skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need independent studies.

Unfortunately, the FDA has undergone regulatory capture to a significant extent -- more from the pharmaceutical companies than from the supplement manufacturers, including the former trying to use political influence to kill off or capture the latter.

And universities and their programs have become increasingly dependent upon and so captured by commercial dollars for funding.

So, we need science to help sort this out. But at the same time, our practiced science is becoming more political, commercial, and biased.

P.S. We also need science to say "we don't know" instead of "we don't have a scientific explanation, ergo it's bollocks".
FFS.

It's turtles all the way down, right?

None of my proposed use cases rely on PoW, bitcoin.

Perhaps I should have said it more clearly: I'm not interested in currency et al, because best as I can tell, bitcoin is just a better escrow, or worse a collectable (like baseball cards). And those things don't interest me.

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Have you done accounting, bookkeeping, auditing? Another way to think about blockchains is an interoperable ledger. If your data doesn't leave your org, you can just using tamper evident logs (rolling hashes), no consensus stuff required.

I worked on election integrity issues for a decade. I'm the biggest technoskeptic. I pretty much oppose all things new until they're battle proven.

The biggest challenge for election administration is verifying and publishing the physical chain of custody of all the gear and materials. And no matter how hard you try, there's always some yahoos (flat earther types) that will demand ever greater proof.

Whaddya gonna do?

Well, based on my experience, applying some blockchain technologies to document and publish chain of custody would simplify A LOT of the public accountability and transparency issues.

At the end of the day, it's just double ledger accounting. Debits match credits. The parts of blockchain that interest me make it easier to "show your work".
Why not just compile the thing? Textual source code for authoring, optimised binary for execution.

We do this for executable code, is there any reason why we shouldn't do this for assets as well?
Looks like this attempt is the winner!
For the vast majority of customers, Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon know what sites you visit, what types of data you pass to them, every single DNS lookup you make, etc. Sorry, but this is FAR more intrusive than Facebook, which you CLAIM has lots of data on you even if you don't use their service. It's harder to avoid Google than it is to avoid Facebook, but again, it's doable.
Guix has an overlay facility called $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH[0]. Packages found there will take precedence over distribution packages.

As an end user you don't really need to know Scheme. The OS configuration and package definitions are very "DSL-like", but you do have the full power of Scheme available.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Package-M...
> An average poor man in the US probably lives better than kings lived in the past.

IMO very far from truth.

An average poor man today _has more valuable stuff_ than a king in the past, but this doesn't translate into _living better_ because having a smartphone wont save me from the stress of disliking my boss, having cheap access to varied foods doesn't necessarily mean I have more significant relationships, the fact hospitals exist doesn't mean I can afford getting sick any more than a king, and nothing really changes the fact that I'm still poor relative to the people of today, which matters.

That being said, if we compare poverty today to poverty in the past, things are perhaps better now, sure.
> access to the market must dominate

The market itself is dependent on certain conditions for it to function. As a good example, take environmental efforts: solutions "price in" the externalities of pollution and "close off" the loopholes that were previously used to skirt around the pollution cleanup.

On the other hand, wind power is resisted by property owners who insist the energy company "price in" the intangible loss to their view, their property value, and they try to "close off" the loopholes the energy companies would use to skirt around a debate such as eminent domain or state mandates.

The entire conversation gets ratcheted up to 11 because neither side listens very much to the other. Small neighborhoods listen to each other -- it's easy to become acquainted with a few people -- but big cities are blind to those around them because we get overwhelmed by the number of people.

All I wanted to point out was that:

Markets rely on good communication to find an agreement everyone can be happy with. Save the environment? Build wind power? More people moving to Austin? These are more indications of miscommunication and misunderstanding than anything else (in my opinion).

This has further application to a lot of the news that appears on HN's front page each day.

I'm not naive: full rapport of all parties is unlikely. But I find this paradigm often can explain what would otherwise appear to be senseless destruction by well-meaning people.
You've confused mean and median there, but the point I was making is that a $15 minimum in Santa Clara county, with a median wage of $29.20 will have a far different impact than in Fresno with a median wage of $16.10. And that's just in California.

This about the impact of a minimum that affects nearly HALF of all workers in an area. It's absurd to think that this will not cause serious disemployment effects.

(Nationally, median hourly wage is $18.12)
Yes. NixOS can be set up to output a ready-to-run AMI with your customizations, as well as any other kind of image. For example, there are official binaries at https://nixos.org/nixos/download.html, which I believe are built by https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/maintaine.... You can then either replace the images as needed, or redeploy in place.

NixOps can also automatically create and destroy EC2 VMs, EBS disks, and so on for you, based on your NixOS config. NixOps also makes it very easy to set up a local copy of your network using Virtualbox.

