skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blockchain is so much more complex than the basic internet/web. The excitement is about building the first gen of blockchain tech, and the vision is over many decades - the last Bitcoin will be mined around 2140.

Compare to the web, which brought huge change, but decentralized governance is much harder for the lay person to understand. Most people haven't even considered many of the problems it proposes to solve.

So the value of Bitcoin/crypto is held up by the excitement of the change it heralds. It's just going to take a while. (And the trading and investment is the means to the end in getting it going).

But yes, let us wait for the clowns to depart.
I'd be careful prosecuting anyone for beliefs that are not tied to conduct. People need broad latitude to develop and should be given latitude to have evil thoughts, truly believe in them, and eventually reject them without fear of punishment.

However, once those beliefs leave your head and alter your conduct or others perceive that they can alter your conduct, then you are responsible for what you get.
This is my experience hiring Clojure engineers in a small startup- things became dogmatic and opinionated at a time when we were existentially challenged with building a product.
Why isn’t someone using my software product or open source tool?
Frankly, addiction and bad habits make it very difficult to sustain that when it’s easy to re-enable things.

I have hardly any notifications, my phone is perpetually on silent with vibrate disabled (I often miss calls and texts), and I have no “social media” apps beyond iMessage/Signal. But I still reach for it at every idle moment (most time being spent in the browser).

The one app I truly need is a keepass client. Not sure how I will overcome that without a smartphone.
If you don't know the encoding the CD uses, getting the bits out is the easy part.
I’d highly recommend fluent forever instead. You’ll actually learn a language instead of thinking you are without making progress. It’s also much much faster.
I don't wish for myself or others to escape the bounds of society and government (ok, maybe some of the bounds but that's another talk). Indeed my premise is that individuals, society and government must all be bound to each other in order to have a desirable society, and the sin qua non of this is respect for the truth.

As for government, I happen to prefer democracies, and they are especially beholden to truth. When saying that the blockchain's killer app might be the truth, I'm thinking about how it could help save our democracies.

As for The Truth, as in the ultimate truth, for when you'd use quotation marks -- the "truth" -- I'm not going there. We need only concern ourselves with the notion of truth as opposed to lies.

To clarify the distinction, see how this doesn't work:

"Is it true that you were in Symphony Hall at the time of the murder?"

"Is it 'true'?... What do you mean by that slippery word, 'true'? This notion of 'truth' is simply whatever we agree on and therefore irrelevant."

Edit:

And if the truth is simply what is agreed upon, then are lies simply what is not agreed upon?

If so, perhaps we can agree together that the year is 1984.
I was at the big RIAT air show in England earlier this month and the pair of USAF F-15s had armed guards whereas the Special Operations Wing Herk, Osprey and Pave Hawk were open for public viewing. That seemed somewhat back-to-front.
Imma paraphrase Wikipedia. You are right but I find the informal definition to be more illuminating. “Informally put, the axiom of choice says that given any collection of bins, each containing at least one object, it is possible to make a selection of exactly one object from each bin, even if the collection is infinite”. Now imagine that there’s an opponent who decides the object selection of certain bins.

This is a silly example but compare playing chess single player vs multiplayer. In the single player chess, you still have two sides, you are still trying to make your side to win, however you decide all the moves (even for the other party). IRL, a lot of choices are outside of your control. So in some sense, you need to account for your opponent's best moves (which are generally the worst moves for you).
The specific question that prompted this was, why don't we protect Nazism the way we protect religion, and to that I'd say that I have heard of exceedingly few Nazis who have inherited it from their parents and feel the need to keep up external trappings of Nazism for the sake of family or social status. (The only example I can really think of is the Gaede twins, who renounced their mother's ideology by the time they were adults, and if you refined the question to not discriminating against minor children professing Nazi beliefs at their mother's direction, I am totally fine with figuring out a way to write a non-discrimination law about that.)
China’s two-child policy is having unintended consequences
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How Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Free Water
You might be interested in Optar http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/
Ancient dreams of intelligent machines: 3,000 years of robots
A good example of their application is low end oscilloscopes. The heart of the machine is an FPGA running the sampling, DSP, and all the channels. It's very parallel, does a good amount of compute, and also provides lots of arbitrary IO. It's too expensive to spin an ASIC for such a low volume product. A serial processor is orders of magnitude too slow. Not familiar enough with DSP to know why not DSP, possibly too specialized.
We don't really have the tools to investigate meditation. Just hooking a brain up to an MRI only goes so far. If I told you I'm conscious of my own heartbeat and how the brain makes the decision that it happens, there wouldn't be any way to validate those claims. They would be unfalsifiable given our current level of tech. We have no way of determining where experience comes from, we can only look at where the brain is lighting up.

