skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can only see number 3.) to be actually beneficial to some people. Most of those could easily go horribly wrong. Like nobody let's police to backstage while there is crime going on. Or supermarket doing post purchase price adjustments and when you look at the receipt, they analyze your micro-expression and optimize their scamming to maximize their earnings while not pissing you off too much.

All of the rest could have been done decade ago if people would simply accept RFID implant. And most people are very skeptical of that, because in almost all of your examples the tech could be used for evil too.

Would you accept free RFID implant? If the only price was that the RFID fingerprint would be completely public.
I don't think that the implementation in this case is relevant. The underlying idea is fairly similar as far as this use case goes.

And while your method works, I think it's also more manual and involved than a simple VPN setup. At the minimum, you just set it up, connect all your devices to the server and write down the IPs.
".com" is for businesses, so it seems strange to use it for a personal name.

Also, next year the trend may be to register ".io", etc. You might end up on a slippery slope, paying $100 per year for something that you don't really need.
And a SEPA Credit Transfer is about 30 cents and soon enough will be done in less than 15 seconds (SCT Inst).

Why bother with Bitcoin if my Bank can do it cheaper and faster, even with lightning?
Getting the planet/continent/island is easy. Keeping it from all the other humans who come planting their own flags...now that's the hard part, where the weapons come in.
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> Because Ether is actually usable (even without smart contracts) as a form of money

I'm curious, how many drug dealers do you know that accept Ether?
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>Doesn't really work if you target the hobbyist market

The hobbyist market isn't typically a great place to make money from anyway.
> Sure, though I'm not seeing the value in this thread when the original context was existential threats to the internet...

You seem to have a very unusual concept of what makes an existential threat, and I think countries is an easier analogy to try and understand your reasoning.

> * An equally or more powerful country declares war on the country. (Actually even an underdog can occasionally win, so the power criteria isn't strictly needed for a threat...) Similarly for a group of countries against another group of countries.

What if the attacking country declared that its goal is to gain power over the country to exploit it economically, but let the country continue to exist (essentially colonialism)? Would you still consider that an existential threat?

> * Increased tensions within a country build up to a civil war. Survivable (USA) but still a threat.

What if the declared goal of all parties to the war would be to keep the country intact, just with different sets of rules? Would you still consider that an existential threat?

> * The US State Department doesn't like the country's leader(s)

How does that threaten the country existentially? That's just about who has power in the country, not about whether the country exists, isn't it?

> * Country cannot produce as much as or more than it consumes. Side effects include mass starvation, coup attempts.

But a country with a starving population is still a country, isn't it? And a country that had a coup is still a country, isn't it? So, why is this an existential threat to a country?

> * Modern "acts of war" but not necessarily carried out by a war-declaring entity like another country. E.g. terrorist attacks on infrastructure. Probably worst (but least likely) threat is an EMP detonated about as high up as the ISS, if you wanted to affect a country the size of the continental US.

But would that change that it's still a country? Why would you consider this an existential threat when the country still exists afterwards?!

> * Government bankruptcy.

How is that an existential threat for the country? It's just a bankrupt country then, isn't it?

> * Mass disease (thankfully less of a threat given modern medicine and distribution)

Wouldn't that just result in a country with a lot of ill and ultimately dead people? That doesn't make it not a country, does it? Why do you consider this an existential threat to the country, then?!

> I'll stop there...

Sure, I think I got the idea, but I really did not get your reasoning behind this. I don't really expect that you respond individually to each question above, that probably would be a huge waste of time ... my point is: Why would you consider any of that an existential threat to a country when the country in all cases almost certainly still exists afterwards?
The stands on a 4K TV suck compared to a monitor. There is no height or tilt adjustment. They also generally have higher input lag.
Now that's an interesting thing that I had no idea was happening! Do you have any examples of movies that have an extended cut to include scenes from China?
I used to be in similar situation: 1-2 liters of beer 5-7 days a week. Drank mostly because of boredom just like you - didn't had any problems or stuff that I want to "forget" or "run away from".

Then I stopped drinking and started going to gym and ate healthy just to try something new. I looked and felt much, much better already after first week.

After seeing what I looked like in the mirror after 2 months compared to when I was drinking it was all the motivation I needed. Now I drink only on social events.

My suggestion is: Just try it, I guarantee you will feel and look much better even after first week.
I didn't expect to see SCP on HN.

https://youtu.be/XKeI1xbJNtw?t=5

"Down the rabbit hole" is a great series, by the way. It reminds me of oldschool history channel documentaries. Some of my favorites are plague doctors (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDz0OrRZOZ0) and the mouse utopia experiments (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgGLFozNM2o).
Since the parent mentioned weapons, I would add:

7) FaceID for guns.

