skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a physicist, I'm quite used to having to resort to metaphors to convey some ideas to a non-technical audience. If a non-physicist asks me to explain AdS/CFT correspondence, I'm not going to be able to explain precisely why the correspondence requires the particular geometry of an anti-de Sitter space to work in a few minutes because the mathematical background required is just too deep. So I don't think metaphor-based explanations are necessarily bad, but I do think they are overused.

It's one thing to use a metaphor to convey some essential property of a complex idea to non-experts. It's quite another to see domain experts argue about the (often non-trivial) details of strained metaphors far beyond their area of applicability. Without demeaning the usefulness of metaphors, I'm essentially trying arguing that: 1) domain experts should be far more cognizant of the limitations of the metaphors they employ and 2) domain experts should at the very least try to read the original material before perpetuating solely metaphor-based explanations.
Living in Oakland I wish I could replace my slow, expensive and high-latency Comcast broadband connection with Fiber. It is crazy that we in silicon valley practically have no competition.
>Should I take the risk because everybody says so?

Do you trust the opinions or a bunch of random people more than your own judgement? Do you think that these people have some insight into your psyche that you don't?
What precisely do you mean by "The USD is backed by the courts of the USA"? Do you literally mean "if someone takes my USD by force I can sue them"?
Well look at it from this perspective:

If a tbtf bank algo went haywire when trading with the intent to maintain some position in cryptocurrencies because of some market spike/error/or w/e over an exchange and lost alot of money, yet others who were on the other side of the trade safely moved their gains to private wallets, the exchange wouldnt be able to negate those trades and claw back funds (like they did during the gfc) and those tbtf banks will be out of their desired positions; such that even if they were bailed out by some CB QE program, they'd still have to spend those bailed out funds to re-enter their previous positions.

Meanwhile those who came out on the otherside of the trade with their desired positions will still have more resources to allocate at their disposal than had they been clawed back/reveresed.
Meltdown and Spectre bring a world of hurt to the cloud
If it's been factory reset and wiped, there's not going to be much that they can do about it.

They could detain you - but for what reason? Because you have a blank phone?

What if you don't have any social media presence? What if you simply don't remember your passwords (because they are stored on your browser at home, or you have some kind of device like a yubikey, and that's at home too)?

So they detain you, because...why? "Innocuous and normal"? So anyone who decides to forgo any electronic devices while traveling and doesn't have a social media presence (or maybe even an internet presence!) is considered "suspect"?

The more I hear and read about stuff like this, the more I just want to log off, move to the middle of nowhere, and switch back to coding on my old 8-bit microcomputer from the 1980s - this world and my country has gone insane.
Crypto allows people to do 2 very important and useful things:

1) Move money around government currency controls (for a small fee)

2) Invest and speculate on potentially valuable assets. Sure you can't live in, eat, or drive a Bitcoin, but finance/trading is all about creating and betting on abstractions, and virtual currencies are the ultimate abstraction. Crypto is especially attractive given the current easy money low volatility environment)

I am similar to the author in that I was very excited about blockchain and its implications in 2013/2014 and had recently become very disillusioned with how adoption played out in the real world.

I think it's time to move past this disillusionment and face reality instead of continuously being angry at how nonsensical a lot of this is, no matter how "useful" we really think these 2 current uses of cryptocurrency are.

The reality is that we are living in a world (in the US at least) we trust traditional institutions/knowledge to be able to provide common goods and help us raise our standard of living less and less. What do we want to do about that? Getting mad/worried about cryptocurrency speculation is not the answer.
Al lago. Two words, I guess.
So, what's the alternative? Razer blade? Can we use Windows 10 and be happy?
As others are saying, Satoshi made some political-sounding statements about financial systems around the time of release, but the paper only refers to facets of traditional financial institutions in measured, objective terms.

Then again, given that Satoshi's true identity is unknown, a lot of this is necessarily speculation by interpreting a small set of clues.
>Overvalued? Its possible but I think the entire crypto market is actually insanely undervalued. I was talking to my financial advisor the other day and he said pretty much 100% of people now are asking him about crypto and are considering putting money in. This seems like it is just the start.

Ask him how many of those same people consider using it as a currency.

I suspect they will remain interested in it so long as they hear about incredible gains and Bitcoin millionaires. I suspect that when the hype dies off (say if cryptocurrency prices were to stabilize) they would not be holders of any cryptocurrency the same way they are not holders of Yen, Euros, CAD, USD etc. for the purpose of investment.
Don't ignore economic factors.

Stagnating wages, delayed careers due to the 2001 and 2007 crashes and subsequent recessions, and increased debt all conspire to put people in a position where having kids in their 20s is simply not an option.
Kids are awesome. So much fun.
It’s worth looking at patterns of homelessness and mass violence in the US before you take the leap. Mental illness can’t really be ignored, and untreated mental illness is dangerous for the sufferer, and the commmunity.
> what could be done to alleviate their problems

Nothing. You can't put the bun back in the oven.

