skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not familiar with "Blockchain Research Institute", so I'm not sure if your comment is critical of them as an organization or not. I am also wary of the blockchain-is-magic hype train, so I generally agree with your assessment that we aren't prepared to vote online.

While I wasn't surprised by the overall lack of technical details given the medium/audience, I did find it odd that the question of privacy was essentially ignored. Do they have a solution in mind that allows me to validate that my vote is in the ledger without the vote being traceable back to me?
Methane is just CH4. I suspect it's not produced anymore on the partial-seaweed diet.
? Pollice verso is a latin expression for disapprove, used normally by Roman's emperor to refuse right to live of a gladiator...

How this phrase can go "either way"?

Ps English is not my motherlanguage so I may made many mistake than maybe sound strange for other readers, if that's the case please point it out, it's a valuable lesson for me.
You need to directly click on a twitter/FB WSJ shortlink while in incognito mode.
The article mentions first that the move is motivated by recruiting tech talent. Seattle is far-away in the eyes and minds of most Americans I would bet. Splitting means they are probably going after northeast and south/east.

Check out this population density map from the US census:

> https://www.census.gov/history/www/reference/maps/

From the article:

"The driving force behind the decision to build two equal offices in addition to the company’s headquarters in Seattle is recruiting enough tech talent, according to the person familiar with the company’s plans. The move will also ease potential issues with housing, transit and other areas where adding tens of thousands of workers could cause problems."
Cheap housing, lots of land.
just because you don't agree with something doesn't automatically makes it "wacky"
In Java, I can assume that other developers took an OO approach, even if that isn't ideal. In Clojure, I can assume that they took a functional approach. In Scala, it is hard to be sure.

So, is the increased expressiveness worth the decreased predictability? For one developer, it probably is worth it. For a large team distributed over space and time, it probably isn't, even if everyone is comfortable with each individual paradigm.
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There are no real insights by Mises, except an extraordinary well description of a free market, middle ages, barter economy.
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HQ-2 and HQ-B? Coin flips of course landing on the opposite sides at the other HQ.
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Talmud is basically the collected notes on the study of the Torah, which was was supposedly (capital-R) Revealed by a supernatural authority on Mount Sinai.

If you're Orthodox, both the written Torah and the Oral Torah (Talmud) were capital-R Revealed by a supernatural authority at Mount Sinai.

Yes, the study notes for the book were revealed with the book. If you find this confusing, well, go pick up Rudin's Principles to Mathematical Analysis.
I don't know many people who actually work in cryptography who believe that verification is cheaper and easier than building systems.

People absolutely do, for the most part, trust DJB because of his track record. Find 10 people who have adopted Poly1305 and ask them what Poly1305 does better than GCM. That's not to say their decision is uninformed; rather, they've delegated a very specialized part of the decision that very few people are actually qualified to make out to an expert they trust, and trust for good reason.

In practical cryptography, the opposite approach --- people who trust nothing until they verify it from first principles --- is extremely problematic. That's how you end up with oddball libraries that only look like they can do a secure scalar multiplication or reliably add two numbers together. As Bruce Schneier is fond of pointing out, everyone can design a system they themselves can't break.
That would kill the cow. Further down the digestive track can’t really handle volumous gas buildup
You're operating off a caricature of Texan politics. Its far more sane than the carnival of horrors that is the Seattle City Council.

(lived in Texas, now live in Seattle)
Feature packages that contain Windows specific libraries? I guess I don't see the distinction you're trying to make.
HQ2 was never going to be a true second HQ but now it’s not even going to be close. Cities just fellated Amazon for a satellite office.
This leak would be a terrific way to catch a leaker, if delivered to a single individual under circumstances where all others present are aware it’s a test.
"How about something more akin to a personal CRM app where I could unilaterally enter some of my friends and it could help me maintain engagement through reminders or scheduling assistance"

Exactly this. That's precisely what I was assuming/hoping it would be when I clicked the link. I don't want another social media site or app. I already am basically a ghost on most of the web and don't use any social media sites. HN is the only exception and for a while now it has been the only site I post anything on. I like it that way and don't want something where I have to "connect" to people on and invite them to also use for it to be useful.

EDIT: I just saw some comments below and it appears my assumptions and understanding of the product based on the site were incorrect. It apparently does have "single-player mode" where I can do what I hoped for. Will give it a shot. Note to the developer - this ability is definitely not clear based on the app's website.
This is true as well. But historically diagnosis was used as a way to strip liberty away from people.

Women who refused to sleep with husbands were routinely committed.

Capitalism is intense and is resulting in mental health issues for many people. The system doesn’t self critique rather it labels the people as “ill” and sells them a pill, at a profit of course.

