skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, this depends on the cost and value of the truth being higher than the cost and value of a lulz.

The art example is a great demonstration of the mismatch. There is essentially zero value in the truth, so it was worth a bit of the author's time for the lulz.

With cryptocurrency, the cost to subvert the truth is pretty high, so the value of doing so, although high, doesn't exceed the cost. With anything for which the value isn't inherent, like a cryptocurrency, it's hard to see that working out.

I mean, if I'm using a hypothetical art-ownership blockchain system, and I see that someone has spent $5 to claim authorship of Mona Lisa, do I care enough to spend $6 to say no, it's Leonardo? Do I care enough to spend even $1, along with five other people? What if 200 4chan trolls have each pitched in a dollar to say Hitler painted it? Eventually, maybe, enough people kick in a combined $201 to say no, seriously, it was Leonardo. But then what? Am I expected to continue paying a regular fee to maintain the truth? Why would I even care that much?

Wikipedia is a great example of something working really well, but many of the reasons it works so well are contrary to what you've described. It is in fact often people with far more time than money that ensure the truth generally remains on wikipedia, and they use non-blockchain-like tools, including the exertion of authority and locking of article pages, to do it.

I'm not trying to crap on your super-sekret whitepaper at all! I'm mostly thinking this through as I type, and responding to the poor design, heck, the poor goal of the described art-authorship application. You might have solved all of this in a way that doesn't depend on trolls being poor or getting bored easily. I hope so.
Are these people "fried" because they used those substances, or because of how they used them, or how they viewed, integrated (or not-integrated) their experiences?

A visual distortion is a good example. When experiencing a visual distortion, it is possible to feel anxious about the appearance of such a distortion, or instead one could be indifferent to it, or even enjoy and welcome it. It need not be negative.

More research is certainly needed on the negative experiences people sometimes have with psychedelics (so far, most of the research has focused on the positives), but I have a strong feeling that how people approach their experiences, what they expect to happen, and how they interpret what happens plays a very critical role on whether the experience is positive or negative for them. This is the old "set" (or "mindset") part of "set and setting" that's critically important for their constructive use.

Also, it may be possible to work through any anxiety or negative effects one experience with a therapist. Panic attacks and anxiety, for instance, are things that therapists tend to be actually really good at treating.
You don't put the failures on the resume as failures :)
Interesting idea, but I'm not convinced unless he breaks it without knowing the internal state. The PCG idea is extremely simple yes, but you need to know the first bits to know which algo is used. And the first bits are the hardest to get.
You linked a DL course, but I would probably focus on CV. I found another Udacity one for CV here: https://www.udacity.com/course/computer-vision-nanodegree--n...
> being one of their paying customers

How many of the "large following" of Google Reader were paying customers? As far as I can tell, the answer is basically zero.

And that's the problem: Google has no idea how valuable its various apps and services are to their actual users, because the actual users are not the ones paying for them.
I think the biggest threat to these businesses is municipal. Maybe they don't go dock-less but this might be cheaper than supporting under utilized bus lines at the same cost for consumer without all the waiting. Obviously this is much more applicable to warm weather climates but it seems these will put the bike shares out of business. Interesting to see how it pans out...
For what it's worth Western Digital does extensive testing of drive performance under audio vibration, especially on mobile drives that are likely right next to a laptop speaker.
In many states insurance covers these costs. On my insurance the cost is the same as a doctor appt, $40, and that includes both the subscriber and the dependents. Psychologists and psychiatrists. It can be hard to find doctors who are accepting new patients but its not impossible.
"Nobody gives a damn, he said" haha
Deleted my account after Cambridge analytica story broke out. It was fun when it was about photography. It really boost my interest and made me experiment and move on to DSLR and mirrorless eventually etc. But with sponsored ads and less and less people interested in photography, I didn’t feel I was missing much.
I was referring to the recklessly poor decisions, not the salary.
I don't know how legitimate these stories are, but some folks swear that they've gotten rid of various addictions after their trips on Ayahuasca. This is apparently a mixture of plants that some tribes in South America have been using for self-medication for ages.
We use Firebase (and Firebase Functions :fire:) for most of our stuff. Then have a few things running on App Engine. What are you building? I'm a big fan of firebase if it makes sense for what you are building!
It's not just the US educational system. I doubt any country's education teaches kids everything. For example in Greece history lessons are dominated by our history as you would expect. It's 50% Classical Greece, 30% Byzantium and 20% for the rest of the world which is pretty much European history and a bit of Mesopotamia. We learn nothing about Asian cultures or American ones. And this is to be expected. Every country teaches the history of those that affected them most.
Blockchains don't scale. Period.

If that's your position then changing the POW won't help.

