skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it is very logical: anyone can buy a lottery ticket, but only accredited investors can invest in legitimate companies.

Looks like there's a lot of room in the middle for people who are not stupid and don't want to be left out.
With an Emacs server/daemon, it loads faster than Vim for me.
I'll bet most people who have "noting to hide" could be motivated to reconsider if someone went through all their private correspondence and reported the results to them.
> Perhaps you should not be accusing others

I said I'm sorry, and I edited the comment. This is, however, a detail - that you are unjustly discriminating, only on a basis other than race, I stand by.

> Homogeneous groups of people

Assuming homogeneity of any group of people is almost certainly wrong.

Why don't you substitute "black" or "Hispanic" or "Jewish" for "offshore" in your arguments and see what happens? Would you be able to leisurely write that, in your opinion, "black programmers are sloppy and only churn code as quickly as possible"?
> Why not put the information out there

And that's why chrome will mark your site as insecure.

> why should I be forced to [..] beg for permission [..]

That seems to be the best thing humans came up with so far, if you want nice stuff that requires coordination. You also have to "beg" for a connection & ip address. You also have to "beg" for a DNS name. Please propose something better (that doesn't come with its own significant drawbacks).
according to security principles, "can" = we must assume that it will or has been, given the proper motivation.

the iphone has a low-power asic whose sole purpose is to listen for "hey siri" with relaxed confidence intervals. the real voice processing isn't done until the main cpu is woken by this asic. because of this, we can identify discrete modes of operation in the iphone, one of which is incapable of doing arbitrary "spying".

based on the article, it sounds like the alexa doesn't have this affordance. while unsurprising in this case, i don't think we must accept that anything with an internet-connected microphone has the capability to always listen to what you say.
And it's widely speculated that those Chinese miners exist only to convert yuan to offshore dollars/euros, which is contrary to Chinese government policy.
> The only challenging aspect is the lack of conventions and documentation.

Well, don't forget the challenge of coming up with new, creative answers to why isn't it done yet and why aren't you working faster and what do you mean "reading the documentation", just program, that's what you're paid to do!
Does taking potshots at the OP's religion add anything at all to the discussion?
The question purposed is "are cryptocurrencies a worthy alternative to existing mediums of exchange".

While future iterations may change, we can examine existing implementations.

Upon investigation of the math/economics/game theory behind Bitcoin and most other existing altcoins it becomes evident that the longer a cryptocurrency has existed, incentive to opt in decreases due to the work economics baked into the code.

Old users expend low capital costs to produce a product (in this case an alternative money token), and then the rules change for new users who exert the same work energy to receive less payment. (early users were paid in larger block rewards for less effort, i.e. a user with a CPU on day 5 will be paid signifigantly more than a user with the exact same CPU on day 500, and by day 5000 the same work is worthless)

An economic model that pays some people more for the exact same work is exploitative.

If all users are paid a consistent amount for the same work, this particular disincentive for new users would not be a problem.
I tried to debug Go project once, and the moment I saw that, I was completely shocked that it was importing from github urls, without even tags, or versions as far as I could tell. It seems dangerous to rely on a for-profit host and individual users. If 'network' dependencies are part of the language, it should at least be non-profit, or better Go project managed host. There are many examples, like PyPi, or PECL.
> high of a barrier to entry to foster true competition.

The article is literally about true competition being attempted in a high-moat business.
Ok but what I don't get: where do they get money to speculate on financial instruments? I didn't care about the stock market when I was in high school and college not because it wasn't cool, but because I had no discretionary cash.
Oh come on, this is not a justification, it's just complete laziness. Just spend the extra 5 seconds copying the repo URL from GitHub. It's not like you can avoid that the first time around when you don't know the username anyway (or on subsequent times for that matter, unless the username is pretty memorable), and you'll have a robust URL afterwards without security holes. And plus, then people can change their usernames without breaking links. The cost/benefit ratio is extremely low.
I haven't used them in ages so I didn't believe this. It seemed too ludicrous. I logged in to check and actually laughed out loud when I saw it. How much trouble must this company be in?
As long as you don't need reliable delivery!
So, a sha1 commit hash, which gives you an exact filesystem snapshot, and can't be faked with identical content if someone gets their hands on someone's account?

The real issue is Go just pointing to "whatever is the current HEAD" which is insane.
Looks really interesting, and we're currently scouting for good table solutions, but this is a killer:

> Onomics is currently free for beta users, though we’ll eventually start charging for some premium use cases (hosting high volume charts, heavy usage, advanced charts, branded charts for example).