It gets even weirder. If some scientist decided to make me a research subject, and we explored what my brain does in fine granularity when I'm meditating, then he's basically got a sample size of one and it won't be all that different from me just giving the world my own conclusions by writing a book myself.

No, science earns its validity from scale. A sample size of one isn't sufficient. All I'd be able to do is point the way for further experimentation. Exactly how much of our experimentation would make it into the further process, assuming it even happens? Probably very little.

Rightness and wrongness exists on a scale, and that scale is multi-dimensional. You're not only fractionally right, but you're fractionally right in different ways. Timothy Leary's lived experience is a certain kind of right, and a certain kind of wrong. But when it comes to science, the only kind of truth that sticks is the kind that's right in all ways all the time.

So little of anything sticks. And where that little bit comes from doesn't have to be me. I'm happy having my own little piece of it all to myself.
This is a very nice game/textbook!

I'd love to see some additional features:

- I'm currently at the excercise 9.1, and this far PUSH is always the only operation you can do when dragging from an outer scope to an inner one. Seems pretty fundamental. (To the extent that explicit mentions of "pushing" is not even normally mentioned in textual proofs?) Could this be streamlined somehow, for example applying PUSH automatically just with the drag & drop operation from outer to inner scope?

- Instead of a linear "achievement history", keep records of all produced proofs for each lemma. Highlight the one with the smallest amount of "rules".

- It seems to allow circular proofs by default. Surely this can be detected using a dependency graph?

- Speaking of dependency graphs, I'd love to explore reverse mathematics using this kind of an interactive tool. Maybe add some challenge by counting not only the amount of rules, but amount of axioms/basic rules of inference used, and counting also the size of the whole dependency graph of each proof. Maybe there could be separate record-keeping for different sets of axioms.
> jobs should be mutually voluntary and easy to terminate with reasonable terms and notice.

I agree with you on that. But that's not what we have right now. The entire US (IANAL) is At-will employment. Which means that you can be let go for nearly any reason. There are no safety nets that will protect you if you're in the right. (I.e. The employer didn't want to hold their end of the bargain on vacation time when it's "unlimited pto")

Having an internet mob going after you because you made a silly comment off the job on Twitter or that you don't agree with the current political climate is not a reasonable reason to fire someone.
The problems I see with that option would be:

- More expensive

- Lower battery life

- More fragile

- No physical buttons (might be a positive if you like touch keyboards)

- Temptation to use the features anyway
People were pretty excited about using Bitcoin to buy drugs, but it turns out you need a more stable and convenient currency even for drug dealers to be interested.

That was the high water mark of consumer interest as far as I've seen. Everything else is just intrigue driven by the get-rich-quick aspect.
AWS Engineers looking at this, will update soon
>(only portions of aircraft)

The joke being that it was shot down

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-117_Nighthawk#Comba...
> it isn't a mixture of HTML and javascript, it's just javascript with an HTML-like macro syntax.

This is a distinction without a difference. The point is that putting HTML and JS logic in the same file is what was usually done in the early days of programming on the web, before separating code from event attributes into their own script tags and files became the norm.

All JSX does is the exact same mix in the opposite direction: it's not about JS inside HTML; it's HTML inside JS. And I understand that that's fine for many people -- and I've learned to stop caring -- but I take issue with pretending that it's a "paradigm shift".
The first one cites Larmuseau et al. (2016).[0]

> The surprising result of these new studies is that human EPP rates have stayed near- constant at around 1% across several human societies over the past several hundred years.

But this is based on long term population studies, not "real time" measurements.

0) https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.tree.2016.03.004
Background: 1964 is a Nintendo 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows[1]. This document describes its dynamically recompiling[2] CPU emulator.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_(emulator)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_recompilation
The stats on how they scored asians were pretty incredible.

Asian personalities were only 2 or better at the top decile (top 10%), african-americans scored 2 or better 8 deciles in (top 80%, only the worst 20% didn't score 2 or better).

Personalities were scored on: likability, helpfulness, courage, kindness, positive personality, people like to be around them, the person is widely respected.

Harvard insists this was unbiased, but it's pretty incredible that Asians score so low on these measures and African-Americans so highly.

This was a key scoring measure because it was the one area Asians got crushed in (and was very subjective). They actually used I think a similar subjective scoring tool in the past to keep out other groups.