(I know no one cares, but there could be a pragmatic scaling path where you increase on-chain throughput while you do sharding/layer 2 research.)
Yes, Dat's core data structure is an append-only log that is designed for extremely fast real-time replication. http://github.com/mafintosh/hypercore

If you use Dat through its command-line app, you get real-time updates to the files shared using it.
The obvious rebuttal is, do they need to be decentralized?
> Google Reader was an irrelevant product to the general public

Do you have any numbers to back this up? From what I remember, it had at least several million users.
> the VNM axioms assume that preferences aren't over histories at all, but instead over states

That depends on how you formulate the axioms; or, equivalently, how you formulate the state.

Eg, you can construct a vNM agent that strongly avoids "outcomes" where it spend a week awake, even if the end state of the world the agent is operating in retains no information about that. The "outcomes" A_i of the vNM axioms are (potentially) the entire observable history of the agent's universe.
Even first-party roving salespeople can be a big turn-off.

I've found that my local Walmart is often cheaper than Amazon, but I've been shopping at Amazon more frequently ever since I was repeatedly ambushed by people trying to get me to sign up for a Walmart Mastercard while I was wandering around the store shopping.
After trying a Bird scooter once and really enjoying the experience, I came to a similar conclusion. I bought the same model electric scooter that Bird uses for around ~$500 and I've been commuting to work with it for the past couple of weeks. I love it. It's such a fun way to get around. I imagine there are others like me, who might have become regular Bird customers if owning the scooter wasn't this affordable.
This is my experience, so not sure why the downvotes.
Quantom mechanics is based on non-locality, that's one of the things people have problems with.

Quantum key distribution for example is seems to be based on this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_key_distribution.

As to the truth well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I disagree, I don't think there is anything amazing about blockchains. But I do agree that it is a solution in search of a problem.
I don't prefer to share whether or not I agree or disagree with your opinion on whether or not google lies or almost lies, but...

Google is very healthy among many axes. Sadly, I don't think truth or honesty are as potent motivators as ubiquity and convenience. This all to say, Google will be around for a long while.
Non-web person here: No idea that Google Maps costs money for anyone, assumed it was ad-supported like anything else.
There is an interface for proving ownership of physical items. It is a centralized system, composed of courts and governments, but it works.

If someone challenges your ownership of property, you bring your papers to court.

The same thing could work for cryptoassets: you have a centralized, trusted system for validation of custody of assets, and then its share distribution is handled on the blockchain.
Healthcare is only required for companies with >10 employees.
Simple file uploads with Koa and FormData
Wasn't the only reason vice got bought by cnn because zucker's teenage son told his dad "this is where people my age read the news"?
Depending on the implementation, too, generics can be more friendly in other ways. C# emits code for both value types and reference types when appropriate and uses the correct paths as needed.
For an interesting coarse overview of this stuff, I've been reading The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, by Peter Frankopan. It's a sprawling world history, from earliest recorded history to the present (I'm currently between WWI and WWII), based on the idea that the Orient (particularly the Eastern Mediterranean basin over to present-day India), not Europe, is the historic center of civilization. Northern/Western Europe was an impoverished, uninteresting backwater until the discovery of the New World (which precipitated a major economic shift, thanks to the tremendous gold reserves that Spain exploited, affecting world currency markets).

The author makes interesting arguments that the area is the center of civilization even in modernity. For example, he argues that the main cause of WWI was British fear of a resurgent Russia taking India from them - not German aggression, as is commonly understood by Eurocentric views of history.

At any rate, the book is full of epic, sweeping battles, the ebb and flow of great cities like Constantinople and Baghdad, the rise and fall of empires. Highly recommended if you like this stuff!
I never understood the public fandom behind them and Elon Musk

If this is a serious comment, see https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/05/elon-musk-the-worlds-raddest-... and the other parts of the series.
Anybody else catch this delicious tidbit?

> Unpublished research carried out on behalf of the European Commission at a cost of $400,000 suggests that unauthorized uploads are not a pressing problem: "In general, the results do not show robust statistical evidence of displacement of sales by online copyright infringements."

Unpublished, eh? Sounds like a whistleblower in the bureaucracy is trying to torpedo this turd. Pretty weak attempt though. Next, leak some memos or emails showing government apparatchiks plotting against citizen dissenters who've used clever memes against them and then we've got a bombshell story! ;)
Absolutely. I mean, there are all sorts of fruitcakes all around the Balkans, but in general, things do carry on peacefully. A lot of political points are gathered on everyday stupidities between Serbian and Croatian politicians, to be honest, but that is another story.

