skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is one obvious use case where it's already in use: illegal trade. The article mentions it as an aside but it's definitely not small business; if half the world's drug, weapon and human trafficking trade were to happen in bitcoin, it would justify the current exchange rate and then some. Of course, that would force governments to outlaw the exchange services, which would make bitcoin way less attractive to criminals and law-abiders alike. To me that seems like the most plausible outcome of all this.
Using that logic you should interview all lottery winners and try to get their expert advice on winning the lotto. Not saying the OP did nothing, but sometimes time and chance cometh to all men.
This is the norm in more industries than you would expect. A primary example is food service. You have a main job function, but you do whatever is required of you. Dishwasher busted in the middle of the shift? Grab a bus boy and have him help out washing by hand. Late night surge because some concert let out that you didn't know about or plan for and they all decided your food sounded good? Well sometimes the manager rolls up their sleeves and hops behind the line to help cook. Not enough hostesses? Waiters are stepping in to help greet and seat customers.
If you plan to live up to 80 and take account of all health issues you might have by then I would say there is no upper limit on amount of money you need.

So it is about the choice, life circumstances and some people like to advance, you don't have to.
I went to Ars Electronica in Linz years back (highly recommended) one of the big discussions that year was digital art and how it could be sold (and things like do you pay for a software upgrade)

The "problem" with digital art is that if you get a hold of the source code you could just reproduce it and "double spend" and thus it has diminishing value.

If you use the blockchain to verify you have the original you make it possible for the value to follow the owner.

Same thing with ebooks. You could be buying the version of a book that Eminem owned and it could increase in value.

Many people misunderstand what value can be. Sometimes it's the actual "thing" (ex. the chair) but often, very often, it's the idea of the thing.

The whole art scene is based on this principle.
I work remotely because it gives me the highest odds of finding work to do. Some clients are local, but most of my clients are 1000+ miles away.

I work remote because anyone that meets me quickly figures out I'm not an "ideal" employee, meaning my mindset is very much entrepreneurial. Remote work is a great way to use my skills, expose me to many techs and approaches, and focus on getting shit done.

Remote work doesn't harm my career growth because I don't really see programming as a career. I give value for the money I'm paid and I move on to the next thing.

When I'm done working for the day, I go eat, come back home, and do other work to make money. When I'm not programming, I do other things.
You know, a faster horse might've just been a better choice for our planet and future.
This was also my experience. When the time has come to find a new jobs, I found the new position through people I met working on an open source project.
I didn't even know you were at Facebook, it wasn't mentioned in the gist so I don't think it's fair to say you've misrepresented Facebook.
Frontiers for Young Minds
> Digital Pokemon cards, 2nd hand ebooks market, 2nd hand digital assets market

None of these are realistic examples. Do you think Nintendo won't want a piece of that digital trading market? Or Amazon, for ebooks?

Digital assets aren't going to be decentralized. Never. Corporations are going to maintain their walled garden platform, and make sure all transactions are conducted within that platform so they scrape off a few dollars here and there. You don't need all the complexity of a blockchain when a centralized architecture works just fine.
I'll go as far to agree that it is California extortion, whatever that is.

How is it not extortion that a government prosecutor can exercise discretion and power over people based on their political leanings?

The up side in this case is that the shoplifters (who are now somehow the victims in your narrative) are allowed an alternative course of action that does not involve a criminal record or jail time.

Any system, to be viable, needs a viable economic model. In this case, funding the system as they do also has a deterrent and educational use. There's nothing inherently morally superior about a non-profit. In fact, many non-profits are downright despicable.

That government prosecutor is also part of an economic system. That system uses coercion. If you don't pay your taxes - guess what? That same prosecutor may be involved in incarcerating you.
I would love to re read this post and Comments in 2-5 years and see which large corporations have been replaced or have adopted blockchain/tangle technology
Then you can afford iPhone upgrade annually.
So basically like cash?
Looking at truck size, this doesn't even look like a very hard problem. You can essentially solve it per neighbourhood / post code and then inside each of those sections separately for a good approximation. The interesting question is: why doesn't UPS think that's worth doing? Or are there some fun constraints we're not aware of?

Or specifically: why don't drivers get a preferred route along with their packages?
IBM has a blockchain platform [1] and BlueMix APIs [2] available.

[1] https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/
[2] https://console.bluemix.net/catalog/services/blockchain
It reminds me of shopping malls in Second Life.
>How Apple could have prevented the iPhone-slowdown controversy

Easy, user replaceable battery. (For clarity by "user replaceable" I don't mean by the user paying $79 for Apple to do it; which is a rip off)

IMO if you design a phone (costing the better part of a grand) with a battery unsuitable for a years worth of use it's a design flaw, if the battery is not easily replaceable by the user then the phone is not fit for purpose.
Not sure if it fits your bill, but I found "I Sing The Body Electronic" by Fred Moody a very interesting read.

