skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The danger here is differentiating between "the infrastructure" and "the product". Useful database and/or infrastructure work _is_ "building the product".

There's nothing necessarily wrong with using pre-baked or hosted components when they fit the bill, but pretending like they're unrelated concerns is going down a bad road. A lot of recent fads are based on this self-centered, lazy fantasy from devs that $LANGUAGE_OF_THE_MONTH is the only thing that matters and it's a dark, sad situation.

There's a pretty consistent inverse relationship between technical quality and popularity because time and money spent on technical/engineering resources is time and money not spent on marketing and sales resources that bring cash in the door.

Ever wonder why, with a few exceptions, it never seems that the products everyone knows about are comparable to what you can find after a little bit of research online? This is why. The people who are building good stuff are spending the time and resources on building good stuff, whereas the people who aren't are spending the time and resources on making sure they're the path of least resistance.

So in that sense, yes, you are right. It is dumb to spend any time or money on anything other than the bare minimum skeleton needed to allow your sales people to start pimping your stuff.

Whether or not people recognize your product's superiority is more or less irrelevant, because first, they won't, and because second, the extra effort it takes to swim upstream and use your product instead of the mainstream solution won't really be worth the gains for most people no matter how much better it is. You can probably rattle 15 examples of software off the top of your head that is just like this. PostgreSQL is actually a great example of it.

Amazon has run amok feeding people who don't really deserve the title "developer" a load of crap about how you can click buttons in their wizards and be like a super-real grown-up coder-hero without any having to learn any of that outdated command line mumbo-jumbo. It's 2017 after all! Don't worry about that gobbligook hocus-pocus that the smelly old man in the network closet keeps muttering under his breath. That's for smelly old people and third-party Amazon contractors. You have Very Important JavaScript to write, just as soon as you finish dragging Legos--err--"Mega-Elastic Dynamo-tastic Sumerian-Beanstalkinator Units" around on AWS.

How have other professions handled this issue? After all, most people wouldn't know the difference between a safe bridge and an unsafe one, and most people wouldn't know the difference between safely-prepared food and unsafely-prepared food (until they've already eaten it). The profit incentive is to put the bare minimum in place and then sell sell sell.

We may not like the heavy hand of regulation that will clamp down on the software industry, permanently and officially gate it behind the blood-sucking ivory tower of the academic priesthood, and strip it of all vitality and creativity, but with the attitudes that have become prevalent over the last few years, we have no one to blame but ourselves.
But why not LibreSSL?
Ordinary window glass blocks 90% of UV-B which is needed to produce VitD.

I do remember reading years ago about a sanitarium in the late 1800's - early 1900 where the windows in the sun rooms were quartz glass.
I threw out some vitamins and energy drinks after reading about this.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/b12-energ...
There's no way this calculator is accurate.

Take A married couple with 2 kids with $60k AGI, all W2.

Filing in 2017, standard deduction:

60k - 12.7k deduction - 16.2k exemption = 31.1 taxable income, with ladder rates that's $3,733 - $2,000 in child tax credits for $1,733.

Filing in 2017 with a 24,000 (!! out of 60k!) itemized deduction to match the new standard deduction:

60k - 24k deduction - 16.2k exemption = 19.8k taxable income, ladder rates make it $2,038 - $2,000 in tax credits for a grand total of $38 in taxes owed.

Current Senate proposal:

60k - 24k standard deduction = 36k taxable income, with proposed ladder rates that's $3,939 - $4,000 child tax credits, you owe $0.

Hard to see a scenario where: a) a 60k family is itemizing that much, and b) the child tax credit doesn't significantly increase.
What about the new "digital gold" store of wealth narrative?
That's because the writer did not understand/ignored scaling problems.
Stupid question.... What sort of compression is used on the block ? I.e If you use a better compression or re-align the transaction in the block can you not get more transactions per block ?
That's a very coloured centric viewpoint.

