skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that it not bitcoin, which is not profitable to mine on GPUs since ASICs came out, but it is Etherium that is soaking up GPUs.
The hope for cryptocurrencies was that they removed the need for centralized trust entirely. As long as no entity can perform a 51% attack on the block chain, you don't need to trust anyone. This is why the successful 51% attack on the Ethereum block chain which was performed by the DAO should be viewed as a fundamental failure.

The underlying cause is a generally shoddy design of the contract language: when you're writing code where it's imperative that it have no security flaws, writing it in a JavaScript-like language which provides so few protections is absurd.

The Ethereum community is run by profiteering speculators rather than revolutionaries, however, so to them, performing a 51% attack on their own blockchain whenever they don't like how a contract turns out is an okay solution.
Robert Shiller gets a lot of credit for calling the real estate bubble. Though he did do so in around 2000, so he was very early.
No Agenda
Acquired - history of (mainly) tech mergers/acquisitions/IPOs
Sam Harris - Waking up Podcast.
Dan Carlin - Hard Core History
Econtalk
Comedy Bang Bang, Monday morning podcast, Chapo Trap House, and Cum Town. I take it as a chance to shut off
So why and how do we trust those who have the power to reverse these thefts? Ethereum already did it once, why not again, and again, and again? Are we going to end up with 50 forks, and then how does that even work - do then people accepting these crypto-currencies need to decide which forks they're going to accept from? I may be using the wrong language here, however I hope my point is getting across.

What happens if a crypto-asset becomes a legitimate currency and then an bad actor wants control and takes it using military-level force - or manipulation like blackmail, death threats of you or family members, etc?

The Russian government being strongly against anti-crypto-currencies and then recently Ethereum being endorsed by Putin himself by a physical visit with Vitalik. Does that not ring warning bells to others?

If someone evil - for a lack of better word - pumps $1 billion into the ecosystem early on, how much could they turn that into? What if then they use other $1 billion to lobby and pay off politicians, or get people into power who are "strong believers" in the crypto-assets, to then intertwine societies currencies with crypto-currencies. There is a lot of incentives for them to do this, and I'm not the only one aware of this issue. Even just pumping more $ billions into the ecosystem will create stronger believers - because their "$100 is now worth $70 million."

This current investment-like incentive for creating a new currency is bad for society, the wealth transfer as it currently would happen needs to be worked out of a crypto-asset based currency.
Interesting. The same PIN that I use to unlock the card on my laptops works on my phone. I'm not sure what would lead to the behaviour you describe!
Lawyer/programmer here (US law). It's an interesting problem.

Let's assume offer, acceptance, capacity, legality for a transaction.

So question to me is, when do we have a contract (do we have a contract?) and what IS the contract. For this usually (not always) look to the so called "meeting of the minds."

If we define the meeting of the minds as the EXACT actual code, it's hard to argue that using a bug in the code is a breach. Simplistic example: I write a lease that says if I sell the house me or the buyer can terminate the lease on 30 days notice. You do not do any diligence on that lease. When I sell the house and the buyer terminates, you're out of luck.

If we define the meeting of minds as "you are promising to do thing X for me, and you propose to do it with a smart contract", then if there is a bug in the contract, that might be a breach on behalf of the person offering to do thing X. Simplistic example: Your website says if I send ETH to address "0xExample" you offer a service that will send it back in 6 months. If 0xExample is hacked and money wasn't returned, well, you could argue that there was a breach of a contract to return your money.

No idea how a Court might come out, and being the law, it depends on shades of grey, other factors, skill of lawyers, etc.

