skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paper is online now :-).

I also put a popular science summary of the paper online here:
https://medium.com/@boris.schmid/human-ectoparasites-and-the...
Every year for the last four years, bitcoin went down -20%~ or so in the 3rd week of Jan. I don't know why everyone freaks out this week

Honestly, the history and trends are there, its just a thing that happens every year, I dunno man
That was because, IIRC, Congress mandated a launch code be added to the system, so the military added one and set it to all 0's as a loophole, because their main concern was to make sure the system would work as intended. Not having a launch code when you need it would be a bad thing. None of this precluded the existing, strict, chain of command, which included the famous "biscuit" that the president needs to launch missiles. And I believe the whole thing also needs to be authenticated by the Sec. of Defense.
My plan is just to keep repeating it over and over again so that more people will see the words arranged that way in a sentence: "you don't need stateless authentication; it's usually not a good thing".
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At this point, Bitcoin is not much more than a phantom object. Too overpriced to use for any reasonable purchase, people are literally trading nothing but zeros and ones, no more or less valuable than the bits making up this comment.

All that can change, but only if the price drops back down to its 2016 to early 2017 values, and there are too many people invested at this price to let Bitcoin survive as an actual currency if that happens.

We crossed the event horizon a couple months ago.
Absent the markup from prohibition, a day's supply of drugs would be cheaper than a day's supply of food. Though if prohibition stays you're right.

If people freed from the necessity of work can't figure out anything better to do with their lives than consume entertainment and get high all day, I find that rather sad. It's still not as sad as forcing them to LARP at obsolete agriculture on arable land that used to be productively mechanized. At least if people who can't be matched with genuinely productive jobs stay on their couches all day they're not actively sabotaging the productivity of the remaining market economy.

I'm ok with governments employing people to do productive tasks that still require human labor -- many others have mentioned elder care or fixing aging infrastructure, for example -- but I think that the specific agricultural proposal floated in the original article is terrible. Unlike the author, I'm also not anxious on behalf of other people who might end up "deprived" of a time clock and obeying a boss 5 days a week. I'm not going to tell them that I know better if they think that games are more enjoyable than farming like it's 1899.
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The opposite of FUD is hype. Or maybe, a specific form of hype?
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I think you see the point the parent comment was making. Even if BP makes a colossal mistake and their stock dives, at the very least they can sell of their real physical assets. Crypto can actually dive to zero, there is no safety net since there are no physical goods.
Does anyone else feel that most UI redesigns are just change for the sake of change that don't actually make anything better?
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"dropping most of the backend application layer (currently filled by django/rails/etc) in favor of a Vue/React <=JSON=> private blockchain arch."

I second that.
> The point is, there will always be buyers

Someone could have said the same for the Dutch East India Trading Company. "What, will the colonies sink into the ocean?"

Note: I'm not saying it will become worthless. But you're grossly underestimating this risk.
I wonder how this applies to pianists who excel at both classical and jazz--Keith Jarrett, for example.
A contributing factor to this phenomenon is the overwhelming presence of news cameras in that war. In previous US wars, the news was censored under war time powers. In Vietnam, citizens watched every night in gory, uncensored detail, what was actually happening. Of course time takes it's toll as the war drug on with no meaningful resolution.
How is not being included different from exclusion ?
Sounds like you have a community that you want to exist, and that you have a vision for.

Is there anything preventing you from going out and making it?
jesus, grow up.
Where I live the signals are compulsory for drivers and advisory for pedestrians. It is not unreasonable for the regulation to apply only to the people who choose to create the risk.
Reputation management companies struggle to wipe "bad content" off of 3rd party sites.

Your goal is laudable, just not sure it's practical. Did you consider focusing on publishing and promoting net new content instead? Get traction that way, and that content will move up the Google serps, effectively moving the old/bad content down.
I have a suspicion that the Jetbrains guys were reading the same language design sources that I was. There are several other features like the ? operator that I saw in a small language first (called Nice). Daniel Bonnoit did a good job of articulating some of his design choices, especially optional types.
Former Thunderbird user here.

Much more important than shiny new UI, what I'd like to see is seamless out-of-the-box syncing with online calendars and contacts. (At one point, I tried all the available add-ons for syncing with Google's apps; none of those add-ons worked well for me.)
It will never be secure unless you do it at the system / language level.
and there's no way they'll all decline or default at once.

This is where Credit Default Swaps came in. What is the cryptocurrency equivalent of a Credit Default Swap?
Experienced users can adapt to almost any interface that they use regularly. Presumably missile alerts, even test alerts, are done rather infrequently (1 x month?). So in that case a foolproof interface is even more important.
You are describing blackmail.