The practitioners often benefit and reinforce the dynamics that create the symptoms in our culture.

Open Dialogue is an approach which does a great job at healing folks in the context of community.
Lobste.rs, however it's invite only to participate.
Can't a cow just eat what it wants?? Why put it on some superficial diet ?? is it not equal to saying all humans should eat one type of food to reduce global warming ?
Even when there is some subsidising towards educating children that are unfortunate enough to have poor parents, you still end up with very unequal outcomes.

Go down to Figure 53 of this: http://www.nzchildren.co.nz which shows only 1/3 of the poorest 20% attain a high enough level of education to even enter university, while 3/4 of the richest 20% do (the relation is fairly linear for the rest).

Financing the education of children with poor parents helps, it just doesn't equalise on average. Of course it does help a few outlier children a lot.

In NZ we add extra subsidies to schools with poor parents through a system of deciles - but it doesn't offset the difference that much.
Consumers don't borrow money for most spending. Houses and cars are primarily it. Credit cards are generally at higher interest rates that the Fed doesn't really have control over and that's not a consideration in most buying decisions. I would hypothesize that one of the primary ways Fed interest rate changes influence the economy is through home lending and the resulting consumer spending of that borrowed money.
I don't think deferring by platform preference is enough of a reason to separate the standard from the abstracting implementation. Most languages, with or without a "standard" and multiple implementations, defer to the platforms' preferred ways of, say, obtaining cryptographically random numbers.
I am in Dallas at least once per year.

A couple months ago I was there, and around my wife's parents' house, almost every yard had a Beto sign.

So I can verify that this is true, at least for some parts of Dallas.
>I did not read GP as saying it was a binary choice, but rather a prerequisite.

That is a binary statement though, saying it's a prereq is saying without it trust is 0.

>That is to say, without transparency, there can be no trust, but you can also have no trust with transparency.

That would clearly be incorrect though. Transparency is not needed to probe a system, it is mostly helpful in changing the incentive structure for development in the first place (helping avoid laziness mostly), making the system more likely to be casually looked at, and fixing it if the original party is slow about it or absent. There can absolutely be trust without transparency however when other factors are strong enough, it's just that transparency lowers the strength needed and in turn helps in cases where it's not there.

>For someone like me, who is somewhat technically competent, but not a security expert, openness means that names and figures I do trust have the chance to examine whatever I intend to use and comment on it, observe it, and make assessments, including shaming poor implementations claiming traits they have no right to. Turns out there are plenty of people more competent than me that can catch these things.

>Transparency also allows less hiding of incompetency in otherwise commercial and/or proprietary designs.

That's what I said though? But are you arguing in turn that the typical iPhone is a lot easier to break into and less trustworthy then the typical Android or PC? It's the least transparent after all. And what about for the majority of the population who lack even the technical meta-knowledge we have let alone anything more? They still have to exercise trust, so how do you think that works from their perspective?
>But I also believe freedom is better than slavery. I value wisdom over ignorance. And I believe those things without any proof.

You believe these things on the same kinds of evidence you use for believing the sun will rise tomorrow.
It's mainly the stuff that's pro-employee in California (wrt non-compete and what have you) are pro-employer in Texas.
Except the net migration flow in recent decades has been from "blue" to "red" states, not the other way around... do you have any source for the claim that those moving are disproportionately not "educated" people? https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/04/24/the_po...
LOL. There are tons of educated people who move to Texas. Ever heard of Texas Instruments?
> "So I think we need something like the FDA for algorithms."

I can't say for sure that the author or interviewee even knows what the definition of an algorithm is.

No, the government absolutely should not be involved in regulating algorithms. You'll be able to enjoy a burdensome system for anyone that isn't a massive corporation. Good luck competing against Google when every 10 lines of code you write, you need to seek government approval.

I know you're not supposed to be dismissive on Hacker News, but it's so difficult to take this seriously when you display this level of technical ignorance.
Yeager...:-D
>It makes me wonder if this is another negotiation tatic by Amazon to get the final city to shell out more incentives.

Especially given that they are ramping up offices in Vancouver, BC, Northern Virginia, they have a presence in Austin thanks to Whole Foods, and probably other locations I'm forgetting off the top of my head, it has seemed to me like this "HQ2" business is somewhat of a red herring. Even if they do anoint some city as "HQ2" they've already put their eggs into more than one basket.
>No one "gets" what you are doing

3 years ago, I shifted from fullstack/framework web development to native mobile development. I have suffered from this exact, specific type of isolation continuously ever since I made the move.