Imho, it should be mandatory, and it could be a solution in the gun control discussion.
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"Telling" in this context means "revealing". It's very revealing that you seem to think that the most important semantics of functional programs is the denotational one when in fact lots of other important and useful semantics exist.
Bitcoin mining consumes more energy than Ireland
Life isn't fair. Do I think its fair some people get born with billions of dollars to their name? Probably not. Do I care? I honestly don't. Find and create your own path.
Bitcoin doesn't have untraceability though. The transactions are public.

If you want untraceability you should pick up Monero.
Same boat for me. I also have 1 of my monitors in portrait mode that I don't think I could give up by switching to a single ultra wide
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I have just as much trust in Russian apps as I have in U.S. apps - which is none.
ngrok link https://ngrok.com/product/ngrok-link is definitely meant to be used for production stuff.
In case of baby milk powder the alternatives exist on the Chinese market. Even german brands are present in Chinese supermarkets. But after some high profile cases regarding low quality products[0], some people are willing to pay a decent premium for a product sourced from a European supermarket.
On the height of this crisis I have actually seen signs "max 2 packets per person" for baby milk in german supermarkets close to train stations / airports.
I actually met someone who financed a trip to China by maxing out his baggage allowance with baby milk.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal
That is still not the point.

This has been open since 2015:

https://glyptodon.org/jira/browse/GUAC-1303

New issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-221
Yes. But making any money is preferable to making no money from your OSS project, no?
Would that be a sign that people who understand these concept should participate more and debunk what's wrong?

I'm sure we can all do with a bit of education here.
What is with the trend to stuff emojis everywhere? It looks childish and does not improve readability at all.
Or make your money in Latvia, which is not a party or a signatory ;)
> "this is the year that solar is blowing up" and someone invests and it's finally the year it takes a break?

Do you think analysts take more risk hyping solar (b/c investors in renewable energy could lose some $ if solar stalls) or by playing down solar (b/c investors in fossil fuels could lose $$$ if solar keeps growing)?

I guess fear originates from the side where most capital is at risk. Hint: not solar.
> To a greater extent, if someone refused to talk but had the ability to you would probably think something weird of them.

No. I would think that they have nothing to say they think was worth saying --
precisely as it should be, since we already have too many loud idiots.
Afaik Ethereum is already processing double the transactions of Bitcoin, very cheaply, and near instantaneous (e.g. little to no transaction backlog).

The issue of Bitcoin is not the technical part; it's that no consensus can be reached between people on what is the right course of action, leading to multiple forks of the network.
Great vision. Ethereum still has a long way to go but it's great to see this roadmap, together with the increasingly crowded Ethereum developer meetups.
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I think that Time is still a brand that is thought of as being credible which could be troubling if it is turned into propaganda.

However, I think the value is the web site not the actual paper publication. A couple years ago Time ran a story I was interested in and wanted a paper copy. I went to the local grocery store and they didn't have it and then I went to the local chain bookstore and they didn't have it either. A similar thing happened when Sports Illustrated had an article I wanted a paper copy of. What the magazines sections of these stores did have were plenty of crafting and gun magazines (I live in a rural area) and tons of "special issues" about Princess Diana or the Beatles or something. The magazine rack ain't what it used to be.
I believe the Chinese buy these types of imported goods (if not all imported goods in general) because of a perception that they are of a certain level of quality. The "disruption" would not be copying an innovation so much as building branding of a Chinese alternative. For most cases, it would involve changing the widely held belief that Chinese products are inferior.

That kind of brings that Chinese caviar company to mind. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-19/the-world...
I'm curious, why does this matter? How many drug dealers do you know accept cash?
Unfortunately this is one of those areas where logic does not apply. This comment has been downvoted because it upsets people, not because it doesn't provide a reasonable theory. It will probably be removed soon when it upsets a person with that power. The funny thing is, I guarantee that none of the upset people have actually been to sub-Saharan Africa.
Yes, I've also heard about cases where supermarket personnel deliberately mutate the packaging (e.g. by scratching) to make the milk unsuitable for sale on the Chinese market.
Could you provide a name/assos for north paris area ? I wish to provide a couple of hours of my time
The average cost of a deep sea mining rig can vary between $20mm and as much as $1 billion.... comparatively those costs may not seem too high in the not too distant future for moon mining.

Edit: Source: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/061115/how-do-avera...
1.) Automated ID systems for supermarkets. Walk into a store, store knows who you are. No checkout needed. Just walk out.

