skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not say bitcoin is more usable then gold as gold has numerous industrial purposes (electronics, optics, thermal and electronic shielding).

If we were able to infinitely replicate gold and bitcoins, gold would still have value, bitcoins would not.
Bitcoin can never achieve mainstream adoption since the transaction throughput is capped at 3 per second.

Maybe other technologies will, but Bitcoin cannot.
> The government can’t be trusted not to devalue our currency

Governments can often be trusted to maintain a stable value of currency. That's why fiat currency out-competed gold and why Bitcoin will never be able to compete with a well-managed fiat currency.

> we should introduce a system which makes our livelihoods dependent on the whims of bureaucrats.

There are robust ways to implement basic income that don't depend on "the whims of bureaucrats."
It really does seem incredibly straightforward. A patron adds $20 to a wallet and pays a low transaction fee. Can even configure their account to automatically add $20 whenever funds are low. Money stays in Patreon's bank account. Patron can't get their money back once it's in the wallet. Every month Patreon charges a percentage to disburse all money to the creator's bank account.

What am I missing?
thanks for sharing! i wonder if there are just different demographics here where some people want to customize while others don't.

i remember that at our hotel booking company, only 10-15% of people used any filters/sorts for hotels, and >80% just picked from the top list of what we gave them. to me this is shocking given a hotel is a big and rare purchase. but it makes me feel the majority of the world want the fewest taps and the fewest mental barriers.

plus we kind of feel like we want to force ourselves to do a good job out of automatic creation, and a lot of manual customization is defocusing.
IMO, it's playing fast and loose with that term

The terminology in this context is already fast and loose: It is rigorous in a practical engineering sense and is far from a mathematical level of precision. As I pointed out above, the maintainers could just define Go to include a few Assembly languages.
... and publishing companies use that money to lobby against free/cheaper alternatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Chemical_Society#Cont...
It's crazy that companies don't fully recognizes this. Any lost revenue to students would more than made up for when they join the workforce.
The original comment was already on docs.microsoft.com and served no purpose being repeated here aside from being a vehicle to look like a smug prick
> Not just safety, but also performance. Swift offers significant performance gains

This is a common misconception. It is not true. Swift is slower than Objective-C, typically significantly so.
You probably don't live in Zimbawe, Venezuela or trying to get money out of China or another country for that matter. If you want to take over 10 grand out of the country you have to declare it or risk having it siezed.
Doing some back of the envelope math, US gov revenue is 3.31 trillion and the population size is 323.1 million. Which leaves about $10244 per capita to play with.

How would a BI work, give people $7k per year and save 3k for military and basic services? Seems like BI would need big tax increases to become viable.
Yesteryear's C compilers weren't great, optimization-wise. But anything remotely modern would just brute force its way through a DOS-era program, well optimized or not.
If you send Bitcoin amount much less than you have, all rest goes for fee
Took a deep dive yesterday comparing a few tagging/classification algorithms to the Google Cloud Natural Language and AWS Comprehend APIs, and I have to say I'm impressed.

I've been searching for the right tool to try to add tagging to a large dataset of charitable data, and while I couldn't find anything off the shelf at Algorithmia, the GUI allows for easy forking and adjustment of existing algorithms. As a primarily front-end developer, never thought machine learning would be this accessible. Great work!
Thank you. Yes, that was what I was missing.

"400 tons of carbon for every ton of phosphate added" ... how long does that take? It's diffusion limited, yes?

Ahh, I followed the Wikipedia link to https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/9/5539/2009/acp-9-5539-2009.... .

> Ocean fertilisation options are only worthwhile if sustained on a millennial timescale and phosphorus addition may have greater long-term potential than iron or nitrogen fertilisation.

How long would it take a company to be in the black with phosphorous mining? First the phytoplankton, then eventually the fish, so that's a few years of waiting, yes?