The technical work is the most challenging, interesting, and rewarding stuff I've worked on yet in my (10 yr) career, but I have yet to find a position (across 3 companies) where I am not working in isolation fully owning and maintaining one product app by myself, with (intermittently) maybe, 1/4 of the normal input from a designer and/or a PM.
I am pretty sure they decide to split into two and effectively double the benefits (tax) they will receive.
I have no specific knowledge of the Blockchain Research Institute, but a guy from a blockchain-based organization is claiming we all need to use the blockchain. If you have a hammer, everything else looks like a nail.

And if we're going to use anything for something as important as voting, it better have demonstrated its real, long-term value in something far less crucial.
In the entertainment industry, the woke are going broke
Ft. Worth, right next door, is not though. I don't see this happening, by the way. Abbott is up by 15-20 points in the polls this year. And Texas is just different, culturally, than these other states.

You can have your LGBTQ anti-discrimination and TX still remain red, BTW. They're not mutually exclusive.
GP was probably thinking of Giordano Bruno... Galileo died of old age under house arrest after being convicted of heresy.
Sorry to break it to you, but we force cows to do all sorts of things they'd rather not.
Amazon is playing cities like chump. I had a sense in the beginning of this process that Amazon doesn’t really want to build a HQ2. They just want to open another office. Most large tech companies have large campuses across multiple cities. This exercise is no different than that. But Bezos branded it HQ2 to maximize handout. I also predict that they will end up hiring far less than the 25k projected. There is a recession coming in the near future, which could result in Amazon looking for cheaper developers globally.
> You don't care _how_ they spent those 5k hours...simply that they have them?

I didn’t go deep, because this isn’t an aviation forum, but sure the quality of hours matters. Retract, multi, instrument, PIC, dual given, high-performance, turbine, jet, 91, 135, 121, etc all matter. Smash-n-goes in a 172 aren’t the same as flying the line/signing for a transport jet.

Anything past the FAA ATP 1500 hour mark, the quality matters. Before that, quantity dominates for airline candidates.
What I meant by that was it has not been agreed upon by historians as to whether the phrase means approval or disapproval.

Source: I did a short paper once on the painting by Gérôme of the same name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollice_Verso_(G%C3%A9r%C3%B4m...
I'm curious about the social psychological effects at play here since it's more or less presenting the same content as James Damore (first paragraph page 5) to more or less the same audience.

What made one presentation more palatable than the other.
Ah, my mistake, I didn't know that. Kind of actually enforces my point of the ecosystem being a mess though and the only realistic thing to do is compile for multiple targets.
Don’t think Amazon is as much as a competitor here. However, Google Cloud does roll in all GApps revenue into their Cloud reporting
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This is a fantastic read. At the risk of being the guy that needs the joke explained, I can't make sense of following paragraph:

> While the -6 volt supply spec caused little trouble for
the LM383, it meant that all the other electronics in a car needed
to voltage regulator that could provide protection.

The other components need protection anyway. What is the connection to
the LM383?

> Some one made the joke that the lateral PNP's were so bad that even delco would
not be able to destroy them.

Why are bad lateral PNP's hard to destroy?
Is he talking about PNP's inside the LM383 or inside other power supply circuitry that's
supposed to provide protection?

>A skunk works layout of a lateral PNP regulator ultimately made its way to
delco. And sure enough, they could not destroy it. They loved it.
And National Semiconductor got into the business of making PNP output regulators.
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this news has made the run once a year since I was in high school

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257589662_Methane_p...

so there's something to it that doesn't add up. either the economics of producing enough algae make it infeasible, or other factors come into play like milk/meat taste or even what to do with pastures if they aren't used for pasturing, it's not like you can grow stuff there.
Today is truly a great day for the expansion of my trivial knowledge!
Nice, so we should just farm manatees? :)

Joking aside, for the more curious, the article mentions work by Australian scientists exploring the idea in 2015: The red macroalgae Asparagopsis taxiformis is a potent natural antimethanogenic that reduces methane production during in vitro fermentation with rumen fluid

> http://www.publish.csiro.au/an/AN15576
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I see no flamewar here. In fact, the only one who seems to have a problem with this discussion is you.

There are a few low-quality comments, true. But these are mostly high-quality comments, relative to internet discourse on other websites.
They do. On O365 I’ve said the same thing for a while, but the front end rewrites that are rolling out are really quite good. (Admin is still a tire fire)
Why? Most major defence contractors aren't HQed in or around DC.
some familiarity with running a small business in Ca. : Every little thing your business does potentially has some permitting, licensing fees, taxes, and/or approvals necessary at the local, county, or state levels, with lots of complicated form filling needed and a DMV level of service & timeliness in response. If you have a physical presence you're doubly screwed, because that potentially ropes in local land-use, health and labor departments, which can take months to turn around an approval. Its basically impossible to keep in compliance unless you have dedicated lawyers and accountants looking at each project.

