skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but extracting bitcoin need not leave large holes in the ground nor create heavy metal runoff in the water supply. Can always use more efficient power sources to mitigate some of the effects. And, there is incentive to do so.

But agree on better ways to create cryptocurrencies. That seems a better solution.
Which is probably a good thing, since it will slowly beat into the minds of upper-levels at corps and recruiters that a College Degree shouldn't be the minimum bar applicants need to reach, and maybe some of these companies will start removing the "has degree" band reject filter.
Pssst for most careers it hasn't been worth it for 20 years
> What all this suggests is that the college-degree premium may really be a no-college-degree penalty.

The most relevant conclusion here is that. However, I notice this article doesn’t explore the wealth of labor that only needs an associates or trade certification.
"The authors (of the study) don’t speculate as to why this is the case"

...but the author of the opinion piece will be happy to.
I think, they were late with that realisation for like 10 years.
The answer is going to be "very few." Perhaps enough that a competitor has room to gain some share, but the average user, even for a product like Nest? Nah.
Pytorch/glow: Compiler for Neural Network Hardware Accelerators
No, on the whole. There is no grand conspiracy, just a lot of people looking for a quiet life, avoiding rocking the boat, and slightly favouring people like themselves. But the end result is almost the same.
Feeling the Bern here...
It is an asset with a fixed issuance and censorship-resistant transactions.

Some people don't trust the authorities with the powers of issuance and censorship and find it interesting for those reasons. It is likely that you are not in that category.
When would you rather be alive? There are tons of problems with the world today and many that we can fix but aren't. But the idea that things are worse now than before is just not true.
No, that is an entirely different matter regarding far more precise location information.
Linux was able to allow connections to VID:0 PID:0 for usbserial.h about 3 days after the initial reports. From there, it was possible to rewrite the FTDI firmware to restore functionality.
Well, these sound like great excuses to not switch to ipv6.
> Representatives voting in complete ignorance would vote 50/50, on average.

Why?

> However, some representatives will actually have the technical knowledge needed to vote properly

By "properly", you mean "agreeing with me", right? This does not require any technical knowledge.

> so the majority would probably fall in NN's favour.

You implying everybody that has technical knowledge supports NN, and only reason to oppose it is ignorance. This is wrong and incredibly condescending.

> What do you think the vote ratio would look like if they only received biased information from lobbyists

Depends on how biased it is. If it's biased in favor of NN, the ratio would be something different than if it's biased against NN.

> Suddenly voting in ignorance doesn't sound too bad

Yes it does. Why would we need any Congress at all then? We could replace them with a cheap one cent coin and save a lot of money and drama. The point of representative government is that it is a focus point of an effort to figure out the right thing to do, and that all participants at least kinda trying to do it. If it's just random, there's no point of wasting effort on it, we can do much better random much cheaper.

> whereby a group of independent voters can make better aggregate decisions than any single voter,

I agree, having elections makes more sense than having a King.

> However, this breaks down if the votes are no longer independent.

Nobody is truly independent in a modern society. Not even a King - historically, there were lots of weak monarchs manipulated by their courts and seconds in command. Neither a person living in a modern society. Of course people influence other people. And this can produce negative effects like groupthink and mass panics. So what's your suggestion - ban talking about politics? Mind-wiping congressmen before voting?
> Raising the overall level of education in this country should be a much larger goal that it seems to be.

On one level, I totally agree. At the same time, well-meaning attempts to make college loans available to everyone for everything seem to have massively bloated the cost of education to a crippling degree. I think the key is in the how of the approach.
Just to be fair, this person waited until 3 days before expiration to verify that everything was ok with his registrar.

They should have done this 90 days ago.

Create and implement a business policy to have IT come up with a procedure to check this quarterly. There's no really any excuse for a tech company to have this happen.
Am I missing something, or did they just update the page?
The intel page specifies a Intel® Iris™ Plus Graphics 655 as the GPU, from what I can see.
> I've never understood this American notion that just because a private company is doing something that makes it fine. If you can't get a loan and can't find out why, what difference does it make whether it was the government or a private entity that blocked you?