The best you can do is talk openly about how for some people having a kid is a terrible, irreversible, regrettable decision.
I know almonds take up a TON of water in an area without a ton of water.

I do not really want to do the math, but if you are worried about the water usage of weed, I do implore you to first look up the water usage of almonds.
I didn’t make a claim.
Something seems odd about the supposition and their opening data set with older, childless women - do women that are childless and infertile from an earlier age feel similarly? Why not flip this around to comparing how men with vasectomies at earlier ages feel decades later? Paternal instinct and maternal instinct overlap somewhat I presume but it’s not clear what the differences are I suspect.
Agreed that that is problematic. I'm asserting that it is just visibly problematic. That is, without people making these posts, it is likely many people were still reaching these viewpoints.

Having the update at the post that says to read the original is vital. Getting more of the "peer review" mentality in all posts is also key, provided that people don't treat their posts as immutable and actually correct things that are in need of correcting.
Why does every title have to be clickbait nowadays. Can't help but feel like it takes away from the legitimacy of a post if you have to use leading titles/clickbait.
I'd never pay for new Apple equipment because buying used/refurbished is so much more economical.

This summer I got a used 2015 MBP for $1,050 from Amazon (and it still has AppleCare until September 2018!) Last summer, I got a used Mac Pro 2012 for around the same price. Both are running flawlessly right now. I wouldn't have bought the MBP without the AppleCare and I'm glad I didn't because the battery stopped charging past 40% after 6 months and Apple had to replace it with a new one. I could probably still sell this machine for > $1,000.
I'm a little frustrated at the tossed-off reference to Plato and Aristotle at the beginning - "The good life may have sufficed for Plato and Aristotle, but it is no longer enough." - because I feel like that ignores the fact that both Plato and Aristotle, along with a lot of philosophers, actually had a lot to say about physical fitness. Plato was a champion wrestler, and both he and Aristotle viewed physical education as a fundamental component to living the good life. Xenophon quotes Socrates saying this:

"For in everything that men do the body is useful; and in all uses of the body it is of great importance to be in as high a state of physical efficiency as possible. Why, even in the process of thinking, in which the use of the body seems to be reduced to a minimum, it is matter of common knowledge that grave mistakes may often be traced to bad health."

The whole article feels a little too mired in presentism, and ignorant of the history of self-improvement ideas.
Post on hiring people that read?
Does anyone remember the blog post from a while back by an engineering manager at a major valley tech firm that basically said he is mostly concerned with how much candidates read? I think the point was most top tech talent read a ton of books.

Anyway I can't for the life of me find this article and would love if someone else remembers who might have posted this ;)
Its funny because across the country as the suburban community's age none of those things are true. I am thinking of my experience with Levitttown, PA where over time all those metrics you just said declined to the point where the city is much better in most regards then the suburban utopia, and the end result is a place that is worse for everyone then the city ever was.
https://barnacl.es/ for 'News for bootstrappers, not VC hackers'
Side channel timing attacks have been an active research topic for many years. I'm not a member of that community and I'm sure there are many people on HN who are far better placed to explain the context than I am, but from what I've seen the momentum around practical side channel exploits has been building up for over a year now, there's been a number of public talks on the subject at conferences and consequently several research groups were motivated to pursue similar lines of research at roughly the same time. It's also a fairly tight knit community and I'm sure they exchange information informally as well.

I know you asked for specific citations, but I'd rather let someone who actually works in this area respond. I've read a few of the earlier articles on these subjects, but I'm not qualified to detail the full context surrounding the earlier research.
No. The heart of the crisis is people believing they can easily make money by investing in a product they don't understand.
I can sell a CDO on CDS in Bitcoin, and make a lot of money while the buyers are all getting screwed. And they will be even more screwed as nobody will print cash to cover or limit their losses.
The solution he's proposing is good because GPS is an accurate model for finding an exact location on Earth. Prior to GPS humans came up with models for describing specific locations by abstracting land mass into regions and sub regions and so on until we finally arrive at a person's house number or box. Why did not Africa? This is a question I ask myself but I guess it doesn't matter in the end as we should all soon be moving to GPS in the future anyway. This would be a difficult jump for Africa to make but it might actually be easier starting with a blank slate that they have. Imagine trying to move the USA to a GPS based system? Unlike Canada our zip codes alone are not accurate enough to find a precise mailbox location. We still require street number and street name. If we made the move to GPS, our legacy systems would still need to be supported, whereas Africa never had these legacy systems in the first place.
Ask HN: Why isn't there a vaccine for strep?
ELI5 (or at least like I'm not a microbiologist): Why can't we vaccinate for strep?

For that matter, why can't we vaccinate for AIDS?
This is hardly an original thought.

