skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a valid case where crypto will occupy the place of black-money in countries like India. There is a minimum rate fixed by the government, especially for land. But the market rate is (many times) a multiple of that rate. So when you buy land, you pay the minimum government rate (plus tax) so you can enter into ‘legally binding’ sale agreements. The rest you pay in crypto.

In other worlds fiat currency issued by governments will continue to the extent of the legal sanctity they provide to any transaction. The rest is crypto.
We've been paying for GitLab for about a year now, and it's mostly been a good experience. There have been three things that seem to come up weekly for us:

1. Lack of traceability/auditability. We're in healthcare, and have a regulatory burden that requires versioning of basically everything. GitLab does this for code and wikis (thanks to git itself) but not for issues, merge requests, comments, etc. I've ended up building a service that just ingests the webhooks for these to store them away, which feels ridiculous. Since the webhooks for comments doesn't get triggered on update, I even have a TRIGGER shimmed into GitLab's postgres DB. Ech.

2. There's no concept of a bot user, so every integration we want to do is against a single account/identity, in part because...

3. The pricing of Ultimate feels ridiculous, and that's the only way to get something as fundamental as epics. $1000+ a year for every employee?

[edit] $1000/mo -> $1000/yr. (per month would have been even more way cray)
Tricks? Can you elaborate?

Like what outside of taking the scope outside of the IRC client (external link, etc)

An IRC cloak is programmed into the ircd itself ensuring that ones IP address is not exposed. I don’t think you can just hack that. If you use the external link trick, everyone is susceptible to that no matter what app/platform they use unless you use a VPN or Tor.
Government has been very powerful as long as it has existed. The most powerful political organisation in a given territory is a reasonable definition of government.
Get a 2015 model while you still can...
The problem with the "well established" or "settled" discoveries is that there is enough experimental evidence that is anomalous to the theories thus presented. This effects everything from the ideas from General Relativity, Special Relativity, Big Bang, Quantum Mechanics, the Standard Model of Particles, etc.

I think the biggest problem that is faced today (it hasn't really changed in centuries) is that people do not like to be considered ignorant, especially those who delve into such matters at a professional level. We actually know so little of the universe around us, but as humans, we do not like to acknowledge that we don't know.

The fact that we don't know and that our current suite of theories is incomplete and hence could very well be wrong in both minor and major ways should be driving us onward into understanding the universe around us. It really is not a problem if we don't understand. It should mean that we strive to learn more.

However, far too often, I find that the supposed knowledgeable ones exhibit an attitude of superiority that effectively closes them to a better understanding. There are those of course who are humble enough to say that they actually have little understanding even though they are at the very top of their respective fields.

Being able to be honest and say that one doesn't know is the first step on the road to acquiring some semblance of understanding. Being able to explain to someone else what the current understanding is in a simple enough manner is a good step on the way to increasing one's own knowledge.
Sorry, but no. Coinage was the right of kings for millenia. According to historians, the entire history of using coins as money started with governments basically inventing the use of coins as a technique for simplifying the logistics of their armies (soldiers would be given coins that they could use to pay local populations for food; in exchange, the government would accept the coins instead of physical goods as payment of taxes).

Even during the period of largely unregulated private banking that reached its peak in the 19th century, the private banks largely just issued paper money that was denominated in coins that were issued by governments.
We stand today on the brink of a revolution in cryptography (1976) [pdf]
Explain what your startup/side-project is about, in under 10 words: Series
That comparison doesn't seem to include OpenBSD's biggest security feature, their track record of robust code review, eliminating countless security bugs before they're ever exploited.
A former college introduced me to make as alternative for custom build scripting (bash) I wrote for some Python projects. I always assumed it could only be used for C style projects where you had compile steps and such, but it's so much more and I haven't looked back since.
Make is almost as ubiquitous as shell script on any working environment and the mix of its own declarative syntax and 'regular' imperative script allows almost any task to be modelled.
Those aren’t problems with urban areas in general. They’re problems with poorly-managed urban areas
> UV is not, in fact, “high energy” in any physics sense is the word.

But since a solar power plant is generating industrial levels of electricity by harvesting solar energy, it is clearly high energy in some practical sense.

> workers can protect themselves with clothing and Titanium Dioxide.

Each year many Australians (I'm from Australia, the number is >5,000) get diagnosed with skin cancer caused by sunlight. A double digit percentage of them die. Just because something is theoretically controllable doesn't mean that it is safe.

