skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm interesting on several levels - one thing hinted at is a dilemma of preservation - do they do nothing and let it slowy rot or take measures which may destroy some evidence to keep it around longer for later more advanced tests?

The protein precision is also surprising - I would have expected it to be of less use from shared proteins not telling much definitive, elemental aliases creating ambiguities, and small sample sizes making them less than representative - let alone decay altering proteins. The nitty gritty isn't my forte but perhaps the very broad space of possible protein foldings gives far better identifiers.
He's probably talking about the most recent drop.
BTW, what bitcoin crash? I'm still up over 2000% ... /s
I hate this Wired style of "journalism": 99% of hype, hyperbole and anecdotes wrapped in 1% of evidence and substance.
It's nice how data analysis can lead to new conclusions, maybe baby-naming put through hard critical analysis, can reveal more, than just an actress starting her career that year. Now I just need to acquire myself a baby... :)
The latest bubble continues to deflate. I'm not about to make any predictions at all, but a drop to 1500 or so would be quite "normal" for Bitcoin, historically speaking. Again, there's no particular reason to think it will go there, or if it does, stop there. The volatility in crypto is just so high it's hard to say there's any particular reason for price movements beyong trader's reactions to price movements.
Funny that the top in bitcoin was the day futures started trading on it
We don't know what will happen in 2 years. I expect a close election, and the trade war will not have anything to do with the result - though voters against may use the trade war as an excuse.
I bet you also can’t stand people who oppose mass surveillance. Those ignorant people! Don’t they understand the government is just trying to prevent crime?
Third thing: the Yuan is sliding, negating the impact of tariffs.
> Main contribution is NVidia that had their earnings report, they told the planet flat out gpus aren't selling as well,

You've got cause / effect backwards. The slide started on Nov 13th, while NVidia's earnings report is Nov 15th.

The NVidia thing was my first hypothesis too. But it doesn't seem to hold up to scrutiny.
With BTC this is just normal volatility. The usual drawdowns that are happening every 1-3 years are about 75% - 95%. If the price of BTC goes under $1000 that will be something new.

I can't speak of other coins as they are a very different market (and I'm a Bitcoin maximalist).
Miners in China supposedly throwing out their rigs after this latest crash made them too expensive to keep running.

https://twitter.com/DoveyWan/status/1064878600594305025
Ignoring the question of legality for the moment, it sharply limits the potential size and increases the costs. Legitimate businesses are going to be less likely to use a service which is strongly associated with criminal activity, exchanging for useful currency is going to be riskier and more expensive, and transactions are going to be easier to monitor with lower transaction volumes. All of those world-changing pitches are a lot harder to sustain when the volume is that much smaller and most of the players have a strong incentive not to talk about it.
This is an absolutely horrible idea.

... I love it!
Any GPU mining is assumed to be on Ethereum, Monero, or ZCash. Which... at least a few months back... remained profitable. I don't know if its profitable anymore since the prices have dropped so dramatically.
Nice snark.

In reality, a driver license is enough.
By all means fair trade. But what Japan was doing wasn’t fair trade. We’d open markets but they’d put up all kinds of reasons and non tariff barriers to exporters, up to ridiculous extremes such as saying Rossignol (French) was unfit for Japanse snow. I mean even if this outrageous claim were true, let the buyers decide. Sure, Japan now is not overly unfair, but in the mean time over 20 years US workers had unfsir competition. Same was happening with China, but now someone is finally willing to call things out snd say “enough”.
> they are being required to require new forms of ID and I cannot supply it.

Can't, or won't?
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Who is buying the Bitcoin dip?
Bitcoin is down ~30% in the past week to lowest in ~1 year & down 80% from its all-time high. ETH is down 90% from its all-time high. All other crypto is down 95% or more. The new Swiss basket product the Amun Crypto Basket ETP starts trading next week. Not feeling optimistic. The big question: How long do folks holding their crypto positions continue to "buy the dip"? They're averaging down, way down, and their losses are approaching 100% compounded.....
Serious question.
> So you don't eat at restaurants then?

Yes I do. I was talking about selling packaged food, but still, restaurants make a good example also. They will always tell you if one of their recipe contains a particular ingredient (of which you might be allergic), and whether there are vegan options. Many restaurants even write the complete list of ingredients on each item in the menu!

Even then, except for very complex sauces, it is quite easy to see all the ingredients once you have the dish in front of you. This is impossible with proprietary software. Just grepping at a binary, you won't get too far.
I made good experiences with issue trackers. Kind of leading is probably OTRS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTRS -- it's open-source despite the horrible website which I won't link here) and RT. However, also software like https://trac.edgewall.org/ and https://www.redmine.org/ provide E-Mail interfaces which work quite well.

