skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm surprised nobody has caught on to the fact that the present fiat system is in essence a Proof-of-Stake one.

That was what I was meaning really. If the people that have large amounts of money (whether that's in owning coins with proof of stake or owning hardware with proof of work/space) have a disproportionally large say in what happens it's not much of an improvement to the current systems we all live in.
Sorry I keep deleting things and editing them, I'm trying to be precise in how I word things.

Given a deflationary currency X and an inflationary currency Y trading at AX = Y, why would I not prefer to hold all currency as X and only exchange back to Y exactly when I want to purchase something valued in Y?

I understand that a gold-backed currency wouldn't be stable compared to a US-backed currency. However, gold is only unstable insofar as it is tied to the USD; conversely, the USD would not be stable compared to a gold backed currency. My impression is that fiat currency is a local optimum, in the sense that any reason (as an individual) to continue using USD instead of gold is due to network effects. If the network effects were even between the two currencies, unless I owned a bank, there wouldn't seem to be a reason to hold the USD.

I know about the fiat/fractional system at (what I think is) a decent enough level, sorry if I wrote something that suggested otherwise. I didn't know that economists actually thought exclusively interacting with central banks was not desirable, though.
Thanks for mentioning 'Dat Project', hadn't heard of it before. Do you know if any of these distributed file stores are making use of this[1] result like Pijul?

It'd be amazing if these projects converge on making version control, package management and any sort of information distribution (internet) into the same thing. Currently it feels like they are all working in separate corners on what they consider to be 'the abstraction that will eat the world' so to speak..

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.3903
This reminds me a lot of a book I read a while ago called "Disciplined Minds" by Jeff Schmidt. It focuses on the sociological aspects of hiring practices & performance evaluation measures in the knowledge economy. It's a rather obscure book but I found it fascinating.

Basically, one of the central conclusions is that many of the metrics by which knowledge workers are evaluated are really less about measuring actual technical competence or domain knowledge and much more about detecting the propensity for conformity and obedience.

Maybe that's not too surprising for some, but what's even more interesting is that this can often be the case without the evaluators/managers/people in power even being aware of it. In many cases they genuinely believe they are evaluating for domain mastery / technical skill, but are fooled by the hidden signal that correlates to what they see as "desirable" outcomes.
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AMD GPUs might not be good at ML, but they are good at cryptocurrencies.
I don't have a dog in this hunt, but if a feature is in a language, someone will use it which will mean eventually everyone has to.
That's a good point. It's more useful for config files than APIs I reckon. That's why I've been hanging for it.
Secret courts? Gag orders? I really want to believe
Middle click will do it with fewer key presses, as will ctrl/cmd clicking. Those are the habits I’ve picked up.
In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King-Size_Homer Homer wears a muumuu.
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Also just today https://medium.com/matthias-gliwka/microsoft-leaks-tls-priva...
> ...they were almost dropped from .NET schedule as being "academic only"

For all the good that has come out of .NET, and the nice platform it is today, there are a lot of high level design decisions where the team decidedly landed on 'the wrong answer'. To their credit they've been moving towards 'the right answer' for a while now.

Auto-wrapped properties instead of exposed value fields. Smart initialization. Safe default values. Generics. Anonymous functions. Nulls. Higher order functions.

Still under way: pattern matching, DSL support, option type, type aliasing, etc.

Related, but I also find it highly fascinating on those topics how much of Visual Basic's design they ignored, derided, and have then had to re-implement after-the-fact. A lot of babies got thrown out with the COM+/VB6/MFC bathwater.
I learned from a coursera course some number of years ago. It was actually quite good. (This should also give you the correct impression that I am not an expert here and you should take my suggestions with a grain of salt.) I think it was this one: https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-mechanics-quantum-computa... (Taught by Aaronson's advisor.)
What we are learning is that there are far easier ways to steal bitcoin than the so-called 51% attack. Miner collusion would be so expensive to pull off and the amount of money you can steal this way is not that great - you still need the elliptic curve signatures to verify, so the only thing you can really do is "double spend" the bitcoin that you need to have in the first place.
> When a new language borrows from Lisp, that says more about the state of the new language author's education than about Lisp itself.

Namely that that education, while it has some merit, is incomplete. Otherwise, of course, that language would be a Lisp.
https://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/
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I presume you mean "kids these days!"