A lot, actually. It might help you to understand if you realize it's not really about the loan. It's about the political control that such opaque denials can be used to implement. A private company, especially a large public one, has a lot fewer incentives for exerting political control over its customers than an authoritarian government over its people. The private company actually has a lot of incentives for not doing so, since that kind of thing can alienate customers.
Nowadays, in my honest opinion, tuition cost in an institution is not proportional to the "amount" of knowledge that you are getting out of it, but is rather proportional to the statistical chance of you acquiring a life-changing connection that will help you succeed in life - whether that's a chance you start a startup or getting that "dream" job + a statistical chance you will get hired based off of the institution's "brand".

I could be wrong, but my idea is that nowadays - schools are just brands, rather than an educational environments, but there are exceptions of course.
> Maybe try to figure out how to make the work fun?

You need discipline, not fun. Schools largely fail at teaching discipline, let alone self-discipline.
Thought experiment: would college be "worth it" if it were free?

That is to say, would it be a valuable use of time and effort?

I am sure there are people who can study hours of literature, philosophy, political science, math and physics on their own. I am sure they would write papers and find others to discuss them.

For the rest of us there is only college.

(You might ask: valuable to what end? Worth what? And that is a good question but the answer is much longer.)
When I see things like this I can't help but consider that China is some 400% larger than the US, in a slightly smaller landmass than we have, all while bordering 14 different nations - including several hotspots of Islamic extremism such as Pakistan and Afghanistan. I'm certainly not defending China, but I simultaneously find it difficult to condemn them.

How would we cope with a similar situation? And as a deeper and deeper divide is drawn within our nation - in no small part based on political extremism, I can't help but think that our current system is ultimately headed towards a climax that's not going to have a happy ending. And we live in a nation that ought be a million times easier to manage according to most measurable factors.
I think it's been clear for quite some time that "college for everyone" is not worth it, at all.
I'm asking what is more efficient at doing what Bitcoin does: censorship-resistant transactions with sound money.
> The transactions are denominated in fucking Bitcoin

LOL. No transitions get denominated in BTC. Cyrpto is way to volatile for that. Anybody sane prices their stuff in USD or some other currency.

Whether bitcoiners admit it or not, the fiat value of their internet tokens are the only thing they care about. What is their BTC worth and when can they go buy their lambo (using fiat, of course...)
If they just had to rely on the free market, colleges would have closed a long time ago.
They can't improve anymore because they don't get any signal they're doing a good job. If I'm doing a good job, I know because people will pay me or I win (cold)battles in war. Instead in these peaceful times, colleges don't have a way of knowing for sure they're doing good, except with self-congratulations and educational theories.

At the same time, I think if it wasn't for State licenses, regulations that force to have a degree and a culture that discriminate against people without a state-supported college degree, we would see no advantages for the college degree holder, at least with current colleges.
It's a con job.
Seems like the opposite, there's a smaller revolution going on in audio and music tech. Several big software names are about to start manufacturing their own dedicated hardware devices running DAWs.
Buying the discounted hardware on eBay is somewhat marginal as "good faith". That said, RTL-SDR hardware barely exists in the normal supply chain so consumers often have little choice but to roll the dice on eBay.

The one I bought came delivered in a plastic baggie in a padded envelope. It could have been stolen for all I know.

Is there a way to check which serial numbers were stolen? Can I demand a seller post a picture of the device with the serial number so I can check? How can I be sure they won't lie?
>against someone whose position is US government policy is to imprison black people on account of their ethnicity

Can you provide a source for this wild claim?
Reading the article I thought to myself that it’s a crappy piece that oversimplifies the complex landscape and tries to draw sensationalist conclusions... but after reading the Tweeter thread by the very scientist who’s work is cited, the article looks intentionally false and a retraction worthy.

Instead of saying that college is not worth it, why don’t we do MORE to make it free?

Even if people don’t end up using their knowledge fully, simply giving them the opportunity to have that knowledge may enrich their lives. There aren’t social downsides to free education (so long as it’s not censored).
If you get an education with the sole purpose of generating higher net earnings you deserve to lose money.