In the UK right now you cannot get surgeries from the NHS if you're a smoker or overweight. They've already made the leap you wonder about.

And there's been talk of the same thing in the U.S. for Medicare.

When you have access to private healthcare, you can decide where you draw the line (based on many many factors, including what resources you have, what resources you want to pass on to your children, etc.). When you don't, you're at the mercy of the state.
Yes, but it could remove the need to bail out the banks, which is really the crux of the issue when you get down to it. As it stands today, _not_ bailing out the banks would have crippled or destroyed the world economy (at least, that's my understanding). The banks are, literally, too big to [be allowed to] fail.

Cryptocurrencies could eventually remove enough power from banks to render their failure absorbable by the global economy.

Granted, I find it very unlikely that any cryptocurrency could remove the need for banks in general - they fill too many roles in the financial system - but it could reduce the market's reliance on them in general.

There's a lot of "could"s in all of this and I'm not an economist myself, so, grain of salt and all that. I will say that this is all based on things I've read from people that are, to the best of my knowledge, actual economists, but you should do your own research if such a thing interests you.
Note the citations at the end of the video (44:30 mark ). Code from some of the original research the spacex stuff was based on, adaptive wavelet collocation methods, used to be online in a bitbucket repo here: https://git.plgrid.pl/scm/tmh/wavelet-original-code.git

Unfortunately it seems to have been taken down. A shame - it was really everything! But as a huge CFD library research code it is a bit hard to sift through anyway.

I'd recommend the papers then. Stuff like this, from these guys (Jonathan Regele and Oleg Vasileyev), led to the Spacex software: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239395184_An_adapti...

An earlier starting point might be something like this: http://ms.mcmaster.ca/kevla/pdf/articles/Kevlahan_SISC_v26.p...

This line of work dates back to the mid 90s as you will see from the sources.
Is White Bread nutritionally useless?
Google do this with YouTube already: https://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/m/
Abortion or adoption?
But different technologies support different speeds. Fiber can do symmetric much easier than cable can as an example, and cable is much more ubiquitous.
They will get paid probably plus it gives them free marketing for Signal. It's a win win situation. :)
I'd also like a bunch of checks applied to my use of that registry.

1. only packages > nK downloads
2. only packages with tests
3. only packages with publicly available code that is same that I am downloading
4. only packages with > nnn stars, forks, issues, pull requests

All are just proxies for being a valid node in a dependency graph.

And like to know if any transitive dep violates my inclusion rules.
If that data is encrypted properly, then finding it after you've already left the country can't help you.
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Life Is a Highway – Tom Cochrane (Acoustic Cover by Sean Ferree)
> I'd say that the "get a dog" mentality is more of a symptom of the root forces than support of them.

Perhaps it is both? These things tend to be cyclic. "Fuck it" tends to breed conditions where more people say "fuck it."

That said, I do believe in something like a "get a dog and help care for the community" mentality that's not a "fuck it" at all.
It is easy to make an egg and cheese sandwich too, yet they don’t exist in every culture. Culture is knowing you can, and knowing when the details are “wrong”.
Exactly. There are laws and rules about moving USD from one person to another, and if someone violates those rules, you have recourse in the courts. And if they don't follow the court order, someone with guns will come and force them to follow it.
Two words: Hell No.

I'm saying that despite having kids and being glad that I made that decision. I've seen way too many relationships destroyed because one or both of the couple were pressured into having kids that they didn't want. It's not pretty.
For what it's worth, my boss just had 2 kids at age 49 and 50.
Not too hard to understand for someone familiar with Brazilian Portuguese where this would be "Ele toda hora busca sarna pra se coçar". Literally meaning "He constantly seeks mange to scratch himself" - a popular saying for someone always seeking for trouble.
small anecdote on down/up speeds:

I recently signed with Comcast (it was that or DSL) for their 150Mbit/s down plan, and didn't even check the "up" speed, like a fool.

I just assumed around 50Mbit/s, maybe 25Mbit/s at the worst.

It's 5Mbit/s... so I'm downloading gigabytes of huge datasets in a minute, making a small change, then uploading... and uploading... and uploading... better get a coffee....
My advice, build it.

If no one ever spends a dime on the service, you've always got one happy customer (yourself). Don't think about customers, build it for yourself and solve your own use case. If it's a good product, customers will find you/it. As soon as you get into tailoring it towards the needs of paying customers you've lost your original battle of creating something you enjoy for your own needs.
Smart Speaker adoption is on pace with the rapid adoption of smartphones
They're not used for formal communication. Emoji are used more for informal / familiar conversation.