The fact is that the majority of people of planet earth can go out in the sunshine at the right time of day and get 80-90% the vitamin D they need and get the rest from a balanced diet.
for which there is some hard evidence of it's existence

Who is transacting monetarily in bitcoin? Why do they find it superior to other options? Is this a growing cohort?
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I don't want to offend anyone, but could a high rate of suicides on farms have anything to do with the heavy use of pesticides in these places (which operate essentially as nerve agents, so it would not be surprising if they caused higher than normal rates of depression, hoarding, etc). Not trolling, just curious.
Echoing the ideas of PLDI 2016's keynote speaker:

Consider a problem like finding potential solutions to an equation. The way that AI today would solve this problem is to give you an algorithm that tells you "yes there's a solution", or "no there isn't," maybe with a somewhat-bogus quantification of confidence. An SMT solver would instead tell you "yes, here's a satisfying assignment", "no, there's no satisfying assignment", or "I don't know." In other words, existing PL techniques can guarantee that they'll never give you the wrong answer, while all of the guarantees in AI are only probabilistic.

At the same time, though, we've been able to make--and deploy on production codebases--significant improvements in compilers. Production software exists to automatically tune BLAS or FFT routines to your particular machine. We can automatically find bugs and generate evil testcases with concolic execution and whitebox fuzz testing. We're nearing the point where a compiler could superoptimize an innermost loop and develop faster--and provably correct--code than a human writing assembly by hand (it's already possible for small loops). Compilers and related tooling are already amazing tools in their power, and we've done stuff that's in many ways as or more impressive than AI, and yet our achievements are largely ignored outside our own small community.
Steve Gibson has talked about this issue in the past: https://www.grc.com/health/vitamin-d.htm

(And please, yes we get it you are a smart ass, don't link to the page that you are going to. The horse has been beaten to death.)
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They are a Slovenian company.
What you're promoting is a totally centralized cryptocurrency vision for the vast majority of the world, where the very rich and large institutions alone get to use their private keys with any frequency.

It utterly contradicts the title of Bitcoin's white paper:

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
If the recommendations of this study become the guideline, it may validate the other studies suggesting that nearly everyone is deficient in magnesium, which is a co-factor in the Vitamin D / calcium cycle.

AFAIK (and correct me if I'm wrong), the vitamin D metabolism requires magnesium, calcium, vitamin K2, and vitamin A. K2 in particular needs special attention, as it's the hardest of the substrates to get.
I've used Direct Labs multiple times over the years (including for 25 hydroxy) and I've always been perfectly happy with them.
Does the typical B12 blood test test for this? Or do you have normal levels even without supplementing methylcobalamin?
Further, there is no one single dimension you can rank the 'best' professor on.

The two main dimensions would be Research and Teaching. A third might be Public Engagement. But there's not much correlation between these.

When I was doing my PhD in Physics I've seen professors doing brilliant research but horrible at teaching or explaining concepts in an understandable way.

Richard Feynmann was a rare exception excelling in all three dimensions above.
No that is not true at all. In today's world people of all races are living everywhere, so we should give recommendations based off a person's individual health. It is simply not true that a brown skinned person can absorb enough vitamin D from the sun in the northern latitudes.

I said the above viewpoint was caucasian centric because it assumed that everyone could get enough vitamin D from the sun. My response is not 'coloured'-centric because I did not say that no one could get enough from the sun, only that your absorption depends on your skin color. My response was not a generalization, unlike the comment I replied to.
Nothing like that would happen today though as that was more a reaction to the Great Depression and the wealthy hoarding during times where cash was constrained.

Also, that was gold so who is to say that couldn't happen to gold today if it can happen to cryptocurrencies, any hoarding would be a target in another depression that bad much like things like offshoring might be or are in some case.

Why it won't happen today you can base off the reaction during the Great Recession, we bailed out failing banks with TARP that got us into this mess by over-extending leverage instead of consumers. The FDR order helped the economy and all people at the time over the wealthy.

FDR, if he was in charge during the Great Recession, probably would have made new banks and let them fail if that happened under him, a people's president. The SEC was also created during his admin which is arguably the best thing to ever happen to investing in the US, solid markets since Securities Act of 1933 and SEC inception, cryptocurrency will eventually be more closely regulated as it grows.
Thanks for your praise. To answer your questions:

- Where exactly does "zero-knowledge" play a role here? Does this provide steganography? Or, what is meant?

As I said in https://github.com/zboxfs/zbox/issues/4, this term was originally for marketing purpose. It means no data or metadata can be leaked to underlying storage, so for an outsider there no knowledge about its content. But it turns out many people think it is misleading to zero knowledge proof in cryptography, so I have already changed it "zero-details".

