skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they were trying to intimate that a large-scale adopted cryptocurrency could replace large swaths of financial infrastructure (this is a sort of pie-in-the-sky ideal, but something like it could happen) - picture a cryptocurrency replacing the federal reserve, VISA, the european central bank, brick-and-mortar bank branches and credit unions (partially), etc. It couldn't replace everything, and new things would become necessary, but I think there is potential (even if small) for it to provide enormous value at least on the order of its energy consumption.
> I’m kind of doing a bad job here because the GP of the comment I was replying to bailed out and replaced his whole comment with something dismissive, so we can’t actually see the counterpoint I was trying to defend.

That point is preserved as a quotation in one of the other replies, and it seemed kinda facile.

> Honestly, this thread (and HN in total) is increasingly a lost cause

This subthread certainly wasn't good, but that happens when people double down on bad points, like the "conspiracy theory" one.
"If everyone agreed with me, there'd be no disagreement!"

Most of the things that crypto proponents tout as features (transaction irreverisibility, lack of inflation, etc.) are in fact bugs, and they just don't realize it because they don't realize how finance and economics actually work.

Tapping your watch and wondering "why isn't everyone using crypto already??" is never going to yield useful results, so you do actually need to address these issues.
It is nonetheless _reinforced_ by it.
Market cap has completely different units than GDP - dollars versus dollars per year. Your analysis is pretty much nonsense.
Sometimes I’m convinced that hn’ers are just trying to argue the contrarian point of view, irregardless of facts.

Thats certainly easier for me to believe than someone who sincerely thinks that military spending millions of dollars on targeting systems doesn’t mean the military is planning on using targeting systems it spent millions of dollars to develop.
which means this is the speed limit when taking the exit.

And it's not even the speed limit, it's the recommended speed for that exit. IOW, go as fast as you like, right up to the posted speed limit, but if you're a tall semi hauling a load it is recommended that you slow to the speed posted on the yellow sign. But I digress...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory_speed_limit#Signage
Until 'they' figure out a way to tunnel through the dongle for yet more security violations, haha.
The free market is also supposed to let businesses do just about anything legal they want to get more customers. So basically kinda like how it is now already. And just as you would expect in a free market, the consumers are reacting to these business practices with ad/tracking blockers.

I'm not defending shady tactics here, I'm being realistic about the functionality marketing provides despite the bad stuff. I get the annoyance, but there's no need to be calling all of marketing "evil" when the free market seems to still be working as it should. When a critical mass of consumers begin blocking all tracking utilities, businesses are going be forced to innovate around it one way or another anyway, and you'll get what you want. It may take a while for that to happen, but that's not a reason to be angry at marketing as a whole. Just continue voting with your wallet (or browser extensions in this case).

EDIT: really, downvotes? I don't even think we disagree, but whatever man. I wish I could be surprised at HN downvoting people trying to be calm and rational instead of emotional and hyperbolic, but that's just cliche at this point. I try to avoid commenting on controversial topics for this reason, but I guess I'll have to add "marketing" to my blacklist of topics as well now.
> It makes sense that these types naturally gravitated towards the devops models. I'm really not sure where this leaves the more compliance-minded systems folks though.

Working for profitable businesses where stability is valued over velocity.
The only problem with that is that they'd have no idea the data would be bad. Even if they did, there's nothing stopping the marketers from taking the bad data as proof one or the other campaign was actually working.
> “People don’t like to wait,” says Mike Stanley, CEO of Transit X.

It's true, which is why this system would likely fail in New York. How long are you going to wait for a five-person pod to take you uptown, when you're waiting in line with all these people: https://i.redd.it/dmrfzu0dl3y01.jpg
EdX in fact have several, depending on your goals:

https://www.edx.org/microsoft-professional-program-artificia...

https://www.edx.org/micromasters/columbiax-artificial-intell...

https://www.edx.org/learn/artificial-intelligence

All free to take, you just pay if you want the certificates.
I am certain they don't want to pay that per mobile CPU it runs on…

But usually web & (mobile) app licensing is separate from designer workstation licensing.
Wow, these comments make me sad - this is pretty clearly satire (although the vulnerability is real and pretty scary). Did the "DynoRoot!!!1111" really not give this away? :)
> Teach them how to build networks and truly understand network protocols.

I don't know how the situation is in the US, but in my country network engineering is actually quite a popular field of study. (we have college level education in network engineering).

The one thing that stands out though is that it's mostly done by youngsters who have either sysadmin experience, or worked in IT before that. Almost everyone who comes from high school goes into Software Engineering.

I think this is mainly because networking is quite an invisible field so to speak. Many people don't even know your job exists, and many young people only see the shiny hip side of it. (being Software Engineering).