You've got to make money, that's for sure. But this open ended future tax (what is heavy usage/high volume anyway?) means that I can't invest the time in checking out your offer.

Much better would be some bold statement like "features x,y and z will always be free".
That's also configurable. The default setting for "mon osd down out interval" is 600 seconds. See http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/rados/configuration/mon-osd... for a lot more configuration that can be done here.
Maybe. That would make it harder to spread the truck to door cost over several orders.
And this explicit choice is not some Y/N decision that can be easily overlooked but it's editing known hosts, so that the user understands the seriousness.
I would happily agree but I lost the one emacs and 119422 buffers mindset. I get lost in my own shit. I should spend time improving my ibuffer grouping but even then.. I like the idea of pop, edit, kill (which causes my harm).
That's what vendoring and dependency tools are for.
Ok, we'll take your word for it.
I've taken up your offer, & am watching video you linked to. I'm not interested in the personal growth you're suggesting though; I've already been spending some time thinking about how I can behave empathetically to those around me without being a sociopath since I don't actually feel empathetic towards them. Mostly I've focused on not being aggressively cynical. My life's functioning pretty well as is, but I did recently go through a break up of a 6 year relationship where a part of it had to do with my inability to form deep emotional connections. Which is a part of my life going well: I am happier not being in a relationship I'm incapable of supporting

Predictable hypotheticals are predictable because they're based on a simple premise that you yourself are able to consider. The thing about cost is that we can show how much people are willing to be selfish when it's 'sacred' or 'righteous': if children are valuable, why not sell your child for 1M, & then spend that helping a dozen kids from Haiti? https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/buy-child-10-hours/story?id... . It's because you've decided your one child is more valuable than 12 others. You care about your child because it's _yours_. An extension of you. So here's shown that you're greatly overvaluing yourself at the sake of others
Is it really? I would think Waymo's primary goal is making money for their shareholders, not pursuing personal vendettas.
In Canada it's different - our sports press is all hockey, all the time. Granted I don't pay much attention to it, but if any sports news makes it to my news feed, it probably is going to be about atheletes going bankrupt.
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Go doesn’t “do” that.

Using GitHub HEAD is one of many ways it can be used. It’s not a very popular approach. People with important projects that often use other ways, such as vendoring via a tool like dep.
My first thought about anything like this... Quality of the data set...

This is based on self-reported data. Is it not also worth asking if it has become more socially acceptable to admit to having sex less often (or not at all)?

Just as it probably has become more socially acceptable to not be in a relationship...
That seems to have worked well for Intel.
Good point, emacs has a lot of tooling (edebug and tracing too) but it's rarely demonstrated, and since emacs is so large..

In my case there's nothing slow but IO, I should try on another windows laptop with a faster SSD (mine is low grade) to see what is what.
They are interested in it due to the pretty charts and slick interface of coinbase and robinhood. Many of the young adults and teens do not understand the concept of compound interest at all. They think stock picking and market timing can actually work for them. All they see is $300 -> $10000 or something. Making 8%/yr is not nearly as interesting.

IMO Fidelity/Vanguard need to figure out a better marketing campaign. Right now it is targeted to east-coast retiring boomers.
Only project I know of that's not:

https://decentraland.org
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Are you saying that you think you will be able to climb faster than everyone else and when finished (when are you rich enough btw?) be better at making an impact than all the other efforts trying to change the world?

At least be honest. It's not that it's the most efficient way to spend your money; you simply want to be the hero. While letting your spare coins trickle down to those below. And it's ok cause you'll pay back later. Maybe through the next generation even.

But perhaps it was I who missed the irony?
Completely isolated systems seem more and more like a theoretical abstraction, not a reality.

If you want true isolation, place it inside the event horizon of a black hole. Or spin up a child universe then cut off the connection. Even then some clever cookie might find ways for information to percolate from one continuum to another.
It's certainly possible both geographically and historically.

There is also 'cross pollination' across history when teachers learn from other traditions and sometimes very similar styles are developed independently. For example, Trekcho practice in Dzogchen is very similar to Zen training of shikantaza or 'silent illumination'. On the other hand it's very fundamental practice just like following the breath, so it can be traced back to the beginning of Buddhism.

Jnana-vichara (self-enquiry method) taught by hindu guru Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi is very similar to Zen koan practice. The question of "Who am I" is often used as first koan in Zen.
I know this comment was probably sarcastic, but it's also a good teachable moment: what did those huge companies with heavily customized distros base their distros on before they started customizing? You'll find a lot of RHEL/CentOS/Debian core in those lists, not much Gentoo or similar. The stability (and stability-emphasizing philosophy) of those original base distros will permeate customizations for years to come.
This is insane. Not that the username was reused, but rather that people are using a direct link to GitHub as their dependency management. At minimum you should manually fork it into a repo you control, but a proper package manager is what is really necessary.

