skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Gridcoin gets popular, then it would be worth it to create a very optimized algorithm for something that looks kinda like protein folding (or weather simulation or any vaguely interesting sciency problem; it doesn't need to actually be useful), create a project based around using volunteer computer time to compute the same problem (with a much less optimized algorithm than yours), and then spend millions on PR and/or bribes to try to get the project to be included into BOINC/Gridcoin. Once it's included on Gridcoin, buy a lot of cloud instances to run your optimized algorithm, and mine tons of Gridcoin that you immediately sell. Maybe keep a PR person on payroll to put out media releases about how useful the data generated by the project is, so that way Gridcoin doesn't ever remove your project. Maybe make some donations to some universities to get a bunch of professors to say nice things about it too. You're literally printing money, so you can afford it.

In other words, I think the necessary centralization of a project like Gridcoin is a large exploitable flaw.
There are legitimate uses. The video plugins are great, for example. I can watch PBS shows in a simple browsable interface as opposed to going on their website. You still get the commercials and everything, but it's much easier to browse content.
There's both audio and a transcript. Listen the audio if you possibly can.

I'm still thinking about the arguments here. I'm not familiar with Stoller, but I'm finding him addressing a great many points I've been thinking through, and about how monopoly should be considered.

Stoller also takes down Russ Roberts painfully and repeatedly with very well-made points.

I'm thinking through this further.
Aye, Lightning Bolt was one of my favorite shows ever too. Had just finished college. Saw them play on the floor of a dive bar with just a few other local patrons. I stood right in front of the band---could have kicked the drumkit---with my body convulsing from the intensity. The whole experience was cathartic.
"Record labels, at one point, excelled at identifying and developing talent."

There's a bit of survival bias in that observation. Of course we all think the bands that we like and know about are talented. But how many among we don't know about were talented, and of those how many were passed over by record companies?

For reasons of cost and access, as a consumer I certainly have the opportunity to listen to and discover far more bands myself than in the pre-internet days, and do so without needing to rely on curators and gatekeepers like record labels and reviewers. I can go directly to the source and sample the music from bands directly, without all of these middle men.

I'm a much better judge of what I like than any record company could be, because my own taste in music will never perfectly match up with anyone else's. So at least as far as discovering "talent", I'd trust my own taste far more than that of any record company... as long as I make the effort to actually seek out new music.
Here are some statistics, to help put things in context.

There have been 976 people shot and killed by police this year. "Three out of five of the people shot and killed by police were armed with a gun, while fewer than 1 in 10 were unarmed." [0] Note that the category of armed with something other than a gun seems very context dependent (being armed with a knife or vehicle is a wide range of life threatening to someone armed with a gun).

"As of Thursday, 128 officers have died in the line of duty this year, with 44 shot and killed." [1]

While this is not enough data to get a good false positive/false negative (is there any data on how often SWAT responds appropriately? Talks down an armed, threatening person or similar?), it gets us partially there. While all incidents such as this one warrant a response, I feel that a societal response needs to be based on how frequently this happens, in context with total number of events (ie: 10% requires a much different response than 0.1%)

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shoo...
[1]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/12/28/number-office...
Nitpicking.

> 20. The Sith are right, rage propels. But the Jedi are right, you must not let it control yourself. What nobody tells you is that the rage game is intrinsically tiring and rage will take control as soon as you get too tired, so stop well before.

37. Don't assume everyone reading your article gets the Star Wars reference.
Are you serious? Every single person has specs they care about and ones they don’t.

I don’t think the resolution is interesting at all, but I agree some will.

For some people the great MPB trackpad is enough to sell it. Some people want the Xiaomi NVidia GPU. Some want retina screen, some want resolutions with better Linux support.

If you don’t like it don’t get it. But don’t nitpick to try to find some way they aren’t exactly the same: no one thinks that they are.

Nevertheless they are both high quality, i7, 16GB aluminium notebooks which suit developers.
Here's the Google definition:

> the deliberate and unlawful killing of one person by another; murder.
I'm not sure if this is brilliant advice or really bad advice.
Richer people have not fought in wars, since forever. Why? They can pay someone else to go die for them.

In modern days, look at the socioeconomic status of people that sign up for the U.S. Military. They come from poorer and less educated than average families. That is basically what military pay does... you start at some level, and slowly raise it until you have enough people willing to risk their life to earn it. Everyone has a price.
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Is the address in your profile up to date? I'm getting bounces.
HR people have to market candidates internally, many times to hiring managers who tell their bosses “Your recruiters don’t bring me quality candidates.” To protect themselves, the recruiters go after brand names. (“Is it my fault they didn’t like someone from Cornell who worked at Google?”)

