skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree mostly with the point you're making, but there's an important distinction between "reputational trust" and an assumption that game theory and market forces will continue to provide the necessary levels of decentralization for Bitcoin to operate as intended. I'm not sure it's fair to put those two ideas on equal ground as if all forms of trust should be embraced because it's "inescapable".

Reputational trust (as you call it) often isn't even based on reputation so much as military force (sovereign governments). A lot of people - myself included - would much rather have their finances in the hands of algorithms and theoretically-sound incentives (even without a 100% guarantee of decentralization) than in the hands of central banks controlled by the whims of politicians.
I use to ask my father why he bothered using a desktop email client. It seemed like useless overhead, and webmail was the future. Well, webmail is indeed everywhere- but I now use a desktop email client daily.

Outsiders don't tend to talk about the predictions they got wrong.
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Tritium can be bred in any sort of fission reactor. The US has recently used light water power reactors to breed tritium for supplying the US nuclear weapons stockpile.

Lithium-7 plus a high energy neutron yields tritium, helium, and a lower energy neutron. I don't know what a practically engineered system can do, but a 14.1 MeV neutron from D-T fusion formally has enough energy to transmute 5 lithium-7 nuclei into tritium and helium (each transmutation is endothermic to the tune of 2.466 MeV).

I agree about the huge unsolved material science problems. I just don't think that tritium availability lies on the critical path of unsolved problems for industrial fusion power.
You really think people would work for $1/hr in San Francisco?
> Since the employee is being fired (deprived of something)

Well, the employee is depriving the employer of something as well. That's why they are in this arrangement: they believe it to be mutually beneficial, and thus agree to deprive themselves of something good, in exchange for something better. The problem this system seems to attempt to solve is where the employer is not aware of what they're getting in return for being deprived of that employee's compensation.
For most Americans, "Asian" people are generally Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian, Thai, Burmese, Indonesian, Malaysian, Filipino/Filipina, and maybe one or two other groups, but generally not Indian or Pakistani people ("South Asian") or people from many Central Asian countries.
Firstly, research into Chess AI has had a surprising amount of beneficial spin-off, even if we don't call the result "AI".

Secondly, while it's still a simplification and abstraction, DotA's ruleset is orders-of-magnitude more similar to operating in the real world than Chess's is.

Thirdly, I'd argue that the adversarial nature of games makes it _easier_ to track progress, and to ensure that measure of progress is honest.

There's a lot of ways you can define "progress" in self-driving cars. Passengers killed per year in self-driving vs. human-driven cars? Passengers killed per passenger-mile? Average travel time per passenger-mile in a city? etc.

With games, you either win, or you don't.
Are you trying to imply the CDDL code is somehow “encumbered”?
If we had a similar setup in the United States, we'd have much fewer wrongful termination tort lawsuits. In the long term, it would be cheaper in almost every respect.

The problem with a system like Amazon's (or internal appeal processes other private companies use) is that they are often so blatantly biased towards management that their results would be legally meaningless in the context of a trial. It makes me wonder why they bother at all.
Your last argument is true of any software outside of the Docker ecosystem. Are you really going to read through every single directory in node_modules/ to make sure you know exactly what you're running? I don't believe anyone who answers yes, besides in the sense that NPM will produce vulnerability reports.

If ops does their job well, that's great. A lot of people aren't that effective at their jobs, and if someone in ops is stuck in PHP Land, unwilling to learn Docker, they're going to become a huge bottleneck in short order. Some people are incompetent, but there is a lot of people who don't particularly like their jobs yet get a sadistic joy out of playing the gatekeeper role, being the ultimate decider of whether someone else gets what they want. All the worse if upper management sides with them by default since, well, they're the "webmasters".

Yeah, I'm pretty biased because I've had situations like that on a few occasions.

I'm not necessarily saying that the production situation is always improved by Docker, but what I described is not an uncommon situation and I think it often leads to teams gravitating towards Docker when their last person in ops finally leaves.
Corporations are anti-democratic by design so having a show trial is something to expect.
I can't for the life of me understand why the 10th amendment does not have a more prominent place in the American political system than it does. It is because government would be hamstrung if they respected it? It would seem to the layman that is the entire reason it exists!
It doesn't have to be high-intensity, you can start pretty chill as long as you do something all day long, possibly in water to burn even more calories (beach paddles, surf, bodyboard, waterwalking...).
> Miranda v. Arizona was decided over 50 years ago. How relevant is the behavior of SCOTUS 50 years ago to predicting their present-day behavior? The membership is completely different, and there have been countless other changes in law and American society and culture over that period.