The situation with Albanians in Macedonia is disconcerting, at least from a Serb's perspective. It is just too easy to notice a pattern of behaviour, incidents and evenrs, and almost threatening stance, even in some comments here regarding the Albanian majority in Macedonia. Serbia has been through that and handled it poorly, and I'm afraid that Norhtern Macedonia is on the same slippery slope.
That will definitely work, but there must be some other factor at play. There are plenty of populations in the world that consume a lot of grain but do not necessarily suffer from increased rates of obesity.
You can lift and gain weight / feel bad from unhealthy eating.
Not sure why this is down-voted. Healthcare is only required for companies with >10 employees.
Thanks for sharing! Entertaining read.

The app uses rot(4) to obscure data, includes a debug link with the collected data, and has the Fluzo service api key hardcoded, among other gems.
More or less: at home, but in a basement room with temperature swings. For the application it was fine: it was going to be used in a temp controlled environment anyway. My current project I'm thinking of using BeagleBone because I trust their temperature range specs.

Is it possible your Pi was suspending USB as part of power management? I've had that problem with some other devices.
Don't forget to let your body rest from the weight lifting.
> Greek culture, which was arguably far superior.

The Romans put up a valiant rearguard action against cultural aggression, what with forbidding permanent theaters, favoring the native blood sports, etc.;-)

Unfortunately, pretty soon all the aristocracy was hiring the pedagogues, watching the shows and reading greek, and that was that.

Umm, reminds me of something. Can't quite put my finger on it.

(Plus, that uncouth Macedonian lout had sprayed a top layer of Hellenism over much of the former Persian empire - that helped a lot too.)
I can follow you until

> IMHO the real shame in this case was licensing the code base something other than GPL. GPL would have made continued use unambiguous even in the presence of ambiguous ownership.

I don't understand how GPLv2 or GPLv3 or BSDL and many (any, AFAICT) FOSS license would not have done the same. The problem is CC non-commercial. Its actually an anti competitive license. Imagine RedHat using that for all their software. Oracle not allowed to compete?
>People who view all of these things through the lens of traditional narrative of the Milgram experiments are doubtlessly discounting the role true belief in the cause plays

Do they? I agree with your view on the takeaway from the Milgram experiments - that conviction in cause is the necessary factor in addition to the nudging from the authorities.

Does it makes it any better?

Replace (science + man in a lab coat) with (religion + man in a robe) or (political ideology + man wearing the right insignia) or ("we are saving the world" BS + manager in a $80 T-shirt), and you'll get the same results as long as the cause is believable.

If you are the one being hit with a stick for nothing, does it really matter to you that the one who did it truly believed that it was for some higher cause - without pausing to think how perhaps this is not the best way to get there?
The bullshit piled up so fast in Vietnam you needed wings to stay above it.
This submission points to a random wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

SolidXK appears to be here: https://solydxk.com/
> By proving that without a central authority (centralization) verifying everything going into the blockchain, it is actually useless?

So then I guess there's no use for cryptographic signing, hash chains, and graph-theoretic consensus protocols? Because that's what you're saying. Your characterization of blockchains as "useless" only makes it seem like you have no idea what it actually is. It's not that complicated. It's just a handful of known and widely-accepted-as-not-being-useless-on-their-own algorithms which have been combined in a creative way.

> In that case, it is better to use a traditional and controlled database.

So then you get...what? You get the same thing but without cryptographic integrity checks. If incorrect data is committed, don't use that data. Or, better yet, commit a revocation of that data. At least you don't have to worry about Larry's shipping company cooking the books after the fact to their own advantage.
> a free service

> that people relied on

Maybe when the "Web 2.0" bubble finally bursts, a key learning for the world will be: you can't build a sustainable business on top of someone else's unsustainable business. If your business depends on a long-term regular supply of anything (information, raw materials, whatever), then you probably want to figure out as quickly as possible how to pay something close to what that is worth and ignore the shifty guys knocking on the back door saying "hey, dude, look at these steaks! best quality! super low prices! don't ask where they come from... I'll even give you the first batch for free!"
I'm 6ft, Have a 32" waist and a BMI of 26.5 (making me 'overweight').

BMI is terrible except as a very quick "You really shouldn't be 35 on the BMI scale" sanity check.
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No, just because you concoct the most ridiculous analogy you can think of does not make it so.

It was only about 20 years ago that Microsoft went from thinking the web has nothing to do with their core business, to becoming the dominant browser maker, to spending 5 years without releasing an update, and hamstringing all efforts to push the state of web development forward for almost a decade.

Google is approaching a similar level of dominance with Chrome now, and it's pretty scary when you consider the kinds of power plays they could make if they really wanted to. A walled garden, by comparison doesn't have much chance of displacing something as broad as the web except by a complete paradigm shift—mobile apps are the closest thing we've had since the web became dominant, but there's still the installation barrier that has slowed or reversed the process with app fatigue.
This is one of those cases where my instinct is to believe the result because I agree with the basic conceit.

