skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another possibility for a decrease:

A major holder of bitcoins tries to pull more than can be converted into a national currency. This basically topples what I equate to a ponzi scheme when people find out that it doesn't convert so easily back and forth at current evaluation, and reduces the value enough that others fearful of loss start to try to convert as well.

I think that this is probably the most likely scenario where people discover that bitcoin, as a currency, is a bad idea: deflationary currencies cannot succeed (the rate of creation goes down while population goes up, so it must be deflationary). Further, it shows that bitcoin as a commodity/investment doesn't work, because to be honest there is nothing backing it up. What recourse do you have when the bitcoins you bought at 10k are now worth 1k? What real gain/loss has occurred that the rest of the GDP need concern itself with?

Philosophically, I believe that bitcoin has presented an interesting technological breakthrough, but the implementation of production is off. I do believe that in the future that we'll see national currencies using blockchain technology.

In the meantime, I'm not going to worry about it, and I'm not getting involved. If some of my friends become wealthy for it, then great for them, but I'm not particularly keen on 'get rich quick' or market timing schemes.
There is a converse question: Why do we continuously take equity out of our citizens and deposit it mostly into the financial sector, but also directly to big contractors?
To answer your first question, very big.

From a qualitative standpoint, think of this way ... all companies are now tech companies and developer jobs are always in any recent "hottest job" list you can find. So, it stands to reason that tools for those companies and jobs will be a big market.

If you want real numbers, here's 2 examples: (1) Atlassian is now a public company and pretty much only makes developer tools. They started with one product (Jira) in 2002. They now have a market cap of $11B and annual revenues of $620M [0]. (2) If you read Indie Hackers, you'll find people like Mike Perham who makes Sidekiq. Sidekiq is an open-source tool for background processing in Ruby on Rails apps. Mike makes $80K/month on premium licenses/support. Think about that, it does just one thing for just one developer framework and he makes close to $1M per year with no employees.[1]

So, yes, I think there's a big market (in the billions) and plenty of room for small companies. Off the top of my head I can probably think of a dozen developer tool ideas that I'd consider paying for.

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TEAM

[1] https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/sidekiq
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Accredited investors requirement is what allows one not to be a subject to Blue Sky laws. We did not have it before Blue Sky laws were added. Let me assure you civilized societies need to have a separation between 82 year old grandma Suzi and Paris Hilton.
Accredited investor regulations horrifies me too. People should be free to do what they want with their money, and teaching people how to be a responsible investor makes more sense than removing their freedom to invest =\

I'd be in favor of needing to take a course on investment in order to be accredited, but having income requirements is bullshit and absolutely lends to making the rich richer and keeping the poor poor.
It'd be better to tax things we don't want, like pollution.
I take it you didn't see the MS write down of Nokia mobile phones. Over ten times that, 7.6 billion USD: https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/8/8910999/microsoft-job-cuts...

Worse than brutal, a shame. And Windows Phone 8.1 was actually a good platform. I'm back on iOS, and it feels like being kicked back to the 20th century.
> What is the funniest bug you encountered?

Spiders.

Customer put one of our server in a shack outside the main building. Spiders and other bugs got in the server causing the hardware to fail. We never never thought of testing our against an arachnid infestation.
How much lecture is there than? Here in germany 3 Seminars a day with 2h each are often the norm. That would mean 18h of prep and 6h of seminars a day.
They want to make people sad, and addicted, but they don't want to make them so sad they'll commit suicide.

From a business perspective, they want to make them depressed, dependent, but alive.
Believe it or not there already is a laundry folding robot: https://foldimate.com
> Each and every one of these regulations exist for a very good reason though.

Any self-made software engineer with 5-10 years working at startups doesn't have the legal capacity to buy stocks in the company he works at.

Think that as an investor, this rule eliminates 95% of your competition. As a founder, you have a much weaker position of negotiation. And as an employee, you have incredibly distorting restrictions of what you can get and how much because of this rule.

All harmful regulations exist for very good reasons.
I suspect you didn't read my reply, because if you did you'd recognize that [1] is simply not true.

The only considerations here are simplifying the programming model. AFAICT, nothing in this demo needs a dedicated node server, it just simplifies the explanation.

Odds are though that if you're going to need your own personal centralization of some sort if there is any concept of user privilege in your system.
I like the idea of a wealth tax.

The details will be difficult: how do you assess wealth with any semblance of accuracy, especially in the face of an increased incentive to hide it? I'd love to hear anybody's clever ideas to tax wealth in a way that catches cheaters. The biggest issue is what you do with wealth held overseas.