Because the Supreme Court is an institution with an institutional culture. Furthermore, its members obsessively study it's past decisions and their reasoning, so I'd expect its culture to have quite a bit of inertia.
This is called prediction markets and a bunch of people are working on it; e.g. http://bitcoinhivemind.com/ and https://www.augur.net/
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If only there was some sort of organization that workers could collectively be apart of and contribute to. An organization dedicated to worker's rights, an organization that would make sure whimsical decisions couldn't aversely affect people's lives because they're in the wrong class in an organization/society.

I understand the comment is snarky, but it's really quite absurd in my mind that this is an actual headline, instead of it being a bad joke (which I guess it kind of is). Because it's not even your "peers." It's mainly still just upper management trying to put on a facade of peer judgement.
"Nobody is claiming that workers' rights should be limited so that employers can make more money."

I mean, no one would come right out and say that, because it's a pretty stupid thing to say. There are, however, plenty of actions that have that outcome, without having the optics of coming right out and saying that you're favoring employers over employees. Being friendly to "job creators" and all that.
> You do have to care which OS it's running inside if only to know when to patch it for $vulnerability_of_the_day.

I think grandparent was using "you" to refer to the docker container developer, not the host OS maintainer.
It hasn't been designed to do fusion itself, but that doesn't make it "not about fusion" - the only major application of the technology is fusion.
The first two options are for acceleration and weight. The first one changes enough while the plane is flying to be measured in Gs. There's also air turbulence. You wouldn't want to rely on secondary things like that. The second one can change for a number of reasons in a military plane. If you can even measure it, considering the changing acceleration.

The cockpit can be broken or sensors may be malfunctioning as well, so "cockpit missing" is not a great signal.
It breaks keyboard navigation in some cases that I've been unable to identify why. I think that the new style of loading pages in a div on top of the underlying page sets the focus wrong or something but often pgup/pgdown will not work.
As mentioned, I took 3 weeks off. When you exercise 10hrs/day, even if you pick sports that you love (what I did), you don't want to work or do any "forced" commute. Take some time for yourself and your health, this is investment too.
I bought an "only for non-US" version of this book... only to find out it was somehow illegal for me to own it. Doesn't really seem fair. Just because my country is "rich" doesn't mean that I am.
I wouldn't say it's the primary impediment, but fusion is the only application for plasma containment that anyone cares about.
>The potential uses cases for the internet and cellphones were immediately obvious (instant remote communication) and available on day one, compared with blockchains which has given us bitcoin and nothing else of unique value.

Bitcoin has unquestionably provided folks looking to work outside traditional financial systems (and governance) value. You can see it in the black market use and its use in ransoming everything from Game of Thrones to hospital records. It was used this way almost from day one.

Also, the use of smartphones as this "instant remote communication" doesn't begin to describe where the technology led, which was to the smartphone which is some type of multimedia device capable of far more than its initial concept.

It doesn't hurt to be skeptical of rhetoric, but you don't make a stronger point by downplaying the difference in value between when cellphone launched and what cell phone technology offers today.
had to deal with ibm once. we were developing an application for a customer and ibm was working on some new service for them. of course the customer insisted we use the new ibm service, even though it solved a problem we didn't have at all. the ibm product was a website to be used by end users, while our application had to pass our end users data through. so, i asked the ibm guys (via the customer) to give me the docs for their json interface, as i don't necessarily want to parse HTML inside the application to exchange data. there was no json interface - html was all they had -, but they got to work implementing one.

what i got was:

{"elem" : "html", "children": [ ... {"elem" : "form", "attrs" : {"action": "/an_url", "method" : "post"}, children: [{"input" : {"attrs" : {"type" : "submit", "value" : "..."}}}]} ..., ]}

yes, their json interface was the DOM, serialized as json. but it gets better. to submit my data i had to fill in the actual values in their json struct at the appropriate nodes and send it back.

i'm a) pretty sure this "json interface" feature cost the customer more than i make in a year, and b) it probably broke the very instant the customer let a frontend/designer guy change the html code months later.
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> the ownership of real estate assets seems like a pretty archaic system of not easily inspected pieces of paper. Having a public, provable system for recording this information (and possibly other related info, e.g. liens) seems like it would be of some use. The system we have works, but it could work better.

This already exists in many states. It's a political problem (whether or not to use of tax money to pay for the digitization of old records), not a technical one: https://www.uslandrecords.com/uslr/UslrApp/index.jsp

Related information, like liens, is available via those public records as well.
When would this be any more useful than having a credit card on file with whoever is providing the resource?