Moody was able to get some pretty intimate insights into the development of a software product at Microsoft at the beginning of the 1990s (1992-1993, I think).

I was surprised to learn afterwards that Moody had (has?) a reputation for being very pro-Microsoft; this book does not embellish the problems the people on the project team face, nor their conflicts.
> Having to go through the legal system as a criminal defendant can easily exceed $300-500

Do you have any evidence or data? Or is this just hand waving? The article doesn't even try to show that it is beneficial to participants.

I've been through the legal system exactly once. I pled guilty and got time served. It cost me exactly $0 and about 24hrs of my life.

The article itself says that first-time offenders rarely get prosecuted.

> If there wasn't an upside, people wouldn't pay. 90% of suspects paying shows that the suspects think there is an upside.

No, this just shows that the extortion is effective, not that complying with the extortion is in your best interests.
Something close enough is perhaps proofofexistence.com

Pretty simple idea, you hash a any document and you get a blockchained stamp of that hash.

Now you can prove to anyone that the document (eg contract) existed at that time.
Do not apologize. You did nothing wrong. You explored your curiosities and are learning like everyone else.
Of course the typical Walmart shoplifter will be educated about the law and have ready access to legal advice. /s

Edit: To Rowdown... Even better HN could charge a fee for throwaways and donate the proceeds to legal aid funds. You’d be doing a lot of good.
Sleep More, Code More
Ask a behavioural economist: Is it better to give cash or gift cards?
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That's impressive. What happens when they go into a long speech about their problems? Do you work in the psychology field?
Uh the point seemed that they knew the theory (of differentiation, tangents, trig etc) but were absolutely helpless in practically applying it. Couldn't relate the theory they had learnt to what they knew of the world, at all. Didn't think 'But the lowest point of ANY curve is horizontal!'
Depending on how extreme you want to take the concept of "free market," offer incentives to groups of people to celebrate meaningful cultural holidays on different days. Pay the Greek Orthodox to switch back to the Julian calendar for Christmas (so they'd celebrate on January 7 on the Gregorian calendar), market Kwanzaa like crazy, rebrand the feast of St. Nicholas (December 6) as Santa Claus Day and make a cultural norm of gift-giving then instead of on Christmas, etc.

Honestly, even though I care a lot about attending church services for Christmas, I have never really cared about visiting family and friends on Christmas specifically - it's just logistically complicated and expensive and falls at a stressful time of the year. If you gave me a way to go fly to visit my family on some cheaper day and have it count for the same cultural expectation, I would very enthusiastically take it.
Yes, the issue you run into is that then your server has to make sure your json is the right shape.

CouchDB actually solves that problem really well IMO. You upload a validation function in javascript to the database that will validate every document that comes in. I wonder if the same thing can't be done with trigger functions in postgres.
Sure it is. I don't disagree for a second. But there is no shortage of sales people that will promise things they can't deliver very effectively to decision makers.

CIOs, CTOs, and CEOs are not stupid. More often than not when they throw big money at organizational priorities, they know those projects will come up short in one way or another. But if they spend all their time focusing on getting those things perfect, they will be standing in the way of progress in other areas. And when they are focused on getting one of those priorities right, they aren't looking at spending five figures a week on a single person for a consulting engagement focused primarily on software development. Maybe occasionally, but not usually.
Whats the funnest thing you guys made with NumPy?
You’ll go a lot further in convincing me of your argument by not assigning me math homework. That, and experience says that almost any time someone says something like “do the research/math yourself” and I do, turns out they’re full of shit, thereby explaining why they didn’t just answer a straight question.

So no, I won’t be doing any simple calculations.
Money quote:

> It has been clear to us that the current bitcoin network is completely incapable of functioning as a payment processing network, not just for "cups of coffees" but even for multi-million dollar transactions, and we are using SegWit.
I grew up with that picture and I still get chills that persist for a full minute when I see it pop up again.
> I wonder if there's a way to get the best of both worlds?

A non-profit first-offender education program funded by the police department and/or stores that doesn't require payment by participants would not be extortion and would have the same positive effects without the same incentives for abuse.
FWIW Follow You Home is a really good book!
I'm not sure what you're implying, this would actually be extremely worth while for UPS
CA lawmakers tried for years to fix the housing crisis.  why theyve failed
Both "Overall Winner" and "Best innovation" were written in Godot with GDScript
The feeling of complacency is real. When people don't just chat and complain, it's more difficult to pick up whether the company is doing well.