But even if the cost of catching cheaters is many billions of dollars of enforcement apparatus, it seems worth it. Of course, you create a new problem: avoiding corruption in a large enforcement apparatus chasing after people with the resources to easily bribe them. (But this problem is not unique to wealth taxes, and I don't think bribing the IRS is actually much of a problem—people just bribe Congress.)

There's another problem: wealth taxes would probably need a constitutional amendment in the U.S. From Article I, Section 2:

"Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers..."

There's already an amendment to clarify that federal income taxes are OK. But wealth taxes will need their own amendment.

Conceptually, though, I totally agree: if the problem is unequal wealth, just redistribute the wealth directly to move toward a less catastrophe-prone distribution.
How about Luigi Zingales, professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a former president of the American Finance Association.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3004794
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Wow, it really is.
> almost everyone, even people who are multilingual, probably search in a single language.

You're completely wrong.
Are you sure they are the same people. That is the people being scammed and the people asking for the SEC?
>I can see Facebook adapting their algorithm to recommend treatments for depression, anxiety, even ADHD

imagine this: employers know that having these conditions (some of which are permanent) makes people less effective at working, and so they want to know who has adhd, who has x, y, z.

facebook sells them the data.

boom, now these people can't be employed by that company.

i just can't help but laugh because there's a good chance this is already happening.
My G5 got really noisy when the fans would “fade in” while running a build in Xcode.
You can successfully manipulate emotions without having any of your own. Recommendation engines are getting really good at it.
"A further reason why it is senseless to speak of machines that are larger than people is that humans already possess the property of universal largeness.

By this, we mean that humans are capable of augmenting their bodies or coming together to become indefinitely large, no matter the metric chosen. If a human would like to be taller, they can stand on a chair or climb onto another human’s shoulders. If they would like to be wider, they can begin consuming a high-calorie diet or simply put on a thick sweater (Hensrud, 2004; Figure1)."
There is now a better way to do what Tumblr was trying to do. Their stated mission was basically to dramatically simplify expression.

Young people hate writing very much text.

Young people hate using posting interfaces of the sort Tumblr utilizes (it still comes across as a CMS posting system).

Young people hate too much effort toward customization, which is required to make a Tumblr page look half decent.

Enter Snapchat, WhatsApp, Kik, Viber, Instagram etc.

Click, record video, send.

Click, snap, add four words, send.

No layout customization bullshit. No concerns about something on your page breaking by mistake and having no idea how to fix it to get it back to normal. No diary/journal or blog text aspect, which most people have zero interest in.

It's too useful for what its newer users want (the ones that would be signing up and providing growth).

Simply put, Tumblr is a dinosaur. It happened that fast.
The difference is that no one buys a $2 million car because they think it will be worth $3 million in a year.

The only example of yours that is close to equivalent is a casino gambler, and even then, we DO heavily regulate the casino industry. It is either outright banned in many places, or there is some agency that is in charge of making sure the gambling is legit (i.e. the rate of return for a slot machine is what it is supposed to be, and isn't simply taking money)
GM created the EV1 in 1996. They eventually scrapped the project and all of the cars. They didn't want to compete with the petrol car industry.
Had an office where, every Thursday, one developer's machine would reboot at the same time late in the evening. It didn't happen to anyone else. Eventually he decided to stay late one Thursday and watch it to see what happened.

At the appointed time the cleaner came by, unplugged his machine from the power socket and plugged in the vacuum cleaner to clean the room, and when done, plugged the machine back in.
That happened as well in S. America, but S. America did not become a superpower. There's something else at work.
Depressants don't necessarily make you depressed. The term depressant just means that they depress the nervous system, as opposed to stimulating it like coffee or cocaine. There's a link between depression and drug use because many drugs, depressants and stimulants alike, provide a short-term release of neurotransmitters such as Dopamine and GABA, which makes you feel happy and relaxed.
> That's because currently most co-ops are either run by hippies, or else exist only as tax dodges.

There are over 7,000 Co-Op buildings in New York City representing many, many billions of dollars in real estate asset value.
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That's what we want you to think, but the hardware is at least as much of a mess as the software
Fair enough. What would you have this AI do for you? Examples please
It would be more akin to spending $2M on a car and not getting the car because the dealer fled with your money.
That's my whole point. Comcast is already charging you for whatever they want. If they think everyone in their area will pay an extra $15 for Netflix, they will just raise everyone's price by $15. Bundling and tiering not required.
If the reserve requirement is 10%, the banks actually loan 990%. That is not a typo.

Of the deposit account, they keep 10% in the vault/Fed, and loan out 90%. Of that 90%, they keep 10% in the vault (9%), and re-loan 90% of it (81%). Of that 81%, they keep 10% in the vault (8.1%) and re-loan 90% of it (72.9%). Sum the series, and the effect on the money supply from loans and the reserve requirement is to divide the vault cash by the reserve requirement to get the bank account totals.

