skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't see how this relates to the parent post's opinion.
Can you share some starting points to research it?
This is the Achilles heel of many pieces of software: lack of provisions to fail gracefully.
The whole system consists of flaws the authors would have forseen if they understood economic thinking. Instead, they pretended that all the tenets of economics magically go away if you apply a little cryptography.

The flaw you're pointing out is that whoever has access to cheap electricity and scale will be able to control the system. There is not sufficient incentive for others to jump in to a money losing proposition.
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> It sounds like the takeaway is that if you're on the fence about any of these issues, you should quit your job, break up with your romantic parter, don't have kids, don't get engaged, and start your own business?

Exactly how my life turned out and no one looks to me as a shining example of how one should achieve happiness in life...though I do have independence and freedom in droves.
I don't know if it's that necessarily. I think most people understand (in theory, anyway), the benefit of working smart.

I think there's an assumption that the most successful people both work smart AND hard, which is likely true to some degree - e.g. successful pro athletes have staff that likely conduct well-targeted and thoughtful practices, but the hours and effort involved are still quite intense.

I more-so think the problem is that "working smart" requires a lot of careful planning and forethought, and is quite ambiguous in most cases what it actually means - and in many cases just happens serendipitously. Because of that, the process isn't as obvious.

It's much easier (intellectually, at least) to emulate the "working hard" part and to a large degree it's the one we reward the most societally (even in more intellectual circles), so it's not surprising that it's the one that people assume is the most necessary component of being successful - and that the "working smart" part will either come naturally, or after success is had.
At my company the levels for technical engineers (traditional engineering btw, not software) is: Engineer 1, 2, Senior, Lead, & Principal where Lead is supposedly equivalent to a Supervisor & Principle a manager. In reality we have only a few leads and no principals. So there is very little incentive to go technical as you'll never make more than a Supervisor and Supervisor has at least 4 more levels above it.

Part of the company is similar to the Peter principle, but where I am, all the smartest and most technical people go into management which creates a different problem. They're often sub par at managing people and the administrative side of things. It also creates brain drain where we constantly have a lack of know-how in the less senior ranks. On the good side is that things generally work better with highly technical management as they tend to almost always make superb decisions and don't have to constantly consult about things. My last manager could listen to work being done and know exactly which processes it impacted and why due to the specific SQL tables involved. They can also direct subordinates in the knowledge they took with them too. These managers tend to be more focused with getting the job done quickly and properly with minimum impacts rather than political infighting.
It has been clear for a while now that Bitcoin is an inferior payment system for the consumer:

* The fees are higher.

* The risk to the consumer is higher.

* The difficulty of use is higher.

* It is accepted at an extremely low amount of vendors and even that is falling.

So you really how to wonder why people ever thought consumers would use it en masse.
Strongly disagree with this line of argument. Almost all human systems are intentionally opaque about some choices or have unplanned consequences you can't get a clear answer about. And, algorithms can be studied in the same ways that we use to critically evaluate human systems -- and sometimes better.

Why does your local paper run stories featuring some businesses but not others? Why do college admissions tend to overrepresent some populations and underrepresent others? Why are women paid less on average for the same titles? Why do prosecutors disproportionately bring charges against minority suspects with equivalent weight of evidence?

You can't get answers about those human decision processes just by asking - it requires research, competing theories, and sometimes legal action forcing people to share info.

Explainability of decisions isn't about how much tech is used... It's about how open a system's operators are to sharing info, and how much effort everyone is willing to put into interpreting it.
Does that really happen all that often? Pitchers are usually paid highly. Would a really good catcher get promoted to pitcher? Why wouldn't businesses treat it mostly the same? Of course sometimes people try out a new role, but if they aren't good they are often fired or go back to their old role.
Over time, power always consolidates amongst a privileged few. That’s pretty much a universal constant. It doesn’t really matter what the unit of power is, be it dollars, hash rate, or political capital.
> But society's been getting better in every aspect of living almost every decade since the enlightenment.

For us but certainly not for society in other parts of the world. And certainly it was not continuous uptrend.

The greatest man-made catastrophes in human history has happened since the enlightenment. Native genocides, holocaust, WW1/WW2, Taiping Rebellion, intentional famines in india killing tens of millions, etc. And we aren't even factoring climate change, environmental degradation and species extinction.

From an absolutist perspective, if you compare an african or asian today to an african and asian 400 years ago, of course they are doing "better". But if you compare the proportional difference between an asian/african-european 400 years ago and asian/african-european today, the asian or african of 400 years was doing better vis a vis the european of 400 years ago.