Interesting article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/opinion/harvard-asian-ame...
Why stop at video? Every application that creates any file should take a hash of it and upload it to a public blockchain. You could use it to identify tampering with any individual file. If deployed more broadly (e.g., on the file system level), you could easily identify if your systems have been hacked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVWDX6oaYCg - here's an older video about him. Pretty interesting. We need more home archivists (or whatever the proper word is) like him. There's so much stuff out there that would be interesting to search through.
I knew one winner. She won an Oldsmobile in 1988. Interesting enough, she was a Mormon so and had to ask permission from her elders to claim the prize. This was in Minnesota.
Blockchains will allow people to collaborate on training a shared model. At somepoint it’ll be able to predict what it should learn next better than the people training it.
>separating work and home used to be a basic part of professionalism

CEO's actions in this case supported a law that very much reached into the homes and lives of some employees, customers, etc.
How Ended Up My Month of Rebouds Project
Why UBI is bad?

We cannot hire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slaves
> Another aspect you didn’t mention was the cardboard keyboard overlay because the game used basically every key for something.

That was fairly common with sims from the mid-1980s into the 2000s.
It's not so much about fidelity as honesty.
Yeah, what this guy is doing is a bit on the reckless side. But even if you do make a Frankenstein vehicle (which I have done, although it was my own), the liability is not going to be on the vehicle manufacturer. If you sue the manufacturer claiming a manufacturing fault, they're going to look at it and see that it's been (poorly) repaired. It's easy (if you're trained) to identify body damage repair work. The welds will be mig welded instead of spot welds, there will be little dings from the body hammer or marks from a grinding wheel, cuts from a plasma cutter or angle grinder look completely different from die cut, the paint and overspray is going to be slightly different. It's possible to make body work look like it just rolled off the assembly line, but it's only economical on million dollar classics.

I genuinely don't want to live in a world where I can't get replacement parts to fix my vehicles, and this is one more example of why I don't like Tesla.
I think that if you donate to pro-gun-control causes and a significant number of your employees own guns that you wish to ban ownership of and find it personally important to own those guns, you might be a poor choice of CEO.

(Gun control isn't quite analogous here for a few reasons, one major one being that employers care a lot about who you marry, for insurance and family-leave reasons, and employers tend to care little about what guns you own. But if you can construct some situation where, I dunno, you interrogate employees about their guns or they want to open-carry at work, it's a little closer.)

Remember that nobody cared about Eich's views when he was CTO. He could have remained CTO for years, and the question of his suitability as chief executive wouldn't have arisen.
They "learned" / "understand" / "realise" that they went into a thermal corner "FOUR" years after the product was first released.

Then they made announcement they are going to do a redesign, 4 years after it first released, and the redesign won't be coming out til 2019, 2 years after they made the redesign announcement.

A total of 6 years. That is the amount of care they have for "pro" users.

They then went to release an iMac Pro which many call it an interim solution. An iMac Pro capable of having two 250W chip cooled, Something the community has been calling for years for the iMac ( For so long everyone abandoned the hope already ) and some said was not possible due to cooling requirement. Turns out it wasn't a technical barrier, simply Apple won't make it.

And as rumours goes, it wasn't until a very large studio decide to abandoned the Mac platform due to Mac Pro, and someone who had connection with Apple SVPs and told hem about it, before they realise how much care they have given to the pro users.

Apple forgot that while it was Steve jobs bumping put new strategies and initiative that changed Apple in the long run. It was these pro users whom bleed six colours that kept Apple alive in the first place.
This was part of the study, and even controlling for legacy and athletes, Asians still underrepresented.

Harvard absolutely INSISTS it doesn't discriminate against Asians though - their president came out with a pretty strong statement about correcting the record.
Dumbphone is a pretty broad term, so you have to think of your requirements first. Does the phone need a color screen? Cellular internet/wifi? Multimedia? MMS? Basic apps?

While there aren't necessarily a lot of new "dumbphones" being advertised, this doesn't mean they don't exist in the market. You can pick a ton of such basic phones released over the last 10 years on Amazon/eBay for as little as $10-$25 which will do all of this and more (or less, if you like).
What exactly constitutes NOT living paycheck to paycheck?

I mean, I used to be unable to pay bills until my paycheck arrived, I get it. But today, despite having a modest emergency fund and being able to pay all of this month’s bills with last month’s paychecks, I still would consider myself living paycheck to paycheck. I mean, I cannot quit my job for a month or two without substantial financial harm. So I might answer such a survey in the affirmative. Meanwhile, younger me from several years ago would look at my current bank balance with envy.