Raise the requirement from 10% to 11% and the circulating money supply drops from 10 x vault cash to 9.1 x vault cash. Raise it again to 12% and that drops to 8.3 x vault cash. To keep things steady, you have to print extra money for the express purpose of putting it into reserves.

The de jure impact of the reserve requirement on the money supply isn't "not much"; it's actually huge. But that is only down to the point where it goes below the de facto requirement imposed by normal bank operations. You drop the requirement to 0%, and banks will still keep cash on hand to cover their own needs. It is certainly possible to raise it all the way to 100% (or even higher, by requiring that banks freeze some of their own cash when accepting a deposit). But that would have to be done very slowly and cautiously.
Only where it is illegal.

If victimless crimes like gambling, high interest lending, drug use and adult prostitution were all legal, there be less of a reason for organized crime to exist.

My feeling is that this sort of things should be regulated at a neighborhood level, so that it is possible to not have them in some neighborhoods where they are unpopular, while still being accessible in other not-too-distant areas where people do want them.

In any case, such trade is not a crime that would go away with basic income. People will have MORE to spend on vices, actually.

I think there are plenty of people on disability who also use opioids. That would be a lot harder without that money.
Yes me too I want to start a side project
No, they don't. That's by design.

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/the-case-for-hi...

It's right there in plain English: Inflation exists as a policy to screw "workers" out of the value of their wages.

Workers is a nicer way to say lower classes. It doesn't include investors, financial sector, etc, who strongly benefit from inflation.
Are you account for the damage done by restricting investment into this?

They say as much money moved into ICO's in the last 6 months as VC funding in the valley. To the very least, thats double the funding for tech startups: higher wages, more founders and higher absolute investment returns.

The tragedy is that scam ICO's make it because they cant put it into better investments due to regulation. Its the classic case of a damaging restriction.
How about the Sixth Amendment?
I can just see it

Headline: Sam Altman Starts new Murica Token ICO

or maybe he hands them out daily for free given some proof of USA'ism similar to the Universal basic income token

-- Lee, founder https://bitbank.nz
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but aren't Bill Gates' earnings mostly capital gains, and aren't capital gains not included in GDP calculations?
I really wish people would stop doing this. It gets tiresome having to check every stupid little install script before running when there is a PERFECTLY GOOD one-liner that does the same damn thing without hiding anything from the user:

apt-key add [key]; apt-apt-repository [repo]; apt-get update; apt-get install [program]

There: one line, no script-reading BS, and it gets it done!
Rather humorously, it appears the person who wrote the script created this website to commemorate the birth of CGF Logic : http://chickengoatfuck.com/
There are competency exemptions. For example, "knowledgeable employees" of private investment firms are allowed to participate in PE deals even if they are not accredited investors.
> Not necessarily

Nobody has a Scrooge McDuck cash vault, not Apple, Microsoft, nor anyone else. It's all invested - even money in a checking account isn't actually there, it's loaned out to someone who spends it.

> the top 1 percent owns 90 percent of wealth in the US

No, the government owns/controls most of it.
>Silicon Valley is rife with Stanford and MIT graduates who started coding during childhood, won programming competitions in their spare time

They've identified the problem..
Maybe fund a program to teach programming to economically disadvantaged kids? in 10 years, those kids will be on a little more level playing field.
Yup. Whether the transaction is anonymous or not should make no difference to your decision to not to stick your capital into something which looks and quacks like a scam. Just because your circumstances deprive you of (tax free) access to investment products with market returns doesn't mean you have to roll dice on riskier negative sum bets than whatever you currently hide your wealth in. The average person chucking large sums of money at dodgy ICOs is a libertarian cryptobull with a contemptuous attitude towards the idea of legally enforceable contracts and securities laws, not a North Korean without access to a banking system.
Actually a public school dropout...but other than that you are of course right...I wasn’t trying to say “do it like I did”...I was trying to say: do what’s right for you and your situation!
Right, it only becomes a problem if you tax wealth so much that the net value of the next dollar is lower than the effort required to obtain it. At a certain level of wealth, where one is effectively paying others to invest their money for them, and they're earning off interest, that effort is basically 0.
> Wallstreet has a monopoly on IPOs, they are clearly threatened by the ICO boom

For a longest time, Wall Street had three tricks: securitization (breaking cash flows into securities), portfolios (putting securities in a box) and leverage (borrowing and lending). (One could argue swaps are a fourth.) That's it! IPOs? Securitise a company. CDO? Portfolio mortgage securities. Mortgages? Securitise them!