The reality is this is suboptimal for the company, but can still be rational for HR.
How did you decide to work on image datasets? What else did you consider?
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It probably happens same day only if you send the transfer early in the morning.
I prefer the server/client model Plex provides, but for me Plex has been much more buggy than Kodi.
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But in other respects things are stuck in the past in India too, like your account being tightly coupled to a particular branch of the bank, and many commercial establishments charging extra for card transactions.
There's no problem with having an older iOS that still runs as fast as the day you bought the phone. Many people I know purposely hold off the upgrades just to retain the same speed, and are satisfied with it
If you plot them, you will see the spreads intersect now and then.

However, all the same risks apply e.g. with orders not being processed enough.
You've hit the nail on the head. I'm a performance fan who pulls his car apart to make it exactly the way I want. However, I recommend the 3 (once the price comes down a bit) to friends. If you want a car that makes transportation easy, Tesla is winning that race. I'd love to see other electrics catch up.
This is like second rate /r/bitcoinmarkets fanfiction. It’s pure speculation and hand waving.

Although I do find it interesting that dumping $200 million worth of tethers into the market didn’t move the price.

There is going to be hell to pay whenever the run on tethers starts.
A new Rubicon is 37k plus at least 10k of modifications.
No. ACH is the digital equivalent of depositing a paper check. The debit networks are what you use to withdraw money from an ATM, and require entering a PIN, but most debit cards nowadays can also operate through credit card networks.
> And it didn't work in Mexico, Honduras, or Nicaragua, all of which have more in common with the United States than Australia does ...

...The things some people say to justify guns...
It sounds to me like your definition of "high performer" is really "good politician." I know plenty of high performers who follow through all the way to deployment, monitor the program in production, and take full ownership of the entire thing.
Yeah but your modifications alone gotta run at least 10k.

I have a van I'm modding out and a roof rack and reinforced bumper alone is 6k.

The point is you have income from somewhere that allows you to be carefree with your time and money.

It feels a little disingenuous when people say "I will never go back to full time 9-5 5 days a week."

Like it's a choice most people have.

It's like Donald Trump saying he's a great business man and you should take his advice...when he really inherited a ton of money.

This is all speculation on my part though and I really wish you the best no matter what your situation is.

Looks like an amazing trip! Stay safe!
Netbooks run the same OSes as more powerful PCs do. Sure, the concept was that they'd be good for lightweight web browsing, but that was kind of a stretch even when they were popular. The way that I used it never really relied on the net. I installed the software locally. Netbooks are just small laptops.
> Hark to the lesson of this story: Everything has an explanation.

Great writing. But the lesson is wrong. It has been proven that certain things which are true can never have an explanation: Godels incompleteness theorem.

https://www.wikiwand.com/simple/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompletenes...
>Are you saying that gamers spend a lot of time on the internet, and doxxing is a thing that happens on the internet, so they get doxxed more frequently?

Well, in some ways that make sense... Someone that rarely goes to the ocean is far less likely to get bit by a shark than a person that operates a saltwater fishing service.

So not only are most of their lives available in digital form and most of the human interactions they have in digital form, there is also a competitive angle to this. John beats Bob at $game, or John says Bob sucks at $game. Bob in an attempt to defend his honor can use conventional retorts, but they are less useful on the internet. Threats of physical violence are generally thwarted by long distances between actors. Bob attempting to turn the crowd against John to save face may be difficult, especially if John is actually better at the game. This leaves Bob with the thermonuclear option, Doxxing. It is likely highly effective in communities like this too. John in his attempt to deal with the fallout from the doxxing will likely have less time to commit to said gaming, and will have to deal with the stressful real life issues this causes.
That may sound nice to some people on paper, but the reality is that it creates a negative feedback loop. Consider the following review of the company from a senior software engineer. This review is not unique in its opinion:

I worked at Netflix full-time (More than 3 years)

Pros

They pay a ridiculous amount of money.

Cons

Horrible culture, everyone is afraid they will get fired any second. People hire their own friends/groups or people with less skills/experience so they can defend themselves against weaker employees and throw them under the bus. Lord help you if you don't know anyone when you get hired to form a posse' with.