- Why do they use libsodium (excellent choice, but C) instead of a native Rust crypto library?

libsodium is a great library, it is fast, sophisticated, mature and has some advanced crypto features I like, such as Argon2 hash and AES nonce extension. I know there are some Rust crypto libraries are great, but overall it is still young and need improvement.

- Does this only work with Rust applications?

Yes, for now only Rust. But I am considering add FFI interface so it can be used by other languages.
I'm interested in that myself and would love to specialise in that area.

I guess, first of all, it depends on how serious companies will take the regulation and how strict it will be enforced by the regulator. Will we see headlines about penalties next year?

I expect consulting need for DevOps/security/law. Companies that already help out with HIPAA and the like are probably in the best position.
Get a secured card and you'll be eligible for a Double Cash in no time. A secured card is for people with little to no history, its a credit card where you have to put up some collateral, a deposit account usually equal to the credit limit. Many cards just automatically convert to non-secured card after a while of good account history.

I've heard good things about Discover IT Secured https://www.discover.com/credit-cards/secured/ no fees, has rewards, and it automatically converts to a non secured version quickly.

Oh yeah, Citibank's website absolutely sucks. Very buggy.
No, that's not really how that works.

They have had a loss, which they may or may not have felt (e.g. if they had to sell, they most certainly did; If those shares were collateral, which is extremely common, they most certainly did). And then there was a gain, which they only had if they did not have to sell.

There's also the issue of opportunity cost.

Really, the only way economics make sense is if you assume that everything is valued at its real value at any time -- not just when it changes hands.
Coincidentally, another submission from earlier today points to a study that says that (lack of) Vitamin D can impact sleep quality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15862222.
I'm really confused about what this means for Chrome Apps on ChromeOS. We use Electron for Windows/Mac/Linux but as far as I know Chrome Apps are still the only game in town for ChromeOS. Is there another way to release apps for Chrome OS?
Which version of the GPLv2 do you use? The one 2.0.1? or the latest 2.0.6?
He isn't right.

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Majority? Are you sure about that?
Target Red card members get 5% off posted prices and free shipping from target.com. I’ve been very happy with them. The choice is more limited than Amazon, but it’s larger than what they have in store.
Well, the difference in that case is that it isn't license violation at all. This case is a trade secret violation. Since Goldman Sachs never released the source code, it is by definition a trade secret which Sergey Aleynikov was not allowed to release or utilize outside of his job at Goldman Sachs.

If Goldman Sachs ever officially released the software it could be a copyright or license violation but this isn't the case.
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Customer support is saying they have been bought.
The Appellate Court
The Bobs case as decided by the jury made the Bobs lose the suit because there was no witness statement. The only witness that was available for this case had died before the witness had issued the witness statement. After the Bobs had made the appeal, a new witness came up with a witness statement that could win the case for the Bobs. The challenge to this case, however, is that the lower court papers do not show this witness. According to the mandate of the appellate court, the court is required review all the papers and the witness statements that were issued and presented at the lower court (Kane & North Carolina 1986). The mandate or jurisdiction of the United States appellate court does not allow them to hear or admit new evidence at the appellate hearing. The witness statement cannot be heard because it is not included in the briefs that the lower court will be presenting to the appellate court

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VW ultimately paid less a lot less in settlement money than the law might have required if no settlement occurred. Furthermore, when negotiating legal settlements with the US government, the level cooperation is a critical factor. VW actively deceived regulators for several months after they started investigating the defeat devices. Domestic companies who cooperate fully frequently receive billion dollar fines, so the scale of the fine VW paid is not out of line.

I mean, compare VW's massive criminal conspiracy to cheat on pollution tests and poison the earth and willfully lie about it when confronted, to Apple negotiating a tax deal with Ireland, and tell me VW's similar payment is unfairly high.

Before the clean diesel lie was uncovered, environmental scientists were mystified as to why European cities had so much fine particulate pollution, which has led to thousands of deaths [1]. So maybe we should be happy that this age of international corporate law enforcement has allowed locally influential multinationals to be held to account.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...
And how would that help Nicehash? They have automated processes paying out amounts. An inside job is enough. Some disgruntled employee having access to scripts and giving someone the private keys the script accesses and KABLOOM!
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I like that they provide great privacy protections when they can by law. Most companies don’t. Very few companies put so much effort into privacy.