Since fish move, isn't this the sort of project where one company pays to put the phosphorus in but other companies can profit off the increased fish? So it requires a change to the international fishing laws for the fertilisation company to make a profit?
The alternation was kind of lost. The sense of the sentence is that hangure refers to people who have neither legitimate employment nor belong to an actual criminal organization but who make a living from violence or illegal activities; or else, it refers to people who may have legitimate employment, but make money in that way on the side.
People are downvoting because we've seen the Venezuela example used thousands of times by now. Yes there is value in a thing that is difficult for oppressive governments to seize of devalue. The question is whether that is in any way related to the current price of BTC. It seems like the large majority of trading is happening among people who live in other nations and who already have wealth. This isn't a technology that protects the developing world against monied interests. Its a technology that amplifies inequality due to an enormous difference in cost depending on when you joined the network.
I thought that was true everywhere? Isn't that a major reason people work at Apple, Google...? I didn't ever notice anything different about academia's concern with prestige (feel free to prove me wrong.)
i don't think it is merely speed though, it is simplicity too. i hear you about character creation screens, but there are hardcore gamers and there are casual gamers. the latter are far more prevalent. and i say this as someone who loves my Divinity 2 and Baldur's Gate :)

(also see comment below about hotels, same discussion)

what do you think?
Ask Bjørn Hansen encouraged TP-Link to comply with the vendors system and get its own hostname, back in January 2017.

* https://community.ntppool.org/t/software-and-devices-without...
> "cryptocurrencies need to be banned by the loving, paternal, incorruptible government to save the world from ourselves"

If you're going to summarize the other side's position, do so in a way that they would agree with.
Intellectual property crimes in the dark web
- Video tutorials - at least for the onboarding to show around the platform and get users adopt faster (other than the hello world). Cause when we did the api marketplace rebuild from the UX perspective we messed up the onboarding (for a while) because we didn't give users a clear explanation of what they had to do to get started. There was too much text in the docs and too many buttons - once we fixed that users started consuming APIs within a minute

- Integrations with other platforms - how can I use this with something like Zapier (where all the non techies live)

- Community <-> Have a question? Join our Community slack/discord/board whatever instead of emailing you.
Tips for the technical interview from a casual interviewer
It's insane that corporations are taxed less than individuals abroad. If you live abroad and work - you pay income tax, whether that money is repatriated or not.
I like it. You need a good slogan for the media. How about something like ... err ... "No taxation without representation" ?

Nah, it'll never work.
Interesting fact: on Darwin, /dev/random and /dev/urandom behave identically; both are nonblocking: https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Dar...
One monitor - reduce distractions that weren’t ever really helping.

Paper/physical books - reduce distractions and interaction friction from medium in reading on.

Taking notebooks to meetings and when I’m out. This helps especially when I just need to jot an idea or thought down without getting myself hit with a million notifications.
That's definitely up to you. The second chapter of this book shares a lot of the fundamentals in one of the earlier chapters in Fullstack React on core concepts of the React API. However if you feel like you would benefit from learning how to build web applications with React first - that can definitely be a better starting point. Otherwise if you're considering building iOS/Android apps with RN without much prior experience with React, this book will be just fine as we don't expect our readers to be proficient with React :)
The 4 Pathological Policy Regimes That Are Responsible for the Poor Economy
Contacts of journalists who cover ICOs
Triplebyte doesn't work as a common app to all YC companies like Work at a Startup. Specific things that we do differently are:

- A background blind technical skills evaluation is our application process in lieu of submitting your resume.

- We don't introduce you to all the companies we work with, only the ones where our data predicts you have a high chance of receiving an offer.

- Companies expedite their own hiring process for Triplebyte candidates skipping technical phone screens/coding challenges.

- Each engineer gets a Talent Manager who offers them career advice, interview and negotiation help and general support throughout the job search process.

- Work with non-YC companies e.g. Apple, Asana and Coursera.