Adding a cake emoji to "Happy Birthday" in Slack is nicer than plain text. Younger-staffed start-ups will use emoji alongside "oops", frustration, and/or celebratory statements.
Does a modern laptop still depend on CMOS battery for anything other than an RTC? I thought all BIOS variables today are stored on SPI flash.
Is it centralized in the sense that a single organism can exert more control than anyone else on the real value of the USD by printing more?
Dear moderators of Hacker News, please recognize that this is an endless, tedious, horrifying "debate" that should not be on this site.
Kubernetes-native apps in 2018?
According to Raptor Engineering on Jan 5: "#POWER8 and prerelease variants of #POWER9 vulnerable to #Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) and #Spectre (CVE-2017-5753 / CVE-2017-5715). #POWER9 is being patched and will not be vulnerable at ship, and there will be no performance loss versus current #POWER9 samples. Patches coming soon."[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/RaptorCompSys/status/949368929507520517
>Although the successful exploitation of the security issue requires physical proximity, this might not be as difficult for skilled attackers to organize as you might think. Sintonen lays out one probable scenario, using techniques common to cyber criminals and red teamers alike.

>“Attackers have identified and located a target they wish to exploit. They approach the target in a public place – an airport, a café or a hotel lobby – and engage in an ‘evil maid’ scenario. Essentially, one attacker distracts the mark, while the other briefly gains access to his or her laptop. The attack doesn’t require a lot of time – the whole operation can take well under a minute to complete,” Sintonen says.
Then a probate judge will issue a bench warrant for your arrest.
Honestly, having children is one of the most selfish things you can do. I.e. thinking your genetic material is special and passing it on to another person in an overcrowded world. Any “sacrifice” in raising a child is not — they are half you and an extension of self.
Manta: Open source invoicing desktop app with beautiful and customizable templates
I will dream of this $5,900 reclining work station for the rest of my days
Given the ethical dilemma presented in this article, after much thought, I have come to the conclusion that cannibalism is acceptable.
You do realize that all those policies you don't like got going under past Administrations? Obama could have rolled it all back but he chose not to. It seems like under Trump, especially since the FISA law was abused during his campaign against him personally, that he might be the one most amenable to stronger privacy protections especially since Binney has his ear.

You have to understand something--the US isn't run by the President. The US is run by the bureaucracy and there is currently a war underway inside that bureaucracy, especially in the intelligence community. One side wants the protections enshrined in the Constitution, the others side are totalitarians. The Bush family has much to answer for as most of this recent crap got going under them. But again, Obama's administration weaponized it against the people. Look at the IRS audits of conservative non-profits (or the outright denial of non-profit status) and Fast & Furious.

"Trump Chumps" are regular people trying to work and raise families and are tired of two things: Leftist thugs, and big government. I'm sorry you think I'm just a label, but I'm not. Hillary Clinton, and the whole Clinton family, is a crime cabal and I'm glad she didn't get elected because the US would be in even worse shape right now if she had. At least Trump seems to put citizens ahead of all others, which is quite the novel concept.

Also, btw, the Clintons stole a ton of money from under-developed countries.
Under this concern, perhaps the if being used in "honeypot" mode, it could act as a reverse vault. Rather than setting up what you don't want people to see, you would instead set what you do want them to see.

Regardless, implementation details would probably be better for a different topic.
There is a huge interest from the government that people pursue the white-picked-fence ideal: three kids, big house, etc. This moves the economy, at expense of happiness.

But, still, there is a choice - nobody needs to have children if they didn't really want.
A copy/paste from /u/palmerstoned on reddit on 2018 Jan 7. What do you guys think?

/u/palmerstoned: There is no fucking limit on how high this can go (compared to traditional stocks where there actually is a limit due to economic indicators like P/E ratio's). When someone says it's overvalued or undervalued, they are automatically wrong because we have not found any method yet to actually value crypto's, unless you compare the value between crypto's. The nominal value of derivatives in the world is estimated at 1.2 quadrillion (probably a gross overstatement and a bad comparison but a man can dream). Let that sink in for a moment.

/u/palmerstoned: We are still far away from large investment bank ETF's where they actually buy Bitcoins or Ethereum. But it will come, they will never let all this money lying around. The problem right now is that exchanges aren't safe enough yet to be buying Bitcoins by the millions. UI interfaces for wallets are way tooo complex for the average Wall Street trading desk. But this will change, eventually. (definitely keep an eye out for investment opportunities in this niche market). Goldman Sachs has already announced they will put up a trading desk by the summer. Things are about to get a lot more crazy!
In my anecdotal evidence many of the childless couples I know seem to be composed of the happiest, healthiest, and high achieving individuals I know. I live in a large American city. It is probably different out in the boonies but I'm quite envious when I see couples in their 30's without little ones.
What’s your source for the Apple claim, as your link doesn’t support it.
To take the biggest example, AIG's owners did bear the consequences. Their equity was wiped out in the bailout. Do you believe individuals who did business with AIG are the ones who should have born the consequences for bad decisions made by the owners of AIG?