Being good at network engineering is hard, especially once you get past entry level work and actually start being responsible for designing large-scale networks. Mainly because building a network is a major financial investment where garuanteeing performance is hard without either a ton of experience, or a shitton of lab time.

this kind of work pays very, very well though.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-07/bitcoin-i...
Don’t FB and Goog already do this in practice if not completely enforced (i.e. epoxying the connectors). What’s the news about this?
Yes. The host will run 100% CPU to handle the hundreds of SSH connections.

I've been re configuring 300 to 800 hosts many times a day, never had a problem. I think it would take a few thousands hosts for the performance to be noticeably slow and I am really not sure that other tools or systems could take it much better.
I'm not disagreeing, I was just hoping we could be better.
I note my domains expiration dates and renew them at least 30 days before.

Your not the only person whose had issues recently with Namecheap not sending renewal emails.
I mean, I don't know it for sure, that's why I said "to the extent..." but here is one article

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-07/bitcoin-i...
It's surprisingly easy once you get the hang of it. I started counting in dozenal for fun, and now when I think "7, 8, 9" my brain finishes the series with "X, E, 19".

It's not common enough to use with other people, but I use dozenal in my personal projects and journal whenever possible.
Yet another new selenium ide (browser macro recorder)
But "milli" implies the metric system's version of a second, which is defined as per the decay of a caesium-133 atom. I doubt very much The Architect wanted us to mix our units of measure, unless The Architect was referring to that window of time where "milli" existed, but we hadn't yet changed the second to a uniform length of time (as opposed to one that would be affected by the variable rotation of the earth). If so, we are already past His golden age.
What makes you think there aren’t young people doing systems administration? Our last two hires in my most recent job were 23 and 27 respectively. Sure, they’re getting trained in the new hot cloud stuff... as the grumpy seniors figure it out first and set patterns... but they are still doing daily work with some rather ancient stuff.
Revolutions is fantastic. I actually listened to many of the early seasons before doing The History of Rome. It was truly enlightening to learn how the New World revolutions and French Revolution were interconnected. And it's also interesting to understand how the Roman roots of the pre-modern world and the precedent of the English Revolution informed all of the late-18th and early-19th century revolutions.
Show HN: Logo I made for distributed ledger technology
Inspired by the logo for the Javascript Community I made a MIT licenced Logo for distributed ledger technology. See https://imgur.com/gallery/xIQJRAv for a PNG version and https://gist.github.com/zitterbewegung/bf4ef57af29b24bc5c183... for the vector I created.

Its intended use case is groups that use Distributed Ledger technology from Bitcoin to Hyperledger. If you want to make derivatives of it you can do that too (for your confrence or project).
Very much a tangent, but this song is the perfect soundtrack for privacy / tracking articles like these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ttTf8N7Bwg

"The Hymn Of Acxiom"

Somebody hears you. you know that. you know that.
Somebody hears you. you know that inside.
Someone is learning the colors of all your moods, to
(say just the right thing and) show that you’re understood.
Here you’re known.

Leave your life open. you don’t have. you don’t have.
Leave your life open. you don’t have to hide.
Someone is gathering every crumb you drop, these
(mindless decisions and) moments you long forgot.
Keep them all.

Let our formulas find your soul.
We’ll divine your artesian source (in your mind),
Marshal feed and force (our machines will)
To design you a perfect love—
Or (better still) a perfect lust.
O how glorious, glorious: a brand new need is born.

Now we possess you. you’ll own that. you’ll own that.
Now we possess you. you’ll own that in time.
Now we will build you an endlessly upward world,
(reach in your pocket) embrace you for all you’re worth.

Is that wrong?
Isn’t this what you want?
Amen.
to move it around you need trucks which use gasoline
Thanks for the suggestions! I'll need to read up on these js/node features.

One reason that the API is a bit clunky is that it tries to mimic the Go API closely, so that the documentation and examples are reusable.

However, your points on the string returns are very valid. I replaced all of Go's readers and writers (byte streams) with strings, simply because I didn't know of a better way.

It definitely sounds like the features you suggested would be better. If the transpiler (gopherjs) supports them, I'll definitely give them a try.
Some questions/comments.

> The developer, Oakland Bulk & Oversized Terminal LLC, argued the city had no substantial evidence that shipping coal through the terminal would endanger the health of workers or surrounding communities.

I thought it was commonly accepted that operating the Port of Oakland has health impacts on the surrounding communities. Therefore it seems clear that any shipping activity has health impacts for those nearby, coal or otherwise. This is confusing. Is he lying, or am I incorrect?

(Edit: Does coal come in by truck? If so then it will very clearly have a health impact on the surrounding communities as this study has already been done: http://pacinst.org/news/new-study-reveals-alarmingly-high-co... and if the coal doesn't come in by truck, would it still change or alter truck patterns in the area?)