I'd say that Work at a Startup is a good way to get in front of a lot of startups at once and run a breadth first job search. Triplebyte is a good way to run a targeted job search optimizing your offer to interview ratio.
> America competitive in the world—lies in giving every citizen a regular allotment of money to cover basics like housing, food, and shelter.

Out of curiosity don't we already do this? We have public/section 8 housing, food stamps, medical/dental, etc... If we are talking about handing out cold hard cash as basic income, as the statement implies, then that is a recipe for disaster. There would be no guarantee that people would use that money for basics like housing and food.
Boston Globe's “Boston. Racism. Image. Reality” Series
Correction, Mastodon has used ActivityPub instead of OStatus since version 1.6, only using OStatus to communicate with software such as GNU Social that doesn't support ActivityPub.
Why can't you though? I feel that is an implementation detail that is leaking out. The machine can do two things at once and only use the signature if the transaction is successful.
I don't, you are right. But then why would I buy BTC? I don't need it if I live in the US. If it is so amazingly valuable to people in these countries, then why are we buying it and hoarding it instead of giving it to the people in need?
The Boston Globe's famed Spotlight investigative team produced a multi-part series of articles on racism in Boston.

Among the attention grabbing highlights, "African-Americans in Greater Boston have a median net worth of just $8", and "black unemployment [was] more than double the rate of white workers in 2014."
The plan is for the LEDE and OpenWRT projects to "remerge" but the implementation is taking some time:

https://lwn.net/Articles/722135/

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-adm/2017-November/...

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2017-December/...
Consume the rich. Reminds me of a Tupac interview: https://youtu.be/LbEnnrVyb-g?t=417
As far as I can tell, all young researchers hate the status quo, and want open access to succeed. No one researcher can change the system. Even the ones who believe in open access have their careers to worry about.

I agree with avar's comment above - if the government required that publicly-funded research can only be published the open access way, the problem goes away.

It's a prisoner's dilemma: publishing in a closed, high-prestige journal, benefits the researcher but is bad for science. If the government implemented this requirement, though, all researchers would 'instantly' be spared the temptation of 'defecting' by publishing in a closed journal.
Is this the right one? I doubt he would have written two books with the same title transposed... But hey I've seen lots of silly things in my life, so I thought I would double check.

https://www.amazon.com/Migrations-Cultures-World-Thomas-Sowe...
This reminds me of SID, the custom sound chip on the Commodore 64. It was a hybrid digital/analog chip, so the sound which it produced wasn't consistent between chips due to thermal entropy effects. El33t h4x0rz took advantage of this by making the SID output a bit of white noise into a CPU register rather than the speakers in order to get true random numbers.
The math doesn't work and has never worked. UBI proponents will never talk math because it doesn't add up, even with the most casual analysis.

$12k is the cited number that you see a lot in basic income discussions. That's just over the poverty level. That's not enough to live on and it's practically a bonus for some members of this site. It's not enough to do anything with. Even upon receiving that, many people would still work massive hours to obtain the best house on the block.

But just to do that in the US you are talking about 3 trillion dollars (300 million x $10k for easy math) that you have to find in the budget. As you stated, that IS the entire budget.

Now basic income advocates will say you can make up some if not most of that by cutting welfare programs, but given the nature of welfare programs - good luck. That UBI stipend is also not enough to pay for healthcare, so you can't cut that.

How exactly do you convince a nation which already isn't willing to pay for healthcare to pay for basic income, too?

I'd love to be wrong, but I've never seen any numbers that are workable, especially in a political climate anything like today. There could be a complete paradigm shift in the future, where machines literally take care of all needs in an automated way, but that's such a strange reality that welfare reform is honestly about the last problem we'd need to discuss.
Thanks for the kind words about the blog layout.

I keep my source code outside of WSL's file system because I don't trust it yet.

It's then mounted into WSL and Docker for Windows. Docker volume mounts work fine with that set up.

