skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
decent chance it's worth 100x by the time you retire.

At this point it almost seems like bitcoin is a cult.

It's a piece of software running a database/blockchain. There's now several hundred blockchain service networks up and running.

Why should anyone pay more than a few cents for a bitcoin or database-backed-blockchain-token where the supply was produced for minimal effort and is now being artificially inflated by unregulated exchanges suckering in people who don't know what they're buying?

Maybe blockchains will someday be efficent, but as they stand the only proven use case is speculation due to psychological assumption that the supply is limited .

In economics, the Gini coefficient is the standard measure
of how inequitable a society is. This is tricky to
determine for Bitcoin, as it's not quiet a "society" in
the Gini sense, one person may have multiple addresses and
many addresses have been used only once or a few times.
(The commonly-cited figure of 0.88 is based on one small
exchange in 2011.) However, a Citigroup analysis from
early 2014 notes: "47 individuals hold about 30 percent,
another 900 a further 20 percent, the next 10,000 about
25% and another million about 20%"; and distribution
"looks much like the distribution of wealth in North Korea
and makes China's and even the US' wealth distribution
look like that of a workers' paradise

Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir found in a 2012 study that only
22% of then-existing Bitcoins were in circulation at all,
there were a total of 75 active users or businesses with
any kind of volume, one (unidentified) user owned a
quarter of all Bitcoins in existence, and one large owner
was trying to hide their pile by moving it around in
thousands of smaller transactions. (Shamir is one of the
most renowned cryptographers in the world and the "S" in
"RSA encryption")"

[1] via https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidgerard
That hasn't passed yet, nor has the mining company 'destroyed' it.

> Pebble still would have to apply for permits before building a mine in Bristol Bay. Two public hearings will be held in Alaska on the topic this week. And the public has until October 17 to comment on Pruitt's proposed policy reversal before it could be finalized.
There are infinite ways to organize teams so your concerns are addressed. For example, you can have primary, secondary, and backup developers for each component of the system. That keeps you bus factor down and makes it more clear what the progression of responsibility looks like.

But, absolutely, a lack of peer review, authentic feedback, and general teamwork causes all sorts of issues in so many ways.
“The Genetic Effects of Radiation” by Isaac Asimov and Theodosius Dobzhansky
Bitcoin seems like the latest in a long-line of "investments" whose primary appeal is/was past price increases.
I believe the OP was referencing the city workers who coppiced the tree, not the vandals who forced them to do so...
It's fascinating that even 10 years after many people speaking about the importance of RUM when measuring performance, the majority of articles these days completely ignore the existence of RUM.
> The real world cannot compete with video games in the same way that milkshakes cannot compete with broccoli.

It's ironic that you bring this up because I actually quite like boiled broccoli.
Facebook reports glitch scrubbed potentially damning Russia data
hyperbole:

>>hy·per·bo·le

>>hīˈpərbəlē

>>noun

>>exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

Perhaps you're missing the fact that hyperbole isn't meant to be taken literally?
It's not any more bureaucratic than the US. With the significant difference that German bureaucrats usually stick to the law, while the US ones occasionally feel like making shit up. (Especially my friends at CBP.)
Amazon has replaced Google as the co. that worries corporate America the most=
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The situation would be massive liability, so you'd probably go into bankruptcy proceedings.
thank you for posting this. I hope the person you responded to reads it with an open mind.
"perfectly good" is a colloquial idiom for "acceptable", "decent", "useable".

Example: "Someone in my building threw out a perfectly good audio amplifier. It just needed a blown fuse replaced inside! I hooked it up to some speakers and now using it for my TV."

It doesn't mean that the hardware is so advanced, it cannot be improved.
Employer, unless of course stipulations were baked-in beforehand.
Exactly.

Im learning equity investing, and there seem to be never ending stream of free learning material online. Lectures from the top universities, youtube videos that teach you curious spreadsheet skills, assignments. As a matter of fact you have very few reasons to justify anything these days.