Wong - My employee isn't paying me correctly. I better start collecting private information about him and his colleagues, without his knowledge, to use in a future lawsuit.

Also keep in mind the data she is collecting has nothing to do with her complaints about wage etc.
Or they come to HN to recruit individual contributors and not managers. You're wrong, though: every month I've looked there have been one or two posts including open EM positions.
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More to your original point, why add the complexity before it is required.

Let the complexity of the solutions incrementally grow with the complexity of the the problem being solved.
It's not fundamental at all. You can't even represent null bytes in a null-terminated string.

A length prefix is pretty clearly superior.
I get that it's the modern style, but would it be so terrible to add some colour? The left hand pane has colours, so why can't the buttons?

The menu buttons is really what make Thunderbird weird to me. The "write" button has a drop-down that say Message, Event, and Task... So write an event? They also never seems to line up, nor do they actually look like button. Sadly non of this is addressed in the presented design.
On the same token, a specifically male only group tends to get crucified. It's more of a confusion of double standards, perceived or otherwise. Sure, most groups end up de-facto male only, but you never see groups actively advertised as male only.
Eliminating syntactic (not semantic) ambiguity is indeed a noble goal, but I was kind of horrified when I first realized how it's done in Lojban. Practically every type of phrase has both its start and its end marked by a unique word or class of words, with the terminator usually optional in any context where dropping it would not result in any ambiguity. Knowing exactly when dropping a terminator would result in ambiguity is pretty difficult, and in practice is rare enough that seeing a terminator is something of a surprise and usually requires a trip to look it up in the dictionary.

It seems to me that a grammar based on strictly right (or left) branching (that's prefix or postfix notation, or Polish or reverse Polish notation, for the programmers and mathematicians out there) would eliminate the need for all these optional terminators (which are effectively optional parentheses to clarify the order of operations).
This reminds me so much of the .COM bubble. Same kind of discussions. I think there will be a place for cryptocurrency but before that has been established there will be a lot of people taking a lot of pain. People who have bought them a few years ago will only take paper losses but now there is real money flowing into this.
If Bitcoin goes to 0, I will buy all of it and display the Trezor that stores it in a museum
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So make it Universal Basic Jobs and Education.

Education needs massive reform as well anyway.
Time for the monthly cryptocurrency panic thread. While I fully agree that most cryptocurrencies are grossly overvalued, these articles always pretend a 20% selloff is the beginning of the end, when, in crypto land, 20% selloffs are a pretty standard bad day for the market.
>Why would fighting racism with racism or sexism with sexism be a productive method of correcting imbalances? Wouldn't that just fuel and maintain the disdain between groups?

Is this the "all lives matter!" response to this project? It's not a crime to point out that some groups are poorly represented in an industry. Are you saying the solution to "hey, women feel isolated in the tech industry" is to say "Well, let's figure out how to include men too"? If women felt like their discussions were being treated fairly in public forums, they'd have stayed in them.
This a thousand times. Thunderbird would have been great if it calendared well with exchange. As it stands, the available support is garbage and barely works when it works at all.
Global ordering is key, as briefly mentioned. To me, the proven distributed hash table systems like Bigtable, Spanner, HBase, RocksDB have it, and those that don't have it, aren't as strongly consistent (Riak, Cassandra, Mongo, etc..)

Having global ordering lets you reason about where your data needs to go, where it needs to be, and overlay different access patterns to see what will work. Heavy write load? Have more shards. Heavy read load? replicate each shard more. Random read/write? Nothing will get you as close to uniform load distribution as global ordering.
OK great freaking point. Man what a terrible idea, web application for a public alert system.
I turned down an offer to work in a living time capsule.

The company was decades old and hadn't changed tooling or technology for most of that time. The senior developers were actively fighting the adoption of modern FOSS tooling. Several were still using CRT monitors.

No amount of money would have made that position look attractive.
The answer to the fundamental ills of both Ethereum and Bitcoin is addressed in Cardano, which has been hard at work for 2+ years to create Ada and the first formally verified PoS type algorithm, Ouroboros.

I wish more people would wrap their heads around the rigid approach to developing Ada that Cardano's taken so the light will come on... sort of like seasoned imperative language programmers who get bitten by the FP bug, the same kind of cathartic effect is achieved once you begin to understand the fundamentals of what Cardano is doing.