The thing with issue trackers is: They are made exactly made for a use case as you describe it. They excel for managing the contact "workflow" with clients, especially if different people work on the same "inbox".

In my experience, Introducing an issue tracker to a team always took some days to weeks of familiarization, but it always paid off.
How does "send selfie to a contact" work when the user physically has to press send for imessages?
As far as I'm aware you cannot get iOS to send SMS's or iMessages on behalf of the user.
Which is interesting because that would be unconstitutional in my country (the Netherlands, a member of the EU).

Article 7 of the constitution states that censorship can only happen after the fact, there can be no pre-screening before publication.

I wonder how they will implement the new regulations considering this.
Quite the lexiphanicism aren't you?
A new transparency procedure for VPNs? Will such audits become common practice?
If you haven't been back, I think you'd be surprised at the (weekday) reliability of the metro now. The metro is almost always terribly messed up on weekends (with single-tracking and line closings), but they make a damn good effort to get weekday commuters to work on time. I've been living in the DC area for the past two years and it seems like they have really been making the metro a priority. I have a transfer during my commute during rush hour times, and I hardly ever have to wait more than five minutes for either of my trains.
What other strategies, like this one, have been invented which feels like a more offensive counterforce against the slow surveillance tide, in contrast to the more common defensive strategies that just tries to keep one step ahead of the arms race (e.g. better encryption)?
It's difficult for me to accept that it's cheaper to wheelbarrow out a bunch of machinery, than it is to just cut power to a warehouse for a month.
In the particular case of web standards, my impression is that some companies that develop browsers (1) tie individual performance evaluations (e.g. bonuses) to whether the engineer has added stuff to standards and (2) _really_ like over-engineering things. The effect on web standards has not been good.
What "scarce digital assets" exist other than blockchain-backed cryptocurrencies? You've invented a problem for your solution.
Sure, it's Wes Bos' Advanced React course (paid): https://advancedreact.com/
I broadly agree with this.

My sense is that KYC hurts individuals who value their privacy and maybe catches some mid-level crooks. The big criminals bypass it without much difficulty. The recent case of Dankse Bank confirmed my opinions about this. Here's a forbes piece: https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2018/09/30/the-b...
True but a lot of Bitcoins investors probably get disproportionate amounts of equity compensation in that part of the market.
https://zachholman.com/talk/firing-people
CLOSE THE SUBWAY MIDNIGHT-5AM and fix it

Like most other civilized societies who have a functioning and well-maintained metro system.

That is really all there is to it!
These discussions are interesting as a distilled, pure exhibition of cognitive biases.

Nobody has any way to accurately value BTC. Yet when it goes up everyone discussing knew it and was right all along, and when it goes down everyone discussing knew it and was right all along. Logical arguments are applied to observed history & present conditions and used to forecast the future of something fundamentally impossible to predict.

You know the future price of bitcoin about as well as you can predict my next coin flip. Afterward, if you've guessed correctly, you might believe supreme intuition or reasoning led you well. And if you believe you've done something well, you're more likely to say so on some public channel such as this one.
This looks amazing.

So custom resolvers are node cloud functions, right?
> The electricity usage will remain high, OR a 51% attack will happen. The electricity usage can never drop without severe risk to the entire system.

Sounds like the best argument against bitcoin I've heard yet.
was thinking the same thing. and... it's not (yet?) a 'crash' but we're definitely seeing a downturn in various sectors - apple/fb have been down at lot in the past few weeks. Assuming some correlation between "tech" in a broad sense and "crypto" doesn't seem too far-fetched. Loss of some confidence in one area might be bleeding over in to another?
...but why should I care about spreading Linux? Linux is just a means to an end, not an end itself.
>would imply that there is no problem with the government just confiscating everything

I am unhappy you condensed my points down to something akin "taxation is theft mkay".

On the point of taxation (of which import/export tariffs are a form of), I prefer as little as practical, and consider it a proper thing to do in general. It's matter of degree, to be decided via normal democratic processes.

However the gist of my post was not immediate monetary costs or returns; instead it's about a long-term balance of strengths in the trade exchanges. Right now certain sectors of american economy are very reliant on single source of resources, components and complete products. This gives the source - China - an undue influence on the prices. Fixing that problem by diversifying sourcing & manufacturing will bring long-term prosperity to americans.

Given the points raised upthread - that the tariffs seem to burden chinese more than american economy - it's more of a game of chicken than a shooting war. The first one to blink ends up picking up the tab - in case of this tariff 'war' that'll mean returning to the bargaining table, ready to make some concessions.
I have no words for how dumb/brilliant that is.
By virtue of being of participating in this site, you are operating in a realm that is so far out of touch to most people. We seem to forget that we are definitely in a bubble here.
The thing is that the trading price of crypto does not mean anything to its adoption or utility. You can write a payout algorithm that grows the monetary base so fast the price can't appreciate. That coin could become unbelievably successful without ever being a viable dragon horde to sit on of endlessly growing value due to scarce supply.