It just comes down to personal motivation.

For all practical purposes these days the cost of learning anything is equal to your monthly internet bill.
It often just comes down to project requirements.
Eg, what kind of model is required? How hard would it be to build with tool x?

For example, a big reason why a lot of computer vision research was built (and sorta still is because of momentum) on caffe was pre existing model zoos.

A big reason why people choose TF (despite lacking dynamic graphs) is just because of existing community.

Requirements for both papers as well as industry will continue to evolve. Each framework will have their own trade offs.
It would be nice if the title specified which type of service was being provided.
Maybe those are stubs the author intended to do something else with later?
There is a new standard forming for providing identity with this kind of architecture called SPIFFE. Check it out at https://spiffe.io. Its basically mutual TLS but with identity baked into the certificate. Along with what the certificate looks like, there is a reference implementation called Spire, to generate and distribute the certificates.
Do you speak Chinese? NLP for Chinese comes with it's own set of challenges.

Because word boundaries aren't marked, you need word segmentation, which requires understanding in lots of cases. (Can't tell where a word ends and the next one begins if you don't know what they mean.)

Many words have a literal meaning and a metaphorical one (e.g. 纠结 can mean both "tangled" and "confused").

Different synonyms being used for the same concept are common as well, especially when you contrast formal vs. informal writing.

Misspellings can happen too, where a character is substituted with a similar character that has the same pronunciation. Sometimes completely different characters are used as a kind of pun.

Grepping is less likely to yield false positives (unless you're looking for a single-character word that can appear in compounds), but there is no easy way to do fuzzy matching to account for misspelled words.
IBM and Google combine forces to open source Grafeas project
On the other end is the absurd notion that someone who starts with a (comparatively) huge cushion or even more is "self-made" in any meaningful sense of the term.

Take this example: Bill Gates as compared with Jan Koum. Applying the label "self-made" to both of them is nonsense. There's nothing "envious" in pointing out that one had a lot more going for him than the other.
The question is whether "whatever reason" is a permanent issue (lifestyle decision to reduce work pressure, maybe?) or is a temporary issue (laid off due to market crash or unexpected company merger and needs a job in a hurry). If the latter then they may just be looking for a temporary job to tide them over until they get a better offer.
Thanks for checking it out! I put a lot of work into it so it's nice to know you looked at it.
Trade, not democracy, brings prosperity.
I completely agree, I love bitcoin.

I got paid a few BTC for remote work when the price was about ~600 USD per BTC, I will never sell.
Why thank you! I would truly be lost without your wisdom.

Unfortunately, that still doesn't explain Apple's decision to make it harder to switch off WiFi. Do iPhone users simply not notice the status bar?
But why would this any better or more effective than asking someone to verify information on their previous years tax filings such as specific line items etc?
D'oh. I had looked up, previously, to find out that felons can usually vote and extrapolated Maine to be the same as the rest, with regards to voting while incarcerated. My bad, the rest is correct however.

I know Maine allows it, and even encourages it. I actually started a campaign for State Senate at one point. As I got closer to election, I learned more about the system and decided I couldn't participate in that. So, I never turned in all the signatures and didn't run.

But, thanks for the correction. For some reason, I'd assumed the rest of the States allowed it. I understand that, in Maine, some candidates have even campaigned, in person, in the prisons. Notably, we don't actually have a lot of prisoners or very dangerous prisons.
I'm sympathetic to arguments from those pointing out my personal privilege and how it doesn't apply to them. But I take issue with the infantilization of lower middle-class people. Not oversleeping or calculating how much data you're using is not a privilege issue, these things are knowable and predictable. It's offensive to all the working class people who do manage their time and finances to keep their head above water to suggest otherwise.
Same way anyone else does, give someone else your real money and believe what they give you is more valuable.
why should anyone pay more than 50-100 bucks for a shiny metal that carries no value beyond the fact that it's shiny and maybe is used in some industries? why should that metal cost 1000 plus dollars an ounce?
i expect the download zip to be implemented as running 'git archive --format zip | write-http-response-stream'
> ...universities (are supposed to) teach you critical thinking as well as social and life skills...