...or am I completely misunderstanding what you mean by “payment/settlement”?
Mozilla is another where they have some (really nice) office space and most of the team chooses to be remote.
a few years from now, we're going to have the top instagram accounts all being photorealistic computer generated posts with AI determining the content that real humans want to see.
Suck/blow + hard/soft
OSX preview is the best pdf filler I have adobe acrobat too but prefer apple preview, way easier to use and less issues with created pdf files.

acrobat is nice occasionally for more complex stuff, but if I can do it in preview I use that.
They're socially liberal. Yet also calling them all economically conservative isn't quite accurate either since that's basically libertarian territory. Many SV nouveau-riche are definitely libertarian-leaning though.
And fusion is the only application of plasma containment that anyone cares about.

Might as well call transistor fabrication experiments "not about computers".
>> we still need a way to get from where we are now to where we want to be.

>It has been happening already.

Citation needed. I think evidence suggests that we've been getting from where we have been to where we want to be precisely because of these kinds of efforts, and the pushback against these efforts has been there at every step of the way.
B is where you overfit your model and D is where oops actually we didn't profit :(
The Eight Day of Creation by Horace Freeland Judson. It was popular in the 80's, but I haven't met anyone who has read it or even heard of it.

It is a brilliant account of the discovery of DNA. Simply astounding. It should have been made into a movie, or more appropriately, in a TV series.
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Sure. Bitcoin in Venezuela is solving the problem of their existing currency imploding.

Anything that performs a function inefficiently can be a problem waiting to be solved.

What I’m asking for is a concrete example of a societal problem (something inefficient, costly, painful, or impossible) that blockchain addresses.
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With ZFS you can set the property to just inherit ACLs and ignore umask. What you’re describing is just a problem with a specific implementation (lack of feature).
That doesn't really matter. If the you can prove the company fired you for some reason that is illegal, like racism or whistleblowing, you can still win damages.
Eating at a restaurant is a luxury not a necessity. Thus, if all the restaurants in a certain area were more expensive than what they were comfortable with, people might eat out less in general.
On a side note, the ordering kiosks in McDonalds are the best thing ever. Customizing an order is way less error prone this way than verbally. And the line is always shorter.
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Now you can have two files, say, A.txt and B.txt:

A.txt:

= Weekly
- 100 Groceries
- 50 Gasoline

B.txt:

+ 1000 Salary
- 500 Random
- Weekly x 4

Then run:

pbudget A.txt B.txt

Result:

= 150 Weekly
- 100 Groceries
- 50 Gasoline

+ 1000 Salary
- 500 Random
- 150 Weekly x 4
= -100

Not only will B see the Weekly definition in the other file, but the x multiplier will work too.

npm install pbudget -g

https://galvez.github.io/plainbudget/
I think it's more that your direct manager has a poor perception of you. Other managers/groups might not.

And, it could be that your PIP "end date" and your vesting schedule coincidentally line up so that if you don't succeed in your PIP, you miss your vesting date, you might be more motivated to try and stay.
There are some things I really like about it. The pattern-matching-esque syntax for queries, for example, is quite neat. The ability to do certain type of data munging, the easy use of JS to handle certain things, all good.

But, the bread-and-butter business stuff has continually left me disappointed and sometimes working way harder than needed.
According to Wired it looks like a grey area[1]. Also, Red Shell, the company behind the software, seems to be aware of this[2].

[1]http://www.wired.co.uk/article/red-shell-game-tracking-gdpr

[2]https://blog.redshell.io/gdpr-and-red-shell-57f9c03b5769
Is it just me, or does it feel like restaurant service staff provide less service than they used to? They're often spread out over too many tables, and it seems like their role is scripted rather than adaptive. The chain restaurant dining experience just seems very hollow now.
"With bread risen with instant dry yeast, it will definitely resemble visual qualities of bread, but the texture and taste will not be comparable to bread that uses wild yeast."

This is so wrong it drives me insane. The key thing is the length (and thus slowness) of the rise of the dough, not whether you use wild or instant yeast. Sourdough raised on a hot countertop for thirty minutes will not be nearly as good as a dough with a reduced amount of instant yeast raised at a cool temperature for three hours. The idea that all non-sourdough has poor flavor and texture is pure opinion, and silly at that. Any serious bread baker would tell you that that there are many many wonderful breads made with instant yeast--take the French baguette for example.
Indeed and that's the kind of stuff I buy too. But lucky for me, I've never had an item arrive non-functional that I can remember. I find ebay to be particularly reliable :)
Do you support a minimum wage at all? You can either mandate that businesses shoulder some of the burden of providing decent living conditions, or expect the state to shoulder that burden more directly and let businesses coast on cheap labor that's dependent on welfare.

But if you do think some minimum wage is necessary and just this particular hike is too much, you'd have to justify what that minimum wage should be. And ostensibly you'd probably think that its based on some factors like cost of living and inflation, both of which are going up.