0 people died of radiation poisoning so far from the most recent nuclear disaster (Fukashima). Now, I am comparing apples and oranges, but it is entirely plausible that the cancer risks of a solar plant and a nuclear plant are comparable.
Though totally different styles, I often group him with the likes of Henry Rollins. Both come from anti establishment, both explore multiple mediums with music at the core, both have personal interest trying to work with and influence mainstream media. Both have become “less shocking” as they have gotten older.
A very unwelcome side effect of that would be that I don't get to control it. It's obviously unnecessary for the service to be performed, but they decide to "invite positive personal interactions" no matter whether I want any of that at that moment in that place.
> That is an incredibly valuable service, and one that adds a lot of consumer protection to services that are able to leverage it well.

From my perspective, the blockchain significantly reduces consumer protection.

If I buy a product online, to be shipped to my house, how does the blockchain provide consumer protection? It doesn't. If the seller absconds with my money, and fails to ship the product or ships a counterfeit product, then there's absolutely nothing that I can do about it. With a credit card, I can report that fraud to the credit card bureau, who will reverse the transaction by default, then investigate and require the merchant to provide proof that the transaction was authorized and legitimate. I can take a photo of an obviously counterfeit product and send that to the credit card company as evidence of the fraud. Or if the product never arrived, it's on the merchant to prove that they shipped something to my address, and they'll need to provide a tracking number. As a consumer, this is a significant protection for me, and it's a significant fraud deterrent.

Merchants who are bad actors and engage in fraud will be cut off from the network. Furthermore, buyers who are bad actors and issue an unreasonable number of chargebacks will also be cut off. There is no similar oversight of blockchains.

If my credit card is stolen and used by a thief, then that's no problem for me. All of the fraudulent transactions are reversed, and the only real inconvenience is waiting for the replacement card to arrive. That's another important consumer protection: my money can't be stolen. With blockchain technology, thieves can steal anyone's money in an irreversible way if they get access to it.

Chargebacks are one of the most valuable and most important consumer protection capabilities of the traditional banking system. Removing chargebacks significantly reduces consumer protection.

Blockchain-based payment systems that do not involve a trusted central party will have worse consumer protection, not better. The only circumstance in which they'll be better is if the entire transaction, and delivery of goods and services, can be validated by a smart contract. That will only be possible for a small number of real-world transactions. It will not apply to the majority of day-to-day commerce.

I am not claiming that the blockchain has no redeeming qualities. It has a bunch of valuable characteristics and benefits that I'm not mentioning here. However, consumer protection is not one of them.
Not really. The very lowest level I would consider someone rich is that he/she has enough passive income (income independent of any day to day activity) to support himself anywhere they want to for an indefinite period of time.

Very rich is to be able to do that for both themselves and a staff.

Also: you should broaden your economic knowledge ... it's cute that you think unspent income isn't taxed. Directly taxed ... perhaps not. Now what happens if you want to do anything with that money (different from spending it). Tens of different taxes suddenly apply.
I've been shipping serverless ever since it was launched on AWS. More recently I am using Google.

The biggest thing I am struggling with right now is how to appropriately split projects for module size. This may be more of an issue with Firebase functions than AWS because it's a lot easier to create separate projects with AWS for firebase and constrain the project. Google Firebase Functions very much assumes a big package architecture. We could break it up into multiple firebase projects but that separation creates a lot of annoyances.

It'd be awesome if you could split packages up so the resources don't have to be shared within the various functions.

tl;dr want to split modules and functions up with explicit dependencies to optimize bundle size / cold boot.

Additionally I found it to be an anti-pattern to use any DB that requires a connection pool vs HTTP based commands. It's annoying as heck to manage connection pools with serverless and seems downright buggy or broken. If you want to support it you need to centralize it with something like PGpool which seems like a big anti-pattern. I hate dynamodb but am loving Google's offering (firebase firestore or datastore).
Exactly. Slack is like IRC without the features.
Cybersecurity, Nuclear Security, Alan Turing, and Illogical Logic (2017)
Hmm, what magic is that? It appears to create a new branch with the revert, and create a merge request from that branch to the branch I select - which is what I expected. This is of course with "Start a new merge request with these changes" checked. When it's unchecked, I'd expect it to make the revert commit directly on that branch; is that not what happens?
I don't see any 13s, clearly this only applies to the 15s?
كم تبعد سبانجا و معشوقية عن اسطنبول – رحلة سبانجا ومعشوقية
Bitcoin is not an ideology, it’s a technology. Dread Pirate Roberts was an ideologue and an idiot and now he’s behind bars. Plenty of others have run darknet markets and made their pile without ending up in jail.

The European Parliament and the Chinese government can be hostile to the ideology of the internet without renouncing the technology. Ideology is downstream of economic realities.
> standard specification

RFC 1459
Sometimes the right answer is to change the regulation or taxation rather than tighten it. If tax evasion is the problem, for example, shift the taxation toward meatspace.

