skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Took a few at once of my hydrocodone prescription from a wisdom tooth removal (only two of them at once) at 18 to 20 or so, then did the same thing next time when I had the other two removed. No idea what their real cost is besides the copay. Just wanted to see what it was like. I don't think I really got anything out of it besides a bit of a placebo effect. Didn't seem very appealing.
1) is an important insight. The fable of the Boy Who Cried Wolf works for everyone, not just children. Unfounded alarmism will destroy one's credibility, ultimately to the detriment of both sides.

Glad you kicked the habit. A friend of mine did so too, but was left with some very real permanent damage. Hope you got off easier.
Other than Seattle and NYC, there's a notable difference. It's not 50%, but its there. And I'll admit that Seattle is probably the best value place to live.

That said, those jobs at $bigCo also make up a smaller portion of the job market in every other city. In the bay area, something like 1% of everyone (not just SWEs) works as a SWE at Google, Facebook, or a similarly paying company. Seattle is similar, although with Microsoft and Amazon instead. While there are some jobs that pay six figures in Atlanta or Austin, they're fewer and further between.

As a result of this, I know lots of people who make 150K+ all in comp in the bay area and Seattle, and no one who breaks 6 figures in, say, Austin (all at a Junior/New Grad level).
> attempt for the suits to take bitcoin away from the engineer meritocracy.

because it's not totally controlled by suits already? Who do think is pouring money into mining this stuff.
And i740 before that (I had one of these, it wasn't very good)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel740
Try CS50 :) It's Harvard's free online course. It'll take you from 0-1 really fast. 1 to 100 is experience from building stuff. Good luck!
> Think about other super important areas of life like finances and health. Perfectly capable, developed, functional adults still routinely neglect these things because they don't want to 'deal with' the mental overhead of 'figuring it out'.

Not sure these are great examples. There is a LOT of good self-learning information out there about computers and tech. One could not know anything about Linux, study online references, experiment a little, and become competent. And you can always find a Linux nerd to give you advice and help. Contrast:

(Personal) Finance:

Most investing information on the net will not produce any kind of outsized returns, and quite a bit of it are scams and plain bad advice. You're not going to become rich by following r/PersonalFinance. And unlike tech, where a bad experiment means you need to wipe the hard drive and try again, a bad investing experiment can lose you money. And all those financial advisors out there? LOL, they're crooked as a bag of snakes and are primarily out to milk you.

Health and fitness:

Health is even more of a shit show. Good luck finding any consistent reliable information through self-study. This good for you. Now it's bad for you. This causes cancer. Now we know it doesn't. Now it does again. Every month there's a new diet fad. Online, quackery is the rule rather than the exception. Top 100 search results are going to be weight loss spam. And your doctor? LOL, he just wants to charge you for repeated visits and sell you whatever pill he's being incentivized to push this month.

I don't think it's about people not wanting to deal with the mental overhead of figuring it out. It's really a challenge to figure out and sort good from bad information.
You have to be an idiot to think voting on party lines is a good way to solve complex social issues.
> You can't even see the speed your car is going on the dashboard, and instead have to move your focus to the thing that's basically an iPad mounted in the center console.

Center dashes have been a thing for a long time, my Saturn Ion had one and once I adjusted to it I preferred it since it was along the same axis as my side mirrors as opposed to having to look down.
Can we just use IP addresses (or similar finite at time set) as coins then?

And torrent alike distributed network that will support proof of ownership and transactions.

Like I am owning 123.245.189.123 address and tons of peers nearby know that...
absentee ballot.
Write lots of code, in different languages; find increasingly real problems to challenge your skills. Unless, of course, you're just interested in becoming another whatever; then you're better off memorizing buzzwords and JavaScript frameworks.
Drug users often take as a group, so if the group has no money to buy their regular drugs that day and one of them has heroin to snort or inject they will do it. That's how most addicts I met while living in a shitty drug filled area got addicted. Heroin is the cheapest street drug here right now too since it's cut with dirt cheap and easy to import fentanyl. For years it wasn't even illegal to export it from China, so anybody could get it direct off sites like Alibaba and try and smuggle it in.
Basic UI/UX Design Concept Difference Between Wireframe and Prototype
"Van Gogh used a type of red pigment that gradually faded over time. That suggests the painting looks slightly different today than when it was completed."

There's something kind of cool about older art changing over time and the process of trying to determine what it might have originally looked like. Reminds me of Philip Mould's work removing a yellowed varnish to uncover a painting (more) as it would have looked 500 years ago: https://twitter.com/philipmould
Thief: Hi, I'd like to withdraw $100 from Joe's account.

Bank: Here is $100 from your account, Joe.

Joe: Hi bank, where's my $100?

Bank: Already gave it to you.

Joe: Wasn't me.