In an absolute sense, everyone is doing better. But comparatively, the poor south is doing far worse today than it was 400 years ago. The last 400 years has been a story of wealth and resource extraction from the rest to the west. So while we sit pretty absolutely and comparatively, the rest sit worse comparatively.

> While this is not a law of nature, it is reasonable to assume that this will continue for a little while.

It's also reasonable to assume things will change. Not just from a political or economic sense. But from an ecological sense as well. Economically and politically speaking - all empires collapse. The western empire is getting older by the minute. And not to sound like a malthusian, but from an ecological point, the population increased from 500 million to over 7 billion in less than 200 years. That's rather amazing.
Fingerprints are so fucking dumb.

You can't change them and you leave them everywhere!

They're good against stopping your nosy family members from seeing your password, but what am I supposed to do when dining or paying someone? Wear gloves?

If the cybersec game turns into "collect physical fingerprints" then the gangs are going to collect physical fingerprints and then what?

What we need is something dynamic that's hard to fake, like a human voice or face, tied to a government issued cryptographic device with no input ports / volatile memory / inbound network adapter.

You say a challenge sentence out loud. The device validates. Then the device signs or authenticates or whatever. For integrity it could optionally encrypt and broadcast what happened.

You lose the device, you get a new one just like you get a passport. In person with other documents, etc.

This really isn't that hard. We could have done it decades ago.
The courts disagree with you: https://www.kostenlose-urteile.de/LAG-Rheinland-Pfalz_7-Sa-3...

Note that in this case, additional infractions were committed, but the court specifically pointed out hat each infraction on it own would have been sufficient grounds for termination. And this was even without handing in a notice.

It’s certainly not the regular case that your employment will be terminated immediately for being late or not showing up once, but if you hand in your notice and don’t show up the next day without a damn good excuse, this will be treated as exactly what it is: cheating your employer for a wage. And that’s a standard ground for immediate termination.

Also note that just not showing up without a good cause entitles the employer to withhold your wage. So now you’re still employed, cannot take another full-time job and don’t get wage nor unemployment payments. Good way to footgun yourself.
The Mystery of Bitcoin in 2018
We get satellite internet from Infosat also in BC. It's not cheap either though.
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Can't remember exactly, but suspect it was through a friend at Microsoft. I got my first copy in '91 or '92.
I propose Bitcoin and most other extra-legal (ie non state supported) currencies are going to zero. That said we can be grateful that the experiment was done and data was gained.
Do you have any sources or proof on this?
Also, money works pretty well. Bitcoin is not 10x better. Maybe 0.1x. Bitcoin is not even useful for illicit transactions anymore.
Why? The idea is that if you’re seriously unsure, you’re probably trying to convince yourself that where you are is ok out of risk aversion, not pragmatism. People tend to be massively biased against change because of uncertainty. That’s not good if you want to have the best outcome possible.
If Bitcoin is a failure, I wish some of my projects would fail like that.
I do value profit and you should too. That's what motivates entrepreneurs to create new products and make economies thrive.

Speaking of profits/money/greed, would you also despise a person who cancels their Spotify subscription? Because it's the same situation in reverse – someone stops paying for somebody else's services. Would you blame such person for being greedy? Would you moralise them that there is much more to life than the money they'll save?
To each their own, obviously, but I look at this list and it's just... depressing. He seems like the kind of person who gets a lot of fulfillment from things like this, but for me I just see a whole lot of time wasted on bullshit.

That's the main reason why I work for others. You can't form a health system startup that includes dozens of hospitals and thousands of patients per day.
Thanks for the update.

I believe the US late war high octane avgas was 115/145. 100/130 was indeed widely available more or less the entire war.

I think the British had something they called "150 octane", but I'm not sure that really was "better" or even different than the US 115/145, or was it different testing protocols etc.
> the reason it is compelling to blame tiny third parties for losing elections is because it can happen. if there a very liberal third party like the greens and their vote percentage is higher than the liberal (democratic) candidate lost by, then they probably kept the dem from winning.

That's b.s. vote shaming. If you lose it's because you failed to convince enough voters in enough places to make you win.

> usually you don't see third party conservative alternatives. and the small third parties don't get any political power in the us system.

Libertarians are considered by many to be closer to conservatives than liberals and even with terrible candidates like Gary Johnson they got three times as many votes as the Green party in 2016.