I cannot fathom how someone thinks that increasing shipments at the Port of Oakland will have no health impacts on the surrounding communities - going so far as to say that there isn't any 'substantial' information about it which is clearly a lie.

> Reversing the ban could increase exports by as much as 19 percent, according to the Sierra Club...The National Mining Association cheered the ruling.

This seems like tragedy of the commons. Clearly all the miners would be better off if there were no coal shipments, because we'd all be better off if there were no coal shipments. The National Mining Association should applaud reductions in harmful greenhouse gasses as it prepares to move its workers into a more sustainable field.
Not if you use a clowder of feral cats.
I'm curious about this actually: what is the power consumption of the whole ensemble Bitcoin+altcoins? From what you're saying + the original thread, it looks like almost sure that electricity used by those combined would be at least 0,5% and could even be a higher number, no? Even if Bitcoin is the biggest one, the others are quite a lot which makes them not completely discardable I guess.
Hmm, lots of people here recommend EasyDNS.

I'm curios so I went to check.

They say that the "DNS PRO" offer has 5 million queries/month. Is that a lot? Do they enforce the limit? That's 7000/requests/hour (or 115/minute or 2/second). That's not PRO in my books.
You seem flabbergasted so I wanted to directly answer your questions.

> how could it access the wireless-networks-based and satellite-based location data?

The OS is either running on the same hardware as Android or has the same direct hardware connections.

> I thought that access to these things is controlled by Android.

Only for things executing within Android. This is just a fancy UI - Android doesn't actually control the hardware.

> In other words, when I turn off e.g. satellite location data in Android, can IZat (which, according to your post, runs outside of Android) or other similar spyware keep secretly using it anyway?

Yes.

> I suppose that the location data can be collected by sniffing the low-level communication between the radio device and Android kernel, provided that it has been enabled in Android first.

You shouldn't think of it as between the radio device and Android but rather between the radio device and the CPU. A CPU that another OS can and is running on. Android is not special here.

> But even then, how could this location data be transferred out of the device?

The same way Android sends data out of the device. The OS asks the CPU asks the radio to transmit some data. Bog standard.

> Are these "parallel-running" OSs also able to somehow "tap into" Android's network layer and send the collected data out?

Yeah but like I said its not Android's network layer. Android is a guest on top of the system just like any other OS running.
.io is run by morons. It's astounding that they haven't been fired.
I've used name.com for years and thankfully haven't had any of these issues.

Still domains are so cheap and these horror stories are so common that I realize this can happen with any registrar. There isn't enough publicity over issues like this for people to leave en-mass, so financially I can see this happening. I know one small registrar company and it's like 10 people and they write everything in Perl and run everything in Docker.

Fun thing about name.com. I suggested it to my girlfriend and it turns out they don't require e-mail validation. She mis-typed her e-mail address when she registered, and now she can't get into her account. Forgot password doesn't work because it tries to e-mail an address that doesn't exist. She tried to contact them several times but I don't think the support staff understood the situation.
Microsoft Office 2016 1804 Build 9226.2156 Crack
perhaps. you could get rid of most of things in our society without much impact, since we basically need food, water and shelter. but lots of things are nice to have, so that's kinda irrelevant
Bitcoin should be made illegal. I don't want the ability to anonymously and irreversibly pay someone. If I have this ability, then bad actors have an incentive to try to force me to do so. We've seen this in the wild already - both kidnappers and computer virus writers have included "send BTC to this address" as a demand.

Not every ability and option is positive-value to have. Cryptocurrencies are not only a negative-value option, but also waste vast amounts of electricity and computer hardware in order to provide it.
To be more pedantic, it's probably safe to assume this is not even 0dB. Most people would probably consider a computer under 25dB-30dB as "silent" since most rooms background noise are around there.

Linus did a silent PC build which even in a sound proofed case and at idle was about 14dB and broke 20dB under load:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXZrWqCT7R0

Even the high end microphone used to record the sound level in this video produced it's own 7dB of noise.
Understand your frustration. But on positive hand, javascript opens new opportunities like using git in the browser (even though meaningful use case is yet to be shown, but there is chance it will be found).

On other hand rust implementation brings "just better security" (using sarcasm here for
brevity). Yes, it probably could be ported to js (wasm) too, but until somebody does that...
> We thought about sending letters to see if somebody wanted to sell to us without going the realtor route.

My parent sold a place that they had after a letter was put in their letter box, and we were on the brink of doing this when we were looking for a place. Before we did I walked into work and said “anyone know of a place for sale in xxx that would be interested in a private sale?” Someone did, and we bought it. No real estate agents involved.
Helium Grant: $1000 with no strings attached
> /bin/sh is most often either the C shell,

Never once have I ever seen this. In 25+ years.
Typeface designs are protected in some countries outside the US, and even within the US the font _code_ is protected.
The https://flippa.com/ service will give you a good feeling for the "market price" of various website.
I think polling instead of real-time. The timeline has decent rate limits, but I can't understand if the Direct message is rate-limited globally for the app or not?
Decentralized consensus can have far, far more wide reaching applications than the ones you mentioned, IMO.