Secondly, the answer is to take the great plank out of our conventional economy's eye before examining the mote in the eye of cryptocurrency. Real estate is a large vehicle for money laundering, and it goes on largely unexamined until it becomes a state actor problem in the news. Elizabeth Holmes probably thinks, correctly, she is a piker when it comes to white collar crime. Cleaning up the world of conventional money would leave less room and incentive for crimes using cryptocurrency.
shrug Or come up with reasons for not implementing any fix, and wait for your country to destroy itself, if that's what you prefer. Not my country, and I don't get to make the policy decisions. I can make suggestions, but it's up to other people whether they choose to follow them.
Try rebooting the server.

No, I'm not joking. I've had the omnibus package break my Gitlab as well and the bugs survived even full reconfigures and restarts. Rebooting the server fixed it even though it makes no sense.
Ah, that's something else indeed. I guess it does show up in the TODO list which is the button to the right of the one I linked earlier, but there's a lot of other cruft in there, including already merged MRs.
>any sort of ML applied to credit data will run afoul of the equal credit opportunity act.

That can't be right because the existing and very widely used FICO score is already a rudimentary form of "machine learning" applied to credit data.[1] (FICO secret formula correlates payment histories, credit-card balances, income, etc to calculate probabilities of loan default.) Clearly, automated machine analysis of _credit data_ is legal even though minorities have lower FICO credit scores than whites and subsequently get less approvals for loans.

The paper is talking about something else: the application of ML to non-credit data. Examples of datapoints such as:

MacOS vs Windows
iOS vs Android
GMail vs Hotmail
lowercase vs Proper Case when writing
etc.

Those non-credit datapoints are collectively referred to by the paper as the "digital footprint". E.g. the authors conclude that analyzing data revealed by web browser user-agent strings to calculate a "credit risk" can correlate as well as the traditional FICO score.

The issue you're talking about for Equal Credit Opportunity is if those non-financial variables are surreptitiously used to determine "whiteness" or "blackness" (proxies for race) -- or -- if the data was innocently analyzed for debt-default patterns but nevertheless inadvertently correlates with "white"/"black" and therefore punishes minority groups.

Downvoters: please point out what is inaccurate about my comment. If I made a mistake in reading the paper, I'd like to learn what I misinterpreted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_score_in_the_United_Sta...
I think it is quite useful.

A character is a combination of radicals, of which there aren't that many.

You're correct, obviously there are more than sticking a radical in a 2x2 grid, however the square framework is always there and emphasises symmetery.
Curious, what company?
Regarding charge backs, why can validation node not simply make a transaction back from the fraudulent vendor to the consumer.

Obviously, there would need to be adequate proof that the nodes then review, but once that is given, what's the problem.

Furthermore, the fraudulent vendor would be investigated for fraud and facing a fine or jailtime.

This could be a dapp on the blockchain.

I don't see why this can't be done by a team of trained lawyers and judges that review these fraudulent transactions.
Wtf, no Finn would agree on a "regular" pizza existing.
The service we provide is not a physical one that gets shipped, it's a digital one where we can use the blockchain to escrow payments until there is a cryptographic proof that the digital service has been provided according to the contract created between the consumer and the storage provider.

Blockchains are most powerful when dealing with purely digital transactions, such as data hosting, information trading, prediction markets, digital currency exchange, non-fungible tokens, digital gambling, micropayments for digital services (like CDNs, viewing web articles, etc.).
What an amazingly well thought and balanced article.
Exceptionally level-headed.

I wish we had such attitude towards different challenges that our societies are facing.
I guess soon we will have the concept of separation of state and money much like the separation of state and religion.
If you're thinking about the scenario A/B/C stuff, he's ignoring the effects of the drop in atmospheric CFCs.
Building wealth through entrepreneurship part 1
What is the cost to society of a letter sticking on a keyboard, or repeating?
The most surprising fact is that the readings of all these instruments are in sync with each other! We take it for granted, and don't appreciate the mystery. It very well might be that the Universe forms a complex landscape with varying "laws", with the pockets where the notions of space and time become quite fuzzy and inconsistent; we might live in a rare oasis where the things more or less "make sense". Elsewhere, there might be no time at all. Popular books on physics never mention this possibility.
Agreed. Capitalism and the prioritized pursuit of profits have only created the problem of poverty and wealth gaps that we now find affecting everyone.
A lot of these issues come down to trade-offs.

For instance, there is the potential for criminals to use e-cash to do crime, just as they use physical cash.

But the flip-side of that is the cash empowers individuals and serves as a guard against encroachments of their liberty.

Cryptocurrency allowed people to donate to Wikileaks when the financial blockade was imposed on it. It's not hard to imagine a future where blockchains are far more scalable, and large numbers of people who are discriminated against by the banking system rely on it for economic integration.

Individuals and organisations on the fringes like Wikileaks are important guarantors against centralized tyranny. Without a payment system outside the control of centralized authorities they can be more easily snuffed out.