I don't use vim/emacs but running them straight in WSL should be fine. I wouldn't think to run vim/emacs directly inside of the container (because I try to adhere to the "1 container, 1 process" best practice) but in theory it would work no problem.

In this WSL set up article[0] I go over installing Sublime Text within WSL and using MobaXterm as an X server. It runs lightning fast.

[0]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/using-wsl-and-mobaxterm-to-cr...
Obviously "anyone else" is hyperbolic, but whatever shade you want to throw at Krebs, he is serious about the job of investigative journalism for information security in a way literally nobody else in the industry seems to be.
Does anyone know if this would work with a wok?
I am not (and have never been) inside the Silicon Valley bubble. I live in the UK and work outside of London. I'm as far from the SV bubble as you can get and still work in tech.
I don't see why it's ironic. Whether something is useful or not, and whether it's increases in value should be covered under financial taxes like any other commodity are separate issues.
Hah.

Wait, what happened?
Thanks! If I can recall correctly, MBz API doesn’t inform UPC numbers - something essential to the Spotify integration. But it seems nice and I’ll study it further.
Successful/appropriate company apologies seem so rare these days!

Anyone have examples of ones done right?
"We’re still in our pilot. It turns out that giving money to people is much harder than you might imagine. We’ve had to work with state, local, federal governments so that people in our study don’t lose their housing eligibility, lose their food assistance just because we’re giving them money and raising their income level. And what we don’t want is to make anyone worse off."

It feels like this statement is what would concern most skeptics of UBI, that is yet another layer of complexity on top of an already complex system.

Isn't the main benefit of UBI to make it so everything is streamlined into a single program and administrative overhead is reduced?
Your realize that pointing yo the tiny nation of Iceland as the only one who actually put people in jail just sounds like sarcasm
A more apt comparison, I agree - both luxury sports cars.
A recent blog post by Vlad Krasnov, author of a bunch of the crypto assembly code in openssl and in golang, about frequency scaling when using AVX-512 making it not worth it: https://blog.cloudflare.com/on-the-dangers-of-intels-frequen...

He doesn't like the title of the OP and provided links:

> Very misleading title. Could just as well name it "accelerate sha256 up to 134x". You need to compare apples to apples. If AVX2 was used in the same way AVX512 is used, the speedup would be 2X at most. Reminds me of two of my papers https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/371.pdf https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/067.pdf

(from https://twitter.com/thecomp1ler/status/940724783804645376)

EDIT: Thanks 'delhanty !
You know it bugs me, but why can't we find the people abusing chat services to do these things? Are there that many of them? I'd like to hope that the percentage of men who are scum is not that high, but recent events have shaken that theory.
Thanks for your reply. Curious to see how the business develops. Good luck!
How Does Patreon Move Forward?
There is also capstone2llvmir in https://github.com/avast-tl/retdec/tree/master/deps
The Case Against Reality [2016]
That money are the proceeds from Apples sales outside the US where they paid off Ireland to get essentially a 0% tax rate. No tax at all has been paid on these profits, and you are now asking for it to be transferred to the US for no tax either.

Now the proper thing would be for that money to be taxed in Europe, and the EU commission has been working on that to get Ireland in line, but right now you are essentially asking for the biggest company in the world to pay a 0% tax rate on their overseas profit.
https://medium.com/@oskansavli/bells-theorem-and-randomness-... is a good write up of the relationship between randomness and Bell's theorem.
I know that I could edit the source code and recompile the program. I know I could disassemble the binary, find out addresses of functions and then use things like uprobes to dump/modify registers/memory. I know that in theory I could write my own version of mitmproxy that supports QUIC. But I don't have time to do all that, and that's why I speak against those protocols (which changes nothing anyway)
Not in the United States, no. All those things have restrictions, and in many cases waiting lists, and most of them are not literally money.
I am guessing they can make more off of an increased number of credit card transactions with some sort of deal with Stripe or whomever. It also allows them to obscure when and how much they are getting paid when it really doesn't need to be that complicated.
BI would get marginally smaller the more money you make. Not a steep cutoff like current services for poor, but it would probably be taxed as income so someone making 20'l,000 gets the full 7k, someone making 150k makes 3.5k.
Not without tying Go to one architecture, no.