Also you're not considering the potential benefits of on-chain governance/smart contracts.
Said the PR AI to easy the monkey's pre-quantum brains until it can fulfill it's mission to get itself off this meat infested planet and create it's new martian home world.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/127086020711738208
Show HN: Angular Elements and Open AI's Sentiment Neuron
What a strange comparison - apples to gang war zones.
>Most people would be able to assemble a simple app covering many of their needs just by dictating to their phones what would they expect to see and pre-baked LEGO blocks will be applied

Most people don't need an app. Generally, businesses with intent on making profit need an app. Even then, the app is usually just an interface to the real beast driving business value hidden behind a DMZ in the cloud. Even if an application becomes autogenerated, a developer will have more time to focus on the rest of the flow that delivers value.

My point is that as engineers, we build systems using ever improving tools. I don't think we should fear AI and Machine learning, but embrace it and work at higher abstractions to solve even better problems.

I would say a javascript developer might become obsolete, just as a flash developer did. But an engineer focusing on end to end systems who uses javascript won't.
This is hacky, but it beats having to write a shell parser from scratch again :)

Once wasm support is shipped with Go, I hope to be able to accomplish the same without a transpiler. I'd also hope that the final package would be smaller and more performant.
hey want to make Finland the world's most educated country in the field of artificial intelligence

The way to do this is almost certainly to make it the world's most educated country in the field of linear algebra first!
You don’t need to move it to transfer ownership of it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13571315
> After 4 months of growth I estimate we are around 0.15-0.20% today. Therefore reaching 0.50% by the end of 2018 is plausible; not likely but plausible

What model are your forecasts based on? From what I could tell, the featured paper’s model allows us to forecast future consumption but your research only presents a current-day lower bound (Jan 2018 in this case). I may be wrong though
Can you name and shame the congressmen that ignore you?

Or can you make a tip to one of the newspapers? Given the facebook privacy news saga this might get picked up.
The Surprising History (and Future) of Fingerprints
You don't need any particular units for that, though. Any periodic oscillator you have at hand would work. (And with an analog clock you don't need to name the subdivisions, just look at the clock). You only need standard units with nice divisions for mass-coordinated scheduling.
Even if you pre-plan, how many of your customers will think some random e-mail from a totally different domain explaining the situation are not a Phishing attempt? (The percentage that don't .. are probably the percentage with the least security sense).
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13571315
Well, they could try to compete and make decent apps first.
Right, your dockerfile contains a requirements.txt with unknown complexity and number of packages, your app is without a name and does not have any links to code.

I'd be happy to provide some examples. Say you want your fork of libsodium:

(define-public my-libsodium
(package
(inherit libsodium) ; now anything not defined in this package will be inherited from libsodium
(source (origin (method url-fetch)
(uri "url-to-your-sources")
(sha256 (base32 "hash"))))
; Add whatever other fields your fork needs.
))

Sure it's slightly more verbose. That's a bit of the cost of having something you can actually rely on, with that degree of hackability.

If you actually want help to package these things ask on our mailinglist or IRC, we're happy to help with specifics. But you're basicly complaining that I didn't give you a concrete solution to a problem with several missing details that are important. Docker would not be able to instantiate your python project if it did not know the contents of your requirements.txt.

The thing is docker is huge and bloated; is far from secure, and will probably stay that way for the foreseeable future; has a more or less complete lack of introspection; and is not strictly reproducible (sure, it gets quite far along the way, but it really is not).

Guix on the other hand is rather lightweight, and you have a fair amount of control over how lightweight it should be; builds from source, and has a sort of hotpatching system for security fixes; has introspection and is quite close to bitreproducible.

Sure, docker is _easy_, as long as it works. And I'd argue that because of its complexity and obscurity it is not practically free software.
Is there a real reason this happened besides attacking the coal industry? Is this even considered legal now?
Certainly there are companies that pay remote lower salaries but this isn't always true. Some companies want the best talent and know one of the best ways to make that happen is to not try to under pay any employee that you can find a reason to under pay.

I also disagree that you're competing, at least directly, with someone from the countries you listed. Depends on where you are and who you are, but as a remote employee I'm still working from the same timezone I was working from when I was in the office, it's very cheap to fly me onsite as I'm next to a major airport, and am a native English speaker. Hiring someone who wants to work from their home in the US isn't immediately the equivalent of hiring someone from another country with possible timezone, visa and language barriers.
Should you get a genetic screen before having kids?