Is this like a survey of who feels rich? Everyone says no, but everyone below you on the scale thinks you are rich while everyone above you thinks you are poor.
I had a similar experience this past week at the ISSS conference in Corvallis.

I'm applying to the systems science PhD program at PSU this year and was amazed at the both the depth and breadth of the systems research and discussion to be had, but also noted the lack of software developers or computer/information systems discussion.

I'm looking forward to being able to bring some of my expertise to this field, while also mining the knowledge and concepts for use in better software systems design.

I'm going to definitely look into this conference for next year, though hopefully they won't be running the same week as the ISSS conference again.
Admissions at elite private colleges were never just about SAT scores. Harvard for example tries to admit students with the potential to become leaders in their chosen fields. Naturally that evaluation is quite subjective.
This is a tour-de-force. The Z80 has an enormous number of instructions, documented and 'undocumented' https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BykuPmkS9xS3UzFRTlAtTVA0ZHc... In a sense, the Z80 was the 'VAX' of 8-bit microprocessors.

What I didn't see was performance info -- how fast (clock rate) did the CPU run in the various FPGAs? I see the size (# LUTs etc) at https://opencores.org/project/a-z80 but not max CPU clock. Alternately, timing for 4-cycle instructions like 'LD A,B'-- which in the original Z80 took 2 M cycles, 7 T states, 4 MHz execution time = 1.75 uSec.
>To the asian issue I wonder if it isn't even a negative treatment, just that other racial minorities get a tip and many whites make it through legacy and donoring.

I am going to make some assumptions and I apologise if they are wrong. I am going to assume that you think racism is wrong. I think that includes structural rasism. That is, policies, procedures, and practices by institutions that systematically disadvantage on race over another. From you above comment, it seems like you believe other racial minorities get an excplicit tip as a matter of policy. It also seems like you believe whites get an implicit tip due to the due to the process of how legacies work.

Yet, you seemed to stop a step short of calling this structural rasism against Asian Americans. Is there something I am missing for why you didn't take that last step?
OK, sure. But France can't prevent DNA testing.

And I wonder, what is it such an issue in France? I wonder if rates of misattributed paternity are higher there.
Some links?
I had always wondered how they came up with Faloodeh, for a community that had very hot summers. Thanks for posting, this explains it!

BTW, love Faloodeh! Also, not to be confused with Falooda (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falooda).
It's better to try Ubuntu with pendrive http://tuxtweaks.com/2014/03/create-linux-mint-persistent-li...
I had to carry one for work purposes when these were popular. I found that the 15-minute startup time is pretty much negated by the three-day battery life, and the phone was faster than my android at actually running apps.
And in California, they (and their children) can also inherit the low tax basis from when their parents bought the property. Thank you Property 13.
If I'm in jail, my bitcoin still exists and when I get out, I could access it so long as I've memorized my seed words, or backed them up, or shared them with a family member I trust, who could use it while I'm incarcerated. It is not easily seized, and if you are careful, not easily identifiable.

Using trust to secure your ledger is like driving without insurance; sure its cheaper and more efficient, until it isn't.
Well yeah, I used "programming" rather loosely. He set it up that way.
Sounds like AMZ is infected with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb
There is some irony in the criminals paying restitution to the company who was making so much money from the game to be incentivized to turn a blind eye.

Running the last game that was known ahead of time to be rigged seems indefensible. The article doesn’t challenge the position that catching the crooks is a good reason to defraud more people.
5-10x is on the high side for multipliers that I've heard of. 3x is fairly common.
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Although with genetic diseases and child support, genealogy/paternity still matters.
> How could vital records and other paper archives at the municipal level be digitized and indexed?

The typical business model is for a company to digitize the ones somebody might want to look at someday and offer online access.

> What are the technical and legal considerations for such a project?

Legal: more than can be articulated here, but the FCRA is sort of the big one that covers much more than you'd think. Technical: buy a scanner or two.
Yes, pervasive DNA testing, sequencing even, poses some extremely serious privacy risks. Everyone certainly has the right to know the results of their own tests. But arguably, everyone also has the right to keep those results private. Both from commercial third parties, and from the general public.
This definition you provide...

Epigenetics is the study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression.

...is not sufficient. The crux of epigenetics is that it involves >heritable< changes in gene expression.

At least that's what it originally meant. Now I feel like the definition is transforming into the definition you gave. However the author of the smithsonian article is confusing the two usages, because in several places the article alludes to the heritability.
I recognize that in a literal sense you can claim to support diversity and also have legacy admissions. What GP meant is that you shouldn't, because it makes the claim a lie. Legacy admissions promote exactly the opposite of diversity.