My understanding is that Texas doesn't have a lot of that or at least its minimized.

The reason "business environment" can't be duplicated or reversed because it's like a legal equivalent of tech debt code rot where also a large group of ops employees (politically influential bureaucrats) earn their life's income on the busy work the system creates.
Because historically, hardware vendors have had pretty bad security, and are usually not getting reviewed. There's also many of them, which makes any specific one less likely to undergo review.

Meanwhile, BitLocker has received at least some level of review, it is the most common disk encryption product for Windows, and Microsoft can be reasonably expected, based on past experience, to put somewhat competent people on it.

Additionally, at least for parts of BitLocker, there is at least high-level documentation how it is supposed to behave (e.g. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/informatio..., there may be more detailed documentation elsewhere), plus there is likely reverse-engineered research available confirming the basic functionality.
Yup, they are now gone for me.
WinForms. Drag and drop. Drag to resize. Each object has a handy block of understandable property fields to adjust how it looks and behaves. Double click to open up an auto-created function to run when you click it, just add functionality from there.

Sure, WinForms did not really output a stylish UI design, but I have yet to see anyone make a functionally useful UI editor that is nearly as convenient and approachable.
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Swearing at work can also impair one's promotion. I wouldn't promote a person who couldn't keep their swearing in check. It's bad for business.
"Two additional tools have enhanced Jupyter’s usability. One is JupyterHub, a service that allows institutions to provide Jupyter notebooks to large pools of users. The IT team at the University of California, Berkeley, where Pérez is a faculty member, has deployed one such hub, which Pérez uses to ensure that all students on his data-science course have identical computing environments. “We cannot possibly manage IT support for 800 students, helping them debug why the installation on their laptop is not working; that’s simply infeasible,” he says."
I think this result is a real winner, I recall the problems of setup in university student labs. Good win for reducing teaching friction.
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I can't agree more! A big problem here is that merely to point to reasons for religions to come about (for example, that they solve real problems at the time of their appearance) is to "condone" every terrible thing that ever happened that could be ascribed to religion. Hint to the wise: the doers of terrible things always align the reason for their actions with the current moral authority. Which in this day is likely to be efficient market operations. Their predations may yet be more harmful...we don't have that much history yet in post-religion.

In these discussions, to try and talk about religion as something other than "grotesque superstition" has a hackle-raising effect on people invested in our current cultural totems. The only thing to do for them (the heroic thing), is to fight tooth and claw against those irrational forces trying to coagulate into a new Dark Age of superstition.

Because of this, any real attempts to understand religion are few and far between. It's certainly true that "religion" as experienced by most is a social institution constructed by people of mixed understanding and motivations, and therefore, depressingly, is just as broken as every other organization people create.

These organizations are only the structure erected around a spark that remains almost as mysterious as consciousness itself: the mystical experience of the Divine. I do think philosophy, if it's meaningful at all, should investigate that initial spark. Because it does lead to those good things camelNotation is talking about: inclusion for outsiders; Myth as a durable storage medium for the mores of a culture; Ritual that supports embodied existence, with all it's imperfections and requirements to deal with real suffering.

Personally, I think there is plenty of complexity and intricate thought in that space to keep a generation of technically minded people interested. But alas, they mostly make jokes about a "Sky God" and deny the complexity which they have even inside themselves.

Here is a starting thought: paradoxical language is used in religion precisely because it "stuns" the intellect, forcing it to switch context in ways it doesn't yet understand, but in time, will. It's a kind of interrupt.

A deep inner experience of religion is something that happens on earth because people must endure the unendurable. To pontificate that "oh, they evolved denial, problem solved" is to throw white paint over a breathtaking chiaroscuro. It may be merely an "evolved response," but it deserves more respect.
But for that, all they needed was a sales office, not a 50,000 employee campus.
> I'm saying researchers have no moral obligation to do anything.

I don't think I agree with you, but I understand your point of view, and don't think I can really argue from any sort of objective reasoning.
You could argue that few people use passwords in a properly secure manner, and you'd likely be right, but the real question is what will replace passwords?

The truth you describe doesn't mean that we should convince people to use passwords correctly, rather that passwords aren't the best security medium for humans. It's unreasonable for people to be expected to craft highly secure, brand new passwords each time they need one, and also expect it to be stored in long-term memory. That process is simply out of scope for most humans.

So then, how do we make this easier without compromising security?