skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a little off topic because they do a different thing than in the article, but check this out for some (actually) scary good computer generated examples:

https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/tacotron2/ind...
Citations are far more helpful than ranting. If you want a productive conversation, you should provide some. Democratic leaders have made the current budget/CR about DACA, which was not relevant to it. (Ironic because they're in favor of everything in the CR, but they voted against it anyway!) Here's House minority leader Pelosi promising to block any funding that does not include DACA [0]. Yes, the Trump admin could have avoided the shutdown by giving in to minority demands, but that doesn't mean they're at fault, logically.

As for opinions, my political golden rule is "never trust a politician". We're veering far off-topic, though.

Edit: as further evidence of the cause of the shutdown, Senate Minority Leader Schumer just caved. The shutdown was a political gamble for both sides; I'm assuming internal Democrat polling found that they were receiving the most blame. Continuing the disruption would be disastrous. (Obvious, considering they effectively blocked the CHIP children's health insurance.)

[0] http://thehill.com/homenews/house/363778-pelosi-were-not-lea...
I disagree, although the ecosystem is filled with scams, and evangelists have financial interests in promoting their believes, there are some promising advantages.

Also the energy requirements for PoW systems are cheap compared to its gains as pointed out by Nick Szabo:
"We need more socially scalable ways to securely count nodes, or to put it another way to with as much robustness against corruption as possible, assess contributions to securing the integrity of a blockchain. That is what proof-of-work and broadcast-replication are about: greatly sacrificing computational scalability in order to improve social scalability. That is Satoshi’s brilliant tradeoff. It is brilliant because humans are far more expensive than computers and that gap widens further each year. And it is brilliant because it allows one to seamlessly and securely work across human trust boundaries (e.g. national borders), in contrast to “call-the-cop” architectures like PayPal and Visa that continually depend on expensive, error-prone, and sometimes corruptible bureaucracies to function with a reasonable amount of integrity."
You contrast them only by complexity, but the actual reason for it goes further. Go achieves simplicity through a major trade off of using garbage collector. That's a price that you need to pay just for using Go. Rust on the other hand doesn't impose it, following the approach of letting you decide what you want to pay for. This results in higher complexity.

So it's good to remember that simplicity of Go doesn't come for free.
There’s a good doc on Netflix called “Sugar Coated,” that compares the industry to big tobacco.
there is both an industry shortage

Including former cow-orkers I probably know a couple of hundred PhDs. Of those, a mere handful work in academia doing research. Even fewer are tenure-track. Of the remainder, how many do you think slogged through the programme in say physics or biology with the intent of becoming a software developer after?

I absolutely believe in equal opportunities but a false promise of a good job due to a shortage is not a fair way to promote it.
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No, exactly the opposite. Technology, especially Big Data and Machine Learning enable more strict information censorship by government. Take Facebook ML algorithms blocking accounts for "hate speech" as an example and extrapolate.
That's hardly limited to women. It's the same reason I have no intention of ever contributing to the kernel.
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I'm not saying you are wrong, but has there ever been research that suggests this is actually as widespread a problem as suggested? Otherwise, my main point still stands that there are other factors in play during adulthood, besides systematic bias, that would explain the lack of women in STEM and why the desire for gender parity is absurd.
Everyone has the right to make their own determinations about the moral quality of different choices. Just because you believe that his decision to work with SAP represents some kind of moral failure (I'd be fascinated to hear your reasoning) it doesn't preclude him from both disagreeing with you and at the same time taking a moral stance on another issue.

The factors at play in such choices are extremely complex for every individual, but we can't just say "Hey you hypocrite you work for a major multinational so you can never ever take a moral position on anything ever again". That's not sensible.
Spanish Article: Bitcoin está extendiendo la libertad a América Latina
I think ollieparanoid, who founded this project and puts a ton of work into it has a great answer to a very similar question someone had on reddit a while back[0].

I fully agree with his philosophy. This is a project ran completely by unpaid volunteers. And the most important thing is to have fun while working on pmOS. If people have fun getting 10 different desktop environments to run, why not?

If you look at his comment from 6 months ago, only one phone had wifi support. Now, quite a few do[1].

I've read similar comments from OpenBSD devs. They get the best contributions when people work on something they simply want to work on, instead of telling people what needs work.

Progress on getting cellular working is tracked in this issue here[2], if you're curious what the state of that is.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6ndik4/50_days_of_po...

[1] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

[2] https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/issues/598
The space really is getting pretty crazy. I feel like my biggest fear these days is getting kidnapped by a van full of venture capitalists and forced to develop cryptocurrencies.
I just accepted a generous blockchain job offer with a fortune 500 company. But they are not interested in building a new blockchain implementation, but rather exploring smart contracts and their possible relevance to their business.
That's probably a better fit for Heinlein's Razor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor#Similar_quota...
> FWIW, I save the bluntness for important stuff.