Visit CardanoHub.org for more info and get ready to be processing new info for at least a week to begin to understand it.
I expect moderation will evolve as the community evolves, but I don't plan to limit what people choose to talk about so long as participants treat each other with respect.
Do you have problems of the same complexity as google?
Decentralized money was/is needed to build robust infrastructure, as Gnutella supernodes couldn't be well incensivised before. I believe most of the decentralized services will become practical in a few years after Bitcoin adoption gets higher. They are not that practical yet.
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> these articles always pretend a 20% selloff is the beginning of the end

There are individuals in this thread claiming "there will always be buyers" and that the probability of Bitcoin becoming worthless is zero.

The point of the article isn't that Bitcoin is doomed. It's that there is a substantial non-zero probability it ends up worthless. That such an elementary claim about a volatile asset is controversial almost says more than the article.
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I presume the machine at the time was 16-bit, and thus you could never have a string longer than 65536 bytes in memory.

On a modern machine you'd need at least 4 bytes. `std::string` uses `size_t` (64-bits on 64-bit machines).
Too overpriced to use for any reasonable purchase

Could one have a cryptocurrency which is always subdividable? Are there any which already have this feature?
Many of the PHP issues I see cited aren't unique to PHP, but more unique to it's heavily neophyte centric user base.

For example...there's nothing about current day PHP that makes it more susceptible to SQL injection than any other dynamically typed language with easy string interpolation. And the official PHP docs do guide you down the right path for SQL.
To buy Bitcoin, a miner somewhere has to produce a block with your transaction in it. If the value of Bitcoin falls that much, it will no longer be profitable to mine. With no miners, nobody could buy or sell anything.
> Ghana benefits from having a hard to modify public database

I am very much on board with that idea. I work in finance and write-only is practically a law. I just don't see why you need ethereum to implement it; in fact it seems a terrible, overly complicated way to do it.

It is good though that the blockchain hysteria is inspiring governments to think about these concepts though.

On your disclosure - despite my criticism they are good articles and do get one thinking.
Maybe the credit card bills that people ran up in December have come in, and they're selling their holdings to settle them.
A freedom you can only exercise with a license.
YES after you get past the mind-blowing photo, the twitter post is also extremely messed up.
Well that's why it's common knowledge in the stock market to diversify your portfolio, and they call it a portfolio, not a single stock, and why so many people invest in mutuals.

There's not an equivalent to mutuals in the cryptoverse yet, but there will be.

I've made quite a few small bets on various alts. I'm taking the black swan approach to them. Quite a few could drop to zero in a couple years but I'm betting at least one of them will make enough of a profit to eclipse my losses in the others. If one of them had been Raiblocks, that already would have been the case ($0.10 cents to $34 in 3 months...crazy). It missed my radar because the aggregate site I check didn't include it.
A redesign is a great symbolic move to fight "Thunderbird’s key problem is being perceived as either dead or stagnant".

Still, Thunderbird needs a bigger vision. What does Thunderbird want to be? The cross-platform Outlook? Then merge Lightning into core. The native Gmail? Then get a conversations view. The backwards-compatible, easy, and secure mailer? Then merge Enigmail into core or make SMIME easy to use or get some Rust code in. The ultra-portable mailer? Then port it to Android and iOS. The super-flexible mailer? Then somehow help plugin devs.
> Did you consider focusing on publishing and promoting net new content instead?

We've been doing that for years. We've hit diminishing returns because:

1. There is a lot of incumbent material in the same genre, most of which is 10+ years old, but people still link to it in droves.

2. We don't support the at-best-sketchy SEO industry that's sometimes arm-in-arm with adware.

If you read the 2018 guide this post mentions a few times, you'll notice that it, in turn, links to relevant blog posts (and open source libraries) spanning back to early 2015.
I take mine from HN. That's why I didn't mine or bought BTC while it was worthless.
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> You have plenty of time to fix your typing.

By the time you are aware of an incoming icbm I guess every second matter to save as many lives as possible.

> Not being able to operate a system correctly under stress is a problem often solved with a combination of tactics, including UI...

I think we actually agree. I'm not saying training isn't really important. I'm just saying that reading more than one paragraph then typing (including case sensitive text) might be hard when you fear an actual icbm.
White nationalists tend to have a similar view of how they have been treated. I disagree personally but I don't allow my personal assumptions cloud my judgement when discussing these topics. Can you formulate an objective standard that allows an individual to determine what types of discrimination are moral or immoral?
It's strange to me how there are many among the Hacker News crowd who can read an article like this and have doubts about its thesis. You lived through the 80s and 90s right? I can't count how many times in my life I was told no one would ever need a computer in their house, we've gotten along for decades just fine without them. No one will ever buy books online, that's ridiculous, you can go to the store and have one right now. The internet is just a niche chat program that will never have any use in business, etc.