I disagree. I think they provide services to customers. Customers decide what the services are for. I suppose some students are very interested in laying a foundation in the liberal arts. Most, in my experience, are more worried about getting their careers started out on the right foot (especially considering all the loans that they are taking out). There is also a nontrivial number of students there for unsupervised extensions on their adolescences, though.

> ...they should not be called universities...

Why not? Is that going to be a regulated word now? What purpose does the distinction serve? We don't look at a degree and think, "Oh! University degree! This is a well-rounded person with a good foundation in the liberal arts!" No, we see, B.S. in Communications from Boise State and draw inferences from there.
> My 70 year old, cant-even-use-a-Mac uncle wants in!

That reminds me of a story from the dot-com boom, about an investor who knew it was time to get out when a grocery store clerk asked how to get in.
Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15246145 (Sep 2017)

Mentions https://medium.com/@MaxenceCornet/coinhive-review-embeddable...

$0.36 a day For this exact website, it’s 4 to 5 times less than what it makes with non-intrusive ads (banner + text only)
When did prima noctis ever occur? Not "as a right of kings in general" which even the myths don't suggest, but even once, as a specific right of one king?
Japan’s ABCI System Shows the Subtleties Separating AI and HPC
Why?

My father-in-law was just embezzled by his accountant. It's mostly been spent, so he will get pennies in the dollar back. (I'm not well versed in legal matters...I had no idea crime could be so profitable, even after you get caught.)

It sucks that he got screwed over, but it'll suck more if the next guy has the same experience.

There must be some kinds of questions employers can be permitted to ask to help this?
Intel CPU Scalable/Skylake Comparison Spreadsheet
Bitcoin is being monetized. It holds far more value than its intrinsic value, just as a $100 US paper bill is worth far more than it costs to create.

A blockchain is not a database - you're just trolling.
Online applications in general are rarely successful. Pardon my directness, but if you've applied to 100+ jobs then you're likely doing it wrong. You are almost always better off finding a quality set of positions (10-15) and getting human referrals/connections to them. In job hunting, quality is much more important than quantity.
It's worth a look, actually.

At first, I was thinking, "Surely they mean "current" and not "every." So, I clicked the link and, sure enough, they do actually mean every iPhone.

It's a bit more in-depth than I'd expect from Bloomberg and that's a pleasant surprise. Nice find, OP.
i would very much doubt that. i remember reading an article early on about some russian investors or engineers noting he knew almost nothing and that he was just reading a lot of university textbooks on areospace engineering.
Where's the Proof That Mindfulness Meditation Works?
Standardization is often talked about, but it would totally be possible to standardize on a "good curriculum".

It's extremely hard to find teachers that are willing and able to produce entire curriculums on their own for the group of 30 children. However, there are many teachers that would be excited to try out better curriculums if they were offered them. That curriculum can, of course, be less structured as well.

Hundred percent agree on lack of resources, of course.
You know Bitcoin is worth it when so much cash is being dumped in Russia, India, and Eglin AFB to faction the community. The legacy powers are being turned over.
Could you please link to the website of China's Cargurus that you mentioned? I would like to see which site you were speaking about because I follow Autohome and Bitauto.
KGIII 1 day ago
I'm retired but I am a scientist. I am technically a mathematician, but I still apply the method and use the philosophy of science in many areas of my life.

I'm not sure he actually employs anyone...
Yep. You need to move often enough to stay ahead of the technical debt you run up as you string your spaghetti code together. Or transition into a role where you talk about code much more than read or write it.
This isn’t too bad. Check out the source code for qb64, it’s hilarious:

https://github.com/Galleondragon/qb64/blob/master/internal/c...
Rediscovered Leonardo Da Vinci Painting
They actually do have problems hiring enough. They get tons of applications, but the vast majority are not worth looking at.