I frankly can't wait until this shit gets litigated.
If you're only going to look at the positives and pretend the negatives don't exist then it's no wonder you're confused by people bashing unrestrained capitalism.
Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" is perhaps my favorite .
Besides health, might financial well-being also lead to healthier/happier relationships? If you're poor and have to work two full-time jobs, the precious free time you do have may not be easily allocated to socializing. And, many social hobbies require capital.
For me, this is the most interesting question. I suspect this was illegal, though. CFAA is pretty broad for exactly this reason -- the effect and intent, not the vector -- is what matters.
They started doing the same stuff they did pre-crisis like months later. But first they made sure to pay themselves billions of dollars in bonuses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzJmTCYmo9g&list=RDmzJmTCYmo...
I find your posts grating and awkward. Particularly when you get into preaching the "holy gospel of pg" as you did in another post above.
Yes, ancient civilizations on Mars sounds crazy. And yet…
The best way to meet people is not "I'm looking to meet people" – because then those events and spaces get filled with social outcasts and creepy folks.

The best way to meet people is to look for activity groups, meetups and so on. People with common interests. I'd even argue that this is actually a better way to find romantic partners, than to signal "I am looking for a romantic partner" (unless you're above-average in attractiveness).
Quite a bit. I can live a much better life with some basic things in our modern society - modern medicine, a vehicle, a computer, easy access to good food for only a small part of my salary.

"Feeling powerless and forgotten" is something that just doesn't matter compared to those in my opinion.
My opinion was about the linked article, not the original article. So don't blame me, blame the linked article author.
IMO, it's much better to buy when you can both easily afford it and it fits with what you want than trying to time the market. Just accept home ownership has high transaction costs. So, you need to be happy living their for 10+ years or renting is generally a better idea.
Yeah, my passwords are encrypted to two private keys. One is on the Yubikey, the other is printed and stored securely.
But it is so slow to come out with new episodes!

The WW1 series he made - amazing!
Botkeeper (https://www.botkeeper.com/) might be a good fit. Saves you time recruiting an individual, more cost effective, and they never take a vacation.
As a not very committed and not very expert Emacs user, I find annoying fragmentation in Emacs configuration not at the level of individual packages, but of fundamental mechanisms with inconsistent alternatives.

- defining customization groups and variables for one's package vs. not bothering and using semi-documented raw global variables (many actively despise the customization system)

- properly using the Customization pages vs. just overriding the variables in the init file

-packages that need to be built from a cloned Git (usually Github) repository, packages that want to be "installed" by hand, packages that use the "standard" package manager, alternative package managers, packages offering more than one of the above (or multiple sources with different versions)

- loading and configuring packages with require statements and setting variables; with use-package in self-contained blocks; implicitly or almost implicitly; in ad hoc ways.

Sometimes Emacs itself contributes to the mess; when I thought I exported my faces settings to a theme the "theme" file actually came to contain unrelated settings, preserving obsolete configuration of removed packages and amply overlapping and conflicting with the init file; now, for example, nyan-cat mode only displays a proper wavy trail if I use this magical theme. I'd need to spend hours dismantling the "theme" line by line.
Web Browser: Chromium, Firefox, Chrome

Email Client: Thunderbird, Web GMail

Terminal: Terminix

IDE: IntelliJ IDEA Community, Eclipse

File manager: Nautilus

Basic Text Editor: GEdit

PDF Reader: evince

Office Suite: LibreOffice, Google Drive

Calendar: Thunderbird Lightning, Google Calendar

Video Player: Totem

Music Player: Spotify webapp, Spotify client non-free
The Bottom Line - Excellent business podcast

Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman

How I built this - Interviews with entrepreneurs

Freakonomics - Very good

The Tim Ferriss Show - Lots of interesting people come on the show
Paul Harch wrote a book claiming HBOT can help treat:

• Stroke

• Autism and other learning disabilities

• Cerebral palsy and other birth injuries

• Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, and other degenerative neurological diseases

https://www.amazon.com/Oxygen-Revolution-Hyperbaric-Groundbr...

Wikipedia is saying there is zero scientific evidence to back up any of this. I'd say Dr Harch crossed the line into quackery by making these grand claims, despite his otherwise reputable background.

