skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually the most secure way to use a computer, so maybe he's on to something? ;-)

All joking aside, color me shocked a policy-maker has 0 experience with $thing they are writing policy for.
ponzicoin did exactly what it said on the tin

https://web.archive.org/web/20180125000227/https://ponzicoin...
Is hashcash still feasible today? With botnets it shouldn't be a major problem to generate a large number of hashcash stamps. In addition, the current hashcash approach uses SHA-1 which would be trivial to speed up with GPUs or FPGAs (similar to how Bitcoin mining works). At the same time it wouldn't be possible to increase the required "price" of hashcash stamps as this would lock out users who can only use CPUs to calculate the stamp.
Oh I totally agree, you can come from any walk of life, and sometimes domain experience is helpful.

However, if 150m people's personal private information is disclosed inappropriately it is a valid criticism.
One could call it cute or funny, if it was not to the detriment of actually needed digital technology in the country, like broadband or support of IT startups.

But I am sure Deutsche Telekom will be quite happy about more state money, which is probably why they whispered this AI nonsense into the politicians ears. We can just write it up as another German success story, IT made in Germany. When has that ever not worked out in our favor?
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If they are, they are not a traditional monopolies.

Traditional monopolies "control supply of a good or service, and where the entry of new producers is prevented or highly restricted."

In this case, the supply of a good or service (social networking, webpage indexing and searching) are not controlled by Facebook and Google because they aren't finite resources. Anyone can index the web and anyone can build a social network and Google/Facebook aren't going to crush you with lawsuits or some other nefarious tactic to maintain their position (AFAIK). Entry of new producers of these services is not prevented or highly restricted. New social networks and search engines pop up all the time.

What Facebook and Google have is massive, large scale user loyalty. Despite alternatives existing (Bing, Mastadon, DuckDuckGo, Myspace, etc.), users are voluntarily choosing to use Google and Facebook. This is not a monopoly, IMO.

I think we need a new term for this situation.
Sorta how 1 + 1 = 2 is oversimplified for laymen.
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Interesting takeaways for me: They still use yum (instead of dnf) for managing packages, and default to nftables as the firewalld backend, while even Fedora (afaik) is still using iptables.
width or not means that there's a LOT of material to be burned and to collapse into the next lot. I've burned wheat fields after 90% of straw was removed and I can tell you that in certain days it rises to 10 feet and you cannot stay close to it, it's unbearable. Not necessarily flames but heat, that barely visible thing. A week later you see trees 20 feet away with burned leaves. The other thing you learn when you clean canals and lots is that fire is unpredictable. Very.

Now imagine real forests with underbrush and 150 feet tall trees.
Unless you can coach and pivot someone from that "must make everything perfect" mentality to one where they can take a more pragmatic approach to things.
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>Maybe Barracuda doesn't sell that many spam boxes

Honestly, I feel we're still primarily known for our anti-spam solutions, and we're investing quite a bit into AI based detection of spam/phishing etc. Depending on what you need, you may want to look at our cloud-based solutions over a physical box, in case the pricing is better.

(I work for Cuda in case that wasn't clear. Work on one of the "quite a few other products" :-D)
Anyone knows a good comparison of Day, ZeroNet, and IPFS? Why did Beaker chose Dat rather than the other two?

I've played with IPFS and ZeroNet (my web page is available on those networks too), but never with Dat.
You're absolutely correct that novel alternatives are out there. I would add innovations in the hiring process to that list. In a typical interview process, candidates have to take vacation time from their current role and jump through tons of hoops to ever receive a salary offer.

I know there are startups hoping to disrupt hiring (and the LinkedIn fueled swamp that is the recruitment industry), but now is the time for companies to rethink how they vet their candidates (and I don't mean lowering standards).
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My understanding is that in a parliamentary system, ministers are selected from parliament. (The US equivalent would be something like making a rule where every cabinet secretary had to also be an elected member of the House of Representatives.) So the expert would have to first run for parliament and be elected.
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A bit poetic maybe, but it sounds fine to me. Maybe because English is not my first language.
I'm not sure. We would need to add up the costs of free shipping, unlimited photo storage, licensing of 3rd party video content, creating 1st party video content, licensing music content, free 6-month Washington Post subscription, Whole Foods discounts, free eBooks, free games and more. [1]

They also don't have a direct competitor/s like Uber. I think the better comparison would be the loyalty programs from United or American.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/how-to/amazon-prime-20-benefits-every-m...
> Then how did they get there in the first place?

Presumably they established themselves when climate conditions were different than today.
It's not that big a problem. You can let everyone designate one primary residence, and exempt the first $X of asserted value from taxation. People are entitled some sentimentality exemption, but (like today) not an unbounded one.
> Its beneficial for people in leadership roles to have some experience in the grounded disciplines; But it is not mandatory.