The people from top schools are in high demand, and Google no longer has monopoly on cool tech workspaces with free lunches and random expensive perks.

They have plenty of openings and they harass qualified people trying to poach them just as hard as everyone else. And since they actually DO have some unique challenges, they sometimes actually DO need people who know more than Rails CRUD apps, which makes things even trickier.
Ah, didn't see that on the K8S docs page which only lists insecure mode... but this secure mode requires manual intervention to approve the certificates, which is the antithesis of easy automated scaling and availability.

Hostname checks make sense for websites since useragents cant trust anything but I don't see the advantage for managing a db cluster. When would you need to revoke an individual cert and why wouldn't that be better handled by just shutting down the VM or container instead?

I'd prefer nodes using self-signed certs to securely connect, then user/pass or other secret to authenticate to cluster - but yes, if you remove the hostname check then the shared certs can do double duty as encryption/auth to the cluster, although this now brings up maintenance issues with rolling certs. Either way passing secrets (password or cert file) is easy when it's the same across the cluster.

It seems like CRDB could easily run in a simple replicaset with no maintenance but that requires running insecure, or have a rather convoluted manual process. Something in the middle would be much better.
Are there any similar programs in Europe for Canadian citizens?
I don't think it's right to use figures that can change to disprove an Elon Musk concept. If you did that back in the day, you would say there's no way Tesla could work because the cost of batteries is prohibitive and the supply too limited.
Yeah, nothing new about a permissionless digital-signature-secured decentralized currency being rapidly monetized in an age of global stagnation and quantitative easing / printing money.
Find a Bitcoin ATM.
https://coinatmradar.com

My friend who is all over Bitcoin, yet is technology inept, used one of these
> Baidu... are using CockroachDB to automate operations for applications that process 50M inserts and 2 TB of data daily.

Does this mean CockroachDB is not the database that does 50M inserts daily. Instead it is used to automate the deployment of those apps which actually run on a different database that's not CockroachDB?

In that case what are the reasons behind using CockroachDB for deployment but not for the apps themselves?

By the way what kind of performance can I get from CockroachDB? I know it's going to be slower than a Postgresql or MySQL running on replication. But how much slower?
Give him a loaded Ledger for Christmas.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15459262
I'm 52, I recently got a "pass" on a job that matched that I was told in person that I would get an offer in writing while at my 4th and final interview with the COO/HR person (not the hiring manager). I walked out of that place thinking I had the job only to get an email from the hiring manager (CTO) telling me that "if the job was a Venn Diagram, you fit 80% of the role, I just think the other 20%, you wouldn't be happy and probably not challenged enough." I was stunned. Venn Diagram?? come on man... Seriously? And email, call and talk to me. Be an adult.

At first I was like "ok, not a fit." Then I had to realize I was probably 25 years older than he was and what he was really saying was "you're too old to be working here." The tone of his email was exactly as this blog. "You're just too experienced" -- in so many words.

Sucks being old... But I replied in email that he was probably right, that the role itself was a little below my level (truth) and that it was probably something I would have had to work with him on. I also identified that this guy (great guy, I liked him), was immature on the management side and every co-worker that interviewed with me confirmed it by telling me how much "he needed someone under him to do be the leader, be the buffer -- keep him focused on vision", so they needed me -- or the younger me.
So I felt confident this was going to work. But he clearly felt I was too old...

It's a bummer. Had they offered me the job, I would have taken it and worked through the issues and grown with them. The reality is, I was perfect for the job and they actually needed my experience and my level of software domain knowledge in this space -- they were young, struggling with execution and accountability. I came to the realization that my age was both a benefit (to the company), but a threat to the CTO (founder) as being too experienced under you which would give him a lot of insecurity, but also having a guy that was old enough to be your Dad work under you -- he couldn't handle that (probably). Personally, for me, I would have had a blast. I love working with younger people and I love the energy and I'm someone who can relate to people half my age in many ways. Not to mention, I have all the modern stack experience they needed and I'm a pretty fucking great guy for their culture.