Would you statically link to an ftp server in your code build process? What about to a random website for a piece of code? No, you wouldn't, and this is equally unprofessional.
> You don't use physical servers in a DC to pay the 10x peak time, it's a big waste of money

No, it's cheaper once you factor in the real performance of physical vs virtual machines.

Someone really needs to bring some actual numbers to this conversation.
Does it build up a performance profile over time? As in, do you need to serve thousands of requests before you get a picture?
I have also seen that Acorns and the roboadvisors seem to be popular with the younger demographic.
> you have to regularly compile and build big packages like Glibc (while under load) just to update the system

No, you should have build hosts for that, publish binpkgs, and then install the binpkgs.

Gentoo's binpkgs do not require compiling on your production machines; compile them elsewhere.

> an update might require configuration file change, this doesn't happen in CentOS or Debian Stable

Debian has debconf, and Centos has a similar tool. When configuration files change in the debian world, they often prompt with those maintainer scripts.

Gentoo's dispatch-conf/etc-update model is quite nice because it also lets maintainers recommend new config defaults which the user may easily accept or reject.

You clearly don't know what you're talking about. Then again, many people who use gentoo don't use it as you would in production, with binpkg mirrors and well managed package unmasking/masking/etc.
Business person, maybe economist when you take into account prices for crops and deciding what to grow.
> bars other people from having a shot at earning those things themselves

Restricting immigration doesn't 'bar' people from making their own country better...

Have you never visited a place that has had it's beauty or charm ruined by the sheer number of visitors it receives?
I'm having an uphill battle trying to institute some of these practices on my current team. My takeaway is that it may not be as obvious as we think.
>And that's why chrome will mark your site as insecure.

That is a false statement. Using 'what could happen' logic, Windows should label Chrome/Firefox/IE as insecure/malware since someone could theoretically do bad things with those tools.

>Please propose something better (that doesn't come with its own significant drawbacks).

Why don't you start first? Since this HTTPS so-called 'solution' has its own significant drawbacks.
I would imagine that weakening a competitor in their space would be decently correlated with expected return for shareholders. Not sure where you got the idea that the only benefit would be "personal".
In Canada we have the CPP (Canada Pension Plan) which is almost literally this, except everyone pays into it.
from https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/asking-the-right-questions... , discussed at length last week:

AI models hold a mirror up to us; they don’t understand when we really don’t want honesty. They will only tell us polite fictions if we tell them how to lie to us ahead of time.

This kind of honesty can force you to be very explicit. A good recent example was in a technical paper about “word debiasing.” This was about a very popular ML model called word2vec which learned various relationships between the meanings of English words — for example, that “king is to man, as queen is to woman.” The authors of this paper found that it contained quite a few examples of social bias: for example, it would also say that “computer programmer is to man, as homemaker is to woman.” The paper is about a technique they came up with for eliminating that bias.

What isn’t obvious to the casual reader of this paper — including many of the people who wrote news articles about it — is that there’s no automatic way to eliminate bias. Their procedure was quite reasonable: first, they analyzed the word2vec model to find pairs of words which were sharply split along the he/she axis. Next, they asked a bunch of humans to identify which of those pairs represented meaningful splits (e.g., “boy is to man as girl is to woman”) and which represented social biases. Finally, they applied a mathematical technique to subtract off the biases from the model as a whole, leaving behind an improved model.

This is all good work, but it’s important to recognize that the key step in this — of identifying which male/female splits should be removed — was a human decision, not an automatic process. It required people to literally articulate which splits they thought were natural and which ones weren’t. Moreover, there’s a reason the original model derived those splits; it came from analysis of millions of written texts from all over the world. The original word2vec model accurately captured people’s biases; the cleaned model accurately captured the raters’ preference about which of these biases should be removed.