As to Torvalds, but we do not get headlines about his mellow emails accepting a patch.
No, "fake news" refers to a very specific phenomenon. It's not just any kind of misleading or incorrect reporting. Trump was the one to start saying "not fake news, YOU'RE fake news", but the phenomenon as initially encountered was about shoddy and small fraudulent websites, often trying to deceive their audience to believe that they were a different website, pushing the most anger-inducing news.

It's a far cry from the NYT or Fox News reporting incorrect things, whether deliberately or not, to someone called Foxx News or Non York Times reporting that Islam causes prostate cancer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fake_news_websites#Lis...
Austin would be best for Amazon.

Less expensive to consolidate Austin based Whole Foods, and what new hire would not love to live in Austin and pay no state taxes.
He's probably trying to not offend the company by not being more specific, but given the information offered -- why even apply/interview for a blockchain job if these are his objections (too much hype, PoW is bad)?
This is as good a place to ask the question nobody likes to discuss, but is important to never forget - what do we do when the bus hits Linus?
In the US, the financial system is about 10% of GDP. (The number depends on your definitions of financial system, US, GDP, and "is"). It also consumes vast amounts of resources ranging from gasoline to drive mortgage brokers to and from work, to the cost of mailing out free low-introductory rate credit cards.

It's a fair criticism of Bitcoin that it uses a lot of energy, but it's hard to predict whether it will ultimately use more or less than the existing system as a percentage of value created.
Like a lot of things he says, it is a cute just-so story, but obscures more than it reveals. Just a few things to try to slot in: differences in participation in "male" professions over short time periods, differences between cultures, differences between STEM and non-STEM higher ed with very similar same economic outcomes.
I'm seriously wondering about the education system in the US if you had to learn about lobbyists, donors and special interests from Trump.

This is primary school stuff in my country at least, along with the explanation for why political ads on TV are banned here.
Thank you. I wasn't aware of that.

This has been going on in South Florida for sometime. A dirt lot is filled with soil sometimes 20-30ft high. And then just as mysteriously, a few years later, it disappears.

I just assumed this was temporary storage of backfill for a construction project elsewhere.
I politely disagree - they are funny, in a wink-wink, nudge-nudge sort of way (if you've read your Lovecraft), but pale compared to his 'harder' SF (like Accelrando, Singularity Sky, Glasshouse). That said, I do much prefer the Laundry Files stories to The Merchant Princes, but I have a low tolerance for Urban Fantasy...
Are people reading the rest of the thread? Linus admitted mistaking an acronym and changed his tone from "pushing garbage for unclear reasons" to just "garbage patches".
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I always feel weird correctly mispronouncing (?) words I know are imported, for example "Einstein" instead of "Einshtein".

While you could get away with "Einshtein", though most folks would think you're pedantic, you really can't for words with less well-known origins. For example most people pronounce "hagiography" with a "hay" sound instead of a "haw" sound, as in Greek ἁγία (hágia). But if you said "hawgiography" people would think you don't know English.
Thanks for replying and for your perspective.

> I see a lot of nordic fintech and fintech is a relatively recent phenomena.

Yes I have seen that too. Talked to someone in a fintech startup. They were even using Erlang to do all the math, which surprised me, but it totally made sense after they explained their use case.

So perhaps maybe there is a startup culture and but maybe the focus is on slightly different market and not necessarily on the same old social / messaging / uber for X problems that are common in SV startups.

> You can't just arrive and break what I would call the social contracts (like Uber is doing for example).

Unfortunately I think at lot of the conditions to make startup appealing are predicated on breaking social contracts. The concept of a "company" > "individual" basically. A startup can hire quickly, try something, fail and lay everyone off, within a year. Or playing in the gray area like Uber with regards to its markets. "Is it a taxi, is it a limousine service, etc."
"The long-term value will be in the ability to send censorship-proof funds anywhere there's an internet connection."

So, how does this work if I'm, say, trying to support the protests in Iran, who just shuts the internet off?
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I imagine the little guy is going to have a hard time beibg price-competitive with companies that can buy HDDs by the truckload.
Yeah, I found that to be a weird phrasing on the article's part. I guess what they mean is that 120,000 were actually charged with a crime, due to an action they committed (whether those outside of Turkey would believe that action to be inherently criminal or not).
That isn't remotely what you initially said.
Can one mathematically prove invulnerability to a $5 wrench attack?