So as a 52 year old developer, I never thought I'd say this, but I'm a dinosaur and I might have to end up being a consultant or building another company (again) -- which I did when I was in my 30's and young.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15459262
NitroShare for Android Released – Fast Cross-Platform File Transfer App
If you depress market rates aggressively, you can "increase" pay from 120% to 140% of market rate without giving raises to anyone.
So... webassembly?
Based on the idea the overqualified implies the job role is beneath them, and assuming the job's requirements correlates to pay, then the person in question may find better pay, and thus leave, at any time (because they are already worth more than you're giving them, and more than what you're willing to give, given the role performed)
6.002 was a great resource when I was in CSE.
>I just Dunning-Krugered myself about Dunning-Kruger.

Ultimately you didn't. That very comment shows you were able to recognize and correct for your mistake in the end.

Perhaps if you insist you've Dunning-Krugered yourself about Dunning-Kruger, then I may agree that you have in fact Dunning-Krugered yourself about Dunning-Kruger.

It's turtles all the way down.
Where's Google Cloud Platform?
No actually I expected those were more than likely correct or at least supportable, I was being snide because the parent poster was being an ass about simple analogy.

>On average? You going to measure that in a lab and show me your margin of error, or is this now a political discussion?

Is he fucking serious? We're talking about Nazi's, of course its political. If someone is seriously going to demand laboratory tests on catcalling, that screams totally out of touch mens-rights "activist" to me. Not only that, I was making an analogy and he had to dredge up whataboutisms that have nothing to do with the conversation occurring. Before this becomes an issue of why I'm not talking about men being catcalled, anecdotally speaking I don't know if I've ever known any men (even the most handsome people I know) to get yelled at by passing cars, told to smile more at professional conferences etc. I'm not saying it never happens because I'm sure it does but its an issue that disproportionately affects women just like nazi's are an issue that disproportionately affects minorities.

Claiming that its white-privilegey to say that minorities might be more aware of nazi/neo-nazi roots in America is needlessly defensive (and he had to be the one to say white-privilege, which is like Popeye spinach for angry white men I'm convinced). Yes, minorities are going to be more aware of nazi's in America because they are targeted by them.

I'll try to put a think-tank of the worlds best minds together to study these revolutionary claims I'm making.
It's some excellent PR regardless, no need to be cynical, not to mention highly educational and usually comes with high quality open source code demonstrations with white papers.
What do you think about companies who use a "fire fast" approach to staffing? You cannot simultaneously support that and denigrate people as short-termers.
Lol what? All the people I know invested their hard earned(illicit) savings into specifically Bitcoin.

They were also part of influential group pumping bitcoins, and before that were in the penny/pink stocks pump and dump schemes.

Alot of them cashed out of Bitcoin forshadowing the potential demise as per meetings in china regarding its future in the country.

Alot of them have moved on to next popular coins to move their funds, and avoid taxes transfering money out of china
How many "don't have any other options?"
> There have always been 'blue collar' engineering jobs.

I think the industry is overdue for consolidating on some language around the various kinds of software jobs. Nurses, doctors, surgeons, anesthesiologists, PAs, medical technicians, orderlies, general practitioners, obstetricians, pediatricians, pharmacists, etc. could all be "medical engineers". But broadly understood names for the different roles clarify expectations for each.
Is the price increasing, or are their fiat currencies worth less? Hyperinflation is real, bank runs are real, and Bitcoin never fails an audit.
The camera I almost bought (again and again): The Canon PowerShot G5
It exists... https://www.deadmansswitch.net
Without details of the certificate or why it was "invalid" your report is pretty much useless.