For most people it should hopefully be: "I want to be a lawyer, so I go to law school", or "I am interested in engineering so I study engineering" - you study because you need the degree to get the job you want.
I am a software developer with a Fine Arts major from a small liberal arts college. I am immensely grateful for my liberal arts background. Without it, I think I would be going through life a bit blind.
Engineers would much prefer to work for Google than Uber.
It depends on how you spend that time. Studing hard pays off, slacking off - not.
This should be a common knowledge. It more or less boils down to this and not status or race...
"just because a private company is doing something that makes it fine"
I didn't say that was what made it fine. I just said it is very different from a system that is government run and applies to everyone. Paying cash does not mean you're unable to participate in much of society. You can still use online services and do almost any transaction. Also, the outcome of a very bad credit score is that you have to pay cash for everything since nobody trusts that you will pay. The outcome of "social credit" is prison camp.
Deconstructing freedom might be a fun exercise, it is, however, completely unrelated if it comes to criticising dystopian state oppression. (Which the linked article is about.)

Torture & forced reeducation camps are wrong regardless of some other wrongness somewhere else.
Presumptuous. I've long had my own concerns about The System, but I don't think the fix is in a highly volatile and comparatively easy-to-disrupt electronic ledger.

Now, Gold OTOH...
How to interview a freelance developer
If somebody is passionate about art history, then they should get a degree in art history regardless of job prospects. You are limiting their ability to get the education they want.

Now I will agree that somebody getting an art history type degree shouldn't be taking loans to get it, they should be paying for it out of their pocket. However we should not limit somebody from pursuing their interests just because their interests are not valuable to society.
Environmental historian J. R. McNeill opined that Midgley “had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth’s history”,[19] and Bill Bryson remarked that Midgley possessed “an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny”.[20]
Here's the OpenVPN security announcements page:

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/SecurityAnnouncem...

There was a serverside remote code execution vulnerability in OpenVPN less than a year ago.

OpenVPN is large and gnarly. It's not one of the better understood codebases. The assumption that software security assessors have closely inspected it would not be well-founded. It has had "formal" audits, but audits are point-in-time snapshots done under timebox conditions.

The point of WireGuard, from an assurance perspective, is that it's designed to mitigate these concerns. It is a VPN with most of the mechanism of legacy VPNs stripped out. Less mechanism = less attack surface. It's two orders of magnitude smaller than other VPNs in terms of lines of code. Less code = easier to review = more reviews. It's not just small: it's thoughtfully small, as the post we're commenting spells out.

OpenVPN is built on TLS. TLS is a complicated protocol. It needs to support a variety of different users and the complexity of that task shows in the protocol; that complexity (and legacy support) is also a big part of the vulnerability history of TLS. Ordinarily, it would be worth assuming the risks of TLS's complexity rather than building a custom transport protocol, because secure transport protocols can be tricky to get right. But WireGuard has had formal academic analysis (in addition to a Tamarin model) and inherits cryptographic design from work Trevor Perrin did. WireGuard's protocol only has to serve WireGuard's use case, and is significantly less likely to have cryptographic vulnerabilities than TLS or the OpenVPN system as a whole.

The right way to think about it is that OpenVPN is like Sendmail, and WireGuard is something closer to qmail.
RFC4193 "Unique Local Addresses" may be your only hope when you need multiple VLANs and only a /64 allocation. You then use NPT. Basically, its a bit like RFC1918 + NAT. The horror ...
Agree - I think we should consider a well educated base of voters, workers, and neighbors as critical infrastucture along with roads and internet.

I think some decisions lately have highlighted an open hostility towards science, education, and by implication, democracy. This needs to be reversed.
Yeah. I mean nobody has ever managed to steal a Bitcoin right?
$17/mo is for 300 API calls per day - so that would be closer to 9,000 calls.

If you are looking to do more API calls than that there would definitely be cheaper pricing - especially if your use case involves sending requests as the user types!
FYI the Chinese government literally pays ppl to sit in massive internet cafes and camp out on various internet forums. They comment about how great China is and how anything bad in China is made not bad by something similar happening in the West.
Clearly the author never went to the University of Miami.
> Google: make 1 big, single, integrated service and when a startup supplants you in your selected market, just buy them for $15 billion.