Personally I use a common baseline image that is preseeded with my SSH key, and then deploy whatever setup I need using NixOps. You can read more about that approach at https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Virtualization_in_NixOS.
I just listened to "I han es Zündhölzli azündt" I can't quite make out the lyrics though I get the general gist of it. It's not quite German, enough to see why it reminds you of Tom Lehrer, similar dry in delivery and self accompanied. Wished I understood it better.
Let me tell you what's more important than the user:

design,
bells and whistles,
brand identity,
tracking,
ad-hoc A/B testing,
banners,
newsletter interstitials,
page rank,
comments on brand's facebook page,
number of followers,
claps,
likes,
thumbsups,
reblogs,
autoplaying videos,
filler stock photos.
Just a constraint so I force myself to do this, I'm barely pushing through day 6 hehe. Then I can go back next month and redo all the articles, hehe.
Surely the Arab world has no use online, especially lately /s
Contraband markets, ransomware authors, and scammers. The world is wasting power on hashing to support that.
> Unfortunately we all know they aren't actually deleting the messages, just hiding it.

Well, more like if user=zuckerberg, delete, else, hide.

They wouldn't want those "deleted" messages from Zuckerberg to show up in discovery...
Time to shell out for a VPN service.
US web sites don't have to worry about "accessibility" any more. The Trump Administration moved enforcement in that area to the "inactive" category last year.[1]

[1] https://www.adatitleiii.com/2017/07/doj-places-website-rulem...
> The "fire in a crowded theater" example comes from a court case that allowed the government to imprison somebody for advocating against the draft, and it's been used to defend government overreach ever since[1].

good grief... you should shout this from the rafters. thanks for sharing.
I don't really know, but as facebook usage declines they will become more and more desperate to make up for the loss of revenue. One of these days when most people have moved over to another platform there will news in the media "Facebook sold users private chatlogs".
Can't he claim likewise exchange?
And if you do have access to a website, there are many other sites you can use for resolving addresses.
I recommend installing a VPN right on your router. Flash your router with something like dd-wrt
FYI: when you talk about GPU/mining/energy, you are talking about Proof of Work (pow) and not blockchain. You can look up about Proof of Stake among other ways for consensus
> Of course, the people who end up making these determinations may also have conflicting political incentives, which makes this a very delicate situation to tackle in as broken of a political environment as we have in the US.

Or in other words, I hope people realise it could well be their political enemies that decide what's classed as fake news and what isn't. Wonder how many people would change their mind about backing a crackdown on the concept if they realised it could be the current administration making the decision?
Amazed that S3's web UI fails at both pagination and search.
A Quick, Clear Video Explanation for Why Parking Requirements Hurt Cities
But it has many times in the past.
Really confused about what this story is about since I have no problem deleting years-old messages from Facebook messenger.

(Whether that really removes the bytes or flips a delete flag who can say)

Edit: as others have pointed out, this only deletes things locally for you which makes this a pretty deceptive feature...
https://m.facebook.com/help/messenger-app/242107552657620
Considering they postponed it for years maybe that's my point?
Very true, most assuredly not just an India thing.(although perhaps India is a well known example)

The basic premise, stated another way, is that power tends to corrupt.
> and in case you're wondering, yes, this is a metaphor for another on-going debate and an apt one.

You can use a printing press to inform thousands and thousands of people a day easily.

Get rid of the 2nd amendment!
I think Lee is predicting a 50% market adjustment because each fiat dollar added into the cryptocurrency market increases market cap by $22.50 because of speculation and other factors. It doesn't seem too crazy if you consider the volatile swings cryptos have had. Along with that, we dont know what to expect with this much money in potential sell offs because you can't expect investors to use other cash to pay taxes. They will just sell more crypto.
I've done a lot of work for clients, most of the work I get is cleaning up after incompetent outsourced (overseas) developers. I know there are competent developers overseas, but a lot of companies go for the low bidder and get burned, then have to spend twice the amount (or more) than they would have if they'd just done it right the first time.
> Actually there are a lot of problems that anarchists wouldn't run into that the government does. Political corruption - collusion between state and corporations with welfare for the wealthy

I don't know why you think that a different organizational scheme would prevent corruption.

If you're going to build a bridge, somebody has to do the work. Everybody else is going to pay them somehow. And if you're going to pick someone to do the work, somebody has to choose. It's untenable to have every decision made by all people, so everyone will delegate, say, construction hiring decisions, to someone.

Now the Construction Hiring Decider can pick who gets paid to work. Who will he/she choose? Will it be based on skill, personal connections, ethnic bias - or maybe kickbacks?