Bank: Well, Joe, you screwed up big time. You let someone steal your identity. Sucks to be (the real) you!
SSN are NOT an identity mechanism or infrastructure to facilitate business. They are to facilitate tracking your contributions to social security. Businesses have abused them for their own ends because at one time social security numbers were the only globally unique identifier in common use.
I believe sentry has support for reversible minification mapping. You could use that along with a PRNG (or maybe just magic number-based) minification to drive 'hard to conflict' js delivery. Unfortunately, I bet any script delivered that way looks a lot like malware. ;_;
Well, there's Jack Ma. But he's a rarity.
Exactly, every instance of property ownership in the world without exception started with someone at some point in history staking a claim to it by keeping everyone else off of it through the threat of violence, but then libertarians come along and decide that any attempt to remove that claim to property ownership and return it to the natural state of not being exclusively owned by anyone is unacceptable violent coercion.

The whole philosophy is self-contradictory nonsense. They claim to be against all forms of violent coercion, but then enshrine the largest and most widespread system of violent coercion ever to exist as a sacred right.
The world is full of fakes and liars, especially where there is money to be made.

Some comments in this thread amount to encouraging that we should blindly accept that a person is who they say they are because they are the "right kind of person".
This article is a bit unfair to the dark-forest conception of interstellar life. The axiom that Liu put forward was not about some inherently expansionist nature of intelligent life, but about the difficulty of communication and understanding. It takes two round-trips to communicate, but a small multiple of one for a species that can launch an attack that moves at a substantial fraction of the speed of light. And such attacks may be fast enough, or hard enough to detect, that second-strike capability is impossible.

In his books he explicitly compares this to the prisoner's dilemma - maybe you yourself don't want to expand beyond your own star system, but as soon as you know another species exists, you know that if they are hostile and do find you, they will destroy you before you know there's any threat. And so you are incentivized to attack when the other civilization has not yet been alerted to your presence.
As noted in the article, the author speculates this is due to the fact that in the long run Tesla expects these vehicles to no longer require drivers. So the driver UI is transitional technology.
You should put that spoiler warning up front!
Most of the time it does. When it doesn’t you revoke the cert.
What is a discrete GPU?
I think if all the NYA signatories had gone all-in on 2x they could have killed the 1x chain. Between the majority of miners and a bunch of exchanges and payment processors, they probably do have the power. But the backlash and financial losses would have been significant.
You and I have very different definitions of being born rich then: http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/
So my legal identity is tied to proprietary hardware? Hardware that I arguably don't even meaningfully own? Running software with, especially in the case of Android, an atrocious security record? A secure enclave won't help if hackers just get the OS to call it to sign something malicious. It also kind of sucks for people who can't afford a smart phone.
> I would prefer a smart token/card with a PIN on it.

What do you think is inside the token?
I don't get why PV, wind, geothermal &c get so much more love than the various nuclear fuel cycles.

AFAIK nuclear so far has the smallest fatality per kWh ratio. For certain, salt reactors need a lot more research, but so do many of these other "green" energies. Are we even clear on the full environmental impact of the various "green" energies when factoring in secondary and tertiary costs?

I feel like China probably has the right idea of dumping a bunch of R&D into LFTR and whatnot instead of riding the Eco Friendly TM train.
I recall that Kik co-founder Ted Livingston tried to take a step toward changing this. He said he never would have been able to start his company without CAD$25,000 from his grandfather, so he donated CAD$1M to a local university, so they could give out CAD$25,000 to a student team every term (so, three times a year).
Those are less likely to be the high status, sexy startups. Surely there are lots of people getting wealthy via alternate paths. I think the startup ecosystem skews toward high status class members mainly because of the ease in obtaining better funding (and more leverage) by doing so (all else being equal) and because of the importance of education networks in hiring for tech.
And related to your prior point about slavery, the function of personal bankruptcy is to prevent debt slavery:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bankruptcy_law
I think we could make a map of “private broadband failures” that funneled hundreds of millions of public dollars to private enterprises to bring broadband infrastructure to millions of Americans and was never delivered.
Never clean a toilet again – SpinX robot does the dirty job
> The original purpose of the SSN was to enable the Social Security Board to maintain accurate records of the earnings of individuals who worked in jobs covered under the Social Security program. The card was never intended to serve as a personal identification document—that is, it does not establish that the person presenting the card is actually the person whose name and SSN appear on the card.

https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v69n2/v69n2p55.html

So maybe there does need to be a federal or state identification method, but because we lack a legitimate method it should also be the responsibility of the individual to do due diligence that the person they're giving credit to is the person they say they are.
> A censorship resistant digital cash

No, a way for a few people to get rich has been built.
> Do you really look at the balkanized, fractious EU and think to yourself, "Gee, I wish we had that"?