Given the state of replication in social sciences, though, I'm inclined to be very skeptical of the paper at first blush, given that it is a meta study [1]. Especially since many of the studies cited in the meta studied show no effect or a negative effect, and it's completely possible that additional studies showing no effect or a negative effect were never published or even terminated early because null results are uninteresting.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/2018-gordon.pdf
Erm, no. They might have overestimated how valuable its various apps and services are to their actual users, but they will find out.
>. It is also certainly true that lives have been saved by Autopilot. There is no statistics to tell which group is larger, but Musk and Tesla obviously think the second group is larger.

The Tesla deaths per mile statistics are not that much better than overall US statistics and that involves all sorts of weather and road conditions that Autopilot does not. In addition, the death statistics also include older and or cheaper cars that do not have the recent safety features. A much better comparison is with vehicles costing the same as Teslas and comparing their crash statistics.
That's the definition of uncountably infinite: can not be put in 1-to-1 correspondence with the integers (can not be listed).
Maybe this would go too far into the "uncanny valley", but why not have teleconferencing sales people? Eg have a terminal near the solar products where you can hit a button and immediately be connected to a remote sales rep. This way you can cut down the sales reps to, say 0.2 per store. And you never talk to one unless you want to either.
Yeah, let's take medical advice from ancient intoxicated tribesmen. That will work out great.
I've become increasingly annoyed by Musk's personality, ego, Twitter tantrums and his deceptive statements. I used to be a big fan and follower of anything Elon-related. Still a fan of SpaceX.

Having said that, I think they make well-designed, innovative and inspiring products. Build quality and financials are terrible though.

> A fund manager can be as risky as she likes

This is off-topic but... am I the only one that finds this cringey and forced, given that it's such a such male-dominated field?
Not sure why this is downvoted. That is the goal of the law, I don't see how one can disagree with that. It favors user priorities and control very strongly, and I'd add it does that because companies like Google have been playing it fast and loose with user privacy for decades and have all but annihilated the trust of the general public with regard to it.
....they have rm /bin/sh in an install script....

Only way it coulda been worse was something like.
rm -f /usr

Like...they remove sh.....

That's not just some silly little error...
Two things:

1. Cars have very very large batteries. You'd be hard-pressed to use more than a third of the capacity of a high-end Tesla Model S over night (100 KWh!). Sure, maybe you're driving a Nissan Leaf and its battery is only a third of that capacity, but in a few years 100 KWh might actually be common. What if you want your car battery to be at 100% in the morning so you can go on a roadtrip? Just make sure your car is aware of it.

2. There's going to be a marked for used batteries from old, retired electric cars. You might only need 20-40 KWh of remaining capacity to live comfortably in a fully off-the-grid solar setup.
It is what our bodies are meant to do. I view that dependency as a sogn. No exercise leads to a gradual sucking decline where you are diminished. Excercise challenges the bodies systems. My theory: I have all the time after I am dead to stop working out :)
You're missing the point entirely.

Compared to sugar-laced and processed frozen foods that replaced them, anything home-cooked would be wildly more healthy.

I did forget to mention the mountains of C-ration style canned vegetables and fruits that were also present.
That is pretty much the definition of uncountability :)
Advanced shell history – save your history to sqlite3
Kim Jong-un of North Korea
Franz Ferdinand was a fall guy.
> > We learned about the formation of the solar system, then dinosaurs, then Cro-Magnon Man

Consider yourself fortunate that they were covered at all. In some schools those are taboo subjects, as they conflict with the religious ethos.
It will be fairly amusing to see this in a Billions dollar product line like NetApp or Dell EMC Isilon.

I can't find any photos of Rick Macklem's setup but it was developed in a fairly.. steampunk fashion.. on several obsolete i386 laptops with <4GB RAM.
Wow! I've been waiting for this for a long time.

This is helpful to people starting new projects. Using the Standard environment would cost significantly less than the Flexible environment which is one of the reasons I avoided GAE before.
Yes, we'd want a comparison between e.g. medicine, exercise, mindfulness, leisure time (to be spend as seen fit), and "nothing" (ie. more work).

Also, does lifting a toddler count? (No sarcasm.)
> "He influenced policy in this way, with what seems to be obvious malicious intent"

Actually he probably thought he was doing a good thing. He didn't intend to harm people, but to help people (by creating a fraudulent narrative that would work towards the greater goal of prison reform), with enough fame and personal profit to sweeten the deal. It seems likely to me that Zimbardo believes the ends justify the means.

Still, it would be satisfying to see him prosecuted for this fraud.
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