Which is sad because his books all have plenty of 5/5 star ratings by people who are desperate for answers and are being oversold an unproven science.

I highly doubt there has been a conspiracy in the "medical community" to not take oxygen therapy seriously. It's not exactly a new treatment, as the OP's comment points out, it's been tested since at least 2000 (17 years ago) by mainstream medical groups.
There's a famous joke along the lines of:

Economists have predicted 12 of the 3 market crashes.

The problem with looking at who correctly predicted the last crash is that so many people make predictions of the form, "there will be a crash in the next x months". Eventually someone will be correct.

How will you be able to tell that person being correct due to random chance versus actually knowing that there would be a crash?
and if there is a group of white-hat hackers supporting and monitoring, how come they didn't find that before and fixed it?
> I'm under the assumption that the regulations put in place after the last financial crisis are impotent, and that the people in the finance industry have little incentive not to do it again. Is this an accurate statement?

No. If you're talking specifically about the housing bubble/crisis that crippled the economy ~2008, the rules have stopped what happened then. People forget that during the housing boom, dogs (people's actual pets) were able to get no-doc loans for $500k. Right now, we're probably on the opposite end of that spectrum where a mortgage is extremely hard to get and only getting harder. I bought soon after the crash, and recently refied with the same bank. The documentation I needed and the scrutiny from the underwriters had increased a lot from when I originally purchased.
Accidental Tech Podcast - Apple and random tech discussion. Super fun listen. One of the hosts is also the author of Overcast, which is my favorite podcast app.

The Talk Show - Similar to ATP, but slightly more serious and with rotating guests

Pardon My Take - a humorous sports podcast. It’s kind of juvenile, but it’s growing on me.

Best of Mike and Mike - a semi-serious sports podcast. This one’s about to end, unfortunately.

Stuff You Should Know - funny but informative info about random topics you never realized you wanted to know about

Hardcore History - super long and rarely released episodes, but he gives an amazing in depth look at various historical battles. WWI, the Persian Wars, the Cold War 1945-1965, and the Anabaptist uprising are free now, and are all awesome.
How I Built This by NPR

They interview founders of successful companies and talk about the very beginnings of their companies and how they started them.
You hear about the humble beginnings of AirBnB, Mark Cuban, WeWork, Lyft. All really cool stories of starting businesses.
Along with what others have said, this is also due more to Valve's push for SteamOS to get greater adoption, and their push to have developers of engines like Source and Unreal prep for linux too. This has extremely little to do with the Linux projects individually.
You can even keep the same business model except instead of the profits going to a corporation, the system is run as a non-profit government entity

Which is exactly what's happening in this case. There's no private corporation, it's a governmental division, yet the inmates are still paid a pittance. Maybe you should review your preconception of private industry vs government.
A niche offering: Slide, the avalanche podcast.

It may be too technical/specific for the general listener, but there's a lot there regarding risk management and personal awareness, which applies broadly.

Daily listening: Marketplace, Planet Money.
1. Hardcore History [0]. Even if you're not a fan of history, check it out because Dan really grips you with the story. I can't say enough good things about this podcast and look forward to each new episode. The episodes are LONG; they're more like audiobooks in a way. The series on World War I (Blueprint for Armageddon) [1] was six episodes and 24 hours long. Perfect for road trips, but the downside is there's only 2-4 a year.

2. The British History Podcast [2]. Fills the gaps between Hardcore History releases. Jamie does a weekly, very deep dive into the whole of British history, starting from prehistory up through (currently) Alfred the Great. He's a bit more funny and sarcastic than Dan is, but you still end up learning a great deal.

3. Escape Pod [3]. Science fiction short stories covering a wide range within the genre.

[0] http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/

[1] http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-bluepri...

[2] https://www.thebritishhistorypodcast.com/

[3] http://escapepod.org/
Realized my salary was not enough to start a family.

Later on realized that if immediate money is what you are after, the startup route is probably a bad match.