Its really a reflection on the doomed state of the mainstream crypto mindset to only really care about getting rich quick in fiat off cryptocurrency bubbles. Bitcoin doesn't matter as a currency, it matters as a pyramid scheme. The people investing in it for personal financial gain dramatically outpace those trying to use it to overthrow fiat hegemony.

There have been coins like peercoin and Steem that have in small regards or parts tried to push the adoption envelope as a usable exchange medium over the pyramid scheme, but they are few and far between and their general unpopularity really shines a light on where the scenes true values lie.
The link is broken.

But, after a google search I got to the website.

Great Site!!.

I am trying to add to my knowledge of WWI.

The site's tagline is
"the most natural and easiest way of learning history"

And indeed it does seem natural and easy.
Send "heyyyy" to 20 random contacts.
The link should be https://en.historylapse.org/first-battle-of-the-marne cc: @dang
Fire codes demand stairwells always open to the outdoors without obstruction. So this seems fishy?
so if i rape someone and i didn't intend for them to enjoy it then it's not rape? or is it that the person hasn't been raped?
https://en.historylapse.org/first-battle-of-the-marne
Copy the browser history from a random day into an email and send to X random contact.

Factory reset your phone (idk if it can do this, but I want this one)

Update all the contact names in your phone with names of adult film stars.
Bethesda is possibly the only AAA developer with this problem. What do you think all the other game developers in the world are doing? How exactly did RDR2 ever get made? How did BF V ever get made? How did AC: Odyssey ever get made? How did Nintendo ever make Breath of the Wild or Mario Odyssey? How did CD Projekt ever manage to make TW3? It's easy to defend Bethesda here until you play pretty much any other full-priced AAA $60 modern game. None of these games are one-off projects -- every single one is from a long-running franchise going back many years if not decades.

Not every PC gamer is in the potential target audience of Fallout 76. That doesn't increase the numerator -- it dramatically decreases the denominator, making those 2 million a much bigger percentage.

Either way, I feel vindicated with Fallout 76 now being the lowest rated Fallout game in history, selling >80% fewer copies than Fallout 4, etc. Hopefully Bethesda learns a lesson from this and starts putting in the same effort as their peers in the industry.
Not the parent poster, but the two I can guess at would be the unblockable analytics on settings pages and the mr robot debacle.
They aren't cucumbers but over here in Europe, eggs do have a serial number.

Making an analog asset machine readable and tied to a trackable digital asset is certainly an entertaining thought.

Especially for an industry like the food industry where currently we have to trust that the state is controlling them correctly or even that they are controlling them themselves (which several food scandals showed that this isn't working very well).

But we're still early days in that regard. None of the existing crypto coins could handle the necessary transaction volume.
It seems like the bitcoin selloff coincided nicely with the general stock market selloff. I think someone wanted out of bitcoin after staring at a flat price line for 6 months.
Nope. GPUs can be repurposed but the asics that are used for Bitcoin mining are expensive paperweights without demand for BTC.
I've been going through Google Analytica courses a bit recently, just because I'm interested. It is frightening how many techniques Google uses to gather meta-data and how much you can make out of it all. Thanks for sharing this, I use ProtonMail myself but avoid google all the time, one more reason to do it.
There's a french guy, part of an activist group that likes to invent passive trolling strategies to fight bad groups (lobbies, governments). For instance they robbed some stupid furnitures from a bank that just avoided some fraud scandal so they start to sue the group. A big company starting a lawsuit to get some chair was super negative to their image. I'll try to find his name again.
The trade war will probably have a big impact on the election. Two years from now will be two further into the trade war, and by then I expect China to capitulate. When that happens, the stock market will head for orbit.
Everyone drives is very very far from the truth.

In the US as well, but significantly more so globally. And climate change is a global phenomenon.

Further, the example given in the article is very accurate. If a city allowed a company to dump their trash in a landfill for free (bonus points if it's toxic trash), would that not be considered a subsidy?

In the past we didn't know that there was a cost to allowing carbon dioxide, sourced from fossil fuels, to be emitted into the air. Now we know there is a cost. The subsidy has always existed. We just didn't know it.
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IDK how popularity matters here?
Crypto currencies and blockchain are broken because they lack utility
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18493519

I've been struggling to put this in to words for a while now. The above thread on crypto currencies tanking has me bothered and has driven me to try and express myself.

Crypto-tokens are useless without utility. Because there is no value (not even fiat acceptance) intrinsic to any coin, they are useless without a utility function.