Edit: Just in case it's not clear, my point is not that specifically bitcoin is more vulnerable to violence/coercion than other forms of value storage (although I'm pretty sure it is, as there are fewer safeguards/redress mechanisms). My point is that the regardless of the security of the mathematical element, cryptocurrency also has the real-world to contend with, which contains bugs, hardware failure, extortion, phishing, memory loss, theft, etc.
> As an individual, I can't realistically set up a mail server to send email to anyone, like I could in 1995, since Gmail will reject it.

I'm an individual who runs his own mailserver and all emails are accepted by Gmail.

Sure, today a mailserver must be absolutely properly configured. Not just to play with Gmail, but with all other players as well. The HELO string, DNS settings and especially reverse DNS settings must be correct. Don't run it in a non-dynamic IP range. And for IPv6, better have correct SPF/whatever records.

This is initial effort, for sure, but absolutely doable for an idividual who plays with their own server/VM anyway. Pro tip: It is more fun if you share the infrastructure with friends.

And there are properly configured projects with ready-to-use VM images and good tutorials out there.

In some sense it is even easier than HTTPS, because for SMTP+TLS and IMAP+TLS a self-signed certificate is sufficient, you don't need Let's Encrypt certificates, let alone pay dubious CAs for certs if you are commercially active.
This is the same argument against Walmart [1], and yet they continue to flourish too. You can argue all you want about how people should buy locally, support mom-and-pop stores, and keep their money in their community, but WAIT IS THAT A $80 FLAT PANEL HDTV?? At the end of the day the vast majority of people are going to go with the cheapest option.

1: (which, by the way, is huge and competes with Amazon, so I'm not sure where this "Amazon has no competition" meme comes from)
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It does suck because blockchain technology does seem intriguing and cool, but there's so much dirty money floating around the ecosystem right now I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.
The frustrating part about this is that it's getting more difficult to flash ROMs onto most phones, not easier. For instance, all Samsung Galaxy flagships since the S6 have a locked bootloader. If you have the US-based Snapdragon models, it's nearly impossible to unlock them and load custom ROMs. And if you somehow do, Samsung caps your battery at 80% or so.

There are notable exceptions. The OnePlus phones are easy to flash, as are Sony Experia models. But for the average person just looking to get a few more years out of their device, the OEMs have made it very clear how much they resent you keeping your phone beyond the two year mark.
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Is SpaceX using a recycled rocket like they have in the past?

https://latechnews.org/spacex-launches-bulgariasat-1-recycle...
That’s exactly what Faster-RCNN does. Edit: Except for rotation — they are axis aligned bounding boxes.

Mask-RCNN (more recent) takes it a step further and also generates a per-object pixel segmentation mask, which is even better than a bounding box obviously. For that reason, Mask-RCNN is much more exciting to me, and incredibly impressive if you see examples showing what it can do.

That said, “under the hood” of Mask-RCNN are still axis aligned 2D bounding boxes for every object (and this occasionally creates artifacts when a box is erroneously too small and crops off part of an object). IMO we need to somehow get away from these AABBs, but right now methods that use them simply work the best.
Yeah but... the crypto algorithm chosen for Bitcoin is about as energy intensive as they come. Other algorithms which are more equipment intensive - scrypt etc - provide the same benefits but without the same disgusting externality of power consumption.

I wish I grasped proof of stake better. I’m not yet convinced it can be made to work as well as PoW.
> so people, in general, are less inclined to take it up in the first place?

Yeah, the dark side of startups is that many fail, people are laid off, funding dries out, etc. VCes swoop in and try another startup and so on. That helps grow unicorns as they say, but it also based on quite a bit of pain and uncertainty for workers.
> But other people -- including some gov't supporters quoted in the article -- may realize that this is a symptom of a government that has gone too far.

On the fifth day of imprisonment, our native companion, Eagle Sharp-Eyed, noticed that our jail lacks fourth wall.

I mean, searching the country for (a hundred thousand) "gulenists" suggests not only going too far, but actual schizophrenia. Going so far that you end up returning from the opposite side.

Who didn't get the memo at this point?
I think the trend you are noticing is real. Simpson's memes and shit-posting is on the rise everywhere.

A Bart Simpson joke was a MAJOR part of this weeks Saturday Night Live.

(This Aussie Rapper’s ‘Simpsons’-Referencing Track Is Cromulent AF) http://www.moshtix.com.au/v2/news/musicnews/this-aussie-rapp...

What I don't understand is the EXTREME uptick in "cromulent" from Google Trends on May, 28th. If someone with stronger Google-Fu could figure it out that would be cool.
I recently had a beautiful, wonderful idea (for a polynomial-time SAT solver). But I was also skeptical: "The odds on this actually working have to be much lower than 1%". But it was such a neat idea, and I could try it out with a week or two of part-time effort. Even at much less than 1% chance of success, that was worth trying.