They tried that with Google Plus. It didn't work so they tried to buy Twitter. That also didn't work, so we have the Google we have now.
The flipside of "information wants to be free"
I think that the DAO should abstract more away. It shouldn't simply allow SQL input - that defeats the purpose.
There are still many colleges that you cost less than a years salary. Other than that nitpick I agree. Economics aside I think that college doesn't actually prepare people for working in the real world. But the only thing that really does that is actually working in the real world.
How far can we take this? Theft is a big deal for manufacturers. They spend good money on preventing it. But will they continue to spend good money on prevention if instead they can just brick any lost devices? The nightmare is a manufacturer turning to a whitelist model, one where post-purchase the consumer must legitimize their purchase before use of the device. That DRM. There is massive overlap between the community of people who purchase SDR products and the group that will riot in the streets in protest of DRM.

Anyone who purchases tech devices owns some "pirate" content. When you buy a motherboard you don't know the pedigree of its hundreds of components. Trace each one and you will find a licensing or counterfeit issue somewhere. Should everyone be able to automagically brick counterfeit or stolen devices when those devices have been integrated, resold three times, and are now in the hands of innocent consumers? There are policy-based principals in western law that have long prevented such behavior in other arenas.

See: https://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/2-403

Not exactly on point, but an example of how we protect good-faith purchasers, even black-market purchase of "stolen" goods.
I used to always be pro-consumer in cases where the manufacturer does something like that to clones (Salae and FTDI cases)

After slowly getting into the manufacturing game myself and after USPS auctioned some of my cute early engineering samples that ended up on ebay, I definitely think this is totally reasonable from the manufacturer. Also the title of the article is already attacking the manufacturer. If you brick the devices, you hurt the person stealing and indeed it seems that this wasn't the first time it happened to them. On the consumer side maybe a discount would also be a nice gesture.
The company gets to prevent future thefts, they've most likely written off the loss already (they're not going to reuse those goods as new items at v. least), they can get PR and more "column inches" on a new story about buyers helping them and then getting gifted the device.
The institutional trading world uses a lot of private network connections, and it would be amazing if the whole industry migrated to IPv6. Then everyone could have a real subnet for each link with genuine globally-unique addresses. It wouldn’t even be a hard migration — vendors force everyone to update their network config on a semi-regular basis anyway.
> "Technology" for the company has been coming up with a mobile app to connect drivers and potential customers - something hardly groundbreaking

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16887276
Kind of; they posted the list on a forum and appear to have tweeted about it: https://www.sdrplay.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3225

There isn't really a centralized or standardized way to do this, though. I guess if I'm buying some smart-ish hardware, I just have to google around for the company and hope I did a good job.
That is the problem with politics: the unintended effects are always an issue.

Of course everything else has this issue as well. The only difference is most of us start small, and if it works we expand. You can't do that easily for national programs.
In many cases, a company is concerned about opening itself up to potential legal action. It sucks for candidates who really just want to know how to improve, but the safest action for a company is to simply not provide any information, rather than provide something that could be used against them later.

It's not dissimilar to why many companies can't provide more info on reference checks than the dates of someone's employment.

If you don't recall any major red flags, it really might just be an issue of fit. Maybe you didn't have a specific type of experience or expertise that they decided would work best for this job (and another candidate did). It doesn't mean you're not a great candidate, just that you're not the right candidate for this job at this company.
This I agree with. I'm just saying that the free choices of people in the western world are probably not as free as they could be. Is utopia a more regulated place? This feels like a dirty proposition to my capitalist (minus the tumors it has been growing lately) mind. But the seeds of doubt have been placed...
The third method in that CDC link says it was approved in 2013. But I gather that's a new productions/replication method as opposed to a new method of selecting strains? But again, what is the difference between selecting flu strains to combat a given flu season, and selecting phages to combat a given resistant bacteria.

I'm excited for a universal flu vaccine too, and hope that somehow that vaccine gets funded and succeeds.
Not op, but when I went through the exercise, the only difference was that I changed the type of socket I was creating, and I used `getaddrinfo()` to get a list of addresses to bind to vs just binding to a single entity.

There really isn't a whole lot of work that needs to be done to support IPv6 in an application, especially new build.
I don't deny that. We'll get to see how good it is soon enough.
How do you manage databases credentials at a startup/company?
Everyone who has ever been part of an engineering team in a tech startup or mid-size company, at some point had to ask the databases' credentials (username/password). Maybe of the development environment, staging or even the production environment. What do you do?
Yes, one theme being people being sanctimonious and echoing the advice I already gave: "but as far as health goes, get to a psychiatrist immediately"
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