In other words, cash is an important institution, and arguably the price of criminals having an easier time getting away with crime as a result of its existence is worth paying, to avoid a future where the only financial system is the one subject to anti-money-laundering-laws, and thus subject to warrantless mass-surveillance system over all private financial transactions.

Perhaps someone on the inside of the political system their whole adult life, like the article's author, can't really empathize with this view point that we should distrust the political elite and its governing structures, but perhaps he can see the danger of not having a healthy apolitical form of finance in a future dominated by a government like China's.

As for the argument that the centralized financial system provides stability and market integrity, it's not clear that this is true.

The US had a free-ish banking system in the 19th century, but it was made more fragile than it would have been under a free market by 1. Civil War era banking regulations that required banks to hold US bonds as reserves and 2. laws against interstate branching.

The former resulted in an unstable centralized money supply that fluctuated with the volume of outstanding US bonds and the latter prevented more diversified banks from emerging that could better weather localised shocks. Canada had neither of these mandates and consequently had a far more stable banking system.

There were proposals before the Fed was created to make the US financial sector more like Canada's, but the banking cartelists won the argument, and the Federal Reserve mandates were passed to cartelize the banking sector under a centralized hierarchy.

A couple of good talks by George Selgin on pre-Fed era and the 100 year performance record of the Fed:

https://youtu.be/Z0J_Ai2sSmY

https://youtu.be/P0E7I4URW5o
I think a company should not policy your personal life. What's the rationale behind this?
The crisis was largely due in part to deregulation and private companies getting kick backs for their ratings. Crypto currency is mostly unregulated and rated on a private market. Also, there is a small elite group of people who own most of the crypto currency, which very quickly and easily could result in market manipulation at the expense of small holders. While your anger is understandable and banks are indeed criminal, cryptocoins are just as susceptible to criminal behavior as any other market place and even more so do to the lack of regulation. And I’d just like to note that major banks like Goldman are saying that btc is bullshit while quietly buying a massive stake in it. So, the fact is, the banks will get involved if it’s worth money and they will manipulate the market, so we will be right back where we started.
Finally, at least they responded :(
Sure, but there is no prohibition against genocide, for instance.
Also, slack is like a dumbed down version of IRC. As an example, on IRC you could run an auction or a 10000 person university lecture because there is a +m channel mode (moderation).

+m quiets all users in the channel and only allows you to speak if you receive the channel-user mode +v (voice) or have +o (operator status). Some ircds also have a +h etc.

You can setup bots like “RaiseYourHand” for people who want to ask questions and need temporary voice (+v).

Try that on slack, telegram, signal, etc. Its impossible.

IRC was ACTUALLY built for collaboration and communication. Slack was built to make money.

The difference in goals causes a different outcome.
Nobody is doing big-bang changes, though; some are slowing evolving jurisprudence, others are slowly evolving legislation.
This is discriminating.

Articles with a similar sentiment have been posted here recently, authored by people on the other end of the capital spectrum. So count in that bias.

One doesn't really need a study to show that accumulating more problems, one needs more brain power to deal with that. In fact it's part of the collective common sense things are like that.

I'd rather like to see articles that summarize hiring and admission biases based on socio economic background. Especially also when it comes to management positions, there the gap is even more extreme. Ironically people there earn extra money, so they can buy the problems away...
All of the same concerns also apply to cash. Businesses can conceal payments they receive in cash. Money laundering doesn't really depend on the currency or form - explaining where wealth cames from is probably easier to fake with cash than with Bitcoin. In terms of providing stability and market integrity, both cash and cryptocurrencies have mechanisms to prevent counterfeiting - for cash, it is by incorporating features that are hard to duplicate, and for cryptocurrencies, it is through the use of digital signatures and proof of work schemes. Many cash transactions are inherently high risk for consumers (and anyone who invested in cash would also be taking a high risk).

The solution is the same as for cash, and is already happening - people will create financial derivatives, and people will have accounts with financial institutions rather than directly holding Bitcoin themselves. So just like how the existence of cash doesn't stop banks from having a value proposition, similarly the existence of cryptocurrencies won't either.
If that renders the laptop unusable, the cost to repair out of warranty is $700. That's a pretty good starting point.
I read it as more expensive per bottle, cheaper per load due to the concentration.
Governments were far weaker in the hard currency days. Not only were they limited to a fairly small tax take (10% max), they had huge problems raising the money to run the state. Governments of the past did little beyond protecting you from other governments.

Sure any one individual could end up on the sharp end of the pointy stick of state, but overall most people lived their lives almost completely free of government because the state lacked the funds needed to do much beyond fight wars.
Two black men with no reason for arrest and Starbucks reconciliation can go to