That sounds pretty nice actually.
The latest Ethereum Parity wallet disaster, play by play
It's a psychological bar that's easier for people with money to cross. If you always feel like you're lacking then it's hard to make the jump towards entrepreneurship. You don't necessarily need to be a rich kid but you have to have the confidence that ultimately you won't end up homeless and penniless.

If you were raised in an affluent/economically protected home it so much easier to start a business - even if you don't have the contacts.
Heck, there was a freaking cologne ad campaign featuring a stanford grad student. We've got a clear example of a sexualized man in tech not getting this sort of negative response.
True for gold too, yet that bubble manages to be pretty stable over the decades.
No contact information, hidden whois info. Surely this is a site to be trusted to be objective and get to the truth regarding the ethics and feasibility of municipal broadband.
The regular middle class joes you know who took "A couple years off to live on savings" are not, in fact, middle class joes.
For the record, the tweet in question is on Naomi's twitter page header. It reads:

"I am questioning who she really is. Naomi is a persona, not a real person. She is several or many people".

Also more pictures of Naomi on her twitter- I have to admit she looks like a booth babe and the first thing that came to my mind when I saw here pictures was "fan service".

But that means nothing of course. In fact, if I think about it- having a poor sense of style is so being an engineer.
So I foreshadowed this already but Americans can't have passive holding companies and expect to avoid US tax. (Holding company implies passive property ownership.)

1960s era Congress already created CFC, PFIC, FBSCI, FBHCI laws which ensures that compliant Americans can't have passive offshore companies to defer taxes indefinitely. You looked like you were on to an original idea but your grandparents already thought of it. What you suggested still requires your non-compliance and the opposite of perfectly legal.

Those laws put your offshore earnings from US connected entities right back on your US personal income tax.

Most of these regulations are undermined by not having a passive holding company but an offshore company with additional business operations.
To be honest, that dampened my excitement for the model 3 a notch.

In order for that design to make sense in today's model 3, it would mean that very car is just a software update away from autonomy at "we are all watching netflix instead of looking outside" level. And that software update is coming very soon, in a matter of maximum 2-3 years.

I'm skeptical. I can very well see the next Model S, or the refreshed model 3 in 5 years achieve that [1], but really that's sacrificing today Model 3 user for something that's going to never be delivered to them. Not sure I like the approach of "this is a glimpse of the future that is not for you".

I don't think that there is much need for a lot of button, don't get me wrong. To me, just somewhat more feature full lever around the wheel - nothing fancy, just the same you get on most cars and a hud so that the rest of the family can indeed watch Netflix while the driver does not lose completely every driving information. Job done, a taste of the future, but not completely compromised experience for the poor sod that has to drive in the present.

[1] A lot of people that know more than me are skeptical this is even possible short term, but with no money at stake I'm happy to dream.
It’s easier to swing from one vine to the next vine, than to one 5 vines in front of you.
I would say strictly speaking from the title, that would make them exactly a special breed. There aren't many of them.
There are crypto solutions that could make his much more interesting, such as bling signers, identity based encryption, zero knowledge proofs, etc. Most of the downsides could be worked around, if we innovate a teal solution instead of something off the shelf.
American Express can reference and transfer credit if you move abroad.

https://www.americanexpress.com/global-card-transfers/
The tweet was: "I am questioning who she really is. Naomi is a persona, not a real person. She is several or many people".

It's on her twitter page header.
If you replaced SSN with a universal ID, that would imply that anyone filing a tax return would need one.

The purpose of voter ID laws is to suppress voting by poor people, especially African Americans, who lack ID because they do not drive, or have a difficult time meeting the standard of proof for getting an ID, or have difficulty going to the one DMV that supports their geography an hit away without a car. It’s the most recent of techniques used to suppress voting since the poll taxing and literacy tests of the reconstruction era.

Unfortunately my comment wasn’t well-received, but that doesn’t take away from the reality. A federal ID, unencumbered by the bullshittery imposed in many states, would be opposed bitterly.
I'll second that. Had a similar experience.
There is a governmental agency, part of the national bank, that keeps track of credit. Information is kept for three months after a successful repayment of credit, one year after a delayed yet complete repayment, and 10 years after a default.

Only credit information is kept, nothing regarding defaults on rent, unpaid medical bills etc...

Getting a record of your own credit history is completely free, either online, by writing a letter, or just stopping by the bank.

Yes, national ID is used for that purpose. I've only very rarely heard of identity theft by strangers, there are many hoops to jump through, like photo ID and a physical letter sent to the corresponding address for verification.

What would prevent that? Privacy laws. Keeping and sharing blacklists is not forbidden but regulated in Europe. Creditors also are obligated to use the central credit agency.
I don’t think this was all about money. Raja had been trying to run Radeon Technologies Group like an independent company and pushing for separation from AMD for a while. HardOCP did a good piece on this -> https://hardocp.com/article/2016/05/27/from_ati_to_amd_back_...