So I tried it, and of course it didn't work. It was still worth my time to try, though.
> It seems like people already know that they want to use a blockchain even before they understand what the problem is, basically a solution in search of problems.

This is the story with basically any startup in a hot space. This could be just as easily about AI / Machine Learning.
The creator of the protocol makes money because they issue 20% of all tokens to themselves, and then wait until later to sell it (once the token is in high demand).
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I think Google Search is going to eventually become a regulated public utility, and we can look to the telecom industry for an example of how that will go down.

The thing that comes to mind is the fact that Google refuses to allow API access to searching. They used to, with results limited to just five bad results, but quietly removed even that when they released a new tool and discontinued the old one.

It struck me at the time that I learned this, as I figured that Google was so large, that search would become like a free public utility that they ran. I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised that they don't, but other similar adventures got me to conclude that the API revolution is still in it's barest infancy.

But Google instead goes to enormous lengths to protect Search. I might make it a weekend project some day to figure out just what the current state of Google scraping is, that cat and mouse game probably has a fascinating history.

This will probably become a point of debate 20 years down the road when antitrust cases on tech giants finally become politically feasible.
The hardest part is knowing when it is a better use of your time to hire someone else to do it for you.

You can just follow all the same steps as you usually do:

1. Define the problem.

2. Determine the desired outcome.

3. Measure the existing state.

4. Note the foreseeable failure modes.

5. Plot the path from existing state to desired outcome as a series of reasonable steps, avoiding the failure modes.

6. Recursively analyze the steps, breaking them down into smaller steps if necessary.

7. Rework your plan as additional failure modes become evident.

In my experience, yes, you can do anything, as long as you ignore costs. You can't, for instance, justify buying a specialized tool to finish just one job. The hardest part is really step 2.
that's if you do it right. I'm a bad tomato grower and my tomatoes don't taste any better than the store bought ones.

but occassionally, a grower at the farmer's market will do it right and you CAN really taste the difference. Man, did those tomatoes really taste like something else.
mortgage & credit generally are bad comparisons, because cryptocurrency doesn't solve this. You still need a credit score or similar reputation metric associated with your real legal name/entity.

In general I agree, though. Turning energy into trust is definitely worth it, and we're in a price discovery phase to find out what "it" is.
cough Calc 3 cough
Props to you for realizing you were going down a bad path and cutting your losses. Many people are unwilling to honestly evaluate their projects until they've been in the rear view mirror for a long time. A great deal of software is driven by ego and fads, and it's great to see someone make a decision to change pace based on practicalities.
Why could they pass anything up until 3 weeks ago? I though filibustering meant the senate always needed 60 votes if the opposing party wants to block the legislation.
Yeah, I go more the approach of
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> Is that not exactly what the ratings agencies and co were doing by giving trash securities AAA ratings?

This is an astute observation. In a pump and dump, someone lies to sell securities they own with the intention of selling into the inflated price. It's special because it requires no assessment of intent to prove. If you own a security, make false or misleading positive statements about it and then sell into the resulting rise, you pumped and dumped.

In 2008, ratings agencies expressed their opinion about a security in exchange for a fee from the issuer. The issuer pointed to those ratings to sell the securities. Everyone knew about the conflicts of interest involved. Selling a stupid product to informed investors isn't illegal. Selling a product you fail to disclose material facts about, or which you knowingly structure to fail, is. Determining whether someone "knowingly" did something is harder than showing they did it.

Side note: many complex, structured securities–like CLOs and CDOs–which lost value in the crisis ended up performing as expected, if one held on to them [1]. The ratings agencies were still very wrong about a lot of things. But fewer than we give them credit for.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/hunt-for-yield-fuels-boom-in-cl...
As a member of the Lua community I cry every time...

But congrats on the hard work! I've been planning to try it out for a while now and the amount of resources and docs is great.
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The benefits of blockchain outweigh the initial costs involved in kickstarting the ecosystem. The same initial flurry of investment happened when the internet was created. Look how that turned out.
"2. There are a hundred reasons to search any given query. If an insurer is using such an insubstantial basis to establish a pre-existing condition, the actual problem is that the insurer has too much market power and can be (for lack of a better word) an asshole without losing customers."

So, in other words, acting like a typical US based health insurer before the Affordable Care Act came into law.
Why is this a campaign link? Not a direct link?
LG have made some nice improvements to allowing bootloader unlocking on some of their models. It's still definitely well beyond what "normal people" would be able to do, but it's nice to see from a technical standpoint. At least one model from each of the LG V10/V20/V30 and G4/G5/G6 are able to be unlocked in an official way.

http://developer.lge.com/resource/mobile/RetrieveBootloader....