You can't run any large group without delegating some responsibilities. As soon as anybody has any decision-making power delegated to them, they can misuse it. There is no system that can totally prevent that. And the more structures of accountability and shared decision-making you build to safeguard power, the more it looks like a democratic government.
So I've never done game dev - can anyone explain what immediate mode rendering is like to a React webdev?
SpaceX just needs to make some silicone hands that hold the cameras and they'll be set.
> Your provider can see [...] what medical symptoms you search [...]. Everything that is unencrypted is fair game.

Which search engines are unencrypted these days?
The Founders had more foresight than you think. These were enlightenment thinkers who were well versed in the history of governments and technological progress. The Bill of Rights is a document of principles: principles exist to ensure stability regardless of culture or time period or technology. The spirit of the amendment is to allow the people to spread their own information, it doesn’t matter how they do it.

The first amendment says nothing about “fake” or “real” news even though there was plenty of fake news in those days. I could argue fake news started the French Revolution.
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong: I believe that still leaves a copy of the message with the receiving party. That's the issue of contention here. The messages were also deleted for the receiver of Zuckerberg's messages.
English is on the heavier side of vowels, although much of it is diphthongs.

The "standard" vowel system is 5 basic vowels (vaguely an a, e, i, o, u, although not as English tends to pronounce those), although some languages (e.g., most American languages) have only 3 or 4. Many languages have a few more monophthongs. English has an additional mid a/e sound, an additional i sound, and another few more u's. There's also the unstressed vowel (aka schwa), and a couple of diphthongs.
It should be noted that Australia has a healthcare system substantially more equitable than the US, making the price of discretionary goods and services less of an issue. Real estate, education, and healthcare inflation is a thing (despite the price of TVs and tech coming down year after year) in the US (although I am aware of the steep cost of real estate in AU and NZ due to foreign buyers).

"Australia has a one of the strongest economies in the developed world. It survived the recent recession unscathed and hasn’t had a real recession in 20 years. And as Australian academics have noted, "Australia and New Zealand, with among the highest minimum wages in the world, have both low levels of unemployment and significantly lower levels of low paid employees.

Bankruptcies due to medical costs, which accounted for 60 percent of U.S. bankruptcies before the Affordable Care Act, are completely unknown there."

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/laura-chapin/2014/12/09...
You can use Twitter via SMS, I suppose. =P
This is a problem not limited to the development and design circles. It's a human problem. Disabled people are relatively rare, and so humans have a tendency to forget they exist.

To some extent developers are a product of their customers' demands. If customers are emphasizing dirt prices ($200 websites what the hell is going on?) and launch deadlines of "a couple of hours", they aren't thinking about accessibility, along with a half dozen other things.

It's really become evident to me since web development became a focus of my career, that people remain blissfully unaware of those less fortunate than them. Which we should shame out of them in my respected opinion.

At the very least, all visual elements should include an alt tag.

Making your content "readable" is a good idea anyway.

One last thing, and sorry such a long comment, it occurs to me maybe a lot of websites aren't "accessible" because things like Alt tags would expose the manipulative subliminal tactics of the design.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16388833
My summary of the article would be:

If supply and demand were working, a minimum wage increase would cause a loss of jobs. We studies minimum wage increases and jobs were not loss. The conclusion was therefore that Supply and demand were broken.

Then then want on to say how they found a link between having a small number of employers in a field and lower wages.
Exactly! Fiat money has value solely because the participants in the market agree that it does so. That's practically the definition. And it's exactly where most cryptocurrencies are at, except for those that are explicitly backed (like Royal Mint Gold is backed by, well, gold). Hence my original comment. But some people seem to think that down voting that comment will somehow change these facts. Oh well.
Welcome to most laws.
Downsides of trying to illustrate sounds with writing without using IPA (which I do not know enough of). I'm sure we are saying the same thing.
That only deletes it from your account. The person who received it still has their copy.
> The last part is the important part: hardly anything is unencrypted these days (and if it isn't it really should get with the times).

It's always nice to see

https://letsencrypt.org/stats/#percent-pageloads

Everyone can do something to help increase this!

(On the other hand, there's still an information leakage from the volume and timing of communications, like inferring that two people are communicating with one another in real time because their traffic flows are correlated, or figuring out what page someone's reading on a site from that total volume of encrypted traffic downloaded.)
You're welcome. Thanks for using GitLab. BTW We refer to ourselves as an open core company since we also sell proprietary features.
I miss the times when I thought Supply and Demand could explain wages. In a fully globalized economy I expect it would be more useful to do comparative GDP studies to understand the use of labor capital and its ability to fund production.
I'm don't think most of these conversations are really about material comfort, it's a proxy.