OP agrees and quotes Aristotle to that effect. But he still wrote and posted the article, right? So the purpose of the piece must be different, or at least more specific, than a trite "kids these days!" rant.
Some people buy Pokemon cards, some people buy bitcoin ;-)
>Was this predicted at the inception of Bitcoin?

It was not predicted in the original Bitcoin whitepaper. Yes, it discussed the theoretical feasibility of a 50+% attack to double-spend but it didn't explicitly predict a "consolidation" to specialized hardware miners that leaves out the miners at home using regular computers.

>It's interesting how economics impacts the security of the protocol like this.

Every decentralized protocol suffers from unintended centralization caused by economics. The same thing happened to other protocols like NNTP (Usenet), SMTP, HTTP+HTML, and Git.

The underlying issue is that technical protocols still have to be realized on real hardware like cpus + harddrives + network bandwidth and consume real costs like human labor. You can decentralize a protocol specification but you can't decentralize the amount of money different entities are willing to spend on that protocol. Each protocol whether NNTP/SMTP/Git/bitcoin does not come with a $1 million grant for homeowners to spend at Newegg to keep protocols decentralized.

That's why protocols consolidate towards big players in a power law distribution.
Only if PFS is not in use though.
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Assuming no supernatural things, all thinking a human does happens in their brain. Therefore, a very reductive approach: morality is our high-level generalization of what makes us feel bad or good. Things like:

- murder is wrong, because any given human wants to live (self-preservation drive), and also usually wants people they care about to live (them dying causes feelings of hurt)

- theft is wrong, because if you take something from me that I need, or feel connection to, I feel hurt

- etc.

Our social drive ensures that if you generalize things like these into more abstract code and enforce it, less of those bad things happen.

This - both dislike for things that tend to be a part of pretty much all moral codes, and the tendency to create those codes - seems to be built into our brain's firmware. Under this reductive view, the only actual claim morality has to universality is that all of us have pretty much the same hardware/firmware, and thus share the same basic moral principles. That is, hypothetical sentient aliens from outer space would likely have a different moral code due to the different process through which their brain-equivalent appeared.
So NVIDIA's drivers are good because AMD's are worse?
'tis the nature of bubbles
> truck-type energy

I think "embodied energy" is the technical term for that.
Perhaps that's worth doing, no one wants to feel left out at a party. But then why do they need to be models, or focus on talking to the opposite gender?
She makes some great points. As a quadriplegic, I can definitely relate to

1. People expressing pity. This doesn't always need to be verbal, the look people give me is sometimes all it takes to remind me that I'm not "normal".

2. Being called "strong" or "brave". This is frustrating not because I think it's not a genuine compliment, but because it genuinely isn't true. I certainly don't consider myself an exceptionally inspirational person: I just try to live a normal life like any average schmuck in the upper-middle class in a first world country. I may have had the misfortune of being born with a disability, but in many ways I've been exceptionally lucky: born in a moderately wealthy family, academically nurtured by good teachers, granted an Ivy-league education as a result of good teachers, and given a comfortable career in BigSoftware as a result of said education. Nothing in my life is exceptionally off course from that of a pampered son -- aside from my lack of arm or leg function.

3. Restaurants and stores lying about their accessibility. This is a huge problem with review sites and often is a stark reminder that the world fundamentally wasn't designed for people like me from a UX perspective.

This article also captured a lot of my concerns with dating as a disabled person. I realize that any woman I get into a relationship with has to, in a way, endure my pains as a disabled person. That the pity, genuine-but-wrong compliments and the wrenching realization that the world is for the ambulatory easily spreads like a disease from me to the people that I love.

It's definitely frustrating. I am glad that she seems happy with her marriage for now though. As a quadriplegic, I know that we don't have a good track record for happy relationships, which has always been something that keeps me up at night. Steven Hawking [1] and Christy Brown [2] are two examples of quads I can think of who have been known to have less-than-fulfilling marriages.

I hope that I can do better, but for now I'll just focus on being a better software engineer so people have something else to look at besides my disability :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy_Brown
Yes, the initial paragraph of the bitcoin paper (bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf) says that as long as 51% of the network is not attacking the network (that is, trying to forge their own, new, transaction history) the protocol is safe. Even when 51% of mining power is concentrated in the hands of a group, there is still a lot of reverse engineering to do to try and inject your own blocks as history. So far I have seen no demonstrable way to do this. If anyone is aware of research in this area I'd be interested to see how far it has come along.
https://www.goodrx.com/voltaren-gel

$60-100, maybe you meant $120
For those, like me, who were mightily confused by the timeline posted at the end — he switches to euro style dates in September and October but used US style dates in August and December.
My experience with consumer cards may not apply, but AMD drivers, especially their open source ones, have been very good for the past two years or so, especially after AMD's announcement of their intention to mainline much of the graphics driver. From Phoronix's test, they seem to have promising performance as well.

