller companies can't afford the huge build out of local packing and distribution when there's so little customer lock in), then finally the energy to fully wash and sanitize them before shipping out again.
When I found out that Tile offers mail-in recycling for their trackers, I wondered the same thing. Perhaps this service is offered to assuage the guilty conscience of people who would like to buy a tracker but feel bad about buying something they'll throw away. But if it's something that can be recycled by the company (again, at what cost?), then it goes from being disposable to "reusable".