I don’t expect them to break laws. And I don’t expect them to pull out of entire countries, let alone the most populous one on earth.
Low levels of vitamin D can also increase your risk of getting dementia later on in life.

This risk can be reduced by supplementing with vitamin D, improving diet and getting outdoors more. Interesting article below:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/25098535/

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Isn't this like bug bounty? I know Uber is not a shining example of ethical practices, but could this be a case of genuine bug bounty?
I did some searching...

"John Jacob Cannell, MD, executive director of The Vitamin D Council, notes that the skin makes 10,000 IU of vitamin D after 30 minutes of full-body sun exposure. He suggests that 10,000 IU of vitamin D is not toxic."

https://www.webmd.com/osteoporosis/features/the-truth-about-...
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It isn't momentary. It is decentralized savings.
The guy is a f.n hero!

I don't get it, why was he reluctant to go public?
All depends on your team - my current project is in React since it leveraged the team’s strengths/preferences in an optimal fashion. That calculus is different for different teams. I will say that it feels like using React demands more from the developers using it because it’s easier to create suboptimal abstractions, and we’re fortunate that we have developer talent that is much better than you get at most companies.
"All types of Chrome apps will remain supported and maintained on Chrome OS for the foreseeable future. Additional enhancements to the Chrome apps platform will apply only to Chrome OS devices, including kiosks. Developers can continue to build Chrome apps (or Android apps) for Chrome OS."

https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...
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The thing is, it's a common misconception that neural networks are somehow intrinsically related to linear algebra. Matrix multiplications are just a convenient way to build functions with lots of tuneable degrees of freedom. Just like they do in finite element simulations, sparse matrices tend to allude to the fact that the underlying problem is more graph-based in nature. While I have no way to prove this, I've strongly suspected for a while that most of the weights in dense matrix deep learning models don't actually have an effect on the output, and that we've been unnecessarily burning cycles to compute their products. The trouble of course is figuring out which ones are useful and which ones aren't.
> These people committed the systematic, deliberate, and stealthy statistical murders of dozens of US citizens.

Every car manufacturer currently does. Some even literally killed people by cheaping out on braking systems.

Yet no US car executive is in jail.

This is purely a political play.
Blockchain P2P lending would solve this particular issue very well, since its all recorded on a public ledger.
> "I'm curious how they use the money from the $40 toll."

The article says that it is being used to fund new construction:

"This is what transportation costs!"

"The real reason there's sticker shock is that the real cost of road transportation is hidden from most voters. Gas tax money goes to states and the US Department of Transportation which flows back as what seems like free federal money to build a lot of roads. Meanwhile, every transit project has to scrimp for funds and deal with constant sniping from critics calling it a boondoggle."
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If I understand correctly (and I might be wrong), the intent was to pass the test, despite failing in the real world conditions that the test is supposed to control for.
Stick a piece of ice in a cup of water, mark the water level before and after the melt, and tell me what happens.
As an order-of-magnitude estimate, let's assume that 1 billion users use Chrome. TFA states: "approximately 1 percent of users on Windows, Mac and Linux actively use Chrome packaged apps."

That's 10 million active users who can't install apps that they use on their next machine?
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Well, better phrased: that MOSTLY require the interaction with other humans.
Not really.

In 2014, the EPA was informed of the scandal, and the university doing the research, published that 6 major car manufacturers all used defeat devices, including GM, Ford, and VW.

Prosecution started in 2015, and only against VW.
Cheating on emission endangers the whole planet, protecting few workers is the last concern here, especially since tables are readily available to convert the estimated emissions in deaths and other long term damage and the numbers aren’t pretty
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Here’s an ok description if folks (like me) are curious: https://robservatory.com/month-13-is-out-of-bounds/ .
I had PDP-11 for my personal use in the Finnish Army in 1978. It was quite useless and I learned nothing: https://www.flickr.com/photos/timonoko/27931368650/in/album-...
> and even mentions an VW exec of Italian nationality arrested in Germany who is expected to be extradited.

That’s very unlikely, though.

The current legal consensus is that the German constitution bans any extradition of any person to a country that has death penalty (no matter if the person faces it or not)
Can't you use futures for that? No risks of hacks.
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