This isn't the Prime Minister or the Emperor. It's the cyber-security minister.
The problem is not that they need to police people's interactions. But they take (a big) part in deciding which interactions to display to each person and insert their interests in the middle of them.

That needs to be moderated.
NIMIQ had a very functional testnet _before_ they ICO’d and launched the full, working chain in April.

One of those projects that started out with more substance/engineering than marketing, but got less attention because of it during the hype last year.

https://nimiq.com/
That's not a 10x developer if they don't know how to write maintanable software, you just thought they are.

The dev you describe sounds like a junior who can crank out code at high velocity.
>>personally rarely even have a cellphone, and they don't read news.

I built my company from nothing - and still clean the toilet as part of the team.

I however don't give out my cell phone number as 99% of the time the resulting conversation would not be the best use of my time.
In a brief encounter with a very high profile executive of a 5000+ employee company, I was explained that the more he got closer to the top, the less he caries on him, to the point that currently he only brings his wallet, his phone, a pen and a mini notepad.

Bringing more than that for him meant something went wrong.
You can consider almost any large company a "monopoly" if you define the market narrowly enough. I'm not convinced that this is a useful exercise.
In ZeroNet you can specify optional files that will be downloaded only if needed and not by default when loading the website. Maybe Dat allows this too?
It ends up with the same gap as the TOTP approaches. The user is _supposed_ to verify that this is goodguy.example, their bank's site. But they don't. Humans are very, very bad at spotting that a routine course of events didn't happen.

If the human doesn't do this apparently pointless busywork, their security is secretly destroyed. If you ignore the fact that the SQRL says "goodguy.example" but the phishing site you're on says "badguy.example" then you authorise the bad guys to log into your bank account. Oops.

In WebAuthn and U2F this doesn't work because the web browser was brought in to the party. "This" says the browser, "is badguy.example", and the user isn't asked to do any busywork with a risk of getting themselves in trouble. The bad guys get nowhere.

Railway example:

Train drivers do the same routes over, and over, and over. They get used to things that they know intellectually are just patterns, routines, not set down anywhere as facts. Hypothetical example: maybe at Oakwood junction on the Down Fast with the Express you always get a Caution, never Clear or Danger, if you're on time, because the signaller is moving a local out of your way ahead. Without any computer assistance, drivers, despite being trained about this specific problem, will look at a signal showing Danger at Oakwood junction on the Down Fast, and their brain says "No, this is always Caution" and _even though they saw a Danger signal_ and even though they are trained that if they aren't sure they must treat signals as "Danger" - they act as though it was definitely Caution.

With a computer helping, the driver can be "shaken" out of this mistake, for example the computer can sound an audible alarm that the train seems not to be slowing appropriately, and then since this alarm doesn't normally sound, the driver may go "Wait, was that Caution? Actually I think it was Danger! Oops" and brake. But we must be cautious with such aids, most of the British railways have a system that sounds a horn each time you're shown a signal that is NOT Clear. The driver acknowledges the horn, or if they do not the train autonomously brakes to a halt. But both "Caution" and "Danger" are not Clear, at our hypothetical Oakwood junction the driver would get used to hearing the horn, because the signal says "Caution", except today it is "Danger" ...
Wouldn't "business class" for Uber be UberBlack, compared to Uber X as "economy"?
>Speak for yourself. There isn't a single image of me anywhere on the internet.

I speak of the general population. I don't understand why people who want to contest general statements with personal counter-examples.

Do they feel that a statement like "we publicly exhibit more and more of our bodies and lives every day on several platforms" means "ABSOLUTELY EVERY ONE OF US WITH NO EXCEPTIONS DOES THAT", and in all caps at that?

>Am I not entitled to keep it that way?

No. There are no special laws and protections about photography of people in public for example. Or against your friends posting a photo that happens to have you in it on the internet.

So at best you are entitled to not upload it yourself.
> On top of that, sr.ht is one of the most lightweight websites on the internet, with the average page weighing less than 10 KiB, with no tracking and no JavaScript

At the age of Spectre/Meltdown, it is no longer safe to leave JavaScript enabled, so thank you for this.
> I know and work with a lot of millionaires and a couple billionaires

Yeah.. ok. [citation needed]
How does this compare to Trac, which is also a 100% free, open source "software forge" (also built on Python)?
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Sia is an interesting decentralized storage network: https://sia.tech/

Although there's still some scaling issues to sort out:
https://blog.spaceduck.io/sia-load-test-preview/
But if everyone is pricing that in, it scales all values by roughly the same factor and doesn't change the appropriate mode of taxation -- x% is still appropriate, for some value of x.
Business managers should try playing Tropico games sometime. Penultimo mentions in a tutorial popup, the first time a critical building--such as a teamster's office--lacks workers, that perhaps you should increase the wage for this type of worker, Presidente (or increase immigration, or pay to import a foreign specialist).