These days the ff keeps me going:
(1) desire to solve my own problem - my venture provides a solution to a problem i've encountered in the past.
(2) monetization. Recently scoring customers. Since i left my day job, the little i get here is better than zero. I have a feeling it will scale bigger in the future as well. It might (big uncertainty) scale bigger than my old salary.
Customer Journey Map for User Onboarding
The article says it's for Continuity Fund, which does investments in YC startups (and, apparently, non-YC startups now as well).
I would argue that it is not a pipe dream, but does require a paradigm shift in how the world views software.

For whatever historical reasons, software has almost always been engineered shoddily as compared to other money-critical or life-critical forms of engineering.

Companies (and governments) aren't willing to make the investments of time, personnel, expertise, and money that are required to create secure, safe code. Insecurity and vulnerability is the norm even among supposedly security-conscious organizations.

We could discuss the root causes all day (companies rarely face full consequences of poor security, etc), but part of the problem is denial. Few are willing to acknowledge how much work it would be to create truly secure code. Instead they settle for being better than most competitors.

However, this does not mean that really, actually secure code is impossible, just that we should (a) admit the scope of the challenge, (b) start taking steps toward that goal (like investing more in research).
You may be right in this instance but there are plenty salient examples to illustrate his point. Current governments are much better than the mixed bag of monarchic/feudal societies that were in place for much longer than current systems.
SYSK also has hilarious but terrible puns. I remember the episode they had on termites: "They Bore, but they aren't Boring" <-- Elon would approve
You're missing the point. The software has no way to tell if a compromised user looked at certain passwords out of band. The audit logs aren't guaranteed to be complete, so you should rotate every key they could have accessed anyway.
I dont think we are disagreeing (as long as you do not claim that stock prices are merely a Gaussian process.
I'm not confrontational. I just prefer when those Steam numbers aren't used like some absolute indicator of some situation, and they often are. They aren't demonstrating sales potential, so developers shouldn't use them for evaluating viability of Linux releases.
How would I downvote with a throwaway, you dumb bitch? I don't care about HN enough to get karma from the circle jerk on a regular account. I read Hacker News comments to keep in touch with how out-of-touch the Galt's Gulch abortion that is Silicon Valley is.
He calls that bubble every single year. He was bound to be right eventually.
Right. I believe it was Michael Barry (sp?) who looked into all the mortgages and found a ton of fraud, etc. When he brought the info to the big banks they were like, "how do you know all this?" And he was like, "I looked at the mortgages."

[blank stares]
You could require the prisoners be paid out of the segregated finances of the dairy and simultaneously garnish that pay to assist in paying the same prisoners living costs.

I think that's essentially what's happening here.
I think it's about making money by investing in companies they think could be big but maybe I'm crazy.
You know what I've always wondered? How did they pronounce each number? I mean, I read it "eye, eye-eye, eye-eye-eye, eye-vee, vee, vee-eye."

But of course, there's no way they actually said it that way.

Right? Right??
The intent was not really to get into a detailed deconstruction of JavaScript, it was just to comment on the fad-chasing behavior of the JavaScript subculture, as a follow-on to the parent poster's recognition of this within React users.

I don't understand how any person can pretend that everyone was excited about the "promise" of JavaScript back in the day; you'd have to be relatively new to the scene to earnestly believe that, and as a prominent HN poster whose posts I usually enjoy, I know you aren't. This must be some reverse-psychology thing where you're trying to convince yourself that the emotional fad-chasing was in fact merit-based.

Your points are all backwards-looking. I've already conceded that JavaScript is a major/important platform today and I've accepted that I need to use it in various new ways besides basic DOM manipulation, regardless of the deep sadness for tech culture incurred by doing so. Now that Node.js has ridden the hype train for 8-ish years, there is "great vendor support" and "a huge library".