Gary Johnson Libertarian 4,489,341 3.28%
Jill Stein Green 1,457,218 1.07%
It's interesting to see just how finely tuned it was to practicality and technological constraints rather than an artistic aesthetic. Those constraints have relaxed enough that we are more free to explore beautiful typography now.
Just because India (India, of all places) can't do things right doesn't mean that a universal ID is a bad idea. Most countries in the world have a universal ID that hasn't been hacked to oblivion.
I totally agree with the assertion that it doesn't fall into existing asset type (or-- maybe that it can move between asset types in a novel way), but what do you mean by "programmable"? Isn't the simpler explanation or enthusiasm on the part of Goldman et al. just classic FOMO?
The paddles are exactly the reason I recently rebought a 2600. The feel is as close to moving a physical object as can be. I noticed some of that feel is lost through a modern TV. I tried a tube tv and I nearly double my recent breakout hi score on the first run. I dont care what anyone says about perceptible latency, it made a huge difference. Emulation with a mosue doesnt even come close to capturing the feel. And the local multiplayer (up to 4 at once) games are a blast.
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> including phone number hijacking, draining people’s bank accounts, etc. To say that it’s been an unmitigated disaster would be an understatement

Can you give sources for that. It's a big claim.

> linking one number to everything in one’s life increases the attack surface and the severity of the threats.

I think looking bank accounts is absolutely necessary to prevent tax evasion. Intrusive linking with phone numbers etc is undesirable, but it's only for authentication, not surveillance. And having single Id is better than having 10 different disparate ones. Finally, I don't see any evidence that adhaar has been compromised, but that's it's improperly used.
Well if you get an email from xxx@somemail.com and the SPF and DKIM check out then it means that the mail really came from somemail and they have had the chance to verify that xxx is authorized to send the email with e.g. a password. The system is not 100% foolproof but it's good enough when working with reputable or selfhosted email services. It's way, way better than "anyone can trivially pretend to be anyone"
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Here are a few things to start looking at (the amount of information could be overwhelming):

* https://www.rethinkaadhaar.in

* https://twitter.com/no2uid

* Search for #AadhaarFail on Twitter

* Search for “Aadhaar frauds” on DuckDuckGo or your favorite search engine
Wait, why is this a good question? I mean the OP said “it’s not that simple” which says he/she has a DEEPER understanding of loans that the previous post.

The answer to the OPs question is obvious to someone who understands loans (“the same things that keep everyone from defaulting on every loan”).

So, isn’t it actually a dumb question? Or rhetorical, and since its obvious and adds nothing, it seems best to just ignore it.

The original US student loan program gave loans which could be defaulted on just like any other loan. So, maybe a better question would be “why did the US congress change the rules just for student loans?”
Simplistically, there are three eras worth considering.

-Ancient refrigerators with mediocre seals and energy sucking compressors.
-Modern refrigerators circa 15 years ago, with efficient compressors, good seals, no frost.
-Today's technocraptasmic refrigerators.

A refrigerator that boots, emails, needs firmware updates, takes photos? This immediately turns me into a "get off my lawn" jerk. I see it as tech gone awry, causing regressions, and not improving people's lives. Yeah, let's pay more for nonsensical complicated crap that will break sooner. Are we bored out of our minds?

Back to the modern refrigerator: those compressors stand a good chance of lasting 20 years, as will all the duct work and seals if you keep them clean. And really there are a handful of mass produced models, that end up getting skinned by many companies who don't make refrigerators. They're the Toyota of refrigerators, you can find new replacement parts easily. The most common point of failure, is the compressor starter relay. I've replaced several, which just so happened to be the exact same Whirlpool part for a Kenmore refrigerator, and a Kitchen Aid refrigerator. They probably made millions of that base refrigerator and then skinned it. ~$40 part.

Need a new refrigerator? You might find a used one someone's getting rid of that "doesn't cool, makes clicking sound" and at worst it's actually a bad compressor and it'll cost you $350 but last 20 years. Chances are it's the starter relay.
By money you mean what exactly? Anything in a bank account is not money but promise of money that can be taken away without your knowledge. Any specific currency is subject to whim of corresponding central bank. Sure, some are safer than others but still. Even the right to participate is not a given as you can be banned from opening a bank account.

Bitcoin is orders of magnitude better money than anything else in every aspect except convenience, but it’s getting there.
The primary utility of money is this: it is the good that best lends itself to exchanges for other goods.

Its been clear to me for some time now, and I'm not alone in this, that as the properties of Bitcoin have moved further away from its primary function as a useful unit of exchange that its usage would decline.