The risk which this highlights is the “naturalistic fallacy,” what happens when we confuse what is with what ought to be. The original model is appropriate if we want to use it to study people’s perceptions and behavior; the modified model is appropriate if we want to use it to generate new behavior and communicate some intent to others. It would be wrong to say that the modified model more accurately reflects what the world is; it would be just as wrong to say that because the world is some way, it also ought to be that way. After all, the purpose of any model — AI or mental — is to make decisions. Decisions and actions are entirely about what we wish the world to be like; if they weren’t, we would never do anything at all.
This reminds me of the "Marsh Chapel Experiment" (aka the "Good Friday Experiment") from 1962:

"Prior to the Good Friday service, graduate degree divinity student volunteers from the Boston area were randomly divided into two groups. In a double-blind experiment,
half of the students received psilocybin, while a control group received a large dose of niacin. Niacin produces clear physiological changes and thus was used as an active placebo... Almost all of the members of the experimental group reported experiencing profound religious experiences, providing empirical support for the notion that psychedelic drugs can facilitate religious experiences..."[1]

Much more detail here: [2]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Chapel_Experiment

[2] - https://www.erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_journal2.s...
>The Chrome omnibox will accurately report to users that your site is insecure

What evidence does Chrome have that my site is insecure or poses a threat to users?

'What could happen' logic would mean disabling all browsers since you could get pwned by using any of them. That is not a rational way to approach anything.
> What we really need is for language-level package managers to support signed immutable packages

+1 Emphasis on immutable. Can someone explain why popular package managers like npm don't offer this? During the leftpad fiasco, it boggled my mind that someone could just "liberate" their packages one morning, and transitively break the build for thousands of projects. Immutable packages would have prevented this entire problem.
Please don't cross post like this.
No, a commit hash points to a commit. This is for when we want to point to a repo, i.e. For exactly the same situations where we currently use URLs with usernames.
Binpkgs output from builds on the same machine are often bit-for-bit identical.

It, of course, depends on the project; if the ./configure script drops the current date in source code, it'll be different, but that doesn't happen often.
Do you code in Ruby any more or is it all Rust these days? If you had to build a web app what would you use?
Ceph already has this, the setting is called mon_osd_down_out_interval, and the default is 300 seconds (you can easily change it).

The reason for "noout" is you generally want to minimize IO operations while you're performing your maintenance. You should be closely monitoring your cluster while performing maintenance, and if something else goes wrong, you abort and unset noout, wait for it to finish rebuilding, and reassess.

EDIT: This used to be 300 in Jewel, and seems to have changed to 600 in a later version.
I thought the same with the exaggerating. The author of the article can hardly blame github. But he makes a good point, I never realized how much I rely on github username policy in Go code :).

If golang allows to import from Git URLs over HTTP or SSH, then it is the same problem with DNS as with the github usernames, isn't it? If the domain name, from which you import, will disappear, then someone else can register it and serve malicious code. This is also pretty hyperbolic.

IMO It's simply solvable by refering to a commit hash, like govendor does it (or the gemfile in ruby for that matter). I am actually not sure why it's not possible to add commit hash to a golang import, I thought that $GOPATH/src contains only git repos (but I'm not sure about this).
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If you think that you might want to read the tempest security standard, think about how much extra building compliant facilities cost, and realize that someone who already understood the cost approved the requirement because of a credible threat, or a capability they had and weren't sure if the other team would have.
A package manager would be just as vulnerable, as mentioned in the post.

Just with a delay until you run update.
Epic would have enterprise with the money they are making. That's business critical <15min response time for production down.
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Very cool! The DSL reminds me of Red/Rebol.
uh, did you read what the OP wrote? he said a long since disused account. i.e. how long a grace period do you desire they have?

github's general policy is that if an account has been dormant for a year (which might mean not just means commits, but also fetches from it) its can be recycled. This is because they dont want to enable username squatting.
From my experience reverse engineering the first generation Echo, there was no coprocessor. However, wake word detection was done offline. There was a software controlled hardware switch to disconnect the microphone when it was muted.
>They are interested in it due to the pretty charts and slick interface of coinbase and robinhood
You got to be kidding if you think Coinbase has a slick interface/user experience. You would need to explain why in-spite of such a terrible interface, people are flocking to Coinbase to buy Bitcoin/Ethereum. In fact, so much so that Coinbase was the top app on the App Store for a day [1].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/08/coinbase-was-top-of-us-apple...

>Many of the young adults and teens do not understand the concept of compound interest at all

I'll need a source for that. It doesn't seem like humans in general are wired to really grasp the power of compound interest (or exponential functions for that matter), so if you're claiming that young adults today are less likely than average to grasp that concept, I'd need a source for that. I do not believe it to be true, but I am happy to be proven wrong.
The issue is that the union provides a public good. Strike for a pay rise? Your non-union colleagues will get that too. Hire a lawyer to sue for better health and safety? Employees who never paid their dues will benefit.

These concerns don't persuade me personally that Right to Work laws are bad. I'm just telling you they exist and probably have some validity.
That's learnable. For example, military forces teach enlisted people with varying levels of skills how diagnose systems, and it works.