He never suggests that the job should be offshored, because that would be bad for Tropico's economy, and he's a Tropican loyalist.

For some reason, you can't force a Tropican citizen to cycle between multiple part-time, low-paying jobs to take advantage of fractional-employee building capacity. Perhaps they are programmed to not like that. Can't imagine why.~
Salaries in Van are lame, but the housing costs are all out of proportion.

I was in Kitsilano a couple weeks ago and stayed in an AirBnB; liked the neighborhood and decided to check out some of the for Sale Signs. Modest 3-bedrooms were going for $1.7-$2.4MM CAD, while average Dev salary was something like 90k CAD. Even if that doubled they'd be hard pressed to pay for housing that high.
I definitely don't want my team to appreciate boring tasks! I want them to persist, endure, and then automate.

The person who grinds through the boring stuff while thinking about how to automate it so they don't have to be bored anymore, is the person I want to hire.
Indeed.

You can make the same comment on why Marxist thought is on an apparent upswing among young Internet users, now that it's 25+ years since the USSR fell.
I love how customizable this is. Text selection on iOS doesn’t seem to work across styled text unfortunately. It would be great for RTF editing on mobile sites if it had better mobile support.
It’s kind of a rich get richer situation. The cost and difficulty of competing against Google for search, for example, requires just gigantic amounts of resources, time, and research. Meanwhile a Google has had all 3 of those for years and years now. To beat them at their own game requires much of the same thing, unless the answer isn’t based on crawling the web and attempting to parse natural language.
You know who I’d rather stop contributing? The screeching hordes that reduce every single economic issue to “Supply and demand! Supply and demand!”

Yes, that’s a principle that’s important. It’s not the sole determinant of all economic systems. They are more complex than that.
> I find this _unfathomable_. I'm from a desert state where during dry times it was illegal to light fires and we absolutely did controlled burns.

Many of the answers on that quora link seem to indicate that ca does in fact do controlled burns?
> Would it be weird for a 25 year old Silicon Valley CEO to have a staff?

To handle sending and receiving all of their email? Yes.
The sd card is the biggest weakness of all SBCs.

EMMC, wireless and some way to connect a camera (usb or CSI) would be perfect.
Because "trolls" is a horrible term for it. It's propaganda and sow discord.

Inflame the far-left and far-right, get people to distrust traditionally more objective sources of information.

Repeat lies on social media to reinforce desired narratives. Influence trending topics to direct discussion. All of this is fairly well known at this point.

There are even cases of "troll" accounts being accounted and coming clean and sharing their twitter engagement numbers for particularly effective "fake news" tweets before deciding their exposed account.

This isn't a few people in a basement it's a professionally run tech shop.
Simple Token is introducing a new economy of some sort.

Companies will use the OST token to tokenize their economy. To mint their own branded token (BT) they'll have to stake a corresponding amount of OST token.(according to the ratio they chosed when creating the BT)
So market cap of OST tokens = combined market cap of each BT economy + value of unstacked OST tokens.

They're definitively delivering.
Some partners started to mint tokens on mainnet (alpha).

https://ost.com/

https://ost.com/partners

Draft of OpenST Mosaic paper, “Running Meta-Blockchains to Scale Decentralized Applications"

https://medium.com/ostdotcom/openst-mosaic-paper-released-fo...
He meant "1,500 億". 1,500 oku yen = 150 billion yen.

I don't know about the rest of your post, but that part is cherry picking something out of context.
My last job that I quit I had worked for a "growth stage" startup. Our valuation was probably in the 500~M range and we had a real shot at making it to unicorn status. The entire time I worked there, every couple months the CEO would give this inspiring talk at the company all hands about how we're doubling down on recruiting and we're about to grow like you've never seen and change the world, etc.

When I left after two years, the number of engineers was about the same as when I joined, but they were almost all different engineers. The company both struggled to hire and retain because the salaries were just ok, the options pitiful, and the management downright awful.

We talked about getting the best and brightest from top universities, but at one point I learned our recruitment strategy was to look for "bargain" hires, which we defined as really bright & competitive new grads coming out of top schools, willing to work long hours, but willing to accept low salaries.

(Yes, I was one of those bargain hires, minus the long hours. I quit after suspecting that my lack of long hours was holding me back from getting promotions in spite of the significant responsibilities I had as one of the more tenured engineers).
> Different people just pull on different strings and he makes a call arbitrarily?

I wouldn't say it was "arbitrary", but yes, he would have to assign responsibility to others for decisions and then trust them. It's not that uncommon.