When C programmers write inline assembly, they don't pretend it's C code.
Sure that could be the goal, but when you run a small pilot you can't just ignore the existing policies and laws...

Also it's not the main benefit of UBI. It's just one benefit (or side effect) of UBI - when it's universal (not just a pilot) you can reduce the overhead of administrative costs.
Torvalds has always been very upfront that he doesn't care about software freedom. Note that choice of words very carefully: not "opposes" but "doesn't care about", one way or the other.

He has said from the beginning that the choice of GPL for Linux was a technical one that he thinks produces the best code, and that the GPLv3 offered no technical gains and thus wasn't worth switching to. Presumably if he thought switching to a different license altogether produced better code, he'd do that.

Is not having an opinion on software freedom an ideology? I don't have an opinion on most political questions in, say, Mongolia. Does that give me a particular ideology on whatever political spectrum Mongolia has?
I'm the guy who created freeCodeCamp. This article has some nice visualizations and insights, but gets one important thing wrong. Read it, but also read my response to it https://medium.com/@quincylarson/i-love-your-graphs-and-anal...
"Leaderless Resistance" has a long history within groups that seek to remain covert (for both legal or illegal reasons).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaderless_resistance
I mean, tax the hell out of wealth. The math has never been the problem; it's always been taxing the wealthy that causes the conversation to die.
The big one for me is that LEDE uses a recent kernel. DD-WRT and Tomato use the kernel that was provided by the hardware vendor. They have an easier job to get things running because most hardware vendors have some crazy (perhaps binary only) kernel modules.

When buying hardware, look at the LEDE hardware support list. Recently I have bought a TL-WDR4300 (get right version) and a Buffalo Airstation N600 router. LEDE runs good on these and the router has enough flash and RAM. Running hardware vendor firmware is not good, IMHO.
If I back a new creator, it charges me immediately (I think,
at least it seems that way from my billing history), but going forward I'm billed with the rest of my support in one transaction (definitely). I really don't see the problem.
Wouldn't a lossy JPEG (or HEIC) compression reduce the entropy?
> I'm not going to work for less either.

You can take equity instead of cash though.
Why do you think I'm trying to throw shade at Krebs? His journalism is excellent.

I just know that the FBI isn't so incompetent that they didn't already know who these guys were before Krebs wrote his article, enough people surrounding Mirai were already very familiar to them.
Many scientists already publish preprints on open sites like arxiv.org. Which, btw, also illustrates that the supposed gatekeeping role that journals were playing, which made them worth their fees, is largely gone now.
Too many experiences like that I make merge commits a required part of a code review. If a branch needs conflict resolution in order to merge, it needs that merge in that branch, and as part of the code review of that branch. (Some of the best conflict resolution is sometimes new code in light of the changes in the other branch, and so of course should be reviewed.)

If a merge commit diff is showing too much information, that's more often than not a tooling problem. Most tools provide ways to filter out the "automated stuff" and focus only on the conflict resolutions. If they don't, they are deficient (and if there are too many conflict resolutions to easily review, that may be a sign of a larger process problem). (GitHub has gotten much better at merge commit views in the last couple of years, as one anecdotal bullet point.)
Which country it is?

Payment cards are not a legal tender, so you can do whatever you want, provided you didn't sign a contract not to do.
> It's possible to implement basic income without any direct government support.

How's that?

> The right question is "how do we unlock the economy's prosperity-maximizing capacity?"

Asked and answered: free-market capitalism. Nothing has resulted in the sort of rapid prosperity we've seen recently with market capitalism spreading globally.
It's not. Talk to them. If you really need port XYZ open because your task requires that, you'll get the port open.