There are other crypto-currencies which are now much better suited as a medium of exchange, which ones people will prefer as time progresses remain to be seen, but unless Bitcoin takes a major corrective path, I would be quite surprised to find Bitcoin in that final set of widely utilized currencies.
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You're looking at it the wrong way. Electronics work on earth by definition, as that's where we want them to work. You can be surprised that electronics can be made so fragile and still work on earth, but being surprised they work is begging the question.
They wrote the books Elements of Statistical Learning and Introduction to Statistical Learning in R. Those books are about least squares regression, clustering, decision trees, random forests, boosting, additive models, support vector machines, etc.

All these are common statistical learning methods used in Data Science.
Good job!
Might have closed a side leak there.
Next step might be to to make sure certain TCP packets under a certain classification gets encrypted together with data traffic?
You want to join the growing list of Proclaimers that Bitcoin is dead? It’s growing ever since 2011.

Edit: typo
Some time ago I came across an apple database, like IMDB for apples. Users were reviewing apple cultivars, and there was lots of information about those apples and their typical diseases.

Unfortunately, it seems I hadn't bookmarked it, but if somebody could point me there I'd be grateful.
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This is not the first time bridges have been used in comparison with software development.

From Programming Pearls, Section 7.3 [Safety Factors], by Dr. Jon Bentley, which reproduces Vic Vyssotsky's advice from a talk he has given on several occasions.

"Most of you'', says Vyssotsky, "probably recall pictures of `Galloping Gertie', the Tacoma Narrows Bridge which tore itself apart in a windstorm in 1940. Well, suspension bridges had been ripping themselves apart that way for eighty years or so before Galloping Gertie. It's an aerodynamic lift phenomenon, and to do a proper engineering calculation of the forces, which involve drastic nonlinearities, you have to use the mathematics and concepts of
Kolmogorov to model the eddy spectrum. Nobody really knew how to do this correctly in detail until the 1950's or thereabouts. So, why hasn't the Brooklyn Bridge torn itself apart, like Galloping Gertie?

"It's because John Roebling had sense enough to know what he didn't know. His notes and letters on the design of the Brooklyn Bridge still exist, and they are a fascinating example of a good engineer recognizing the limits of his knowledge. He knew about aerodynamic lift on suspension bridges; he had watched it. And he knew he didn't
know enough to model it. So he designed the stiffness of the truss on the Brooklyn Bridge roadway to be six times what a normal calculation based on known static and dynamic loads would have called for. And, he specified a network of diagonal stays running down to the roadway, to stiffen the entire bridge structure. Go look at those sometime; they're almost unique.

"When Roebling was asked whether his proposed bridge wouldn't collapse like so many others, he said, `No, because I designed it six times as strong as it needs to be, to prevent that from happening.'

"Roebling was a good engineer, and he built a good bridge, by employing a huge safety factor to compensate for his ignorance. Do we do that? I submit to you that in calculating performance of our real-time software systems we ought to derate them by a factor of two, or four, or six, to compensate for our ignorance. In making reliability/availability commitments, we ought to stay back from the objectives we think we can meet by a factor of ten, to compensate for our ignorance. In estimating size and cost and schedule, we should be conservative by a factor of two or four to compensate for our ignorance. We should design the way John Roebling did, and not the way his contemporaries did -- so far as I know, none of the suspension bridges built by Roebling's contemporaries in the United States still stands, and a quarter of all the bridges of any type built in the U.S. in the 1870's collapsed within ten years of their construction.

"Are we engineers, like John Roebling? I wonder.''
Unless the privileged few choose to build institutions to limit the accumulation of capital or power, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Society. To call it a universal constant is a convenient abdication of responsibility.
It’s not the ID that’s the problem, but having one single ID linked to everything else.

Look at how almost all adults in the U.S. have been made vulnerable to identity theft because of the Equifax breach and the leak of SSN and related information. These are irreversible damages.
And the BTC people made darn sure to make it harder and more expensive to use.

Not a surprise commerce will turn to other coins, including BCH
A Honeycrisp grown In the Upper Midwest is still the best and unfortunately the most expensive apple you can buy.
I still expect to see better, more original scripts from individuals compared with collaborative efforts. That's my experience from science fiction at least, where many good authors have paired up to write a book and it is nearly never as good their individual works.

You could be right about prejudices holding back the UK TV industry. I don't know much about that.
That was that person's one shot

The nice thing about our industry is that "shots" are essentially free. When domain names cost seven dollars and hosting is measured in pennies per month, you can try as many things as it takes until you find something that works.

The only thing you risk is some nights and weekends.

Here's Josh Pigford's list of the 50 failed business ideas he pursued in the 15 years before he found success with Baremetrics:

https://twitter.com/Shpigford/status/1033032915175858176