Advice to Management

Stop with all your nonsense pitch deck, it's dated, old and you aren't hired the best talent away from Google, FB, Amazon....the sooner you realize you are just a content company, and maybe pay reasonable salaries with reasonable fostering environment the better. Just ask yourself: how many employees would leave if you cut their salary. Probably every one.
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> lack of understanding
That is the thing... Id the programs and designers lack understanding of something as basic as passwords what else are they misunderstanding? Sql injection?
My other favorite is "use only the special characters...."
Why the cops shoot first and ask questions later?
Greenland is loaded with ex-US military bases and the Trump admin has indicated that they want to re-populate one of them. Harder to screw around with land when a different country has a larger military presence on that island than you do.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this isn't actually "mining" in the Bitcoin sense. IIRC, the coins are issued based on a centralized determination (by the involved scientific organizations?) of whether the work you are doing is useful.

Every time I see this on HN, there are a lot of people who are excited because they think that this is somehow "a useful proof of work", or an alternative to proof of work. It doesn't actually have anything to do with proof of work.

Maybe the idea of paying people for scientific computing with newly-created crypto coins is a worthy innovation, but I suspect that much of the interest around this based around people who are confused about what proof of work is.
A talk about anonymization networks beyond Tor (JonDonym, I2P, Freenet, GNUnet, Loopix, Vuvuzela and Riffle) in case anyone is intrigued but can't get the video to load.
Developers don't pay for things
You're touching upon a natural tension, where developers take certain shortcuts that operations people then have to solve, which, I suppose, DevOps practices try to solve. The developers pay the price of less freedom for that, or if you will, the price of (production) reality. If that's not what your shop is doing, then what you say makes sense to me, and clearly DevOps practices aren't for everyone.
I think cost is a big one too. Nearly all electric cars in the US could be considered 'Luxury' by price tag. The Leaf is an exception, but it also scores high on the factors you've listed so its lukewarm reception is understandable.
The new version will just be nano bots holding hands.
If you have ever studied vector calculus, the idea is a straightforward application of Green's theorem. The discrete version is the 'shoelace formula'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%27s_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoelace_formula

This kind of thing is one of the more important ideas from 19th century math/physics, and is studied by most STEM undergraduates in their first or second year.
Great point. I think we ought to raise hell about all of these issues, and spend as many resources as we have to, to change things for the better.

How we calibrate our personal fears and existential anxieties in light of all these bad things, is a different matter.
Yes. I've seen that too. But that's a result of poor management.

I designed our current system from scratch, hired people, mentored existing junior developers, etc. and my manager was constantly questioning me about scaleability, maintainability, fault tolerance, logging, devops, security, etc.

I also asked her to always question my decisions and keep me honest. I ask everyone on the team to question my assumptions.
That's just semantic confusion. He meant prevention of senescence.
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I actually would say yes. Come out with a Pro model of the iPhone that lets you pick which OS And Battery you want as well as expandable storage. This would get me to buy one...
> controversy about armed police response in the US

Worth a read, the excellent book: The Rise of the Warrior Cop, that goes at length to explain why we have reached this point and how bad it gets.

Here's an article from the author as well:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/rise-of-the-warrior-cop-1375908...
I got shoulder surgery couple of yrs ago. It didn't help me but it didn't make it worse either.
> As someone who has been using the internet since before the existence of the World Wide Web, the younger generations who came along happily ignored many of the preexisting norms and groupthinked/made up their own.

Well, nothing happened in a vacuum. It may have appeared they ignored it, but some behavior may have been specifically in rebellion of existing norms.

It's chaos currently, but I think we'll be able to identify trends in future decades.

> What's more, this sort of thing happened again and again in smaller, less global contexts. Programming is termed "half a field" by Alan Kay because it forgets its own history. There is a tremendous tendency for human society online to re-invent its own body of knowledge whole cloth, ignoring what has come before in a way that further propagates ignorance.

I think there are explanations for this. The main one being that Computer Science is much too large a field for areas people are expected to use it later. It's like not having Engineering as a Major, much less the subcategories such as Mechanical, Civil and Aeronautical engineering, and just expecting people to have a Physics or Mathematics degree.

Of course that results in a lot of people reinventing the wheel, because so much of what you actually were exposed to relevant to what you're doing comes from employees who happened to have interests in that area or your own research of whatever material you can find, of which it's all pretty new (relative to most other fields), and a lot of it may have been kept as trade secrets (or seen limited exposure which is why it's hard to find).

Of course this is all exacerbated by ungodly amounts of money being thrown at these people to develop something quick and get it out and iterate on it before someone else can.

Computer Science isn't half a field, it's the spoiled child of the sciences, where money smooths away all the problems and mistakes are never learned from. That doesn't paint a good picture for the future (and now I'm depressed, but at least feel I have some job security :/)
Oh, interesting. I see "Kernel: ChromiumOS-4.4.86" in the list and some of their docs on it have other cros-isms (/mnt/stateful_partition), and that version 63 lines up with Chrome. cros is sort of a surprising choice of upstream for a GCE thing, but I guess it is a hardened, public Linux kernel that Google already maintains.