Is enterprise hardware extremely different?
Just not a piece of shit
That is true! ICOs that have novel purposes are certainly welcome to the world. One day I'd like to make my own cryptocoin for my site so there can be a mini ecosystem / economy there, too.
exactly, and some.. I mean everybody.. should stop telling other people 'what to do' :)
Sure, but you need to be clear about what you're representing. Saying X% implies (because of the % sign and what percentages are...) that its multiplicative while percentage points implies additive (and the article used the %, which made it sound multiplicative, but in reality used the additive value -- lots of confusion!)
A rather content-less article.
Depends what you mean by auditable.

Not only is the blockchain tamper proof but it is also a public record. So with traditional audit trails even if there are multiple copies you could still have the government seize or modify all copies. With the blockchain any such attempt at a cover up just isn't possible - once you've chosen to publish data publically and in a tamper prof way that suppresses calls of 'fake news!'.

So in that respect the choice to use the the blockchain can be seen as a genuine attempt to prevent corruption rather than paying lip service.
This is a low quality article, and is not worth your time. The second half is just a pump for Ripple.
Public goods.

And, yes, most rules are unfair to poor people. Who do you think makes the rules?
> I don't think that after 12 years you can say it didn't work for Munich. It worked for 12 years and now, for political reasons, it's going back to Windows.

Very good point. Also, it's really sad to see political agenda driving technological decision making.
While some core projects are pillars of GNU and were created either to provide a fully free Unix replacement or out of one of their initiatives, many are projects offered by individuals.[0] There is no battle.

"Replace" doesn't mean global domination. It means that those who chose to use the replacement can do so, just as those who chose to use the GNU operating system as a replacement can do so.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.en.html
They would if they ran out of money. There's a donate button at the bottom of the post...
If you are aware of such issues specifically feel free to contact me. I'll make sure they get handled properly.
Microsoft has provided Windows source code for auditing for a long time, especially to governments. Here's an article about it from 2003:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2580563/microsoft-wind...

And again in 2015:

https://www.petri.com/no-back-doors-microsoft-opens-windows-...
If you use ephemeral keys, as you should, the contents of past encryption is still secure if the private key gets leaked. The encryption keys are newly generated each time, the certified private/public key pair is only used to validate these encryption keys belong to server that has the certified keys.

This is called Forward Secrecy.
You make the common mistake of assuming that if a pool is Chinese then its users are Chinese. In reality mining pools are used by people from all around the world. For example many like to mine at AntPool, because as the largest pool: their payouts are statistically frequent, they have a reputable and expansive infrastructure, eg. multiple stratum (API) endpoints in various countries which reduces latency for end-users.

As to miners actually physically located in China, many are located in China’s province of Sichuan specifically due to cheap hydropower, not coal.
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6 upvotes to be #2 on frontpage? how does that happen?
That's just insulting... the state says they acted unconstitutionally.. so they offered him $500 -- which is just a refund of the fine he already paid -- and asked the court to dismiss the case. After he had to pay 4 years of lawyers fees, take them to court, etc. It's just a big FU, and I have no doubt they won't change a thing if they successfully get the court to dismiss it.

If the court allows this, then the state won. They've sent their message: pay the fine, or we'll fight you in court for years, force you to pay thousands to lawyers, and maybe in the end we'll give you a refund of any fine you paid if it looks like you might win.
The volatility aspect attracts more and more quants when compared to the death of volatility in the US equities markets. Or so I’ve been told by friends in a quant lab...
Some will say you can mine it…
Seems pretty simple, everyone wants in on the moon mission and it's gaining critical mass amongst 'regular people'. The majority of these people are only in it to cash out so it's use as a currency has been greatly reduced, see Steam dropping support.
Thank you for noticing, somebody is reading until the end ;-)

I will fix this right away!

Update: fixed.
Thanks, a lot of these I've read elsewhere but it was a good refresher and it's nice to have it all in once place.
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I disagree. Many complaints about capitalism are often rebuffed with some form of "No True Scottsman" fallacy when people raise this points about capitalism. Defenders of communism fall into the same trap.