Assuming we're talking about a functional department (and not a Trump-cabinet-like dysfunctional mess), I think we can safely assume the guy understands the concepts, problems and capability of computers and more importantly how these relate to government.

I once worked with a physics postdoc who LITERALLY never used a computer for his role in the Russian institute in which he worked back in the early 90's. All computer work was allocated out to computing professionals and he just relied on them to do the work in consultation with him. It was kind of strange, but I would say he "understood" computers very well. A similar thing could apply here.
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Blockchain and Internet of Things = Blockchain of Things?
These companies could disappear over night. Is being a monopoly for a decade really a big deal? It's completely over hyped how much control they have, for now they are dominant, but five years from now its entirely possible that they arent. Also, they have produced so much for the world of technology, essentially creating all of the big data infrastructure technology, and (bare with me here) react which is having a material impact on the terribleness of front end frameworks. The deep learning revolution was started by cheap compute which sprang out of google. This whole monopoly business is so overplayed.
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> One would hope they had military experience

Really? Why so?

I've seen ministers put in place with expertise in the actual area (doctor becoming minister of health for example) and it makes no difference. They're just managers after all, the "real work" is done by the civil servants.
I find the sentence very confusing, but I don't think it has anything to do with semicolons. It just seems like unclear writing to me.
Apparently there are still people who believe in IQ as some kind of metric for "rational decisions" (as opposed to a metric for general intelligence problem solving skills).

>There are still people who are way smarter than that who believe Zombie Jesus was real and thus being gay is evil.

There are people so uninformed and uneducated as to reduce all kind of religious or moral question to BS Americanisms like "Zombie Jesus".
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What a joke. "Scientific" studies like this are hugely damaging to the public's understanding of science and their health choices. Terrible for science as well, considering the vast majority of scientists don't even actually know what a P-value is, they cannot reliably judge garbage like this.
I don't like to think about it in terms of smart. I see supposedly smart people do stupid crap all the time. A better word for describing people with potential is focus.
Oh great, more industrial policy. I'm sure the results of this program will be just as spectacular as Japan's fifth-generation computer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer
There is a lot of "don't read the news" comments in typical self-help books/speeches. I am divided. I have "not read the news" before, and I was totally out of the loop in a lot of conversations. On the other hand, 99% of what I read in the news isn't helpful in any way that is directly evident.

Most "rich" people I know are religious, "family", sort-of-upper-class-rednecks. They usually run small businesses worth several million, donate to the Church, and focus on their family life. It's hilarious how poorly I fit in here. Anyway, they do all get intricately involved with the technical details, even if they don't understand all of it.

These people aren't really "rich" though, just very well-off.

Don't know any really "rich" or "wealthy" people. Have never even talked to one.
Augur is the only ICO I still hear a lot about in terms of having an actually useful purpose (beyond the market surrounding the coin itself). So this should be at least one correct answer to OP's question.

Disclaimer: Have never used it myself.
They really aren’t.
This podcast sounds like an exercise in Sam Harris/Elon Musk type navel gazing tech bro aggrandizement.

I personally find it weird and gross to celebrate the exploitation of programmers capacity to create for American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman types.

However, I believe you’ll (unfortunately) find a large audience for this type of content amongst the mouth breathing “I would have been a finbro, but I played video games and lauded Steve Jobs growing up, so I’m making a todo app that will change the world” types.

Good luck.
I love the conference parody idea! I've gotten this feedback several times now (to add visuals), so I will put some effort into it for my next song release.
I've said that ambition beats smart any day of the week. I have seen it in my life multiple times. (Of course, ambition plus smart is a killer combo.)
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They could also set up a fake account with his name and do the same thing.
I feel like all too often that leads to an outlook where you assume whatever job you end up in must meet your preferences in all things, and it's a pretty brittle way to conduct your career. Sure, from an individual standpoint that would optimize your short term happiness, but I've found the ability to know what the role requires and be that person is a skill that's rewarding in it's own way (and often, but not always, requires a lot of growth to do it well since roles change over time).

And from a system level view, business needs don't necessarily match those roles in whatever ratio people happen to naturally occur at. I'm going to go out on a limb and say there is a gross oversupply of people who like starting things but not finishing them.

As someone who hires and manages people, if I could somehow tap into a foolproof supply of people who are primarily motivated to grind away at any problem given to them until it's finished, and have just enough sense to be effective, but not enough to start solving problems just for the sake of the novelty I could probably take over the world in about 3 weeks.

Luckily those kinds of people are almost completely absent from the human species and it's fairly difficult to organize and achieve arbitrary goals without a lot of politics and people skills in addition to simple coercion and/or funds and a plan.
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