Our uses of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology now are similar to how we once used the power of the web to create Geocities pages with nothing more than MIDIs, scrolling text, and under construction gifs, because we didn't know what we were doing yet. But the early computer and internet pioneers were able to see past the proofs of concept and build on those ideas, to create the modern internet we have today.

Bitcoin may cease to exist as a software product, but I think the innovations that it has spurred on will be with us for some time. This technology has the possibility of making business much more efficient by reducing costs that are associated with distrustful parties having to rely on (and pay money to) third party escrow/auditing services. If I want to send a large sum of money to someone else now, I have to rely on third party services such as banks or Western Union to facilitate that transfer.

If you still continue to think "well that can be done with a SQL database now", you're completely missing the point. There's nothing wrong with relying on third parties, but now we have technology that allows us to choose not to if there's a need for it. In that regard, cryptography shares many of the same characteristics. We could communicate securely before public key cryptography was invented, but it broadened the scope and security of such operations, to the point where we espouse using https for all websites, not just ones requiring security. When the time comes, why would you trust a third party if you didn't have to?
We have this discussion every year when there's a major correction (hint: this isn't that, this is one of the small ones).

It seems there are only two types of sentiment in the cryptocurrency market: extreme hype, where you start seeing mainstream media articles about "getting rich with cryptocurrencies," and extreme FUD, where everyone that has never trusted cryptocurrencies starts piling on for weeks about the tulip mania (we've never heard that one before) and how it will all go to zero this time.

But it never does. Almost every year, cryptocurrencies become bigger, on average. Small corrections, major corrections/bear markets, and even super-corrections (2-3 year long bear markets) are all in cryptocurrencies' future. But cryptocurrencies are here to stay. They won't ever crash to zero.
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When I think of crimes and AI drivers I always think of people using drugs or making sex in driverless taxis.
Those survey questions are completely irrelevant to interface design. I use TB every day as my main private mail client and the picture they show me doesn't even look like what I use. Then they ask a bunch of marketing BS questions that have absolutely nothing to do with usability.

I hope these people stay the hell away from my favorite mail client.
Thanks for the straw man. You can send it back to field though.

Women != white natonalists

The key here is in the accepted definition of "women" vs "white nationalists".
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>I'm not sure I understand what you're predicting exactly

General bookkeeping and shared transaction logs that improve trust and transparency. Improving trust don't always require massively distributed ledgers. Just sharing them with counterparty and having mutual cryptographic agreement is enough for many applications.
If you look at the image in the article, 23andMe includes Scandinavia in northwestern Europe.
That was planned for. Like there's only 20million Bitcoins tops.
> or get some Rust code in

lol
And we've been working on that.

* https://wiki.php.net/rfc/libsodium (PHP 7.2)

* https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mcrypt-viking-funeral (PHP 7.1)

* https://wiki.php.net/rfc/random-function-exceptions (PHP 7.0, largely the result of a mailing list discussion critiquing the original implementation of the new CSPRNG functions)

There is plenty more we want to work on in the coming months.
Can be avoided, but there's a cost. Wrapping food in plastic makes it easier, and thus cheaper to distribute, and vastly lowers the risk of foodborn illness. If you get rid of plastic packaging, the consumer will bear that cost in other ways.

I agree that companies often avoid the negative externalities of their activities, and support things like a carbon tax to fix that. But in the case of littering, whoever creates the mess needs to clean it up.
No one stopped caring. What we stopped doing was pretending the civilian population could be protected against nuclear holocaust.

The bomb that obliterated Hiroshima was a toy next to a thermonuclear bomb, which is 1000 times as powerful. If one lands on Oahu, there won't be anyone to pass out iodine pills in Hawaii, or anyone to pass them out to.

Hawaii is just stupid to spend a nickel on an early warning system. The only reason it exists is that too many people don't understand what they're supposedly being warned, or that they are utterly defenseless.

Sometimes, the only protection is prevention. This is one.
Apropos to nothing, the actual user experience between a Tsunami and a Nuke are quite different.
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>>> The short answer is: don't overthink it. Do the simplest thing that will work: use 16+ byte random keys read from /dev/urandom and stored in a database. The cool-kid name for this is "bearer tokens".

Please don't reinvent the wheel and use a guid.

A guid is a random number generator to avoid collisions.
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Many people throughout history have found that when they push for laws for whatever they want, other people do the same thing. See any group of 3 presidential elections and the laws that were passed in the first year of a presidency.

tl;dr Legislating for everyone to do what you want inevitably leads for others to legislate that you do what they want.