For the sake of argument, we'll gloss over the facts previously mentioned that a) as "the default delivery platform of the web", JavaScript is still massively constrained, and it's much easier to "deliver" backend applications with a real server-side language; and b) that this "huge library" includes many things that would be part of the standard library in a better-managed language, and that there are a great many undesirable side effects to the npm model of allowing random GitHub users to control huge dependency chains (from both a security and a QA perspective; cf. the left-pad fiasco).

Before V8, even JS inventor Brendan Eich spent much of his time offering excuses for and acknowledgements of its major inadequacies: "I only had 10 days!" and "At least it's not VBScript!" being the primary responses. I don't want to diminish Eich's herculean efforts because they truly are impressive, but the point is that no one pretended that JavaScript was the kind of thing that you'd want to use in any context where it wasn't mandatory. This is very unlike Python, Java, or most other professional-grade languages.

>So this has nothing with Google releasing v8 -- the industry in general wanted faster JS execution.

V8 was revolutionary because it took JavaScript from one of the slowest languages around to the nearly-the-fastest dynamic language (vying with Lua for the crown). The demand was there so that browsers could become a platform for more intensive client-side applications like 3D games. Nonetheless, without Google's propaganda machine turning its gears, V8's announcement would've been relegated to the same small group that followed the release of other JS VMs.

It is completely due to the "I'm cool like Google too!"
mentality (which has had massive influence on tech over the last 10 years) that Node.js got any traction whatsoever. Node.js made its V8 backend one of its primary marketing points to reinforce that association and make people believe that using Node.js was like using a super-cool Google-fied JavaScript instead of the normal, boring JavaScript you knew from the past.
Pisses me off that I have to take off my bag. I have to keep my feet together to protect it, which doesn't help my balancing leverage.
Steam survey isn't comprehensive. HB sales are counted for all users. So I'd say the later is actually useful, the former is just some oddity.
Signing up for a free trial requires some bit of commitment. A couple of sentences isn't enough for most people to commit to a new product.

If you think about the customer journey as Research-Evaluate-Purchase, the 30 day free trial is the Evaluate stage. There isn't enough information (or any specifics) on the landing page to do any meaningful amount of research.
Yeah people should only be able to critique capitalism if they strip themselves of all possessions and live in the woods /s
I share a pass git repo between a Mac and a Windows machine. GPG4Win works fine on Windows.
The other side of this coin is that, for these "low-cost workers," the goat farm gig is probably better than their alternatives.

> Workers on this farm get strip-searched. If they're caught with drugs or tobacco, or get in fights, they could lose this job and be sent to a higher-security facility with a lot less freedom.
>
> And then there's the pay. It varies, depending on the job, but most inmates on the farm earn a few dollars a day. That's better than most prison jobs, which typically pay less than a dollar a day, but still, it's cut-rate labor.

Should that opportunity cost to the prisoners in this program have weight in whether this "cut-rate labor" is ethical or not? If the farm can't sell it's goat milk for ethical reasons and the prisoners wind up in lower-paying or worse jobs, was Whole Foods' righteous action actually ethical? Lots of complex questions here. I don't know the answers here, but it's a little annoying that one letter to Whole Foods taking the moral high ground could handwave so much nuance.
I've heard this argument before and was wondering how it can be considered ok:

1) hacker steals massive amount of money from a crypto wallet

2) hacker cashes out and gets real money

3) network realizes the hack and "rewrites history" as if "the contract never went wrong"

How is this a valid outcome? Somebody in here is out a large amount of real money.
Aside from the 'Create laws that criminalize trivial and victimless actions', I see nothing wrong with that, you are only making the prisoners happier during their time in prison. Prison is partially about punishment anyways, so really you are effectively reducing their sentence. Also I really doubt that the government is profiting off these prisoners, it costs a lot to keep someone in prison.
Maybe this should be a monthly feature like Who is Hiring:

Podcasts to make you smarter (49 comments 10 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14737772

Ask HN: What Podcasts are you listening right now and why? (77 comments 28 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14616998

Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to? (62 comments 40 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529759