Makes everything confusing, though, since there are some commits specifically mentioning VMs and the codename for the Pixelbook (Eve), so something is happening there, but there's also an intersection with a whole other container-related project :/

I wouldn't mind if ARC, the Android subsystem, could live in a VM. Android apps can poke at a bunch of surface area that webpages can't.
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Eggshell Skull doctrine maybe. You can punch someone without intending to murder them but if they die, you're responsible anyway.
Speaking as someone that has never seen Star Wars, I still get his point.
Right. My point is that the MTA is controlled by New York State, not New York City. HN comments tend to conflate the two and then gloss into a general "ultra liberal bankrupt NYC" critique. Many things to criticize NYC over, but management of the subways…is a state problem.
You might find this an interesting read: http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-28/fact-check-gun-homi...
The big problem with Reddit was that the moderators abused their power to censor. (and in some cases, moderation was infiltrated with bad-actors, trying to create a controversy to manipulate a group of Reddit users to get them to leave).

The problem with Reddit alternatives like Voat; was that there were no responsible moderators who would censor the absolutely indefensible.

In other words: Welcome to the same problem the Internet has known since use-net. Hell. Since the BBS days.
Sixty years is a pretty good run. I think that's longer than the jazz era.
I think the point is that Youtube expects to make money off that video. If Youtube could not make money from people's content, it wouldn't exist.
On the one hand, DeepZip does neural net based compression.

On the other hand, in "The Case for Learned Index Structures" [1] paper, they replace B-Trees with neural nets:

> by using neural nets we are able to outperform cache optimized B-Trees by up to 70% in speed while saving an order of magnitude in memory over several real world data sets

Basically ML/DL is coming for the classic data structures, replacing some of them with learning based versions.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01208
The company was hyper focused on developing a complex solution which was not practical for the state of technology at the time, yet dropped everything to burn three weeks of development time on a pet project of one of the founders which had absolutely nothing to do with the core product of the company.
Why not LTA?
Our 1998 Camry is going strong. ~24mpg

And, last year we bought a new ICE Civic for $22k it averages 33mpg according to its computer.

I have friend who bought a Leaf in Seattle. She was always jonesing for a charge because her apartment didn't have access to power in the parking lot. Nor did her workplace. Not sure what she was thinking.
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A heat pump can be more than 100% efficient in the sense you seem to be talking about. It transfers heat from one area to another, and can bring in more heat to a space than the energy used could produce in heat through a resistive heating element.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump
And those European governments don't exist today, do they ?Food for thought.
How can Kansas justify funding their swat teams after this?
My kids love playing classical music, and are in a youth orchestra. I know it sounds square, but it does have some selling points. It's supported by money. It's not a boys club. The kids aren't 100% supervised, so there's still a social hang that they can enjoy.

For some kids, the fact that it spans multiple age groups is a plus. When I was a teenager, I enjoyed mixing with my own peers but also adults who had a lot better stories and jokes, and who had really experienced life in the trenches.

I've noticed that among the people I know who played music as kids and actually kept with it into adulthood, virtually none of them play rock music.
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Absolutely. I was looking for the ending and it never came. Feel like I wasted 10 mins of my life.
New for me, too. Looks like accelerationism is a bit of everything. Legitimate applied philosophy, I guess the communists were some early accelerationists.

I feel like this is the link someone above me should have shared:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism#Contemporary_a...

SEEMS LIKE philosophy-type sub-communities trying to figure out how to use all this new tech these past few decades to achieve 'post-capitalism'. Lots of room for different political tribes, in that direction.

Tempted to check out a book related to this stuff, but I haven't exactly had my philosophical world rocked yet by anything I've read about it yet.
> Supply drives demand.

There's no shortage of supply of desktop apps, yet web apps are gaining ground rapidly. This indicates that people prefer web apps for some reason.

> What else do you suggest?

Build it. If you truly have a solution that is better for users, then you can make a lot of money if you bring it to market. Then you not only prove you were right, but you make the world a better place and get rich in the process. :)

But somehow you're going to need to make desktop apps significantly better than they are today. You won't win by telling users that their preferences are wrong, you win by giving them something better.
If you're referring to the Jean Charles de Menezes shooting, then there were weeks of hearings where the police and officers involved had to justify their actions.
Yes, those who'll happen to be capable of that by the time.
Thank you for this list, greatly appreciated.