I think the recent Intel + AMD custom chip was probably the last thing Raja did before he got pulled RTG got the reins put back on and now he’s hoping ship to peruse what he’s wanted all along. To work with more independence.
A large portion of that population loss in the Americas was due to diseases brought from Europe.

But those diseases went through evolution in an environment that's similar to America -- it had the same atmosphere, similar soil, plant life, etc. Even the hosts were similar.

But an alien virus would have none of those things. Chances are it would find earth inhospitable and be completely unable to survive much less spread.

It would be truly remarkable if an alien virus found earth/humans compatible.
The rags to riches dream was always a fairy tale, at least from a statistical perspective. It was always the exception to the rule.
My current job is maintaining Kafka infrastructure, dozens of clusters. I literally don’t understand how it got so popular. It is by far the least reliable software I have ever experienced. We hit so many bugs and weird edge cases that essentially cripple the entire cluster and stop all producing. Zookeeper in addition has been a constant source of headaches.
Right, companies can't have it both ways.

"We reserve the right to let someone go, at any time, for any or no reason." and "We also reserve the right to dictate who they can (or rather can't) work for."

No. If you want to say "I can't work in my field for 2 years", then you can pay me 2 years severance.
I said I could not control what the world does. That doesn't mean I can't change the world. Those are two different concepts.
While we are speculating without any sense of data/proof (no, just linking articles is not proof), why don't you also talk about JFK assassination, NASA Moon Landing or who killed Aarushi?
A GPU that's a separate chip, not integrated into the same chip as a CPU.
Wikipedia seems to work well for this. For the few breweries I looked up Wikipedia it has a box at the top with a summary of info which includes "Owner" or "Parent" or "Manufacturer".

For Lagunitas you get:Heineken International
For Blue Moon you get:MillerCoors
For Anchor Steam you get:Sapporo Holdings
I'm really disheartened to hear this rhetoric on HN, but I'm not surprised given the affinity for contrarianism here. Russia has developed a track record of(trying to) interfere in elections over the last decade+, this isn't some new concept that was conjured out of thin air. They aren't some misunderstood good guy that's being scapegoated. Some examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare_by_Russia

It would be one thing if it were only the handful of goofy ads you've seen, but in actuality a lot of the far right's sound bites and "gotcha's" leading up to the election - even those parroted by the President himself - came from the sorts of fake news mills that spun up during that time, a number of which can be traced to Russia.
1) Capitalism is creating commodities, like corn, and then shipping them. Picking one billion corn stalks is a lot more cost and effort than picking one corn stalk.

With software nowadays, you create the first product, and then with the push of a button, can duplicate and distribute it to billions, almost instantly, almost for free. What this means is you are not really making a commodity any more. Which means that in those parts of societies where this mode of production prevails, you're not even really working within a system of capitalism any more. The system of production outgrows the economic system it is in, just like town trade and manufacture outgrew feudalism centuries ago.

2/3) The helpful thing is to look at what is actually happening, as in a scientific experiment. The real world is not people sitting on top of piles of money, like a dragon in some fairy tale. Those who get the fruit of other's labor by rentier means - landlords, lenders and most importantly stockholders and owners, can only spend so much on luxury goods. They also need only so much as that aforementioned stacks of Credit Suisse gold bars stored somewhere for a rainy day. Most of the money is reinvested.

Where is the money invested? New construction projects, new companies, new loans - or further capital for existing projects. At companies owned, San Francisco apartments etc., more and more of wages go to profit and rent, as that is necessary for inequality. So the worker has less money to buy commodities. But more and more capital is being spent to build more and more commodities. The workers/consumers can not buy these increasing commodities made by the more enriched investors. Credit can kick the can down the road for a time, but if things don't go back to equilibrium, things get worse (see the 2008 taxpayer TARP bailout of banks, 2000 dot-bomb crash etc.)

There's a documentary called the One Percent, where a conversation between Bill Gates Sr., Warren Buffett and Chuck Collins (Oscar Meyer heir) is retold. He is talking about the inheritance tax (now corporate spinned to be called the death tax) and says if things are as unequal as they are now without an inheritance tax, what will happen when one does happen?

I myself don't think there's some liberal, social democratic solution. Idle class heirs have this self-destructive tendency to pull more and more power to themselves, to the point where they begin to undermine their own long-term power. At some point a very radical change comes. That has been the history of the past centuries. The US depression of the 1930s was so long ago, it's hard for Americans to fathom it, and I would guess most people think it could never happen again, but it could. It could even be worse.
The Brazil idea sounds really cool to me. You can revoke identies if need be and they are more protected since they rely upon a public/private key system. Therefore, you can verify your identity without giving another party your secret info.