Of course, nobody will ever use this feature as a mean of enhancing their "targeted marketing" nor creating a "targeted pricing" strategy. For me, this is a big NO-NO and should go straight to the malevolent usage list.
Invest in Butter and Corn, when the Bitcoin Bubble inevitably bursts Popcorn will be in high demand.

I think it would not be a bad idea to just follow investment advice; take a well performing index or ETF and stick to that. Maybe invest some into bitcoin again after the bubble has burst and it has a closer to reality value.
sending good vibes !
Then why do you bother people who overstay their visas? And people who don't but because you don't stamp their passports when they leave can't prove they acted legally when the INS screws up?
Measured by GDP (PPP) in 2016 China was the largest economy, EU was the second , US was the third.

It's important to consider EU as economy because EU negotiates trade deals as single entity.

Brexit makes US second again, I think.
Ethereum produces tangible value for it's users: transferring money and ability to create ICOs (just to name two).
People value transferring money. It's a challenging technological task, which the humanity has been trying to solve for many years. It's a task that many people find useful. You don't mind paying 3% to your credit card company, do you? Even if you do, evidently many people around the world don't. Why is Ethereum (or another cryptocurrency) not considered "tangible value"?

It wasn't clear if you were talking about actual Ethereum itself or any of the ICOs that are based on it.
If you were talking about ICOs, the answer is even simpler: they are just like stocks. It's like you asking "why are people giving all this money to that company?". It's because some of those companies have a business, or a business idea and people want to support it. (There are scams too, of course, but sometimes it's not easy to know which one is real and which is a scam, and so people take chances.)

> Artificial scarcity can be circumvented by just copying Ethereum and creating cheaper alternative.

You're welcome to try, if you think it is so simple.
Ethereum Classic-people have tried, and they even had an actual legitimate reason (the DAO hack), not just a vague "we want to create a cheaper alternative" motive. Look at the price charts and see how well it went for them.
Frenchman here, the shortage of butter is partly related to an increase in consumption of butter in China (and the United States as well) but honestly it is also partly explained by a problem with the supply chain in the country. We produce huge surplus of milk every year, farmers end up having to throw it away because of EU regulation, so there's no reason why we should have a shortage of butter.
About 20" face to panel.
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A simple solution would be for the government to fund more fundamental research.

Research results should be public goods.

It seems hard to encourage companies to do public research, as they have no short / middle term interest to do so
The SCP Foundation is my favorite source of "What if" scenarios.

What if the only thing between us and absolute annihilation is someone doing very unethical things to other people? (I believe SCP 231 is relevant there)
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It's only when HN discuss a topic in which you are an expert in that you realise 90% of the comments are absolute nonsense. It happens every time there is a biology topic as well.
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Though it wouldn't have taken hours, potentially up to a day, to complete the transaction.
Content availability issues aside, I think it's because it's single user. TV is often a social pastime, and if anyone involved has issues with 3D, no-one gets to use it.
> And if those other communities have a history of systemic oppression, poorly funded school districts, legal bias against them, etc, attempt to fix that too (which would be even more important for the community overall than getting more people from the community to work in some specific industry).

Sorry, but arguing "but a much bigger problem elsewhere in society should be fixed first" seems like such a non sequitur. No one is saying that SV hiring of minorities alone would fix the systematic barriers. But it doesn't logically follow that these problems can be approached concurrently if there are already qualified minorities in the pipeline.

> That's just a myth based on a few selective cases, which even count people like Zuckerberg with a Stanford education or Bill Gates as "drop-outs" because they didn't finish their degrees.

The definition of a "drop out" is generally believed to be someone who enrolls in school in a degree program but didn't get the degree. What other definition of "drop out" did you have in mind?

You're right a founder can be whatever they want to be. How about a founder who manages to attract venture capital investment? My comment specifically referred to a scenario in which a college degree suddenly became an important metric of validation in society, such that VC would be more reluctant to go with a founder who didn't have the institutional validation of a degree (it could be seen as a sign of poor discipline and focus, for example).

> And even then, they are usually from well educated, well connected, and usually well white, backgrounds. I'm not so sure we want to take them as example of with which criteria to hire.

OK, so you agree that it's possible for people to get a boost into SV (and anywhere else) based on factors beyond their control (being born into wealthy/white/well-connected fmaily)?
I know what "telling" means. I just didn't understand what was telling, since you asked for the denotational semantics so I described them [1]. Why would I think that some semantics are more important than others?