I don't see what's so controversial about the simple fact that capital markets will not significantly reduce global human suffering. Some will benefit tremendously, significantly more than others, and there's no correction mechanism for that.

If we look back a few decades, it seems like there was a sea-change in thought around capitalism after WWII. Prior to the war, it was seen as an imperfect system but our best option. Something I don't think it's hard to argue with. Now, we place capitalism on a pedestal and blame its shortcomings on impurities of its implementation-- again, similar to academics who had to defend Marxism/Leninism vs its implementation in the Soviet Union.
Contributing to the GNU Project and having your project associated with certain principles. Some people just want to make GNU stronger or send a message about software freedom.
Awesome, thanks for the link. I'm not finding the paper that easy to read though...could you summarise how it compares to proof of work or proof of stake? The idea of electing which nodes you trust more than anonymous ones though does seem to mirror the real world though.
This is a decent follow-up noting that the average toll is well below the peak toll. Of course, it doesn't talk about the median.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/12/0...
I hate hearing tales of how public bodies waste taxpayers money fighting cases like this instead of focussing on the actual issues themselves. Even if the public body had done nothing in this case it would have been better than suing him.
A long time ago. I think these NVidia designs look good. 10 years ago, every card had some (usually) gamer-y character art on them. You'd put them in a case and almost never see them again.
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I'm struggling to understand how the transition from integration test to unit test might manifest in terms of a real world refactoring.

My 'integration tests' almost always cross the boundaries of two or more (theoretically) well-defined APIs. If they're within those boundaries, well, they're not really integrating anything, so I would just consider them a unit test.

Do you have any examples of this?
I really enjoy investing in cryptocurrencies. However, I have a lot of doubt this is going to make the world a more fair or better place. It's going to create a wealth gap like has never been seen in first world countries.
The senate has the filibuster provision to give the minority party the ability to slow down or block legislation. To overcome a filibuster, 3/5* of the senate have to vote to end it.

At some point, the senate was afraid of gridlock, so there was a special provision made for things that deal with money (not sure if tax only), where things that have a minimal impact on the budget can overcome a filibuster with a simple majority. The parliamentarian is the one who decides if a bill is "minimal impact", which is set at $1.5T at the moment.

Therefore the parliamentarian has decided that changing the non-profit law would cause this tax bill to be more than $1.5T in net change, meaning it can be filibustered.

Edit: Wikipedia article
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentarian_of_the_United_...

[2] * corrected my math, thanks to dragonwriter
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Neither CME or CBOE bitcoin futures are directly connected to bitcoins. Both will be cash settled (i.e. no bitcoin delivery). There will be no need for buyers, sellers or intermediaries dealing in bitcoin futures to buy/sell/own bitcoin.
Waving hands furiously, we might say that everything is more nuänced than can be ex-plained in a tweet or a blog post, and that nothing is absolutely uniform.

We can also say that in the twelve years since this blog post was first written, attitudes towards hiring have changed in many ways. Nobody (for some loose definition of "nobody") cares how we would move Mount Fuji, or how many ping pong balls would fit in a 747.

Broadly speaking, though, I stand by the fundamental assertion that the stereotypical "BigCo" values conformity, and values people who value conformity, and that many of the things they lok for are, at a deeper level, social signals.

Startups aren't so different. In 2012, we could just as easily have rewritten this blog post to be about a startup wanting applicants to have a GitHub profile because it indicated a certain need to belong to "hacker culture" that the hypothetical startup could exploit.
Based in some part on the relative upvotes of other posts in a time period maybe? California users probably haven't waken up in mass yet.
If they have access to their wallets.
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Well. To extend that case where

* Babies tend to be unsupervised

* Many babies choose their own food

* Babies frequently try to copy the actions of adults

* Many adults encourage babies to copy them

* Some adults make a lot of money by secretly poisoning food

* Making more than one kind of food is surprisingly expensive

* There's far more babies than adults

then yes, I would expect food makers to be strongly biased towards baby food manufacture. And attempts to keep babies from making poor food choices.
I'm happier now.
Yeah, I was ready for a subway history lesson.
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Kudos to the engineer who decided to fight the state on its ridiculous claim. I wonder if there is anything that can be done to help avoid a repeat? It is possible for the bureaucrat(s) responsible for original decision to sue to be fired or at least demoted? If so, what would it take (media coverage, letters to lawmakers, something else)?

I am glad the results were the way they were, but without slapping someone's hand for this it will happen again next time.