Now there are blockchains. A whole new thing! If there's a group thrilled shitless about blockchains and ICOs, it's Wall Street. Best part: when the whole thing goes south, they get to blame Silicon Valley.
You know that the large majority of credit card loans are given out by banks, right? https://www.nilsonreport.com/upload/TopIssuersofUSGPCC.3.jpg
Botcoin value is dependent on and pumped by exchanges. In case of larger sale run they will cease to payout with cash or other cryptocurrencies because they are out of money to cover most payouts. I think at most 1% is available in US$ cash -- the rest is gone in tax heavens. There is no law control over these entities and their financial fitness.
So as the value is going to collapse and with low value the cost of transactions will explode to an extent that exhanging is going to stale and mining will become worthless.
I agree the block-chain and smart contract technology is interesting, but this pioneer execution is simply a Ponzi scheme. Newcomers are funding payouts and nobody asks where the real cash goes. Scared merchants can pull a "cryptocurrency payment" plug overnight, and there is no goverment to call bailout to save this financial system. This will be epic bail-in.
I'd love to see RISC-V become a huge presence, but ARM IP seems a lot more refined & hassle-free.

A bit similar to Linux/FOSS not having any decent CAD alternative to proprietary ones.
> I want an excellent case I can pack full of RAM, disks and GPUs, not external expansion with $70 cables that glitch and mess up the aesthetic in the process.

I feel like Apple was onto something here, but they screwed up by trying to scale up the mobile paradigm (black boxes connected by cables) when there's a very similar paradigm much friendlier to professional use—the server rack-mount paradigm—that they could just scale down.

Imagine a small "compute core" just like the trashcan Mac Pro (CPUs + RAM + GPUs, replace it all at once when the time comes)... except it's in the form-factor of a server blade, and is sitting in a rack roughly the size of a workstation PC.

You'd buy a "Mac Pro", and in the box would be the (very elegant, Apple-y) rack, one "compute core module" to slot into it, and one "storage module" as well (which is your boot device, making the compute-core diskless and so a commodity.) You could customize your order to get a RAID storage module instead. You could buy more pre-populated modules from Apple, or other vendors, or buy empty modules to install whatever components you want. Third-party empty modules would probably cost about as much as a USB hard-drive enclosure costs today.

And, of course, the modules would all connect to a shared backplane... which would just be PCIe. So it's all the same Thunderbolt idea, just shaped differently.
Nope.

I am a Product Manager these days
We build tools like that over at https://virtualsaleslab.com. Not open source unfortunately...
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No shit, right? SEC Regulator is intrinsically a position that exists in human controlled, centralized trust networks, so of course it violates their archaic human contracts. Precisely what blockchains aim at reforming.
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An accredited investor is just a term for someone allowed to invest in things not regulated by the SEC. If you think that EVERYONE should be able to invest in things not regulated by the SEC, you are basically saying that being regulated by the SEC should be completely voluntary (i.e. a company can choose to be regulated or not).

You can argue that it should work like that, but we intentionally decided to make SEC regulation the rule, and only grant exceptions for investors who have demonstrated they can handle the risk.

There is nothing saying that a non-accredited investor can't invest when a valuation is low. The investment just has to be regulated by the SEC.
In a word: Kindle.

Amazon et al may anticipate VR becoming HUGE in the future, so they'd best start creating top-tier easy-access infrastructure & tools for supporting it. Each will want to be THE go-to for customers, just like e-book customers mostly go to Kindle (and a few competitors provide solid alternatives, like iBooks); wasn't that long ago most of us watched the e-book reader market explode onto the scene with lots of competition between B&N, Kobo, Sony, Amazon, Apple, and anyone else that could create a viable e-ink tablet. Similar happened with streaming video, with just a few set-top boxes surviving (Amazon FireTV, Apple TV, Roku, and a few others). All these need a solid, cheap, desirable content-creation platform and distribution system.

Next up is VR: when you're going to render content, what distribution platform will you build for? how will you sell it? what's the go-to store for buying virtual worlds? Bezos & co will want you to choose Amazon Lumberyard &/| Sumerian (and Tim Cook & co will persuade accordingly toward Apple rOS, and Facebook is figuring out how to position Oculus, etc).
My lab is pretty much exclusively OSX-based workstations/laptops and Scientific Linux servers.
I think after adjusting for cost of living, you are making far more with your 70k salary than OP is with their 120k salary.
So the editing worked hehe
ARM is a bit of a misnomer, there are many segments, Cortex M, Cortex A. Only the "A" series could be considered intel/amd class I guess.

But yes, arm cores are everywhere.
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