It's also more difficult to say if you're short-changed - IRC ties are usually not strong enough to exchange that info.

All in all, it's easier to get too comfortable and forget that you haven't been progressing enough.
As someone who likes rust, python is just easier to code for exploration and the kinds of advantages you get for using rust aren’t particularly relevant.
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And PLEASE just label the damn axes. Why do people go to all the effort to draw nice plots, write a giant blog post, but leave of the 1 minute it would take to make the plots interpretable without reading giant slabs of text to reverse engineer out what is actually in the plot.

/rant
Of course. We should keep in mind that we are evolutionary creatures and that drastically changing our diet or environment probably has negative effects (sitting down too long, eating refined sugars, etc).

Do keep in mind that evolution hasn't stopped recently, either. There are plenty of civilization-era evolutionary adaptations in the human genome as well. [1]

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/000-Year-Explosion-Civilization-Accel...
Python. Indention matters. Unless there is a linter that can tell intent (and maybe there is on that offers an option?) indention can be the difference between once and forever.
I think some comments in the example nymph code explaining what each line does and the differences from C could go a really long way here.

Does malloc do something different? Explain in a comment.

What are the two different calls to `print()` supposed to demonstrate? How does nymph know which one to call?

In the `obj` block, there are initializers/default values, it seems. When are those set? How do they work?
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Wow the Sex Pistols a corporate created punk band aka the Nsync of punk. I have no idea why anyone even cares about this band besides the horror and evilness which is Sid Vicious (Edit I said Johnny Rotten but Im not far off).

"The Sex Pistols were the brainchild of young entrepreneur Malcolm McLaren."

Nothing drives my Punk Rock childhood crazy then people putting this corporate fake band some honor. Rant over.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-sex-pistols/b...
"Digital pokemon cards" is already a thing it of course wasn't meant literally https://www.cryptokitties.co/ some of those got sold for $100K

There are plenty of opensourced games out there and plenty of opensource projects and there will only be more in the future.

Every new generation growing up is a new generation who will be affected by other things than the previous generation.

Everyone also laughed when I in the 90'ies said you would one day be able to score girls from being good at playing computer games.

Either you understand this perspective or you don't. It's cool with me that you don't understand it, but it's already happening while you say it never will.
A blockchain is a Merkle tree that increases you valuation /s
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It's interesting too that it will be much easier for them to agree on architectural changes when necessary to compensate for scaling or other issues.

This is a major issue for something like Bitcoin, but a small speed bump for banks utilizing agreed upon blockchain tech.. It's at least interesting to consider the benefits of centralized(exclusive?) guidance coupled with distributed execution.
Not certification of digital art, digital certification of art. Some people are excited about this. It is just a DRM thing, transfer of rights, records of provenance etc.

Makes sense if you think of art as an asset, which is kind of a philistine thing to do...
TensorFlow doesn’t have a Rust interface.
It sounds like they do, but that it breaks down when the trucks get overfull. I wonder if there's a breaking point where the projection of just how full the trucks will be, which packages will get to be thrown as overfill in which trucks, and how many will fit in each, is outside the operating bounds of their system and they know it's only a handful of days a year so they just brute force it instead of investing a lot (more trucks or more drivers would be the non-algorithmic sort of investment) for a recurring-but-tiny edge case.

Maybe it's like a tech company with a known datacenter footprint and standard load pattern, so normal operations can be done in-house cheaper then in the cloud, but twice a year they have to do 200% traffic and just bite the bullet and scale that out in AWS at a much higher price, but only for those two days, compared to capacity that would sit idle the entire rest of the year.
This is a great post but sad that they addressed everything thoroughly except the most important question for me - query performance. I don't do all this mass updating of document oriented entities. They are stored and they stay stored. But we query the hell out of them so I would love to know how well that actually performs with various indexes on various data types within the document.
The entire surrounding ecosystem. Which includes not just the core numpy/scipy libraries but the stats, modeling, ML, plotting, etc. Plus the wealth of other Python stuff it can integrate with (I work at an almost entirely Python shop -- data science people work in the same language as pipeline and application people, which is really an overlooked thing). Plus the ease of installation and management from Anaconda. Plus the notebook format for easy sharing. Plus... well, lots and lots and lots of things. "We have a fast numerical library" is step one of about ten thousand to achieving parity with what the Python/numpy/scipy ecosystem does.
Great stuff! I commend your attitude and wish more people adopted it. Do you have any side projects cooking away as well? I just ask, because there's a chance you may end up with a big win late in your career which evens out the finances against a regular day job.
Probably fine - you just want to remain visible. Honestly, I think every company should encourage at least a few days a week of WFH for stress, employee health, traffic reasons - especially in IT where there is often no reason not to. You still get your face time for collab. Society would be better off. I really wish companies were incentivized to do this - especially in the bay area.
Yep, filters can be effective. There are other sites (The League and the now-defunct Sparkology) that filter based on things like college pedigree.
> use two different instances of a secure RNG. One for "public" material that can be seen on the wire, which would include server and client random data. Another for "secret" material such as the private parts of DH parameters.