I believe most of this deep well of negativity is a reaction to the limited choices individuals perceive themselves to have due to market forces. When wages were a little higher, jobs were easier to find, and housing costs were far lower, people could choose their work, leave jobs, take pay-cuts, and reorient their lives in a more flexible manner. People are upset now because they're on a treadmill that they can't really imagine ever being able to get off, even if they never want to, which is a gloomy thing indeed. And it's not like skipping on A/C or avocado toasts will ever give people enough money to escape that.
While you are at it, you can also read up about "triple ledger accounting"
Excellent story, I wish I could have been in that meeting!
Yeah I tried this too and you're right: people will say they will buy stuff, but when it's time to pull out their wallet it's often a different story.

I think that is why point 1 is "Sell," not "Interview" or "Imaginary sell." For example, some people put up a web page, run some ads, and have a complete signup process that once the CC is entered they get a "thanks for your interest- we'll be in touch when we get it built and by the way we didn't really charge your CC."

We've had discussions before on this board about whether or not that's ethical, IIRC.
> Within one or two seconds, it was ready to fire again.

That's not comparable.
Have to disagree with you there. It is in a fairly normal solar orbit. There are a shitload of dead 3rd stages and satellites in solar orbit. They were not sterilized. National space agencies have been launching things into earth escape velocities without sterile procedures for 40 years. If it were designed to land intact on Mars that is another story
Hmmmm: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...
When the article says "what medical symptoms you search"... Comcast can't see what you search if you're connected to a page using https, right? All of the major search engines and medical sites all use https... so, what are they talking about?
> For the vast majority of customers, Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon know what sites you visit

They know which IP addresses you connect to. Many of those host large numbers of websites.

> what types of data you pass to them

What do you mean with 'what types of data'? They can't access the headers of encrypted traffic.

> every single DNS lookup you make

Yes, that's true. And you can cache those locally.

> etc. Sorry, but this is FAR more intrusive than Facebook, which you CLAIM has lots of data on you even if you don't use their service.

Shadow profiles are a thing.

> It's harder to avoid Google than it is to avoid Facebook, but again, it's doable.

It's just about impossible. Every other email you send ends up in a gmail inbox. So even if you don't use their services at all your data still ends up with them. Even if you don't have a smartphone enough people around you will have them that your social graph will end up with Google anyway. And so on.
If you delete those then the recipient can still see them (it just deletes them for you). Zuckerberg's messages (and the new "unsend" feature) delete the messages for everyone, which is different.
Are VPN Routers a good option, or do you recommend VPN on each device?
I'd recommend that you add a .gitignore line for the node_modules folder, which will reduce the size of the git project by a lot
It has very specific costs to exclude people who would benefit from being in an area, as well.

Far more specific than a vague sense of 'things changing'.
If I gave everyone in the world one billion dollar bills created out of thin air does that really make everyone in the world richer?

No it does not. Everything stays the same.
I hope so too. I've used QueryStorm for a year or so. I try to avoid Excel as much as possible, but when I have to use it, I can spend 4 hour learning the Excel/VBA way to do something, or 1 minute and write it in SQL. It doesn't make sense how this isn't in Excel already.

Seriously. Try to do a join and some simple data manipulation/aggregation in Excel without this. Or try to emulate SQL minus/except. You'll Google for simple answers using the UI, and those probably don't even solve your exact problem, then dig until you find some that seem correct, try to implement them, and then realizes it doesn't work for some unknown reason. Then either give in and write VBA to do it (which also sucks), or pull it out of Excel and put in something that uses a good language.
They still inject that message now. I hit 90% almost monthly.
Capitol Steps still has something to contribute:

http://www.capsteps.com/lirty/

http://www.capsteps.com/lirty/jaula.html
Backbone Tap. The cover band by NSA employees. They play in venues, inside other venues, that don't officially exist.
Deep Laziness
Are they required to keep his messages somewhere for compliance?
How are anti-counterfeiting efforts done today?

Accounting.

For this use case, think of blockchains as a shared ledger.
Yes, absolutely.

The internet gives the average person the ability to mass disseminate information. If you want to try and use that as a metaphor then we should be allowed to own weapons of mass destruction.
I mean basic income is just either printing money, or redistribution of money. One leads to inflation, the other is Socialism and already practiced in a number of countries.

So we're basically just saying we need more socialism right? Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Edit: UBI evangelists, why am I being downvoted?
I am perplexed. If I wanted to, say, record licenses for a piece of software and enable people to transfer the licenses to others, why wouldn't a blockchain ledger be the perfect solution? Sure I could require them to physically buy a disc and then have them physically give the disc to a person they want to transfer it to, and it's just overcoming our human limitation of being meat-based creatures that exist in physical space that is particularly difficult to move through... but what's wrong with that? Every technology exists to overcome human limitations.

Technology serves human beings, human beings do not serve technology. Human beings are messy and unreliable. Making them non-messy and reliable would make them not human.
Exactly. Drive for profits doesn't have much explanatory power.