Some blockchain models have tried to solve this (lack of utility) with smart contracts. Smart contracts are also broken, though, for distributed trust systems. Sure, they might work on chain, but when someone needs to author a real-estate deal there is some trusting that happens off-chain. And when trust (the entire point of the blockchain) occurs off-chain there is no guarantee that what you expect to happen has actually happened (did they sell the property, is it in the condition described, etc.).

So, the only utility (smart contracts) for distributed trust systems can't be trusted when it comes to real applications.

The only other way any fiat currency gains utility is mass acceptance (which all crypto currencies lack). If I can't buy a cup of coffee with it, why would I accept XYZ coin as payment for anything.

So, I argue for utility. If any currency/blockchain technology is going to be successful it needs to be useful for something. In short: can I buy stuff I want with it?

My question is: how can the ideas of crypto currency and blockchain be leveraged in a way that is actually useful on a mass market scale? (ie, how do we bring utility to an idea that has been fluff - 'mining', really?! - so far?)
Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline
Sorry but this "fuck certs" mentality just does not hold true for the security industry. It might be true in software but not here. The security industry is much more regulated than software, and with good reason - how is a company looking to hire penetration testers or blue-teamers supposed to tell between somebody who is doing they're job and somebody who isn't? If a security professional does they're job properly then you won't notice anything at all.

Yes certs are not everything, but they are proof to an extent of ones ability. Some certs like the CEH are worthless but others like the OSCP or CRT (in the uk) are definitely not worthless.

The whole "fuck certs I dont need a piece of paper to show I can do something" is somewhat juvenile and really only applies to the software industry. Most other industries have some form of regulation.
These arguments are myopic. It doesn't matter if your source is open if people give you money, right? So how to get people to give you money?

The first answer is "find a pain point and build a product". Note I said product, not open source tool.

The second part is selling it. That's pretty easy: is anyone else fixing this pain? No? Then sell people the product. You can give away your source code, but that's completely incidental.

The third part, "Our competitors will fork and steal our business!", is possible, but extremely unlikely, unless you suck at your product. Incumbents don't get unseated without tremendous effort. The longer you're around, the more people will trust you to do it right, and the better you'll be at it, with more features and more customers. (I don't know of a single case of this ever happening; it's usually just a completely new open source product and they compete fairly)

The last part, "How do I keep people from just building and using the code for free?", completely depends on how difficult this is, and whether your packaging and selling of the product provides additional value worth paying for. The simplest way is to provide premium services that solve more pain points and to provide this with their purchase. But you can also just make the software so annoying to build, and cheap to purchase, that it makes more sense to buy it.
Maybe. Although excluding nvidia would have to include a requirement ER leaks don't happen. On something as semi-legal and connected to all sorts of shady as bitcoin.
Not including loads of third-party shit (Google Analytics, social media like buttons, etc) would be a start.
A carpenter that has made a chair don't usually go and enforce some legal contract in how the chair may be used, modified, sold, and do that for 95+ years after the carpenter has died.

The morality stance has nothing to do with the act of building or creating. I have always said, agree to sign a contract where you give up the ability to enforce the proprietary license and I have no issue with it. The problem is that no one would use a proprietary license unless they could enforce it, and thus the morality issue of a proprietary license lies in how the license get enforced in the legal system. This is not the first time a morality issue has been raised when people get put in jail because they helped someone in need.
Seriously, a hidden gem.
This is basically Minority Report
Okay, so MPEG-LA is clearly a rent-seeking organization, we agree on that.

However, MPEG enables the rent-seeking behavior by MPEG-LA, quite deliberately. I don't think it is unreasonable to say that MPEG are complicit and a big part of the problem. People are always making excuses for MPEG.

Secondly: in the case of MPEG-G (the genomics 'standard' that is being developed by MPEG), the very same people who are working on MPEG-G, as part of the MPEG working group, are the people who are filing the patents. See the hackernews thread on MPEG-G that I linked above.

That means the rent-seeking behavior is not only the domain of the 'separate and completely unaffiliated entity' MPEG-LA. MPEG is just as bad as MPEG-LA.
Where’s the line ? E.g. If someone asked me for a certified copy of my birth certificate, because of circumstances it would be an enormous slog. Expensive and time consuming.

Does that count as can’t? How expensive does it have to be before it’s reasonable to call it “can’t”?

I think the bar is lower than the semantics of the word imply. Can’t can mean “theoretically can’t”, but also “it’s unreasonable to do”.
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My suspicion is that insider trading is rampant in the crypto world and that someone might have been tipped off as to what the outcome might be in the Tether investigation.

At risk of a downvote party I will express my opinion that, since many other interesting cryptocurrencies still closely track Bitcoin’s price, this “black friday sale” is a buy opportunity for some great other concepts.
it's too early in the morning and I don't really follow conspiracy theories that close to remember details now, but didn't a journalist working with NSA(?) leak died last year when he supposedly accelerated his audi into a wall?
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