Wow that's an incredibly simple solution. I feel like that general approach (where possible split client facing vs internal states) could be applied to many other places as well.

Are there any problems with the additional initial entropy requirements to maintain separate RNGs (two per connection)? Or is it globally static, internal vs external?
Some people use socialism interchangeably with communism, e.g. libertarian socialists are the same as anarchist communists. Others, like Marx use socialism to mean a society where both capitalist and communist modes of production coexist in a transitory condition.

In any case, the element I described is necessary for it to be called socialism, and it doesn't exist in Japan at any significant scale. The welfare state is not socialism and this is not a nitpick.
>will affect every coastal city in the world, not just Jakarta.

1) No duh. Who was that statement for? Nobody is debating that GW is terrible. But we're not talking about global warming.

2) You're doing exactly what he's talking about. Shoehorning in global warming where it's not needed.

You can discuss murder rates of a single city without shoehorning in murder rates of the "highest murder rate city in the world" every time.

You can discuss diseases without having to shoehorn in that "cancer is the worst disease" into every conversation.

The only connection to global warming in this case... is water. "Well, Atlantic City is experiencing low tourism rates." "THAT WON'T MATTER WHEN GLOBAL WARMING WASHES IT INTO THE OCEAN!" (etc)
> but the design has plenty of drawbacks

As somebody who has never been near an AS/400, what are those drawbacks? Besides the environment being weird in the sense that it is unlike anything else?

The only bad thing I have ever someone say about the AS/400 was a supervisor I worked for during my training who had at one point written RPG programs, and she said ... some pretty unfriendly things about RPG. Which is not say that's the only problem; like I said, I have no knowledge of the system beyond what Wikipedia tells me about it.
Isn't it this problem? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_packing_problem

One which seems intuitively like you could easily solve it but cannot?
You’re saying the same thing.
I'm guessing this is a reference from something. What's it from?
The official poverty line is $250k household income in Palo Alto.
I was merely giving a succinct representation of my opinion re: this reading list. Apologies if you don't agree with me. If you did agree with me, I would venture to thing that you would not be complaining about the form of my comment. However, you have criticisms over the form of my comment so please allow me to address these criticisms...

1. name-calling - Please explain. These are either self-described terms by adherents of these philosophies or prominent criticisms. Scientism is a criticism often applied by Philosophers to the likes of Neil deGrasse Tyson. Within the institutions pertaining to the industries related Science & Technology, there is a notion of progressive encroachment of said institutions over traditional domains.

Technocracy is a self-definition by it's adherents. Same with Feminism.

Post-Nihilism is a term that I added to describe the language of the reviews re: the books whose main thesis relates to feminism. My logic is that it paints a picture of feminism beyond the Nihilism of diversity statistics not being at a place where it "ought to be" despite large amounts of investments to "improve the situation".

"While the diversity statistics often show a grim image of women’s experience in technology and entrepreneurship, Geek Girl Rising paints a brighter picture of the women who are rallying to start companies, investing in each other, and pulling up those coming behind them."

-- Review of "Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech"

2. Unsubstantiveness - One can substantiate MIT Press as advancing the Philosophical position of Technocracy from these books that advocate for the same positions as the Technocratic philosophy. The Review of "The Water Will Come" states:

"It’s a call to action for coastal cities and states to undertake smart, dedicated, and sustained efforts to reinforce their shores. But it’s also an honest appraisal making clear that for many places, whether it’s ever an active policy decision or not, the only realistic option will be retreat."

All of these political solutions based on the predictive models of a few Scientists, or Experts in Technocratic terminology. There has been criticism over these models & of the politics of the creators of these models.

3. The reading list itself has an ideological position. The criticism against ideological positions is itself based on ideology & creates an ideological conflict, which makes it a contradiction.

Perhaps you mean "please don't address any issues about my ideologies"?

> If you want to post here, please do better.

One would think that is a bit snarky & not befit of a HN moderator, but thank you for the practice of addressing your criticisms anyways :-)
"Over-building" here looks like US sprawl in new development areas of the past few decades: huge parking minimums, huge number of road lanes, and all that other stuff that makes this sort of thing not a problem, but is just inefficient waste 99% of the time.