[1]: Perhaps there's been a misunderstanding. Functional semantics means that expressions denote things similar to functions. Usually, operational semantics are state-machine semantics, certainly not functional semantics. If you'd asked for the state machine semantics, I would have described those.
> I suspect OP writes great, "bug-free" code in the backend / systems domain, but I don't think their testing practice or anecdotes are applicable across the industry.

I'll grant OP a Magic Cloak of Error Abolishment and an enchanted ring with +4 INT, +4 WIS, and +3 VARIABLE-NAMING...

Regardless, what's the very first thing I'm gonna do when I inherit his project for support or further development? Start ripping it apart to add tests so that I can verify the behaviour of the system pre, and post, change.

If that code base was tested before, even poorly, that means extending the tests and improving their web of assertions and I will be making positive changes to the code within hours. If that code base is untested then my maintenance activities will involve unsupported refactoring and WAGs about system behaviour once the new tests come online. Days of work will hamper the start of maintenance activities. From experience, it will also likley mean finding a bunch of previously hidden issues, bugs, and suspect behaviour that has to be re-analyzed and re-tested before maintenance work can begin in earnest.

A strong feeling that something is "bug-free" does not tell me that everything works unchanged on a new platform/OS/architecture, or let me throw in a newly conceived corner case, or check some environmental oddity... If we start out with the premise that systems spend most of their lifetime in maintenance, preparing the system for maintenance activities and trying to eliminate risk in that delicate window make a lot of sense. Not for a lone developer who has a bunch of domain knowledge in their heads, but for teams where new individuals are exposed to new domains and code at the same time.
Are we too focused on typical office workers?
There are advantages as well though -- for those being able to create assets (companies, profitable products, etc), those will generally sell for a higher multiple than before.
you could have philoshophical motivations to prefer open source so the context is valid if you start from there.
> Ethereum seems to benefit from having a figure like Vitalik who can act as a Torvalds-esque figurehead

If Vitalik got hit by a bus tomorrow Ether price would drop 95%. A currency does not need a leader who directs it. Also it should be very difficult to make changes to a 150 Billion $ currency.
Okay, but what if a Chinese milk company decides to find an international reseller (with its own QA lab)?

I imagine that a lot of "western" milk products already contain Chinese raw materials (e.g. mineral/vitamin supplements), so in a sense it would not be a very new thing.
See Rich Hickey's description of structural sharing in Clojure. Persistent data structures are not simple copies.
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Was there any actions taken against US for this? Was the original idea to just destroy the place or was it an important point in the pacific side of the war? Either way, while reparations are a bit sensitive, this should have been easy, considering the relative scale of both countries.
Gun making companies would love that. As resale would be practically impossible. No cheap guns to satiate your love of variation. Markets for new guns would increase.

Police would probably hate it, because having your side arm malfunction in dark alley in life and death situation is probably something you want to avoid.

Organized crime would probably love it. Manufacture of unmarked firearms is not that tricky. Fresh market for illegal goods is suddenly created, as now it's not only the criminals who want these, but also survivalists and all kinds of paranoid people. If you run the numbers of murders with illegal guns/ amount of illegal guns vs. murders with legal guns / amount legal guns, you will find that illegal firearms are roughly 10X or 20X more likely to be used in homicide.
What is meant by "non-recursive functions" here?

From my knowledge a non-recursive function would be easier than a recursive one, since a non-recursive one will not call itself while a recursive one can. But the quoted phrase seems to imply it must be something more difficult instead...

Problem is, wikipedia's page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-recursive_function does not define it either, it just redirects you to the recursion page (though not recursively, so wikipedia did not go for the joke) which does not define it either.
Yeah I agree.
But maintainers don't always have time to support software, and can't really leave their jobs until they earn enough.

Maybe they could outsource support, any idea if something exists for this?
> Ethereum is already processing double the transactions of Bitcoin

Take a look at the charts here, http://bc.daniel.net.nz

It's not "free" to process more transactions. At some point you are no longer p2p and decentralized when the requirements to run a node go up so high, so quickly .
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It still feels like a mostly speculation platform and not a transactional one.
Ssh local forwarding gives you pretty simple access to all ports though?
It's hard to have a logical argument about reasonable theories when a fact is stated without citing a source. YMMV

edit: saw further down in the thread that this was posted: http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/lynn2010.pdf

OK, maybe I'm reading this wrong, but this is a study about the IQ of sub-Saharan Africans? Did I miss the part in Bloomberg article that talked about how SV needs to hire more citizens of Ghana? The OP seems to entirely focus on SV's employment of African Americans. What does this study of sub-Sahara African have to do with the discussion?
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WSJ has always pedalled some dubious editorials like that, even before acquisition. I’d be curious to know what other differences there are though since they were acquired.