The bottom line is the US is not going to let its citizens starve, and it has 300 million citizens here and now who need to eat everyday and sleep every night. Some of them are qualified to work at well-paying jobs and some of them are not. For the ones who are not, do you want to make sure that the jobs that they can get pay enough so that they can get by, or do you want them to not be motivated to work at all and live off welfare?
Wouldn't liberals be pro-forfeiture?
Hah, there's my domain, from 1996:

REALMS.ORG

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...

I actually started the process of acquiring realms.org in 1994. At the time, you sent an e-mail to 'a guy' in DC. It took some time, but I finally got it registered in 1995. It was, of course, a free service.
Sorry, could you explain what the 10th amendment is? (The Wikipedia page has some assumed knowledge that I do not have as I'm not American.)
Delighted to see they called their proof of concept library `derp` for derivative parser :-)

http://www.ucombinator.org/projects/parsing/
From your link:

> “It’s not just apples and oranges,” said Kenneth Wollack, president of the National Democratic Institute. “It’s comparing someone who delivers lifesaving medicine to someone who brings deadly poison.”

I think this is right description for comparing US and Russian attempts.
> Are you really going to read through every single directory in node_modules/ to make sure you know exactly what you're running?

What, you don’t? Each dependency comes with a license notice. Everything needs to be pinned. The npm mess that comes out of pinning and unbounded versioning is precisely why we steer clear of it.
I think the crm concept is terrible, but I don't give a crap about GDPR...I don't follow it now and never will.
Your second point is interesting since the US Dollar is the primary currency used for the oil trade. Demand for dollars beyond our borders lets us export our debt through inflation. If there is less reliance on oil, demand for dollars to service that market goes down and so does our ability to pass part of our debt off on to everyone who holds dollars. No idea if this is a large enough effect to matter or if there are other feedback loops that counteract it but decreased oil usage could have its own negative economic effects that aren't immediately apparent.
> in the United States, where borrowed money is the lifeblood of economic activity

Does it work differently elsewhere?
You might find http://www.fast.ai/ useful. Depending on your learning style, their courses can either be amazing or somewhat annoying. Their library includes jupyter notebooks so that you can work through the examples.
Yes. Unless that language specifically incites immediate violence and actually results in the incited actions[+], it is protected under the First Amendment.

[+]Generally, under First Amendment law, such speech is treated as both speech and as action, and it is the action of inciting violence that is punished.
> With Windows, every six months you have to reinstall your machine because of malware

This is only true if you're careless or technically inept.

> of course the hour(s) of lost productivity per day compared to linux

I don't lose any productivity by using Windows. Not sure where you're getting this from.
Don't read his blog though, or you'll be tremendously disappointed.
PIPs and firing are the path of least resistance for lazy managers.

From a Covey or Drucker style of leadership...

If the Manager interviewed and hired the Employee, then the default assumption is that the Manager failed to "lead" and train the Employee.

If the Manager inherited the Employee (via re-org) and is cleaning house, then that's a different circumstance. But still not an excuse for lazy leadership.
> We can pick up a new skill or recognize a new pattern with a high degree of accuracy really effing fast compared to a computer.

Evolution by natural selection is the OG genetic algorithm, and it's been "running" on billions of organisms in parallel for hundreds of millions of years. The intuition that we take for granted such as the abstract concept of a shape is all hard-coded in our brains from trial and error.
>For example, the Second Amendment wasn't incorporated against the states until 2010 in McDonald v. City of Chicago.

No. The second amendment was always incorporated "against" (for) the states.

McDonald only clarified what was always the reality. That a state can not preempt federal laws with keeping and barring arms for self defense. Notice that last part, the SPECIFIC INTENTION of the case is for self defense.

Your own link makes note that selective incorporation doesn't apply to the bill of rights. Well, it does but not objectively. It's pretty ridiculous to make the assertion 2010's McDonald and not 2008's Hellar the "the 2A law". But that was your goal to find something that fit an antigun narrative.
Can I presume that last sentence is irony? Or even sarcasm?

Because if no one is bothering to replicate, you __can__ make stuff up. And no one is going to know.
sounds like a fun roleplay, a bit contrived although I could see myself doing the same thing

you'd be surprised about what kind of art people commission in private
> yes, their json interface was the DOM, serialized as json.

This is pure thedailywtf material.
Some people use protobufs to achieve a setup sorta like what you described. They work well if you have common REST objects but want to write microservices in multiple languages.

Coconut (https://github.com/evhub/coconut) might be interesting to you too.
No? "Liberal" doesn't mean "pro-government". What definition are you using that suggests they would?
Mostly, yes. They can be applied with a different formalism though.

See https://github.com/pygy/compose-regexp.js which uses a parser combinator API with regexps as backend.
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